any poetry or philosophy that defends abstinence from masturbation? I'm having a rough time of it today
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see a therapist
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>>7895832
just block yourself
the extra effort to get at pornography will make you think twice
like not having cigs in the house
but seriously fuck off
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>>7895843
why
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Is he the most arrogant philosopher?
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>>7895799
No.
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And the most humble
Which is best /lit/?
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are those by the author of infinite jest???
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>>7895795
It makes me cringe too
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dfw has the worst covers
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I'd like to know what's /lit/'s take on literary journals/magazines. Do you read any?
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Monocle
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>>7895787
I read/lit/ - Literature
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>Kafkaesque
not
>Kafkesque
why
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isn't she the woman from deus ex machina?
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>>7895724
Probably because it's Franz Kafka, not Franz Kafk
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>>7895729
its just "Ex Machina". No "Deus" on the title, friend.
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Just finished this. Dont know what to think yet, form my opinion /lit/
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I like the first part, it's very imaginative, creates a great atmosphere, but the second is truly amazing, it's simple yet so relatable.
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>>7895735
.do you cou convince prostitutes to love you and then feel ashamed when they find out that you are a loser?
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>>7895768
Unfortunately, yes in a way.
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What are some books that don't translate to English well?
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>>7895683
Houellebecq, Celine, Cioran. English is too dry for the French.
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The language I actually speak.
All other languages are obviously easily and without much loss translated to English or my native language.
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>>7895687
Celine as in Journey to the end of the night?
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Tell me /lit/, How can a discussion board that claims to be enamored by David Foster wallace indulge in so much irony and shitposting? Would he not look at this with contempt and against what he stood for?
It is such a contradiction. Help me understand.
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there's something very honest about our memes
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He was only pretending to be unironically ironic. He used irony earnestly and look wha happen'd.
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>>7895645
Because I don't agree with him that much. He's a better meme than a writer
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Why do Wordsworth have so many books with goofy lookin covers?
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>>7895594
1. renewing medieval tradition of "drolleries"
2. because they can
3. because the publisher's specific sense of humor
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kek
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>>7895788
Who the fuck designs these things?
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Has anyone here read his works? The Book of Law or The Book of Lies?
He comes across as interesting character and was wondering if he's worthy of being studied as people acclaim him to be
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I've got the book of lies ... Thumbed through it but the poetry is weak and the ideas a hamfisted attempt at Kabbalah and the golden dawn.
Interesting for historical context only.
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>>7895574
I've read Liber AL. It's solid if you're into mythological riddles and microwave meal-tier recipes for living.
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i have a copy of "The Magickal Record of the Beast 666" around here, somewhere.
funniest part was when he was taking cocaine. he'd make a journal entry, claim "this stuff isn't addictive and doesn't affect me at all". then he'd do some more, make another journal entry ten minutes later that would run for eight pages of densely packed verbiage, do some more cocaine, another journal entry and so on for about forty pages.
the content was your usual snow-head's gibberish, albeit a little better informed in terms of classical allusions, but ultimately going nowhere.
if there was anything to his magickal theories, he wouldn't have started out the rich heir of a brewer and ended up penniless and fucked up on heroin... unless THAT WAS HIS PLAN ALL ALONG.
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What creative strategies have you considered as a means of either making your book appealing to publishing houses or in marketing and finding an audience for it?
I have recently completed the sixth and final installment of my debut memoir, and although the editing process will take another two months or so to conclude I am forced to accept that the most important thing for me in the foreseeable future is to identify publishing houses worthy of representing my book and thinking of ways to submit my work to them in a way that will leave them incapable of turning me down.
I am interested to learn what strategies others here have considered in doing so besides the traditional and at-this-point rather boring and ineffective strategy of submitting your work via formal channels (i.e. finding an agent and waiting to see if these individuals are able to correctly market a work that is not their own).
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>pretentious post accompanied by cool_pepe.jpeg
Damn
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>>7895504
Please articulate what you mean by pretentious.
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>>7895507
Is English your first language?
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Just finished reading 1984 by George Orwell. Was it any good?
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>>7895464
the short answer is no
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you tell me, faggo
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>>7895464
George Orwell was a communist and the book was protesting authoritarianism as a whole, with a focus on fascism and Stalinism. Don't believe anyone who tells you Orwell was anti-communist.
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Good books about love, lost love or longing for love? Something bittersweet, not all negative please.
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The Dead by Joyce fits all of those f a m
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Jeanette Winterson - The Passion
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>>7895426
Looking specifically for a novel, and I've read Joyce, thanks though.
Philosophy pleb here.
How come you can't get an ought from an is?
And if that is the case and is widely accepted how can anyone argue for an objective morality if this is the case?
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>>7895379
>how can anyone argue for an objective morality
>objective
yes, you are a pleb
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>>7895379
People who argue for objective moralities don't care about the fact that their fundamental moral principle can't be reached using reason.
literally "but muh feelings"
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>>7895382
Eh?
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Whats the point in the starting to write if the first thing I write is destined to be shit?
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writing is only truly done in rewriting
or something some bitch fuck said once lol
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it's better for both us and you to just give up before starting.
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>>7895340
The better question is why are you afraid of being shit?