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Install an IRC client, connect to the server you want then join the channel you want. The lit IRC is #/lit/ on rizon, I don't know what the books server is on but it says on the wiki.

>>7651969
I knew that stuff, I couldn't remember the site, so I looked through some info files and found it. It was undernet, which admittedly makes sense, but there isn't anything in the sticky about it.

>>7651969

Holy shit that lit chat is dead

>>7651960
Moby Dick

>>7651962

>>7651962

A1: Lawrence
A2: Gorki
A3: Feydeau
A4: Macluhan
A5: Kant
A6: McKenna
B1: Doestoevky
B2: Tolstoy
B3: Woolf
B4: Adorno
B5: Gaspard Tournachon
B6: Lavinas
C1:
C2:
C3:
C4: Gogol
C5: Kafka
C6:
D1:
D2: Freud
D3:
D4:
D5:Burroughs
D6:
E1: bECKETT
E2:
E3:
E4: Wilde
E5: Crowley
E6:

A1:
A2:
A3:
A4:
A5: Kant
A6:
B1:
B2: Tolstoy
B3: Woolfe
B4: Adorno
B5: Nerval
B6: Levinas
C1:
C2:
C3:
C4: Gogol
C5: Kafka
C6:
D1: Bourdieu
D2: Freud
D3:
D4:
D5: Burroughs
D6:
E1: Beckett
E2: Bergson
E3:
E4: Wilde
E5:Crowley
E6:

>>7651925
>A1: DH Lawrence
>A2:
>A3:
>A4:
>A5: Immanuel Kant
>A6: Terrence Mckenna
>B1: Fyodor Dostoevsky
>B2: Leo Tolstoy
>B3: Virginia Woolf
>B4: Theodor Adorno
>B5:
>B6: Emmanuel Levinas
>C1: Steven Wallace
>C2:
>C3: Herbert Marcuse
>C4: Nikolai Gogol
>C5: Franz Kafka
>C6:
>D1:
>D2: Sigmund Freud
>D3: Henry James
>D4: William James
>D5: William S Burroughs
>D6:
>E1: Samuel Beckett
>E2:
>E3:
>E4: Oscar Wilde
>E5: Aleister Crowley
>E6:

Just write (prose) poetry. Or do like Borges and make like your summarizing much larger works as short stories.

Big lumbering tomes are overrated, a single good poem can give you far more effect than wading through 300-500 pages of hit and miss

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It sounds liek it's the perfect length for imageboard posts

As said, prose poetry or start participating in exercising your creativity, perhaps creative exercise may help you see extensions which don't cause a feeling of artificial inflation.

graduate high school

alternatively, get a GED

>>7651516
You first have to get good at closely reading.

>>7651516
a question

it was OK

fascinating analysis. cozy. thanks for that. made me think.

>>7651500
Fascinating reply.

>>7651061
homework help is here, friend
we don't do that
>>>/hm/

>>7651061
It's about the void left by the death throes of Christianity in the 20th century, and the various forces trying to fill it. The titular Invisible Man is not literally invisible - rather the rest of the world has been figuratively blinded to him by the burning bright lights of liberalism and Marxism (represented by the 1,369 lightbulbs early on in the book and the electric shock experiments later on).

>>7651061

/lit/ hates it because it was written by a black man and as we all know only white cis men are allowed into the western canon, and we'll just ignore that our lord and savior Harold Bloom actually liked it

that's about half the board

but you need to stop projecting on an anonymous mongolian drum circle forum

>>7651063
"but you need to stop projecting on an anonymous mongolian drum circle forum"

Wat

>>7651058
i'm pretty sure you're only now realizing how stupid you are but a part of you doesn't want to admit it
this is an anonymous forum, not high school, there are no points given for seeming nonchalant about or hiding one's own abilities
you may not be used to this
get good or gtfo

>The universe is an astonishing thing.
To assert that the universe is an astonishing thing, you'd have to contemplate the whole of the universe, not just a tiny speck of it. Assigning hazy, feel-good properties to 'the' universe is illegitimate at this stage.

>Our universe has somehow been brought into existence, perhaps through some kind of natural selection.
Or perhaps it's been there all along. Or perhaps there is more than one universe. Etc. You're just regurgitating the mainstream cosmological model.

