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Is there any value to reading science books from the past? Does anyone do this? How do you find them?
>>7891389
find them to be, I mean, not how do you locate them.
>>7891389
>Is there any value to reading science books from the past?
>Is there any value to reading science books
>Is there any value to reading books
>Is there any value to reading
>Is there any value
>Is there value
you tell me
only ones worth reading are aristotle's and de rerum natura to be honest
I've read Infinite Jest and I'm addicted to drugs but I still don't feel sincere enough to go to rehab. What books will help make me more sincere?
You gotta read it again. Wallace said it was a book that was designed to be read at least twice. That's why the jest is infinite. You keep reading it over and over until you're sincere.
>>7891357
tbqhwy maybe. There are many routes you could take when you start reading books. Maybe you'll start thinking you're better than everyone because you've read some fucking meme books. In that case, no, you'll remain or become a condescending dick. But for the most part, I think books help to teach you to empathize with people. The "human condition" meme seems like bullshit, but I do think that reading has actually helped me understand people and myself a lot ever since I started to read.
rehabs for losers bro. you don't need that shit. rehab isn't something you chose. the people I've known who went to rehab were fucking pathetic sorry sad excuses for human beings who have lost everything. I can you ain't there yet nigga.
Hello everyone, I'm creating a story that revolves around a high technology universe, but the thing is... with high developed AI it makes nonsense for humans to go to battle, or even battle at all, since the universe is so huge.
So, how can I write a story in the future that would make sense for humans to fight without Artificial intelligence?
I've been thining about a virus that is spreading through AI and computers, something like Megaman X.
It's not so good, but could work, I've never liked how Star Wars or Star Trek handle this.
Also to keep it /lit/ related make posts with your favorite poem
Fra Lippo Lippi
—That is—you'll not mistake an idle word
Spoke in a huff by a poor monk, God wot,
Tasting the air this spicy night which turns
The unaccustomed head like Chianti wine!
Oh, the church knows! don't misreport me, now!
It's natural a poor monk out of bounds
Should have his apt word to excuse himself:
And hearken how I plot to make amends.
I have bethought me: I shall paint a piece
... There's for you! Give me six months, then go, see
Something...
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>>7891341
>for humans to fight without Artificial intelligence
Look into Mutually Assured Destruction, op. It might be close to what you're thinking.
>Jews in the Land of Israel
>>7891341
check out some of Charles Stross' short stories. he, too, has come up against the idea of conflict in a world with AIs.
AI is a little like having God appear in the book. strong AI renders everything meaningless, because it can do anything, solve any problems, and if AI can solve your problem then there's no conflict for the protagonist to deal with, and no story.
perhaps you might like to consider the idea of AI that isn't perfect... that is fatally flawed by the limitations of...
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Can /lit/ recommend me some fascist literature. I'm an edgy motherfucker is all.
why is the fasces a symbol of power? it looks really unwieldy. anybody with a sword could just come fuck you up if you were trying to swing a huge pile of sticks around.
Ezra Pound by The Cantos.
Wow dude lmao
I cant tell if I love literature just so I feel superior or if its because I have a genuine passion.
anyone else get this feel? does it even matter?
(inb4 "everyone on /lit/ reads to feel superior")
everyone on /lit/ reads to feel superior
Does it matter?
>>7891326
case closed lads
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction or Minima Moralia?
Which one should I read first, /lit/? Delving into this madman's work without reading Marx is much of a bad idea as it seems?
w then mm
>>7891755
Withouthair then Moustache Man?
or
WillemScholem'sBoypussy then MemedbyMarcuse?
>>7891227
>The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
i'm not sure if i'm misunderstanding your post because i've been drinking wine but this work is by walter benjamin, regardless i would highly recommend it
I know there's a fair amount of Freudians/Lacanians on here and I don't feel like /r9k/ asking that.. or any other board really.. but what does it mean when your gf calls you daddy?
She wants you to take on the role of a lover and a paternal figure. Expect her to eventually regress and start acting like a child in the bedroom. Worst case scenario she will want to wear diapers.
It means that at least you have a gf
>>7891160
I should note that her father cheated on her mother and it's no secret in the family.
