I need a quick """"deep""" proverb/analogy/chinese saying for the concept of "If you don't love yourself you can't love others".
Hit me with the best you can come up with.
Confucius say, " Masturbate first, then make friend."
>>7698760
The constructive paradigm of reality suggests that culture, somewhat ironically, has intrinsic meaning.
Confucius say, "It is what it is m8."
was there already a thread about tao lin's book announcement or does it not matter???
idk I liked most of the fiction he's put out and I've heard his next one is gonna be the longest novel he's put out so im a lil excited
>>7698750
Go to bed tao.
yeah we had a thread. a lot of us are excited for Leave Society
>>7698750
worse than ellis
tao makes ellis look like an actual writer
Hey /lit/
Retard coming through, please let me know if this isn't the right board to talk about this.
How does one go about developing better critical thinking skills? If I hear two opposing arguments, how can I learn to dissect each one, remove the fallacious claims and nonsense, and extract the truth to make my own conclusions? How do you learn to take apart discussions and debates to understand whether or not an argument is sound?
Also, on a side note, I haven't sat down and read a novel in at least 4 years now. Most of my reading now is news and technical manuals and tutorials. How do I get back into reading fiction novels?
How do I get into philosophy?
pls respond
Obviously you should memorize the logical fallacies and know when they do apply and when they don't apply.
Read up on the logic of argumentation so you can identify whether arguments are unsound or invalid.
Philosophy will directly aid these skills, take a short course on it or get a book that provides a good overview and introduction.
Once you get a decent foundation in logic and philosophy the rest of it is just experience, try and tear apart arguments wherever you come across them.
>>7698748
Easy mode:
Read pic related
Slightly less easy but still not that hard mode:
Take a logic class
Nick Land! On the front page!
>>7698745
>"philosopher"
Write
A dream is found in tangent strings.
Jump the just gate and hide the fallen rows.
Hidden found and filled up wrote.
Can heaven be truth if heaven not dare?
Fuck flying in farrowed fol-licks.
Nimble number in gerryed wait-way.I just wrote whatever came to my mind
>>7698723
YOU'RE NOT MY REAL DAD! YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!
I wish I was white
Being brown sucks
I can't stand brown people except my family
I want to graduate and work remotely
I want to live in the middle of nowhere
Never want to see another brown person again except my family
I need audiobooks to sleep but I can't find a god one.
For a bit YA would get me off but I've exhausted all of the fun ones. Can't have anything that I'd actually like to read as that would be a waste.
My real criterion is long, mesmeric, and slightly eerie. The Little Friend was good, trying beneath the skin by michael faber but it's too badly written. To kill a mock was too complicated and I felt a waste. General sci-fi is too shitty, his dark materials were perfect but I rinsed them, Stephen King can be a bit unpleasant...PLEASE RECCS
/ also tried Martin Amiss but he's too much of a cunt, otherwise would of been enjoyable and good snooze lit
finnegans wake
>>7698666
Preordered
More books please
>>7698669
not me.
That would be a waste, thanks though, but I generally only hear about a 70% cus I can't remember at what point in the book I fell asleep.
If there were a book based on your life, how many pages/words would it be, what would the genre be, and how would it be written?
25. One page for each year of my life. The twenty-fifth page will be considerably shorter, and will end in August.
>>7698628
It'd be a 150 page book by John Hawkes written in his usual style.
>>7698637
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> used to read a lot in elementary-middle school
> got through most 'classics' around then
> suddenly at 8th grade lost all interest
> cannot read because I lose interent/become unengaged or lack motivation to do so
is this a meme? how do i fight it? any good recommendations? should i reread some of the essentials (i read atlas shrugged in grade 8, for instance- assuming i didnt understand it at that age)
pic not related
thanks anyway
>>7698589
>is this a meme? how do i fight it?
no, read
>>7698589
Just pick a book you actually want to read.
Hey /lit/
I just finished reading the Judgement by Franz Kafka. Would anyone mind breaking it down in to more simpler terms. I understand it for the most part, but I just need a deeper analysis
what do you understand
more simpler
It's a shame you didn't read the Trial. I could have helped with that.
which it's the literary equivalent of Chinatown?
>>7698526
The script of Chinatown.
>>7698527
/thread
>>7698526
Also, just realized
>which it's
What's that book that just makes you feel weird after reading?
>>7698510
grapes of wrath
Spoopy
>>7698510
Honestly, Infinite Jest left me feeling pretty weird and empty. The only thing satisfying about reading the thing is all the memes surrounding it.
I don't care what your friends are doing lad.
Why do you people still browse reddit when you are fully aware its a shit website filled with fags?
>>7698528
same reason you people browse 4chan
Continued from >>7683940 as OP seems to have dropped the subject.
I have been thinking of starting next friday, 15 pages a day so anyone can catch up easily if unable to read for a few days.
We should be done in around 8-9 weeks.
If you're in, please say it.
Any suggestions/objections welcome.
Aye.
Aye.
Captain
Mockingbird is one of my favorite books of all time, what should I expect from this?
It's slightly better than Infinite Jest. So you'll love it.
>>7698432
just got this as well OP. kinda nervous staring it. the hype is real. don't listen to /lit/ . a bunch of pseuds spamming meme books that suck in all actuality.
Did /lit/ read Edge Chronicles when they were younger? In retrospect, it had a quite an expansive lore for what was basically a children's series.
Oooh, I would have been very excited by that map when I was a kid, but I can't say I've ever heard of the series OP
Yeah I really enjoyed it. More YA than children's though.
Also more whimsical and thoughtful than a lot of current YA.
>>7698414
read the first one repeatedly, didn't care for the later books.
i remember it as being pretty gruesome
