Is there any specific definition of cyberpunk. Can it be anti-utopian or does it have to be dystopian?
dystopian means anti-utopian
>>8927168
>Short def:
hi-tech, low-life
>Long def:
http://www.lib.ru/STERLINGB/interzone.txt
>>8927600
>In the moral universe of cyberpunk, we *already* know Things We Were Not Meant To Know. Our *grandparents* knew these things; Robert Oppenheimer at Los Alamos became the Destroyer of Worlds long before we arrived on the scene. In cyberpunk, the idea that there are sacred limits to human action is simply a delusion. There are no sacred boundaries to protect us from ourselves.
Alright, what is your favorite poem, /lit/?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH6okIt97M4
>>8927104
The Seafarer
https://youtu.be/xr6AYzqFK9E
>>8927104
Prufrock's great. I also really like Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
(yes I know this is a /pol/ thread, but we can re-purpose it)
>>8927117
Kinda depressing to share a poem and realize it's in a shit thread.
Can anyone recommend me any obscure or weird or just non-traditional poetry. Basically anything that's as far away from traditional poetry as one can get. I don't care if it's pretentious or dumb. I would like it to be published though.
Pic related, Louis Zukofsky
just pick up some wcw and never read any other poetry again
Check em retards
>>8927082
William Carlos Williams
Louis Macniece
>World is crazier and more of it than we think,
>Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion
A tangerine and spit the pips and feel
The drunkenness of things being various.
Few years ago a guy was talking about the story which he has begun creating in his mind.
It was few years ago and I really can't remember much of it, unfortunately. It was supposed to be about some tiny people living in our world. They were trying to protect their world from some kind of evil creatures. Anon has been successively describing the plot and the protagonists of his tale. The protagonist meets girl, they together fight the evil creatures, get married and have children. In later part of the story the parents sacrifice their lives in order to save their children, which survives and like their parents fight monster.
You may say that the story is cheesy but after couple of years I still remember that thread and I'm curious if anyone else remembers the Anon's story.
You could feel that Anon was an introvert. I believe he has said that he had came up with the idea when he was in primary/secondary school (he was looking at a tree and started thinking about mentioned tiny people). He started developing the story and said that in 20-something years he will have written a book.
Does anyone remember the thread or have pics of it? Or maybe you're reading this Anon. How's writting the book going?
>>8927065
>writting
So uneducated pieces of shit like you are the reason the fantasy genre is still alive?
>>8927103
t. undergrad
>>8927124
Keep it up, man, there are many more mistakes
Thinking you have accomplished something great by reading this overrated meme book.
>>8927016
Pretending that all of /lit/ likes or has even read IJ is more of a meme than IJ itself is at this point.
>>8927016
Could not have missed the mark any farther than you have already.
i read the first 200 pages. didnt read the endnotess
i just cant get into it enough to justify going on for another 500 pages. i like the DFWs essays but as with most books i just feel like i get the point after a couple 100 pages.
What are some books that will break a heart? Pic related, the emotion "heartbreak".
>>8926825
Ulysses - James Joyce
>>8926825
Mein Kampf
>that feel when I have over 560 images of liberals experiencing heartbreak on Nov 8th 2016
greatest day of my life famalam
>>8926809
>Herrnstein and Murray were criticized for not submitting their work to peer review before publication, despite presenting it as a scholarly work.[4][7] Many scholarly reviews of the book arrived later. Richard Lynn (1999) wrote that "The book has been the subject of several hundred critical reviews, a number of which have been collected in edited volumes".
>the book "contains no new arguments and presents no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism" and said that the "authors omit facts, misuse statistical methods, and seem unwilling to admit the consequence of their own words."[5]
>"There is certainly no such support for a genetic interpretation...It is sometimes suggested that the Black/White differential in psychometric intelligence is partly due to genetic differences (Jensen, 1972). There is not much direct evidence on this point, but what little there is fails to support the genetic hypothesis"
ok
>>8926872
No one of the critics is a well known empirically working psychologist.
>>8926809
Does it explain the academic gap between /pol/tards and /lit/ users?
I just ordered the waves by virginia woolf, lit. 5 dollars off of abebooks, hardcover. 1.98 + 3 dollars shipping. I'd be really surprised if it came with a dust cover, but I don't care as long as it's not destroyed and the pages are clean. 5 dollars for a waves hardcover, what a steal. We'll see.
