Is there a good "path" for books to read in relation to stoicism? An infograph, maybe?
>Get off the 4chins
>Read "meditations"
>>8705245
I've read the Enchiridion and Meditations already.
Thankyou though.
Kill yourself. Stoicism is a spook.
What's the verdict on this guy? Overlooked genius or autist with delusions of grandeur?
He's never been published but treats his superiority to virtually every other writer in human history as a matter of fact.
http://www.cosmoetica.com/
He's never talked about here but I think he provides a lot to discuss.
>>8705209
Read his poetry (and also the internet archived pages of his stories & memoirs) & come up with your own conclusions:
http://www.cosmoetica.com/Poetrylinks.htm
If you had read Dan's stuff properly - he would both tell you that you have to recognize it yourself, and that if you had recognized it yourself with proper critical senses of recognition, you would have recognized him as the greatest poet of all time
But you have to recognize it yourself.
>>8705606
Thread's about Dan, not me. I never learned how to appreciate poetry so I wanted to see a few other views if possible.
God is a metaphor.
Jesus is a simile.
>>8705055
NO. Jesus is a SMILE :)
But similes are a kind of metaph... oh, okay. Still dumb desu
What is love?
a spook.
>>8704345
before, during, but not after, le orgasm
>>8704354
>a spook.
How?
What is the Joy Division of literature?
Atrocity Exhibition desu
>>8704240
Vonnegut
>>8704246
Again, you're on point with the Vonnegut shilling, but the name triggers the fuck out of me nonetheless.
Post a book, and then a song or album that goes with the song. Starting with an obvious 4chan choice.
book
>The Road by Cormac McCarthy
album
>F A ∞ by Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Blood Meridian
book
>Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
song
>Beautiful Blue Sky by Ought, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEQyi6eCxWw
book
> "Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon", by Jorge Amado
album
> "Transa", by Caetano Veloso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPIRpI0GtDc
easy peasy
Recommend a book, as if no one will make fun of you for it
>>8703975
Stoner - John Williams
If you are a student I would urgently recommend this book. Superciliousness aside, this book is perfect.
One of the best books I've ever read.
Holy Bible KJV
>it's a Melvyn coughs directly into the mic episode
>>8703013
GOAT episode: Evolutionary Psychology
>tfw extra material at the end of the episode
yeh
>>8703019
The Maya Episode was fantastic, as was the Bedlam episode
I've just finished Borges's 'Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius', and it made me really think about literary collaborations. Was anything (obviously on a smaller scale) similar attempted IRL - a large organization of writers creating huge fictional reality? And if not, why not? What do you think about collaborative works of literature?
>a large organization of writers creating huge fictional reality
I guess MMORPGs operate in a similar fashion.
what was that guy doing writing europe-related mythological fiction while he was in fucking south america? they have nothing there?
we appreciate these people only in so far as they come close to a culture that is not theirs. that will keep them in the hole.
>>8702921
dude was argentinian, i.e., euroboo
if you're interested in something more authentic read Rulfo
What does lit listen to whilst reading? I find non-vocal music helps me read but I need some recommendations as I'm running dry.
>>8702408
Schoenberg
Satsuki Shibano
Coleman Hawkins
velvet underground (has vocals but they're not challenging and it's comfy af)
Jordi Savall's Hesperion series
Stravinsky
knxwledge
Simon Simonsson
all comfy as dick for reading
>>8702408
wtff how can you be running dry, there is litteraly way to much music.. like just look at some 'XXX classical works to listen be4 you die' list or like the jazz greats or something and there are hundreds of hours of great music..
>>8702419
>doesnt listen to takashi yoshimatsu
Reeee gtfo
I'm creating abother critique thread, for my (but unfinshed) short story (1/2)
>>8701458
I done fucked up. I meant another
Also
(2/2)
>>8701458
Shit/10
Quit spamming this board, man
Guys... this is an actual book.
DUDE
It's not.
It's spam from a hack to make money from giggling retards.
>>8701344
It's not bad. Tingle'a early work is better than his late stage
dose anyone else find Camus's absurdist philosophy really unsatisfying. it just seems to me to be rather shallow. also how is it not just nihilism.
>>8700332
*does not dose
i cant really put it into words but the myth of sisyphus really leaves a bad taste in my mouth
something about the implication that my life is no different that a 2clever4u king who was forced to roll a boulder uphill for the rest of his life for being a cheeky cunt doesnt resonate with me at all
>>8700332
it's normie nihilism
>just be urself brah just keep on pushing
Camus, Albert. Dislike him. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me. Awful.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.
The Double. His best work, though an obvious and shameless imitation of Gogol's "Nose."
The Brothers Karamazov. Dislike it intensely.
Crime and Punishment. Dislike it intensely. Ghastly rigmarole.
Faulkner, William. Dislike him. Writer of corncobby chronicles. To consider them masterpieces is an absurd delusion. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.
Freud, Sigmund. A figure of fun. Loathe him. Vile deceit. Freudian interpretation of dreams is charlatanic, and satanic, nonsense.
Lawrence, D. H. Second-rate, ephemeral, puffed-up. Mediocre. Fakes realism with easy platitudes. Execrable.
Pound, Ezra. Definitely second-rate. A total fake. A venerable fraud.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Even more awful than Camus.
Nausea. Second-rate. A tense-looking but really very loose type of writing.
>>8707168
How could one man have such great taste?
>>8707168
post more Nabokov shitting on people.
>be Russian
>pick up saxophone on a whim
>holy shit I'm really good at this saxophone
>don't really need any training at all
>just doodle doot doot on the saxophone, people love me
>amazing at this saxophone
>people ask how I'm so good
>tell them I can smell colors
>"I just smell them," I say
>"This note is blue" *toot*
>"This one is orange" *toot toot*
>everyone claps
>release one magnum opus after another by tooting the correct color combinations, directly from my soul to your ear
>listen to other saxophone players
>clearly I am better
>listen to some of the ones considered the absolute best in the world
>none of them are fucking blue enough
>get angry
>call them all shit erratically
>randomly say certain ones are okay
>people ask me to explain
>"can't you see? there isn't enough blue in that one! the orange balance is all off!!!!!!!!! this fucking guy doesn't even put reds in his yellows after a green movement!!!!!!!!!"
>try to found a new aesthetic theory where the search to understand harmony and beauty and soul and emotion are all retarded horseshit and everyone should just listen to my personal toot toot theories about color combos forever
>die a bald russian faggot
>unique synesthesia brain rots in ground
>burn in hell
>no one cares about my aesthetics ever again for eternity
>people keep quoting my toot ratings out of context because they're vaguely familiar with my symphony about child-fucking
>racist
>self-loathing
>couldn't write for shit
Is he, dare I say it, /lit/ personified?
>>8707100
>Is he, dare I say it, /lit/ personified?
Aside from the racist part, yes.
>>8707100
I didn't get self-loathing from him more just very lonely and shy
>>8707100
I'm not racist. Rest is spot on, though.