>writing is for the reader, not the author
I get suspicious whenever I hear this but there is a grain a truth within the overall sentiment.
In the end writing is about communication, so its important to know who you're addressing so you can meet them where they're at.
It's why Jesus told parables to the masses, why Plato only wanted men learned in geometry to enter his schools, etc.
>>9839131
Yeah but its still rooted in the desires of the author regardless, to put precidence to the reader is absurd.
Why do books get published then? If they are "for the authors" why don't the authors just keep the texts on their desks or computers?
>tfw when you read 6 hours of philosophy a day and the hole inside you still isn't going away
>>9839079
Try getting a job.
>>9839079
>implying that philosophy isn't about creating holes rather than filling them.
Proverbs, Psalms, Ecclesiasties, then the Gospels.
ITT: We post good threads from the warosu archive
The Steve Bannon's Library Thread:
>https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S9075761
>https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S9084193
--Might seem like a regular /pol/fag thread but quickly takes a turn for the better, with namedrops of a lot of interesting, lesser known thinkers and ideas.
--as far as I can tell the first time Girard (and by extension Girardfag) became a thing on this board, certainly the first time I really noticed him being posted.
>2017 is full lovecraft/gibson/land cyberpunk dystopia. A rotting mass of flesh and hair implants with the mannerisms of an used car salesman broadcasts bizarre infoblasts from the whitehouse literal NrX tech vampires are pulling the strings from behind the curtains. Biometric surveillance, drone strikes, bearded russian occultists, fully customizable, designer genders, neotribal gang warfare on the streets. It's really cool t b h
--makes a good point t b h
The Satori Generation Thread:
>https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S6047426
--Something of a meme concept to start of the thread but it quickly turns into a pretty comfy and fascinating discussion of contemporary anhedonia and ambitionlessness
--a lot of personal discussion rather than discussion of thinkers and ideas persay, which makes for an interesting shift from what these threads are usually like
>With the internet it really is very easy to avoid getting duped or buy into fantasies of wealth equating success or happiness. People just want to be "comfy" now. Nostalgia is practically its own brand of pornography. Music is dreamy and spectral, political engagement or sincerity are seen as embarrassing. The keyword is "disengage." Passion is a farce.
--Also a good point
--Got to take this thread in it's historical context tho, this stuff seemed a lot more pertinent in 2015... still a worthwhile read
>lead on! i shall copy your every move
psychoanalysis thread
>https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S8727128
>it's not everyday that those conversations come about
a wild girardfag appears. also forever shout-outs to the hegel-anon itt
nick land #3
>https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S9670089
>this thread is fascinating. You anons are really interesting to read, even if I perhaps do not truly comprehend what are you trying to say. that being said, all of it is pure delusion.
the thread that made me a permabeliever in the /lit/ magic
moar acceleration
>https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S9624496
>tfw you realize that /lit/ is genuinely, unironically one of the best places on the internet to talk about both reactionary and neoreactionary thought
i unironically believe this also
the pseud's guide to rene girard
>https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S9098555
>and honestly I still don't know
10 hours/four posts: now that's what i call efficiency!
this board is unironically & objectively one of the greatest things i have ever encountered & not a single shitpost was regretted here. i love love this place & the conversations about these things were wholly & not partially face-rockingly great.
>not even the embarrassing cringe ones?
>ok. well ofc those. let's not get too crazy
>kys girardfag
>*puts on broken sunglasses.* you know it my man!
>*high five*
>*freeze frame*
>cue outro music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6zl5x8r9Bs
>ITT: losers shill their own posts which they trawled the archives for
reminder you can sink lower than self-publishing
>>9839138
Actually, I'm OP and I only posted the first post in the 2nd Steve Bannon thread, which was "fug drumb", not exactly something to be proud about
>"muh socrates"
>"muh spoken word better than written word"
>words supposedly 'writing in the soul'
>is also literally writing this shit down
Is this guy and idiot?
No hes not.
Are you ?
