>in the book shop
>queue up beside like three people
>the guy in front of me buys Ulysses
>*shakey hands*
>pay for the books
>ask the guy if he's read Odyssey or Portrait
>"no"
>ask where did he find out about Ulysses
>shows his phone with the "must-read" list 101 alongside with Bradbury, Wilde and Kafka
Why are normalfags such memes?
>>8682203
>Wilde
>Kafka
Enjoy your utterly misplaced sense of superiority, faggot.
Does every anime poster have asperges?
>>8682203
how did you find ulysses, OP
Let me propose a hypothetical situation /lit/: A 16 year old male. An average, if not impressionable young man. He has a fair knowledge of the arts for someone of his age, yet he wish to become great; specifically in literature.
You have been sent to be his mentor.
How do you go about teaching him and mentoring him on a path to become great?
What do you make him do?
What do you make him read?
Do you make him do explicitly literature related tasks and works or do you encourage him to experience the world?
Any answers are appreciated /lit/ & pic is somewhat related
What does /lit/ advise him to do?
>>8682151
I take the Greek approach and fuck him
>>8682151
get b&
>>8682151
make him read dorian gray and send him to work as a gay male prostitute in a working class part of town while taking most of the profits.
Do you think that the internet has shortened our attention spans? Just look at the popularity of things like twitter, with their (how much was it, 150 character?) word count. I personally wonder if I used to be a stronger reader when I was younger, I also think Harold Bloom may have been right when he said that people don't read as much because there's so many screens for people's attention to be occupied. I read an article for my introduction to writing class before I quit college, which was basically all speculation about how the internet shortens people's attention spans.
Sure but you can correct it my man, just open a book and turn your phone off
>>8682111
attention spans haven't shortened
but the number of unique distractions has grown larger
Yes, the effect is quite strong and the scientific studies so far seem to support this. Okay, I'm bored now. Peace out
What is honestly the point of poetry?
Narrative? Prose does it better
Intellectualism? Prose does it better
Emotion? Music does it better. Prose does it better too
>>8681966
Elegance
>>8681966
>Emotion? Music does it better.
There's no fundamental difference between the way poetry and music convey emotions.
>>8681966
Dichten = condensare
i was depressed then i became a voluntary egoist.
why don't you give it a shot anon?
>>8681965
I cant because I remembered I forgot I made myself forget I am a living god.
>>8681981
god is a spook buddy
>Spooking yourself
You can't escape it, my friend.
Hi guys, I'm looking for books in English because it's been a long time since I read one in that language. Any recommendations?
Epic Fantasy or Sci-fi genre preferred.
Survival books type like The Martian are also fine.
Thanks in advance
Go into the science fiction and fantasy general and ask them.
>You know what? “Kilowatt-hours per sol” is a pain in the ass to say. I’m gonna invent a new scientific unit name. One kilowatt-hour per sol is…it can be anything…um…I suck at this…I’ll call it a “pirate-ninja.”
>All told, the Big Three need 69.2 pirate-ninjas, most of that going to the oxygenator and the atmospheric regulator.
>Conclusion: I don’t need the water reclaimer at all. I’ll drink as needed and dump my waste outdoors. Yeah, that’s right, Mars, I’m gonna piss and shit on you. That’s what you get for trying to kill me all the time.
>There. I saved myself 3.6 pirate-ninjas.
>>8681961
Ask the containment,
Why is he so praised?
>>8681827
He's Mariachi Pynchon.
>>8681864
How are they even similar
who /didnt get the ending/ here
2avant4me
Does it pass the Bechdel test?
NO!
Well, I think not, but it was written much before Bechdel was born. Also society in the middle ages was considerably different to what we have now, or had in Bechdel's days. I don't really understand what makes you ask such a question.
>>8681704
>giving a shit about an cunt-rate in literature
kys
I'm halfway in this masterpiece, how come I've never seen it here?
It has everything you could want from a story:
Alphonse, a young Walloon officer, is travelling to join his regiment in Madrid in 1739. But he soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a highway inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabbalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over sixty-six days.
The author committed suicide
>>8681556
not a meme book, no one read it
>The author committed suicide
We already have a few others who did, that's not a selling point.
>>8681556
Sounds interesting tell me more?
