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What does /lit/ think of David Mitchell?
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Really milking the peep show persona - a character he didn't even write.
He also married pic related - a professional poker player
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Only read Cloud Atlas, but his ability to bring to life wildly disparate characters is pretty amazing.
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Never read him but he sounds a bit tumblrish.
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I'm looking for a book to read while being on vacation. Thinking of something like "The four hour week". Any suggestions?
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The fact you have a job.
The fact you enjoy going on "vacation"
The fact you appreciate large breasts
The fact you even consider the idea of reading non-fiction
All these things tell me, in turn and in whole, that you are really, really dumb
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P-p-p pad it up
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>>8374237
What a usefull post. Thanks.
I am unemployed, Fact.
Why is reading non-fiction dumb?
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>pre 20th century
>all philosophers are theists or deists
>20th century
>most philosophers are atheists
Why?
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A lot of them just threw out the name and kept the substance - even though chaging the name is, sometimes, changing the thing itself.
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before Darwin it was nearly inconceivable that there was not an intelligent creative force behind the universe's complexity
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Where do you get your statistics?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_philosophy#Contemporary_philosophy
Today is the feast day of St Dominic, patron saint of astronomers. Write a poem about St Dominic or about the stars, and let's see if it's any good
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Twinkle twinkle little star,
Point me to the nearest bar.
Where I'll booze and beer and barf,
Where last time I lost my scarf.
Twinkle dinkle little star,
alcoholic seminar.
Raise your glas and raise your voice!
Pick your drink and girl of choice!
Hickup pickup check out bar,
Now you feel like you're the star.
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>>8374128
>where last time I lost my scarf
Hits deep man
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>>8374128
Guess everyone is too impressed by my poetry to follow my act. Understandable.
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I would like to read some good historical adventure novel set in the land of the Celts.
Have you some good title?
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The Mabinogion, and the Ulster, Fenian and Historical cycles are the usual source of Celtic inspired stuff. The Dark Is Rising is good kid-lit based on it. T.H. White is the classic Arthurian. You could try the collection of Ossian for Scottish stuff. I can't think of any other modern things set in the lands though.
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Tain Bo Cuailgne
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What's some top tier masculine literature?
Stuff like pic related, preferably with a philosophical or political slant.
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Get out.
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>>8373994
Check out some of Jack London's fiction. It may be up your alley.
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I'm glad masculinity is dead because it makes it easier for me to manipulate people.
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What's lit's opinion on Kierkegaard?
Was he a faggot? Is he worth reading?
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Great writer, profoundly moving, his writings on faith can be used to navigate a lot of other areas of life. He's one of those authors that makes you freer.
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He inspired c++ so probably pleb.
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Yes to both.
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What does /lit/ feel about Laurence Stern?
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fully patrician tier, loved by philosophers, aesthetic masturbators, postmodernists, and nabokov. english cervantes that made books like midnight's children and the tin drum possible.
necessary reading.
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>>8373844
>made books like midnight's children and the tin drum possible
How so?
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>>8373840
Patrician in humour and innovation.
Shandy is one of the funniest books I've read.
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Last month I moved to my grandparents' cabin outside of Haugesund, Norway. I have spent the time swimming in the lake that the cabin overlooks, exercising, reading and, of course, writing. I have written 20,000 words so far of a novel I am very enthusiastic about. But I have also fallen in love. The granddaughter of one of my new neighbours visited my cabin a few weeks back and knocked on the door after her grandmother informed her about my being here and my ambitions over the next year. She is a literature student herself and was naturally very interested in the books I liked and the sort of book I was hoping to write. What surprised me is that we were each attracted to each other from the first meeting, despite my limited social skills and relative lack of romantic experience. Despite these things, Anna appears to enjoy my company, and my own anxiety and desperation to please has resulted in my adopting the kind of personality and disposition she appears to appreciate and feel attracted towards. She even cancelled a holiday with some friends (to Florence) to stay with me at the cabin. Though at first I was reluctant to allow her to stay with me and disrupt my sensitive artistic environment, since last weekend she has been living here, and has taken over cooking and cleaning duties, and has also placed herself in charge of purchasing groceries, all of which allow me more time and focus for my work. I never before comprehended that life could be this heavenly. This is truly the love I have always appreciated and longed for from afar.
