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The mother is the editor of the magazine.

Congratulations, OP!

>tfw start literary magazine at your community college
>submit own story anonymously
>argue against it feverishly to whole editorial board
>it's admitted regardless
>later visit local bookstore that stocks it
>all copies still there
>open magazine, read story
>paralyzed by shame
>consider buying all copies just to destroy them

ambivalent really

>>7233123
what book is she hiding ?

>>7233123
dem hams...
>HNNNNGGGGG

>>7233013
>/lit
>knowing anything about language

i think u got rused anon

>>7233022
I don't know about that, /lit/ says a lot of dumb stuff but I think that they have a good deal of knowledge in some respects.

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>2k15
>reading in english

stay pleb

>>7233010
>I must be more abstract than the next philosopher!

>muh hunchback

he was being ironic

>>7233009

I recommend this shit all the time here but I'm a big fan of Nassim Taleb's work, esp. Antifragile and Black Swan.

His books use a lot of aphorisms, anecdotes, classical philosophy, and examples from history to illustrate the idea that human beings have better hindsight than foresight, and promotes this way of living and thinking that allows you to take maximal advantage of "good" risk/uncertainty while minimizing the negative.

Taleb is pretty /lit/ and his writing style basically embodies the "smug pepe" image which is hilarious to me. I recommend this book to everyone p. much.

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>>7233033
thank you for your recommendation. this is the first non-fiction book i red in ages, and i enjoyed it very much.
if you have any other authors/books to recommend, feel free to do so. kinda got fed with reading stuff like pic related.

>>7233049

No problem man!

Idk about you, but when I was branching out of my beats/punk rock/wannabe Bukowski phase (including reading books like Junky), I started looking into kind of more... I guess philosophical, spiritual type stuff in hopes that it would change my worldview. Maybe you're in the same place?

If so, I highly recommend the book Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell - it takes the form of a long interview that was aired on PBS in the 80s. Basically this guy who'd studied myths and cultures from all times and places found this pattern/journey that all human beings are involved in , citing stuff like the Bible, Star Wars, ancient peoples, and so on.

It gave me this very macroscopic perspective on human history and life. I liked it because I felt a very genuine, almost primordial connection with people that had lived before me while reading it. Maybe you will too!

>I have done my best

That is about all the philosophy one needs.

>>7232918
As a senior graduating this semester, I can honestly say I've checked out. I half ass my papers and still receive low 90% on all of them. I took a mid-term exam last week expecting to receive a C and I received a 93%. I just don't even give a fuck anymore. I'm more concerned with starting grad school and reading and writing about the kind of shit I choose. I feel like I could write a first draft thesis in 1 semester if I cared enough. I'm sure a lot of you who are grad students or nearly graduated have similar experiences.

Honest truth:

It's 5:00 a.m. and I'm about to call in sick from my job as a copywriter. I threw together a piece in about an hour and I know that my boss will not only accept it but praise me for doing it.

One of the truths that maybe a lot of you will have to learn is that no one gives a fuck WHAT you wrote (let alone wants to read it) so long as that you have written something kind-of-sort-of coherent with 1 or 2 agreeable points.

>>7232904

Honestly I came in to talk shit about the hollowness of PUA culture and boys playing men but it looks like he's done it for me??

Good luck OP, finding the right girl and making yourself vulnerable enough to learn from her can be a really rewarding and life changing experience.

...Even if you break up and have to learn the really crucial lessons in hindsight.

>>7233284
what kind of crazy world are you living in, man? paint me a picture, I can't imagine

>>7233290

I think breaking down human interaction into a set of processes and rules is gross and kinda sad.

From what I know about Strauss his 1st book is about him realizing that women aren't just a mean to getting your dick wet. Just from the cover of this one I can already guess that it's about how relationships aren't meant to be "played" either.

Snooze. If his audience wants to be less aspie and dead behind the eyes, here's an idea: when you're a genuine person whose actions come from an honest place - warts and all - you might find someone that actually fits you. You, and not the "redpill alpha chad" that Strauss's readers so desperately pretend to be.