Are there any thinkers against the very idea of Individual Rights?
Consider transportation. The most effective way to reduce cost, time, and accidents is to ban all forms of personal transportation.
It would be functionally free, virtually everyone would spend anywhere from 100% to 1000% less less time in a vehicle, accidents would basically cease. It would simultaneously satisfy all transportational needs and wants using current vehicles and infrastructure better than 10 exponential Technological leaps, only harming malignant Egotists.
Apply the same thinking to all aspects of life and ask yourself who benefits from a single Right?
>>8681420
One central authority would be in charge of telling everyone where to go and how to get there. In this context it's pretty harmless but once you start surrendering your individual rights to a central authority you're gonna have a bad time. This is why we need to abolish the department of education.
>>8681420
>special interest group wants something banned in order to serve their particular interests
>this turns out to cause other problems of greater importance
>but because we have reformed away our individual rights there's nothing anybody can do
There's no law preventing people from taking the bus. They use their own vehicles (at great personal expense) because they choose to allocate resources that way, and although individuals often misallocate resources we've seen even worse out of central bureaucracies.
That's a cool opinion, OP.
If you try and take my car I'm going to fucking shoot you.
>and thus, the concept of individual rights was born.
What book will make my life good?
>>8681275
no book will make your life worth living
clean your messy room.
>>8681275
The Holy Bible, by James, King
>>8681275
try this
Hello friends,
I'm looking for the most comfy philosophy/ideology to subscribe to.
Which one should I chose?
Hello, friends?
>>8681153
Common-sense realism, pragmatism, neopragmatism, Witty.
Intellectual life on easy mode, plenty of modern proponents.
Not sure if that's the comfy you're looking for though.
>>8681153
>Which one should I chose?
You should just read and come to your own conclusions desu.
Or you could read my dairy desu: full of pure ideology!
>Karl Marx suffered from abscesses all over his body, but particularly badly affected were his backside, his groin and under his armpits, which he himself described as 'a mess'. Painful lumps on his inner thigh would grind against his trousers, making even a short walk very difficult. Sitting was often impossible because of the carbuncles on his bottom. A large boil beneath the shoulder blade would make lying down quite an ordeal. In particularly black moods, Marx would hack at them with a cut-throat razor.
he sure knew how to fix politics though.
>>8681085
wtf im a nazi now
>>8681085
Karl Marx is a mess.
Karl Marx is a big fat mess.
Karl Marx is a waste.
Is he, dare I say it, our guy?I liked his youtube videos
>>8681063
No and you shouldn't have
>>8681063
If that spoiler is serious, get the fuck off our board
I'm not kidding
>>8681148
why do you hate freedom of speech and not creating an echo chamber of ideas which anti social justice warriors hypocritically claim to be against when in reality they're just projecting?
What are some common pitfalls amateur writers find themselves in?
Not writing every day
Confidence vs. Self-awareness, credit to The Zombie Knight web serial author who pointed that out to me.
Some are too confident, so they write their dialogue-only fanfics based on popular tv shows and think they are amazing for doing so. Usually younger writers, but older writers who just write slock can fall into this trap over time too where they decide "I'm only going to write about historical revisionism" or "I'm going to write something no one will understand"(Finnegan's Wake).
Self-awareness is the writers who don't want to write because they hate everything they write, they put off writing, tell themselves no one will ever like anything they do. Meanwhile, they continue being as shit as the day before and still have that desire to write anyways.
Too much of either is bad, getting no community input or not taking advice seriously is bad, and not being generous with yourself or your work will exhaust you.
If you get past this level then I think it's more of a matter of 'what' you're writing then 'why' you're writing, and 'what' is actually the hardest part because it's so easy to skip past that or decide it really quickly.
>>8681061
>>8681302
This is all just theoretic. Stop thinking about your approach to writing and just start writing so much that you know how to avoid technical pitfalls.
Such as:
Purple prose. Bad grammar. Terrible underlying structure. Meaningless babbling. Pointless theme. Obsession with aesthetics and motifs before being good at characters and story. Inconsistent voice. Inconsistent characters. Inconsistency in general. Lack of knowledge before writing about something they know hardly about. Cringe inducing dialogue, with AWFUL use of verbiage. Potpourri mindset, completely unable to write something original.