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Someone could explain the concept of "concept" in the hegelian philosophy?
Please, lit.
>concept
>not Concept (Konzept)
Please explain explain to me first OP.
/lit/ caturday thread
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>>7751160
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ITT: American military propaganda
>>7750990
Nah
>>7751053
YES.
>Don't mind other people, they'll die and change, you can't devote your life to them, choose your temple carefully
>You need to dedicate your life to something greater, like your NATION, LIKE YOUR COUNTRY
>DIE FOR YOUR NATION, DIE FOR YOUR COUNTRY
>JOIN THE ARMY HAL
What do you guys think of him?
Nobody?
Who is this demon?
>>7750989
Shestov is a hack.
Is it even worth taking the time to complete a novel?
I've found very minor success with my poetry, managing to get some published a while back. Since then, I've been working on a novel, but it's hard to believe it's worth it.
How valuable is a completed novel? If I really hunker down and work hard for the next six months, what can I realistically expect will happen once it's done?
If I pour my heart and time into something that ends up going nowhere, I'll probably kill myself. I've spent a lifetime suffering for the...
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fuck u, John K. don't worry about novels and go finish Cans Without Labels
If you just want attention do standup
>>7751049
lol'd
What does /lit/ think of Jonathan Lethem?
Also I need recommendations for more writers like him.
I was asking for suggestions on authors similar to Murakami and someone recommended Lethem. I haven't read any books of his yet.
who?
i really like his short stories, motherless brooklyn, amnesia moon, the one with the wisecracking kangaroo, and the fortress of solitude
i did not enjoy you don't love me yet
>Tfw you browse /lit/ with this playing in the background
>>7750955
>not browsing /lit/ in between OHP reps
>>7750955
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ldNSMnEeKio#!
>>7750969
>Not watching feminist slam poetry between sets
The anger increases my lifts by about 10 lbs.
>trying to get back into reading for the umpteenth time
>always wanted to read I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
>"When AM had altered Benny, during the machine's utterly irrational, hysterical phase, it was not merely Benny's face the computer had made like a giant ape's. He was big in the privates; she loved that! She serviced us, as a matter of course, but she loved it from him. Oh Ellen, pedestal Ellen, pristine-pure Ellen; oh Ellen the clean! Scum filth."
...All...
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>>7750905
>well written fiction
>no autism
Impossible.
So I've read the first two books in "the three body problem" series, and just started the "fear saga"- and although I've enjoyed both book series so far, they have an almost uncanny amount of overlap
Anybody else read them? Which do you prefer?
how much overlap is there? never even heard of stephen moss - looks like some self published shti on amazon? i guess it's possible he just ripped off liu cixin
anyway three body is excellent. top 5 sci fi series of all time easily, possibly even top 3.
>>7753251
What are the other 4?
I'm in withdrawal here, waiting for the last book of the series.
>>7750729
3 body problem is the better work for sure. I feel Chinese sci-fi is better for two reasons
1. Atheist (not just secular) country
2. Chinese manufacturing is practical above all else.
Sometimes that practical reason is to make someone money.
Hi lit, I was wondering if you guys could recommend some books that argue against safety as a lifestyle and thought principle?
Be it in favor of wild adventure and simply living life on the edge, political radicalization, critique of fear of uncertainty..
all replies greatly appreciated
Maybe the dice man is what you're looking for?
Book is shit though
>>7750574
Do you want nonfiction? If you're happy with novels then Henry Miller is your guy.
Antal Szerb’s "Journey by Moonlight" maybe, but in the end most books, really. Hell, it’s even a major theme of Murakami’s.
itt: things that you didn't realize the first time you read them but which should have been obvious
Yorick is a fellow of "infinite jest" because he appears to be laughing long after he has died; his skull continues to mock human pretension and vanity as a reminder of death, grinning all the while
It’s more of a grim joke; but yes, the skull grins for ever, hence ‘a fellow of infinite jest’.
Personally I didn’t realise that in TCitRhe rapes his sister, Phoebe.
mmm maybe, he says
>i knew him, horatio, a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy
he's describing the way he was in life
he was merry and funny, he was the king's jester
>>7750833
of course. but there's the added sense that he was a fellow of INFINITE jest, a jest that goes on and on. Did you ever consider why it is that they kept a jester's skull? The jester reminds the king that he is mortal; his skull remains long after as the same reminder. Even in death, he is still the jester, a fellow of infinite jest.
hey /lit/. What do you guys do to help motivate you guys to write creatively? i've been wanting to pick up on my writing, but find it difficult to do so.
my job/profession requires a lot of writing, so part of me is exhausted when I want to do it creatively.
bump
>>7750555
You made the mistake of wanting to write creatively and choosing it as a career instead of as vocation, senpai
You're basically fukt
>>7750840
No hope for me, then?
To clarify, I don't write "creatively" for a job, but I do lots and lots of writing
>tfw the world is my will
>>7750540
You mean you're the will's world.
>>7750562
I say that the world is my will because I can't say that the universe is my will.
>>7750540
>tfw you completely misinterpret Schopenhauer
>book arrives in mail
>start to read it
>realize that I'm way too awake to get through even one column
>read it later at night
>realize that I'm way too tired to comprehend any of it
Did I buy into the meme?
>>7750508
no, you're just a dimwit
>>7750508
>too awake to get through even one column
get an attention span
>>7750508
>>realize that I'm way too awake to get through even one column
How are awake to read something? What does this even mean?
Is El Mono Gramático by Octavio Paz a fine book to read while drunk? Does any hispanon in here know?
I'd recommend El que tiene sed.
>>7750531
No pun intended.
