how do i become the next tao lin?
Call up your dad and tell him to invent LASIK so he can send you money so you can live in a hip area of Brooklyn, do lots of drugs, and fuck around on the internet all day.
>>9774374
Lettuce and smiles
>>9774374
mi mind read Tan Line
If we were all in shitty ASOIAF we'd all be maesters, correct? They're some of the most interesting things in the books besides Stannis and his crew.
Being a maester seems interesting.
K
You wouldn't be, because you'd be busy reading whatever the ASOIAF equivalent in that universe too. Fucking faggot.
>>9774230
I don't see the problem in reading different things even if they're mostly garbage.
how do i tell if the book i'm reading is literature?
If it mentions or alludes heavily to the protagonist's search for God. This is literally (lol) 99% of literary fiction. The other 1% is William Burroughs.
>>9773820
That is the saddest fucking thing I've ever read.
>>9773820
"wandering" passive protagonist in urban setting, keen observation that underscores spiritual malaise that the author-narrator-protag (all same) is too cool to express
This is our weekly spanish literature thread. We discuss books and eat paella.
What are you currently reading? Who was the best poet in the golden age?
Thread theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLZ_I7J4uEQ
Cumpliendo con mi oficio
piedra con piedra, pluma a pluma,
pasa el invierno y deja
sitios abandonados,
habitaciones muertas:
yo trabajo y trabajo,
debo substituir
tantos olvidos,
llenar de pan las tinieblas,
fundar otra vez la esperanza.
No es para mí sino el polvo,
la lluvia cruel de la estación,
no me reservo nada
sino todo el espacio
y allí trabajar, trabajar,
manifestar la primavera.
A todos tengo que dar algo
cada semana y cada día,
un regalo de color azul,
un pétalo frío del bosque,
y ya de mañana estoy vivo
mientras los otros se sumergen
en la pereza, en el amor,
yo estoy limpiando mi campana,
mi corazón, mis herramientas.
Tengo rocío para todos.
>>9773693
>What are you currently reading?
Don quijote
Just finished "Mortal y rosa" by my boi Umbral. Shit was dope. About to read some Aleixandre's poems now.
Does any other hispanic litizen know about Jesús G. Maestro?
I want to educate myself, or at least increase my general education /lit/. Where do I start?
Thank you, appreciated.
>>9773610
listen to this podcast series
https://historyofphilosophy.net/
>>9773610
Start with the Mongolians
>>9773610
The Greeks
>my bro gave me thus spake zarathustra for my b-day
>too much of a brainlet to understand
>have to go on sparknotes after every chapter
>mfw
>>9773487
Brain is like any other muscle, you exercise it little by little. Be happy because you will get smarter soon.
>>9773494
This is a surprisingly touching post to find here. Thank you, anon.
>>9773494
/wholesome/ comment of the year
Which order should I read these in? One through three? Only, I've seen a few people mention that I should start with the third...
last half of three, first quarter of second, sixth chapter of one, third chapter of three, last chapter of two, first tenth of two, the rest of three, pause and read war in peace, then come back and ask for the rest
>>9773401
this obviously
one through three
or just read the abridged version instead of trudging through all the stuff you'll forget anyway
Just picked up this book. What am I in for?
>>9773350
A long list of obvious symbolism any mature reader already knows. It's not really about literary theory or aesthetic appreciation, it's just one type of analysis: "rain means THIS, sickness means THIS, etc." If you didn't pass high school you might find it useful.
>>9773366
This. I looked at the table of control and realized how base the interpretations are. There are much better books dealing with how to read.
>>9773350
High school english class
>A current ran through my corpus, spongiosum to cavernosa, as the peak of her wet love language swathed the slit with electric spit, grateful smacks and French smooches, as I, flooding to the basest form of life, vibrated in the dual tone of "Ah!" and "Hoh!", as from the grips of an incurable disease, felt my soul leave my body and into the mouth of my unholy sacrifice.
How's my prose
This is a blue board, you fucker.
>>9773158
It's fucking lit bro
>>9773111
> How's my prose
Trite, banal, pedestrian, mundane.
Can someone please explain to me the concepts of the Knight of Infinite Resignation, and the Knight of Faith?
I'm reading Fear and Trembling and having trouble understanding him. Did he explain these concepts in an earlier work?
>he's actually reading danish unbound autism
>>9772904
fuck off faggot, if you aren't going to answer the question then get out
>>9772779
IIRC it's the difference between an enlightened person who accepts and participates in the sorrow and shortcomings of life/the world vs someone who is able to transcend those limitations perfectly by seeing the presence of God in the absurdity and the failure of logic and reason to account for everything that happens. I think he says there's only been 2, Abraham and... I want to say, the Virgin Mary, maybe? Persons who were the perfect vehicles of God's will according to the Bible. (Been a few years, sorry if this isn't super helpful.)
Why were the ancient Greek so hung up on mathematics and geometry? Did they fall for the STEM meme?
you are the meme here
>>9772876
Please explain.
>>9772876
/g/ are hung up on procedure oriented programming
/sci/ are hung up on single variable calculus
/lit/ are hung up on the Greek
The difference between them and you is that they actually struggle while you comfort yourself with hubris and self pity. Anything you do in life is just a cowardly escape from your responsibilities.
>Project much?
Yes. I got some bad grades on a couple of my engineering exams and came here for comfort. Now I recent you.
Why do physical books still even exist?
Phones and ereaders completely replaced them already.
Because it feels better to read on a physical book you fucking retard
Is there anything better than the cover of a book being a painting that wasn't made for the novel but way before?
I think many many many people agree that physical > electronic. The eventual threat we face is people just not reading books anymore for pleasure. I'm 18, and do people my age read? Look, I socialise with many Oxbridge applicants and even among them reading as a hobby is scanty. What does that say about our future generations? Sorry for memeing and being a 'wow so deep yung pepul dont reed anymuh' but it's accurate, perhaps. I do not know I am basing this all on anecdotal evidence and I have no statistics to back up my claims!
I want to become a better writer; how do I suffer more?
go experiment with drugs until you find the one you're addicted to
Correlation=causation?
You wil. Just let time pass
>>9772670
Hmmm, im no so sure about that, friend.
Why are the Ancient Greeks so popular here? I noticed an overly aggressive imposition of Ancient Greek culture.
>>9772462
Because they ushered in the practice of logic and set the foundations of most knowledge and philosophy carried through to modern times on the backs of other great texts and work. If you want to know the history world, especially in relation to the western canon, the Greeks are a great place to begin.
>>9772462
Look at them bodies and ask again.
Read Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy to understand why their culture is fundamentally different and more lively than essentially any that preceded or followed it.
I read half this book a few years back. I put it down for some reason but am thinking of reading it again. Is it like the stranger, where it has a profound philosophical message at the end that the book leads up to? Or is the second half more of the first half, just some guy walking around the town doing mundane things? Convince me to read it or not to without giving away the end.
>>9772020
>without giving away the end
Don't read it, this alone shows that it's not for you.
>>9772020
Would like to know too. I read it about ten years ago and all I remember was the main character having profound anxiety throughout. I always assumed it was meant to display the wild meaningless of life, found in a character experiencing a crisis which he could not understand. I always assumed I was wrong because that sounds incredibly simple.
>>9772025
Why? Who would want a book they're about to read to be spoiled? How would wanting this book to be spoiled enhance the reading experience?