>Tfw you finish a paper in three hours when it's due in four
>Tfw it's a seven page paper dealing with dreams sequences in Anna Karenina
>Tfw your entire argument is some hackneyed "muh archetypes" bullshit
>Tfw you'll still probably pull a B
>>9189780
Ladies and gentlemen, this is college.
>750 word essay overdue a week and haven't even started
>whatever I write doesn't match my thesis (sometimes I begin rambling on with an completely unrelated topic) and have to start over
>ability to form coherent thought worsening and vocabulary getting sparser and sparser as time goes on due to undoubtedly undiagnosed cognitive degradation of some kind
>midway through reading sentences suddenly begin thinking of something else
Is it wrong to give up politics and to pursue literature alone?
Or, are the apolitical philosophically barren, or idle?
>>9189754
>Is it wrong to give up politics and to pursue literature alone?
No
>Or, are the apolitical philosophically barren, or idle?
Quite the contrary. Freedom from the mundane affairs of politics opens up within you new conceptual spaces and a disposition towards abstract contemplation. Intellect is the only pure form of thought and it works best when it is untarnished by the flaming hot opinions of a thousand bomb throwers who think they have the answer.
>>9189771
Philosophy is pathetic mental masturbation
Politics are the brave application of practical and noble thought
>>9189785
All politics is applied philosophy, but not all philosophy is politics.
Anyone into Theory Fiction?
Started reading Earthmare, but it's not as good as pic-related.
Mortiloquist when?
Theory fiction sounds like a cool concept. What are some essential works and what, if any, prerequisites do they require?
What is it?
>>9189796
I would define it as horror/psychedelia written in the style of academic prose. Part pataphysics, part Lovecraft, part Blare Witch Project. Dense prose, made up words, occult-looking diagrams. Basically, people took Deleuze and just ran with it.
Philosophically, it's related to speculative realism, object-oriented philosophy and accelerationism.
Nick Land, Reza Negarestani, CCRU are people to check out.
http://www.ccru.net/digithype/barkerspeaks.htm
>bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!
https://youtu.be/6HgCjtd2iPU?t=1m47s
>tfw too smart to form a coherent sentence
>>9189480
>see post
>go to post the meme i made the other week
>someone else already posted it
What else can be achieved, when one has achieved all?
How do people read books like Huck Finn? Reading all of the incorrect forms of verbs makes me cringe and I don't consider myself to be a Grammar Nazi by any means.
Immolate yourself my man
wot n' tarnation
It taint incorrect, it's regional you twat.
me, have you fucking read my diary dude!?
>>9189236
Plato
Augustine
Aquinus
Leibniz
Wittgenstein
Lewis
Kripke
Laozi
Emerson
Joyce
/endlist
I've been accepted into an MFA program in creative writing with a full tuition scholarship and a stipend worth around $20k a year.
What does /lit/ think about MFA programs? Should people attend if they're fully funded?
>>9188951
Fucking obviously
>>9188951
No shit. Which school is giving out 20k stipends? that's pretty much unheard of in non-research based programs
no. It is only worth it to attend if you are saddled in debt because only then will you feel the pressure to produce the finest work possible.
Since people keep asking about bibles, I've made a handy idiot-proof chart
>but muh favourite translation isn't on there!
No shit, there's literally dozens of modern English translations, I'm keeping it simple for people who just want to read a bible.
NRSV for the win
>NSRV with Apocrypha in the Eastern Orthodox
No, just no.
The Orthodox use the Septuagint as Old Testament, not the Masoretic Text with the Deuterocanonical books added to them.
Here's Asser's English translation of the Septuagint: http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/zot.htm
And Here's David English translation of the Patriarchal Text of the New Testament:
http://www.christianorthodox.net/orthodox-new-testament/
KJV is really beautifully written
Chart Thread
The Kalevala is pretty weird.
can someone do a travel lit one that'd be good in lieu of traveling through time? also an intro to kaballah one
The universe is my will.
Debate me.
Protip: the only way to "defeat" me is to say to yourself that the universe is YOUR will.
>>9188356
the universe is MY will.
the universe is MY will
now what?
The universe is everyone's will.
I'm 3 quarters of the way threw with The Phantom Menace by Terry Brooks and this is suprisingly well written and highly entertaining. Ive never read the novels before or any Star Wars novel for that matter and Ive been told by fellow readers that some of the books are better than the films. Ive heard AMAZING things about Revenge of The Sith novelization. Can't wait to get to that one.
So whats /lit/'s opinon on the Star Wars books? Have you read one before and actually liked it?
People here seem to shame these kinds of books and I dont know why. There great reads and a lot of fun!
i was 7 when revenge of the sith was coming out and i was really excited so my dad bought me the novelization and we read it together
>>9188771
>7
Holy fuck i'm old.
>>9188332
Put it down now, anon. Don't waste your time. There is nothing good here. The most recent novels go so far as to feature niggers and contain pronouns like "Xer".
What is your ideological hell?
ass
satanism
Modern scientific materialism
How can I read Finnigans Wake, when the words on the pages mean NOTHING to me. Absolutely nothing. I have read 2 chapters, and you know what I think?
> The words on the pages are long
> there are maybe 4-5 words that are in plain English on the pages
I may as well be reading a book in French, it means that little!!
>step 1. don't be a disgusting monolingual pleb
>step 2. don't be a filthy uncultured prole
>step 3. use a companion guide
>he can't even into French
>he wants to understand complex multilingual puns and referenes
>>9187981
> buying books to read books
no thanks
>>9187985
I'm sorry, in Burgerland for thousands of miles all around me, is my own country. So the pressure to learn another language is not there in society. Do I regret not leaning a language when I was young? Abso-fucking-lutely. Can I do anything about it? Probably not.
It's best to learn a language if you immerse yourself in it, and as of now I have no means of doing that.
What do you think literature has over other mediums, specifically film? And vice versa?
Pic unrelated
>>9187467
Uniqueness in the sense that what youre reading is yourself, with symbolic prompts (letters), and, therefore, supreme intimacy. What film has that individual reading lacks is an objective history (earlier films) and therefore models that may be used or referenced or both. Watching a movie is seeing with your eyes, hearing with your ears; reading a book is conning or deciphering letters so as to hear, as it were, with your eyes. Reading is synaesthetic, watching a film, less so....
>People tend to hate shit like this; nonetheless, over here, it was a fun exercise. Clearly problematic. Post this?
movies usually are around 90 mins long. you can only pack so much plot and character development into that time frame. it's like a shortstory. it can be masterfully executed but it won't ever reach the depths a full lenght book can.
books are also a lot more personal because they leave more to the imagination of the individual reader, which makes it a more relatable experience.
for example, if the prota love interest isn't described physically, you will project on to her your ideal features, which makes it easier for you to relate to his interest to her. in a movie, the main characters mpdg either appeals to your taste or not.
>>9187809
>actual content on /lit/
How do you answer this question:
If you happened to stumble across some form of knowledge and understanding within the next few days that affirmed for certain that when you die you get reincarnated, eventually as every person from every time-- would you value life more or less? And why?
Feel free to discussion as well, if you can handle it.
>>9186366
Infinitely less.
>>9186366
I would kill myself. Roll the Dice. try again
I would just be confused because that means time traveling into the past is possible