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Is this all philosophy amounts to?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCnchhausen_trilemma
>>7631370
The Greeks didn't understand shit, did they? Yes, you have to provide proof of every subsequent statement unless you give up philosophy.
>>7631379
Aaaargh. So simple yet so difficult to incorporate as a life philosophy.
Every day I get the feeling that none of this will matter and I should stop being a coward and should do things that I want to:
1. call up a best friend with whom I cut off contact 4 years back. I miss her so goddamn much but don't have the courage or self confidence to re-establish contact
2. ask out pretty women
3. be assertive and confident in general
All these fucking insecurities which won't...
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Some of you may be acquainted with the slow reading technique - it's basically reading a book through an extended period of time, commonly a year, enjoying it, bit by bit, thinking about it constantly etc.
I've done that before with Paradise Lost and Aquinas. The results are indeed amazing.
What are the books you'd say are worth slow reading? Fiction and nonfiction.
>>7626452
Anything by Aristotle, really.
>>7626452
This is fantastic for Proust I'd say, but I wouldn't do it with another writer/work.
>>7626452
The bible.
List three books to describe a literary character and other anons guess who your describing.
>Aesop's Fables
>Job
>Leaves of Grass
Hint: Fatalist
>Infinite Jest
>Gravity's Rainbow
>Ulysses
>>7632883
Joseph K
>>7632867
You're assuming someone on /lit/ has read all of the books you're using to describe a book which you also assume this person has read.
You're also assuming people on /lit/ even read.
ITT: we describe literary characters with pictures from the internet.
>The Judge from Blood Meridian
>>7632836
victor frankenstein
>>7632860
What time was it
Meursault
![[BakedFish] Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! - 03 [720p][AAC].mp4_snapshot_20.05_[2016.01.27_18.36.01].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/VASXZxj.jpg "[BakedFish] Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo! - 03 [720p][AAC].mp4_snapshot_20.05_[2016.01.27_18.36.01].jpg")
What are some essential reads about masochism?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwzaifhSw2c
Venus in Furs and Psychopathia Sexualis.
What's a good social networking site for writers? There's always Facebook, Tumblr, etc, but since artfags have Tapastic I'm thinking there has to be some equivalent out there for writers that's actively used.
scribophile
Is this book the real deal?
Yes
RAW liked it
>>7632489
sounds total bullshit, yo
care to explain?
Thoughts?
>>7632448
Absolutely amazing
so I've been reading Garfinkel's ethnomethodology and just got through korzybski's science and sanity.
I like these sorts of works for the way in which they do not simply offer answers or perspectives but question frameworks and beg the questions, "am I asking the right questions in the right way?" "what questions should I be asking?" "is this just like, your opinion, man?"
anyone have any good suggestions for books of a similar vein?
bump to sage cancer?
What English literature from the 1800's isn't boring as all fuck? Please, name one example
>>7632004
>reading for enjoyment
sure is reddit in here
>>7632012
What else would you read for? You don't have to read shit pop lit just to enjoy reading
>>7632004
Shakespeare you git
/lit/, I was wondering if you could help me locate a sci-fi anthology that I read some years ago, but can't recall the name of
The first story was about this man who injected these bacteria into his spine that slowly made him a superior human being (i.e. correcting his eyesight, ex.), eventually the bacteria spread to people he's friends with and the entire world into bacteria themselves
>>7630717
Sounds a bit like Blood Music by Greg Bear, only that's a novel and it's nanobots rather than bacteria.
>"metaphor"
>is actually a simile
it's not hard
What are on about now OP? There is a difference, a big difference, between metaphor and simile. Or are you just on here complaining about people that don't know the difference?
a similie is a type of metaphor, faggot
>>7630635
>a similie is a type of metaphor of a type of metonymy
You are a successful well-known writer.
Would you prefer to be as wealthy as pic related (worth $600 million dollars), or as discussed as James Joyce by /lit/?
>>7629918
neither, I'd rather just be known to a few people, enjoyed by em, and give my books away in e-form for free.
>>7629923
Mate, if people can enjoy your books, you would either be rich or a literary icon.
>>7629925
not if i release it anonymously.
>solicitude
What about it, edgelord?
>ignominy
>checkem
Has anyone here read any Henry James, preferably one of his novels (i.e. not just Turn of the Screw)?
He is a really interesting author and I feel like I rarely see him discussed here.
The inferior brother.
>>7632648
Ah, an excellent meme.
>>7632648
>implying he didn't spend most of his writing career in britain
>implying he didn't become a british subject
>implying americans haven't produced goat literature
>criticising americans whilst simultaneously implementing american double inverted comma usage
>>7632666
>implying he didn't become a british subject
kek do people actually believe this shit? That james was a brit, or auden an american? it's nonsense tbqh
