Has there ever been a comfier book?
I'm just warming up OP
>>7562683
I haven't read the magic mountain, would you recommend it? If you haven't read Marcovaldo I would suggest giving it a read.
>>7562689
Magic Mountain is about 800 pages of pure comfy. Yes I've read Marcovaldo btw :)
I broke my laptop. Now I can't write. It's 9:05 and I'm trying to get drunk. Help me /lit/
>>7562588
Use paper.
>>7562588
where do you live
come round for pancakes
>>7562609
W-what's going on?
Are you 4chan
What are best drugs for reading books?
Sobriety
Ritalin
>>7562552
If I drink a glass of wine while reading I just fall asleep. I cant imagine what weed would do.
Boy o boy, this man was a fucking genius.
I think that this board's time in history is ready for a Hegel thread
It's your time in >>>/his/
>>7562538
Hegel writes in the Philosophy of Nature ยง202b that
The truly philosophical science of mathematics as theory of magnitude would be the science of measures, but this already presupposes the real particularity of things, which is only at hand in concrete nature.
Generally, Physics is a chapter of Nature (namely the second, while the first one is "Mechanics" about space, time and matter (and their unity...) which of course we would subsume with physics), and nature is the externalization of the Idea (here), and the Idea is that which is objective and true in the Notion (here) and the subjective part of the Notion is deductive logical thinking, where one would locate also the activity of mathematics.
Translated suitably, this should resonate well with common modern undertanding: fundamental modern physics is itself a mathematical theory (for amplification see the first few slides here), hence physics is in a sense that which is "objective" in mathematics, in that it is the part of mathematics that connects to, let me say, the real world.
So if we say that the concept of mathematics is magnitude, or measure, then there is an "objective" aspect of that, which is that which gives reality, that is nature, in particular physics.
In case you care, I am preparing notes with more details here, for a workshop next week.
http://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/22719/what-is-physics-as-a-hegelian-concept/22745#22745
anyone else notice how the zeitgeist of the 2000s is becoming increasingly different from the one of today?
>there are actually people out there who prefer film over literature
and many of them are smarter than you are too.
>>7562455
>implying I don't have an IQ of +165
>>7562455
They are dumb, family. Their medium is a passive experience.
Good books that don't get often discussed on /lit/
My diary desu
Hi /lit/, i will go straight to the point. I am studying film making at UCLA and while having a discussing with one of my teachers, who is highly renowned within the faculty, he said to me that i should choose another career because of my lack of interested in literature. I tried to argue that cinema and literature are two different things, that he was being to arrogant and couldn't judge such matters, but his conviction made me really insecure and question my decision. So, /lit/, whats your opinion? Do you really need a deep appreciation of literature to do cinema?
>>7562243
>Do you really need a deep appreciation of literature to do cinema?
to do cinema proper, as in good movies? yes. if you just want to make shitty b-movies then its fine.
>I tried to argue that cinema and literature are two different things
eh, i guess if you're a DP, but being a good all-around filmmaker means you need to understand and have read a lot of theater as well as literature.
but do what you want i guess
>>7562243
They are pretty similar. Literature and films both have themes and need to be written well surrounding area whatever themes. An appreciation for Literature wouldn't hurt though. Most movies today are from books too so make of that what you will.
>>7562243
Sounds like you got BTFO and will never recover. Sorry.
What do you think about Bukowski? Where to start?
i "like" him but i havent read him since he was 16
post office or ham on rye
God damn it you cant look up bukowski on the archive? This thread happens weekly at this point
ITT: autistic books
>>7562086
ITT: autistic opinions
does that make this opinion autistic...?
Is the Everyman's Library edition of Ulysses good?
Yes. Good quality production. Good paper/type.
you can safely go with everyman on 99% of books, if not 100%. solid publisher.
>>7561951
good in terms of physical quality, layout, font, no errors, etc.
But a lot of people want notes with something like ulysses, i don't think everyman has notes
It's Friday and I'm drunk.
Drink. Write. Read. Review. Hate.,,
"Have you ever had a major traumatic experience in your life?" I was suddenly caught off guard by the question. In a split second a cascade of horrific thoughts flooded in. Pure brain venom of all things that had actually happened weighed in against ungodly stories I'd hear over the years from others. What qualifies as a major traumatic experience? The doctor looked up from my file to see me sitting there dumbfounded. I stared back blank as a goat. The yellow file in his hands had my name printed on a white sticker. It was stuck to the upper right-hand corner sporting an unimaginative sans serif font. "Mr. Smith," he said, "do you remember any kind of trauma growing up?" I looked up from the file to see the doctor. "All of it." I responded.
>>7561905
not personally a fan of
>brain venom
other than that its alright
Thanks! Half positive is good enough for me. Sloshed as apple souse up here in Washington.
Get it? Apples... Washington... Oh man.
>re isn't an abbreviation for regarding
fuck.
>naked lunch isnt a food themed pornogrpahy
>>7561889
what is it?
>>7562113
it's latin for 'about the matter of'
Well /lit/, the Italian DNA in my blood has suddenly started calling, and I need to respond. Besides the obvious choices of the Divine Comedy and the Prince, what is some good Italian literature to civilize myself? Material from the Middle Ages from Dante to Niccolo would be the best as I love the medieval era, but anything will do. I feel disconnected from my heritage due to my grandmother not passing down the language, so I'd like to restart it with this generation.
Collections of folklore would be appreciated too if you can recommend me anything- just nothing from the days of Rome.
orlando furioso
read the fucking sticky
Skip The Prince and read The Mandrake instead
Do you think J.R.R Tolkien, if he were alive today would he not let anyone have a license to his works like his son is doing? Or would he have been more easy going with it and want to see what others can make of his world.
I think he'd probably shoot himself if the thing he was working on like an obsessive autist for his entire life right up to the day of his death were turned into popcorn movie diarrhea that prevented a generation of children from reading the books and spoiled them for the few who do
I think he would be too busy being gay desu
If he was alive those movies would be 10x better or wouldn't exist at all
Rate this shelf guys.
you seem like a horribly uninteresting, pretentious, and autistic faggot
>he was expecting /lit/ to suck his "intellectual" dick
too disorganized 3/10
