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Aristotle's Politics, Nietzsche's Zaratustra, Ingegnieri's Mediocre man.
>>8158258
Plato's The Republic and Early Socratic Dialogues are essential before you even get into other essentials.
Confessions of Augustine
The World as Will and Representation
Myth of Sisyphus
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Being and Nothingness
The Sickness Unto Death
Either/Or
A Short History of Decayobviously im an existentialist
>>8158258
God damnit. I've been memed. 956 fucking pages, and the whole thing was only an extremely elaborate way of saying "Just b urself ;)." Jesus fucking christ.
956? What kind of extralarge print are you pullin?
>>8158196
I read it in size 72 font on my kindle
>>8158207
wew
Should I major in economics and philosophy or creative writing? I eventually do want to become a writer so I want to know which path to choose
>>8158120
Do economics and comparative lit, to be aytch
>>8158120
Economics and philosophy
I thought about applying for PPE at Oxford, but I just decided I could read philosophy in my spare time so I just went for Economics.
While you have the positive economics part of the fun is the normative part (I.e political philosophy)
>>8158120
the naivete in the post makes me want to clutch anon to my chest in pity and then slowly strangle him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2jbK6dGLGc
what book will cure me of being a pathetic, anxiety ridden, braindead, lazy, lonely, layabout idiot?
The Hobbit
>>8158056
Why do we always have threads like this? Why do people think they can change their entire character through a book? You need experience, introspection, and patience to change. Stop looking for easy answers.
>>8158084
no, i want easy fix
Is his writting good? If not, then why?
>>8158039
In terms of prose, he's pretty bad.
In terms of characterisation, he's legitimately great, for the genre at least.
In terms of overall storytelling, pretty good, easy to see why he's popular.
So I'd say good writer, but bad "writing" in terms of the meat and potatoes.
>>8158146
Legitimately awful. The more garbage he shats out the more I want to puke thinking about how this is what young people will consider good writing. Every book he writes is worse than the last. Spends entire fucking books building characters only to kill them off in the most retarded ways possible. I cannot see why so many normies enjoy his garbage.
>>8158146
For some reason most authors who are really good at creating worlds and characters also feel the need to describe it in about 20 times more words than necessary without adding anything positive to the whole mixture.
>6'6
>aesthetic as heck
>barely ever had to work a real job
>first book won the most renowned book award in Norway
>now one of, if not the most popular author in the world
How does it feel being reminded of the fact that you are not and never will be Karl Ove Knaugsaard?
>>8158013
>How does it feel being reminded of the fact that you are not and never will be a complete fucking hack?
Breddy good tbqhwy famalam
>>8158013
He seems pretty miserable though desu
My struggle is literary curb your enthusiasm
What's objectively wrong with the idea that the society must be guided by a select elite? Surely this is a much better idea than letting a savage multitude run amok in the streets?
it's like I'm browsing a literature board and there are threads about not literature getting 270 posts
ANYONE WHO POSTS BELOW ME IS A NEWFAG AND NEEDS TO GET THE FUCK BACK TO /POL/
>>8157839
>what is objectively wrong
>from your subjective position
What's it called when it's a small guy like that? What's the name of the disease or condition or whatever? It's hilarious.
Hey /lit/,
I have this idea for a short story. Basically guy is emotionally crippled by his parents, lives a shitty life (emotionally) and decides he will kidnap a woman and amputate parts of her to sort of send a message to the world of visible and invisible handicaps. Story also touches questions of god's existence, his (in)activity and male(manifest) and female(latent) power in society.
Now I'm thinking what sort of amputation would be proper (perhaps i could take something biblical?) to reflect this man's emotional scars? I was thinking amputation...
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it's shit
>>8157834
You're a weirdo.
Go back to /r9k/
>>8157834
What's his connection to handicapped people? Why does he care about them? Why does he decide to do it? Did his emotional crippling lead him down this path, or was it arbitrary (his choice to go after handicapped people)?
Why do you want to bring God into it? Does it have to do with his emotional crippling?
Does amputation really take little away from women? Like your image, arms perhaps don't take away much; however, personally, if it were her legs being gone I would find her less attractive....
