/lit/ - Literature

>>20553288
What about those working on human trafficking? Are those licensed surgeon too?

>>20539452
You keep on saying mfw, mfw, mfw. What do you actually feel anon?

>haven't read a single book on my own accord outside of school
>people that read a hundred times more than me ask for my feedback on sentences because I have an Associate's Arts in English and think my prose is somehow better than theirs
Can't wait until I accidentally help someone flunk their English course

>>19886542
sauce?

>>19836218
THANKS good thing those books seem to be that popular and the first 3 are translated in my language while the last three were translated by a community, wow.. and the author is the same as Storm Front like previously some nice anon >>19835972 recommended me, because I'm starting to get interested in that book.
>>19837397
In my best moments it can reach more than an hour, yes.. but I always progress quite slowly. Last night I tried Children of Time again and I ended up so exhausted that I ended up sleeping lul.. almost two chapters took me more than an hour. I think it's like 7-10 pages, even when I got to a part that really interested me (that chapter 3 where the colonists don't want to go to that moon and they kidnap Holsten lol) Sometimes I just don't understand anything and I have to repeat most of the paragraphs :( mainly because suddenly I don't pay much attention to reading,,, then later the same energies/attention/interest that I lose in wanting to read is fucked up. Same thing happened to me with A Song of Ice and Fire back then (I only read the last 4 books btw).
That's why I got to the point of thinking that I have something wrong that prevents me from reading like everyone else does, don't know

>>15569330
Neither. It is a drama, but without any dramatic conflict. So, I suppose it is like one of those avant-garde dramas where no substantial dramatic conflict occurs, and everything perpetually stays the same (in my case, this is not true - there is true growth, but too steady to constitute a plot), one of those dramas of routine life.
It is not unpleasant.

>>15539342
"Creating your own value". Consider the statement. In its essence, it means that you would make a decision, on confused and arbitrary grounds (as you did not reach virtue through cognition, but put if forward out of will), of putting forward a system of determinations on behaviour, binding for the future. The grounding for this system is, on the one hand, an unclear system of equally unclear cognitions (as the system of determinations you put forward cannot be entirely arbitrary) and your arbitrary will, will without a grounding. As these are the grounding for your system, it will fail to bind you - confused cognitions easily change places, shift one into the other or into their opposite, taking away your grounding, and arbitrary will is, by its nature, arbitrary - it is whim, a choosing between passions, and it is perfectly ready to leave the system you determined as binding for you. It is perfectly willing to elect to support, for example, your lust, which will, as it is a passion, also influence your unclear system of judgements, precisely because the system is unclear, and the system of determinations will drop temporarily, to be taken up again when the judgements return to their previous state, and the arbitrary will finds it appropriate to return to this. You will always find yourself transgressing your own system, because it does not have any other grounding than the unclear judgements that drive you toward the satisfaction of your passions, and it will always be in conflict with them. The true grounds of any binding system of determinations of behaviour is true, certain knowledge. And the only way to reach it is through serious effort.
The obvious issue is that this effort already requires a system of binding determinations of behaviour, a provisional morality. And this is where you can say that you have willed your determinations into existence without grounding (because grounding will only be supplied at the end of the path). The path is difficult of what I have already said - its grounding is in arbitrariness, and it will often fail. That is why it can only be provisional.

>age
>literary confession
>current book