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Your novel, what's it about?
the moon, watching over humanity as it progresses.
A teenage hermaphrodite who was adopted by a straight laced but chill guy who owns a truck stop between the coal mines of Kentucky and the interstate that's an hour away. There's a slew of pathetic and quirky Appalachian folk: an old lady named pearl who blows all her money on lottery tickets, her 11 year old granddaughter Mary who has serious mental issues and bathes herself naked in the potholes like a bird, the guy who makes sandwiches in the impromptu deli and smokes way too much weed, the Ford Explorer full of "yo dawg" white boys who think they're...
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Young amoral weapons engineer befriends suicidal vietnam war veteran. Main themes empathy, valor, and psychosis
I'm reading Nietzsche for the first real time (read some essays before). Zarathustra. I'm about 50 pages in and.. I gotta say: this man comes across as the original deluded beta. He feels bullied whenever he's among people- whenever he talks to them he thinks that they are blinded by his genius and they become jealous and "attack him from the shadows". Even when he's being nice, he says, all the normies mock him and make him feel bad about himself. He tries to be magnanimous about it but that just makes him seem like more of a twat.
Is this...
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>write a bunch of shit down
>wait 100 years
from dreams into memes
>he starts Nietzsche with Zarathrustra
That's the last book you should read, the heaviest in allegory
>>7720712
that it is. it's just the most famous, I came across it and figured what the hell
Why did he an hero?
What's the point of infinite jest. IS it all just a joke
>>7729570
drag the joke into a new plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drLEdNmbvsA
>>7729575
this is such a sad interview.
>>7729570
david "career move suicide" wallace
Hey /lit/,
I'm thinking of trying my hand at writing erotica for money online.
I need a good sexy pen name. Any ideas?
Dick E. Wiggler
Dark S. Tranger
But I wonder if a female name is more ideal.
Does having a trauma-free, steady upper middle class life with a spouse and children preclude one from the creation of great literature?
>>7728924
>trauma free
there, that does it.
Yeah desu... last thing we need is more ignorant white dudes writing 'literature'...
But see, since you're unhappy because you don't have the trauma to write literature, you can use that as trauma.
Write a book about how fucking boring your life is.
What books will convince me to stop drinking?
Good ones will only influence you to drink more. Shit thread m8.
>>7728179
literally infinite jest
>>7728179
Definitely not that drivel that AA puts out. I read it in a psych ward once and it made me want a drink.
God Edition
Recommendations:
>Fantasy
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a8/1307836551252.jpg
(For the Computer illiterate) http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
>Sci-Fi
http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/4chanlit/images/a/a6/Scifilit.jpg
(For the Computer illiterate) http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
http://imgur.com/r55ODlL
http://imgur.com/A96mTQX
>What you are you currently reading?
>What are your favorite...
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>>What you are you currently reading?
Dune and Street of Crocodiles
>>What are your favorite books with Gods who fuck shit up for mortals?
I havent read any, what would you recommend?
>>Who is your favorite God?
Pic related, I actually fucking cried at this scene
>>Do you think the Greek Mythos has been written to death? If so, what would be our next Pantheon?
I kinda want to see more Mesopotamian mythology, its really neat.
>>7727735
>>>What you are you currently reading?
Diana Wynne Jones essays. Talking about going to lectures with Tolkien and Lewis. Tolkien was inaudible and faced the chalkboard, like he wanted all his students to go away so he could finish LotR. Lewis filled lecture halls for Medieval Prolegomena. Also tons of cool stuff on why genre lines are stupid.
>>What are your favorite books with Gods who fuck shit up for mortals?
C. S. Lewis, Till We Have...
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>>7727735
>What you are you currently reading?
The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi.
>What are your favorite books with Gods who fuck shit up for mortals?
Honestly can't think of too many like that I've read. I'll go with Discworld.
>Who is your favorite God?
The Great God Om.
>Do you think the Greek Mythos has been written to death? If so, what would be our next Pantheon?
Yes,...
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>Got into a to Canadian university for Classical Studies / English
>Got $40 000 in scholarship that's renewed every year I'm there (Including grad school)
>Tuition and residence costs $20 000 a year
>tfw I'm getting paid to study humanities
>>7726619
truly a sign of a decadent, dying society
wonder how it'll be when the debt bubble collapses
I predict wild west anarchy, or cruel martial law
What's the scholarship? Never heard of anything that amazing at a Canadian university. OGS and SSHRC put together would still be less than that, and both are yearly applications for MA/PhD only.
nice m8, going for manuscript studies? canada's great for that too
Found some books in my dad's old collection. Which of these are good and which are not worth the time?
I feel like you are lying and just bought these...
Bros K, M&M, Iliad are essentials
idk what king kull is
everything else is good besides blood meridian.
Everything is great besides Simmons, and King Kull.
Why does /lit/ hate this guy?
>>7726190
because reddit likes him
>>7726190
Because /lit/ only read animal farm and 1984 and decided it was not that great and everyone else creams their pants over those books. Ironically, if /lit/ would only read the rest of his works they would start to like him again.
>>7726213
hahahaha are you actually gonna pretend his other stuff is better than 1984? 1984 was his peak and it was mediocre at best
What would you say to your younger self if you had the chance?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyTB-TQ73Ag
poem related
>>7726128
>What would you say to your younger self if you had the chance?
Echo!
"Do it, faggot!"
- Me
How many times are you going to spam your shitty poetry reading on here, mate? It's not a great idea.
Be jealous /lit.
Source: Taken at the New York Public Library
I'm actually jealous.
>tfw I live in ny but never go to nypl
>tfw had to get a Chinese copy of aniara
>>7725552
Who cares?
>>7725552
What am I supposed to be jealous of? Did you mean envious, maybe?
In either case, I'd refuse to read it in English.
Who are the best literary boozers? Does alcohol fuel creativity in artists? Name your favorite drink to start.
DUDE BOOZE LMAO
>>7725223
Kuba Libre.
>>7725230
Hooch was already taken.
What podcasts does /lit/ listen to? I need something to distract me as I struggle with urban ennui
>>7723671
depends on what you are into
>>7723671
The War Nerd Podcast
"Waking Up with Sam Harris"
He is the most important philosopher of our time, as evidenced by the thread found elsewhere on lit.
I also quite enjoy Star Talk with Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe is fantastic. I love them all the more since they de-platformed Richard Dawkins. It was very upsetting to me that Dawkins, author of the God Delusion, which was quite formative for me, transformed into an anti-Muslim bigot.
TRUE scientists understand that without the Islamic societies of the Middle Ages, we of Western...
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What are the job prospects for a major in liberal arts?
Any of you have experience?
I'd love to be an arts major, but will I be starving on the streets?
This should be on /adv/
>What are the job prospects for a major in liberal arts?
There's a pretty broad field to choose from tbqh
Starbucks, McDonald's, Wendy's, Taco Bell, the list goes on
If that's not your thing then you could always work for Wallmart, Target or many other big companies.
Go for it!
Jobs are looking bad whatever the major atm.
You can get a job doing many general things with any degree but it's mostly about presentation if you go the lib route. The degree is just a technical need for many jobs. If you are autistic with a lib degree rip y will die in streets
>>7728837
Not true. I am autistic and I have a degree in humanities and I am fully-employed in a non-fast food establishment.
