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Who is the most chaotic evil philosopher?
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>>8390179
It's you, OP.
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Evola.
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>>8390179
David Foster Wallace
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Does /lit/ know of any books heavily themed on violence, the occult/hell and human suffering in general? Preferably a doomed setting too, no action hero who saves the day.
The only examples I have of what I want would be song of saya, demonophobia or at a stretch the 1st season of true detective (none of which are books).
Picture related hopefully the art is too shitty to warrant banning me,
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>>8390151
my diary desu
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>The only examples I have of what I want would be song of saya, demonophobia or at a stretch the 1st season of true detective
this is an 18+ website. the whole site. not just the red boards.
How can you even think you could become a writer if you have never eaten a girl's pooping hole?
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>>8390132
how can i do that though?
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>>8390132
>there are frogpeople on /lit/ right now who unironically believe they can't properly understand literature without ever having experienced romantic love and female affection
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>>8390141
You can't understand love unless you experience it.
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I'm a frequenter on the Russian literature imageboard and we had a discussion lately where many posters said Russian literature is completely irrelevant in the western world nowadays.
Have you read any of it?
What are your impressions and opinions?
Have you read any contemporary Russian authors?
Finally, do you consider it an important part of the western literature world, or just some exotic literature like Japanese or Indian authors?
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Russian literature is the best. Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoesvsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bely, Zamyatin, Solzhenitsin, etc. And if you go down to second tier writers they're still brilliant
The only poetry I like since ww2ish is Russian, seriously just go to one of their contemporary poets sites and click on random people, it's all great, even somehow they do Modernism and stuff properly
Also learn Russian because it's based
Whenever i meet Russians they seem retarded however
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>>8390133
you may like this board if you are learning Russian then
2ch dot hk/bo/
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also, any more opinions?
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Thoughts on Nietzsche’s doctrine of eternal recurrence and how to live life? 2016-08-12 21:05:02 Post No.8390111
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Thoughts on Nietzsche’s doctrine of eternal recurrence and how to live life?
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The idea that everything you’re experiencing, you experience over and over again. You live this life an infinite number of times, and in a multiverse, maybe in fact that’s true in some weird way. Let’s just say it’s a claim about you as a single subject really living for an eternity in this condition. Every choice you make, you have to live it again and again and again and again. So is it ever reasonable to entertain that idea? If you entertain it in whatever way you can without claiming to know if it’s true, you can say well if I’m going to use that as a filter with which to look at all of my choices. If I knew that I had to have any given conversation an infinite number of times, this will be part of the indelible record of my lifeline in the cosmos, and it’s going to happen again and again, would I choose to do this exactly as I’m doing it now. Would I want to be petty, in the way that I just was petty, again and again and again? And it has a kind of ethically clarifying result when you think in those terms. Why not use your time as productively and as beautifully as possible given that it’s going to repeat again and again and again.
I guess you could have this same effect if you take the atheist consideration that you get one shot at this, this is the only way you are going to live this Monday because this Monday is never coming back, use it wisely. That’s probably something that you could claim to believe and it might have the same effect but I’m just saying there are filters you can put on your cognitive and emotional life which you could hold in a kind of instrumental way.
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>>8390111
Nietzsche literally just rambled for like 4 decades
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It's a thought experiment, you dumbo, he didn't think that was what actually happened.
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>>8390115
fpbp
/threaded
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I am literally marathoning the first half of the first sentence of Ulysses as we speak at this exact moment and I have a couple questions:
1. Why was he surrounded by heads and bodies? Did he kill those people?
2. How exactly does a screaming "come" across the sky? Was someone having sex in an airplane?
Thanks in advance.
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>>8390105
Help me. My degenerated brain cells mischievously replicate the world within my skull as a choice between three or more regrettable sexual encounters.
The incorrigible moaning of my lonely gonads is deeply moving, but only if heard from a distance which also abates its tremors. Remember, when you stroke a dialectician, you are really stroking a dialectician.
With all my somber bones, a merry thread, a merry thread, and engrossing moans.
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Methinks you quite don't quite get the severity of my plight quite.
I am appealing to you, fellow, as one man appeals to another when he knows, as we must all one day come to know, that our appeals fall on mute ears; not so much that we cannot be heard, but that what hears will not speak to us.
