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Who /independentscholar/ here?
I'm reading The Independent Scholar's Handbook and seriously rethinking how I'll lead 2016.
I'm planning on writing articles since they're more palatable and looked for. What are your experiences with independent research?
I'm working my way through mortimer Adler recommended reading. His how to read a book changed my life.
I'll check out independent scholar
>peer reviews
Good luck.
I think you're delusional though.
Whatever keeps you NEETs and wagecucks from killing yourselves I guess...
I wish I was home,reading dubliners.
People are too loud.
What are you wishing for today,/lit/?
i wish for death
>>7842245
Let me tell you, you should wish for happiness instead. You may have forgotten what it feels like, but take my word for it, it's so much better than being asleep. It's really a great thing.
What's the best primer on Marxism for someone who's only interested in it to better understand postmodern philosophy and critical theory like Deleuze, Zizek, Debord, Baudrillard, etc.?
Infinite Jest
>>7841973
SWTG
Reading Capital, Louis Althusser
How much Georges Bataille should I read before I read this? Which works of his are best?
generally speaking, secondary texts on philosophers not explicitly billed as a good intro to their work assume a thorough knowledge of the philosopherbut ur just in it for the memes so who cares
>>7841464
Not memeing. That is why I want to know which one of his texts to read first. Like before Nick Land's book.
>>7841464
generally speaking, there are still a good number of books that are actually good introductions to a philosopher's thought.
faggot
Are the ancient greeks still revelant when it comes to philosophy?
Philosophy has its origins in ancient Greece and ancient Greek philosophers continue to serve as archetypes for us, so yes, they're definitely still relevant.
nigga that made my eyes hurt. let me answer you with a more relevant question:
is contemporary philosophy relevant, knowing what was done in ancient times?
Is philosophy even relevant anymore?
Have any of you guys actually read it? If so, is it worth the effort? How difficult is it as compared to Ulysses?
>>7838731
Ten times harder. You won't get anything from reading it
couldn't get past 30 pages
>tfw pleb
What is your favorite young adult/children book series?
pic related
post your tits if you're my ex-gf
i was a true young weeb
>>7838035
Boxcar children
Narnia
Spiderman novels
names thread. best names you've read or written
>buck mulligan
>lolita lola lo dolores haze
>mike pemulis
>slothrop
>ophelia
>
Luthien Tinuviel
why is pynchon the only guy who can pull off such absurd names and have them be lovable?
Big Brother
Gandalf
Dakota Fanning
discredit the author immediately words
I'll start
>perhaps
>Postmodern writer uses the phrase "it is"
unbelievable
>>7837798
You can start this thread without explaining the rules. If it just said ">perhaps" with that image we would know exactly what you meant
>>7837803
OMG HE'S RIGHT!
Are there any creative writers lurking?
Come share an excerpt of your work and get non-biased opinions and critique from strangers!
>>7815138
Here's some of my personal work.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/22eel64rohytbez/Until%20My%20Finest%20Hour%20%28Masterclass%20Submission%29.pdf?dl=0
ELgelt mishap porog quod the spooky man, that was wearing some spooky black clothes and a neat hat, okelar ko ishimag dro he continued spookily.
>>7815138
No. Almost everyone in these threads is a hack.
I want to start reading more 'literary' books. What is a good way to ease myself into it?
Start with the Greeks
Start with the classics
>>7844084
Start with Ulysses and devolve back to the greeks
Guise, could you help a brother? that's the story: My girlfriend and I live in different states, so it´s kinda hard to see her. But next week i am travelling to see her, but she doesn't know, and i wanted to surprise her with a poem (original, if possible), but i'm lacking creativity these days (i used to write some poems to my ex, but that's years ago)... So... Could you guys help?
>>7844037
Just write her something dumb bitch
>>7844037
Are you autistic?
What's the point of surprising your "girlfriend" with a poem if you don't even have the heart to write one?
Too long have we been held apart
by mere geography,
and o, how I do miss the times
when you would finger me.
But now I'm here,
surprise, take cheer,
to feel your fingers in my rear,
once more to sit upon your fist
(which, as of old, I'll gently kiss) -
and as I spooge, if right I wist,
to shed a single tear.
So join me now in revelry:
Stick two, nay three inside of me,
remember where my prostate be,
and pass this night unpeered.
>Thick Europa Lips, now braiding a gooey chain of spit around his dick, vacant eyes not wasting energy, head bent over one of the metal tentacles of the locomotive, throbbing waves of kilometers left behind, and she was on the sunny thoughtless shore, sending a message in a bottle, begging for him to thrust harder.
I picked a scab off my scalp while I read this, and the scab is sexier.
I jacked off while reading this, and the semen is sexier.
Have you ever had sex?
Hey, /lit/. /sci/ here.
Can you give me one, one example of a philosophical problem that was actually solved?
Thanks, I know I can count on you.
>>7843759
>philosophy problem
>solved
>philosophy is a zero sum game
Philosophical "problems" are not solved, only debated. You're welcome.
>he believes in solutions
>>7843773
So you concede that there is no point to it? If you can't find conclusive answers to the qustions raised then it is completely useless.
Guys, rate the first sentence of my new (approximately 600 page) novel. I release one chapter at a time and get paid by the character.
>It would be remiss of me to abstain from explicating to you, dear reader, the vagaries of happenstance that propitiated the fortuitous currents of fate that led my G*d fearing soul to my current state of events.
>>7843732
Is your narrator supposed to be a pompous try hard pseud?
rather lovecraftian
>>7843732
It's fedoric
