/lit/ - Literature

Should I pay someone to illustrate my book or should I just use a premade cover for pennies

I'm 35 years old /lit/ and it's time I learned to think properly. Does anyone have a roadmap through western philosophy?

>>18692887

>men suck
>but it is all women's fault

>>16835997
wait a second keystone and capstone appear to be the same on many structures

>>15631120
Mfw trying to work out that answer from my question

>>14092153
and what was the black population vs. the jewish population back then

Where do I start learning about china?

Lit approved?

>>13485761
>Butthurt shitskin detected. Do me a favor and stop culturally appropriating western literature.

>>13323211
>GGM
>neoliberal

>>13304019
When's terrorism going to be illegal for Mudslims?

>>13122980
Aren't you supposed to say whatever you want here?

You always see the question: should I start with X?

My question is: should I end on Y?

What is Y?

Please don’t disregard my question, I do believe it to be completely legitimate as a man can pursue knowledge and enrichment for 100 lifetimes and never end his journey. But what of us with the more utilitarian bend? I enjoy applying acquired knowledge to my life in so much as it helps me, but pondering things has led me numerous times to undesirable places mentally.

Or are we doomed to be forever trapped in our heads, carving ever deeper into our psyche, becoming more and more detached from physical reality?

>>12018116
>At least burrough's gay pedophilia and gun fanaticism keeps him from becoming too cringey.

>be that as it may

>>11784726
>tripfag with retarded opinion
checks out

>the book are you currently reading
I am currently reading Infinite Jest, Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Ram Dass' Be Here Now, Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, and the Very Short Introduction series' book on the Meaning of Life.
>a book that has changed your life
William James' Varieties of Religious Experience.
>the book that had the greatest influence on you
William James' Varieties of Religious Experience.
>the book you think is most overrated
The Stranger.
>the book that changed your mind
Gibson's The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception.
>the last book that made you cry
To my memory, I have only ever cried to a book once, back as an adolescent when I still read fantasy novels: One of the books in Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders series. I was depressed, and there was a self-loathing character contemplating suicide.
>the last book that made you laugh
Infinite Jest. Half the appeal is how funny it is. In one of DFW's interviews he comments that the humor of Infinite Jest was one of the aspects that he heard complimented most often, but he did not himself think it was funny; that makes it even funnier.
>that book you couldn't finish
I read the Stephen Daedalus opening to Ulysses and got through the beach scene and then got distracted by other reading and am not currently terribly interested in picking it back up.
>that book you wish you read
The Bible. The beginning is so dry, but reading it any other way, especially New Testament first, is grotesque.

How long do you give yourself to dwell over a book you finished /lit/? Would you need more time with a book such as War & Peace compared to The Stranger perhaps?

>>11418017
>reads synopsis
>think this somehow means he read the book
>has the audacity to criticize anyone else

What does it mean for something to matter in the first place? I hear and read people saying that nothing matters all the time.

>almost everyone on the planet has poop inside of them right now

How does one go about making a serial killer character to be sympathetic or even somewhat likeable? He's literally everything a person would despise. I thought a serial killer could range anything from child rapist who mutilates his victims and stores them under a house to killing corperate scumbags, but that not having a psychological thrill really doesn't make him a serial killer anymore. Anything I can conjure up, ends up stripping his serial killer identity which completely ruins the purpose as this is suppose to be someone who is extremely intimidating. Thoughts?

Filosofie is sib tae science an tae releegion an can compete wi thae twa in answerin some quaistens. Some fowk says that filosophie ligs atween science an releegion. Ither fowk says that it shoud be studied its lane. Maist Philosophers (fowk that studies philosophie) disna come up wi the same answers tae quaistens an it is aften thocht that, in contrast wi science or releegion, there's nae richt answers in philosophie, juist better anes.

Daes philosophie dae onie guid? Fowk disna gree anent this. Some fowk thinks that philosophie hairms the Kirk or the State, as philosophie is a kin o free-thinking an aften quaistens the beliefs that ithers hauds.

Ither fowk thinks that philosophie is juist ordinar rummle-gumption or politics. Philosophers believes that speirin philosophical quaistens is uissfu acause it brings wit an holps fowk ti lairn anent the warld an ilk ither. Some thinks politics is juist a competeetion or argiement atween philosophies, that can end up wi fowk ettlin tae gar ilk ither dae things bi law an veeolence. This collogue haes been gaun on for thoosands o yeirs - as haes collogues anent aw the quaistens abuin.

The books I currently read reveal to other people that I'm just pretending to be smart(Orwell, Rand, Nietzche, the Greeks etc.). What books do I read to succeed at misleading other people into believing that I'm smart?