Hey /lit/ where and how do I start with Lovecraft's work? Help please.
>>7423537
start with the greeks
>>7423537
Start with the Greeks.
>>7423537
Dagon is a pretty good place to start. If you want to go right to the meat, no veggies, no fruit, read either Herbert West--Reanimator, The Colour out of Space (my favorite), or At the Mountains of Madness.
Kant's moral and ethical theories make absolutely no sense.
The categorical imperative and deontology in general is stupid as fuck and has basically no real world value. The face that it was used in some court cases is pathetic too.
Anyone else hate Kantian ethics and all the morons that tout it as perfect?
>>7423526
I mean I don't like most of it but I don't sperg out like you. Some of it isn't bad but quite honestly he didn't even understand his theory enough to properly express it.
can you explain the categorical imperative?
>>7423552
Basically, (as far as I understand anyway), you take your principal of will, universalize it, and its immoral if there are contradictions.
So if you want to steal then it becomes >Everyone should steal if they want to
Naturally if everyone steals then there would be nothing left to steal, therefore its not logically sound and is immoral.
Team Peeta or Team Gale?
>>7423455
gun to head id say team gale since he can protech katniss better through sttrength and fighting skill but then again peeta has the smarts and good heart so maybe a tie
>>7423455
Team Shuya Nanahara
No idea who these faggots are.
Alright /lit/ I'm gonna dump all of my notes on Old English. Lemme know what you think.
g = y
c = ch
-cg, gg = -dge
-sc = -sh
-h (middle or end) = guttural -ch
-e + vowel = -e + uh
Đ, ð = -th as in thick or thin
ā, a = fAther
ǣ, æ = mAn
ē = thEy
e, ę = lEt
ī = wIsdom
i = hIt
ō = nOte
o, ǫ = nOt
ū = rUle
u = pUt
y, ȳ = ü
First declension: (order of singular - plural)
Nominative: Mūð - Mūðas
Genitive: Mūðes - Mūða
Dative: Mūðe - Mūðum
Accusative: Mūð - Mūðas
Instrumental: Mūðe - Mūðum
First declension nouns:
Mūð - mouth
Fiscere - fisher
Hwæl - whael
Mearh - horse
Finger - finger
Articles: (these are "the"; the article "a" is nonexistent in OE)
Masc.
Nominative: Sē
Genitive: Đæs
Dative: Đǣm
Accusative: Đone
Instrumental: Đȳ,ðon
Fem.
Nominative: Sēo
Genitive: Đǣre
Dative: Đǣre
Accusative: Đā
Neut.
Nominative: Đæt
Genitive: Đǣs
Dative: Đǣm
Accusative: Đǣt
Instrumental: Đȳ,ðon
Plur.
Nominative: Đā
Genitive: Đāra
Dative: Đām
Accusative: Đā
Vocabulary:
Sē bōcere - scribe
Sē cyning - king
Sē dæg - day
Sē ęnde - end
Sē frēodōm - freedom
Sē fugol - bird
Sē gār - spear
Sē heofon - heaven
Sē hierde - herdsman
Ǫnd - and
Sē sęge - man
Sē stān - stone
Sē wealh - Welshman, foreigner
Sē weall - wall
Sē wīsdōm - wisdom
Sē wulf- wolf
>>7423419
Personal pronouns:
First person singular (I)
Nominative: ic
Accusative: mec/mē
Genitive: mīn
Dative: mē
First person plural: (we)
Nominative: wē
Accusative: ūisc/ūs
Genitive: ūre
Dative: ūs
Second person singular: (you)
Nominative: ðū/þū
Accusative: ðēc, ðē/þēc, þē
Genitive: ðīn/þīn
Dative: ðē/þē
Second person plural: (you)
Nominative: gē
Accusative: eowic, ēow
Genitive: ēower
Dative: ēow
Second person dual: (this is also the word "you" but in the sense of only two people)
Nominative: git
Accusative: incit, inc
Genitive: incer
Dative: inc
Third person singular: (he/she/it)
Nominative: hē/hit/hēo
Accusative: hine, hit, hīe
Genitive: his/his/hire
Dative: him/him/hire
Third person plural: (they)
Nominative: hīe/hēo
Accusative: hīe/hio
Genitive: hierę/hiera
Dative: him/him
>>7423416
old english is gay as fuck thats why we got a new one
Who's hyped?
http://www.newsweek.com/cormac-mccarthy-new-book-363027
me
By the same person who's last work was the screenplay for the counselor?
