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Stop believing in Forms.
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>>9256203
that's not what he said
Sage!
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>>9256203
Stop believing in hylomorphism.
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>>9256203
I believe in what the fuck I want. Problems?
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Why do people see Ignatius as this deep, intellectual, whom society has scorned? He is just an asshole with a superiority complex, and a hypocrite too as he goes on his days pointing flaws on other people, but he is a fat, unemployed, lazy and incompetent 30 years old who victimizes himself in any chance he has to do so. So, explain me what is to be admired in a man like this?
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>>9256183
i bet you think don quixote is an idiot
find a new hobby, literature isn't for you
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>>9256255
I bet you are a loser like Ignatius, thats why you like him
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>There are people on /lit/ who claim you can be non-ideological
What is the argument behind this ridiculous idea and why do people think this?
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>>9256178
You very much can though, there's a distinct difference between pretending as if you can operate socially and intellectually without operating through in pre-constructed avenues of thought and those who adopt a prescribed framework and accept all its axioms a priori without giving due analysis and consideration to your own acceptance of reality outside your front.
Its the difference between being an intellectual and a mere emulator.
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>>9256215
Empty words.
According to you one can go against psychological reality.
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>>9256234
I what way does asking yourself "which of these mutually exclusive propositions do I think best corresponds with my experience?" contradict with psychological reality?
Is it morally right to accept and tolerate different opinions in the society on important issues?
Any country restricts the freedom of thought and action in wide variety of ways, ultimately using violence against you to carry out their want to hurt you and your family.
Examples of said restrictions of freedom
>you aren't allowed to kill
>you aren't allowed to steal, destroy, burn, spoil, pollute
>you aren't allowed to take land to yourself
>you aren't allowed to enjoy the full benefits of your work
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>>9256166
you aren't allowed to call him a nigger
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>>9256166
tfw He hasn't read Stirner
And yes but morals are a spook.
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https://www.1843magazine.com/features/escape-to-another-world
Another day, another article about silly little immature boys opting out of the economy.
>Work is a means to an end,” he says. The end is enjoying the finer things life offers: travelling when finances permit, gaming and reading when they don’t.
Like... LOSER!!!
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>>9256113
Hunter gatherer life is a bit like that. The men hunt or fish and get drunk or high all day while the women do all the childcare and gathering veggies, cooking and other drudgery tasks.
There's not as much fish and game around anymore but we do have vidya games and sports channels to keep us entertained while women do all the work.
It isn't quite what nature intended for us but it is closer than that "male breadwinner" nonsense. Thank god that's dying out.
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>/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories, poetry, creative writing, etc
>>>/r9k/
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That was not a negative article at all.
If you had actually read it youd know this article disproved that games lure people away from work and instead serve as catharsis for the disappointments found in an increasingly shitty working life.
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Read all the books or know 25 of the absolute greatest by heart?
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>>9256090
Read all the books
Just buy the 25 greatest and put them on your bookshelf instead. The only benefit I see of knowing the 25 greatest by heart is if you want to write. You'll have a lot of easily accessible structure and narration to reference, but with some hard work, you can achieve the same knowledge by thorough study.
Just the option to have enough free time to read all books no matter how shitty I consider a luxury, I rarely have enough time to read more than 2 books a month, plus reading o many books will take years and it guarantees some form of longevity. SO i believe it to be the better option.
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>>9256145
>Read every single chuck tingle novel
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25 greatest. I want to be smart like Abbé Faria
Is this his best shit?
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>>9256068
Mega cringe, this is actually republished?
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>>9256068
Just look at that shitty cover lol.
Penguin Classics will do anything for sales.
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Too bad NEETshe didn't have the will to not die from syphilis
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Do you masturbate to words, /lit/? Be honest. What sites do you use and what are your favourite stories?
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I write my own
regards, a patrician
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ASSTR
I am very fucked up
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Lots of incest and stories about being raped by the family dog
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Are books like Fight Club going to be big in 50 years? or is it going to be all Cormac Mccarthy
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The future belongs to Tombo Pynchbutt
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>>9256027
As long as there are people currently in high school who nobody likes, there will be Fight Club.
