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General dumb questions thread 2016-08-16 02:44:59 Post No.8402457
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General dumb questions thread
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2016-08-16 02:44:59
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Ask questions that you feel dumb for asking.
I'll start off.
Should I say "He wiped it off the ground" or "He wiped it off of the ground"?
Should I say "Ask questions that you feel dumb for asking" or "Ask questions that make you feel dumb for asking"?
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Should I start with the Greeks before I start the Bible?
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>>8402469
Go through the chore that is the Bible and then enjoy the Greeks.
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How do litizens learn latin? Greek?
Should you approach it as a mechanical code more than as a language?
What are exactly the beneficial effects of reading for the sake of it?
How to better recall what I read?
What are the 4 things to keep in mind when approaching reading and writing?
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Hey Lit, what is it with all these British pulp authors and comic book writers who imagine themselves to be the next Marlowe? Where the hell did they come from? Are they simple hucksters or do they really think their stories about Judge Dredd or magic heroin dens in a parallel London, or some other overwrought nonsense is high art?
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why do you carethis isn't as gratuitous as it seems. they have as much justification for thinking whatever they might have thought as you have for caring about it
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>>8402395
They probably enjoy the subject.
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Only Neil Gaiman/Alan Moore consider what they do high art. The rest are just writing pulp novels because that's another way to earn money. The comic book industry is dominated by Marvel/DC and their contracts are shit and they treat people like shit. So when you have a non-super hero story your only options are Dark Horse or Image. Image will get you more publicity but you end up having to pay for a lot of your own money upfront for them to publish it. Dark Horse is only being kept afloat by Hellboy and his various spinoffs and Conan. So writing a novel is the cheapest way to actually sell a piece of non-super hero work.
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Do /lit/izens have a personal biography yet? Why not? You have no chance of getting published unless you're able to sell yourself. It doesn't matter if you think it's "superficial" or "shallow"; this is how the real world works.
If anybody else has a bio and is interested in getting published (people who graduated from good schools and have a serious possibility of a literary career only please) then share it. I'm about to get mine into contact with some major lit firms and I want to know how others will compare
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I just have a little blurb that goes onto all my submissions on Submittable.
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>>8402364
Well post it
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>>8402322
How's the weather in your fantasy world?
Bio: fucking irrelevant.
School you went to (if any): fucking irrelevant.
Unless you know a publisher through a friend, your manuscript and how it fits their marketing plan for the year after next is all that matters.
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What do you guys think of the French Moralists? I learned about them from Cioran and Nietzsche and have really been enjoying them. I have read Pascal and Montaigne, haven't gotten a hold of any of the other ones yet.
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You know where you go through phases where there's a certain writer you especially look up to or their ideas resonate with you more than most?For example when I was a teenager I really latched on to Thoreau and then it was Dostoevsky, and then Camus, then Nietzsche.
Right now Montaigne is that author for me.
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I've always liked the respect big N had for Montaigne
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>>8402306
La Rouchefoucauld is the tits.
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I have founded a new philosophical school.
I consider all destruction of life to be morally just and all creation of life to be immoral.
It is taking the tenets of antinatalism to their logical end by removing the ingrained biases of conventional ideology.
My main objection to antinatalism in its prevalent form is that it is a form of liberalism, which makes it self-defeating.
By that I mean that antinatalists are generally people who are childless, want to remain childless for antinatalist reasons and want to convince others to do the same. They claim to consider reproduction to be the worst thing you can do, but they aren't consistent in it, they don't really mean this. They are liberals. This is demonstrated by the fact that they consider the act of reproduction not worse than intervening with someone else's right to reproduce. If they were true antinatalists, they would intervene.
If they considered the creation of life to truly be the greatest sin, they would consider violence a justified method of combating existence.
A real antinatalist would not only intervene in other people's reproductive behaviour, he would oppose, by all means necessary, the continuation of life in general.
A real antinatalist would be someone who considers every act that diminishes life to be the morally right thing to do, and every act that aids the continuation of life to be morally wrong.
A real antinatalist would consider planting a tree to be infinitely worse than stabbing a pregnant woman in the belly.
A real antinatalist would be an extinction accelerationist.
