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Be honest you fags, how many of you actually shelled out cash for this piece of shit?
a portable word processor isn't that bad of an idea but lmao that thing is ugly af
>>8223062
>a portable word processor
It's called a laptop, anon
>>8223065
sometimes less is more senpai
>tfw someone asks plans for this weekend
>can't say reading because they'll make fun of you
i can't even talk to people. none of them want to talk about books. they assume I'm some quiet autist because I don't talk but if they would just talk about books, I'd be hard to shut up.
>tfw 21st century
>no one reads anymore and if they do, it's the hunger games
daily reminder that 'reading' hunger games isn't reading
there's only one way to deal with philistines
(skip to 46:15)
https://youtu.be/8BoKjQfMihs
How do we get people to read proper literature again?
Do you believe in free will? why or why not?
Yes because Independence Day has been out for like 20 years now and no one's going to buy it
there is a spectrum of freedom and a spectrum of will
the concept free will nor its opposite exist in reality
Non determinism is a completely incoherent concept so no.
People probably confuse meta-circular loops for free will.
So do i have to read pre-socratic philosophy first or do i just jump straight into the big guy?
For you
you can, there isn't much to read. maybe just an intro or something, but it isn't absolutely necessary.
Plato and Aristotle pretty much are the foundations for what is to come later, and the only two who composed rigorous systems that require actual study.
>>8222840
lmao
Do you find your writing limited to certain feelings or archetypes?
For instance, I only seem to think of 'tragic' stories. On the walk to work I thought of the events around a schoolkid accidentally slashing his own artery. Stories of people being trapped, uncomfortable, paranoid, killed etc. Never anything happy and always 'edgy'.
Tell me about your writing.
I can only write like a terrible Pynchon knockoff. My writing teacher gave me a lot of shit for this and made me read Jane Austen novels to try and change my style, but it didn't work.
I can't help but be humorous in my writing. If it's not at least a little bit funny then none of the other emotions work.
>>8222752
you mean to tell me that your prose fiction has traits which would make it identifiable as having been written by you personally? that's terrible!
>>8222546
Follow her home and then put them on after she goes to sleep
>>8222546
you'll stop liking her after a while don't worry
read pop fiction with some sense of alcoholism or something though
>>8222556
kek
I'm back with an updated list.
Can we create the ultimate /lit/ list?
>Orwell and Twain good-tier
>Kafka and Borges mid-tier
It's like you don't read at all
>>8222574
No matter where i put kafka, there will always be someone who bothers about his position, either if i put him high or low on the list.
>>8222720
This is why we'll never make an "ultimate" /lit/ list.
The most objective we can achieve was the vote for our favourite books and authors a while back, but even then people are mad and want to redo it.
>The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
>contransmagnificandjewbangtantiality
What the fuck did this guy even mean?
he was good at conveying imagery with precision wording combinations
an art and a science, to be sure
>>8222443
Explain what he meant then.
>>8223802
basically, the quality in the air during a jew orgy. should be pretty obvious
What popcorn fiction do you guys enjoy when you wanna just distract yourself? I'm talking Rowling, GRRM, Tolkien, Gay-man levels of complexity, not necessarily quality
Tolkein isn't popcorn fiction you fucking retard.
And to answer you question, Six of Crows and the Cinder series are great.
Children's books honestly.
Are you there, God? It's me, Margaret,
Little house in the Big Woods,
etc
also cute and comfy family/ coming of age novels written by women.
A Song of Ice and Fire, senpai. It really does have great characters.
Basically a hugely ambitious masterpiece about the isolation and alienation that capitalism creates
>>8222355
I think you already know, OP
>>8222355
You should very easily be able to answer this question
American Psycho
How could anyone ever argue against causality and determinism?
I don't know or care.
>>8222255
Go ahead and prove causality, I dare ya
Why did they always change sides?
>>8222222
Why did you waste a get?
>>8222222
holy digits
>>8222222
Holy digits demand for an answer from BB.
Is meditation a meme?
Books on mediation?
And motivation to maintain things?
>>8222154
Maybe it is. It still works. Try researching mindfulness and MBSR on google, and more particularly on NCBI and pubmed. It's pretty effective against a host of modern malaises, especially shitty attention span.
Mindfulness in Plain English is a good intro, and available for free online.
Motivation is the real meme here.
>>8222179
How is motivation a meme? Without motivation there is nothing else. Motivation is life.
>>8222154
It's proven to be more than a meme, in the sense that it physically alters the practitioners in lasting ways when practised regularly.
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reminder that if given a choice between telling a lie and letting your newborn son die, you should sacrifice the kid
>>8222152
reminder that i will never do the deed necessary to have a son
>>8222152
Reminder that empiricism is dead and that modern 'science' is a laughing stock due to its love afair with positivism.
>>8222168
scientists have made dozens of amazing discoveries this week alone
what have your ""philosophers"" done this week besides burning private/public funds with cocaine and masturbating to futanari?
How hard is to win the nobel prize of literature?
>>8222080
10/10 stupidest question I have seen on /lit/
>>8222080
Quite.
>>8222080
the fact that you even ask this question tells me you're not gonna make it
