Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 4918. page

>>7322182
>Aside from Aristotle and Socrates/Plato, the Greeks are largely irrelevant and read like damned self-help platitudes
This made me vomit.

>>7322182
>Aside from Aristotle and Socrates/Plato, the Greeks are largely irrelevant and read like damned self-help platitudes

Modern /lit/, everyone.

>>>/his/
>>>/reddit/

>>7322182
Kill yourself. Saged on all fields.

I'm writing a novel (35,000+ words so far), and I have the same problem. I struggle every day to put words onto paper and it's harder with all the other stuff I have to keep up with in my life.

The key is the drive to create. Find time to do it. Keep focus. Write down everything that comes to mind, that's how you know when you look back at your work that it was actually you who wrote it.

You don't want to write a novel or you'd be writing it. You want to have written a novel, you want that achievement with none of the work.

>>7322088
pretty much, yeah. I realize I'm approaching writing for all the wrong reasons, but at the same time I feel like I've failed to do something important if I don't write

the grand chessboard

you can disagree with alot of its conclusions as well as to whether the things it advocates are good ideas or not but its essential to understanding the background of alot US and western foreign policy

Bumping this thread for interest.
>>7321987
Can you tell me more about The Grand Chessboard? What eras and regions does it talk about?
What's it's main thesis? Is it considered mainstream or revisionist?
What conclusions do you (or others) disagree with if any?
Do you think it is relatively unbiased?

>>7321973
Damn this is a great pic

I think "to kill a spider" would be a more fitting metaphor.
Because even though spiders are spooky, they are just trying to keep your house clean of other bugs

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>>7321800

>Was he here?
>For a while, but now he's Eragon-e

>and the sounds of their hatred let me know I was The Stranger™

Ok Camel...

>>7321686
Is anyone on /lit/ really this fat?

>>7321686
I get depressed if I haven't read during the day 3 hours at least

>>7321686
if I don't read some epic poetry or 69 a babe I am blue blue blue

>>7321630
should your meme chart be read in any order

>haag

wew lad

>I'm writing a text-game in python

Perl, or GTFO.

>>7321509
Unless you're doing it as a programming exercise, you might consider using a text game engine like Twine or Inform.

No reason to reinvent the wheel, and it would let you focus on content, which is what people really care about.

>>7321549
Perl is dead bro. Get over it.

It didn't.

Never read that one, only non-siddhartha hess ive read was journey to the east and that was a disappointment t b h

>>7321496
One of the few I haven't read sadly. I've loved all the books I've read so far: Peter Camenzind, Gertrud, Rosshalde, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, Journey to the East, The Glass Bead Game. Oh shit, nearly forgot Beneath the Wheel.

So what I guess I'm getting at is you're an idiot.

>>7321872
Sorry m8, I'm too dumb to offer anything. Here's a bump, though.

There's a great thread either in the catalog or the archive on Kant titled 'is he relevant anymore?'. A Kant scholar got involved and posted some great stuff.

What is your paper's topic?

enjoy your superstructure

Of course it's possible if you have an aptitude for language. Discipline is the difference maker.

I would suggest starting with small goals to building up your discipline and let the force of that discipline snowball your way into conquering the big goals.

Don't start off motivated by big goals because motivation is frailty, like women.

>>7321361
I want to become a professor of creative writing and nail undergrads in my office while doing no work whatsoever.

>>7321326

I don't even own a phone but I can imagine how painful it would be to read on such a tiny thing when an actual physical book would be the better choice.

>>7321326
I do.

When bringing a book is an inconvenience yet I known will have to wait for nondescript periods of time

iBooks app is pretty decent, scrolling text mode with a dim screen works wonders.

I have and it sucked, but I have a cheap phone with a tiny screen. Should be fine on a decent sized screen.

Are you retarded?

>tfw watching cute asmr girl who said lolita was her favorite since she was 14

wew lads

you wish

I just finished Infinite Jest, and picked up Gravity's Rainbow. I too am living the meme

Have you read a lot before this? If you haven't read a lot of "literature," these are probably not the best places to start.

Infinite Jest is probably the easiest to understand of the 3. Ideally you read them in order of publication.

I've not read House of Leaves so no comment there.

I certainly wouldn't read Ulysses first.

>tfw been "reading" Underworld since May

>9 books behind schedule

step your game up senpai

>>7321205
2666 and Les Mis were similar experiences for me

>tfw you cant read 200 pages of Mexican Murders in 3 sittings

>>7321187
Don't do it then

"Paint" your way to school/job/what ever

>>7321187
Write in the same document everyday for a week/month

Forced coherence and content is irrelevant

>>7321187
What have you been doing so far?