/lit/ - Literature

All Things Are Possible (Shestov)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Blake)
The Aeneid (Vergil)
Collections of Presocratic fragments (McKirahan's Philosophy Before Socrates if I had to choose one)
Sophist or Gorgias (Plato)
Les Chants de Maldoror (Lautreamont)
Dead Souls (Gogol)
The Histories (Herodotus)
Ajax (Sophocles)
Eugene Onegin (Pushkin)
>>22589211
Nice selection, thoughts on Plato's unwritten doctines? Is it bang or bust for understanding Plato's late philosophy?
>>22590938
Based Vergil enjoyer, read Callimachus and Theocritus if you haven't already

I remember reading either the first or second book of the prince of nothing series and coming across a line that said something approximating: "truth is the destruction of falsehood", does anyone have an exact quote? Thanks in advance

In short I think I damaged my brain by reading philosophy, I mean physically and neurologically damaged, not that the ideas were just bad.
I read a book on Kierkegaard and as a result I began having waking sleep paralyses, pretty extreme depersonalization, time jumps, loss of coordination, a stutter, and a very trippy sense that my thoughts were literally 3D objects, like I had a kinesthetic sense of my thoughts.
I'll explain more. I don't think it was necessarily the contents of the book so much as it was how I read it and engaged with it. The preface of the book said Kierkegaard must be taken very personally and not as an intellectual exercise, so I did that. It began by laying out all these thought patterns and motives that people have, different archetypes type thing. I won't go into detail but it essentially progresses by dismantling each mindset and motives as logically fallacious, they don't actually lead to what they claim to lead to.
And I was really relating to them, I recognized them in me, and as he progressively dismantled them I began to get the very physical sense of my brain changing shape. It was like a cloth in my head that was all bundled up to make a certain shape if viewed from a certain angle, but as he, in the text, dismantled the ideas their 3D representation in the cloth thing would kind of unfold and twist and fold in new ways.
I read the whole book in one sitting and by the end was in psychosis. My kinesthetic sense was all wrong, I felt disproportionate, my tongue and hands felt huge, I was even stumbling bit. But the scariest thing was the waking sleep paralyses. I've had normal sleep paralyses before and it felt exactly the same. I was freaking out from all the aforementioned problems so I had went to grab a comfort book to take my mind off things but as I bent down to pick it up, as I was crouching I just froze and my breathing was shallower and it took considerable effort to get my muscles to obey me.
My stutter lasted only a day or two but that was another for sure sign that something happened. Really I'm not exaggerating it sent me into some kind of psychosis.
Has this ever happened to you, have you heard of something like this, should I get a brain scan?

How much do you guys read?
I'm curious about the relationship between writing fiction and reading. Does a good writer absolutely HAVE to read a lot? I mean I know as a general rule they do, but is it really a requirement? Conversely, can you read so much that it hurts your writing? How much should I be reading? Does it matter?

>>20518848
χαίρε φίλε, ἡγοῦμαι ὀλιγίστους ἐνθάδε παρεἶναι δυναμένους εὖ ἀττικίζειν, ἔγωγε πάντως οὔ

>>18377864
I cannot read or write while under the influence of anything other than black coffee. Can't even eat.

Good morning, I'm gonna make me a coffee and read my Agathon now

>>17990178
Interesting, but the author should have cleaned it up and presented it in a more readable fashion if they wanted anyone to take it seriously. Though I will say, being able to read "non-linearly" feels somehow significant to the ideas in the images.

>>17951146
I'm Chilean.
>unique accent
It's just normal Chilean accent, but trying to actually pronounce the S.

>>17862527
I want to make a literary magazine, but have no printer, no other writers and no one who would read it

>>17634861
meant for
>>17634908

>>17386918
I MIGHT if it's a dense historical or philosophical text. Never for fiction.

Nothing. I have libgen. Though I want some books on the Goths which aren't anywhere on the internet.

>>16901090
Growth of the Soil and Plato's Five Dialogues.

>>16516951
Many authors did the same. View it as an inspiration at least and a veiled documentation at best.

>>16470477
>character’s internal monologue portrayed as narration in film
cringe, ruins immersion

>character’s internal monologue portrayed as free indirect discourse in a novel
based, immersive

literature is naturally better for portraying thought and thinking. it is the thinking person’s medium. brainlets need not apply.

What are your thoughts on philosophy as an academic field? Is it worth attending university for it or should people just keep it as a hobby they study in their free time?

>>16393989
Rip based DJ.

>>16394224
But I must say, very based post good sir.

>>16018690
Hah, coffee time, Congrats!

>>16013321
Pyhrronism, and then Fichte.

>>15956690
What is it? How does it work? Exactly HOW good is it?

>tfw realize kritik der praktischen vernunft was sissy hypno of philosophy

>>14965583
Notes from Underground?

But I feel bad advising that, so maybe something different.