/lit/ - Literature

>>19553277
>GRRM's assistants shat out an entire, 9-books series and several novellas since A Dance With Dragons came out

>>18404896
>the Infernal Dictionary by J. Collin de Plancy - Paris 1863

No one cares how many books you've read. unless you've wrote something of merit yourself shut up

A 400 year old book will outlast any modern book, because of the inferior materials and processes of today.

non-whites don't go to heaven because the sky would get cloudy

you are clearly missing his point. his work has intentions of making yourself better, and argues against taking nihilism and lack of morals as justification to do retarded shit.
that idea you are trying to use as argument is already critcized as using nihilism to justify your actions.

>yes, and? did not Nietzsche reassure us that there is nothing after this life and that the soul is dead before the body? so then I leave after having my fill, enjoying all the pleasures and circumventing any retribution for my actions

his work is life affirming, suicide isn't considered an option even after "having your fill", which is unlikely, since a desire is not only the desire itself, but also the desire TO desire. desire moves you, that's why you are never completely filled.

>>13121057
>women are not idiots

>>12818708
>not meeting QTs at secondhand bookstores

>Thusly

I am an ESL brainlet and I can't for the life of me understand the gist of this paragraph:
>Remember I said the old lady had spent most of her life helping hack farms from the bush? Well, we had always understood that each new farm had just about paid for the last one, and when my grandfather was lost to the bush, my granny was left destitute.
(From Keri Hulme's "Windeater")
What the fuck does "helping hack farms from the bush" mean? What's the meaning of the word "farm" throughout the paragraph? The author is from New Zealand, for reference.

What's it called when instead of writing blank verse you just remove the line breaks and put abstract thoughts into prose?

I have to write a short story for a literature class by the end of the semester and I have no ideas. How do I come up with something that isn't retarded?

Is reading in public a pseud thing to do? I'm getting self-conscious about my reading habits.

>>11807215
>coming on lit to start a thread defending /pol/
>complaining about people attacking /pol/

Do you really not see the problem here?

>>11476314

>unmolested

Do people seriously not understand the importance of context anymore or is everyone just baiting? Also, assuming they don't care about context, at what point is this level of narcissism considered neurosis?

>>11387219
>I sell my soul, but at the highest rates
So much truth in the span of three minutes

>>11247739
>tfw it's penis inspection day at your local bookstore

>first chapter of romeo and juliet is a guy deciding whether to murder or rape maids

Why is this filth allowed in schools?

>free verse """poetry"""

How is philosophy possible?
If there is no philosophical method, how is philosophy even possible at all?
Pls recommend books.

>>11049580
>Read the Ashtavakra Gita for a quick TLDR.
There is one problem here.
>Reading the preface to Swami Chinmayananda's commentary to the Astavakra Gita
>"In General Introduction and later in the commentary, it is repeatedly emphasised that Astavakra Gita is meant only for those advanced sadhaka-s who have purified their minds through sadhana and are engaged in meditation. To such committed students alone would this book show light and be a true guide. To the unprepared, unmature students, the subtle thoughts contained in this Gita can be explosively dangerous and result in erasing their faith entirely from the higher reality."
Umm, guys...