/lit/ - Literature

>>15452747
fuck

>>15188024
Lolita, that is what's good in life is cunny.

>>15160479
Feminists began to accept trannies for a reason. If people start thinking in terms of biological reality, there would be very few arguments in favor of women.

>>15083602
>"Nabokov. Vladimir. American novelist and literature professor who once had something like the following conversation with a student at Cornell University:
>'Mr. Nabokov, I want to be a writer.' Nabokov looks up from his reading he points to a tree outside his office window.

>'What kind of tree is that?' he asks the student.

'>What?'

>'What is the name of that tree?' asks Nabokov. 'The one outside my window.'

>'I don't know,'says the student.

>You'll never be a writer.' says Nabokov.

What do you think about this webm?:

https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1586458029396.webm

>>14906139
>Ion
I've read everything except for that.

>>14906146
catchyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TLWpmIKayc

A DREAM OF CITYPOP!

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>>14715707
You missed Boethius.

My writing is getting lots of compliments at university, but I can only write about being an autist who does nothing so much. So I created this thread for fellow aspiring writers to get inspiration. Basically, suggest something (within realistic means), some sort of escapade or scandal for other anons to get into and enhance their repertoire of experiences. Let’s try to keep it grounded and realistic. You say what sort of place you live in, what your limits are, and anons give you some sort of task or recommend some sort of situation for you to get into, and you do it. And then, God willing, we actually do it and post results.

This is the essence of a midwit
>lack of originality
This isn’t just “creativity”, I mean this in terms of argumentation too. They resort to the same prescribed talking points, and if the argument veers away from them, they desperately try to steer it back. If they do any writing, it’s filled with cliches, not obvious ones, but the type a pseud would think is clever but have been done a million times
>plays video games, watches anime
This one is just a given. If they spend all day consuming this trite there’s little chance they spend enough time reading philosophy or literature. Both mediums are famous for their horrible writing and immature appeals to “depth” that superficial people connect with. You’ll often see someone posting a smug anime girl as some sort of front for a lack of intellectual confidence because their posts are usually completely supercilious and vapid, appealing to smart sounding phrases and words without much substance
>mainly consumes youtube debates, or youtube philosophy videos
Again, a passive way for a pseud to absorb smart sounding, condensed information without taking his time, engaging with it or questioning it. The independent thought philosophy is meant to be ancillary to is non existent. Their main aim is to sure up existing beliefs my collecting arguments for it.

>tries to “analyse” people with zero actual knowledge of psychology
>unquestioning belief in scientism, hasn’t read kant
>said scientism is watered down for mass consumption, these people aren’t scientists or involved in science in any capacity
>unironic biggest dream for mankind is some cringey overdone “exploring the stars” speech
>politicise everything, obsessed with politics
>utilitarian ideas (even if they don’t know it)
>bad/ clunky prose
>uses reddit
>reads scifi books
>reads YA fiction
>reads less than 3 hours a day
>IQ is under 125
>abuse “fallacies” but never point out how their opponent has committed them or how it invalidates their point
>canned phrases like “scrodingers cat” or anything else that has become pseud slang
>reads stoics unironically
>no interest in epistemology, metaphysics etc
>uses the word aesthetic
>doesn’t read something if his narrow pseud mind doesn’t find it “worth his time” even if it’s a classic of philosophy, literature etc
>says books are bad that he hasn’t read
>science is concrete
>optimistic “nihilism”
>takes shit like simulation theory or infinite universes seriously but laughs at religious people
>refusal to engage with texts that are either contrary to his political ideas, are religious in nature (regardless of philosophical or literary merit), or simply longer than 500 pages
>hates Joyce
>insecure about how this place “looks” to visitors and redditors, seethes over stupid shit in the catalog
>ultimately wants to control what is discussed here

I could go on. Let’s not forgot the most important one however

>atheism

Inform yourself, don't be ignorant. Accept the truth, no matter the source. Don't let yourself be swept away by the zeitgeist. Think for yourself. Read

>>14044922
Go for it OP. I'm on the road to improvement myself. I cut down on my time on this shithole as much as possible, plan out my future, avoid sugar, go to the gym, we're all gonna make it

Is book of the fallen actually good or is it a meme trap. On one hand its kind of autistic to read 100000 pages of one work when you could be reading multiple smaller books, but if it's actually really good idk.

>>13875719
Based

>>13630037
You know it's true

Hello /lit/, fellow /biz/nessman here. What are some good reads about how financial markets, stock markets and overall money systems work? I'm intrigued by how all of this keeps us alive and stops us from killing each other. Also buy some Chainlink its on coinbase now. 1000$ EOY check the /biz/ archives start with assblaster

As a leftist I just thought chapo was an unfunny boring podcast I'm glad to see it make the right seethe like nothing I've seen before

>>12896201
FUCK TOLSTOY, REAF DOSTOYEVSKY INSTEAD

> he quotes Shakespeare in fake life

>The auctioneer cleared his throat. Oedipa settled back, to await the crying of lot 49.
PFFFFTTTTT

>not reading Culture of Critique outside of a synagogue

>>12754925
Lol
>durr you’re strawmanning!
literally just responded to an actual quote from the article

The Brothers Karamazov
I stole my flatmates underwear, masturbated with them, and then put them back in her drawer.

What book is he listening to?