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Can we talk about the Phenomenology of Spirit? Is it worth it to read or is there an easier book that will give a decent summary?
>>7326959
Fuck PoS. Try Philosophy of History. It gives the real Hegel, not the early one who wanted to a man of lettres. There's a reason why humanist like their PoS more than anything else, since they are pussies who can't handle the actual Hegel who has no illusions.
>>7327001
Someone doesn't understand the place of the PoS within the System.
>>7326959
It's really cool. I had to read it for college last year, and I was initially intimidated by it, just because of the reputation that thing has, but I found it incredibly rich in ideas and arguments, and a very compelling account of both human consciousness generally and human spirit throughout history. I'm not sure I *agree* with him, but Hegel's fucking cool as...
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Don't get stuck in a lime twig.
Why are so many female writers gay?
why so many OPs are faggots?
>>7326904
Lesbians have the greatest range of socio-linguistic registers. They switch more easily between voices, and so create characters with greater depth and accuracy.
>>7326904
women of normal sexual impulse have a tendency (if latent) to be content with achieving through a man
thus desire for fame is admirably low
quality of writing may be equal but not ambition
thus a large percentage of the ones you know of are gay
this may be changing in the west, uncertain
What would Tolstoy think of Marxism, communism, socialism, and ect.?
>>7326870
fuck you
>>7326870
A terrible board for terrible people, an unholy spawn of /pol/. And besides, Tolstoy belongs to /lit/ alone.
Hey /lit/, so beyond all the theology/ideology that comes along with it, what are the Bible's most literary passages?
Which passages have the best of metaphors or simply superb wordplay and structure?
I've heard from various sources that the King James Version is the best version, from a literary standpoint.
>>7326844
nigga how do you even need to ask this
>John
>Genesis
>Revelations
>>7326847
Looking for specific passages and examples.
King James Version is based off the Tyndale version which was designed to mimic the speech of the lowest classes to make the bible accessible in the vernacular to farmhands and the like.
It's not because it has better wordplay, structure or higher literary standing that it became the source of allusions in English; it's because it was the most common book, in every sense of common.
Jude has the best Greek writing. It's mostly stolen Greek puns, but at least he tried.
Is there really any point to this book other than to be an eccentric piece? Can one genuinely be into this book?
Read it fast and it'll start to make sense.
read it and find out
>>7326770
yes it's really fun to read
Hey /lit/
So I've read plenty of nasty shit.
Hogg, Naked Lunch, American Pyscho, most of Dennis Cooper's stuff.
But anyway, I recently started reading A Child Called "It" and it just made me sick to my stomach.
I like, literally can't stop thinking about it. I feel like throwing up all the time. I keep getting panic attacks.
What do I do?
Read the second book.
>>7326760
I mean, like, I know it works out for him.
But I have, like, a phobia of vomiting.
And having someone force you to vomit and then later eat said vomit, is like, kind of maybe too much for me.
Can't get the image out of my head.
The stuff with A Child Called It and Jack Ketchum's shit is that it's basically just misery porn. You're just forced to endure awful stuff happening to someone over and over and over. It's almost like some sort of emotional abuse.
The way that characters deal with any give situation unrealistically makes it impossible for me to grasp the novel intellectually.
It's like looking at the kind of modern art that shows a variety of seemingly random forms and colors. That too is enjoyable and interesting to look at, but it's impossible to be sure if there actually is a deeper meaning behind it.
What am I supposed to take away from this? Is there an obvious message or is it "just" trying to be interesting and creative?
>>7326662
Murakami basically said the meaning of the novel was "fuck it there is no meaning take what you want from it"
>>7326662
>The way that OP makes a post unrealistically makes it impossible for me to grasp the thread intellectually.
What am I supposed to take away from this? Is there an obvious message or is it "just" trying to be interesting and creative?
>>7326687
it's about a mood
the book captures and explores ennui, existential anxiety, nostalgia all very well
Did Derrida fucking realize that deconstruction deconstructs itself and undermines its own "position"?
He essentially priviledges sign over being.
(ie sign/being; negative meaning/positive meaning)
Did he ever address this? Or is my reasoning faulty?
Bumpit
>the current year
>deconstruction
(constructive) criticism thread. Post only a sample of something you're working on.
