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Do you feel influenced by yours parents? I noticed that sometimes my mom says something and I take that without salt. I first thought this was bad but now I feel OK with this. Maybe I'm a good sheeple.
>>8090010
My dad is an undereducated blue-collar pastor and my mom was born and raised in the Philippine jungle, so no.
my mom is as mediocre as it gets, so she is definitely not.
i respect my dad, but i am not influenced by him either. perhaps in childhood, him having read a lot of books might have encouraged me to do the same, but i believe there are many other reasons to that.
I'm inversely influenced by my parents. I don't want to become like them
How long did it take you to realize that every author philosopher etc is just projecting his own personal experience on outside events? And that this projection is accepted merely because it is told in shared terms that make people think they understand/relate to it?
pic unrel
>>8089823
not long at all, but every time I point it out the pseuds on /lit/ bitch and moan at me
who cares
>>8089823
What "personal experience" was Alonzo Church projecting?
How do I purge my writing of the existential angst, Stirner worship, bitterness due to never having had female attention even through university, and r9k edginess in general?
I'm not capable of writing two pages without letting it show
>>8089648
Just let it show then. Your writing won't be very mature, but not everyone is meant to be a talented writer.
>>8089648
Write 1k more, you'll grow out of it. In the meantime, that is what you are.
write about the life you'd have if you actually read stirner. pretend you ran away to venice on stolen money to fuck an immigrant hooker with AIDS who can sing. it'll be slated as a transparent rip off of dame aux camelias and donjuan but you'll be forgiven if you're young.
where do I start with this chart, lit? Can someone give some basic guidance? I don't suppose there's any flow charts or something?
Its surrealist shit, just pick one.
If you really need a jumping point then Street of Crocodiles will do it.
>>8089378
>any flow charts or something?
here ya go anon
>>8089378
I know its slightly unrelated, but Im halfway thru The ticket that exploded and I found out that its the second book in a series. Should I read The soft machine so I can understand it better?
have you guys read this. I've never seen a book with such high reviews on goodreads.
(((((((((((((((((((Goodreads Author))))))))))))))))))))))))
That's all I need to say.
>>8089377
what exactly does that mean?
>>8089377
what does that mean?
I really like the Harry Potter series and was thinking of reading along while listening to the audiobooks.
But I was wondering if /lit/ could maybe recommend something different as I've read the Potter series twice through. I've read The Hobbit, but not any Lord of the Rings. Should I do that instead? Thoughts?
Start with the Greeks
>>8089134
First of all, coming to /lit/ for this kind of advice was a bad ideal.
Second, reading along with audiobooks will make you stupider.
Third, if you're going straight from Harry Potter to LOTR, you're not going to enjoy it. Read some contemporary adult fantasy like Terry Brooks, Pratchett, Martin or Robert Jordan before tackling Tolkien. It's not particularly difficult, just dryer but much more poetic and meaningful than shit you're used to.
You wrote two paragraphs[2[6]] to troll?[5] That's[9] what I[8] call dedication to the craft[1].
[1]the craft of trolling
[2]speaking in first person, speaking to first person in thread[3]
[5]This symbol is a question mark.
[6]I'm[7] using these number designations as notes so the reader can better understand what I'm[7] writing since I'm bad at writing and can't convey my message properly in the text itself.
[8]selfishness personified
[9]ambiguous[10]
[3]OP[4]
[7]the author
[10]read 7 types of ambiguity[11]
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Why is he so Underrated?
>>8089106
>Why is he so Underrated?
Underrated isn't a proper noun, it's a verb
also did you really have to include that? You already know people will hate you for that, and if you don't then you clearly aren't very underrated.
>>8089113
Why are you trying so hard to be intellectual?
>>8089106
He isn't underrated, he is widely credited for his influence on different "isms" and also on subsequent philosophers.
If you mean underrated in the sense that there is not as wide of an interest in him by the general population as there is with others or that there is not a consensus among academics that he was a more important philosopher then others then its because he isn't really as unique or original as many people on /lit/ seem to think he his.
His ideas were just the latest...
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Why can't i find the original greek myths (or any myth stories for that matter) anywere on the net? We use them to flavor our stories and refrence them to the point that you would think WE made them, but i can't read them any were? I want to read about the trials of herculeas, and all the other greek myth heros. I want to read about the clash of the titans, but i can't because apparently hollywood has them locked up in a vault somewhere only to be taken out to make movies. Can someone point me to were i can read most (if not all) the stories in there original...
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>>8089076
I'm monitering this thread, i've asked myself this same question before but never really cared enough to search..
Here: http://www.library.theoi.com/
The best surviving works, as you probably know already, are from Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.
>>8089101
Check out here too: http://www.theoi.com/Bibliography.html
The entire Theoi website is good for the matter.
Keep in mind there's no such thing as the 'original story', ancient Greek culture was mainly transmitted by oral forms and poets and rhapsodes used to modify the myths by their own desires. Even in tragedies, the mythical stories differ between the authors.
What are some books that try to sell you a scam or a lie that I should watch out for?
Obligatory warning of religious texts
>>8089022
Thanks for the heads up. I started reading the Koran recently. XD
>>8089016
Psychology textbooks
Sociology textbooks
Highschool counselor's list of top 10 anything
what's a book that will make me stop wanting to die
For me, it was the myth of Sisyphus
>>8089012
You mean the one that literally ends with "Just pretend your happy :D"
>>8089012
ummm yeah dude just find excitement in the grass around u.... pushing boulders up mountains for eternirty isnt that bad...
More like pic related? Looking for recs outside of the decadents and surrealists, since I already know most of them.
That really doesn't capture how much of a qt Rimjaub was
Augusto dos Anjos.
>>8088877
How about this one, anon?
>>8088895
I can't seem to find his work in English, has it not been translated?
I spent at least the last year reading exclusively depressing and serious literature.
Today I'm feeling great though, so can I get some more upbeat recommendations?
Loner male protagonist is still fine (even preferred).
Pic not really related
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion was boring.
dreamers by Knut hamsun
Berserk - Miura
Why do people want to appear grown-up and mature?
And no memes, I want to really look at why people will go out of their way to shit on good books made for children on here
>>8088806
They, like most people, are the tragic victims of ideology.
Unconscious desire for the opposite sex in a sufficient quantity of their residing habitat to procreate and extend their species in the ultimate goal in insemination of the macrocosm.
>>8088806
Like most things in life, its a problem of balance. The uptight stoic cliche of his time, has been replaced by a hyper-emotional, unreliable wuss, who's embraced the gradual cultural retardation that seems to be the legacy of this period, and the three generations before it.
I also think that, like so many of these types of things, he was reacting to people who were being too self-conscious, or inauthentic. People who wear nothing but trilbies and are afraid to show emotion are about as insufferable at...
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Who am I?
Infinite Jest
What symbol is that?
a girl is no one
I just bought this, on a scale from one to succ how much did I get memed on? I have never really be interested in spiritualism and stuff but after some research this book did seem really interesting and most importantly creative as hell.
beezleboob lol
Gurdjieff gave a very specific reason why he wrote the book that way in the introduction, you could read his others next since he did acknowledge how difficult it was for many.
dude you been smoking that beezlebud lmfao