They're still together for the family's sake. But she ignores her father and so does he.
>DFW when you know you're 1/5th of the way through writing the first draft of something that will definitely be canon if you actually finish it
I honestly think this is the Ulysses of the 21st Century. And no, before you ask, I'm not telling you what it's about or posting any samples. I don't want your grubby, semen-encrusted NEET hands touching this thing.
Let me know when it's published. Senpai.
>>7891142
well we all can see you have Joyce's ego
>>7891150
I'll be sure to come back here and let you bask in its glory once it gets published.
can I get some underrated female writer recs? I'm sick of Virginia Woolf, the Brontes and Jane Austen. I want more like Martha Gellhorn and pic related
>>7891139
Willa Cather.
try Jezebel
they're all up in arms about Gay Talese not liking women writers
>>7891139
Hey, OP. ;)
What are some good books on Christian ethics, /lit/, aside from the New Testament?
Pic unrelated
Christian.. ethics?
that'd be in the fantasy section, wouldn't it?
The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis.
Sickness unto Death
Why is John Green the greatest novelist in modern times? Does it bother you to know he will be praised by women for decades?
>>7891115
Why does everyone think he is a cuck? Just because he has different opinions? The fact is the majority of people like him, so maybe you guys are all wrong.
Look I get that this is a troll thread and you think you're really gonna rustle some jimmies or something but honestly I couldn't care less. He writes YA fiction, it's really popular. He does youtube videos with his brother, they're really popular. So what. It's like people on here actually get mad when someone does things that the general public likes. Get over yourselves and get over the urge to troll those people that can't.
>>7891188
Okay we get it you want his babies
Can someone rec a book which causes a similar feeling as this song?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CfYl6_f2Mdg
Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald. Maybe The Emigrants by the same author, which is similar in some ways.
The song also makes me think of the ending of Stoner, but it's an easy book to think of because /lit/ talks about it so much. It's a good book though.
Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" comes to mind (short, poignant), as well as Milan Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (for an indeterminate reason). I suppose it reminds me of someone I used to know, and these were what I was reading when I knew her, but the shades of meaning and gravity hit upon on a touchstone. Read them, though.
Looking to get into poetry, no idea where to start.
I've read some Bukowski, but I wasn't really into it. Would appreciate some recommendations very much!
Pic not really related.
Wait until a year from now where you say, "Holy fuck, I can't believe I was going to kill myself before I etcetera'd...before I went skinny dipping in Tennessee, made my own IPA, tried out for a game show, rode a camel drunk, skydived alone, learned to waltz with clumsy old people, photographed electric jellyfish, built a sailboat from trash, taught someone how to read, etc. etc. etc."
The red washing down the bathrub can't change the color of the sea at all.
>>7890968
To be fair, the last stanza worked pretty well, except for the "at all". Aside from that, it ain't good.
what a piece of shit poem
Opening paragraph to something I'm writing, can I get some feedback. Also post your own stuff.
The sun bleeds into the sands, sinking lower into the ground with each labored breath, until it is no more. As it’s life force rises in great invisible waves of heat the earth cries softly as each inch freezes over. The darkness that remains behind is greater than what preceded it, mighty and loathsome, nipping at the moon's heels with a greedy mouth. Beneath the saguaro, the small animals bed down, waiting and hoping that the darkness will not find them in their...
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>>7890861
Really like it.
Is it a novel? Seems more like a poem to me, a good one at that
May be a comment on me but I don't understand what is actually going on here despite it sounding pretty.
"As it’s life force rises in great invisible waves of heat the earth cries softly as each inch freezes over. The darkness that remains behind is greater than what preceded it, mighty and loathsome, nipping at the moon's heels with a greedy mouth."
what did dear Soren mean by this?
>>7890828
Are you literally retarded?
It means you can only understand the significance of events in your life after they are already over.
McLuhan makes the same point more metaphorically when he says that life is like driving a car and only being able to look in the rear-view mirror.
>>7890828
is that too close to determinism or am i just dumb?
>>7890828
It is easier to predict the cause of an event by seeing the effect of the event than vice-versa.
