>Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.
How the FUCK do I deal with this thought?
Depends... Follow the chart.
Find a qt literary colleague to have an affair with
>>8687550
>existentialism
>"the greeks"
>Romanticism
>Leopardi
>Stirner
>egoism and self interest [live at war with ... yourselves!]
Under these circumstances I have a duty against which my habits, even more the pride of my instincts, revolt at bottom, namely, to say: Hear me! For I am such and such a person. Above all, do not mistake me for someone else!
I have only read >50 books cover to cover in my lifetime (24 years). AM I retarded?
>>8687294
Nah you're fine. If you see it as an issue just pick up some more books.
>>8687301
thanks anon. but I don't know where to start and thus get turned off from reading. I know that I should start with my own interests, obviously, but my interests are pretty far and wide; science, philosophy, esoteric occult BS, porn star diaries, harry potter
>>8687294
I'd be more worried about your need to be validated by a bunch of strangers who watch Ching Chong cartoons on a Malaysian manga board
Existentialism was a meme literary movement which produced no works of lasting significance and certainly no "philosophy."
>tfw no Simone gf
Is this picture real? What's the context?
>>8687295
Just the squad getting together
What with all the political shenanigans going on in the US right now do you think that the (short) age of political correctness and feminist politics has ended? I truly believe that it's on the verge of self-destructing, so to say, at least by the end of the year. Just look at the political left and see that they're in some sort of cannibal state -- turning on each other.
I mean, the political right gave them the pulpit and look what's happened.
Anyway, what would this mean for political literature? Or rather, literature that has feminist political themes?
The current stream of neo fascist authoritarian anti intellectual populism will likely continue for some time.
Feminism itself is tightly integrated into the future development of the state so it will continue to flourish, as it should.
Bottom line, the vulgarians have never lasted long in power (as power is a game of diplomacy) and they will soon crawl back into the barbaric holes from which they came.
>>8687241
Feminism is cool.
>>8687241
Nice blog
Not /lit/, reported
STEM major here wondering if it's worth the trade off of security to major in /lit/ or creative writing. Can anyone with few pre-existing connections tell me what their journey has been like/give advice on what it's like to sustain oneself as a writer.
>also recommend me books
That depends on which stem degree you're going for. A lot of them aren't very useful and you'd be better off in lit/ philosophy/history whatever
The conventional wisdom these days about being a writer is that it shouldn't be your main job. Even setting aside nebulous pessimism about how everyone is a retard these days and wouldn't recognise real literature, the market is demonstrably, empirically dominated by a VERY small handful of topics that are virtually guaranteed to get published. Anything else is an exception and a rarity. Even once you get published, you still won't make any money from it. At best it gives you a small amount of momentum toward writing more books and eventually becoming profitable.
During my grad orientation at university, they had an editor or publishing exec from Penguin come and talk to us, among a couple people in academic publishing. After the academic publishers told us how much of a slog it is to get academic work published, the Penguin guy told us that the commercial market can be very good for certain books, like if you're writing an ethnography of something contemporary and exciting (let's say the Arab Spring), using contemporary and exciting sources, and you can give it a personal twist and cut out a lot of the difficult stuff. Other than that, he said that only things that really get published these days in America are soldiers' memoirs, young adult vampire fiction, romance novels for ladies, and cookbooks.
Like I said, even putting aside vague bohemian sentiments, the market just empirically fucking sucks. You could write something amazing and no one would notice whatsoever. Most publishers are looking for profitable franchises, not hidden gems. Of the publishers looking for hidden gems, most of them are looking for ethnic gems, stories about subaltern identity politics and shit like that.
If you audit some creative writing courses you'll see two things. First, you'll see how fucking retarded most people who are trying to be writers are. Second, you'll see that they all have more tenacity and less self-awareness than you despite being retarded, and that you will constantly be shouting over these people to be heard.