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'The Library of Babel' - Jorge Luis Borges:
>I have just written the word “infinite”.' I have not interpolated this adjective out
of rhetorical habit; I say that it is not illogical to think that the world is infinite.
Those who judge it to be limited postulate that in remote places the corridors and
stairways and hexagons can conceivably come to an end--which is absurd.
Those who imagine it to be without limit forget that the possible number of books
does have such a limit.
Does it really, though?...
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At some point the books won't fit on the shelves anymore
>>8157655
The books are all exactly 401 pages, which leads me to believe that they're all split up into different volumes.
>>8157658
410* pages, sorry
>write for 10 minutes (if lucky)
>lurk lit for 30
>write for another 10
>lurk a bit more
>write for 10
>lurk
>write
>lurk
>lurk
>lurk
>write
>lurk...
How do I make it stop?
>>8157634
Turn off your internet.
Easier if you've got a desktop, just unplug ethernet and throw it to the other side of the room. The urge to browse /lit/ is compulsive and thoughtless. By adding any degree of difficulty, you force yourself to think about what you're doing and realize that it's not what you should be doing.
Don't be afraid to stop writing for a minute or two and think if you feel you need to though
>No time for reading
typical/lit/ "writer" lmao
work with a pomodoro timer
25 minute bursts, 5 min breaks
changed my life
So....why is this considered a classic again?
>>8157624
>being this pleb
>inb4 frogposters
>>8157632
I'm asking seriously.
I'm 100 pages in and so far every chapter is just frivolous dialogue that's centered around the (non)characters making witty ripostes at each other. At times it reads like a disjointed come-back manual.
It's exactly as though an autist sat down and ran a script on how he thinks conversations should go.
The only way it could be impressive is if you are memed as fuck and fascinated by bombastic Briticisms. There's zero substance.
>>8157643
At least you seem to be impressed by the wit of Austen. That's something.
In "The World as Will and Representation", section 6, he says that the world of appearances is dependent upon the first observer. However, this observer is also dependent on the world, since a chain of phenomena dictated by causality created him.
This antimony is resolved by saying that "time, space and causality do not belong to the thing-in-itself, but only to its appearance of phenomenon, of which they are the form."
However, before the first observer, there weren't appearances, just the things-in-themselves, since there was no observer....
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>>8157620
His answer to the antinomy does not resolve the problem at all. Well noticed (even though it is absolutely silly that the problem is so little mentioned among readers). It is a notorious problem in his philosophy, for which Schopenhauer offered no more than a pseudo-solution (the one you mentioned).
>>8157848
Has anyone else (Nietzsche?) proposed a solution without changing the whole system?
>>8158282
There is no satisfactory solution except for modifying Schopenhauer's conception of the world as will, for it remains inconceivable that something could come into existence out of a world devoid of time, space, matter and causality (i.e. the world as will). Nietzsche is in fact one of the earliest to acknowledge the problem: http://www.cambridge.org/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521855846&ss=exc (point 4).
So, does /lit/ actually buy books, or do you only get them from the library?
Are you the audience that matters?
I buy some books, I lend some books, I pirate some books, I borrow some books
Look at me! I'm average!
How much do you guys spend on books per month?
>>8157610
10 euros a month for two books in used condition from amazon mostly
I just finished reading Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas. Where do I go from here in regards to Hunter S. Thompson?
>>8157598
>reading degenerate liberals
Try Mein Kampf instead.
Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72
I think the rest didn't impress me that much
>>8157598
You grow up and stop reading Thompson.
How are you plotting your novel? I tried the stream of consciousness method and ended up with incoherent shit, so I'm starting to take plotting seriously.
>pic related, how the greatest author of all time does it
>>8157586
Greatest author of all time?
Really, kid?
Heh. Stick around here for a while and you'll soon figure out that you've been brainwashed by the liberal media gay agenda machine.
REAL intellectuals read the greatest ACTUAL authors, not trash like Rowling. I'm thinking, of course, of the likes of David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon, and Gass.
>>8157591
not funny.
>>8157593
Whereas calling Rowling the GOAT is absolutely hysterical