Sign me the fuck up!
Hopefully I can finish all of his novels before then.
>>7423403
>he didn't like The Counselor
Nabokov and Wittgenstein are the two most intelligent writers. No one else in /lit/core can surpass them in this domain.
>who is joyce
>>7423358
Shakespeare
>>7423362
actually joyce is a good point, he's probably up there too
/lit/, this "Don't Sweat The Small Stuff" book sold 25 Million copies. I decided to throw a copy in my book basket during my daily trip to Barnes and Noble. I agree with the title. People are always afraid of the wrong things.
Only fear wasting a decade of your life.
That's a healthy fear.
Do NOT fear social rejection, investing and losing, business failure, public speaking, having zero money, or trying new things.
You can recover from all those. But you can't recover from wasted years.
What does /lit/ think about this book?
It's some of the best toilet paper I've ever dragged across my asshole.
Great for fueling my comfy fireplace during the holidays.
What's with the flood of /r9k/ and /adv/ threads?
Get the fuck off this board.
What are some good PC programs to write books properly, /lit/?
>>7423264
Notepad.exe
Notepad
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hieroglyphic-typewriter/id544678357?mt=8
What happens when you finally finish that novel? When you're exhausted and used up and whatever hole it was supposed to fill didn't get filled? What then?
kys mm
Read the next in the series or move on to something else. Same with movies/shows, for me.
>>7423187
play vidiya.
I'm bored. Recommend a short story that is easily found online. Bonus for non-typical /lit/ authors
Hunger Knut Hamsen
>>7423157
>I'm bored
>spoonfeed me
>entertain me
Why no try drinking bleach?
>>7423168
Thread doesn't have to be about him, just suggest stories we think the other posters and lurkers of the thread
/lit/, are there literally any films that deal with philosophy well?
>>7423141
You already posted it.
>>7423141
i heart huckabees.
What kinda philosophy u want senpai?
>beyond the point of redemption
might have to delete my goodreads account before the 1st of Jan to avoid public humiliation
75 is pretty unrealistic. A book per week is pretty good
>post aspirations/self image/thoughts on social media
>surprised when you fail and become ashamed of yourself
CURRENT YEAR
>>7423140
that was my goal then i tried to read gravity's rainbow and life kept happening and now i have no chance.
Wouldn't Aquinas say that Hume's arguments against causality are insufficient?
>>7422974
Being an over emotional and stupid Christian, he probably would say something like that.
>>7422974
Aquinas would say all kinds of dumb shit.
>>7422974
I think Aquinas would say that Hume doesn't even understanding causality. First of all, Hume does address form, matter, or final cause at all. Second, he has a child's understanding of efficient cause. He thinks it's pool balls hitting each other, when actually the efficient cause is that which converts a potential being into an actual being. You don't need to be able to see it happen to realize that it must, even if watching it happen is how we recognize efficient causes.
>>7423002
If you think the best criticism of the scholastics is that they were too "emotional" than you've clearly never read them.
Does this sound particularly overwrought with emotion to you?
"The efficient cause is called a cause with respect to the end, since the end is actual only by the operation of the agent. But the end is called the cause of the efficient cause, since the efficient cause does not operate except by the intention of the end. Hence the efficient cause is the cause of that which is the end, for example walking in order to be healthy. However, the efficient cause does not cause the end to be the end. Therefore it is not the cause of the causality of the end, i.e., it does not cause the end to be the final cause; for example the doctor causes health to actually exist, but he does not cause health to be the end."
Quit projecting.
Is there literally any single reason at all to ever prefer a physical book to an ebook except for being a pseud?
No.
They look cooler and it feels nice to hold them.
>>7422855
sometimes books are cheaper
>>7422855
Preference is preference. Totally personal.
I like to physically feel my place in the book, and infinite jest wouldn't have been the same without flipping that fat bitch back and forth manually.
Worth reading or not?
Read it and find out
>>7422755
Yes. It's funny, easy to get through in one sitting, and fits the 4chan mindset.
Yep, read it.