/lit/ - Literature

Only just found out
>how "Goethe" is pronounced
>that Evelyn Waugh isn't a chick
>the Greeks didn't write their own books
I've learnt so much this week. What did you learn?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpYHi_QbDoc

>>21264862
OP here, apparently the professor isnt allowed to publish it but can show you

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2009/09/what-can-we-learn-about-mohamed-atta-from-his-work-as-a-student-of-urban-planning.html

"I met with professor Machule at his office in Hamburg, where he keeps the only known copy of Atta’s thesis under lock and key. While Machule acknowledges that publishing the document would be in the public interest, he worries Atta’s father, a retired EgyptAir attorney who maintains his son’s innocence, would sue if the document were published without family consent. But Machule was willing to walk through the thesis with me. I sat in the spot where Atta gave his thesis defense in 1999,and together we made our way through the German document section by section. Machule translated portions of it and responded to my questions. The thesis was also heavy on visuals—photographs, maps, and sketches of proposed redevelopments."

so between all the memes is there actually a book that all of /lit/ can agree on is good?

even the top 100 number one gets roasted frequently

>>19103535
alright but how come there is one million "you did read capitalist realism, didnt you?" threads in the archive but noone talks about curtis.

he is edgy, he is right wing and no one in the real world cares about him, he should be huge on here

>>18410104

>babies babbling with consistent repition is clearly its own standard if the english language
>it's totally Not babies learning how to speak and making mistakes

My 4 yo cousin can't say spaghetti. He says spagogi. Therefore spagogi is a word and a new iteration of spaghetti

How is it?

>>17584462
applying it

>>17488250
In general yes, because it is an active hobby, unlike jumping between unrelated youtube videos in vain. A productive mindset sees everything in front of the eyes as potential tools for getting goals accomplished, and this is an active predisposition. The more you read the more easily you can distinguish between well thought out deep and abstract texts and generic half-aped creations. It's important to notice that the love of reading is within the more general love of language, and verbal intelligence is the strongest predictor of success compared to other "intelligences". This indicates verbal intelligence comes the closest to a human g factor.

Which Henry Miller book is the best and where should I start with him?
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Hello /lit/oyens.
This isn't an advice thread, but a literature themed experience sharing thread.

This year I started studying law at an applied university in NL, but because I'm an autistic I voluntarily dropped out to resume school next year.
To me there's three main career paths: becoming a compsci codemonkey mass-shooter in the making, resuming law school and getting churned by amoral gunners and finally tossing aside intellectual ambitions and becoming a KINO police officer citing passages of The Republic while hitting the shins of protestors.

Not an advice thread. Share your university experiences, share your romantic experiences (where to find smart women without studying particle physics or being 6'3") and relate how you quench your intellectual thirst as an adult, realising that jobs essentially only are for money.

Bonus theme: autodidactism and going back to school after you started working full-time.

>>17287754
>Be unborn
>God of the son fucks your mom
>abandons you
>When you reach 18 decide to find his ass
>Climb up mountain and into the sky into his throne room
>"wow son you found me. You can have anything you want to make up for me abandoning you"
>Let me ride your chariot
>"you wont be able to control it"
>Don't care get mogged fag
>Get in sun chariot, ride around in the sky for a bit
>Scorpio constellation tries to sting you
>Horses freak the fuck out
>Fall to your death
>Chariot flies around so close to the ground around Africa that it burns the landscape and people
>This is how blacks were created

>>15883389
Rwanda, HDI 157th, GDP/capita $2.4k. Some economic wonder you got there. Care to name an actually successful black run country?

>>15691377
Also how does the thought of Boko Haram differ from other radical Islamist sects?

>>15531935

>>15448342

This is always easy. Those who don't read recieve all their information in short, condensed, easily-understandably formats (visual media, social media, etc.) They have 'fast' minds that want to understand a subject as rapidly as possible before moving to the next subject. While effective for mass learning, their learning and comprehension are always shallow.

But for readers with 'slow' minds, they can sit and think or read about a single subject for many hours, and come to levels of understanding that typical dopamine-rush addicted zoomers can't reach. You just ask them any complex question, and see the depth to which they can answer.

Like the other guy says, you can ask someone if they think god exists, and if their answer is 'lol no hurr science muh euphoria' then they don't read, but if they come back with a sequence of logic as to whether god is possible or not, then such an answer is evidence of the 'long thinking' that proper reading requires and also creates.

>>14358224
The entirety of the Left Behind series, and the other Christian fiction series while at it.

I was forced to read some of Left Behind as a teen by the church elders because they deemed the normal high school reading list to be unholy. The series had nothing to do with the Bible, some of the "protagonists" behaved ungodly. But for some reason the entire congregation had a fucking hard-on for it.

As I got older and thought about it in hindsight I realized that the entire genre is full of shitty American Evangelist power fantasy drivel that either skirted the scripture to be 'edgy' or downright rebuked it in some mental gymnastic aimed at marrying religion with politics. Fucking burn them all, I say.

>>14263250
not 14 year olds. this board is full of redditors.

Random question for something I'm writing at the moment. I'm writing a scene in which a solo mercenary in a car chase through the desert, pursued by two cars full of angry militia who will kill him if they catch him. The mercenary is waiting on a gunship to arrive an rescue him. He is being watched over by a drone that is sending live footage to his command centre, where a woman is warning him about things going on around him that he can't see, while also communicating with the gunship on it's way. Bearing in mind the woman has feelings for the man and is more or less helpless as she watches him crash, crawl to cover and slowly be surrounded by militia.

Which perspective is more interesting? The man on the ground with his limited POV, or the woman in the air with the bird's eyes view of everything.

>>13959370
>19
>I can't read prose if it isn't funny
>The Dalkey Archive

>>13816915
Just 4 u bb