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What does /lit/ think about Bukowski?
Worst poetry that wasn't written by a fag teenager that I've ever read.
his books are fun
>>7394632
Not a big fan of his poetry, but I like his novels and short stories. Nice straight forward lumpenprolecore.
>favorite book
>Thanksgiving plans
>eugene onegin
>smoke and write
>>7394595
uh Dante, Purgatorio mostly and Paradiso second
probably reread Dante again tonight, or start
>>7394595
>Ulysses
>already home from lunch with grandparents; hopefully seeing the fiancee before getting home to sleep before working a record store on Black Friday
So I've completed Being and Time, Being and Nothingness, and Phenomenology of Spirit now. What would be a good next step/direction? Which book would make 'sense' to read enxt? Open to anything really.
>>7394564
Baudilllard
Truth and Method.
The Lotus Sutra
What do you guys think of Finnegan's Wake? How should I read it?
open to random page
http://www.english.txstate.edu/cohen_p/Irish/Mookse.html
>>7394530
> How should I read it?
With a lot of help from the internet.
>>7394535
Some people recommend that I don't try to analyze it, others say that I should read very slowly and dissect it carefully.
Are there any good novels that focus on sibling relationships? My sister's birthday is coming up and one of the gifts I want to give her is a good book that will be my message to her.
Get her the vampire diaries DVD boxset. The relationship between the Salvatore brothers is both touching and heart warming
>>7394489
A Song of Ice and Fire
>>7394489
Ready Player One.
should I try to self publish on the internet just to make me a name and hoping some publisher call me back?
It's this the XXI century plan for writers?
Phil Fish
SHIT!!!
if you look at what's left of publishing, it's a mug's game. i can't see how any serious businessman would risk money on publishing anything that wasn't by Stephen King.
>>7394488
>should I try to self publish on the internet
No. My last experience reading something that was self-published pretty much confirmed for me that traditional publishing is the way to go.
>>7395607
Pynchon, Franzen, and Toni Morrison are all still writing books, and doing so through the traditional publishing system.
Who here /spleen/?
Best poem? Best translation? I'm super new to Baudelaire, still haven't found a translation I like.
Anyone know which translation Ruth White used for her recording of Flowers of Evil?
>>7394481
>translation
no
>>7394481
she did her own translation
NDP684
New Directions
Marthiel/ Jackson Mathews
Both the original French and various selected translations.
Read French first, then translation, then French. Then repeat periodically unto death.
Poetry > Philosophy... for now... [forever or until Lucifer takes me away]
Hate that he's hackneyed, but I do love the stuff [even has a fucking cartoon]
Image: not related but not some random painting I found on the internet, I have seen it in person... "Portrait of Maria Frederike van Reede-Athlone at Seven Years of Age"......
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Why isn't self confidence natural? We aren't born with self confidence, we develop it by the way we think.
Why does my self confidence rely on me thinking I'm superior to all others?
And when I don't think I'm superior to others, I develop somewhat of an inferiority complex.
What relation does self confidence have to philosophy?
>>7394456
>self confidence relies on thinking i'm superior to others
hello teenager how are you
self confidence relates to philosophy because you can sit up and say "nothing matters. There's no point behind life, i provide my reasons to live as I so define them." you go out and you do your thing because it's what you know you can do and what you want to do and you know you do it the way you want it done. If other people don't like it, that's their...
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>>7394456
Self-confidence is when you own Others, you make the play they react. Self-confidence is an attitude you insert into your external being in the world in which you neither fear nor fret over possible subordination of your projection into the outside.
>Why does my self confidence rely on me thinking I'm superior to all others?
This is because the confidence I mentioned is at the expense of the Other, you don't neccessarily subordinate them but the nature of being-in-the-world...
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>>7394477
so my thoughts of feeling superior to others is confidence? having a conversation with others and thinking that i am in control, and that they are... somewhat below me, that's confidence?
Opinions on this?
It's a really comfy and funny retelling of Le morte d'arthur.
Makes me think of Magneto.
>>7394673
Same. Can't think of this book anymore without picturing that.
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I want to write a fantasy story.>fantasy >genreWhy would you pick fantasy?Because it fits your bad and non-existant writing skills
How can I include elves? I'm German btw, should I use Elben or Alben or invent a new word?>inventing a new word for not-elvesTake you WoW/anime-shit somewhere else.>clicheed as fuckIt's alrigt to have a fetish for elves. But it would be better for you, if you'd spend more time with real women, instead of dreaming up imaginary women with pointed ears....
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>hurr fantasee need elves durrrrrrr
>hurrrrrr le funnee quirky spoilered text DURRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Judging by the quality of your op post, you're an annoying autist. Please go back to reddit or /v/ or whatever other shithole you usually visit and give up on writing.
Embarrasing
>>7394400
>I want to write a fantasy story
Don't. Do not ever, ever write anything. Even if your life depends on it, regard the pen as a serpent, for, should one drop of ink bleed into paper, the whole of society will suffer.
how do I avoid writing cringe stuff?
not writing
>>7394398
don't take yourself too seriously.
>>7394398
write
This is the first book I've started to read since high school, and the first book I've been actively interested in. I very much want to complete this book, however...>At first, Lo had refused "to try what it was like," but curiosity and camaraderie prevailed, and soon she and Barbara were doing it by turns with the silent, coarse and surly but indefatigable Charlie...
I don't think I can take this. I don't think this was intended to have this big of an impact on the reader, but I can't shake it. I feel defeated FOR Humbert.
Are...
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>>7394275
that's because he's an UNRELIABLE SCUMBAG NARRATOR and you've BOUGHT into the lies just like you're supposed to. He's a professor and incredibly intelligent, so he's spinning everything to make you sympathetic.
The man is a child rapist and kidnapper
keep reading you weak-willed punkass
>>7394281
I'll rape you!
>>7394281
>UNRELIABLE SCUMBAG NARRATOR
If that's the case, that's quite the spoiler. However, you've made a solid case for me to stick with it.
Does he drop any fictitious accounts of Lo getting handled by anyone other than him? I don't care how depraved it gets, as long as it's only him and Lo.
Hello /lit/. I got this book in a lootcrate a couple months back and I just got around to reading it. Are there books like it I should read?
>>7394265
>lootcrate
>rpo
fuck off subhuman
>>7394331
Op is baiting, not very well though. I agree with this poster.
>>7394331
seconded.
>It's a Schwarzkommando chapter.
>>7394247
You know what the whole Schwarzkommando thing reminds me of? How we used to troll about this here being a catholic board, and then one day real ones popped up, seemingly out of nowhere, like they'd always existed.
A-and then the antinatalism fad landed for a couple months... Eerie...
>>7394342
>How we used to troll about this here being a catholic board, and then one day real ones popped up, seemingly out of nowhere, like they'd always existed.
That's some Hegelian shit right there.
>>7394342
Maybe if we start joking about reading books, eventually someone will read those books?
Wait...
What are good "philosophical" questions to ask to a class of eleven to thirteen year old kids?
My little brother is interested in philosophy and asked me to come up with some questions that he and his class could discuss.
I've already got a bunch, but was wondering what other people would come up with.
I'm not really concerned that the questions would be to complicated for kids to handle. From what I've experienced they're usually able to understand these things. They're just not going to go that deep with their answers, but...
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>>7394112
Is mass euthanasia of the poor, intellectually challenged and undesirables the best course of action on an earth with finite resources?
probably some practical ethics
trolley car problem maybe?
>>7394119
Yes, that sort of thing. I've already got that one though.
