/lit/ - Literature

How the hell do Hedge funds actually make any NEW money?

How can I change/improve the world?

Name some books that are long but contain simple, even elementary language that I can use as an entry point when learning new languages

guys ever think about how the definitions of words are just more words that all have their own definitions and this just goes on ad infinitum so you technically need to know the definition of an infinite number of words just to know the definition of a single word which begs the question how did you learn the first definition you ever learned or is it that in reality you have never actually learned any definitions but are merely under the illusion that you did which would then beg the question of how you are capable of communicating and understanding things with language at all.

>person who has actually read tons of books still has the communication skills and mental patterns of the average idiot
how does that even happen? it's like nothing they read gets actually absorbed by the brain

>finish reading a novel i loved
>dont feel any sort of resolution or bliss for having finished it
am i the only one?

You guys ever think about how the definitions of words are just more words that all have their own definitions and this just goes on ad infinitum so you technically need to know the definition of an infinite number of words just to know the definition of a single word which begs the question how did you learn the first definition you ever learned or is it that in reality you have never actually learned any definitions but are merely under the illusion that you did which would then beg the question of how you are capable of communicating and understanding things with language at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNhyLKUjRec

>>18494454
>>18494159
Why do they obsess about dumb shit and sabotage their already slim chances of getting a man far beyond their league (I assume that's what their aim is)?

This reminds me of when I was 15 and didn't realise that telling a girl you love her isn't a really serious and spontaneous statement of your feelings independent of anything else, but actually a social requirement. Stupid ideas about reality that only hinder you.

>>18494430
kek

>>18488152
enneads. i found a parallel between kierkegaard and plotinus. both mention three paths/temperaments.

plotinus says: musician - lover - metaphysician
kierkegaard says: aesthetical stage - ethical stage - religious stage

hbu

>>18221196
Where does he say that?

>>18190568
>A la fin des
phrases, elle se casse, et cette fêlure la rend si suave qu'elle
semble soutenue par la musique des anges, ce dont j'éprouve
de l'horreur, car les anges me font horreur, étant, je l'imagine,
composés de cette sorte ni esprit ni matière, blancs, vaporeux
et effrayants comme le corps translucide des fantômes.

I read.

>The layoffs at the company were racist in intent, since over 60% of the people laid off were black or Puerto Rican.
Is this begging the question or diversion?

I want books that will help me develop an analytical eye for art, to the point where I can pick up all the devices and protocols being used by a writer, or filmmaker, or musician, or comedian, etc. including those that they themselves might be unconscious of.

>check author on goodreads
>realize he has a suspicious amount of hot female fans

why do trannies criticize incels of all people for not being about to have sex when they by definition can't have sex, lacking actual genitalia?

Supposed to be writing an essay on covid, specifically life in quarantine. Got any ideas for me /lit/? I have writers block

>>17471810
If trannies are so desperate to be considered real women, why do they refer to themselves as "trans women" and not just women? Any books on this?

>>17366834
>be buddhist
>rant endlessly about muh impermanence
>get tattoo

how are anglophones supposed to read the epics if they cant read in dactylic hexameters

>>17039756
Thanks for the encouragement anon. I've had opportunities with girls but I sperged and blundered my chances. Living at home while attending uni hasn't exactly helped my chances either.
I don't beat myself up nor do I obsess over it, but at this point it's starting to feel slightly unfortunate. Forwards is the only way I suppose.

ante-nicean... ante-nicean...

ante... nice? maybe nice the city?

but what does nice got to do with anything? was it important to catholicism maybe? no that doesnt make any sense

hmm... ante-nicean...

nice... maybe it's a surname? someone called Something Nice? and he was important maybe so there's a before and after him?

no, i don't think so

ante-nicean... god.... ante-nicean

>>16739283
I want to give this a read, but given your deviancy >>16737418 it has me a little worried