How is your own writing going /lit/?
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Awww i'm very pleased to hear that you doing great. Its astonishing that a girl is into literature. Good luck with your writing but dont forget to experience the pleasure of life.
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Is this a sarcastic comment?
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I honestly think you're a weak bitch for letting this crutch come into your life and i hope you don't make this mistake of trying to write about love or sex in the future based on this one shallow experience
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Why were early philosophers so disgustingly poetic? Aristotle has been the only one so far that hasn't made me want to vomit reading him.
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Why would that be a bad thing?
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You don't like poetry, fuckface? What are you, an analytic?
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You'd love Lucretius
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Hi /lit/ I'd just like a very small piece of advice if you don't mind sparing a second of your time.
I've been wanting to write a strange book lately...basically a reference book about erotic role play online. I know that's pretty weird. But it's something I've done in the past and it basically has its own entire subculture that includes quite a few people.
But there's so many different ways to do things, the relationships of what is and isn't acceptable is so complex, I'm not sure why but I feel compelled to put what I know down, and research the things I do not.
I know its a pretty strange topic and probably not worth having its own book, but I still feel as though I must do it.
The thing is though that I'm truly empty on the best model to go about writing it. I am no expert, and I don't have a college degree of any kind. I also do not wish to be seen as though I am speaking for the ERP community, or inserting my opinions as "matter-of-fact."
I basically want to just make it a "starting point" of ideas, practices, unspoken (and spoken) rules, glossaries on terms, techniques, tips and tricks, and ways to improve your own ERP sessions to form lasting relationships or just move onto another partner.
Is there a model of book or a book that's similar to this that I could read and gain an understanding of the type of structure I should use as a starting point? I've only self-studied writing fiction, I truly have no idea where to start with an idea such as this.
Thank you so much for your time.
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I'd... read that. (o-out of curiosity, not interest in ERP)
Don't know of any guidebook of the sort you could take example on, though, so have a bump instead.
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>>8373657
I suggest looking at the structure of Theses, Essays or even an Exegesis.
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>>8373959
Thank you for the starting point anon
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When you realise that in a modern context, Kant was a bigger nihilist than Nietzche
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nietzsche was not really a nihilist, at least in the sad-sack faggot sense, the meme needs to die. he wrote extensively about nihilism because his entire project was about OVERCOMING nihilism, which he saw as the major sickness of western philosophy with its origins in platonism. he was a self-proclaimed nihilist, but he saw this as a necessary "going under", grabbing the bull by the horns, and only a stage leading to the foundations of new values. Heidegger describes this as an "active, ecstatic nihilism", to be contrasted with the passive, unconscious nihilism of all other philosophers in western history aside from maybe spinoza.
also art was his answer. do art. not become a nazi; be an individual, have a sense of play, make your life art. nietzsche was the sweetest philosopher
inb4
>*ridiculously unflattering & damning nietzsche quote
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>>8373627
>art
gay
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>>8373627
One important detail: He failed to overcome it and he was in fact a sad-sack faggot.
You only need to read a bit of his correspondence to realise this. A true cuck.
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Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
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Was anyone else weirded out by the constant anti-semitism in this?
Apparently he wrote this right after divorcing his third wife, so it might all be a jab at her.
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What was anti-semitic about it?
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You mean "semito-realism"?
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>weirded out by the constant anti-semitism
pleb
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-08-08 05:16:57 Post No.8373187
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
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>Go in expecting something at least somewhat on-par with the main series
>Get fanfic-tier awful writing reminiscent of the epilogue in book 7
Why.
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The main series is already fanfic-tier though.
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>>8373187
>muh epilogue
I don't know why people were so butthurt about this.
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>>8373187
Because the writing was outsourced.
What do you think of this goddamn book, anon? It kills me.
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>>8373174
salinger's a complete phoney, i mean it, honestly.
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>>8373174
I still can't decide if I like it or despise it, it's the only book to do that to me
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Is it difficult to read?