Do you agree?
>>9676063
No, he's wrong, again
>>9676063
Do I?
>>9676063
Poets can imagine 2 + 4 = blue.
how do i write a story
Copy a plot progression from Shakespeare and fill in the meaningless details
sorry english is not first language but on this i am very enlaborating, i a
i am a poet, highly success
how to into story
at first a pen in your hand, for am take idea
then putting a paper. so, it's can idea
ok idea is come out here so, you put it beautifully, like with a sex or a car cahse. itos
often it is a guy who is kill, for himself, 'lone wolf/' ok, 'giving to me badge and gun' and he is, 'no'
it's just anything like this is good, believe me you can do it
after it is easy, just make a dangerous art for cover image and ok, that's it
always is a books to find your dreams, something something, ok, but it's important, just writing a seyx part for happiness, defeat bad guys
"Whiteness" will be expanded to include asians within the next 50 years in USA.
Same is true for hispanics per NYT:
>The researchers found that 2.5 million Americans of Hispanic origin, or approximately 7 percent of the 35 million Americans of Hispanic origin in 2000, changed their race from “some other race” in 2000 to “white” in 2010...The data provide new evidence consistent with the theory that Hispanics may assimilate as white Americans, like the Italians or Irish, who were not universally considered to be white.
Sorry to derail but that OP pic made me cringe too hard. Libs won't win another presidential race for twenty years.
If I think therefore I am, then I must think that I am thought but then which thought am I?
>>9675965
the hysterical one, in other words
You're not thought. The thought is just evidence that you.
Anyone ever read Henri Bergson? What do ya'll guys think of him?
>>9675947
MY diary desu
He's great if you're into vitalism, phenomenology, or mysticism/esotericism. Especially if you're into all three.
>>9676024
curiosity piqued
I'm thinking of reading Moby Dick while I'm at the beach next week. Problem is, I'm a dumbass. Does /lit/ know of a good annotated copy that will help me get the most out of it?
Give the first few chapters a go at least.
It's not a very difficult read.
The Norton edition is pretty good. It is edited with notes by Hershel Parker, who is a phenomenal Melville scholar. Just about every obscure reference and inside joke is annotated. Also, lots of great extra materiel such as contemporary reviews of Moby Dick, letters by Melville, and literary criticism.
>>9675855
I'm not worried about the language so much as missing out on historical or literary allusions.
Any ficition or non fiction regarding transgenderism? Ive read Orlando by Woolfe and loved it and would like more.
>>9675813
>Orlando wins a lawsuit over her property and marries a sea captain, Marmaduke Bonthrop Shelmerdine.
>>9675813
>>9675813
I learned recently about a video-game term that teenagers these days throw around: "overpowered," or "OP" for short. If a character type in a competitive video game is inordinately more powerful than the others, then it is "overpowered"; the game as a result is deemed "unbalanced," and fans will complain on forums that the developers have delivered to them a swift "slap in the face." It's an interesting metaphor. Life, of course, is no game, and it's a truism that it isn't fair. But every once in a while we get a striking reminder of how unevenly Mother Nature distributes her gifts. Take the literary world for instance. By any measure, David Foster Wallace, the author of the acclaimed novel Infinite Jest, was overpowered. If he were a class in a role-playing game, then you wouldn't hear the end of the complaining. When it came to the writing of fiction, Wallace blew his competitors—historical and contemporary both—out of the water. To borrow another term from video gaming, it's fair to say that he "owned" them. When Infinite Jest hit book stores in February 1996, the title's two words were in the mouth of every serious reader in America; every living writer, however, was faced with a different pair of words: "Game Over."
You must think very highly of yourself
>>9675646
>fans will complain on forums that the developers have delivered to them a swift "slap in the face." It's an interesting metaphor. Life, of course, is no game, and it's a truism that it isn't fair.
>>9675646
Fun at parties: the post.
To Micheal Tolkein, 6-8 March 1941...