Orlando is genuinely better.
Yes, I've read through the Waves's 'i said's, Orlando's better.
>>8926720
Nice, man. Hardcovers of The Waves are hard to come by.
It it is worn out you could always take it to a book repair place for new binding and such
>>8926769
Orlando was very witty and enjoyable, but I didn't like it nearly as much as the Waves which is probably the most beautiful thing I've ever read.
why haven't you read this yet?
i don't read
can you buy it in person at any store
>>8926621
I don't know. ask the author. he's around here somewhere. I'm sure he will turn up.
The reading for day 14 is B3 Part 1 Chapter 14 through and including Part Two Chapter 4, pp. 697-752.
>Ebooks and audiobook
https://mega.nz/#F!4QVj1b4B!BMF7h3um_c5qWHQCP_aw6g
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>Once when making such calculations he wrote down his own name in French, Comte Pierre Besouhoff, but the sum of the numbers did not come right. Then he changed the spelling, substituting a z for the s and adding de and the article le, still without obtaining the desired result. Then it occurred to him that if the answer to the question were contained in his name, his nationality would also be given in the answer. So he wrote Le russe Besuhof and adding up the numbers got 671. This was only five too much, and five was represented by e, the very letter elided from the article le before the word Empereur. By omitting the e, though incorrectly, Pierre got the answer he sought. L’russe Besuhof made 666. This discovery excited him. How, or by what means, he was connected with the great event foretold in the Apocalypse he did not know, but he did not doubt that connection for a moment.
Freemason autism is a strong variety.
>it's a Petya chapter
pretty cute
Where do you normally read, anon?
In my bed
>>8926473
usually bed but couch is preferable since you can change position if you go for a long read
..also, like everyone else, in le poop
>>8926473
Couch, bus, bed sometimes.
Should Thomas Sowell become mandatory reading in school?
>>8926467
Yep. He's contributed far more to economics than Pseudo intellectuals like Marx and his ilk
Basic Economics should be required reading for everyone.
Only if you introduce the study of alternative economic systems.
I've been reading Tennyson's Ulysses a few times, and have memorized the first sentence, but I'm still puzzled over a small part of the grammar in that first sentence:
IT little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags,
Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole
Unequal laws unto a savage race,
That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me.
Shouldn't it be something like "It little profits that an idle king... should mete and dole"? How does he get the "I" in "I mete and dole"? Is it grammatically correct, or is he just taking a little poetic liberty here?
please respond
tl;dr
>>8926442
Seems like poetic license to me.
Starting with the Greeks is not a meme. Do not pretend like you can discuss political philosophy or understand world events unless you've started with the Greeks.
>>8926202
Fuck you, i've taken the redpill. Take your nonwhite pedarasts and shove them up your liberal worn-out shithole, you degenerate
>>8926202
implying /lit/ has read the Greeks.
when every post your stack thread is littered with DFW meme books unironically
/pol/ has a lot of idiots, but the smartest /pol/lacks are undoubtedly smarter than the smartest /lit/izens. /lit/ has always been a /fa/ board peddling books and knowledge as fashion sense. /pol/ lacks the self-preservation instinct of a pseudo-intellectual which is why you get so many idiots out in the open, but this same reason also ensures that there is no doubt that top genius resides on /pol/ not /lit/.
>>8926202
Shut up faggot. I won't take cues from libcucks
I wrote a poem for my 18 yo classmate who I plan to confess my love to. Tell me what you think, please.
I love a girl with bright blue eyes
Her tongue it speaks of love not lies
If she'd command me down on her
I'd quickly fall then on my knees
And would not mind I aim to please
Till she would like a kitten purr
I love a girl with fire hair
Her soft lips touch I could not bear
around my cock for more than one
a quarter of an hour but
If I could stick it in her butt
Then all my worries would be gone
I love a girl with virgin thighs
A redhaired maid with bright blue eyes
And speak to her of love not lust
However if she seeks to know
Physical love, a hearty plough
My nut in her I'd gladly bust
>>8926126
Don't do it. Terrible, terrible poem and she's going to think you are a creep.
>>8926126
don't
>>8926126
>I wrote a poem for my 18 yo classmate who I plan to confess my love to
Why do people still do that?