/lit/ - Literature

I've started studying hardcore lately and reading lots of books and i've noticed that i started losing weight really fast. I've read that some Chess players can burn up to 1000 calories a day just from playing for about 8 hours straight because it's such a mentally tasking thing to do. Has anyone else experienced anything like this? I've lost about 10 pounds in last month of studying, writing and reading that i've done and i haven't even changed my diet at all.

Can reading books increase my creativity and imagination?

>>22231806
Obviously OP. It's like being able to tell an amazing industry concept artist from a school kid drawing during a class project. Despite knowing the industry concept artist is amazing theres no way you could match and draw the same shit he does.

I have occasionally written gay erotica in a somewhat specific context. I do think it's an interesting exercise because for the bottom, what you're essentially doing is stripping a man of his masculinity.

The Romans and the Vikings both believed that gay sex was fine as long as you were a top. But being a bottom was to be ostracized and a pariah. Because if you're the top, then you are still the one doing the fucking. Even when it's with another man, the masculine activity is being performed.

But the bottom effectively ceases to be a man. You have ceded the one great biological signifier of maleness: penetration. Instead, you are the one being penetrated. You have taken the female role and have ceased to be masculine. You have forefeited the very essense of what it is to be a man for erotic desire.

So from a certain perspective, bottoms are the most detestable men on the planet.

And perhaps this is part of my interest in it, this stripping a man of manliness. It's a transformation, of sorts. I tend to pair what I write with another fetish that is similarly demasculinizing.

Anybody else noticed the running theme that tons of these guys seem to never have any money? It's particularly glaring with Joyce. The exception are people who hit it big, like Hemingway, or people born into money, like Tolstoy. I've read other instances of this. Authors are fucking shit at earning money, keeping money, and managing money.

I'm legitimately astounded this thread hasn't been deleted yet. Are the mods actually going to let us have a fanfiction thread?

I actually, genuinely don't like racism and anti-semitism. I have no particular fondness for the Nazis, in fact whenever the Nazis are depicted in fiction I always tend to feel an immense revulsion to them. Ditto for virulent racists.

Yet every time I see some online leftist talk about "nazis" or "racists," I feel a surge of hatred for them, and an impulse to defend either racists or Nazis against their attacks.

Why is this? What is so revolting about leftists, especially online leftists, that it compels me to defend groups that I would normally never wish to be associated with?

>>18053084
Can you point me to the analysis that doesn't involve the US allying with Japan, and probably also India, Australia, South Korea, and Vietnam, to defend Taiwan and drive the PLA from the South China Sea? China has pissed off almost all of its surrounding neighbors, and you can only kick the smaller kids around so much before they all gang up on you and overwhelm you with sheer numbers. Especially if they have a big kid of their own (America) to come to their help.

My thinking is that it's got to be somebody who died in the first three books. If it were someone who died in Feast or Dance, he'd probably be able to weasel out of it and bring them back. So it's got to be someone who's been dead for long enough that it's unfeasible to undo their death.

>America had a beta as president for eight years and then immediately reacted to it by electing a Chad

>>16854845
You still haven't proven that suneidos and daimon are the same thing, also you don't show how suneidos is tied to the soul: I don't care whatever Olympiodorus thinks, find it in Plato. If you get a lobotomy your conscience disappears, care to explain that one? Unless you wish to enlighten me as to what I'm missing regarding the concept of conscience.
>There is basically no difference between the religious life and the philosophical life for platonists
you are literally retarded. Just because Socrates calls the Forms as divine in the Republic, you think he's talking about something religious. Why don't you read a dialogue where he isn't dumbing down the concepts for an unphilosophical audience like the Parmenides, where philosophy is dealt with directly and without the need for myths or religious associations.

>>10484472
why is her poetry bad?

>>4631452
>>4631463
That is actually an interesting view. Not sure what else to say though. Thanks.

Although, in the second post, I'm not sure flattery is the word you're looking for. A woman being complimented for being a "proper" woman would be flattery, but not one that would fit the definition as it's used in that post.