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Is he the most reddit author there is? Muh old ones
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>basing your view of an authors work on his retarded fanbase
leave this shit on /mu/
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>>7400883
But Lovecraft actually is shit, reddit aside
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>>7400895
I don't like Lovecraft either but your still a faggot with shit opinions for even having to use "reddit" as a signifier of your dislike of someone's work
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ayo /lit/
is cyberpunk dead?
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Yes, and with good reason. It was a shit sub-genre.
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>>7400785
Welcome to 30 years ago.
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well, it basically happened already
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Philosopher Robert Nozick proposed the following thought experiment:
Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that you would think and feel you were writing a great novel, or making a friend, or reading an interesting book. All the time you would be floating in a tank, with electrodes attached to your brain. Should you plug into this machine for life, pre-programming your life's experiences?... Of course, while in the tank, you won't know that you're there; you'll think it's all actually happening. . . . Would you plug in? What else can matter to us, other than how our lives feel from the inside?
So /lit/, would you?
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in a heartbeat
criticisms of the experience machine are retarded
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>>7400782
if the machine could stimulate or manipulate the brain and our memories in such a way that you forget you ever entered/heard about the machine then yes
>Pynchon isn't cannon
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How the fuck is it fedora to declare that Pynchon, a male author, is not a
>large, heavy piece of artillery, typically mounted on wheels, formerly used in warfare.
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>>7400731
700 page tomes about eating scat, parabolas, and penises are not really canonical in my book.
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pynchon is clearly a rocket you dunce
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Is this the height of early 21st century philosophy?
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>>7400717
I love that picture.
And her name is Analia.
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>In 2005, he married 26-year-old Argentine model Analia Hounie in a celebrity wedding heavily covered by the international news media. It has been reported that Hounie is the daughter of Lacanian psychoanalysts, that she has read and understands quite competently Žižek’s difficult and voluminous works, and (depending on the report) that she either is or is not a genius.
>Argentinian model
>daughter of Lacanian psychoanalysts
>Analia
>read and understands quite competently Žižek’s works
>pic related
Why is Slavoj so alpha?
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>>7400953
He gets Hegel, that's why.
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Do you take notes when you read, and if so how?
Do you have some system of symbols (or, god forbid, highlighter colors) to denote particular things? What do you write in the margins?
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It's merely ocd.
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>>7400702
No no and no.
Pic related looks like something an insane man would do.
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Every single time I pick up a used book that ends up having notes in it, the notes stop after 10 pages.
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Why is the plural of "status" "statuses" and not "stati"?
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>>7400695
Why is the plural of 'walrus' 'walruses' and not 'walri'?
Some masculine Latinate words use the Latin plural, most don't. It's language evolution. There is no concerted logic behind it.
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>>7400720
"walruses" sounds wrong too. The -ses ending always sounds wrong.
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Finals Anxiety thread anybody?
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Fuck I procrastinated a bit too much. I'll be fine but I forget how bad the anxiety is for a couple of days, but maybe it's worth it. I'm working on the paper that I actually care about and will try to publish and present at conferences in the future, so today isn't terrible, but I'm just dreading tomorrow, when I work on the final paper for my other class. I have to incorporate too many books and too many theoretical articles, so I feel like the end product is going to be really bogged down on useless details. Maybe this is silly and no big deal. I have to present a ten page "conference version" on Wednesday, and though I haven't started writing it, I'll probably be fine. It's just stressful because it's about a topic that I don't want to continue looking into at the doctorate level. I'm going to make some offbeat argument about how current postcolonial studies is flawed, but my heart's just not in it.
Anybody else stressing about term papers?
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>not graduated
>2015
Have fun w your diploma mill diploma pal.
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>>7400647
MA program getting paid to do it, so why not?
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>>7400660
Britbong spacetime waster wow.
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Post mandatory books.
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I'm thinking of picking up some classic literature, like Don Quixote or Dostoyvesky, but I'm not sure if I'm smart enough to understand them. I'm 18 and have only been reading for about 2 years, I have pretty much only read Lovecraft and George R.R Martin. I have only read one "patrician" tier book and that is Of Mice and Men and I found it boring.
So will I enjoy novels that I mentioned in the beginning of my post or should I just stick to living like a plebe?
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>>7400533
>like Don Quixote or Dostoyvesk
>I'm 18 and have only been reading for about 2 years
>I have pretty much only read Lovecraft and George R.R Martin
>"patrician" tier book and that is Of Mice and Men
>I found it boring.
This is god tier bait. The bait flows from each sentence-- each CLAUSE-- reinforcing itself into one sheer miasma of baitgasm. Bravo.
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If bait, 8/10
If not, stick to reddit
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>>7400533
You'll be fine. There is not really much that one can derive from 'classic literature' anyway. If you have any questions just refer to a synopsis or SparkNotes.
