Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 1986. page

The one that got shot and then pardoned the shooter.

>>9027089
Alexander

>>9027089
Sixtus the 6th

>>9027039
>How in the name of FUCK can you become a successful writer in this contemporary shithole?
Write escapist fiction with a focus on world building

>>9027042
That's it, isn't it?

That's how Cormac McCarthy has become so successful?

He put all his talents into escapism.

It's not nihilistic, just replace god with diversity and the environment.

also FUCK old writers. These days we have distilled autism working around the clock on every scientific field and this is soul crushing for literary types who want to be able to take a few walks in nature and come home and write a 500 page high level treatise on mathematical physics and philosophy, with many allusions, witty asides, and personal anecdotes.

I miss the days when you didn't need autism to get out of bed too. But STOP telling me I need to pretend that "Oh my GAWD, Dostoevsky had STUNNING insights in to theology, philosophy, psychology, mathematics, and completely predicted fibre optic cables when he was talking about cow shit."

You have to get a degree in library science. Then you have to fellate a lot of people until one of them gives you a job.

>>9027044
>degree in library science

This is what I'm planning to do but I'm not sure if it's worth it. Don't give me the STEM bullshit, I'm not going to study something I don't care about for years so that I can live my life doing something I hate.

>>9027049

My suspicion is that because it's such an ideal job there will be a lot of competition. It's also the kind of job people can do until they're 80 so there won't be many openings. I don't study STEM, I study accounting. It seems like everyone forgets about commerce in the Degree Wars ;_;

>>9027034
No, library porn is degenerate. Stop watching library porn!

File: kindle paparchite.jpg (213KB, 1500x1000px) Image search: [Google]

213KB, 1500x1000px

don't ask me where I got this

In Our Time

>>9027007
what else

>>9026979
https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&ghost=&search_text=podcasts&search_op=op

HIV/AIDS

>>9027004

>social thought

that's not a thing

>>9026903
Never heard of this one. What's she like, op?

>>9026915
Norwegian Nobel laureate who was an atheist then converted to Christianity.

>>9026903
Flannery O'Connor.

Sometimes I play jazz as background music. Besides that not really.

Why do we have to get the exact same thread a million times? How new do you have to be to have never seen this thread ever before?

>>9026870
Why do we have to get the same complaint every time in the threads? How new do you have to be to have never seen this posted before?

>>9026647
Only took me about a day, realized I was memed after the second chapter and turned 360

>>9026647
Is it any good?

>Infinite Jest
>Not laughing for eternity
Fucking clickbait

>>9026256
Unironically, Peterson's Maps of Meanings lectures.

God damn I laughed at this tweet

>>9026275
If anyone is actually considering watching these I recommend 2017 over 2016, although 2017 is still being published. I've watched both. Jordan has structured his lectures much more rigidly and doesn't tangent off following Pinocchio's little wooden nose this year, so the lectures as a whole are much more concise (so far).

>>9026256
IN
OUR
TIME

>implying i'm not a tranny

Because people will make fun of me when this tranny fad blows over in a few years

Genuinely interested, can someone explain to me how transgender individuals face discrimination? I always hear that they do, but I never get provided any examples.

>>9026205
The Road To Serfdom, F.A. Hayek

Or really any of Hayek's work.

>>9026205

OP, meet Hannah Arendt

>>9026205
My diary desu

File: vomits.webm (1MB, 216x230px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 216x230px

>>favorite fiction book

Age: 19
Favorite Fiction Book: The Bible
Favorite Non-Fiction Book: Mein Kampf

>>9026167
>27 (oh god I'm too old for this board)

>favorite fiction book
Invisible cities
>favorite non-fiction book
Maybe The Eighth Day of Creation, but I'm a practicing STEMFAG.

>>9026058
I like it, a lot. The last part seems a bit awkward do. Maybe if explain the intention I could understand it better.

Sadly I only write in spanish but keep it up.

>>9026079
i'm guessing the 'huge, huge' feels awkward?
it was meant to mimic the rhythm of the waves

unfortunately I am monolingual, but sometimes people will comment on the Spanish poems on here.

>>9026081
Yes, explaining makes it make sense, I like the idea a ton. Maybe I'm just retarded but maybe make it a bit more obvious (whitout makeing it so evident) so that there is no need for an explanation.

Oh c'mon now. I'm sure he read it several times as he was writing it.

>>9025913
Is it true that if you read enough Gass you BECOME Gass?

Gass