/lit/ - Literature

>>20145580
based and wholesome-pilled

>>18154152
You still sound based to me anon. I think I'm mostly tapped out of memes but I'll keep looking

>and but so

The Pale King

>>13115660
>The Ruined Map

>>12925275
>Heraclitus work is sublime, Parmenides perfected it.
Change my mind.

>>12805253
the ironing

>>12780766
Meant to quote >>12780721. What a red link disaster

>>12714735
>and but now

>>12649377
>mon visage quand both of the latter parts of this post are about me

>post Peterson on /lit/
>get replies
If you don't like him just sage instead of complaining about it. First page threads are always trash.

Staying on /lit/ after having read the "essentials" is foolish and a waste of time.
See /lit/ as Wittgenstein's ladder is refered to the Tractatus Logico Philosophicus.
>Er muss sozusagen die Leiter wegwerfen, nachdem er auf ihr hinaufgestiegen ist.
Obviously less enlightenment mystical but you get my point.
If you are still on /lit/ you are on the same plane as the ones who only jsut joined.

>>10835629

Very good, you've won a prize!

One (1) rare Dave! Post him wherever you like!

*drinks all your soylent*

>>10552386

That's hard because people are very complicated, and their study requires more pages than a digestable story could handle.

You're supposed to be forming that theory yourself from your reading of various authors. At the very least, the author is being explicit in revealing his or her innermost thoughts. Storytelling, like any other art, is meant to be a highly subjective, abstracted experience. This valuble because life is a highly subjective experience that we can only interface with in abstract terms: Why are we here? What's the purpose of our lives? Are women good or bad for men? Vice versa? What is good? What is bad? What is love? What is justice?

We practice art because it is a common basis with which two or more people can agree to answers to these questions.

Read Stoner, read Of Mice and Men, read the first 100 pages of The Cider House Rules (pretend it's a short story), read Flowers for Algernon. Gonna stop here, too much effort

>>10543534
Nice.

>tfw finally enough of a pseud to start dropping the "I" word in discussions

I read a good chunk of Infinite Jest on the bus/train and got several 'mirin looks. It works you guys.

>start losing argument
>call opponent a pseud and close thread

What did you gain from rereading your favorite book?
For me, I picked up on way more of the humor in Moby-Dick
>stubb killing the first whale of the voyage with his pipe in his mouth the whole time
>the analogy of the gallows and pirates thinking they're above whalers but having no ground to stand that claim
>"it is the present Cachalot of the French, and the Pottsfich of the Germans, and the Macrocephalus of the Long Words"

>start losing an argument
>call the other poster a pseud and close the thread
another win for me

>>9596252

Notice how DFW never tries to broach any of these real issues and real problems.

It's always some lame "people need to THINK more about the WORLD AROUND THEM and BE MORE SINCERE and maybe we'd GET SOMEWHERE" Tony Robbins bullshit that can't actually be discussed.