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Multiple intelligences theory was discovered by Dr. Howard Gardner as a model of intelligence that set apart intelligence into varied modalities, rather than seeing it as subjugated by a single general ability

Each of us have a creativity quotient and we just need to develop it further. It may happen that we might believe that creativity is just because of talent. A strong urge and a methodical way can motivate an individual a lot and take him/her to further heights

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Creativity as a measure is about imagining things which you have never done or heard about, something new and fresh. Creativity is the ability or the skill to create new ideas and bring them into reality.

>>7629634
>people think differently
>if you try at something for a while you'll get better at it

Is this not common knowledge? I mean we know IQ tests are generally not an indicator of one's entire mental ability. Are there really people who think we just roll 4d6 and throw away the lowest?

Was it a man or a woman? What did they look like?

As to your question they probably lured people in with the pulpy sword and sorcery stuff and then hooked them with the bdsm erotica.

>>7629424
>Were they ever mainstream?
I think they were popular in the 70s.

They are or were popular among a subculture of total lowlifes and I say that as a degenerate myself.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sieFQuCnrdI

now i guilty pleasure luv listening to some pretty gay self-improvement shit, but that book sucked. sadly self-help market is like any market, the best selling shit is usually wack, gotta dig deep to find the gems

I always felt the lessens in that book are so blatantly obvious that it makes me rage to think somebody actually made money off them. Like somebody righting a stupid little book story on the values of anything basic, like being kind, and it selling millions of copies

What makes you think Salinger is a pseudoscholar? I've only read Catcher, and quite recently, but I thought it was very good.
Rand fits right in though.

dfw, guy is such a try-hard little bitch, luckily bloom saw right through his shit

Catcher should be a mandatory read in high school.

Rand for sure.

I can only imagine you saying this to a girl you've known for a month and are hoping to sleep with. You're a moron

>>7628931
No: all things will eventually come to an end. In time, even the atoms which compose us will decay into electrons.

>>7628936
How about an actually interesting question then anon

How do you think writing perspectives will change when death is no longer such a short-term obstacle?

I like the Importance of Being Ernest. Best movie of his vast filmography.
Pretty good critic as well.

>write satires about social pretenses
>get called pretentious
fantastical about audience intellect maybe

>>7628900
Currently reading Dorian Gray. Pretty good so far.

classics = The Greeks
contemporary = john green, rowling, pynchon

>>7628797
And there's nothing to be gained from studying Green, Rowling, Pynchon, King, etc.?

Or to elevate(?) things slightly, Wallace isn't either?

It seems slightly disingenuous to suggest that literature as a medium died somewhere between 50 and 100 years ago is my point.

>>7628789
Classics: tried and true, known to be great. Foundation of modern literature through allusions and references.
Contemporary: have to sort through the shit to find what's worth reading, most will be unknown in 10 years because it sucks

Depends whether you mean in an ideal sense or for the average academic.

The average academic is a spiritless idealess null who has been poorly trained by inefficient repetition to play make-believe that his papers about Brecht's diarrhea years warrant a constant supply of grant money. But if we're talking about actual intellectuals, then yeah, furthering the human understanding of art (and history and other things) helps individuate the species and make it discover itself and all that.

>>7628774
Is there something that characterizes an "actual intellectual" apart from their ideawork would you say? Some X factor, some je ne sais quoi?

>>7628798
Not him, but I believe there needs to be a certain degree of originality in the true intellectual. Rather than simply absorb literature and philosophy and keep it as a memorized codex of concepts, I think a real intellectual genuinely internalizes what she or he reads and tries to apply it to his or her own life, which involves a certain degree of creativity in fitting the ideas of great men into one's own particular circumstances.

Meh

>>7628746
that'll be a no then I presume?

>>7628742
>how newfags think /lit/ works
"Hey guys, if you ask nicely I'll let you critique my work!"
"Okay anon, please post more! Here are my thoughts about your prose and structure: ..."
>how /lit/ actually works
"Hey guys, critique my work! http://google.docs/shit.doc"
"Bump."
"Bump."
"Bump."
"Bump."

>>7628527
Decomposition. Decay. Eternity in a casket.

Do some fraud? Convince more of his faggot followers to buy his book? Play video games? I dunno.

>>7628527
Who is this? I am attracted to him.

Vapid blocks of grey littered
The vast stretch of green fields.
Sheets of shining glass
Fillled the now decadent curves
Of once heavily laboured land.
In the far distance, solitary
Cattle grazed their lives away.
Upon this scene of tired
Ulster sat a little fellow:
A blackbird of honest voice
Who sang soft melodies of
Playing children and dying men.
This harbinger of happy days spoke
And for a moment I thought
That not all in this world
Are blind to the beauties of life,
And I myself was not alone.
But as the sun declined
And the moonlight rose,
We both returned to our affairs.

La sirène du train perce l'air froid d'hiver.
Il crache sa vapeur jusqu'aux nues cotonneuses.
De loin, il admire des volées de piverts,
S'élançant comme un coeur qui voit ses amoureuses.

Les peltées de charbon brûlent d'un feu ardent,
Alors le chauffeur sue sa douleur et l'oublie
Et remplit encore le foyer débordant,
Car le train ne connait la vigueur affaiblie.

Que suis-je d'autre qu'un diligent train sans freins?
«Tu seras tourmenté, tu ne seras serein.» --
Ainsi me parlai-je -- et aussitôt me crus-je.

Sous la lune jaune, je glisse et tousse et crisse;
Je vais vers un pays très lointain, un refuge
Que je n'atteindrai pas, malgré mon sacrifice.

>>7628406
C'est bien.

Par contre, ca s'écrit pelletée.
Bravo, j'aime.
>vigueur affaiblie.
Un peu étrange, l'image est peu parlante au premier abord

>Sous la lune jaune, je glisse et tousse et crisse;
Je vais vers un pays très lointain, un refuge
Que je n'atteindrai pas, malgré mon sacrifice.

C'est très beau.
Joli sonnet. Le rythme a travailler, un peu, peut être ?

Non parcequ'on ne le peut
mais parcequ'on ne le veut
ni les zeppelins ni le concorde
ne fendront plus en deux les cieux

Ou êtes-vous aéropoles,
hautes tours perdues d'opaline?
Ou sont les machines sublimes
et leurs divines auréoles ?

Minuit et quart
Un ingénieur presque mort
faiblit un instant et renait
dans un costume d'entrepreneu

(un autre)

Parfois
je m'imagine qu'on m'enterrera
dans une robe d'apparat
après deux mois de deuil mondial

Mon cœur tressaille

Derrière les anneaux de saturnes
a bord d'un céleste convoi
un enfant tourne a la page
8123
et pense a moi.

>>7627747
Poor bait.

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>>7627753

Not bait, friend, just what I think. You know that many of those books / authors are recognised as modern classics, right? DFW is obviously a celebrated author, and 2666 and Freedom are considered great books. The only bait here is your post.

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>>7627761

>tfw OP's mom is telling the glory of God.

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>>7627596
wat

>>7627595
no. its the glory of the written word. not god

No.

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If you've read Juvenal and Chaucer, it will seem less unprecedented...

Marlowe was just as good if not better

>Why should I read this?
I don't care. Don't read it if you don't want to. Fuck off.

>>7627301
this

>>7627288

7/10 made me chuckle a bit. nice bait desi senpai