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Write your autobiography in less than 200 words
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>>8484249
Numerous imagined loves that never materialized. Unfulfilled delusions of grandeur and intellect. Mediocrity.
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>>8484249
huge faggot l0l
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You're right, I can do it in about 200 words.
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i've given up hope
hold me /lit/
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Like, I bad mouth Martin as much as anyone here, but I desperately want closure to this decent pulp but not particularly profound series.
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>>8484194
tfw it will probably be 2018 before its released. And then 2029 until A Dream of Spring.
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I'm getting pretty fucking depressed over this, too. It may sound silly, but this series is the reason I start reading so much. I was like, "wow, can I really derive this much pleasure from reading? It's better than watching a television series!" I'm afraid that he'll die before completing the series, and leave the writers of the show the rights to complete the series.
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>ywn be this comfy
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>>8484145
good GOD!
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>>8484145
Damn. That sure is comfy.
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also for anyone interested
It belongs to Shane Smith aka the guy who owns Vice media
http://www.wsj.com/articles/l-a-vice-inside-media-mogul-shane-smiths-santa-monica-estate-1473165901
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all good books with the main plot of a character becoming progressively insane? i love the way that authors portray the abstract thoughts of the schizophrenic/psychotic.
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Not really "insanity", but Crime and Punishment seems an obvious pick here for what you want.
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The Tomb by H.P. Lovecraft
it's a short story, but I'm sure you'll be satisfied
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>>8483977
Diary of a Madman by Gogol and Dostoevsky's derivative of it, The Double.
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/lit/, I wanna read something really fucked up. what is a great book that is also just really fucked up? does this book fit that?
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Story of the Eye by Bataille
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>>8483920
Lolita is not really fucked up, it's just depressing really.
If you want a laugh read the SCUM manifesto or that thing Elliot Rodgers left behind
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>>8483920
No, Lolita isn't fucked up at all.
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I know this post will rub some people the wrong way but I have a request/challenge for biographyfags (and anyone else who can back up their shit). This being /lit/ I apologize for my English.
So my premise is, in the context of intellectual pursuits, discipline seems to be a great way to be mediocreshitat something that's beyond one's sincere intellectual wants, wants as defined by that ego syntonic behavior which is a reward in itself.
In other words I believe that great minds simply love what they do and always have. They worked hard and suffered hunger and thirst no doubt -- but this was always a consequence, not a cause of their overwhelming and sincere want for highest knowledge, beauty, insight and so on. Do you really think such great men fought these "inner demons" to get to where they were/are as the imperative of discipline would have us believe?
"Stop jacking off! Don't you want to create great works of art/literature/philosophy? Eight hours of X every day! Mind over matter! Willpower! Habits! "
Obviously I think it's the other way around but please feel free to prove me wrong, I would love especially to hear biographyfags' input on this: How many of the great thinkers, visionaries, artists, writers struggled explicitly with the *intellectual wants/cravings* for what they ended up achieving later on?
I don't doubt discipline makes you a productive contributor or that it's a great way of forming new habits but when your ideal self-image is that of an accomplished artist, philosophy wizard, STEM visionary or just being really good at writing it seems like forced studiousness will not increase anyone's chances. (And perhaps, then, it's time to lay this fantasy to rest and start philosophizing about one's lack of these wants rather than to continue this self-chastisement.)
Maybe everything I just said is self-evident and I simply misinterpreted the "language game" of discipline? Maybe I'm "bullshitting" and "making excuses"? Please share your thoughts on this /lit/.
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I just realized squidward lives in his own head
damn...
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>>8483907
Is spongebob /lit/?
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>>8483892
When I am manic I genuinely love intellectual/artistic pursuits. Like given any free time that is what I am going to be doing, reading, writing, painting, etc all day every day for months on end. When these periods end I literally stop caring in the least about the entire artistic world except for listening to music.
The way it is for me is that when I'm like that everything seems beautiful and meaningful, and art/religion/philosophy the most out of everything to points of almost ecstatic intensity. When I'm not like that I just care about having money and girls. It is like two entirely different people, and they can't relate to each other. What you describe though is how that side of me is, though I lack the talent/intelligence of great artists/thinkers, the absolute love for it is spot on. There is no question of 'discipline', it is just a rush of desire and energy that never runs out. I imagine that a stable intelligent person with that disposition would match your 'great artist' type
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Grab the closest book next to you and post the first sentence of the 43rd page.
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'Why we'll throw out all the other contributors and we'll fill it with your own shit'
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I am Duncan Idaho.
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Starting from you, Phoibos, the deeds of those old-time mortals I shall relate, who by way of the Black Sea's Mouth and through the cobalt-dark rocks, at King Pelias's commandment, in search of the Golden Fleece drove tight-thwarted Argo.
>pioneer of postmodernism from an underprivieleged country as an underprivieleged gender
Is she the most "succesfull" author of our century, considering the disadvantegous situation she grew up and lives in?
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literally who?
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How the fuck does a 40 year old woman pioneer a 60 year old literary movement?
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>>8483847
THA FUCK.
Really? This woman is a joke in Turkey. She is a shit writer, she just writes about something which can bring her a fortune.
Pic Related: Aşk means "love" in Turkish, and for the looks of this book people bought this for their loved ones, yet it appears to be some spiritualistic shit between Mevlana(Rumi) and Shams(two fucking old men). It wasn't an original idea either, there were around a thousand books about Rumi and Shams, it gives nothing different.
TL;DR: Don't even google her. Its a waste of time.
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pic related is mine
I'm very happy with it. The font is called Bohemian Typewriter and the asterisk was an image I found off one of his signatures.
