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I want in.
How does one go about this?
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smash the ground floor windows and climb in
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>>8180519
Legally. Via induction.
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>>8180495
For a second I thought this was a house in Columbia, SC.
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Thoughts on Ken Wilber
an American writer on transpersonal psychology
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In A Theory of Everything Wilber attempts to...
...spirituality and show...
...integrate with theories of developmental psychology, such as Spiral Dynamics...
...this book is, "Wilber's shortest, simplest overview of his work."[
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In 1982 New Science Library published his anthology The Holographic Paradigm and other Paradoxes
a collection of essays and interviews, including one by David Bohm.
The essays, including one of his own, looked at how...
...the holographic paradigm relate to the fields of consciousness, mysticism and science
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Thoughts on Clare W. Graves
was a professor of psychology
...theory that he called, among other titles, "The Emergent Cyclical Levels of Existence Theory"
“The psychology of the mature human being is an unfolding, emergent, oscillating, spiraling process marked by progressive subordination of older, lower-order behavior systems to newer, higher-order systems as man’s existential problems change,”
He concluded that external life conditions (existential problems) trigger psychosocially congruent internal neurobiological equipment (mind capacities) to create a ‘level of psychological existence’—or worldview, or valuing system
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Is realist literature dying /lit/? Will we soon be stuck with only pomo books being good?
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what do you care? you don't even read books
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>>8180151
so?
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I thini the idea of literary currents is dying. There will still be great authors, but they will like write in what style they choose.
Are there "r9k-type" people writing today?
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>toadbloggers
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go ask them
this is the literature board
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>>8179962
Does plotting out a cartoon count as writing?
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What are some books about living a life of solitude and asceticism?
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Tao te ching
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My diary desu.
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>>8179797
>pretending to be redpilled
>living inside a pot
>living inside
>living
fuckin plebs.
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You are at an event of some kind. You are mingling. This guy starts talking to you. It's clear he's hopelessly red-pilled, and very annoying. You want him to stop talking to you, but he's a good friend or relative of so-and-so and you can't be rude outright. He's talking about literature, and he asks you your favourite book. You want him to leave you alone—what book do you choose?
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This will be a bad thread
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If I say somethin librul, it could just agitate him and make him argue with me.
So I will go with the crazy route and talk about some batshit Timecube-tier self-published work and get REALLY enthusiastic about it just making shit up as I go until he's weirded out enough to go away.
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>>8179795
where did that come from? You a psychic or something? you're scaring me. what's going on
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Taking out a seventeen-year-old to dinner in a couple of days (I'm nineteen, so it's not that weird, and her parents are okay with it). I'm not much of a reader, but she is and so are her parents, they did Shakespeare with her with dolls when she was growing up, and she likes stuff like Schopenhauer and the Satyricon. Met her at a family reunion (she's not family, but her family is a close friend of my relatives), and we danced to that song "Sway with me" and just hit it off. But, like I said, I'm not really a reader, and even though I managed this night, I'd still like some tips for conversational material for the date. Book recs, trivial, quotes, anything literary or philosophical that wouldn't make me look like a chode
Many thanks
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Just be curious and ask her lots of questions, get her to explain things to you. You're probably not going to be able to pull off glittering literary conversation after a few days of reading on the internet. You don't have to have the exact same interests to be good together. Like what if I met a lit girl and she liked authors I couldn't stand? I'm not talking about pleb stuff but serious books that for whatever reason I took a dislike to.
I read a novel once where the protagonist's gf would only read Proust or Celine. Everything else was pleb shit trash according to her and it made it difficult for the protagonist to get along with her and eventually they broke up violently.
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>>8179815
It's not that I can't stand who she reads though, I'm just more into vidya and sports, but I don't look down on reading, it's just not me
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>>8179787
Just think for yourself, it doesn't matter if you are not that cultured.
And start to read for the sake of human genes.
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Is theatre the most anti-/lit/ of all literary forms? I rarely see discussion of classic drama and comedy on here and many canon writers wrote primarily in this genre, including duh Greeks and Shakespeare.
>inb4 hurr durr theatre is performing art not literature
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Yes, Shakespeare is the single most detrimental stage writer to ruin literature.
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>>8179686
Did you fall for Tolstoy's Shakespeare meme?
