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Was it rape?
>>7845374
is this literature?
>>7845441
Of course it is.
Yes. It's pretty funny how many people on here missed the subtle-as-a-brick-to-the-head implication
Writers, do you fuck around with philosophy/anthropology/sociology/biology/astrology, or do you just tell a cool story just because it's cool?
If you do the first, I wanna hear who you read when you write (Nietzsche? Benjamin? Derrida, et cetera).
I don't fully understand the question
I just tell cool stories for cool people.
*puts on sunglasses*
8)
>>7845313
Evolutionary biology and Nietzsche are pretty big influences on what I am writing right. Maybe also the anxiety of influence.
You make it sound like the choice is to integrate the stuff into your work because you have some axe to grind or you just write because the story because it seems fun. I write about these things because they are fun and interesting to me and are "cool".
opinions?
sorry for fiction :-(
>>7845254
reddit general?
>>7845269
You're not helping, /pol/
>>7845269
ARE
Read books in classics series, Penguin Classics, NYRB Classics, SF Masterworks and that sort of thing.
I get to the end where they have a couple of pages listing the other books in the series. I read through and mentally tick off all the ones I've read. I feel a great sense of satisfaction if I've read at least a quarter of the titles listed. Like it's some great accomplishment or something.
Am I the only person who does this?
>>7845221
I do but I get a pen and check them off
>>7845221
Probably 30% of the satisfaction I get from reading is the subsequent mental masturbation of listing the books or authors I have experience with.
>be debating
>someone uses a situation that would likely never happen in reality as solidification to there ideals
>start combating in hypothetical situations
If someone proves a point using a scenario that would never happen, would they still be right?
>>7845196
>to there
also /lit/ - literature
>>7845196
>what is grammar
>what is a basic understanding of logic
>what is an on topic post
>what is making any sense at all
No
The judge will realize that a hyperbolic hypothetical situation is a last ditch attempt to prove the validity of a point.
The opposition should be able to simply point out that the imagined situation is unlikely to ever occur, and therefore any conclusions drawn from it are unsupported.
E.g. The debate is that donuts are better than crackers
>Well, donuts are better than crackers because they are round, so if you made a giant donut you could race nascars around it, and then use it to solve the world's hunger crisis after...
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What third world country do you visit when you write?
Morocco for me
america
>>7845170
this
UK
>implying Nietzsche advocated nihilism
great reddit meme there, friend
I hope you enjoy you stay, there are many great memes to be had on our board here.
>>7845146
Even though this maymay slightly triggers me I still appreciate it. I enjoy how you are fostering a sense of elitism. I think that making people feel guilty about only knowing one or two philosophers is a good idea, this promotes diversity. But I do feel that if we are to inspire a sense of elitism and cultivate intelligence in /lit/ browsers then we must also scrutinize our maymay imagery. The maymay that you used is outdated. The "condescending Willy Wonka" has spread to may corners of internet culture...
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There are different types of nihilism. I DOUBT you have even read Nietzsche's letters where he tells his friend the secret to understanding his philosophy.
Would Hegel have agreed with the
>2016
concept
That is, since spirit is always testing it against itself doesn't that mean that the further we are in time the more rational we are supposed to be in a way?
Hegel felt history had already reached its conclusion in his time
>>7845201
do you know what text he says it in?
He says a lot of things that seem to contradict that. I thought one of his main points was that consciousness is always changing
interesting thought
![Angela_Merkel_(2008)[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/8XJ7nkd.jpg "Angela_Merkel_(2008)[1].jpg")
What is your favorite Ayn Rand quote?
Mine is "First he put his thing up 'gainst my hip and sort of wiggle it around. Then he grab hold my titties. Then he push his thing inside my pussy"
im literally ejaculating right now
>>7845027
damn that nigga got picasso eye like a mother fucker
Mine personally is "There was a wisteria vine blooming for the second time that summer on a wooden trellis before one window, into which sparrows came now and then in random gusts, making a dry vivid dusty sound before going away: and opposite Quentin, Miss Coldfield in the eternal black which she had worn for forty-three years now, whether for sister, father, or nothusband none knew, sitting so bolt upright in the straight hard chair that was so tall for her that her legs hung straight and rigid as if she had iron shinbones and ankles, clear of the floor with that air of impotent and static rage like children’s feet, and talking in that grim haggard amazed voice until at last listening would renege and hearing-sense self-confound and the long-dead object of her impotent yet indomitable frustration would appear, as though by outraged recapitulation evoked, quiet inattentive and harmless, out of the biding and dreamy and victorious dust."
I want to git gud at reading comprehension, reading speed, and analyzing texts as fast as possible but without rushing it; and not necessarily at the same time.
Where do I start?
start by being mindful of those things while you're reading books
>>7844997
with the greeks
http://www.evergladeshs.org/ourpages/auto/2015/5/28/58122395/Adler%20Mortimer%20-%20How%20To%20Read%20A%20Book.pdf
thank me later
Finished the Greeks and Romans, what next?
>>7844996
Christians.
>>7844996
>Finished the Greeks
The greeks cannot be read; only re-read
one can only physically cease reading them, the well remains untapped
>>7844996
the Jews
post the worst/cringiest writing that you've ever heard someone else call good
https://kakistocracyblog.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/dorian-gray-conservatism/
http://reflexes.co/reflex/an-object-of-labor-2nd-edition.pdf
>>7844927
was this made with one of those postmodernism generators?
lel
I want to read plays from the modernist era. I have a good grasp on the novels and poetry of the time but am very ignorant of the Theater.
I would prefer to read plays like Faust that are not meant to be realistic and are maybe more allegorical, like closet dramas. Strindbergs dream play is pretty much the style I'm looking for but I'll take any rec's for good ones.
>>7844920
bump
>>7844920
I keep trying to have theater threads and nobody responds so I doubt this will go anywhere OP.
I've really enjoyed the following plays but I don't think they're particularly modernist.
Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
(the one with Dustin Hoffmann and John Malcovich, available on tpb)
Long Day's Journey into Night, Eugene O'neill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uVwAPVfDnI
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wifcyo64n-w
I...
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>>7845173
I've read "death of a salesman" and I've watched Waiting for Godot, and I preferred Godot much more than the former. Thanks for the O'Niell one.
Would anyone mind having a read on my introduction for an essay?
The essay is on whether the American Revolution was a revolution or not.
The American War of Independence, or the American Revolution, as it is otherwise - and, as will be established in this essay, inaccurately - known as, is an event that has inspired a rich historiography, with the subject of discourse often regarding whether it truly was a revolution. There have been neo-Whig scholars who have been convinced that the War of Independence was a progressive, radical movement, with far reaching social...
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>>7844855
f a g g o t
Don't you dare finish this fucking essay
A revolution can still be a revolution if it doesn't slide into an anti-aristocratic hellhole. Get your Leftist shit away from my Washington, ethnic minorities and women are not talked about in the constitution, since "minorities" are subhuman slaves and women are not men.
>>7845357
you are mad online
>>7845365
You are gay in real life
>U.P.:up
What does it mean? That he pees upwards?
>>7844785
i always that would be a sick tattoo
>>7844831
the U.p:up or the drawing? They would both make awful tattoos.
>>7844875
the drawing fuckface
you'd make an awful tattoo
