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Most of you are probably aware by now, but in case you aren't, /lit/'s most ambitious collaborative writing project is currently underway.

Want to be involved? It's easy, just read over the basic premise (found in the posts below) and jump into one of the Google Docs to start contributing.

Because of the inherent complexity of the project, there are three (3) Google Docs currently running

The first is the Planning Doc, where all of the planning (whether it's coming up with character names, chapter arcs, potential titles, themes, styles, cover art, etc) for the main sections of the novel will occur:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mRH7rfS21WKMPzLEDMxcRtnB38rpkraTgL4dOKBlJIo/edit?usp=sharing

The second is the Writing Doc, where you can submit prose for any chapter. It is worth noting that each main chapter has a vague premise, so the writing here is not completely free form. Chapters will periodically be added to this doc and become available for contribution, as the details for each chapter are ironed out and agreed upon:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18qUc-Q9RwgUnfu30W2mfa3FxosUMkSE0PVKKXBqrz1I/edit?usp=sharing

And finally, there is the Interludes and Appendices Doc. This is where if you can just put something down on the page, whether it's something you wrote three years ago and think it might fit somehow, or something you wanna write specifically for the project. The writing here is almost completely freeform, and need only be tangentially related to the rest of the text (more details given in the Doc itself). There is a place for both poetry and prose here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-cp4Avh4E2VYGLPdV1afZnKsZeY-2_GUVjqyRNeKFmE/edit

If you are having trouble understanding how this all works, which is very understandable, do not worry. In the posts below will be a quick, but detailed, rundown of the basic premise for the project. I would recommend ALL anons read through this rundown before contributing to either doc, to ensure that we are all on the same page.

Worth Noting:
- The current title (Pantheon) is just a working title. Title and cover art discussion is currently taking place in the planning doc
- Periodically, you may find that public editing is restricted. This will usually be because a pesky anon has been meddling with or mass deleting the document. During these times you can still edit and add comments, your edits will simply remain pending until approval. I will do my best to approve all edits as soon as possible during these times.
- Always feel free to post your contributions, criticisms, discussions and whatever else in the thread as well, if you don't feel like going straight to the documents
- And finally, if you have any questions or confusions about the project, do not hesitate to ask!

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This book is getting rave reviews and critics are calling it the best novel of the decade.

I hope the shit lives up to the hype.

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>buy used book
>it's full of some pleb's notes

I live for this shit.

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Looking for advice from analytic philosophy connoisseurs.
I've been teaching philosophy for 15 years and never really read anything "analytic", just a little bit from Russell here and there, it sucked, and i'm pretty sure analytic philosophy in general sucks as much too.
But still. I wanna see, I wanna try. Looking for something *interesting* if possible. It doesn't have to be "true" or famous or anything else than interesting.
One thing that I can't stand is when they talk about "continental" philosophers that they never read or studied to begin with.

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What are some of the best books arguing for the existence of a Christian God?

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Can /lit/ explain to me the appeal of psuedo-intellectuals like Sargon, Thinking Ape, Armoured Skeptic, Kevin Solway, etc...

Is it just catharsis?

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>knee-CHUH
>knee-CHAY

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>tfw got caught up in the corinthians

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You're all bastards.

Can somebody help me?

I read someone once explaining Simone's position on the toleration of intolerance in a context at the time to oppose a published maniacal feminist tract. Would anybody here know which book of hers is most likely to examine these concepts?

Thanks,

Chris

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Which edition of My Diary, Desu should I purchase?

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Has there ever been a more ridiculous intellectual movement than the Enlightenment?

How euphoric do you have to be to take three disparate Anglo cultural norms and hold them up as some kind of universal truth? It just screams immaturity- in fact there's not a sophisticated thought to be found in any of the movements principal texts. Voltaire tried to disprove the Bible by arguing that Blacks were so inferior to Whites that they couldn't have both descended from Adam and Eve. The degree of tipping is absolutely incredible to behold.

honestly though, it should have been called the Entitlement because apparently we deserve all kinds of shit just for being born.

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Does she have a point?

What is Harold Bloom really talking about when he talks about the western canon?

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ls there any good book out there that's about how to make someone really hate you or how to be a douchebag in general?

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Kant and Hume on Causality: Who was right?

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This is about a boy and girl who were best friends but drifted apart from each other. They still have a lot in common, but it feels different and he just wants things to go back to how they were.

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They sat in silence suffused with short questions.
“How have you been lately?”
“Fine, you?”
“Same.”
The words between the two seemed so natural, yet so cut short, like the time he was 12 and oblivious until the phone rang and his aunt was dead.
They sat pondering what to say, for both of them were in shambles yet neither wanted to show weakness. She tapped her fingers against the couch nervously. He remembered her endearing tic from last summer, where they spent hours on the same leather couch, open and exposed and yearning to finally share all their feelings with someone who understood.
He seemed to trip on his own tongue. He knew the girl had universes inside her; secrets too deep to ever leave her eyes; ideas, doubts that he himself hadn't even considered yet. He looked timidly from under his bangs before again casting his head down at his hands gripping the couch.
He'd never tell anyone, but when he was alone, he'd plan conversations in his head. When he experienced anything, the first thing he'd think of was how he would tell her about it. Whenever he'd even browse the internet, he'd see a picture he knew she'd laugh at and he'd save it. Yet the conversations lingered only on his mind, and the pictures remained unsent.