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>>7757910
>transubstantiation

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>>7757910
>reporting threads

>>7757910
>syntactic glibness

my diary t b h which i'm converting into a epistolary novel about depression and mental illness in modern youth.

The Odyssey

>>7757650
No Longer Human, but I guess you've read that one.

>>7757524
ultrapleb
a non-entity, etc

you learn valuable lessons through actual rigourous practice and repetition
you dont learn shit from several minute long pop psychology ADD videos for redditors

I find the videos completely out of focus. It's like they have misinterpreted all of it.

>>7757383
it just wasn't complete. in every sense.

>>7757383

Book*, not books. I accidentally typed it wrong.

>>7757394
you might try his short stories, The Portrait is great.

Around the time that shitty romance novels became the staple of 'writers'. It all went downhill after Gone With the Wind.

>>7757278
Always.

I'd wager that men watch a lot more films. Perhaps that's related.

gravity's rainbow

>>7756981
>>>/tv/
>>>/v/
>>>/b/

>>7756993
What's tvvb?

>>7756895
y'know i just noticed this book and downloaded it. how'd you find it, what brought the book to your attention?

>>7756895
Nice, cool.

>>7756901
Well,Iam studying baroque literature right now and along with the Pedro Barca's "Life is a dream" I bought this one and finished it...Tho I didnt read it in original language,the rhymes are really beautiful and lyrical(ababcc) and characters arent bad either(watch out for Armida)...À la fin,its an excellent read,even if it has some ridiculous magical elements(Tasso because of that needed to rewrite it,and published the remastered version under the name Jerusalem Conquered)...

>>7756846

It's a premium feature, makes it feel older and more textured.

That's called deckle edge. No clue why they do it, it looks kinda neat but it makes it harder to turn the pages

>>7756848
tho it's kinda tryhard

I know how you feel. Cool costume man.

the most literary form of genre fiction is detective/crime/mystery fiction

Nigga I bet you use your finger to follow along the words of a menu at McDonald's.

why not?

to move the story along

it's a pretty fun thing to do

currently shortlisted for a short story competition worth a ridiculous CA$2000 and I think I have a good chance considering how few submissions there probably were

(sorry, not gna share the name)

apart from that I'm aiming to finish my first round of literary journal submissions by the 15th

>tfw want to be a writer but barely wrote anything for the nth weekend in a row

>>7756459
a math paper that probably <20 people will read

Nothing atm. Just had a play sort-of-put-on though. Won a contest, prize was $500 and a live reading. Very happy about that

Its good, but way too short.

>>7756078
it's so worth.

Will it make me cry and laugh at the same time?

The pleasure derived from the power of finding meaning

If I remember correctly, the three main brain regions correspond to each of those. I'm not sure one is the ultimate motivator, but I think one or two of them can be more dominant in an individual.

>>7755905

It works that way, boyo. You can go all meta and argue, for example, that power is just a means towards attaining pleasure, and thus we're conditioned to find it pleasing itself, or on the other hand that the experience of pleasure originally comes from us manifesting our will to power on the world. You can also argue that the experience of "meaning" is just the pleasant feeling you get from anticipating pleasurable outcome in the future, or that we only find our actions meaningful if they have an effect on the world in some way or another. Lastly, perhaps the ultimate and only lasting pleasure comes from the striving for and attainment of some sort meaning, and along with it comes the ultimate power, over one's own self, through realizing the meaningful goal to which redirect our efforts.

There are two forms of control: overt control (physical) and covert control (mental). Overt control is easy to identify; however, covert control is not. Covert control is often done through ideology. It's about getting people to act in certain ways that they normally wouldn't due to some type of behaviorally embedded ideal.
The thing about this type of control is that someone can be controlling you without you even being aware of it. Better stated: people can make you act in the matter that they wish while you still think that you are acting of your own accord. That is the definition of ideology: it is making people believe they are acting freely, when, in fact, they are still being manipulated by outside sources.

>>7755241
you're so cool and edgy

>>7755246
"the representation of the subject's Imaginary relationship to his or her Real conditions of existence"

- althusser's lacanian definition of ideology.
i've always considered ideology = false
consciousness, to be the definition.

what you're describing is usually considered something to do with a weberian definition of domination, imo

What makes a night out a 'Nietzsche kind of night'?

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>>7755097

>>7755109
Eating lots and lots and lots and lots of fruit.