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>>9257624
So if we abolish high school, we save literature?
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Daily reminder that the vast majority of writers lead lonely and boring lives and that you will not be experiencing a full life if you devote yourself to this craft. You will be spending your time reading and writing instead of trying to experience the world, to meet people and bond or conflict with them, to learn as much as you can about the real inner workings of the world. Sure, you will experience the world, but you will be constantly retreating from it. And even when you are experiencing the world, you will be often analyzing it for writing material, from the point of view of a writer, and so you will always be detached from it. If you have never felt the detachment of a writer, then you are not a true writer.
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarate, the performing arts entertain. Literature, however, retreats from life by turning it into slumber. The other arts make no such retreat...”
- Pessoa
>inb4 mentioning an author with massive balls who lived an exciting life
These people are the exceptions, obviously, and have more balls than you ever will, so stop trying to make excuses. You will not be the next Hemingway or Hunter S. Thompson. Who both, incidentally, killed themselves.
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.”
- Hemingway
>inb4 writing only takes up a certain portion of your day, so you have so much other time to do whatever you want
If you do not devote yourself to your craft they way the best writers do, then you will be writing trash and are not fit to call yourself a writer. Don't act like you don't have to work ridiculously hard to create a great work of art. The best writers, like Joyce, are the ones that devote themselves to writing the most.
“The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one...Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.”
- Faulkner
Art is beautiful and important, the but the life of the writer is not a beautiful or important one aside from the art he creates. To want to be a writer, to live the life of a writer, you must be a sort of masochist, or must be so consumed by your passion as to see no other possible route for yourself. The life of a true writer is not a good one, and may not even be so romantically and aesthetically terrible as to make up for its horridness.
“What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology?”
- William Gaddis
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>t. teenage girl
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you're correct but i suck at everything else and am too absent minded to function in the so called real world so I will have to be a wrtier. wish me luck bois.
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>>9256001
>writing for any other reason than to write
if you're trying to deter people from writing because of the downsides there might be involved, any successes you make will be against those who are simply not writers to begin with. most will figure this out on their own, and some will even avoid your narrow vision of writing in spite of you, becoming great commercial successes, or immortal authors even within their lifetimes. why even make this post? sounds more like you're trying to talk yourself out of writing.
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What was his endgame?
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Autistic brainlets shitposting his black and white photos on a Sumatran pearl diving congress.
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>>9255976
bugchasing
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>>9255976
Boipussy
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Henri Bergson is underrated. The fact that he was largely disregarded by philosophers in the second half of the twentieth century is evidence of this. Neither the postmodernists nor the die-hard positivists could handle him.
Bergson appreciation thread.
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just read Whitehead faggot
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Deleuze tho
And even a few Italian thinkers and anthropologists, especially Ernesto De Martino, utilized his ideas every once in a while - though I myself am not familiar with his works, only with a few of the key words and concepts.
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>>9255964
I know Deleuze wanked over him, but I don't think he interpreted him correctly. Otherwise, not many were into the Bergson
>>9255958
Mate, I've got Whitehead right on my shelf. I was exaggerating Bergson's obscurity but you gotta admit his philosophy kind of disappeared compared to the superstar status he enjoyed in his lifetime.
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What should I name my villain?
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>>9255875
Oszpor
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Heavy depends on the punch of the story actually.
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Vladimir Ivanovich Lyanov
Why are there no paragraph breaks in his books?
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>>9255874
I've noticed this too
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>>9255874
I like this style, it seems more consisted, especially in his books, which are short, and have strong narrative.
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>>9255874
why should there be?
I picked this up from a list of downloads because the concept sounded interesting. It was pretty well-written but I thought it was some dull shit. I look it up and learn that it's "one of the seminal works of fiction of the 20th century and is studied in colleges and universities across the Western world". What the fuck? Why?
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>And then...he turns into a bug hahahahahaha! Holy shit, this is gold!
>German "literature"
Not even once.
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>>9255842
Read it in German
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>>9255857
Yeah that's my best explanation so far. Can't verify it personally, though.