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This board is growing useless.
I wish I could find relationships with uncomfortable power imbalances in real life...
>>8026177
Is /his/ better? I might emigrate there.
>>8026212
/his/ is baby brain people going WUTS UR FAVORITE HISTORICAL FIGURE
Wondering if I am correct in thinking that Stephen King's older material is better than newer creations.
Also significantly underrated by university lecturers...
>>8026172
That's like saying my current shit isn't as good as yesterday's shit. It's still shit.
I did enjoy Salem's Lot, though.
>>8026184
The Shining is a classic!
>>8026172
I think his short stories are pretty good.
>worldbuilding
>working on races
>can't stop seeing similarities to other races
>mfw no unique snowflake races no matter how hard I try
How do I get out of this trap?
>>8026136
the sweet release of death
When learning a skill you have to imitate for a while before you can do anything original
>see: music, visual arts, meditation, all trades and livelihoods
>How do I get out of this trap?
Pull out of her ass slowly...
Why is every response to existential crises a call to pile on shitloads of spooks? You know religion is used to take advantage of people, right? You know lit affects religious inclinations in order to portray a veneer of "patricianhood" based on "respect" for "culture" (i.e. pseudo intellectual masturbation), right?
You know that philosophy (ignoring mathematics or science) cannot lead to non trivial conclusions, right? You know that literature is pushed as "an insight in to the human condition" (or anything more pretentious than...
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how many le epic troll threads are made every minute?
its like a constant conveyor belt of /b/ tier shit all the time
>>8025931
it is truly depressing. authenticity was lost when money became god.
>>8025931
Mathematics and science are trivial, though.
>You know religion is used to take advantage of people, right?
This is a myth
What would you say is the best literary version of the Faust legend?
it's a horrible comparison desu. i think i've probably read more faust retellings than anyone else on this board (though im missing a major one in the recognitions) and i think it's pretty futile to compare them like this. the reason the legend is so popular is that it is simultaneously subject and universal, and can be tailored to many highly particular circumstances and narratives while remaining enlightening. as such it's really a very apples to oranges comparison to rank them.it's goethe fampai
>>8025934
thanks for the answer
>>8025934
i'll have to reread The Recognitions, i think.
Thoughts about Popular Penguins?
I can't read a book unless it looks good.
i hardly ever touch penguin unless it's the only publication or not much information exists on other publications.
Oxford is superior, so is loeb for latin, nyrb for "obscure", everymans library is good for collections which might be hard to find elsewhere, they group up lots of authors short stories, and they look good too.
>>8025921
I can't stand the black gutenburg reprints, but the orange penguins are good, cheap literature. They also makes it easier to read Lolita in public.
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modern day reading is a tool to help the ugly a priori suicidal people
What about shitposting on a Chinese bird watching image board
>>8025930
shitposting=accepting your fate
reading=fueling subhumanity and furthering your delusion that you are doing something worthwhile
everyone is laughing at you behind your back when you mention that you read books "for fun"
>>8025920
best screencap of him iv ever seen, well done anon
Hey /lit/ I don't go here often but I just read Fahrenheit 451 and it fucking blew my mind, I just love how it deconstructed the psychology of conformity and group think. Does anyone know any similar novels about the dangers of conformity and how social conforms can harm?
1984 and Brave new world come to mind. I'm sure there's more, but those are the ones I know.
>>8025910
I've read both of them, probably should've added that to my post but yeah they're great.
I also loved Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Was it the first book you've ever read or something?
What's the best edition of World as Will available on Amazon? Is it necessary to read both editions?
what's wrong with the edition on zeno?
http://www.zeno.org/Philosophie/M/Schopenhauer,%20Arthur/Die%20Welt%20als%20Wille%20und%20Vorstellung
>>8025731
Uh, I don't speak German.
>hur dur reading a translation hur dur
bump again
So it's all just Lacanian symbolism?
>>8025669
I think I remember hearing that David Lynch is into psychoanalysis and that probably comes up a lot in his films, but I don't know any specifics. Btw, does anyone know what Mulholland Drive was about?
>>8025718
>Btw, does anyone know what Mulholland Drive was about?
A failed actresses descent into insanity. (She's probably really a crack whore though. You can do that and still be insane, how odd.)
>>8025718
Love. That's what lynch say at least.
What does /lit/ think of the Otherland series?
i have fond memories of reading these as a teenager; I refuse to reread them as a snobby 30-something because I doubt they've aged well
>>8026286
Books dont age anon, you do
Terrible. A waste of my time. The world war I story was the only redeeming factor and Williams completely fucked that up too, unsurprisingly.
How do I get started with this man?
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage, easy
Don't. He isn't very good
>>8025642
this or norwegian wood
Is Chomsky worth reading? Why, or why not?
absolutely not, he's an intellectual of the blandest order, and is only designed to distract from reality with terms obsequious to the most sneering globalists. don't bother reading any of his claptrap. at the worst, his concepts have already been absorbed by you if you have any social awareness.
i prefer listening to him for that sweet asmr. wish he would crumple some plastic or something while he does it tho.
>>8025441
Rec me some anti-globalists who aren't drooling manosphere retards
What's the most blatant example of classism in the study of Western Literature and why is it the Shakespeare Authorship Debate?
>>8025090
the most blatant example of classism in the study of Western Literature is leftist authors complaining about the successful
>>8025245
>leftist authors complaining about the successful
unless the successful is a leftist
there is literally no debate around Shakespearean authorship within academia
hollywood making movies and cracked articles does not count as "study of western literature"
Should religion exist?
Most religious texts have violent aspects and are widely misinterpreted e.g. Westboro' Baptist Church, ISIS, Wirathu.
Is religion outdated?
Also general religious text thread.
>>8025034
>Should
Wrong question.
>>8025034
They also have beautiful passages about the virtues of man. What's your point?
As for its being outdated, what does that even mean? It's not a science.
Should politics exist?
Most political texts have violent aspects and are widely misinterpreted e.g. Maoists, Stalinists, Neo-nazis.
Is politics outdated?