>>7326506
only read the first paragraph
there's too much exposition in too few words going on there. it's definitely not poorly written at all and i quite like it, but it looks more like you're just throwing out a list of things than writing a narrative. avoid the "She does X, she thinks X, I feel X" format. your writing strayed from it a bit but I still got that same artificial sense from it
>Summers never treat me well. Last summer in particular...
do...
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>>7326561
I actually don't entirely like that line either. This story is actually based on a real person, so I was trying to write things that that person would agree is true, enough that I can imagine he'd say it. And so the mention of seasons are pretty necessary. I'll keep what you said in mind, though.
This is set in high school, so I suppose I nailed it. I don't want it to be a generic "dramatic teenage lovey feelings" story though. It's hard to write honest teenage stories that...
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We enter the elevator of my apartment where I live on the 8th floor, so it’ll be about 20 seconds until we reach the first floor, giving me enough time to turn around, kick Lopez in the knee and grab the gun out of his holster, shoot both of them so that when the elevator opens on the first floor, they spill out in a heap, and I have to step over their bodies and then run out of the building and hijack the nearest car so I can drive to Canada where I’ll live out the rest of my life in hiding.
“Come on, this guy is clearly deranged,” is what I can already hear...
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The last critique someone gave me was that my work was "uninteresting" and "boring" so I have been looking for something interesting to write about but noticed that I know absolutely nothing about anything and have 0 interesting experiences.
I cannot get over this and haven't written anything in the past five days. I also have no idea how to get over it and every attempt to do so ends up stressing me and making me fall even further down.
Have you ever felt like this, /lit/?
Yeah, right now. I enjoy getting criticism but I'm easily bummed out by it because I only really know one way to write, and apparently that way is dog shit.
My narrative voice just sucks. I think I'll just stick to poetry.
why are you writing if you have nothing to say?
this is a legitimate question
>>7326648
to speak and yet say nothing is sublime
Is this the greatest piece of literature that has ever been posted on /lit/?
Flashbird and that Peaches Jam Farmer (I'm definitely forgetting some details) are way better
>>7326472
Considering that Tao Lin, Thomas Pynchon, and even Kolsti Nguyen have posted here, definitely not.
Well, it turns out "Stoner" is shit becausemisogyny
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/classic-stoner-not-so-fast/2015/11/02/9f0ed5aa-7db3-11e5-b575-d8dcfedb4ea1_story.html
wen u a mongoloid but u still post anyway
wait wheres the april fools link
or the hidden onion sublink
can't be real
What are themes that are still waiting for a great piece of literature to explore them?
To ask in another way, what themes do you feel are underrepresented in Literature
>>7326411
NEETdom
Pro-racism
Radical right wing ideology from a female perspective. This is something that I'm currently working on writing
Critic thread
Don't be too harsh on the grammar, I just google translated it to english and corrected all the mistakes I could find.
"ESCAPE:
The true artist is not pretentious nor he boasts of his condition; the artist simply, by his very nature, is. Being totally immersed in his art, the subject must do just as he directed by it. This is, usually, in an instinctive, improvised, but essentially, natural way. The artist should not even take into account what others may think or the impact that his actions might have. The artist simply acts; He...
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Those are the first lines of the first chapter, by the way.
I like it
>>7326119
Ignoring grammar, you have some good ideas. However, the casual language in the second paragraph feels awkward. Normally I'd want some sort of transitional effort to be put into such a switch, but here it's on the edge of working without one. I dunno.
Las Vegas is perforated by homeless. Or so I was told when I first came across the Prom Club. Midnight on the idolatrous strip:the place where money is given tombs, and people given the boot. The splattering of bile and dung on ocher sidewalks; the blistering...
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>mega-autist
>disdain for irony
>apologetically elitist
>too educated for own good
>love of footnotes and David Lynch
>bearded
>secretly gay
>will probably kill myself
I hate his books desu (1) senpai (2)
1 - 'To be honest', an acronym that fell out of favor in late 2015 after the t b h/desu switch instituted by 4chan moderation.
2 - Short for 'family', also fell out of favor after the f a m/senpai switch of late 2015 (see 1).
>>7326084
Wallace was not an 'autist,' unless the usage of the word around here is even dumber than I realize. He was intensely tuned in emotionally (and rather successful in parlaying that into encounters with female fans).
>autist incarnate
>ugly as hell and corpse-like
>only loves his cats
>faggot
