>A diet that consists predominantly of rice leads to the use of opium and narcotics, just as a diet that consists predominantly of potatoes leads to the use of alcohol. But it also has subtler effects that include ways of thinking and feeling that have narcotic effects. This agrees with the fact that those who promote narcotic ways of thinking and feeling, like some Indian Gurus, promote a diet that is entirely vegetarian and would like to impose that as a law upon the masses. In this way they want to create and strengthen a need that they are in a position to satisfy.
Vegans and eastern philo btfo at the same time. T o p l a d
Precursor to alt right idea of races preferring different cultures and societal structures desu.
Big N on point as usual
>>8453562
So what was Big N eating that fucked his health up so badly?
I'd say burgers are more narcotic than vegetables. Roman soldiers lived mostly on the latter.
A japanese hosso monk and zen master was teaching a class on Lao Ze, known riddler
”Before the class begins, you must adopt a meditation stance and reverence Lao Ze and accept that he was the most enlightened being the world has ever known, even greater than Heraclitus!”
At this moment, a brave, phenomenologist, continental German philosopher who had published over 1500 papers on hermeneutics and understood the necessity of an ontological characterization of human beings and fully supported all deconstruction of metaphysical thinking stood up and held up a rock.
”Does this rock have buddha nature?”
The arrogant professor smirked and smugly replied “mu, you stupid Westerner”
”Wrong. An existential analysis of the rock reveals that it has no language and therefore it is not opened to the disclosure of Being. If it was neither Dasein or not Dasein and its ontological nature, as you say, was indeterminate… then its rock-Being should be a concern to it!”
The monk was visibly shaken, and dropped his bonsai and copy of Tao te Ching. He stormed out of the room reciting those obsolete buddhist sutras. The same sutras buddhists recite for the “souls of the deceased” when they jealously try to devalue responsibility over their finitude from the deserving authentic Daseins. There is no doubt that at this point our monk, Gautama Bodhidarma, wished he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and become more than an inauthentic onto theological thinker. He wished so much that he had a non metaphysical characterization of truth to reconstruct his ontology over a groundless ground, but he himself had petitioned against it!
The students applauded and all registered with the university of Freiburg that day and accepted Nietzsche as the last and greatest western crypto metaphysician. An eagle named “Ereigenis” flew into the room and perched atop an ancient oak and shed a tear on the now standing reserve of timber. The Ister was read several times, and Being itself showed up and spread existential angst across the country.
The monk lost his tenure and was fired the next day. He died of the technocratic plague nihilism and was tossed into the impossibility of possibilities for eternity.
Ex nihilo omnia
p.s. It rests by changing.
>>8453523
really makes you think
>He died of the technocratic plague nihilism and was tossed into the impossibility of possibilities for eternity.
cherry on top
>>8453523
Hej Oliver
I'm looking for the true, absolute masterpieces of the genre. Any thoughts?
Pic unrelated. Its a small goat.
The Goat Tower by Gary Meaman
>>8453431
Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination
Arthur C. Clarke - Rendezvous with Rama
Isaac Asimov - The Caves of Steel
Frank Herbert - Dune
Philip K. Dick - Ubik
Stanislaw Lem - Solaris
William Gibson - Neuromancer
>>8453446
You read all these?
I already read 'Solaris' and liked it a lot.
What about Samuel Delany? I'm told 'Dhalgren' is supposed to be pretty fantastic too.
I want to buy Lolita. What's the best edition/copy to get?
The one with the raunchiest cover
this one cuz its pink n pretty
tl;dr of neechee
shit I don't really know
Chicken Soup for the pseud.
this one becomes nude
Is it bad to write with archaic words? Do you use any in your writing?
Like saying "host" instead of "army" for example?
Particularly referring to poetry, but share your input regarding everything.
Archaic words general.
Not if you have a specific reason to use the word
>>8453326
What if its an aesthetic reason?
I dont mean just using it to have a more varied vocabulary but because it better fits the theme of the poem?
Context and intent.
If you're talking about say, a Saxon fyrd gathering to war then "Host" would be a thematically and dramatically appropriate word.
On the other hand, if you use it on say, a contingent of Navy Seals then you archaize them, which might be intentional or might be tonally inappropriate for the work.
And also there's a fair bit of personal taste involved.
No words are inherently bad, I advise you to treat cruelly anyone who claims otherwise; they're either an idiot or an idiot who's trying to bait you.
