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he's a meme

>>9774977

Canadian psychology professor

only got famous because of some controversy involving preferred gender pronouns or something

>>9774979
>>9774980
So my initial impressions were correct and he';s just another internet celebrity/meme?

stars by sh

Tool - Lateralus

>>9774863
JESUS WON'T YOU FUCKING WHISTLE

You have to spend 6 years studying a single subject in order to not be considered a novice nowadays. What do you think?

>>9774884
This. We live in a culture of specialisation dictated by the continued refinement of technique and vice-versa. It can probably be done but only with disciplines that are similar in kind or somehow interrelated by a common medium; the simplest example would be fields that rely on the written word as the principal tool.

You can be a revolutionary mathematician and an excellent writer, but you can't, say, be a mathematician, writer, musician, physician, painter and other things because you have to really dedicate several hours to the activities you like if you want to become extremely good at them.

>>9774764
Best advice I've ever got is from my wife who has a BA in creative writing (so yes I'm the breadwinner) she said: first you write the bones, then the muscles, then the skin. So basically do the second one. Give attention to composition. Watch videos of painters painting, the principle is the same. Good luck :)

>>9774775
Thanks, I'll probably need all the luck I can get. I'll try to find some inspiration to get me started.

>>9774764
How would you portray a theme OP? It's a serious question, it doesn't seem that simple to me.

Is this real. Is Pink fat mast real?

>>9774737
Yeah. All the GRRM sex quotes that get pushed around are.

>>9774737
Oh yes.

>>9774656
>I want to know if anyone else on /lit/ has read this
Nah, we don't actually read books here, we only talk about memes. Go to /fit/ for a conversation on your level.

Finished it about a month ago and it was truly fascinating. Get ready to read a lot of footnotes if you don't know French. The epilogue is pretty unnecessary.

It's an amazing piece of literature and well worth reading. I didn't appreciate it very much until half a year after finishing it, and it's only grown on me even more since. It's far more enjoyable than his other writings.

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>>9774570
>Ireland

>>9774570
Yeah. He used to write a newspaper column. He was bored so he wrote letters to the editor under assumed names to criticize his columns. He would then attack the letter writer's criticisms in his next column.

Basically he invented same fagging.
He was one of the giants.

>>9774570
Yes.

>>9774508
I personally enjoy reading from my iPhone because I can look up words I don't know with a few taps of the finger.

I read for a year on a kindle and had pleasant experience with it, but it still feel that reading a good old paper book is a better experience overall. Also I find pretty hard to get my book in my native language.

E-readers are great for public domain books although the price for anything modern is too steep for me to really get anything on there. I don't find the experience too different although I can't imagine reading Infinite Jest as a physical book I can't really think of anything else that would be a better/worse based on what you read it on. Reading on your phone just seems really shitty though.

with his b o i p u c c i

>>9774515
okay and then what book

>>9774554
>b o i p u c c i
He clearly stated that m8.

>>9774442
think of something to write

>>9774442
People tell you all kinds of fancy bullshit, but none of it actually works.
It's the same as all types of breaking habits or stopping procrastination. Just do it.
Just start writing. It might sound like shit and obvious advice, but it's literally the only effective advice you can give to people who are experiencing a mental block of any kind.

>>9774442
Skip that chapter and start writing a different one

Not to mention foreign names, how the fuck do I pronounce these things?

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>>9774404

The semiology might be different but they all are adressed to the same issue, OP, the human condition.

>>9774431
Speak to me in layman terms, asshole.

>>9774383
Weirdly enough, The Sun Also Rises did that for me.

That sort of feeling started to come back recently after a break up. I was shitting on myself a lot, re-read it and for some reason reading about a chill ass dude with no dick always gets my head right. Maybe its a "hey! could be worse!" kind of thing.

>>9774395
Ahh damn, that might not work for me cause I already don't have a dick

>>9774383
Go out in your sweats without showering/doing your hair and realize no one even notices.

6 men, plus as many women as you want because they all have the same personality anyway

I say go full Dunbar if you're good enough.

Mostly depends on the genre.

>>9774256
The fuck are books on the European Union. Nobody knows, or needs to know goy, how it works.

>>9774256
>a giant racist neo-Nazi
The Nazis are German, sounds at least somewhat related to the European Union to me

>>9774256
What a meanie

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>>9774215
>He actually reads books.

>>9774227
I-I'm s-sorry...

>>9774436
I like the paperwhite BTW. It's very good.