hey /lit/ what's your favorite meta story?
pic related is mine. it has a meta ghost that moves shit around on a meta school campus and metas his son and talks to a comatose meta addict.
tfw the author's ghost will never haunt you while rereading IJ.
>>8510915
if this is OP from other thread. i kek'd
>>8510915
>meta story
I'm really sick of the shiftless halfwits who throw this word around like it's the mark of their education (though I guess it probably is). Writing has always been meta. Authors have always written, and readers have always read, with the tacit understanding between them that the books in question were just that: books. Buying any book from a "Fiction" section is itself a normalized routinization of the meta. There is nothing that makes the authorial interventions of DFW (the "ghost," for example) any more or any less meta than the hobgoblins and gnomes in Tolkien.
Please, don't ever embarrass yourself with this word again, unless it is to simply say that "all fiction is meta."
Do you think humanity will abandon religious systems at some point or are they are a permanent aspect of civilization?
>>8510902
what book is this?
So long as there are institutions willing to organize and popularize religion and it's materials it isn't going away. It's a locus of socialization for people and a source of comfort and purpose. There would have to be some major event along the lines of trans humanism for it to dissipate into some ether.
Well I happen to believe that religion's subject matter--the divine and the metaphysical--are real, so no, I don't think it will ever be abandoned, for the same reason physics and chemistry won't ever be abandoned.
sup /lit/
What were the first words of /lit/?
>>8510846
>nigger
>>8510858
a true patrician
>>8510846
Want kino
>Holy...I want war
>>8510818
Was it rape?
>>8510826
Always
>>8510818
this fucking picture of the judge triggers me so bad
>duuuuude like war is bad, men are evil and women are strong lmao
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Bets on when he's actually going to release TWOW?
"Never" is an acceptable answer.
>yfw GRRM makes a conscious decision to die before he releases the next book
>>8510817
I don't know, every time someone talks about him dying before they're done he gets really irate. I feel like he's at least going to try to finish the series just to spite the doubters.
The trouble is that I think he's having a hard time giving a shit any more. I can't really blame him, either; he's been writing this series for like 30 years now.
Just finished my reread of Ulysses and the final lines made me cry a bit.
Bloom-me
The final lines of Dubliners as well
>>8510773
The opening of Lolita
As a non-native English speaker, this is really tough to read.
What do you find difficult about it? It's very straightforward, part of its appeal is that it can be validly taken at face value. Keep going bro, keep up with your English and come back to reread when you get a better understanding
>>8510788
It's not an easy book by any means, even for a native English speaker. It has that one sentence that takes up like an entire page without a full stop.
>>8510759
But did the beginning in the hotel meeting Queequeg not just fly by? I was audibly laughing for the first 80 or so pages.
Let's talk about The Iliad. What was your favorite book? What are some major themes you observed? What did you think of it overall?
I'm going through it right now and it's super boring, just nonstop action
>>8510719
Not enough navel gazing for your limp wristed, nu-male sensibilities you leftist cuck?
I don't know why I just said that, I'm not even that type of person.
>>8510712
The ancients were another species
Bye
I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on 4chan anymore.
Here's how I did it.
-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person
-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure
-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction.
-It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't.
-Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.
-Start with books highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.
thanks friend, i was thinking about this meme a few days ago, and couldn't remember it well enough to google for it
>>8510626
holy.....i want more
>>8510626
Where did you buy that Pepe?
Deconstruction is bullshit. It's literally mysticism. Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida were kabbalists. Let's get this garbage out of the humanities once and for all.
Who else agrees?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfRgvfruhPo
that is a bad meme, the shelf life of doge variants has not been long enough to enter the post-post-ironic age
please delete this thread and try again
better yet, don't try
>implying mysticism is an insult
If you had to represent "motivation" or a "second chance" as a place or object, how would you do it?
>>8510527
A double-sided dragon dildo slathered in bengay.
>>8510537
interesting! do you have any ideas for an object?
Is it necessary to experience significant suffering to be a good artist?
>>8510469
Being a great artist is inherently great suffering so yes
>>8510469
Not necessarily suffering, just significant boredom. You have to be bored by everyone and everything humans have made. That boredom can make you suffer if you're not balanced as a person.
No. You just have to work extremely hard. Work ethic is everything.
>mfw gf is writing a "philosophical dialogue" between Shylock, Aaron the Moor, Richard III and Iago
>mfw she's reading Maimonides to give Shylock some "theological depth"
How bad can this go? She says the key is ensuring the poetic beauty "keeps apace with the philosophical ideas, especially in imagery."
>>8510453
Ewww! What an SJW whore!
Women shouldn't try to literature with their small brains
Iago is a pretty special case and Shylock just wants justice so I am not so sure about the characters but I have to read the draft to know where it's heading
>>8510453
How is she enjoying sophomore year?
>the bard
what the fuck are you on about
>>8510355
He was more of a warlock, really.
>>8510402
with that earring, goatee, and devilish smirk, what else?