/lit/ - Literature

>"Catullus threatens to prove his masculinity on them in person"...pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo.

I...I did it guys. I pressed the submit button on royal road. It's not the most respectable start but it would be the first time my work is officially seen by other people.

I have 4 edited chapters of an epic fantasy on the scale of LoTR, 7 unedited ones and planning to start posting RR. But anxiety is overcoming me. I fear that I would soon have to face the reality that I'm a bad writer and no one likes my stuff

>>16102751
every single negative reaction image works

>>15270825
>almost the entire thread is positive so far
Wait, does /lit/ actually like Twilight? Should I read it?

>Reflecting has lost all the dignity of its form: the ceremony and solemn gestures of reflecting have become ridiculous, and an old-style wise man would be considered intolerable. We think too fast, even while walking or on the way, or while engaged in other things, no matter how serious the subject. We require little preparation, not even much silence: it is as if we carried in our heads an unstoppable machine that keeps working even under the most unfavorable circumstances. Formerly, one could tell simply by looking at a person that he wanted to think—it was probably a rare occurrence—that he now wished to become wiser and prepared himself for a thought: he set his face as for prayer and stopped walking; yes, one even stood still for hours in the middle of the road when the thought arrived—on one leg or two legs. That seemed to be required by the dignity of the matter.

>>14934413

>After thanking Hawthorne for "despising the imperfect body, but embracing the soul" of Moby-Dick, Melville writes: "The divine magnet is in you, and my magnet responds. Which is the biggest? A foolish question--they are One."

>>14549773
>professor puts "Dr." before her name on the syllabus she wrote herself

>>14175424

Imagine how much she would enjoy being ravaged by an invader from beyond the stars!

>>13979057
>Anastasia Tolstoy

Imagine having this name

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>>13942009

>>13914452
this is actually good

>>13715491

>Melville met the author Nathaniel Hawthorne at a picnic and an ensuing hike up Monument Mountain in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts on August 5, 1850. Melville and Hawthorne established an immediate and intense connection. As a local journalist would later write: "the two were compelled to take shelter in a narrow recess of the rocks... Two hours of enforced intercourse settled the matter. They learned so much of each other's character, and found that they held so much of thought, feeling and opinion in common, that the most intimate friendship for the future was inevitable."

>This is the paradox of mass culture. The more ahistorical and pre-ordained its procedures are, the less temporal relationships become a problem for it and the less it succeeds in transposing these relationships into a dialectical unity of temporal moments, the more craftily it employs static tricks to deceive us into seeing new temporal content in what it does, then the less it has left to oppose to the time beyond itself and all the more fatally does it fall victim to that time. Its ahistoricality is the tedium which it affects to relieve. It evokes the question whether or not the one-dimensional time which is characteristic of the blind course of history is even identical with the timelessness of the ever-same, identical with fate.

>>12053052
>Mouse Utopia
Shit like this is why I can't stand a lot of arrogant philosophy. There is no greater teacher than simple observation and thinking.
Also, for those of you unfamiliar with Spengler:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsaieZt5vjk

>>11855070
No.

>>11728651

>The great scientist von Baer sees the superiority of Europeans over Asiatics in their trained ability to give reasons for what they believe - something of which the latter are wholly incapable.
>Europe has gone through the school of consistent, critical thinking; Asia still does not know how to distinguish between truth and poetry, and is not conscious of whether its convictions are derived from personal observation and methodical thinking or from fantasies.

>>11472482

>half the people have been here <4 months
>half the people are from /pol/ or /r9k/

Do you believe you are too impressionable? I do. For, whenever a book or author or soever throws an idea out to me, hamfisted or no, I cannot help but cling to said idea. This particularly pertains to grammar and style, whereby I am very impressionable; such as Strunk's book which I follow obstinately. Although, my mind does not merely get altered by "teaching" books but also fiction books, moreso the author who wrote it and their grammar and vocab (any author, no specifics) which I try to emulate frequently. It feels like I am just a mimesis, my words following an ostensible paradigm.

How do you deal with feelings of loneliness while trying to read? I'm 6 books in to starting with the Greeks and I've slowed to a snail's pace as I keep being distracted by depressing thoughts about my life.