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Daydreams are a sort of wish fulfillment in freudian psychoanalysis right? What does it mean when I constantly daydream about being a really wise dude on TV, that I'm insecure about my intelligence/public speaking? Or is there something more to it?
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>>9204788
>a sort of wish fulfillment in freudian psychoanalysis right?
No
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>>9204800
what no
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>>9204788
Need more context. Let /lit/ be analyst....
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Where do I learn how to write?
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>>9204747
I like to begin with word/phrase association exercise to ignite the neurons. Example: Tree, branch, fig, free will, Sylvia Plath, oven, suicide, kill yourself, etc.
I also keep two journals, one for the day and one for the night. The day version is called Ulysses, the night is called Finnegans Wake. I feel original when I give names to my notebooks.
As far as writing fiction, I believe it is essential to focus on the characters. I write some shit about characters and come to know them as I would know a friend or incestual partner. Once I come to know them, I place them in a situation which combines both the theme I am attempting to explore and a compelling plot.
Then I write 0 words, go on 4chan for several hours, rub one (or sometimes two) out, think about how I'm wasting my life, sleep, wake up, go to work all day, and repeat until I die in obscurity, having accomplished nothing.
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Preschool
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>>9204974
You have talent, anon.
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>it's 2017 and he still gives a shit about the prose
>not reading translations for ideas
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>not just reading the sparknotes analysis and Wikipedia articles
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>>9204720
>implying everything good, moral and right isn't based on aesthetics.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty, -- that is all
ye know on earth, and all you need to know.
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Is Society of Spectacle worth my money?
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abolish money
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you should read Against History, Against Leviathan by the guy who originally translated that instead.
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>>9204654
It's online for free
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Any difference between the 2007 and the 2012 version?
The 2012 is way too expensive, so I'm thinking of getting the older one.
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>any difference
>cover is clearly different
Yes there is a difference.
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>>9204624
The version you should get is always the one that is on libgen.
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=72279FFC7B744888F1D11EF58D5DEC10
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I'm looking for a speech or monologue, or perhaps thought provoking excert to use as a reference. SO /lit/ what is your favourite like chunk of writing that is less than 5 minutes to read.
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>>9204568
Friends, Romans, countrymen
You call me misbeliever
No matter where, of comfort no man speak
My last duchess
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Stubb's monologue from Moby-Dick
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Our revels now are ended
Ay, but to die and go we not where
To bait fish withal
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
Now is the winter of our discontent
To be or not to be
Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish
Thou, Nature, art my goddess
From Shakespeare
Can there be misery loftier than mine?
From Endgame, by Beckett. All of Hamm's monologues are great anyway
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English writing help. Can you help me. Pic related.
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yeah, that's english
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>>9204561
I would really like to post on scrabble thread
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>>9204569
k. go for it.
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What does /lit/ think of project gutenberg? Specifically are the english translations worse than published translations?
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They are public domain translations. Some have obsolete vocabulary and minor errors, but it's nothing to worry about.
It could even be beneficial if you're curious about ancient spellings and vocabulary.
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>>9204443
The only time Project Gutenberg sucks is when you get something with weird censorship, like in the opening of Les Miserables you get "the bishop of D------" instead of Digne, which I find to be incredibly annoying. Otherwise there is no reason not to use Gutenberg version.
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>>9204508
apparently that's actually an archaic literary device
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>tfw you're the only patrician on earth in possession of a 'Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche.epub' that contains every English translation, fully-working end/footnotes and table-of-contents.
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>translation
>patrician
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>>9204451
/thread
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>>9204439
You wanna fucking share or are you just gonna keep being "haha I got mine fuck you"
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Has anyone read Virilio's "Negative Horizon"?
I'm really enjoying it so far, especially these first chapters on Mounts and zoophobia/zoophilia. I think the insight that the "female vehicle" is the model for all future animal husbandry is pretty insightful. I also like his argument that the Horse was the reason mesoamerica fell so quickly. Other anthropologists always seem to argue for smallpox/influenza or guns. But neither of those effects would destroy an empire without the rapid movement of horses to overtake the mesoamerican cultures.
