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Practice, and sufficient reading.

reading an assload of books - literally just read hundreds of books
and dont have any pretense of being "literary", actually have something to write about

Not OP

I've read and written a lot due to social media addiction. I get that's not what you mean by reading and writing.

Which is exactly it, what constitutes good practice for reading and writing? I'm reminded of when I played chess, you only learn so much from playing, particularly with bad players who are shitting out garbage as quickly as possible.

>>9031894
http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/maya-to-aztec-ancient-mesoamerica-revealed.html

Combo with this. torrents are around

Its good mythology from an extremely advanced civilization.

>>9031894
the german ambient band? heck yeah it is

>>9031894
yes it is
>>9032451
fuck off

>>9031879
Encyclopedia for Dummies

On Nature by Parmenides (a poem not a book)
Classical Electrodynamics by John David Jackson
If you've read those, you know almost everything there is to know.

>>9031879
>books

No. Books are great things, but in the modern day they are almost completely obsolete when it comes to the pursuit of general knowledge.

Wikipedia is the ultimate knowledge bank. To not use it and claim you are in search of knowledge is laughable folly. It has an article on literally everything, which will usually be well sourced and regularly curated. On top of that, the interconnectivity between articles means that your intellectual journey is never halted by an encounter with an unfamiliar word or concept. You merely open the unfamiliar concept up in new tab and keep on learning.

Seriously OP, its the ideal form of knowledge gathering. Give it a go, and you'll be surprised how quickly you're hooked. Save the books for beautiful prose and interesting stories.

for the first part Wittgenstein

for the second part literally any philosopher ever

You need to be 18+ to browse this website.

>>9031916
I've wanted to get a good understanding of wittgenstein, but I tried ordering logico tractatus philosophicus, and I just did not understand. I think someone else explaining him would probably be more useful.

>courses
Nigga just start with the greeks.

Just watch /ourguy/ Gregory Sadler's videos on Youtube. He's a great educator.

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http://www.openculture.com/philosophy_free_courses

>>9031796
k

Neither of these claims make much sense.

>>9031808
>>9031809
>hysterical, narcissistic style
>doesn't have any poetic talent, just writes prose with line breaks
>doesn't give a shit about art or beauty and just uses poetry as a vehicle for her excessive self-pity
Garbage.

UNO

I'm reading The Tunnel right now. I think he tries way too hard to show how good he is and he doesn't convey it in a very organic way. I mean, he's an obvious good writer, and it's full of good pieces here and there, some of them great, even genius. But overall it's an excessive, pompous exercise on style (too many alliterations, too many gratuitous metaphors) and edginess with diminishing returns. I enjoy his philosophical rambling, but also wish he had something more "specific" to say instead of putting 700 pages of pure, feverish, scattershot rants. The good parts are great, but it gets lost in its own bloatedness. Are Omensetter's Luck or Middle C better?

>>9031850
would you read ulyssess before all the rest of Joyce's work?

I wonder why they portrayed Inoue as such a... cartoon, in the movie.

I mean, I liked it, but it seemed like an odd choice for such a somber film.
Maybe that's how he really was, who knows.

>>9031763
He didn't seem like a cartoon to me. He was funny, but I was still able to take him seriously

>>9031763
>Maybe that's how he really was
Work is fiction. Endo even had to defend himself because of that. It's not representative of Japanese Christians, it's not representative of Japanese Catholics, and it's not historically factual.

>>9031746

The Bible, desu senpai. You can't really appreciate western literature without some familiarity with it.

>>9031746
These are the most garbage threads on /lit/. I'd rather a Turner Diaries discussion or "Muh top 5 books EVER" Or "Is 1984 gud?"

>>9031746
In Search of Lost Time

>>9031709
/pol/ is what you're searching for

>>9031709
How To Make Love To A Man by Alexandra Penney

>>9031709
don't listen to elliot hulse

read witty authors?

wilde comes to mind

Nothing, its just a skill. You'd be better off studying psychology if that's what you are trying to do.

Being witty is overrated desu

Freud made it sound cool.

>>9031629
They don't. You're just pretending having an unloving dad gives you some kind of merit whatsoever

>>9031664
nice projecting there friendo

Doesn't count if he cheats with bullshit line breaks.

>>9031645
does he do that often?

All eyes turned then to the Main Event itself. As expected, Clinton had emerged as the winner of DemoMania. The worked screwjob of Sanders had been the only really memorable turn in what had otherwise been something of a bathroom break. Adjusting themselves to the reality of Trump's entrance to the Main Event, the smarks could see clearly what the storyline was. Trump would heel it up as best he could, ref-bumping and hot-shotting away, and Clinton - who had always rather struggled as a face - would get over with the marks by sheer force of contrast.

Everything about the early stages of the match confirmed the smarks' predictions. Trump had evidently been given some rudimentary coaching, as he now began to at least try to sell some of the moves applied to him. Clinton, no ring general herself, hit all the expected notes. This would not be a thrilling affair.

It was no surprise when Trump began hot-shotting women in particular. That was all to be expected, given his opponent, and in any case he had form there. Many even viewed his no-sell of Sexual Propriety as fairly astute ring psychology, though the same could not be said of Christie's ludicrous enforcer role. Everything was on course for the expected, if not much anticipated outcome.

Comey's run-in was where the smarks began to genuinely despise proceedings. The email gimmick had simply never popped the way it had been intended, and most had assumed it would be quietly dropped, just as would any other gimmick that couldn't get over. Things couldn't wrap up quickly enough, all agreed. Trump was awful, his storyline was awful, his gimmick was awful. This was a disaster.

But, as in the Rumble, it seemed the marks themselves felt differently. They weren't popping for Clinton as she faced Trump's bully-boy onslaught. They were popping for the bully-boy. Were they trying to get Trump over as a tweener? Absurd.

The final spot saw Clinton Irish-whip Trump into a running clothesline, which, to give him credit, Trump sold admirably. Clinton duly pinned him, but on the two-count, Trump flipped her. Ridiculous, the smarks opined. Pin-reversals are for the early stages, this looks like the climax.

It seemed that many were so occupied with deriding the spot that they at first didn't notice that Trump had got the three-count. The crowd seemed in utter shock. Even as Trump held up the strap in triumph, the smarks were furiously insisting that it would all turn out to be a work, a dusty finish screwjob to draw out this storyline they just didn't know how to end. But no ref objected, no Commissioner emerged from behind the curtains to announce some technical disqualification. Trump was, unbelievably, the actual winner, for all that his victory seemed to many to sound the elimination of quality wrestling itself.

Did you write this, OP? I can't into wrestling, but it seems good stuff to me, even if there's nothing quite as memorable as "Oswald was the starter".

>>9031566
Yeah. I didn't even think about trying to recall individual phrases, it seemed an impossible task. Glad you (sort of) like it.

>>9031534
I don't know about best, but they have great lyrics indeed. Listen to All Hail West Texas if you're into lo-fi/singer-songwriter and listen to Tallahassee for their studio band sound. Those 2 albums are considered their best

>>9031534
No.

There is not a *single* neutral milk hotel wannabe that isn't a massive cringefest

>>9031534
No Children is my favorite kind of book, actually. It's the kind of dark humor of the Chuck Palahniuk books. Haven't listened to anything else from them, though.