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Why is philosophy often scoffed at by those who don't study it?
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because they don't study it. Your question is loaded.
Sleep tight Plato
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sleep tight Plato
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>>7948571
They don't study it because it's ridiculous. Would you study alchemy?
Which writers best articulate their distaste for life?
Who are some anti-life writers?
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i don't think maintaining a negative view of life is anti-life
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read the conspiracy against the human rance by ligotti and shut up
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>>7947963
Lovecraft was definitely anti-life
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How's that Novel coming along, anon? 2016-04-21 07:23:53 Post No.7947719
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How's that Novel coming along, anon?
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In this thread we pitch story ideas and judge each other.
Bonus points for pitching something fresh on the spot.
Me first: so, it's set in an unknown time in the past with a vague environment. There's this girl, and every night her uncle tells her the story of how her father came into his fortune before he died. In this frame story, her father comes across various odd characters who tell their own stories, including a horrifically scarred pirate who tells seven wildly different back stories explaining how he got his wounds and became a pirate and then there's the giant who served a king, a bandit, and a prophet at different points in his life.
The frame narrative is interrupted occasionally when the uncle kisses the girl good night and the girl goes to sleep, which introduces a series of dreams in which the girl sees the eternity of the universe and discovers soul crushing truths. When morning comes the girl forgets her dream and has a minor adventure. Then in the evening, her uncle resumes the story of her father.
Multiple readings reveal that the uncle was lying to the girl; her father wasn't the kind, virtuous man he'd been describing, but rather a cruel and monstrous figure who deserved his death.
And also the girl and her uncle never existed. Maybe
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>and also the girl and her uncle never existed. Maybe
Don't do that.
>unknown time in the past
That sucks.
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it's about this depressed neet and nothing works out and he kills himself
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I'm writing the story of a bar stool and it's toxic relationship to an alcoholic's ass. Everyday for four years the barstool waits eagerly for the drunk to visit and is overjoyed whenever he sits down. There's a few misunderstandings where the barstool gets jealous of another chair the alcoholic sits in but things smooth over after awhile when the drunkard returns and vomits on the counter.
It ends tragically when the drunken bastard breaks the barstool over the head of another man.
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>"A new challenger has appeared!"
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Multiculturalism does breed intolerance.
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not to mention it allows a ruling class to institutionalise artificial/sterile versions of culture and use them to mandate people's identities. In a way it's a continuation of the policies of the british empire
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A synthetic culture is perfect for a consumerist and neocapitalist society.
What makes a book YA?
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If women like it, it's ya. If coloreds like it, it's garbage. If both like it, it's propaganda.
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embarassing
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>>7949549
If it panders to dumb teenagers.
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>Last book read
>Currently reading
>Next book I'll read
Guess stuff about each other
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>War and Peace
>How to Read Wittgenstein
>The Fountainhead
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>Last
Light in August by Faulkner
>Current
Divine Comedy
Violence - Zizek
>Next
Essays on semantics and philosophy of logic - Gottlob Frege
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>Last book read
Don Quixote
>Currently reading
Epic of Gilgamesh
>Next book I'll read
Conference of birds
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best books of the 2010's 2016-04-20 15:58:15 Post No.7944670
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What is the best book of the 2010's so far?
My vote goes to 1Q84
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I think 3-6 of Knausgårds Struggle came in '11.
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>Knausgårds Struggle
Also known as, Knausgårds Attention Whoring Sell Out.
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That's one of the worst books ever written even by murakami standards
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Post god-tier opening lines
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I am Ishmael.
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Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town when the streets lie black and steaming in the wake of the watertrucks and now when the drunk and the homeless have washed up in the lee of walls in alleys or abandoned lots and cats go forth highshouldered and lean in the grim perimeters about, now in these sootblacked brick or cobbled corridors where lightwire shadows make a gothic harp of cellar doors no soul shall walk save you.
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Every happy family is all smiles, while the unhappy ones are all sorts of faces.
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Would /lit/ be interested in a "Learning ancient Greek" reading group?
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Yes, most certainly yes. But someone inevitably will have to take the lead and, looking at the topic, I think it will also have to be a faggot which is why I propose YOU name a book (say, "Anabasis") and then set a shedule and link a place for those who are interested to discuss it. If you don't keep steady contact with the people reading it your group will soon fall apart. Make sure you're interested and free enough yourself.
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>strict schedule for learning and also reading ancient Greek
I don't think that will work m8.
But yes OP I would be interested.
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ye, i'm interested.
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God damn screw tape letters was excellent.
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General 2016-04-21 05:18:00 Post No.7947444
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Prolific Edition
Who's your favorite author with 15+ books?
Does too much quantity weaken the quality?
Previously: boards.4chan.org/lit/thread/7937357/sffg-science-fiction-and-fantasy-general
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damn, those your PKD's? i dont have nearly that many
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Recommendations for god-tier high fantasy?
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>yfw Whitman BTFO'd STEMfags all the way back in 1855
When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
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That is not good poetry. Stemfags are annoying though yes
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isnt he btfoing himself? "i'm too lazy and dumb to ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND space but ill rhapsodize about le starry sky anyway, which i unironically will call mystical"
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Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread Thread 2016-04-21 00:51:10 Post No.7946543
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Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread Thread
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Questions that don't deserve their own thread thread
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I have enough room in my reading schedule to read either Pere Goriot or Blood Meridian? Which should I read?
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Pere Goriot
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Brothers karamazov vs the idiot; which to read first?
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ITT: God-tier short story collections. Single author.
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This thread again, with dubliners again, with 'le god tier le shit tier' shitposting format. Sage my friend
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new delillo is out soon, anyone planning on reading it?
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why isn't he a meme?
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Does it come with a buttplug?
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my buddy gave me a copy of The Body Artist to read and I really did not enjoy that, so no.