A real antinatalist would rather be called an omnicidist, meaning a person who actively strives to destroy all life, to end the existence and continuation of every single lifeform.
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>>8402296
Yeah I could get behind this except that we would lose. Humans are remarkably fucking hard to exterminate
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>>8402296
Sublime meme.
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>>8402296
>new
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>>8402275
French
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>>8402275
Russian
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>>8402275
both, and learn also Russian, Spanishj, Jap, Latin and Greek.
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>>8402275
french by far, though the Germans have Goethe
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Can anyone recommend a specific edition for a decent collection of Shakespeare's biggest plays? I mean biggest as in most popular, but I just haven't read anything by him and am very curious to check out his stuff but BOY is there a lot of collections out there.
I know for sure I want to read Hamlet, but Othello sounded cool and I'm up for anything else I suppose.
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>>8402264
folger shakespeare library, hands down
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>>8403209
>folger shakespeare library
if this is a joke about the building then I laughed.
If it's an actual edition then I'm confus
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Only Arden.
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Where do you take your work for second opinions? I'm sure everyone here fancies themselves a fine editor but you can only improve your writing so far without external input.
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das a qute kitteh
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I mostly just stash all my writing away because I loathe it so much, drink myself silly for a couple days in despair, and then start over again on something new a few days later when I sober up.
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>>8402260
haha yeah
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I'm not even 100 pages into this and already there have been three independent descriptions of violent gay sex. Is Pynchon a faggot ?
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>>8402213
I think you're lying. The only gay sex I can think of within the first 100 pages is the scene with Blicero, Katje, and Gottfried. I'm not even sure if that's in the first 100 pages.
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>>8402213
Gay sex isn't gay if he says no homo
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>>8402220
It is in the first hundred pages, and so is the imagined nigger gangrape that Slothrop escapes from and the other guy who lives in "Red River Valley" and has masochistic sex with the "westwardman" Crutchfield aka Crouchfield.
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is this any good, I saw Malala read it so it really turned me off
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>>8402165
why, because he's a Brazilian bitch who doesn't like Ulysses?
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read it in high school.
It's absolute dogshit.
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>>8402161
>/lit/ - Literature
What are some books similar to this? I never really liked STEM before reading this book but now I want more.
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Why don't you learn some actual math than read feel-good pop-sci treatises that get you nowhere? Sure, reading this crap makes you feel as if you just proved a 300-year unsolved mathematics conjecture, but in actuality your mathematical knowledge doesn't exceed that of a schmuck that is deeply confused about the associative law of arithmetic and why it works.
When will you Youtube pussy generation realise that understanding most fascinating things in the theoretical domain (GR, QM, Axiomatic Set Theory, etc.) doesn't come easy and requires hard work and year-long devotion?
Get off 4chan and pick up a goddamn textbook.
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>>8402144
This book is not even good. It is amazing how retards get a hold of it.
Try 200 Puzzling Physics Problems and The New Emperor's Mind
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What can you tell me about him, /lit/
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>>8402133
Read Phenomenon of Man before Divine Milieu
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>>8402133
I thought I was the only one here who read him. Never got any reactions when I made threads about him. Anyway, very interesting guy. To try to connect science and religion (even more in that time) takes some balls. And of course he got shit from both sides, although the church eventually admitted that some of his ideas weren't that bad.
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>>8402133
Heavily influenced Marshall McLuhan.
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/lit/ please tell me where to find college textbooks besides libgen otherwise I'll have to pay like 300 books for one, I know you autists are the only one who can help me
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>>8402110
amazon.com
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Try IRC and post the titles of your books, aside from libgen most places aren't public
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>>8402118
elaborate
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What is some very negative/nihilistic type stuff
Along the lines of Cioran, Ligotti, maybe Nick Land
This stuff is like candy to me for some reason
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pls
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Forgot to mention Ray Brassier, anything similar to him would be good as well
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this board is useless
DUDE UNIVERSAL RECONCILIATION
LMAO
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DUDE WHORES AS GFS LMOA
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>>8402069
DUDE ANTISOCIAL INTELLECTUALS
LOAM
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DUDE UNREALISTIC CONVERSATIONS