If you have nepotistic connections you can get a lot of help though. Just look at the rich hipster cunts and Oxbridge champagne socialists /lit/ likes to post about, because their daddies knew a guy who knew a guy in publishing.
>>8687072
Seems the problem these days is less people overall are reading literature, and those that do think they're special snowflakes who are going to come out with some modern masterpiece.
has any one read the bhagavad gita
i had previously read the "eknath easwarn" version and decided to pick the pic related "A.C bhaktivedanta swami prabhupada" and was wonder if there is a definitive most authentic version same goes for the upanishads if anyway has read those i had read the eknath easwarn version of that aswell and same goes for the yoga sutras and if any one has any questions or would like to recommend anything relating to hinduism please do
Everything about hinduism seems to reject authenticity. Every single copy I've seen of this book spells it's title a different way.
>>8687048
yeah thats one of the things that bothers me aswell, the one in the pic claims its translation to be the best but thats from the books point, aswell as differant comentrys contradicting others aswell as other concepts.
they've gone out of their way to keep sanskrit alive so you have the opportunity to learn it
ungrateful little peasants
Post charts
>>8686983
Has the domestication of man begun?
>>8686970
It happened 12 thousand years ago, bud.
>>8686970
a common trait of domesticated animals is what is called pedomorphy, which means that the animals retain juvenile traits into adulthood. So for example, dogs barking and whimpering and some of their playful behaviors would only be found in juvenile wolves. Adult wolves would rarely exhibit these characteristics.
So if you look around at adult humans in developed societies, would you say that you see them carrying childhood traits, habits and hobbies into adulthood?
Bonus question: Would you say that these hobbies are largely produced by particular group of people? If so, that might give you a clue about who is domesticating whom
>>8687107
Fpbp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZIsYyuN35Y&ab_channel=NormMacdonald#t=20m06s
Do you think Norm posts here?
>>8686931
20m 06s
I'm certain that filthy faggot Adam Egret posts here. In fact, I strongly suspect that retarded dick licker has already posted in the very thread.
But to answer your question, no. Norm just posts those ridiculous golf threads on /sp/
>>8686931
/lit/ has the best stand up comedy threads on 4chan. they are not frequent enough.
Norm is the greatest living comic easily.
What went wrong?
It's literally plagiarized.
Jews are to books what yeast is to bread. A story won't rise without Jews.
tl;dr not enough Jews.
Aeneas was too perfect, was never in any danger, shit ended abruptly.
How the hell can I read any other literature after reading Ulysses?
>>8686786
That's why you read it last
>>8686786
You don't... you move on to philosophy.
>>8686797
good comment
I introduce a new pilgrim to the Canterbury Tales, in Chaucer style description. Please avoid political debate in the comment section.
The last pilgrim was a rich billionaire,
one who did not frequent the house of prayer.
A hard working man who owned a business,
He would never offer his forgiveness.
For a wealthy man he dressed quite simple,
A shirt and tie – don’t forget the pistol.
No one ever knew why he would wear red,
Some thought it’s reason for what he said.
His golden hair, not fully combed-over,
Implied that his barber was a loafer.
The skin he wore was utterly wrinkled,
The face of racism, which he sprinkled.
In his satchel: money, a comb and hate,
Angry men he met, he would not placate.
A hat he lost of which he did complain,
It read, “Make America Great Again”.
His horse, a mare of which his love was sound,
Unlike the other two, which were put down.
This mare he rode could, too, speak English well,
But the only words she knew were Michelle’s.
Heh, you wrote it? Pretty good, anon, if you did. A defamation/satire like that is more aptly directed at Hillary Clinton, though.
>>8686740
Thanks man. I honestly could've done both, but the majority of people in the world dislike Trump, so I decided to go with him. Maybe I'll do one about Hillary, wouldn't be that hard lol.
Nothing like Chaucer or medieval paintings to remind you that things really haven't changed.
Sure, we have democratic governments, globalized trade, massive country, human rights, technology, science. But at the end of the day, people haven't really changed.
