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>mfw all my friends are graduating with honors
>mfw I am lazy and didn't
>mfw I seem to pass it off as laziness but I'm starting to believe I'm just inferior
The real question is, /lit/, how were you in high school?
Were you a dutiful scholar?
Did you go off to college with great grades, seeking to live a lifestyle of your own making?
or
Are you like me? Did you just get through because you had to?
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Getting through because I had to but with great grades due to a good work ethic.
Only at uni to get a good job and make stacks.
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I got through because I had to, but then I enjoyed college enough that I'm now a graduate student.
GPAs and awards are whatever. All that stuff is just a leg-up for people that already have the money to go do whatever they want. It helps, but not as much as you'd expect. Undergraduate programs, in any field, don't give a shit about what kind of scholar you are. They just want your money.
If you want to be a scholar but are bummed about not having awards then go do something interesting that you can slap on your resume. Go do a workshop or program or something.
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Among my friend group, I left high school with the the lowest grades (in fairness I still did well and we were all ap students) and finished college with the highest, graduating summa cum laude and having won awards for papers I'd written. Don't let it get you down op, you still have time.
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Did DFW's "E Unibus Pluram" predict the rise of fundamentalist Islam across the Middle East, Africa, and the West?
The Wahhabist embrace of tradition and literal interpretation exists in direct opposition to the irony of moderate, Ottoman Islam as well as the agnostic secularism of the West.
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wahabba ya mama lol
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I don't think you have to be psychic to predict muslims getting violent
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>the rise
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it's friday night /lit/, what are you reading and/or writing?
i'm enjoying end zone, by don delillo. didn't think i would enjoy it that much because i know dick about football, but delillo's prose is delicious. gonna tackle underworld some day
also writing a short story about three people playing second life at an internet cafe
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>>8006922
>Thug Notes
>Pseudo-intellectual
What.
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I'm reading I Curse The River of Time by Per Petterson because I really enjoyed Out Stealing Horses.
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The Ballad of Black Tom. Interesting genre tension so far.
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/lit/ needs a philosophy meme trilogy. I suggest these 3 since they would work.
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>>8006862
Not talked about enough
Maybe Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Critique of Pure Reason, The Ego and Its Own
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>>8006862
I like those guys but Nietzsche is clearly /lit/'s resident meme philosopher
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>>8006872
This.
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I just remembered a scene from my childhood. Me, my mother and my little sister were on a long train trip. It took several days, and we had to sleep in the train. The trip was very uncomfortable, and I didn't like it very much. I specifically remember a certain night, during which I woke up because of the loud noises the train was making. My young self sleepily looked out the window, where it was snowing. I was amazed at how beautiful it was. The snow falling through the nearly pure darkness was almost like from a dream. It was then I realised how amazing life is. The young me couldn't comprehend that such beauty would go unnoticed by anyone but me. There was such beautiful snow falling out here, in a place where no one lived, in a place where no one else would see it. I felt so small and pointless.
I just remembered it, and now I feel nostalgic. I haven't it this strongly in years. Tears are falling from my eyes as I write this pointless text. Because even this text, which is making me cry, is something I will eventually forget. Maybe when I'm older, I'll remember writing this in a time long gone, and i'll feel this once again.
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You went melodramatic in the end, otherwise it was good.
I remember being carried from some family thing to the car, waking up in the back-seat with my brother next to me, my father driving, and my mother next to him. It was pitch black outside, the only sound their breathing and the hum of the engine, and I them all in the dim, colourful lights of the dashboard. Rising up, I could see large snowflakes falling in the head-lights. At that moment, it was all the world.
The car stopped and I pretended sleep so that my father would carry me to my bed. Usually he woke me up, but sometimes he carried me. It was the best. Next morning their screaming woke me up. I waited for hours for to stop, but it never did. I could handle my own hunger, but I know in the other dream my brother was crawled up under the covers too. So I got up, walked into the kitchen and said good morning, and they stopped and walked into separate rooms. That always happened.
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>>8006878
Thank you for the critique.
I wasn't really thinking when I wrote this, just feeling and writing.
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>>8006898
Actually you just pasted this from /r9k/
Please fuck off.
does literary/critical theory have any merit?
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eh
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>hehe le old institutions were better! fuck science and advancement XD
love this meme
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>>8006849
Two letter text, translation: next
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What does /lit/ have to say about this book?
Thinking of buying it on amazon.
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Is this the board to have late night drunk philosophy threads? I've been looking for this for so long. Had one on /pol/ last night and it was laughable explaining shit to them you would learn in PHL 101.
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>>8006856
OP's book was on the recommended reading of The Guide to the Good Life by W. Irvine.
We could have a stoicism thread. What do you think?