>It has given rise to evolution, a phenomena that protects itself from annihilation by brute forcing its way to the logical path.
'Protects' and 'brute forces' are vague metaphors that fall flat when it comes to explanation. Also, show me evidence for this specific point in (future) time you refer to as 'the logical path'.

>But will this be a logical conclusion?
No, for it is not a proposition.

>immoral due to the existence of qualia, thus eradicating itself.
What does qualia have to do with this?

>What's worse, a universe that doesn't exist, or a universe that exists but doesn't know it exists.
This is what's worse: thinking that the universe is an epistemic agent capable of propositional knowledge.

>>7650987
There is nothing but the logos, shared by all things.

>>7651302
>To assert that the universe is an astonishing thing, you'd have to contemplate the whole of the universe
I've contemplated enough of it to say that it is.

>You're just regurgitating the mainstream cosmological model.
I'm not, this is my own conclusion so far.

>'Protects' and 'brute forces' are vague metaphors
They aren't metaphors.

>it is not a proposition.
Don't know what you are trying to say.

>What does qualia have to do with this?
Qualia gives rise to the ability to feel pain, and gives rise to the issue of morality.

>universe is an epistemic agent
We are a part of the universe which is observing itself.


I didn't post this to get critique from a layman.

Can anyone recommend some good Danish literature? Sticky doesn't help.
Thanks, in advance

>>7651006
This post is so much more interesting than the garbage op. Read all of Kierkegaard.

>>7650973
Go to sleep, Watsky.

yes.
this goes for any subject.
>be in engineering class
>doing first year fluid modelling
>told we can solve the problem any way we want
>actually only allowed to use Bernoulli
>not told this
>just ask past students, they give us the answer because the question was bullshit and due to marking criteria could not possibly have allowed for self directed learning, only presenting all the work in a way expected by the lecturer.

you're not allowed to have an opinion different from your lecturer. it's called expectancy breaching and it leads to ad hominem as an ego protection device on their behalf.

>>7650963

>you're not allowed to have an opinion different from your lecturer.

>law prof lecturer is also my tutor
>innaclass going over homework questions
>have a different answer to everyone else
>explain why i'm right and everyone else is wrong
>he agrees with me

Just don't go to shit institutions famalam

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>>7650934
If you're an undergrad you'll get a passing grade but it will be hollow and you won't feel like you've done anything.

If you're a grad student prepare to get kicked out for plagiarism unless your professor is literally Zizek tier.

Just go out and experience things, observe yourself and your surroundings. Do shit that challenges you. That will give you your own unique perspective and therefore content to write about.

Just dont fall into the trap of thinking the best & only way to creativity is by reading a shitload of books. Sure they can be a very good jumping point and provide good ideas to play with, and its good to read widely, but if you base your whole approach around absorbing other peoples work and ignoring your own life then you'll just be a lumbering memehive.

Read more. Read different things in between reading. Do other different things that are different from what you usually do and experience things differently. This means branching out to music you've never heard, especially things your exgf considered "weird" and past that. You can be a spaz and read ten pages of one book then go to another of a different field or form of writing. Learn another language(highly recommend doing this, has all sorts of internal entertainment quality aside from the practical application. Try to get deeper into a math or science you're interested in. Be more attentive to the people around you. Don't let your mind stagnate. Like if you're waiting for the bus, form shapes in clouds, recite poetry, lip read the old man listening to an audiobook next to you. There's so much shit you can do mate.
don't listen to drug peddlers

>>7650938
seconding that last line, too fucking important

I (as a reactionary) possess a preference for cyclic rather than linear-progressive socio-historical conceptualizations.

>Fuck the Anglo-Viking Menace. Marx was an Englishman!

-Oswald Spengler

>>7650467
Me too desu.

>2016
>people still publishing standalone versions of the dead
>people still treating the dead as a short story

jfc plebs

>>7650054
Saka desu

>>7650054
The dead isn't that much of a short story, it needs to be read with the rest of the stories of Dubliners

Epicurus

The Essential Epicurus

>>7649825
Can't beat this answer: Epicurus.