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No because i don't want to come here and see "is he our guy?1?!" threads or anons greentexting a paragraph from it and attaching smug anime girls to their post

>>8743402
I wrote a trashy series about a 15 year old kid who becomes a spy when his dad dies. It was successful, perhaps bordering on smash hit?

Either way, I've been down that path and it's worth every ounce of out you have to sell.

nigger i would become the next veronica roth in a heartbeart if i knew how to pull it off

i don't dream of doing so, but i don't see why it's a bad idea. who cares if it means you're a "sellout"? by what standards? who says you can't write serious novels after your established? smug faggots in cardigans won't take you seriously but why should you take them seriously

Do your own homework

>>8743377
It's the worst of Sophocles' Theban plays.

>>8743400
It's great. Don't be a loser.

>>8743343

I just read the masters of the genre(s) in which I wanted to write. No psychology. I don't really think you'd stand to benefit unless your subject matter was actually psychological in nature (eg a psychologist as protagonist, a psychopath or sociopath character, etc). Otherwise I don't think it'd be so conducive to writing well considered characters.

>>8743343
Psychology is nothing but spooks and ideology for idiots and cattle.

Psychoanalysis is where you want to be

>>8743394

What works of psychoanalysis would you recommend?

>>8743334
Not really no

>>8743340
Sweet

You can do work in philosophy at any age. It's not like math were you have to do your most important work before you turn 25.

what, you spend your life stealing beats from other writers before a bunch of niggers on crack shoot you in a drive-by? okay, senpai

did the pincher write that?

>>8743207
How many rappers actually get shot anymore?

Murakami is actually a good author

A bit samey but thoroughly enjoyable

>>8743155
My favourite is 1Q84.
I agree with >>8743161
He is a good author, provided you don't read too many in a row.

good god it's so fucking comfy for some reason

>>8743131

German.

>>8743137
I was thinking about German or Russian, or maybe Spanish (which should be sort of easy, seeing as I know one romance language). Why do you say German?

>>8743143

>Why do you say German?

Good poets. Good philosophers.

Good friends 'n' fun.

If you're asking this question, then you're not doing the scholarship that would require such advanced interpretations.

Just read the Penguin. They're fine. They have Fagles for Homer after all, and he is fine.

Don't fall for the meme that introductory students need to have the best translations available. Read the Penguin because it is easy to access, and then eventually start looking into commentaries and see what translations they seem to be adopting or avoiding.

Well in that specific case of Seneca's letters, I would recommend Oxford. I have not read the Penguin translation, but I think there's only around 40 letters, where as in the Oxford edition there's 80 + quite a lot of good notes. I just finished reading it about a week ago and cannot recommend the Oxford version enough.

Penguin is absolutely fine for the vast majority of editions. The Penguin hate is a meme.

If you learn how to write from a manual instead of just picking it up from reading truly great books, you are part of the problem.
James Salter changed how I write, but that's because he writes in a distinctive way, not because he told me how to write,

>>8743089
>If you learn how to write from a manual instead of just picking it up from reading truly great books, you are part of the problem.

le learning by osmosis meme. thread went full retard right out of the gate, thanks /lit/

>if you don't pick up painting by just looking at cool paintings then you are part of the problem study is for fags
>if you don't pick up music just by listening to dope tunes you are part of the problem
>if you don't pick up construction just from watching mexicans build houses, you are part of the problem

yeah just wing it my dude

>>8743089

Get a load of this capricious pseud.

You can do both, clown.

>>8743022
>if we would ever be able to upload ourselves to a virtual reality.
Yes. Consider that audiovisual recordings are the earliest attempts at doing so. Our top scientists are trying to encode the other sensations as we speak.

>our current selves are left behind while (A)
>our copies live on in virtual space (B)
>we wake up in a new virtual world where everything is a simulation (Also B)

It is actually a duplication of consciousness. Your physical self (A.) continues living on, and eats, fucks, and gets heart disease.
You copied self (B.) is in the Matrix (sponsored by Youtube) and experiences whatever is encoded into the virtual world. Copied self B could also be uploaded into a physical body, which could act impersonate consciousness A, but will have diverged at the moment of copying.

Induced memories/amnesia make both modes of consciousness even more fluid, however, as conciousness A could be convinced, through sufficient Total Recall tech that it experienced something that did not happen in physical reality.

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>>8743022
My two favorites have been The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind and I Am A Strange Loop.

TOoCitBotBM was more robust and profound. It was overall a better exploration and treatment of the author's ideas.

IAaSL was much more personal and I enjoy Hofstadter's style in general.

Hofstadter is much more directly related to your question though. He has written about that, but I forget where. I'd say look up his bibliography and try something that seems interesting.

Why are young people such a walking meme

>Somalia
Vs
>Denmark
Which place would you rather live in?

Oh, the answers over here! no, wait

it's over there. it moved again!

>>8742995
Hey, guess what. Not all political philosophy is based on a state of nature. Which is a good thing, because the idea of a state of nature is trash.

>>8742887
is ok. Moar.

This isn't worth anything more than a cutsie thread on 4chan.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, I just want to make sure you know its worth.

>>8742909

Yeah... that's kinda what I was thinking. Dammit.

>>8742838

Fact: You should hang yourself

cool. whats your book

>>8742838
if this is what literature has become I think I'll pass

Unironically Ulysses

>>8742786
This only works for when you're reading it and then a few days after

>>8742925
What did he mean by this?

>>8742705
my diary, desu

henri lefebvre the production of space

>>8742705
The entire genre of modernism