Hey /lit/, I know a lot of you are strong proponents of reading literature by movement (start with the greeks), and I've seemed to have stumbled around the big works. I'm looking into improving my foundation. I've marked some of the authors on this image that I've completed reading (once). Do any of you have advice, on where I should go next? Judging from the image I've posted, it'd have me starting at Don Quixote, but I've read a number of posters, in the archive, admonishing reading this work via translation. I'm currently unable to read Spanish(also, Russian), and I don't really have the time to learn them either (I'm already too deep into Chinese literature). Should I give up on reading these works? In my findings, I've read that I'd be able to read Dostoyevsky, as his prose isn't as neglected in translations (McDuff, Magarshack, Avsey, Matlaw, MacAndrew).
well, /lit/?
>>8453199
start with the greeks
>>8453199
>Joyce at such a prominent position
You guys love getting memed on, huh
>>8453209
You're actually less helpful than >>8453201. I quite enjoy Joyce, as I am Scottish.
Anyone else frequently consume dick?
Dick's one of the few writers from the SFF crowd I consider to be sincere. Also he had good taste in literature.
He's great. I don't read much SF, but his interest in Gnosticism got me hooked.
The first few times he made me gag a little, but it gets much easier after a few tries...
even enjoyable.
>This book is the synthesis of, on one hand, the no-nonsense mathematical trader (self-styled "practitioner of uncertainty") who spent his life trying to resist being fooled by randomness and trick the emotions associated with uncertainty and, on the other, the aesthetically obsessed, literature-loving human being willing to be fooled by any form of nonsense that is polished, refined, original, and tasteful. I am not capable of avoiding being the fool of randomness; what I can do is confine it to where it brings some aesthetic gratification.
Anyone else read this guy? He's really enjoyable. Writes on investing, chaos theory, philosophy, theology, the works. Pic related is his exchange with Sam Harris.
>>8453135
i have 3 books by him, i like his writing.Seems like a very clever fellow.
>>8453135
I don't totally hate Harris, but god damn is that picture cringey.
>>8453135
Any particular book? This sounds good. But I just finished reading Julien May. So anything sounds good now.
Is it necessary to read the Tractatus to understand Wittgenstein's ideas? I heard that he refutes a lot of his previous arguments in the Philosophical Investigations. Also, what should I have read before reading Witt in order to understand him? How much logic should I know?
>>8453118
Just be autistic
>>8453127
t-thanks
>>8453118
It's useful to read the tract in that W provides you with a crystalline and perfectly distilled articulation of the predominant theory of language that guided philosophers since Augustine, maybe even Plato. So if you want a snapshot of the edifice philosophers of language built up over millennia, read the tract. It was momentously influential and it sets you up to understand the tradition that later W will be at pains to reveal as calcified, and insufficiently rich to explain the nature of language.
In the PI, W basically shits on the pretty picture he painted in the T, and starts from scratch, looking to the phenomena, looking to actual uses of language, instead of to detached philosophical theories, to explain language.
You need a fair bit of logic to really get a handle on the tract. Not so much with the PI. The PI, more than anything, takes commitment, though, like reading kant and heidegger. Because of how subversive Ws project is, you can't understand him by placing him somewhere else in the philosophical tradition, relative to previous thinkers. You need to learn to play by his rules to see what he sees about language in the PI.
Who is better, Tao Lin, or Ambrose Bierce?
>>8453106
Tao Lin. Ambrose plagiarized that whole book about the injun pussy whipping lewis and clark, tsk tsk.
I thought that was tao for a second
>this pic triggers the white male
Should I go?
>>8452999
How do I find /lit/ events? I wouldn't know what to google to find them even.
>>8452999
Why not? He not great, but he's still good. With the exception that his books are all the same.
>>8453035
Publisher, author, and bookstore websites. Also some bookstores put up fliers about events inside. I went to this one thing presented by New Directions at McNally Jackson about a year ago.
Surpassing Joyce and Ulysses
Surpassing DFW and Infinite Jest
arn't most of the reviews saying this is a tour de force
greatest book of all time confirmed
oh, huh, I assumed it would be trash.
Should I read it?
Just picked up a first edition of James P. Hogan's "Inherit The Stars"
AMA
>>8452957
I remember reading this book just because the cover. Don't remember much about it.
How much did it cost?
Why do you have a moldy ginger root in a jar?
Uh oh. I just opened up my geography textbook and this is what I found. What the am in for?
>>8452919
I don't get it. Is it related to Jim Joyce's shit themed 'love' letters to Nora?
>>8452962
yea