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Disgusting.
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>>8483623
What is this an reference to?
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>>8483654
Oh, it's just a common saying in English
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Reminder that you're not a true intellectual until you have read the complete works of both Aristotle and Plato, the founding fathers of all intellectual activities.
They together should be around 5000 pages, so get started.
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Even Aristotle considered Plato's shit to be retarded. Aristotle's ideas were either dispoven, or superseded by later thinkers. Apart from pure historical curiosity, there's no real reason to read either.
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>>8483583
>Aristotle's ideas were either dispoven, or superseded by later thinkers
>Law of noncontradiction and excluded middle are wrong
Stfu.
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Hello /Lit/. Recently I have come to an existential crossroads with regards to Ethics. I used to believe in Objective ethics, but now I'm not so sure. I'd love some recommendations on past and current books about the subject.
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>>8483570
>objective ethics
Lmao
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Ethical Intuitionism by Huemer is IMO the best recent metaethics book
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>>8483572
Care to expand, fag?
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where to start with Bret Easton Ellis? is Glamorama a good starting point? can it be read in just one day? is Ellis prose style hard for a non native? thanks
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>>8483540
The MC of Glamorama is introduced in Rules of Attraction IIRC. He reuses characters a bit. Probably the best place to start is Less than Zero. You can read Glamorama in a day, but you won't be doing much else. BEEs prose isn't hard, nor is it anything really special.
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>>8483540
Start and end with American Psycho. The others are barely worth the time/effort.
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>>8483540
Read Less Than Zero, then American Psycho, then Rules of Attraction and then whatever the fuck you want from him.
Those three are his best stuff.
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Is there a book that isn't written in any existant language, but sort of phonetically, sacrificing meaning for musicality? Pic related does come close but it is still based on English and definitely "means something" at some points.
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>>8483530
So you want a book full of jibberish that rhymes? Are you schizophrenic? Most publishers will not publish a book full of absolute jibberish.
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>>8483547
Musicality doesn't necessarily require rhymes. It's an idea I find interesting anyway, look at how popular noise is as a music genre: it's similar to what I am looking for. I wouldn't read 700 pages of it, but well-crafted "gibberish" would be somewhat pleasurable.
Also, some people do self-publish books.
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>>8483530
Not a book and remotely based in Spanish but it is OK I guess.
Altázor- Canto VII
Al aia aia
ia ia ia aia ui
Tralalí
Lali lalá
Aruaru
urulario
Lalilá
Rimbibolam lam lam
Uiaya zollonario
lalilá
Monlutrella monluztrella
lalolú
Montresol y mandotrina
Ai ai
Montesur en lasurido
Montesol
Lusponsedo solinario
Aururaro ulisamento lalilá
Ylarca murllonía
Hormajauma marijauda
Mitradente
Mitrapausa
Mitralonga
Matrisola
matriola
Olamina olasica lalilá
Isonauta
Olandera uruaro
Ia ia campanuso compasedo
Tralalá
Aí ai mareciente y eternauta
Redontella tallerendo lucenario
Ia ia
Laribamba
Larimbambamplanerella
Laribambamositerella
Leiramombaririlanla
lirilam
Ai i a
Temporía
Ai ai aia
Ululayu
lulayu
layu yu
Ululayu 45
ulayu
ayu yu
Lunatando
Sensorida e infimento
Ululayo ululamento
Plegasuena
Cantasorio ululaciente
Oraneva yu yu yo
Tempovío
Infilero e infinauta zurrosía
Jaurinario ururayú
Montañendo oraranía
Arorasía ululacente
Semperiva
ivarisa tarirá
Campanudio lalalí
Auriciento auronida
Lalalí
Io ia
iiio
Ai a i a a i i i i o ia
I need 3 books to read for school, i dont know that much good literature so i was wondering what are some good books that you like?
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Watchmen
The Holy Bible (KJV)
Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith novelization
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>>8483518
Finnegans Wake
Women And Men
The Critique Of Pure Reason
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>>8483529
Kys
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can someone explain what the fuck this passage means:
>This is much; yet Ahab's larger, darker, deeper part remains unhinted. But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound. Winding far down from within the very heart of this spiked Hotel de Cluny where we here stand - however grand and wonderful, now quit it; - and take your way, ye nobler, sadder souls, to those vast Roman halls of Thermes; where far beneath the fantastic towers of man's upper earth, his root of grandeur, his whole awful essence sits in bearded state; an antique buried beneath antiquities, and throned on torsoes! So with a broken throne, the great gods mock that captive king; so like a Caryatid, he patient sits, upholding on his frozen brow the piled entablatures of ages. Wind ye down there, ye prouder, sadder souls! question that proud, sad king! A family likeness! aye, he did beget ye, ye young exiled royalties; and from your grim sire only will the old State-secret come.
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It's hard to say out of context, but I think this may be after ahabs leg was bitten off and they were returning to Nantucket. He seemed to be sane and in control of himself but had a deeper darker secret (his monomania and hatred of Moby-Dick) growing inside him. Like the hotel de cluny, he had a surface look with lots beneath.
Then it goes on to describe his monomania in a romantic way, saying it is sad and proud and kingly. He is trapped like a caryatid because at that moment he is unable to act on his single desire to hunt Moby-Dick.
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>>8483582
What about this?
>and from your grim sire only will the old State-secret come
The last three sentences make no sense to me
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>>8483590
The sad proud king is the captive king that Ahab is similar too in that they are both spiritually exiled.
The state-secret is the mystery and orgin of his being.