>>7232711
I want to say Naked Lunch, but I found the Journal of Psychotropic Drugs more enticing. Perhaps that's just me.

>>7232711

What about them?

A friend of mine that literally never reads books picked up Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana and could not stop talking about it for a while. It goes into the use of marijuana in cultures across the world and throughout history, and goes in depth about why it was made illegal in the states.

If you're into the "spiritual" aspect of seeing patterns in the universe... I had a really good time in college with the Power of Myth.

Horrors of addiction? Junky by William S. Burroughs.

>>7233136
>friend never stops talking about weed
>reads his first book, about weed
>DUDE WEED LMAO

>>7232561
Shouldn't have mentioned you were from /x/. /lit/ posters think they're some kind of fucking MTV girls compared to you guys.

And no, I haven't read the Red Book. I would like to find a good copy of it and all of Blake's poems/drawings.

>>7232644
I wouldn't doubt it,
/x/ can be quite... rambunctious.

You can grab the readers edition in most independent bookstores or on Amazon.
I love Blake, but I believe Wordsworth is more approachable and relatable to Post-Modern readers.

>>7232662
>/x/ can be quite... rambunctious.
Can you count the number of tulpa threads you guys had this standalone month using only your ten fingers?

>>7232305
Outside of rock music he's not really worth the read.

Science should be eliminated.

>yeah, and you're posting from a computer

That's what proves my point, dumbass. I'd be dancing among young women in this nice tuesday night if it weren't for the science and the internet. But I'm a slave to technology and lost all ability to form significant human bonds.

>>7232305
It's good but I don't know about genius. I was hoping it would have more content on the overlaps between art and science ie critique process, constructing models of observed reality. It's a bit light on history, too, explicitly goes over art in ancient times but only alludes to its status in the renaissance (to wit: painting was still considered a mechanical art, not a liberal one). The advent of linear perspective and the development of realist painting in tandem with the science of optics feel like they should be central here.

> Art, instead, has no progress, just change. You cannot say that Picasso was "progress" compared with Michelangelo.
On the other hand, Picasso could not have come before Michelangelo. Art does have sequential progression, one thing does build on another, even if we divorce this from progress as a comparative valuation.

>Art and science cause a fundamental change in the nature of reality itself, but the change caused by science is irreversible.
What did he mean by this?

I'm reading Kant's Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals, On the Old Saw, and Perpetual Peace. Does /lit/ have any advice for me?

Plato/Aristotle then onto Locke/Berkeley/Hume/Hobbes

>>7232383
and theeeeeen?

It's "According to the account of Michael"

I'll show you another example in dialogue:

"According to the account Michael"
"Who's account?"
"According to Michael's"

>>7232237

ah thank you. So in my sentence, I should omit the apostrophe?

>>7232237
*Whose

nietzsche was literally insane. he had syphilis. also, all his books are satire anyway. satire by an insane person. look at his moustache. he didnt have a moustache when he was sane. he went so insane that he forgot how to shave. his sister had to clip his stache for him. see that instrument in his hands? it's a pen. he was in the middle of writing thus spake zarathustra when this picture was taken. his most famous book is literally the shitscrawls of a mind that'd permanently and for all time checked out.

>>7232162
>implying literally everything in the OP didn't come true
>implying WW2 and Nazism weren't the most important development of the 20th century
>implying Nietzsche's ideas weren't critical to building Nazism

get a load of this dude. WW2 produced the greatest technological advances in society that we have seen in a long time

I think I read somewhere that his sister was a Nazi sympathiser and was largely to blame for Nietzsche's ties to Nazism.

READ THE STICKY

>>7231991
why the hatred anon

People Who Eat Darkness

>>7231910

Wtf is this shit I can't understand mr ji jack

>>7231910
>/lit/ - Literature

Wake up, mods

im going to choose to believe this