/lit/ - Literature

>>16107727

playlist on the sublime is now live:

https://pykewater.com/aesthetics-art/2020/8/11/sublime

>>15333166
>>15334376
>>15334588
to give a specific example, if you are curious (again, not to be mysterious, just can't disclose TOO much).
stuart dybek's short story, "paper lanterns"--i read this and felt psychological goosebumps on my neck as the tractor trailer came closer to the vehicle. what is this sensation?
wittgenstein talks about completing a proof. you write: 2 + 2 = 5; wittgenstein jumps at the problem in the same way if you were to write "this is red" in green ink. what is this sensation, this jump?
kant and later schiller will talk about the feelings of pleasure involved in the "free play" of the faculties when you encounter beauty/the sublime. all you need is a "glance" and you are hit by the sensation. what is this sensation?
sorel talks about how syndacalist propaganda needs to hit below the registrar of language--a visual symbolism that hits at the brainstem, creating a sensation. what is this sensation?
bernays, ogilvy, ailes--all have statements concerning the immediate apprehension of symbolic form prior to reflection, a type of physiological control that operates at the level of the purely sensate. what are these sensations?

do you see what i'm getting at here? from reflecting on my experience with dybek and connecting it, drawing it out further--well, i will tell you that it afforded insights that have turned more than one campaign around.
i know how to link the physiological to the psychological to, on the one hand, the abstract, and, on the other, the real. i know how to convert a man "from the ground up," so to speak--i've tried to understand this problem at its most molecular level, and literature is a supreme microscope to that end. another way to put it: if you see my commercial, my campaign, it operates not at the level of your usual effort; i don't know jack shit about turning false things into "reality" or the spinning of illusions; i turn real things into sacred things, i know how to re-enchant the world, i know how to sell what actually matters.

>>15281640

why, for what purpose/end?

Vous lisez combien d'heures par jour ? Combien de livres par semaine ou par mois ?

>>14059814
Hey, gotta push the agenda, so you fudge the data... You thought Climategate was something new?

hi, besides /fit/ i want to get into reading but can never stick to a book. I’m young and want to get smarter/get good views on things, what book do you guys recommend?

>>14013722
This. I pity those whose English is so limited that they cannot appreciate some of the greatest works in that language.

>>13525808
nah