>So will I enjoy novels that I mentioned in the beginning of my post
Yes.
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The truth, briefly stated, is that Borges is arguably the great bridge between modernism and post-modernism in world literature. He is modernist in that his fiction shows a first-rate human mind stripped of all foundations in religious or ideological certainty -- a mind turned thus wholly in on itself. His stories are inbent and hermetic, with the oblique terror of a game whose rules are unknown and its stakes everything.
And the mind of those stories is nearly always a mind that lives in and through books. This is because Borges the writer is, fundamentally, a reader. The dense, obscure allusiveness of his fiction is not a tic, or even really a style; and it is no accident that his best stories are often fake essays, or reviews of fictitious books, or have texts at their plots' centers, or have as protagonists Homer or Dante or Averroes. Whether for seminal artistic reasons or neurotic personal ones or both, Borges collapses reader and writer into a new kind of aesthetic agent, one who makes stories out of stories, one for whom reading is essentially -- consciously -- a creative act. This is not, however, because Borges is a metafictionist or a cleverly disguised critic. It is because he knows that there's finally no difference -- that murderer and victim, detective and fugitive, performer and audience are the same. Obviously, this has postmodern implications (hence the pontine claim above), but Borges's is really a mystical insight, and a profound one. It's also frightening, since the line between monism and solipsism is thin and porous, more to do with spirit than with mind per se. And, as an artistic program, this kind of collapse/transcendence of individual identity is also paradoxical, requiring a grotesque self-obsession combined with an almost total effacement of self and personality.
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Alright, where did you steal this from?
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>>7400460
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/books/review/07WALLACE.html?_r=0
its funny cus its by DFW
(Pynchon has also written some very good reviews to NYT)
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>>7400462
>its funny cus its by DFW
guessed right at "pontine"
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What does /lit/ think about tutoring? Have you ever been tutored? Have you ever tutored?For money?Been touched inappropriately by the girl with big titties next door because your mom wanted you to not fail maths in your senior year of high school so she asked her to teach you polynomial and quadratic equations?
Personally I'm against taking money for any exchange of knowledge, as I believe any form of interaction should be completely based on one person enjoying the other's company and wisdom, as well as views, no matter how different, they have to offer each other.
I despise the notion of knowledge being something that can be assigned a price, no matter how high or low. Fuck sophists too while we're at it, and people who live off of tutoring others.
The reason I'm asking is because I've taken up teaching English to chink kids over an app, it pays 10$/hr, and I do enjoy their company, but once every few minutes while talking to them and this is usually while waiting for them to make a coherent sentence, I get the feeling I'm pimping myself out. It's even worse when it's a student of the opposite gender, and they're paying me by the minute, literally 17c a minute. I can't put a price on my company to these people, or the quality of the "service" I provide to them, I feel sick just by writing that.
I don't know /lit/, I just don't know.
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>>7400409
You using Tutor.com?
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>>7400419
No, it's an app.
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>>7400424
They have an app you tutor through as well. It sounded like you might, from the similar pay rate and preponderance of Chinese.
Anyway, I feel that way when I'm doing it too, unless it's a younger kid. If it's a college or high school kid, it feels a bit dirty. But I'm more than happy to help a middle schooler figure out how to understand a poem, or go over some vocabulary words with them.
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Is it possible to write a suicide note that doesn't come off as edgy or pathetic?
Lets discuss suicide as and act and the messages associated with if from it's perpetrators.
Also, lets have some fun writing our own and imaginary suicide notes and rating each others.
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Anyone?
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>>7400335
Start with: "This is going to sound pathetic, but..." Boom, not pathetic.
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"I was just getting bored. Love you all, goodbye folks"
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How boring is the bible? I've always avoided attempting it because I feel it would just be a total slog
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>the creation of everything
>incest
>rape
>genocide
>wars
>satan
>slavery, starvation, locusts, murdering firstborns
>the incarnation of God
>crucifixion
>boring
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>>7400334
Depends on the book. I will admit to not having read the whole thing, but there parts that detail long genealogies in a way that makes textbooks look interesting. I also tried reading Job once and it was ridiculously repetitive. If I remember right, it was like Socratic dialogue except twice as repetitive and twice as self-indulgent.
There are other parts that are quite easy though, especially in the New Testament. Books like Timothy that part pretty succinct with clear details that would make even the most fundamentalist Christian cringe.
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>>7400334
Its purpose isn't really to be entertaining.
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Do you agree with the lit map?
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>>7400329
Got this in higher res? can't even read most of the names on it
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Realism should be next to science fiction and mystery 2bh
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>>7400329
No offense, but this looks like Namedropping: The Map.