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I am terrified of transhumanism. Got any great books on the subject that will help me put the subjet into perspective? I am not into science at all so, obviously, I am not looking for something too complicated.
>>7985369
Lem's Cyberiad.
The story goes like this:
>>7985447
I'm not looking for someone who totally agrees with transhumanism and wants to show that it's the best thing ever, if that's what it is. Just saying.
I'll check it anyway, thanks anon.
In order to learn a little bit about ourselves, we are going to write twenty-four word poems that describe who we are as individuals. These poems must...
consist of EXACTLY 24 words
contain AT LEAST 2 figures of speech
be autobiographical in nature (i.e. the poem must be about YOU!)
*SOME TIPS TO REMEMBER*
Make sure your poem has a title!
EVERY WORD COUNTS - SO CHOOSE CAREFULLY!
Figures of speech you may use include: simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and personification.
Adjectives are words that describe something (i.e. happy, hungry, speedy, slow, heartfelt,...
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>>7985206
"My Diary, To Be Honest"
a poem, by Anon
imagine an onion
each layer another mask
worn just for you
play pretend I'm painless pumpkin
cut deep, and find only your own tears
Hey /lit. Sorry for the memes, but what do you think you need to read before reading the Tunnel? I heard that there is a fair amount of reference in this book, as with Ulysses, and I want to be able to understand it to the best of my ability. If it's like Ulysses in that you don't really need to know the references to understand the book, that would be great.
you don't need to have read the entire western canon. if you're familiar with shakespeare, the bible and the greeks you're fine for the tunnel, ulysses and just about anything with "references".
https://youtu.be/x9lI69-Bwd0
>>7985116
nice one uncle
>>7985122
im not your uncle thanks
i enjoyed this and i dont usually enjoy faggot shit
What does /lit/ see in this book? I'm half way through it and it seems to me like an endless book of well-written inspirational quotes. I'm not liking it.
>>7984991
I'm reading it right now as well OP. I'm loving it. I feel like I can breathe after a lifetime of dying. Pesso a so perfectly captures profound arguments for solitude, literature, and has some fascinating rejections of common obsessions that were way ahead of his time.
Well it may seem like a bunch of quotes because it really isn't a book with a linear story; however, if you put effort on what you are reading you will find a perspective of life from a depressive man that is very rational and very lucid. It is not an easy reading but it is an extremely rewarding one; much like his poetry.
>inspirational quotes
i hope you're joking
>"All video games are trash that tell us nothing about the human condition! Now I'll go read the latest Pynchon pomo lol so randumn book while I masturbate to myself reading it with the other hand!"
>>7984975
To be fair, if you trusted Kojima all the time, we would probably be in a mental institution.
Why are you being aggressive?
Could you please explain your reasoning behind using two forms of quotation notation in a post that does not contain an actual quote?
Is there a book that more or less describes the real world for NEETs and naive people?
As most anons are college students and graduates, it's clear that university doesn't teach shit like when to man up and do things, how to start reading, or the nature of finding jobs and so on.
A book we can just spam to anybody asking these questions would be gr8.
On The Road.
>>7984965
OP pretends to want to be able to "help" others when he really just wants such a book for himself.
You can polish with some self-improvement/help career book, but what you really need is not a book, but a father, or more generally a good set of parents. R9K users regularly self-report that they themselves are the products of single motherhood, or of what they believed to be poor parenting.
Unpopular opinion: r9k, in spite of its own (collective) self-pity, actually understands fairly well...
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>>7984965
No Longer Human
Shutting out the Sun: How Japan Created its Own Lost Generation on Hikkimorri
The Japanese problem foresaw the rise of neetdom
hey people, I wanna read some Habermas where should I start? An essay would be nice.
>>7984885
start with adorno
>>7984885
I am not a fan of Habermas at all, his writing is so dry and bureaucratic.
Here is a secret fact for you
in Spanish Habermas means Havemore
;)
Recommended WWII literature, preferably non-fiction.
>Pic semi-related, based off the experiences of a teenage Belrussian partisan.
>>7984828
>>7984828
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Way_for_the_Gas,_Ladies_and_Gentlemen
>>7984833
I've read somewhere that he completely made up that whole story. It might be /pol/-tier conspiracy, but I can see it being true.
Memes aside, is he not the greatest modern American prose writer? After reading the The Recognitions, I was immediately struck by how consistently high quality the level of prose is throughout the book, despite its incredible length. This man is so fucking based and if any of you fucks haven't read his shit, you should do so immediately. Of all the memes or pseudomemes on this site, Gaddis is probably one of the greatest and the most underread so get on it.
You can't sell anyone on it that way.
Post a nice passage and maybe we'll believe you.
>you're chilling in a Gaddis thread
>suddenly, a gassposter rocks up and slaps your gfs ass
What do?
>>7984782
Silly OP, /lit/ doesn't want to be challenged (lol) or to work, it wants to be rewarded for name-dropping and posturing. Let's leave that for all Gass-posting and Gass-related threads. Gaddis is synonymous with work, and in the best sense of the word. The work is the world built out of the word, the worth plumbed out of the plumed work.
Yes, I am extremely drunk right now.
Happy, in rain or thunder
I just keep on dancin'
>>7984793
hey there, I'm a huge fan of Ellie, but this is definitely one of her worst songs
all of her songs are kinda shit but this one's extra shit
should i read this?
of course, he's the greatest science fiction writer of the modern age
>>7984657
Jokes aside, he's not bad and worth reading. Don't expect too much, though.
>>7985045
whoops, i meant bad and not worth reading
what does /lit/ think of robert a heinlein?
>>7984586
A scribbler of juvenile adventure stories.
>>7984586
DUDE THE ARMY IS SO COOL EVERYONE SHOULD KILL LOTS OF BAD GUYS AND GET TOUGH OR THEY AREN'T MEN
Literally 6 years old.
>>7984617
He was literally six years old? Wow, that's impressive that he managed to get so many novels published when he was literally six years old. Crazy to think that one of the most revered science-fiction authors of all time was none other than a literal six year old. Hell, even if his books aren't that wonderful, I'll still give him a helluva lot of credit, because he wrote them when he was literally six years old.
how is duke's program in critical theory?
pls no shitposts
>>7984532
It used to be great when Fish was the Department head and it was the all-star team of critical theorists in America but naturally too many egos ruined the department and I'm not sure if its bounced back yet (I only know this because one of my professors at Davidson was there for all of this)
http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9902/yaffe.html
>>7984549
isn't fish something of a meme in academia at this point?
>>7984559
At this point, yeah. That's not to say at one point he wasn't kind of a powerhouse, unfortunately every professor has found a way of adapting "Is There A Text in This Class?" into an excuse for not professing quality material or expected undergraduate work but really niche texts of study that defy canonization, but really they're usually really gimmicky and bad, professors use them as low-hanging fruit. There's pretty much a trifecta in every liberal arts class now of learning: Duchamp's...
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>Friend writes a rough draft of a novel he's envisioning and makes me read it
>it's shit
>too polite him to tell him that it's bad and riddled with cliches that has been visited by writers across thousands of years
>try to stealthily recommend him to read some books that are similar to the genre he's going for so he can improve
>"lol I don't read books."
>tell...
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>>7984457
>writes book
>"lol I don't read books."
People do this?
>>7984457
get a new friend
>>7984463
He's a pretty good guy to have around at most times and he's definitely not stupid. I have no idea why he went full retard on this issue.
>>7984462
He believes watching the movie adaptions of books are better than actually reading them. I had to keep my face straight when I hear this the first time.