People in Medieval England were just as likely to do what exactly we do, usually really stupid shit.
I’m all aflame. I’m sick, spiteful, and suffering sexually. I’m working out my damnation with fear and trembling.
It became clear during the first few minutes of 2016 that the world wasn’t ending, so I got myself banned from 4chan by posting pornographic pictures of a 13 year old anime robot pilot on /a/ then turned off my computer with a hammer.
I had been let down by the Apocalypse once again.
When I was nine years old my father had told me about how the Y2K virus was going to shut off all the electronics in the world and our family would live an idealic agrarian existence while the wicked people in the cities burned. 15 years later I think I finally understood my father’s subsequent depression and unravelment when normal life continued its unbearable march.
2015 was supposed to be my year, living wickedly in The City That Never Sleeps with You and crowned by the world ending Third Impact on New Year’s, in which all of mankind’s souls would be collected by God and merged into a giant gestalt being. Instead I was sitting alone in my apartment, drunk off three beers and unable to continue masturbating.
It was time to clean up.
My roommates had all gone home for the holidays, and as long as they aren’t here I don’t even resent them for leaving a mess. The upstairs only had mine and Adam’s rooms and bathroom. I had already cleaned the bathroom this week and knew I wanted to save my room for last, so I start in the living room downstairs by vacuuming up the years’ worth of cocaine and ashes ground into the carpet, the product of Osama’s art gallery internship. Cleaning is good for the soul, and I feel my self-worth increasing in fifty dollar increments just like the contents of the vacuum bag.
No one has really done a thorough cleaning since we’ve moved in. At first we took the garbage out and did our own dishes with some frequency, but any discussion of an organized chore list and cleaning schedule got nixed along with the tentative idea that we should pay for electricity and gas. Instead we agreed that we would just clean when it needed cleaning and everything would stay nice and clean; the same way that gas and electric continued to miraculously appear like mana from heaven, as it had for our Hasidic landlords before us during the year they spent renovating the place. Now at the closing of the holiday season the Hanukah oil was burning itself out.
>Pt 1
>>8686692
>I had been let down by the Aspergers once again.
ftfy
>>8686692
This isn't a book though.
There was a pile of mail atop the fridge, mostly Viacom bills that Adam, the homosexual, had foolishly let Osama put in his name. Those I placed on his desk along with my share of the payment, disregarding his adamantly homosexual orders that no one go into his room. To his credit, it was easily the cleanest room in the house.
I must confess that I had built some resentment towards Adam, the homosexual, throughout the year. I refer to him here as Adam, the homosexual, but in my private thoughts I always just thought of him as a faggot. It’s hard to admit, publicly in NYC at least, that my contempt for him was so base and bigoted, but it was mostly due to the fact I shared a wall with him and even when he didn’t have a guest of undeterminable gender over, I could sometimes hear a mechanical buzzing sound accompanied by his slutty little moans. All year I had watched with disgust and envy as he paraded his theater friends/lovers around the apartment, some of which were even attractive women that identified as such. How happy they were, always discussing famous playwrights and authors and talking about their grad school prospects. It made me sick. I can scarcely stand joy and laughter from simple and decent folks, much less the type of hip, urbane intellectual I used to want to be.
Even more than his polyamorous queer escapades it made my blood boil defensively when he would discuss white or male privilege. Identity politics, and individuality in general, was supposed to be done away with during Third Impact.
Now I only had a Trump primary upset to look forward to.
>The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words.
>>8686672
happy gass a cute
>>8686672
Or better yet, pencil lead.
>Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.
KYS
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Hey /lit/, I've been racking my brain and I can't think of the right word for this. I've tried looking on google and asking people but they couldn't give it to me either.
What is it called when the conflict or problem is solved in a semingly miraculous or unrealistic way in a story?
For example, say two wizards are fighting, but one wizard wins and everything goes right after using one simple move that is really easy to do.
What is that called?
I think you would be talking about a Deus Ex Machina
Deus ex machina?