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>Schopenhauer was right about literally everything except the poodles.
Prove me wrong.You can't.
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What did he say about poodles?
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>>8979607
dont do it man
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>>8979607
He would only fuck male ones.
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Why does lit hate on Walt Whitman so much? Every I see him referenced it's always to say that he's shit-tier. Is it because all of the so-called free verse poets of today think they can be the next Whitman when they actually suck?
I know he was a faggot but I still liked Song of Myself.
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>>8979578
No one says that lel.
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>>8979578
Point to one instance where someone has said Walt Whitman sucks.
You have the archive at your disposal, I expect results.
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>>8979578
>I cum all over America,
>and over the mountains, and the lakes and towns,
>and over all the men, women and children (white or black, I accept all),
>but it is not me who cums, but my soul.
HOLY SHIT SO BEAUTIFUL
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How to write sexy things without being too smutty or perverse?
This is a serious question. If two characters are finally 'making love' or 'hooking up', it's an important development. Do you just skip it all together, """allude to it""" or use tasteful mills and boon words like "bosom" and "engorged" that makes it sound like you're a hack? How to avoid the cheese.
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>>8979550
pull out your biology book from high school and check how they describe it there
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Use the word "cocksleeve" at least once.
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Make sure you use as many euphemisms as humanly possible
>favorite playlist to read
>favorite playlist to write
>favorite bait to shitpost in /lit/
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>>8979548
>listening to music whilst reading
Top pleb
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>Really like Wandel's videos.
>They're all short as hell, 10 minutes if you're lucky.
I want at least 30 minutes of autism per video, damn it.
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>>8979589
I'm a pleb but I can't listen to music while reading; i tend to lose focus that way
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I've read Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius. Where do I go from here? I'm also interested in the cynics if that broadens my reading a bit
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Did you miss the part when aurelius says 'fuck reading and do something productive'?
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>>8979554
Not that anon, but I assumed he meant just not to over estimate the value of literature vs. actual experience.
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>>8979544
Seneca and Musonius Rufus are the only others I know of.
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Is it even worth it to try to become a writer when even the best of writers end up having really boring and disappointing lives? Wouldn't a billionaire who's constantly fucking hot babes and spending cash with the bros and revelling in his superiority to other people have a better time overall?
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I sincerely hope you don't believe DFW is among "the best of writers."
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>>8979537
i seriously hope you don't believe that DFW isn't a fun little meme that fits every occasion
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>>8979528
How is being a rich Chad any more interesting than being a piss bottle collecting NEET writer?
>Want to write a book
>No ideas
Anyone want to help me out?
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You have the cart before the horse.
First, you have something to say.
Then, you say it.
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Not really.
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Write about what you can invoke the most emotion in the reader with. This will be a topic that invokes the most emotion in you.
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So who is the best of, or the best example of the tortured genius artist/writer? It seems to me like the best end up just being chads, but feel free to prove me wrong.
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Brian Wilson
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>>8979445
nietzsche, obviously
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Elliot Rodger
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What do you lads think about Lena Dunham's opus 'Not That Kind of Girl' ? a great book, or THE greatest book?
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what do you think about not posting these things online? great idea or the greatest idea?
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what do you think about getting the fuck out?
A close family member suffers from a mental condition that makes it impossible for them to be around and very offensive. They were once someone I looked up and saw the dominant father figure in my life. I am heartbroken by this. Can you recommend some good literature on the topic, or something like that?
Sorry for the English.
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"How to deal with when A close family member suffers from a mental condition that makes it impossible for them to be around and very offensive. They were once someone you looked up and saw the dominant father figure in you life and you are heartbroken by this" is a good one desu
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>>8979318
Wow much thanks. Arse hole
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bumpa
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Fantasy
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
Flowchart:
>https://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
Science Fiction
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/IBs9KE8.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
>https://i.imgur.com/IJxTQBL.jpg
Previous Thread: >>8966391
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Is the Golden Compass one of those books that's aimed at kids but acceptable to read as an adult?
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Are there any fantasy worlds where drug use, prostitution, and other 'social degeneracies' are prevalent?
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>>8978838
Righteous.
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sup /lit/
first time here. I have a question regarding philosophy.
I have been reading the sticky but I still want to know what are the practical use (if there is any) for philosophy in the everyday life of a "normal" working person?
Where can I start or there is an introductory book to begin with philosophy?
Also, what is your definition of philosophy? I found a lot of them in wikipedia and other sources but they can be a little vague or generic in the definition.
Pic not related, it's Bernini, I like Bernini, say something nice about Bernini.
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There really isn't a practical use for philosophy to someone who has no natural inclination to understand himself and the rest of the world.
Start with the greeks, its in the sticky.
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>>8979293
>There really isn't a practical use for philosophy
Nonsense!
Philosophy is the means by which we intrepret the world around us. The code by while we base our decisions and live our lives.
Without philosophy we would be braindead, or robots.
The reason so many people are walking shit-sacks is because they don't believe they have any use for philosophy. The fact that so many people live most of their lives without introspection or thoughtfulness ... man. It really grinds my gears!
Philsophy is what seperates man from beats. When we can sit around and discuss why we do things, and if we ought to do them differently? These are important questions that should not be answered by men of the past. Philosophy needs to be on top of everyones minds today!
What are the ethics of coloing or genetic engineering? Is it acceptable to contonute to allow people to get older and older, draining all of the resources for the younger generations, and dragging behind society like a weight - fighting for antiquated policies. What place should religion have in modern society?
Philosophy has been too long neglected and mystified. It needs to be served with every meal.
Thanks for a great first post, anon!
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Was it rape or did Lolita actually wanted to fuck him?
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>>8979248
Didn't you read the book? She initiated it.
Humbert is still a degenerate paedo, though.
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>>8979251
>She initiated it.
That´s what Humbert tells us but remember he is writting for a jury and he is literally mentally ill so his perception of reality must be pretty fugged up
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>>8979248
Somewhere in between. There are persuasions/tricks pedophiles use other than outright rape which could lead to seemingly consensual relationships that are nonetheless abusive. Also, he essentially corners her, it's not like Lolita picked him up because she was so hot for him. Plus the unreliable narrator bit
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>yfw Mario saves Barry Loach's soul and by doing so, saves our own souls too
Wallace you god damn genius
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>>8979247
>>yfw Mario saves Barry Loach's soul
what happens, give me the run down
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>>8979641
Read it you piece of shit
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>>8979641
He touches him and Loach jizzes everywhere
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Be still. Another day has bled and died.
The year remains to dream of future bliss--
Of enemies made friends, of shame turned to pride
Of wounds newly healed and the imagined kiss.
Drink deep. The taste is bitter? Drink again:
The bitterness will go, as will the rest.
Reality eludes the wisest men.
Why seek to know it better than the best?
Forget: you owe no duty to the past:
For that which is not now is not at all.
If history lies, no memory need last,
Nor need we care from what great height we fall.
Who hopes for life, to him despair accrues,
Who hopes for nothing, has no life to lose.
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>>8979180
where'd you find this
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me in pic
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>>8979207
It's a poem by Roger Wescott. Published in The Phylon Quarterly, Vol.18, 1 June 1957.