Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 2560. page

>>8706392
Crosslets, when will they learn?

>>8706392
What's going on with the Orthodox cross?

>>8706432
Did you just assume my gender?

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name of the rose

both are great

enjoy

Nothing.
He's a shit author that appeals to retards with pseudo-intellectuality.

Hume's actually pretty clear and accessible. Just start reading him.

>>8706359

Okay, cool. I was just wondering if I needed to read any works on empiricism before I read his refutation of it.

>>8706357
He sometimes looked like a royal fortunate teller maid hand and sometimes in ways he was

>>8706268
you could become a DFW Studies professor.

>>8706272
fuck off

>>8706268
I have an average IQ and zero attention span

I would like to read but I get bored so..

>>8706265
fuck no, i read in my bed

It's great in theory, but I get very easily distracted by people/dogs/whatever walking by. There are some very beautiful parks nearby here so I try at least once a week to go at least to read a couple of pages, and if not just to be out in the open for s while.

that one anon said he read in the sun too much and got cataracts and his brother had to frogpost for him

>>8706221
>Why doesn't /lit/ read this guy?
why did you make this assumption?

>>8706221
who even is this?

>>8706221
Who is this demon seaman?

ha

When did this board turn to shit?

>Slavs are white

>>8706118
do you also work at a publishing company

Yeah, because STEM is like a 100% guaranteed ticket to getting a job and living in drugs, blowjobs, and video games for the rest of your life. There's totally not a ton of unemployed STEM graduates.

>>8706167
It is very simple and easy to look up placement rates into professions related to area of study by major. I encourage you to do so.

STEM majors end up in the job they're pursuing far more often than non-STEM majors (outside of healthcare or education), and they get paid a lot more to do it.

If you're at the point in your life where you're making important decisions on what you want to do, I very much recommend you do the research and arm yourself with this information.

>>8705963
Daily Reminder Ingersoll did nothing wrong

>>8705963
It's my birthday. Reading that chapter coupled with the election today makes me think the world will actually end tonight.

"Eskaton" or "Eskatawn" or "Esshaton" or "Esshatawn"

and where does the accent go?

>>8705959
Have you read the road?

>>8705959
>Stephen King
>"I like Hemingway's style"
Maybe r/books has what you're looking for, ya pleb

>>8705959
I can't think of any Hemmingway Horror, but I'll just try not to recommend anything Lovercraftian

Adam Nevill is really good a building up tension to nearly unbearable levels:
The Ritual
>innawoods scary
Last Days
>spoopy skelletons

Jeff Long's The Descent
>not really horror, but has some horrific stuff

Dan Simmon's The Terror
>northwest passage horror

also Naomi's Room is pretty fucking scary. Don't read any reviews because I feel like 90% of the reviews for this book contain a kind of vague spoiler.

>>8705882
"...Since playing life by the rules is logical", I forgot to add.

How I Learned to Stay Spooked and Die Mirin

>>8705886
I think you are half-memeing and half speaking the truth, so I won't dismiss your post but inquire into what is meant by "spooked" or "spook" since im new to reading and new to this board. What's the definition? Google doesn't answer me

>>8705836
Thanks, any feedback?

>>8705828
Kant already debunked this idea in CPR.

I'm glad this shit will be over in a week.

>implying the slightly less shitty choice won't win
America is not that retarded.

>>8705741
>Muh woman in the whitehouse YASSS :D
Fuck off Reddit.

By the way, this is a Tolstoy thread.

>>8705759
Why do /pol/lacks pretend that anyone makes a big deal out of Clinton being female? Even your ironic shitposting is off.

>>8705646
(William James on Nitrous Oxide)

It is impossible to convey an idea of the torrential character of the identification of opposites as it streams through the mind in this experience. I have sheet after sheet of phrases dictated or written during the intoxication, which to the sober reader seem meaningless drivel, but which at the moment of transcribing were fused in the fire of infinite rationality. God and devil, good and evil, life and death, I and thou, sober and drunk, matter and form, black and white, quality and quantity, shiver of ecstasy and shudder of horror, vomiting and swallowing, inspiration and expiration, fate and reason, great and small, extent and intent, joke and earnest, tragic and comic, and fifty other contrasts figure in these pages in the same monotonous way. The mind saw how each term belonged to its contrast through a knife-edge moment of transition which it effected, and which, perennial and eternal, was the nunc stans of life. The thought of mutual implication of the parts in the bare form of a judgement of opposition as "nothing -- but," "no more -- than," "Only -- if," etc. produced a perfect delirium of theoretic rapture. And at last, when defininte ideas to work on came slowly, the mind went through the mere form of recognizing sameness in identity by contrasting the same word with itself, differently emphasized, or shorn of its initial letter. Let me transcribe a few sentences:

What's mistake but a kind of take?
What's nausea but a kind of -usea?
Sober, drunk, -unk, astonishment.
Everything can become the subject of criticism -- how criticise without something to criticise?
Agreement -- disagreement!!
Emotion -- motion!!!
By God, how that hurts! By God, how it doesn't hurt! Reconciliation of two extremes.
By George, nothing but othing!
That sounds like nonsense, but it's pure onsense!
Thought much deeper than speech...!
Medical school; divinity school, school! SCHOOL! Oh my God, oh God; oh God!

>>8705662
My conclusion is that the togetherness of things in a common world, the law of sharing, of which I have said so much, may, when perceived, engender a very powerful emotion; that Hegel was so unusually succeptible to this emotion; throughout his life that its gratification became his supreme end, and made him tolerably unscrupulous as to the means he employed; that indifferentism is the true outcome of every view of the world which makes infinity and continuity to be its essence, and that pessimistic or optimistic attitudes pertain to the more accidental subjectivity of the moment; finally, that the identification of contradictories, so far from being the self-developing process which Hegel supposes, is really a self-consuming process, passed from the less to the more abstract, and terminating either in a laugh at the ultimate nothingness, or in a mood of vertiginous amazement at a meaningless infinity.

>>8705662
>>8705666
terrible writing

>>8705617
>we can come to the conclusion that his philosophy is crap at what it set out to do in the first place.

It's still pretty dang good at providing a framework for looking at the *world*.

>>8705620
It seems to be a huge problem that people who advocate for a philosophy of practical life seem to be completely impractical in their own life.

e.g. Nietzsche's philosophy of Will despite him being a diseased aristocratic pussy, Sartre's philosophy of freedom while supporting Maoism etc...

>>8705634
where do you find the problem? It's not like they are putting forth theories of disciplin.