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Why is /lit/ opposed to the Bible so much? Why can't you see the literary significance of reading it?
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>>9012951
Is this your first day here?
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>>9012954
This
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>>9012954
Reee, etc.
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What are you currently reading? 2017-01-23 06:31:18 Post No.9012899
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What are you currently reading?
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Ibsen's Ghosts. I was kinda reading it, then I stopped to update some shit on my kindle, thus I shitpost.
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Published in 1895.
Its really cool to see how out of date all the """advice""" is
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What books can you identify on this shelf? is this what you hope for in a /lit gf?
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>>9012773
na she's ugly
sage
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>>9012773
>Crank
>Crank is a novel by Ellen Hopkins published in 2004. It is based loosely around the real life addictions of her daughter to crystal meth.
Could be interesting
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>Harry Potter glasses
>goth section of my bookshelf
>shelf full of shitty paperbacks
>smoking directly near books
>DUDE WEED on social media so not legal yet
do not want
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This dude dumbed down the deep concept of moral truth for 2 separate hours and Harris was so caught up in his rigid thinking that he couldn't even grasp what he was saying.
Those smug giggles throughout the podcast tell the whole story, these two aren't even on the same level AT ALL.
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>>9012650
>he keeps forcing same shitty thread every day to engage in another session of same he said she said
Kill yourself.
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>moral truth
keking at humanities and their made up words
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>>9012650
god you just know the words coming out of her mouth are "Well, I just feel.."
What the fuck? I don't usually try to shit on people trying to show off their art (especially if they just want a critique), but God damn. This dude literally thinks he is the voice of a generation and puts out three of these turds a week. I'm triggered. Other anons post /lit/ related things that piss them off.
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>>9012515
is he popular
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>>9012522
Just read this...I mean fuck.
What have you read so far? Stop slacking off will you?
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Working on my western erudition through the 1001 Books to Read Before You Die list (1306 actually).
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/952.1001_Books_You_Must_Read_Before_You_Die
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This thing looks cool, what website do you use?
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>>9012484
goodreads
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How do you stop your mind from wandering when reading dense and complicated material?
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>>9012370
conciously remind yourself not to
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>>9012370
Take extensive notes.
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>>9012370
Write while you read. Only way. Anyone who says "wow if you can't pay attention without making notes you're retarded" is retarded. Don't listen to them.
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Reminder that Germans, not the French, invented post-modernism. 2017-01-23 02:04:45 Post No.9012162
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Reminder that Germans, not the French, invented post-modernism.
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Heidegger expressed interest in meeting Derrida personally after Braun sent him some of his work. There was discussion of a meeting in 1972, but this failed to take place. Heidegger's interest in Derrida is said by Braun to have been considerable (as is evident in two letters, of September 29, 1967 and May 16, 1972, from Heidegger to Braun). In Derrida's view, deconstruction is a tradition inherited via Heidegger (the French term "déconstruction" is a term coined to translate Heidegger's use of the words "Destruktion"—literally "destruction"—and "Abbau"—more literally "de-building").
Heidegger = Derrida
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>>9012162
No.
A willful misinterpretation of Heidegger = Derrida
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>The term postmodern was first used around the 1880s. John Watkins Chapman suggested "a Postmodern style of painting" as a way to depart from French Impressionism.[6] J. M. Thompson, in his 1914 article in The Hibbert Journal (a quarterly philosophical review), used it to describe changes in attitudes and beliefs in the critique of religion: "The raison d'etre of Post-Modernism is to escape from the double-mindedness of Modernism by being thorough in its criticism by extending it to religion as well as theology, to Catholic feeling as well as to Catholic tradition."[7] In 1921 and 1925, postmodernism had been used to describe new forms of art and music. In 1942 H. R. Hays described it as a new literary form. However, as a general theory for a historical movement it was first used in 1939 by Arnold J. Toynbee: "Our own Post-Modern Age has been inaugurated by the general war of 1914–1918".[8]
It wasn't either of them!