>>9838459
The dialogues were exercises to stimulate students. Plato's real teachings were done orally at the academy.
>>9838459
kek, you iz stupid
Reading The Adams Cantos now, and while they can be technically, or formally interesting they leave me feeling totally ambivalent, and seem sometimes strained.
The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
By Ezra Pound
After Li Po
While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead
I played about the front gate, pulling flowers.
You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse,
You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums.
And we went on living in the village of Chōkan:
Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.
At fourteen I married My Lord you.
I never laughed, being bashful.
Lowering my head, I looked at the wall.
Called to, a thousand times, I never looked back.
At fifteen I stopped scowling,
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever, and forever.
Why should I climb the look out?
At sixteen you departed
You went into far Ku-tō-en, by the river of swirling eddies,
And you have been gone five months.
The monkeys make sorrowful noise overhead.
You dragged your feet when you went out.
By the gate now, the moss is grown, the different mosses,
Too deep to clear them away!
The leaves fall early this autumn, in wind.
The paired butterflies are already yellow with August
Over the grass in the West garden;
They hurt me.
I grow older.
If you are coming down through the narrows of the river Kiang,
Please let me know beforehand,
And I will come out to meet you
As far as Chō-fū-Sa.
>>9838421
This poem is good, but how much of that is thanks to Ernest Fenollosa, and how much to Li Bai?
What are some books about losing control of your life
ningen shikkaku
>>9838226
Leaving Las Vegas by John O'Brien is quite good and not frequently read.
>>9838226
my diary desu
I've made it my life goal to bring as many human-lives as possible into this world.
I'm going to traverse the world and poke holes into condoms just to share the gift of life.
I'm only 20, so I'll have to start as soon as possible.
Existence is a beautiful thing, and I intend to spread it to as many as I can.
WHAT A CAME
>>9837756
How many babies have you made yet degenerate?
>>9837756
who let you out of the Ecuadorian Embassy, Assange? get the fuck back in there now.
>>9839734
I still don't get how this is applied honestly.
What is the funniest thing you've ever read?
I don't remember.
>>9837498
>+ service fee
Lol, taht is funny.
Will he every make a comeback?
i'm STILL waiting for that book on pornography
He got doxxed and probably suicided as well.
>>9837133
wtf
Any good finds lately /lit/?
>>9836828
what currency is that?
>>9836843
Shekolinos.
I want to read more German works, is the nibelungenlied a good starting point?
>>9836026
yes.
Very good.
Every german writer had read it and was somewhat even insignificantly affected/ inspired by it.
>>9836026
Despite being medieval, the nibelungenlied is still very accessible if you speak German or Dutch.
E.g. many sentences are almost the same in contemporary German (Uns ist in alten mæren wunders vil geseit
von helden lobebæren, von grôzer arebeit,
von freuden, hôchgezîten, von weinen und von klagen,von küener recken strîten muget ir nu wunder hœren sagen)
>>9836026
based Sigurd
Describe 'love' in one sentence.
>>9835970
Love is fake and gay
>>9835973
True love can only be gay
Emotions that are shared in the exactly moment with someone and then start getting out of control and then you realized is with the only propose to fade in an oblivion.
"Hey, anon, what's up? Have you ever read this book called 'Things Fall Apart'? I think you'd really like it!"
yeah
>>9835957
one of the best books I've ever read, actually.
it was assigned reading when I was in college. Some 6/10 korean chick I banged stole my copy, and also gave me scabies.
Why aren't you a Situationist /lit/?
>>9835481
Because I'm not a naive, scruffy, ungainly student in a parka who doesn't know anything about anything, swept up in the student activities, who pours water on and gently makes a mess of Lacan's papers.
too handsome
It's too late to remove the spectacle. Just look how Banksy totally fucked up detournee.
Handwriting bread
Female detected
>>9834966
>lines specifically made to be written on
>"lmao let's turn the page 90 degrees and not write in a straight line instead haha"
>>9834966
nice math homework, kid