In this fallen world the 'friendship' that should be possible between all human beings, is virtually impossible between man and woman. The devil is endlessly ingenious, and sex is his favourite subject. He is as good every bit at catching you through generous romantic or tender motives, as through baser or more animal ones. This 'friendship' has often been tried: one side or the other nearly always fails. Later in life when sex cools down, it may be possible. It may happen between saints. To ordinary folk it can only rarely occur: two minds that have really a primarily mental and spiritual affinity may by accident reside in a male and a female body, and yet may desire and achieve a 'friendship' quite independent of sex. But no one can count on it. The other partner will let him (or her) down, almost certainly, by 'falling in love'. But a young man does not really (as a rule) want 'friendship', even if he says he does. There are plenty of young men (as a rule). He wants love: innocent, and yet irresponsible perhaps. Allas! Allas! that ever love was sinne! as Chaucer says. Then if he is a Christian and is aware that there is such a thing as sin, he wants to know what to do about it.
You may meet in life (as in literature) women who are flighty, or even plain wanton — I don't refer to mere flirtatiousness, the sparring practice for the real combat, but to women who are too silly to take even love seriously, or are actually so depraved as to enjoy 'conquests', or even enjoy the giving of pain – but these are abnormalities, even though false teaching, bad upbringing, and corrupt fashions may encourage them. Much though modern conditions have changed feminine circumstances, and the detail of what is considered propriety, they have not changed natural instinct. A man has a life-work, a career, (and male friends), all of which could (and do where he has any guts) survive the shipwreck of 'love'. A young woman, even one 'economically independent', as they say now (it usually really means economic subservience to male commercial employers instead of to a father or a family), begins to think of the 'bottom drawer' and dream of a home, almost at once.
tl;dr - The Master himself says that women and men can never be friends. Therefore, women should LEAVE this place, now (also, stop being hussies)!
>>9675622
>The Master himself
The master himself is so damn boring and his character are full gays.
>>9675731
>unable to appreciate one of the greatest works of Catholic fiction ever created
Fucking orc.
>young woman, even one 'economically independent', as they say now (it usually really means economic subservience to male commercial employers instead of to a father or a family)
Nice
What are some essential historical novels to read?
I thoroughly enjoyed Shogun, are the other books in the series just as good?
The Cossacks by Tolstoy made me want to drop everything, move to the Caucasus, and join a Cossack village
>>9675621
>>9675621
Check out Musashi
If he hated democracy, what form of government did he support? If he were here today, where would he align politically?
>If he were here today
He would no longer be Nietzche. We are products of our era anon.
>>9675542
This. Also since the possibility of the universe recreating in a self-same state is greater than zero then it is a mathematical certainty that it will an infinite number of times and so Nietzsche will always be Nietzsche.
Anyway Nietzsche would probably tell you rightly that mass politics are for pussies and morons.
anarcho communist. for sure.
What writers give you homicidal urges, /lit/, either for literary or personal reasons?
Me, it's pic related. I can't bring myself to go into details though.
Kluun
Don't want to go into details but it's not just for his writing.
Not a writer but i wouldn't mind him catching some of that sweet cancer in the brain.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhe7inINRm0
Any female writer desu. Sylvia Plath especially.
What happens when we die?
>>9675455
Why don't you kill yourself and find out?
>>9675455
You go to heaven and reunite with the absolute love of God and the other departed souls you loved.
>>9675455
You slowly turn into mush - rotting six feet under while birds poop on your grave.
do you listen to audio books?
>>9675316
At the moment, I am listing to mein kampf.
I am at Chapter 1 Volume 2.
I would if audible wasn't so overpriced. I can buy a giant stack of books for one month of their service.
>>9675318
Mein Neger
What even is reality?
>>9675247
the body, sex, death
Elementary particles
What counts as real and what isn't is always up for debate. The real question is: Why do some definitions of reality prevail over others?
Marx - Lenin - Gramsci - Laclau - Lacan - Althusser - Therborn - Jameson - Latour.
Is a more patrician path even possible?
>>9675149
Yes, you have to start with the Greeks!
Descartes - Fichte - Rousseau - Kant - Hegel - Marx - Nietzsche - Freud - Adorno
Also add Lukacs to your list
Lucaks after gramsci. Whats his best ides? Reification?