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any blatant requirements before reading hegel besides greeks?
Kant
>>7535454
...
fuck me i forgot about that
>>7535446
no need for kant imo
I did most of the greeks, Then existentialism, Popper, Frege, Wittgenstein
Then you start Hegel and boom you're the man now
/lit/, can you name me any novels with "good" main characters?
And I'm not talking about shitty fantasy protagonists that are just born wanting to do good for no reason, or the "ordinary man" of most modern lit that just tries to find his way in a crazy, crazy world that just doesn't make sense and terrifies him.
But rather, someone that's highly philosophical as well as emphatic, who isn't just trying to do the good thing, but to realize what good truly is -- without ever falling so low as to give up his mental aptitudes...
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>>7535242
i-is jesus squirting blood out of his nipple onto that guy's lip?
>>7535242
Don Quixote bro
>>7535249
i'd argue that don quixote has doctrines and absolutes.
Should native English speakers learn a second language?
if they do it shouldn't be poo-in-the-loo-ese
>>7535143
Came to poost this
>>7535139
depends what they want to do with their lives. do they want to be the human equivalent of farm animals, eking out an average but comfortable existence, moving through average but comfortable relationships, collecting average but comfortable experiences, and to aspire to nothing more - such as is the fate, anyway, of ~70% of anglophones? do they want to be athletes in a purely national sport? bricklayers? mechanics etc?
if not, yeah, it's worthwhile
So are bret easton ellis books a good read?
Any deeper revelation to be had in them or
atleast a good time waster?
I dunno, but his podcast is great. My kinda guy.
Less Than Zero is complete fucking garbage, absolutely disgusting.
American Psycho is really good, haven't read anything other than those two though.
>>7535085
>X is bad
>X is good
I'm glad to see you really sparking the discussion in this thread.
What was the greatest literary movement?
Will always have been Romanticism, IMO.
>literary movements
you've been spooked lad
>>7535077
I use them my advantage. For example, I read one book from a certain movement and I find I like certain aspects of it so I read more from the movement
What is the difference between justice and revenge?
justice is blind :^)
dispassion
justice is something you do for others, revenge - for yourself
/lit/, what if poetry in Dark Age Greece was the equivalent of green text
what if Homer was literally just shitposting the entire time
what if the foundation of the Western Canon is based on the works of a NEET?
is there hope for us, /lit/?
But Plato was a shit poster, he just used a different medium.
>>7534922
fuck do i hate plato don't even get me started
>>7535035
Get back to fucking gaia if you can't hack Plato
>"One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one".
What does that even mean?
it's an anagram for "and there's something terribly sad and banal about that"
>>7534853
Damn ...
Is there a direction of theme among young writers in North America right now?
A movement? A mantra? A place to see their work?
>>7534733
im eliciting neo-modernism, give me a few years
Yes, they call themselves "Chippers"
>>7534733
>A movement?
Yes indeed, there is one specific movement
please recommend books that will help me overcome my misogyny
pic related
Reading Virginia Woolfe’s "To the Lightouse" right now and I feel that it does give a very fair insight into the minds of women.
>>7534731
Jude the Obscure.
As every newfag, I didn't know I could use 4chan to find good productive stuff like /lit/. I honestly thought that YA literature was somethig smart and insightful before I got to this board.
Need some good books/authors recommendations on where to start. I recently started reading some of Nietzsche's works and really liked the Übermensch concept.
I've been thinking about reading some of Proust's works as well, but those are the must read ones that everyone knows.
>>7534697
Start with the Greeks.
>>7534714
This. Don't listen to any other answer.
>>7534745
And why is that?
What pens do you like to use?
>>7534545
Whatever one is closest and has ink.
Ones that have been in my ass
>>7534545
Thick biro, I once had a really nice pen that always worked well but it was thin, I like to write in bed and the angle never works with gravity pens, so for a while I did pencil.
Mostly do word processor now. Thoughts do however get expanded on much more extensively and energetically with the pen, you can have an awesome array of symbols and arrows and mind maps and the rest of the page doesn't move out of view, I would hesitate to say my notes are of any worth to anyone else though.
I read The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings in middle school / high school. But that was back when Peter Jackson was making his films. My comprehension of Middle Earth and its Ages never really extended past the One Ring. I didn't understand or care about the Mythos that Tolkien created. But in the last few months I discovered it.. Eru Ilúvatar, Eä and the Ainur, the Valar and Maiar... Arda and its peoples...
I always had respect for J.R.R. and knew that his tales were the birth of the entire modern fantasy genre, but I never truly understood just how deep the...
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> Thank God for his son, who has given us a glimpse into what was, and could have been.
Yeah, only too bad he allowed the making of Jackson's films. They had some cool parts yes, and Howard Shore's score is incredible, but overall they turned it into a shitty fantasy action movie, thinking that if they put some dialogs in Sindarin, it's loyal to books. Not even starting on The Hobbit.
But anyway, Tolkien's world is so vast and magical and dear to me to whine about the films. I'm waiting for a time in my life...
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>>7534540
why is this so awesome?
>>7534645
You gotta' let go of some of that hate, brother. The Hobbit movies were shit, this is undeniable. And Jackson's LoTR might of had it's flaws, but fuck me if he didn't try his best to be as loyal and faithful to the cannon with big Hollywood breathing down his neck. I don't think anyone could ever truly translate Tolkien's work, unmolested, into film, but Peter loved the mythos and did the best he could.
Anyway, let's talk about the Silmarillion and literature instead of movies.
Am I a meme now?
>>7534475
an immensely inadequate writer on a sentence-by-sentence, paragraph-by-paragraph, book-by-book basis.
You'll never be a meme, Mr. King <3
>>7534475
I actually like him.
Fuck you /lit/tle faggots
Who is the literary equivalent of Lana Del Rey?
>>7534291
Probably some attractive female blogger who got a book deal.
>>7534386
I need names
>>7534400
I'll check my own dubs so you don't have to
