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Will you mention in your biography about your shitposting on this board, and the/lit/ influence on your way to become a succesful writer?
Why not?
I've been posting on 4chan boards for 9 years or so.
No.
Is The King in Yellow actually good or is it just a meme?
>>8244451
The Yellow Sign (one of the short stories in TKIY) is possibly the greatest short horror story ever written. Repairer of Reputations is pretty good as well. The rest is kind of meh. Altogether it is a very strange read.
Chambers is more down to earth than Lovecraft, so he tends to be more approachable.
>>8244451
it's a meme
the usage-history of the meme in lit (and of course TV most recently) is much more interesting than the story
It was ok. Chambers writes well, but the stories were no all that entertaining, at least the conclusion in many of them felt unclimactic.
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What are some must-reads that only white college sophomore males from a middle-upper class background can truly understand?
Is this list sufficient?
>Infinite Jest
>Gravity's Rainbow
>2666
>The Recognitions
>My Twisted World
Thanks
>>8244438
my diary desu
>>8244438
>2666
>the recognitions
does not belong
>>8244525
who else reads them?
Terence Kemp McKenna.
Rupert Sheldrake.
Ralph Abraham.
What can you tell me about them?
McKenna was the philosopher one, not in the academic sense of the word, but he wrote about the spirit, the reality, some way about ontology, also a little bit about epistemology. Of course was Sheldrake who made the further research in this field. As a biologist his evolutionary sensibility allowed him to threat the problem with knowledge from the scientific point of view as it deserves, without any reductionism, with the concept of resonances. Ralph Abraham was the compulsory mathematician: dynamics systems, chaos theory, stochasticity.and of course drugs raves...
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McKenna wrote about psychedelics mainly and his relationship with the human race and his evolution, mainly with the emergence of the mind (and consequently, the spirit). Food of the Gods maybe says something to your.
Sheldrake came with really interesting ideas of how biological systems can carry so much information, even more when you considerer humans, with all his complexity, on those. Migration patterns in animals are something that can not be fully modeled by biochemical reactions encoded in DNA.
>>8244248
Beautiful gibberish. They talk themselves in circles while jerking each other off. It goes nowhere and afterward you know what hippies are trying to say but you have no idea how old and how regurgitated these ideas are leading you to think you're a guru. Then you read real academics and move on with your life.
Proof that our "souls" can be made aware of anything even after we die and proof that you have as much chance of suffering after committing suicide as you do if you chose to continue to live. Looking for someone to prove this to via e-mail.
https://sites.google.com/site/paulobrienhunter is the information I'll be proving to someone hopefully. E-mail me your misunderstandings/disagreements to my e-mail, [email protected] and we can get started. I should reply within 24 hours if not much sooner.
Let's keep this on the front page so it can get more views.
Any suggestions where I can take this post to? Like what other forums?
Is this a joke? You're not the first person to think about Zeno's paradox. This is especially embarrassing coming from someone trying to ape the Tractatus.
You need to stop assuming your intuitions have anything to do with reality.
>>8244801
If want me to prove to you the proof I said in the OP, simply e-mail me.
Which country has the plebbiest literature and why is it the USA?
Reminder that your opinions are immediately discarded unless your country has a minimum of TWO (2) books in the meme trilogy.
>>8244244
someone repost the meme trilogy graphic, I forgot to save it last time
American lit is a joke
Hey /lit/, what books should I read to improve my debate skills?
De Oratore and whatever aristotles rhetoric book is (probably called rhetoric even)
A book about the subject you are debating
>>8244231
Study Rhetorics.
This is an excellent novel.
>>8244174
where are u
>>8244174
y do u hold things weird
>>8244179
denver
Since humans are sexual beings, is it necessary to emphasize the role of sexuality in all interactions? Would a book that doesn't point out characters' attractions and desires be unrealistic? Is there a point at which such an emphasis distracts from the book's plot? Would that be a bad thing, since sex can be distracting by nature?
Is a book about anything other than sex a waste of time?
I've thought about the idea of a genderless novel but ultimately I think being maximally descriptive is the best way to smash literary male hegemony
>>8244173
>Since humans are sexual beings
What does this mean?
>>8244189
muh cum
>DFW when you've filtered or hidden 29 of the threads on the board.
Read a book or something instead of posting all this bullshit.
DFW funposting thread?
DFW funposting thread.
>>8244155
Does this look like the kinda guy who hangs himself?
>DFW only 5 threads filtered
What words did you filter to have so many threads hidden?
so, my beloved fellas, i finally found a booktuber who is really cool. this lad is amazing and i suppose he hates YA. also he is cynical like most of /lit/ guys so im sure you will like him https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxU0Wzaf1j8
>>8244129
>implying its not you
also forgot to mention that u can skip like a half of the video coz he is talking about some annoying shit in the beggining
pleb, fortheloveofryan is the best book tuber on youtube
Guys, intellectually I'm all spooked out. I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage. Many fields like economics etc are just applied common sense and stamp collecting. I see novels as nothing but entertainment despite pretentious people claiming life / philosophical insights and tonnes of people will consider you a disgusting plebeian if you don't initially read shitloads of boring as fuck canon novels.
I think I am painfully adapting to the idea of the Internet age / information overload by abandoning any pretension that I can be...
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dumb frogposter
>>8244101
Oppression by something new is always certain, freedom isn't entirely possible.
Seems like you have reached the end of your tether with your relationship to written honesty and you got a great deal out of it. But what good does it do now? have some fun and try being skilfully dishonest for a while.
You don't have to define yourself as someone who only consumes like you have a fear of missing out on knowledge, there is also predicting the future, exercising power and creative pursuits like design.
>>8244101
>unfalsifiable garbage
In what sense does a given proposition surpass the threshold of unequivocal unfalsifiability?
>applied common sense
What, exactly, constitutes "common sense"?
>tonnes of people will consider you a disgusting plebeian (...) (sic.)
Why do you care about the majoritarian value-judgments of a surmised cohort man
Contending the entirety of "philosophy"...
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Hey /lit/ what do you all think of my blog ?? Honest please !! :
http://dreamingofcrazy.blogspot.ie/
>>8244065
Fuck off
>>8244065
You might be a decent writer in 5 years or so if you stop reading garbage and start studying real literature. Unless you like writing vapid YA stuff, of course. Then just keep going, you're making progress.
>>8244065
The problem is that men know that women tend to distort the most useful truths, and you can only make up for this reputation by apologising with your pussy.
http://www.6sqft.com/life-behind-the-stacks-the-secret-apartments-of-new-york-libraries/
Living the dream
You just know by looking at it that someone has been raped there.
>>8244144
yeah, you're mom
>>8244149
no, I am father
I tired to read this but the amount of colloquialisms and jargon used this book made it a very difficult read. It was much more understandable in the movie for some reason.
Does this make me a pleb?
*tried
Does it make me a pleb that I couldn't fucking stand all the gratuitous French in Lolita?
>>8244035
Sortof, yeah
