>mfw reading Adorno stopped me being a Nazi
>>9152580
good job m8 well done
>>9152580
but you were close to becoming a nazi huh? How's being 14 years old?
>>9152588
Adorno helped me to see my own pathology and the contradictions of my ideological belief.
I thank him for guiding me.
>he cannot recite at least 50 poems from memory
What are you even doing here
Discussing literature with autistic people.
>>9152502
>here
I'm here because I can't do that
>Good poems in my language have so many difficult words that average people can't even understand it.
Reminder that the distinction between popular works and "literature" does not exist. There is no high art or low art, and there is nothing objectively better about canonical writings that scholars jack off to. There is only what you like a dislike.
Reminder to sage and hide.
>>9152470
itt: /lit/ gets triggered
>>9152463
Mistakes of the subhumans. They immediately interpret the idea of subjectivity as giving them free reign to support any viewpoint that they want, no matter how incoherent, ignorant and wretched. Sure, the ant too has its own perspective of things, and therefore its own subjective reality, but who gives a shit about the reality of an ant? The greater the man the greater — and hence the more objective — his perspective, and therefore the idea of subjectivity does not undermine the absolute rule of inequality in the universe but is precisely the mechanism by which it comes about.
"Everything is subjective" means that everything can be perceived from a variety of perspectives — indeed an infinity of them — it doesn't mean that all perspectives are equal. From the plurality of subjects it by no means follows that all subjects are equal! But that is precisely what the subhumans contend. With a terrifying consistency they take the idea from the philosophers and utterly pervert it, until it comes to mean the exact opposite to what it meant at first. For if all viewpoints were indeed equal they would have to be identical! i.e. there would not be an infinity of viewpoints but only a single one! i.e. there would not be subjectivity!
For me, it's Carlo Michelstaedter.
he's pretty dope desu
Se camminando vado solitario
per campagne deserte e abbandonate
se parlo con gli amici, di risate
ebbri, e di vita,
se studio, o sogno, se lavoro o rido
o se uno slancio d'arte mi trasporta
se miro la natura ora risorta
a vita nuova,
Te sola, del mio cor dominatrice
te sola penso, a te freme ogni fibra
a te il pensiero unicamente vibra
a te adorata.
A te mi spinge con crescente furia
una forza che pria non m'era nota,
senza di te la vita mi par vuota
triste ed oscura.
Ogni energia latente in me si sveglia
all'appello possente dell'amore,
vorrei che tu vedessi entro al mio cuore
la fiamma ardente.
Vorrei levarmi verso l'infinito
etere e a lui gridar la mia passione,
vorrei comunicar la ribellione
all'universo.
Vorrei che la natura palpitasse
del palpito che l'animo mi scuote...
vorrei che nelle tue pupille immote
splendesse amore. -
Ma dimmi, perché sfuggi tu il mio sguardo
fanciulla? O tu non lo comprendi ancora
il fuoco che possente mi divora?...
e tu l'accendi...
Non trovo pace che se a te vicino:
io ti vorrei seguir per ogni dove
e bever l'aria che da te si muove
né mai lasciarti. -
>>9152314
Thank you anon, that's beautiful. Do we have a translation for these monolingual retards?
>>9152314
And then, realizing that the first bullet had not achieved its aim, he brought the gun once again to his temple.
You guys ever write one liner jokes as an exercise? Have any?
Is that you, Hal?
What's better than a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
Broken glass in your daughter's cereal.
>>9152170
Wait, whose daughter? Yours, his, mine, or anybody's?
Should I read this abridged?please no bully
>>9151951
Read Plutarch's Lives
>>9151959
No fuck off
>>9151951
Read this if you want major fedora tipping.
>Christians were the reason Rome fell
not even once
Hey guys, looking for books to introduce someone to semiotics. Where should I begin?
How can you introduce someone to semiotics? Don't you need to understand what the signs are to be able to read? But then you already know everything. Anyway, start with the Greeks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_General_Rhetoric
You might look to Umberto Eco for something on semiotics.
Hello, /lit/. I want to write the best literary fiction book that I am able to write.
I don't read books, though. And I don't write. But I do like the idea of reading; I have bought nearly one hundred classic books, but I haven't read any of them yet. Instead, being unproductive, I spend my free time on YouTube.
Please give me some advice on how I can write the best literary fiction book that I can muster.
Read a fucking book.
Would you hire a carpenter who's never done carpentry in his life?
>>9151867
Watch a lot of anime. Dream.
>>9151867
>I do like the idea of reading
Is reading such an esoteric fucking activity now that the "idea" of it is some kind of novelty
Just read a book, troglodyte
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nbKCvmhEs8
That part I am talking about is at (start at): 5:00
>>9151589
I mean 5:30
>screaming women
No thanks
the book you are reading, you peer above it and see this. what do?
>>9151526
read on, my diary is more interesting than some wench
>recline on subway seat and return to sleep
>>9151526
this is good stuff. why can't /lit be funny like this more often.
Now that the dust has settled, did anyone actually read this?
>>9151518
Yeah it's bretty good
>>9151518
no and I don't plan on it either. maybe in 20 years.
My extremely well-read friend has, and he says it's trash and keeps getting messaged by people butthurt by his Goodreads review
What is the most historically accurate version of the bible?
>>9151409
KJV
accept no substitute
BHS + NA28
NRSVCE, or Douay–Rheims if you're a faggot.
How did he predict the next 100 years in revolutionary politics, from Leninist vanguardism to Gramsciam cultural hegemony?
Was he a wizard?
>>9151134
Reminder that Carlyle predicted the entire 20th century.
>>9151235
So? I can predict the next entire 1000 years. "There will be 1000 more years" there you go.
anons,
I am writing sci-fi, I try to keep it a little bit realistic. So there is my question about one aspect of my story:
If my protagonist called the police and said that there is a bomb in the inner core - would they have to evacuate the whole planet?
Thanks in advance
doesn't matter. more important, how would they evac a whole planet? how would there be a bomb in a core? if it does not explode or melt on the way down, how will it explode?
>>9151001
dunno, I guess it will just be a fantasy novel
De0ends on the country
What books have you particularly enjoyed on writing/theory/fiction? These are what I've read and I definitely learned a lot outside of what I've read in fiction.
I'm not looking for recs, just interested in what other people have found compelling.
I believe that books on writing are useless shit, feel free to prove me wrong by posting something you wrote here.
>>9151241
These are books I've read for school, two grad and two upper level fiction courses. I'd highly recommend Eagleton and the bottom, they're wonderful introductions to theory. The middle is a good warm up for those. And if you haven't read Elements of style you're missing out.