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Pretty sure I've discussed Strinberg, Genet, Chekhov and Sophocles on here. I guess they're all very popular playwrites but it seems quite a few /lit/ users have read and enjoyed at least some drama. I'd even say discussing drama here is less likely to be met with meme responses than discussing novels
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I'm writing a story that is told from the perspective of multiple people. What is the best and cleanest way to switch between perspectives? Will just starting a new paragraph or chapter that begins with the new character's name suffice?
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>>8179634
i would just write it out. you can't go a whole chapter without referencing the character's name regardless.
i prefer not to hand hold my reader through things.
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>>8179634
separated by chapters, without any indication as to who is the new POV beyond narrative context and dialogue.
it's the cleanest and least obstructive way imo.
If your characters are well developed it shouldn't be a problem for the reader
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>>8179634
>I'm writing a story
Sure you are, lad
Honestly, how does it feel to only read books that an online community deems okay to read? Are you that insecure that you have to ask other people if a book is acceptable to read or not, instead of just reading what interests you? I hope you all get better soon.
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>>8179534
It feels wonderful, thanks for asking.
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But the straw man did not respond, for he was only straw, not man. Anonymous slept frustrated.
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>>8179538
He already did respond, mister first response is the type of person I was addressing. Thanks for the input though 8) best wishes
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UC3LudcCDU
How does /lit/ feel about this ?
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>>8179523
Voice is pretty insufferable desu.
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>>8179523
Watsky wrote a book, and got a Lin Manuel Miranda co-sign. I gotta buy this.
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youtube was a mistake
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Explain why I should not have a huge Anglo superiority complex. People come from small time countries like Sweden, Germany, Italy, and Russia, learn English at the age of 6 because there are 9000001 motivations and sources, then abuse English speakers for not learning second languages. And there are literally zero non English countries that have contributed significant amounts of novels (or science or anything desu).
This obviously includes Rome and Ancient Greece. All this "Classics" fetishisation is a yearning for a simpler time where you could laze under a tree for half a day and figured out cutting edge philosophy before dinner time.
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easter
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I hate /pol9k/ so goddamn much
Do you have nothing better to do than shit up other boards?
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>>8179388
Yes but we choose not to.
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Is there room for affirmative action in the arts?
I'm on the BBC writers room website and it seems like they always have lots of race-specific opportunities advertised there.
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>>8179301
Here we go again!
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>>8179301
Also, their website has job advertisements that specifically request only non-white people apply.
This means you are at a huge disadvantage if you're white. Not only are these special job listings not available to you, the jobs that are will be contended by all races as well as some of the most educated and experienced people in the country.
Your chances of success are greatly diminshed.
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>>8179301
as long as they don't expect white male shekels or viewers, I don't see the problem
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Where does your country rank?
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What could China, a country that kidnaps booksellers, possibly be publishing?
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>>8179285
Bureaucratic manuals?
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>>8179270
>South Korea that high
What are they publishing and why is none of it ever translated?
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What do you think of Socrates' acceptance of his death sentence?
He says that death is no evil, and on this I agree. But in his case it was certainly not good either. He was given the function of moral gadfly by 'the god', and by choosing to die (and that is what he did, by his own admission in Crito where he says he could have suggested exile at his trial and received it as a sentence) he left empty the post in which god had placed him, with no one to take his place. This was a great moral loss to the state which sentenced him to death and to whom he was so loyal and reverent. Had he chosen exile, he might at least have prevented those who accused him from committing the wrong of sentencing an innocent man to death. He argues that he must obey the state; but if we acknowledge that his death was a loss to the state, and that those who accused him did so out of ignorance (for no one is willfully evil), then should he have respected the states decision as much as he did? Ought then a doctor, when told to leave by a patient delirious with fever, abandon him to succumb to illness simply to obey his wishes?
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Soc wins. We are all better for it.
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>>8179236
His death was heroic no doubt, but was it truly the very best choice? His defence of his choice to die in Crito is, I think, flawed.
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>>8179223
You might know this but:
1. He was old af.
2. He couldn't keep doing what he did if he accepted the penalty (being le wise person), which were the will of the god.
3. Accepting would deny his philosophy (about doing the right choices)
4. He couldve escaped, but doing it would fuck up his family (he and his family would been seen as fugitives etc)
A while since i last read Plato but i'm some of the reason were mentioned in The Aplology aswell.