The postmodern plague is the work of the eternal Anglo!
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>>9012169
No, I'd say it's a dogmatic interpretation of Heidegger and I can't find substantial "differance" between the two. And Heidegger gave no shits about contemporary philosophers, so the fact that he liked Derrida, even to the point of wanting to meet him, speaks volumes. Heidegger saw that Derrida was doing the same thing.
>so, like, this woman has to execute a will and then starts seeing horns everywhere lol fuck the government
Pinecone was right. Crying of Lot 49 is utter dogshit.
Why can't people just accept that Pynchon made a mistake? Inherent Vice, Vineland, and Bleeding Edge are all better than this worthless shit.
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that "mistake" is far better than anything you'll ever write
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>>9011843
Nope.
How did the Melbourne meet up go? I'm in New York and thinking of starting one.
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how come i didnt get invite. What did you guys do
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>>9011787
Clover watched us all have gay sex.
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Did anyone go?
I couldn't go because I have a patrician sleeping schedule (I also don't really buy books anymore). The thread was full of shitposting so I can't image it went that well.
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If you're going to start one in NY, you should arrange something to do, like the bookmarket in Melbourne.
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Does anyone else read exclusively off an e-reader? I do now and cant stop
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the original image is on superhuman levels of dumb
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This picture is honestly deep and profound. (I'm sure most of you won't be able to understand what I mean).
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>>9011202
explain?
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How the fuck do you get over a bad case of writer's block? I've got it so bad right now it's like fucking paralysis. I sit there in front of my computer and I can't even get a sentence out. I have been doing this for days now.
It didn't use to be so bad for me. I have two 100K+ word-manuscripts (don't ask, they suck) and I have had a previous job writing children's stories for a teaching company. I wrote dozens of those things. I have written for newspapers. I had a column in my local paper when I was seventeen. It was hideous garbage but that's not the point. This all used to come very naturally to me.
But I am so epically fucking stuck now trying to write one small novella that I want to bash my head against a wall. I can't figure this out. I think it's gotten too personal, but I'm so frustrated trying to make some another anonymous person have a good time with a ten-cent pulp story that I'm losing my shit right now. And I'm having a hard time walking away from it because I'm obsessed with the idea now. I don't know if that means the idea is good or not.
Does any good come of this? Has anyone here had a similar experience? When you feel really super-unable to fucking relax and let things go? I know this sounds stupid as fuck but I'm basically looking for a good piece of advice or something to crowbar me out of my own anus here.
cheers anons
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For me, it's like looking at a puzzle or a problem for so long that I need to step back for a while and return to it later with a refreshed mind.
I always take a break and get myself obsessed with something else. When I'm not writing, I'm drawing and vice versa.
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>tfw you finally realize you don't have writer's block and you're just a shitty writer
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Consider examining 'paradoxical intention', specifically a case where a man faced a crippling writer's block.
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what is the best vampire book set in the modern age?
(no rice or twilight)
looking for something riveting -if that even exists in the vamp genre
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Emoji translation of Dracula.
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>>9011253
thanks
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>>9011044
Honestly you're better off watching Only Lovers Left Alive, all the vampire books are YA garbage
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write what's on your mind
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>>9010979
I keep tottering between wanting to do great acts of love and great acts of hate.
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>>9010979
This picture makes me want to go live in a cave.
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I only wish for love, eternal love
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Anyone here hit "rock bottom", was at any point a train wreck, or lived an extremely degenerate lifestyle?
I'd like to hear from those who were homeless, drug addicts, prostitutes etc.
I think they make interesting stories, if only they could write.
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Well fortunately DFW wrote their stories up for em!
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>>9008836
Yes I particularly enjoyed the stoner who used to throw all his marijuana paraphernalia out and tell all his dealers never to sell to him in an attempt to quit, then would buy it all again and find new dealers.
Or the old man who did cough medicine in a bathroom and spent two days there with ants all over him.
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It's just media hype. Living "rock bottom" is just like Schindler's List wiuthout any artistic merit.