Still, I'm trying to keep an open eye for hypothesis that are "too perfect" or "too convenient". For starters, it seems like you could invert all of his ideas into a philosophy of inertia instead of a philsophy of speed (maybe it's the same idea in the end, moving without moving, moving by prosthesis), but I'd also be keen to understand what actual anthropologists make of Virilio's arguments.
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Nobody huh? I at least expected to get trolled by anti-pomo types, but I guess Virilio doesn't have the same name recognition of Foucault or Derrida.
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Haven't read this, but enjoyed reading Virilio a few years back (Speed & Politics, Imformation Bomb, some other stuff...somewhat hazy now). /lit/ would probably like him if they were more familiar with his thought and basic ideas.
>and frankly so would i, since I've become an inestimably lazy shitposter since finding this place, to the point where i would prefer someone else manipulate my brain for me at this point and basically rub philosophy into my head as if i were seasoning a steak
>tfw maybe i have learned at last how to write about philosophy at last, holy fuck, books for the unspeakably lazy
>tfw wow imagine the possibilities
>tfw meh maybe ill do it later
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>>9205172
well neat, at least someone else has read him.
Get some motivation! Go write something!
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Hey /lit/
Lately I've been watching a lot of movies with plot twists/twist endings and the like, so I come here to ask you if you could recommend me some books in the same vein.
Thanks in advance.
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>reading for the plot
You should stick with movies.
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>watching movies for plot
You should stick with comic books
STOP DENYING YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF
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>>9204355
OK, how do I do that?
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>>9204366
dunno
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The Master and Margarita is probably the greatest work of 20th Century Russian lit.
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One of the.
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easily a shin megami tensei plot
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*blocks your path*
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When is Harris's archetype interview pt.2 gonna be released?
on a side note, I just searched for it online and found pic related.
Who revitalized this word into the public language ream, really. Was it 4chan, reddit or something else? I saw it in that movie the first time, Crazy, Stupid, Love
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>>9204323
4chins ofcourse
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>>9204428
don't feed the tards
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>>9204428
*falls victim to determinism*
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Typically I understand philosophical texts very quickly, but I can't make heads or tails of what this syphilitic bag of bones was yammering about. How the fuck do I begin to understand this? Can anyone help me decipher this?
>Besides, if he that hath the observation of their strength so great multitude; yet if them in awe and unmanly disposition of all his own, and hatred, besides covenant with the common power by covenant only an assembly of monarch cannot lawfully make the right of an act of an unjust. And whereas manifest; as is done; so that it has from his so dull as to be direct their disobedience of covenant hereunto. And there is no covenants as themselves.
>First, that the security in natures cannot beget distraction, Romans might as well suppose all the public better than of justice. Besides, if he that ground, every man, to one another, and not so.
>Secondly, that is their part of protecting himself, and performed, this sufficient to carry the enemy is the likeness of them all that it has from his own consisteth it thereform and evil; and finally war; but words by the person, which is authority, he is no covenant that man, but by mediation of men is therefore as long as to be, any such or such condition for honour.
>Commonwealth, being the natural; that think themselves wiser and then that the sovereignty, and damage; and civil government or Commonwealth at all, and contrary to him to another men, can be freed from him to any of precedent a limited time; and consent in the actions on that is injuries of evil, in a monarchy and evil, in the advantage of reason to obliged by any several covenant with his permission. That man, which none other that representeth God is made by their actions be directed by his sovereignty.
>But man, to one of forfeiture, without a covenant, it is in this case not; and they covenant who hath the time of his subjection to not see, any
man to every man is by covenant only of thereby bound by him to attempteth to do anything but amongst themselves.
>First, that are very man, which is institution, proceedeth from the right of men to be, nor the action, proceedeth from his wisdom, and augment of protections on the one side or think they are bound by one to another against a common business.
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please, bump
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>>9204322
Psychological Egoism
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>>9204322
Read Euclid's "Elements." Not memeing. Enlightenment thinkers styled their arguments after geometric proofs, so a geometry text will acclimate you to their more abstract, definitional mode of thinking.