/lit/ - Literature

>>19140104
this is your brain on utilitarianism

>>17851867
>is this guy retarded?
>is he pretending to be retarded?
If I get this wrong, then I'm retarded
4chan is a psyops designed to test our sense of self, and we're ALL losing.

>>17535140
>Probably one of the few people even able to discuss this.
>proceeds to use the word simp and ad hominem
>continues to be wrong

>>16758496
It's not a good place. The reason I joined late is because I didn't really want to go there (I was originally going to do law at a top ten uni (I say this only to try and convince you that I'm not a complete moron) but I got unironically assfucked by the education system so hard my HS teachers had to have a meeting with me where they basically absolved themselves from responsibility). So it was I either resit or go somewhere like here. This place is in the 30s in my country. When I was applying in late September they only had the foundation year course open but without telling me they upgraded it to a first year—not that I'm complaining.
>>16758842
Maybe you can. I had to spend two and a half hours first watching all the lectures in double speed, finding some sources and reading them, and then learning what the fuck is the essay even is. You can write a good essay in far less time if you have a good understanding of the subject and the material, but I literally just started and I have a learning disability

I did finish it (a little over the word limit; bloated and incomplete in what I wanted to convey) with only like 5 minutes to spare, my bibliography was so rushed and frantically written and I had a miniheart attack when my browser crashed. Probably one of the worst essays I've ever written—I didn't even get a chance to proofread it. I might ask if I can redo it so I can read the material more syntonically and formulate my thoughts overtime rather than all at once. I feel relieved that it's over and I have another due in a week so I have good amount of time to learn the course and read the material. I wonder if I'm just not cut out for academia. I wasn't bad at school, quite the opposite, I retained the lessons well enough that study was alien to me, but I'm feeling overwhelmed in University.

250 pages in and I'll admit that I'm too brainlet for it. I mostly follow the chain of events and train of thought and understand a fair bit of the meaning, but then there are whole swathes of it that I don't understand at all. Some of it is too obscure and most of the allusions even to things I'm familiar with are too subtle. I started going through it with the Bloomsday book and the annotations book so I don't waste my time reading something with no comprehension past appreciating the prose and some vague flashes of meaning, but now it's so slow that it'll take me months and I'm discouraged to continue. Some of the parts I understood were amazing.

>>13920312

>>12415225
Is that really the best you can do, just parrot me and replace some terms? Pretty weak.

Logic is based upon the nature of our universe, which precedes us. But by all means, I'd be fascinated to see you debunk the law of non-contradiction.

>>12313614
I don't get it

>>11722214
He explicitly accounted for contexts in which pain wouldn't be the primary consideration.

How do you convincingly write a character that's significantly more intelligent than you are?

>>11221185
Same. I got through Republic 3 or 4 pages at a time by using it as a "bore myself to sleep" book. I tried reading Sartre but it felt like he was packing about 3 sentences' worth of information into each sentence and I got brain-fried before long. I fear I might be stupid.

>>11221178
The last few years I have gone back and read some classics I never got to before (Siddartha, Steppenwolf, The Fall), felt a connection with them, but I couldn't fucking tell you what they were about or why they felt important to me if my life depended on it. Again, I fear I might be stupid.

>>11111666

>writing a story for fun
>set up the whole thing before hand
>multiple "arcs"
>last arc is your basic 80s "kids have to save parents from bad guys" kind of deal
>realize I'm too stupid to figure out how one actually goes about finding people

>>11009451
how will that help you, why not just read as much as you can

>>10118697
Can you tell me that with a few obscure literary references thrown in?

>>9007054
>>9007074
>>9010131
(False = False) = True

>>8950872
yes, let me write down your ID so i know who you are in the future

>>8899329
Nice deficit there friend :^)

>>8196633
>implying reading a play is better than hearing it spoken aloud

>>8164301

>>8159509

>1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 10, 12, 13, 14

Fuck

>>7987122
>Taking an image board this serious.
>pic related, it's you

>>7931325
>tfw when studying for eight years and still can't read Goethe straight

I am almost through reading the first Mistborn trilogy, and while the story is pretty captivating is it supposed to be young adult? Does brandon sanderson pander to absolute retards? I cant go through a page without him explaining for the thousandth time, what something does or why a person does that.

Is there any good fantasy at all?