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Read the World as Will first
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God fucking damnit, when will this goddamn slowpoke finish his godamn books? How long are we supposed to wait, jesus christ its 2016 and he still has "a lot of writing left". Look at him, smirking with millions of dollars in the bank, just write the godamn fucking book
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He gave up on it to work on his show, can't blame him though. It brings in all the money.
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>>8006765
you legitimately attached yourself to the output of pic relayed??? really???
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>>8006768
He said he wasn´t going to write an episode for the show this season, that he was going to use all his "worktime" on finishing Winds of Winter
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Is there a good book where the main char is a programmer / hacker but it's not really a mystification or some sort of an hollywood action shite?
Codebreaking can also fly I guess.
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>>8006761
Naw programming is fundamentally un-lit
(Programmer here)
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Proving the computational complexity of a given function using quantificational first-order logic and real analysis is pretty lit if you ask me.
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Hey all, what do you think of my interpretation at the end of Faust I that it is Gretchen's faith in Christ alone that saves her, rather than anything else. It seems after she is haunted in the Cathedral by the evil spirits and rejected by her brother Valentin as a debased whore, she earns her salvation not through piety and on bent knee to a crucifix, but rather in a damp and musty prison cell, alone, with no one to rely upon but God and Christ. We hear the voice from the heavens say "she is saved!" and so it is. Though I was looking online and could find almost no other interpretations that seemed to agree with me. Am I totally wrong?
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>>8006750
Sola Fide is so fucking retarded, in it negation is implied. Why can't you say simply faith saved her? You have to say "only faith" like an autist.
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>>8006820
Why are you so mad?
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>>8006820
That's how the phrase goes. Take it up with Martin Luther or some shit.
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Rate my poem, /lit/.
It's called "The Masketta Man".
...Will you not speak? Then you shall die,
"Not good" 's how I'd describe you fly.
The next among you I shall ask:
Bane! Why does he wear the mask?
Your silence is both strange and bold,
For one who fights for naught but gold.
Perhaps the man does simply wonder,
Why, before you'd throw him yonder,
You would shoot him in the head,
And cast him out when he is dead.
Finally a man here who can speak,
You may be the one I seek.
Tell me this: what is your name?
Last you suffer a fate the same.
It matters not, dear CIA.
It did not matter until the day,
I set my mind upon my task,
And donned my distinctive mask.
If I removed, with my fair hand,
the mask that has become your brand,
Would forth the maw of death creep,
and bring about eternal sleep?
An action such as that would be
painful to an extreme degree.
But the pain that would ensue,
could surely be endured by you,
For after all, I clearly see,
A man of grander build than me.
It seems you have mistaken it,
it won't be I that bites the bit!
Painful times are sure ahead
but not for me - for you, instead.
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7.5/10
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I can't be doin' with this.
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>>8006748
Hey guys just got here from /pol/
I really want to read more because I feel like it will make me more well read, but then whenever I sit down and try to read, I find I'd rather be shitposting on the internet.
Any advice?
I'm supposed to be reading Gravity's Rainbow atm.
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>>8006727
CHOP CHOP TREE BOY -.-
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How do you come up with story ideas that aren't shit/overdone?
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luck
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>>8006674by being a good fucking writer
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>>8006674
come up w/ idea -> research tvtropes for similar works -> refine idea -> research tvtropes for similar works focusing on fine details -> refine idea further -> research tvtropes for similar works focusing on finer details -> refine idea even further -> research tvtropes for similar works focusing on even finer details -> give up -> lurk tvtropes
Hey /lit/, what's your favorite PoMo? I finished pic related over Christmas break last year and I highly recommend it.
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>>8006672
Baker's great. If you liked The Mezzanine, I recommend Ibid. by Mark Dunn
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>>8006764
sounds fantastic, thanks
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i always think back to the part where he describes displaying objects on a clean white surface. the way he talks about the straw, milk containers, and bags and whatnot is a similar process imo. taking something mundane/insignificant seeming and magnifying it, highlighting its intricacies.
after i finished it made me reappraise the things i encountered in day to day life that i'd overlooked previously (since childhood probably).
its a very calming book to me.
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How can anyone say Hemingway is better than this guy? Faulkner shits all over Hemingway. Faulkner shits all over nearly everyone in the 20th Century. The only one better than him is Joyce.
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>>8006665
As far as corn-cobby chroniclers go, there are none better.
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>>8006665
>How can anyone say Hemingway is better than this guy?
Never heard anyone say that.
>The only one better than him is Joyce.
Eh, I think Beckett is above Faulkner.
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>>8006665
Faulkner is great--really, really great--but, even so, I think that is kind of a ridiculous claim to make, especially when you consider all the authors you haven't read, like Orlovitz, or Coover, or Gaddis, who are all just as great as themselves as Joyce was as himself.