Will I ever be able to understand literature properly? Does it get easier with time? I read things I do not understand and it makes me impatient. I do not have the patience to be this unintelligent.
You probably have "understand" at an un-achievable state.
maybe theres nothing to understand
>>7587485
nothing is something
What emotion is this facial expression trying to convey?
>>7587437
Probably hidden glee from the thought of destroying everything you hold dear.
Naughty pedo
I have hidden the poopie.
Does Zen literature make any goddam sense to anyone here?
>Just get rid of conceptual thought bro
>THE MIND IS THE BUDDHA
>THE MIND IS NOT THE BUDDHA
>If you don't get rid of your discriminatory thought you'll be reincarnated a thousand times as a worm
>Just know your mind bro, KNOW YOUR MIND
How the fuck are you suppose to get anything out of this vague nonsense?
I'm not bashing on Zen, because I legit think it is real. But, I doubt anyone on this board actually HAS Zen. Reading a few books and repeating zen koans does not make you zen. So how the fuck are we suppose to make heads or tails out of this shit?
>>7587238
You're doing it wrong, man.
>>7587238
you are doing it wrong, bro, you don't try to make 'sense' out of it.
>>7587238
Zen is bullshit
eastern religions are nonsense
At my girlfriend's suggestion, I'm reading only female authors this year to atone for the fact that I read only male authors last year (how did I let that happen?!).
Name your favorite books by women, and I'll add to my to-read list!
go back to r/books
Just browse tumblr.
>>7586999
That's eerie. How did you know I was a regular there? I was recently linked to this board, and it seems pretty good. By the way, nice threes!
Basically loneliness but while being surrounded by people. The feeling you get when you're depressed and even if you're at a night out with some friends you feel alone. Or even in the more broad sense of being by yourself in a crowded city. Perhaps looking out from your balcony and watching people go by. I don't know the word for this emotion. Particularly one without any kind of negative association. Like a serene kind of loneliness.
The word your'e looking for is German, "Tumannijüden."
The word you're looking for is African, "Jumanji."
The word you're looking for is in Dutch, "kontvingeren"
Half of you still watch anime and dream to be great writers even though all you've read is the meme trilogy. This board is a joke. You guys haven't even fucking lived yet.
>>7586760
Quality post, quality thread, thanks for contributing to this quality board.
>>7586760
Still better then most of 4chan.
Least /lit/ still has dreams
Everyone else only has memes.
So tell me, was shitposting part of your plan?
>>7586760
most posters here probably haven't read a single work of the meme trilogy
What are the authentic institutions of wisdom in the modern West? Academia is the closest thing I can think of but it is too concerned with politics and the need for approval to have benevolence or freedom of ideas. And of course government has been out of favour since forever. Is /lit/ an institution?
Is there any place that we haven't made a fortress of our own minds and retreated there, except in the most basic matters of life - where to eat, who to fuck, isn't that film cool? Most of us are turned so far from meaningful public life that we are figurative hermits, worse off than even feudal peasants or hunter-gatherers.
/rant, I am sad.
>>7586688
>the church (catholic)
>wikipedia
>having a need for an institution when already knowING its logical outcome
>>7586736
Wikipedia is probs one of the better ones srs
the only way i can read more than 30 pages a day is if leave my laptop and smartphone at work, which i do
anyone else has this problem, how do you combat it?
I leave my phone in the other room
>>7586659
>not having self control
Does your mommy still dress you up for work in the mornings, anon?
>>7586659
Turn them off, put them somewhere far out of reach. Basically force yourself to have time to question whether it is really necessary to use them before you do.
Apart from that, just stop yourself whenever you see yourself shitposting. For instance, instead of making this shitty thread, read a book. Easy peaz m8.
Instead of waiting for replies, just go read.
Anyone read the Force Awakens novelization? Is it well written, opinions of Star Wars aside?
>>7586609
*sigh*
christ
>>7586609
not literature. reported
>>7586609
fuck off, /tv/
What's your honest opinion about this book?
Kampfy as hell.
>>7586550
Kampfy as hell.
I don't think many people consider Hitler as an intellectual. Its the 1930s version of Eliot Rogers manifesto basically
ITT: People who are automatically intellectually inferior
>fat people
OP
>americans
People that gratify themselves with sexual pleasures.
Sensual pleasure obscures the intellect and sex is the greatest of sensual pleasures. Lust darkens the intellect even more than gluttony.
where to start with alchemy
particulary, interested in philosophical aspect of it
>>7586405
Jung wrote a fair amount about it.
Try him.
Hi guys.
How do you incorporate the seemingly untranslatable-to-fiction ideas from hard philosophy into your writing?
This seems really hard to me. Why can't I just write a simple story, Why must it be so abstract and allegorical?
How do you do it?
>>7586341
Is that little bit supposed to be the chimp's penis?
>>7586363
I think so. That must be why he's upset.
>>7586341
Is that little bit supposed to be the chimp's penis?
Is writing well an innate talent?
Yes.
Source: I could write real well before the accident.
>>7586339
prose flows like flowey prose, if it flows well it means your well is overflowing
it's innate if you've always liked playing with words
do hybrid words give you a hardon anon?
>>7586353
>hybrid words
I don't quite know how you mean by this, anon
Is 'manufacturate' a word?
Pic unrelated.
>>7586331
I can use it in a sentence if need be.
>>7586331
Sure. Do you mean it as a noun, a collection of items which have been manufactured? If you mean it as a verb, then less likely (unless you provide a convincing usage)
>>7586331
Google.com