Perhaps your perceptive soul requires a tighter, bouncier illustration of my problem. If that is the case, I will be most pleased to oblige your appetite for detail. I am a sad, sad man and details are all I have to offer. I will illustrate it for you with bold, mendacious words; my trouble.
It is like this, you see; not very long ago I was happy, like fat tic on a dog, and then, for mysterious reasons, I grew unhappy. Rather than returning to this initial condition, which I found very pleasant, I merely grew unhappier.
There is a thorny tactile hallucination that rotates in the center of my gut, as though it were full of ornery, trembling urchins. Their miserable needles pierce my insides but, like a perverted uncle, leave no wound and thereby continue their corrupt games. At the same time, I am afraid of breaking them. Although they are not real, if they were real, which they almost certainly would be if I broke them, then they would be made of glass.
I have a belly full of sad, spiky glass babies that I do not wish to break. I must always be very cautious with my movements. A loser at work, Kevin, likes to slap me in the gut. I am worried he will break my precious trinkets and then I will be a nobody. Whenever people offer me money for sexual favors, I usually decline because, since an accident in my childhood (involving a meat truck and a blow-torch), I cannot tell US presidents apart.
I could go on. But that option is not unique to me.
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Why is there no /lit/ chart on writing books? 2016-08-12 20:49:02 Post No.8390063
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Why is there no /lit/ chart on writing books?
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Are all the how to write books memetastic?
Which ones do you recommend?
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The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers by John Gardner desu.
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There is you fucking idiot. Check the wiki.
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>>8390063
That is so fucking hot.
I have a thing for broken women.
you guys realize that art is a proxy for having enjoyable lives
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>>8390040
What did he mean by this?
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>>8390040
David is one of the truly 10/10 works of art of the world.
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>>8390059
I think it's fairly clear lad what I meant
There is confessional art and there is escapist art, and both are a means of leaving behind actual living
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I have mastered the art of rhetoric; I can convince you of anything in mere seconds.
What do you want me to convince you of /lit/?
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Convince me that women and nonwhites are not morally, spiritually, and ethically inferior to the white man
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>>8389965
convince me that im not gay
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>>8389965
convince me that Leonardo dicaprio's best movie is not Titanic
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Its time boys
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More than anything, I was surprised by how funny this could be (and at some of weirdest times, too). "Swann in Love" is like an extended George Costanza scene, complete with all his hangups and fears and with his weird ability to be perfectly fine in the end.
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What was the last book you read and how do you rate it?
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Very nice picture OP.
Last book I read was the Aeneid, the Fagles translation, and I found it a little dry after reading Fitzgerald's Iliad and the Odyssey.
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The Willows by Algernon Blackwood. It's difficult for me to rate since horror isn't my type of thing. I loved the personification of the Central European landscape in the first half but the supernatural elements felt a bit sloppy and poorly executed. It failed to create a cohesively immersive experience due to how unrelated all the oddities the characters experienced were. The strongest aspect of the book was the sense of isolation that the characters experienced and the hopeless struggle against a vast wilderness.
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Just read The Long Goodbye again. What can I say? It's very good. Wish the would make a tv show out of Chandlers novels.
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Who was The Smiths of literature? 2016-08-12 20:10:31 Post No.8389936
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Who was The Smiths of literature?
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Was it James Joyce?
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Probably Jack Kerouac, honestly.
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Oscar Wilde
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>>8389954
Morrissey is basically Oscar Wilde plus James Dean plus Elizabeth Smart plus asshole (i still love him) so that's where you can go look.
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Did he ruin literature?
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Of course not.
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>>8389898
>literature
It was always shit
There are like 12 good lines in all of recorded history
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>>8389911
I just snorted 10 of them
Let's talk about handwriting, /lit/.
What's your favorite script? Why are so many plebs against cursive in modern education?
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>>8389886
>Why are so many plebs against cursive in modern education
They prefer to push buttons rather than using their hand to write.
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>>8389886
Impure shitscript reporting. It's a challenge for me to try writing in print. Cursive is disregarded these days because our age prizes utilitarianism in the name of efficiency. Longhand script has no place in any practical applications of an efficient society.
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>>8389895
That shit is illegible, bro.
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I'm reading "Decoded" by Mai Jia. Anyone know what's up with these namings "X-Country" etc?
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>>8389860
>reading translations
How else will you be able to decode the namings, anon?
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>>8390010
I was hoping someone would explain it.