At the heart of this book lies the dogma that you should sincerely show an interest in the people around you, and they will naturally like you in return.
Has this premise been eroded by the role of irony in the contemporary social zeitgeist? Are we, by and large, so detached from sincerity because of it's utter derailment by irony that we actually find it repulsive outside of the context of those who we have already built an intimate relationship with?
Are these intimate relationships forged in that same ironic and detached landscape? Are our close friends, then, totally arbitrary in relation to the sincere self, chosen by convenience and circumstance rather than a genuine and mutual admiration of character?
>>8729733
You use too complicated words. Sociology is easy subject. Easy words.
>>8729735
did irony break friends?
>>8729737
Irony? Like the element? Iron is transition metal. It donates electrons and forms ion cores.
Is this the most well-read man in sport?
>>8729664
More proof plz
>forgetting Nietzschean overman Joey Barton
You fucked up OP
>>8729670
how do I gain life experience ?
>>8729651
What kind of life experience? you gain some by just being alive. if you want le wacky shit to write about then become a hitchhiking drifter who does not hold a job for longer than 3 months and asks everyone their lives story
Get a job.
>>8729651
>how do I gain life experience ?
Not doing suicide, though a failed suicide could grant you some life xp.
I am not good at it but obviously you want to meet people and experience stuff.
I experienced a mental breakdown, it was a fascinating experience. I had a peek in the inner workings of mental health care, it contains some nasty people and some who really want to help others.
Afterwards I volunteered several times. It was interesting as well. Maybe not such a personal experience, but still.
Seriously, you'll learn a lot once you suffer from a mental breakdown. Books can evalutate your experiences.
>Then Jesus said to him, “Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword
>“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.
"Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels."
Context:
The first verse is after some follower of Jesus cuts the ear off a priest and is using violence for vanity. He thinks he can protect Jesus or do good for Christianity through violence, but by taking into his own hands, he underestimates and undervalues the power of Jesus to do as He wishes.
The second verse is Jesus saying he won't bring peace on Earth. And clearly he didn't. He provoked violence and rebellion but it was just violence, and it was necessary rebellion. He's saying that He won't bring peace on Earth this time around. He died, resurrected, transcended, and will return. When He returns, THAT'S when he'll bring peace on Earth, not the first time around.
>>8729595
and he died, didn't he
>>8729636
not by the sword though
>Told my friends about the novel I'm writing
>They make fun of it all the time and it's become a running joke
>>8729571
Your friends are cocks. You should friends with similar interests or friends that at least appreciate what your trying to do.
>>8729571
Tell us about the novel you're writing so we can make fun of you too
>>8729631
It's a semi-autobiographical novel about a lonely guy falling in love with a woman on the other side of the world over the internet.
>he reads translations
Good luck with Camus, Dostoevsky, Waltari, Cervantes, Dante, Hemingway and Homeros. Hope you are multilingual enough.
>>8729589
>he doesn't speak at least italian, french and spanish
pleb
>he thinks translations are meant to produce an identical text
What forgeries have you encountered lately?
>that nail
london?
>>8729399
I went to South East Asia. Not a legitimate copy of a book in sight.
>>8729402
Men get manicures too. Don't jump to conclusions.
>semicolons in dialogue
>>8729371
>punctuation in dialogue
Fuck off punk. Semicolons are my shit.
>>8729372
>punctuation
Requesting any interesting or intricate dialogue scenarios my fellow il/lit/erates can think up.
I have a lot of trouble figuring out an in-scene purpose to the dialogue to make it interesting.
Examples of what I mean:
>One character tries to annoy the other; the other keeps his temper and changes the subject.
>One character is witty, clever, or dramatic, but the other holds power over her (such as being her captor).
>Both characters are equally angry, despondent, or [insert emotional adjective].
>One character keeps asking questions and being skeptical; the other has to respond.
>The characters are being open with each other after a long time of keeping silent.
those are all interesting. another one you might try is the following:
senselessly drunk fey intellectual with poor social skills tries to explain his complicated stance on monarchy to one of his majesty the king's soldiers occupying his homeland as his jewish ersatz father tries to intervene.
>>8729354
Does she want to get married?
>>8729366
Back of the line.
>buy new book
>bring it to work to read on my breaks
>take it out of bag
>somehow its wet all the way through
>ink is smudging
>every single page is affected
>no access to an iron or any kind of heater to save it
I am so angry right now.
Was it a female book?
>>8729280
It wasLord of the flies
>>8729284
Did a big boulder fall on it too?
>russian "realism"
>characters routinely talk fluidly for 3-5 pages like they're giving speeches.
Daily reminder that Gorgoroth is nothing without Ghaal and King.
>>8729131
Russian realism didn't come into it's fullest flower until the advent of the social realism of the Soviet cinema.
>>8729170
No shit, at least Gaahl's Wyrd is coming up with an album
>tfw Kvitravn and Gaahl duo on Steg
King joining Abbath felt a bit strange though
Anybody here waste a substantial amount of their lives playing video games and now feel behind-the-pack as far as literary progression goes? I'm 26, and I've read an ok amount of stuff, but I only really got started with the greeks and and 'real' literature when I was 22. Considering true patrish' are ballin out of control and on their way to being published by my age, I can't help but feel totally lost and overwhelmed by the amount of literature I've yet to be exposed to....
I've wasted upwards of 3-4 years of my life playing Street Fighter and League of Legends. Feels bad man
Nope. I played cod4 for 3 years and league for 5. Now I still have a ton of great books to look forward to instead of just "ironically" shit posting and gargling James Joyce's cum when I'm not deciding whether or not to an hero
Yea man I feel you. Am actually 22 now and same as you have read an alright amount of books over the years, literally classics etc. But have yet to read the now modern ones. Feels bad man. Sometimes I wish I could stop playing games for a while and catch up but can't seem to grab the incentive to do so.
We pretend to be /mu/ and post our favorite books 3x3
I'll start
What am I, a girl?
redpill me on the name of the rose, why it good?
What the heck, I'll humour you.
Why don't we start a literary journal?
Then we can say we've been published
(especially before age 25)
Who's in?
>>8728979
what are we gonna do, superficial reviews of blood meme?
I am in, OP. I am genuinely in. What would we write about?
>Who's in?
I like the idea, but your margins are simply too small for me to feel safe investing. I'm out.
Are the Metro books any good? A friend of mine is trying to get me into the series but I'm not sure if they're good or not.
I don't want to waste my time on garbage.
Read one and find out.
>>8728957
It is garbage, I bet your friend is a pro shit consumer.
>Genre fiction
>Not garbage
Pick one.