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>I'm so glad tomorrow is fucking Friday. It's been a long ass week for me. I've been....
shitposting all week and still no hoes are riding my dick, what gives?
The end
There's this thread going on at a Narnian knot-art website I frequent. We're supposed to continue a thought. Might be fun, but I'll never do it again. I won't make it in time to continue the line from the previous poster. Why bother?
How do I write a play that is a tragedy?
What are your favourite tragedy plays?
>>7370978
Kierkegaard believed that a tragedy is great because of the ambiguity as to whether a tragic hero erred and incurred his own punishment, or whether he was fated to be punished from the beginning.
Crucially, if the tragedy is entirely the hero's fault (he is totally capable of determining his own fate) then the dramatic element disappears. There's no use agonizing over somebody who willingly chose to do the wrong thing with no fate involved.
write an autobiography
>>7370978
Read Aristotle's Poetics. I pretty certain it wasn't designed as advice for playwrights, but it will likely have all the information you need.
I like a good contemporary tragedy that's not too melodramatic or formal. A lot of Ibsen is like that, so those tend to be my favourites.
Is there a better illustration of hyperreality?
What are some literary examples of hyperreality? Wallboy described IJ as having h/r elements, but Walltoy was constantly full of shit.
Probably not
this whole thing is really what got me into the occult in general
>>7370886
that is beautiful. I only read Baudrillard in any depth a few months ago, and stuff like this gives me mental goosebumps now.
>>7370898
White Noise is the prime example. it would not have been written were it not for Simulacra and Simulation. also a lot of PKD you can hardly understand, really, w/out Baudrillard.
>finding new series to start
>go to goodreads to check reviews
>check a 1* review's profile
>check ratings
>catcher in the rye 5*, hunger games 5*, crime and punishment 2*, twilight 4*
why do these people think their opinion is worth anything?
>>7370845
Everyone's opinion is equal because it's all based on personal tastes.
>>7370849
Some peoples' opinions are more equal than others.
It isn't. Everything is worth nothing.
>read
>thoughts start wandering off
How do you fix this/deal with this?
>>7370817
>you don't.
Maybe is a health issue (TDA and such).
But probably is normal, it happens a lot to me. If the story being told or the subject being explained is either hard or boring (to non-finction is mostly the combination of both), I'll sometimes dwell in my thoughts and forget about the words in the paper.
If I'm reading constantly during the week somehow this happens less often and I can read pages and pages without having to stop once and being able...
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Re-read the last few paragraphs I read without focusing and get re-focused.
Happens to me a lot with non-fiction. Usually I just put the book down and do something else. If my thoughts aren't on reading, I'm not going to force myself to read.
One tip though: loud spaces are distracting. Absolute silence can be just as distracting. Put on classical music.
My ethics professor argues that utilitarianism and pic related is the foundation for all forms of morality
How do I refute this?
>>7370813
"The world didn't start in 1863".
Point out God is in fact the foundation for all forms of morality
thats like asserting consequentialism is the foundation to deontological ethics.
Does anyone here actually read? Do you even praise Witold?
>>7370799
Who?
>>7370799
I don't care for Witold.
Unlikely that most of the /lit/ population has ever read Grombrowicz, stubbornly sticking as they are to genre fiction and the so called classics. While he doesn't move me or strike me as particularly ingenious, while there are other narrators whom I hold higher in the scape of surrealist satire, I can still dig his style and his latent, zealous philosophy. I would recommend his later works (Transatlantic or Cosmos) over Ferdydurke, by the way.
You could be reading right now
>>7370788
It's just letters on the screen.
I'm just taking a break while doing laundry and cooking dinner. I have about 350 pages left in the book I'm reading and will probably finish it tonight.
>tfw instead of reading a comfy book about the Franco-Dutch War I am writing a pretentious personal statement for graduate applications about how great I am
>tfw I need to take breaks every 3 sentences to pace around my kitchen and dry heave from how much I hate myself
>tfw I just wanted to read a fucking book
>tfw I hate university
Short story or poems about her turning into a blueberry?
the pisan cantos
>>7370780
Higher brow, please.
>turning into a blueberry
ah, that brings me back
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is he right, /lit/?
>english translation
right to the bin
other than that though it was fairly scathing
>"LOL"
You're right again, Michel. A lot of the commenters don't seem to know who he is
Just got back from first date in 4 years. She was cute and comfy to talk to but all I could think about was getting back home to keep reading Siddhartha.
(Why) Are girls better than books?
>>7370488
Prose before hoes.
>prose
>get a hooker
>continue reading
/lit/, I need your vast knowledge. Tonight I was debating about political correctness, critical theory, political correctness, Frankfurt school, and how it affects Western civilization. I need deeper information about it.
Do you know some good books on the topic?
I am tempted on buying The Devil's Pleasure Palace, from Michael Walsh, buy I would await for your suggestions.
>>7370453
thx for the suggestion. I will bump this one tho
last desperated bump
Let's be honest here: You guys have obviously all read at least some of his stuff or know a bit about him.
This guy was the very definition of prodigy and potential. I'm not trying to stroke the guy off, but in all seriousness, looking at his body of work, his achievements, he could have been one of the greats. I was just reading A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, and my god, everything sings. Everything is good.
Do you agree /lit/? Or was he a hack who hid behind irony like everyone here says he is?
kek-tier author
>>7370404
No discernible talent.
he was a certain reader's type of author for sure
Is Dostoevsky postmodern? A lit major in one of my classes today said he was.
pic unrelated
Is Homer Neo-Classical?
>>7370361
No, but Notes from Underground is a touchstone for postmodernism.
No he's Modern. Early modern.
>The incompetence of the American military
>Blind Japanese samurai and a Japanese otaku 2chan poster
>Stupid concepts like quislings and feral children
>Israel is best rael
>"Muh dogs even though I hated them but now I attack people that do and now I'm in a special K9 unit durrrrrrr"
>DUDE I'M GUARDING RICH CELEBRITIES AND BILL MAHER AND ANNE COULTER ARE HAVING SEX ON THE...
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>>7370125
Feral children are rad as fuck.
Stopped reading.
>>7370125
Because people are varied and thus will derive enjoyment from different things, this book is one of them.
>>7370125
>quislings
Made me laugh how stupid that was; people that aren't zombies attacking people as if they were.
