/lit/ - Literature

>>18432434
How is that supposed to work? They hand each other little invoices or something?
Is there a payment enforcement mechanism or is it just some northern Euro passive-aggressive thing?

>>17913136
>the fallacy of the dichotomy overman-lastman, when they are in fact the same people.
Big if true.

>>16945397
um ahhy uhhhhhhha a mydairydesu

>>16634036
>Waymen's overpopulated body count is in many ways unlovely. It offends tfw no gf aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes
-incel 2019

>hitherto

Any books to boost your overall brain performance?

>tfw writing two books at the same time
cant let these ideas fall by the wayside bros

The Bible
Crime and Punishment
Zorba the Greek
Runaway Horses
Disgrace

me

In what order do you read all the books? I know we have a couple flowcharts for Starting with the Greeks and Resuming with the Romans, but what about all the other books?

>>13987415

ascended
>author bases every single character, major or minor, on a different aspect of himself

>Hypostatic union

>>13529049

There's a few meta references in the book, possibly more than a few:

>The whole thing is almost too involved to try to take in all at once. It's simply huge. (67)

>The whole thing's unpleasant and dry and repetitive and mostly dull. (1012 n.110)

>...[I]s the puzzlement and then boredom and and then impatience and then excruciation and then near-rage aroused in the film's audience by the static repetitive final 1/3 of the film aroused for some theoretical-aesthetic end, or is Himself simply an amazingly shitty editor of his own stuff? (947)

Reminder that in the next decade, we're finally going to get our great works of 21st century literature. I know this because all the greats of the 20th century (The Great Gatsby, Ulysses, The Trial, Mrs. Dalloway, most of In Search of Lost Time, The Magic Mountain, The Sun Also Rises, The Sound and the Fury, The Master and Margarita) came out in the 1920s, so if the pattern continues, the 2020s should be our era of great literature. It seems like it takes a couple decades for things to settle and then we can finally produce great work.

>>12765078
>i can identify narcissistic reaction formations of a thousand different shapes.
>it is like gardening.

>>12306365
Have the book in front of you on the desk, and turn the pages with your toes. Use both hands to touch the dick. Play black metal on the background to create good reading expirience.

>>11582838
stop giving a fuck about things outside of your control. intelligence is as out of your control as your dick size and height are, granted neither of those things holds as much influence over your capacity for financial and intellectual achievement, but there is such a thing as willpower, work ethic, attitude and they count for just as much if not more than raw aptitude. when you frequent a website with as pathological an attitude towards intelligence as this one, you're going to become insecure and start to believe that all the other qualities becoming of a successful person are unimportant, but just remember that they are important. you should not allow your limitations to imprison you, but not be so vain as to think you can disregard and live your life in spite of them, because that doesn't work either. try to find a happy medium between i can do this, and i can't do this.

>>10923678
I'm just pulling your chain. I was raised Protestant so I don't really do all the "saints" stuff. To each his own though.

saints as Catholicism use them don't really exist in the Bible though. Important figures of Christianity do exist, like Peter, John and Paul, but none of them are described as "saints" in the Bible at all.

I want to get into poetry, but I'm not quite sure HOW to read it. I've bought a few collections of better-known poets but I'm not sure how to interact with the text. Any recommendations on books about analysing/reading poetry?