>Write book about how it's OK to lie as long it sounds better than the truth
>Win prize
If you don't lie at all you end up like Meursault
>>7480073
KILLING AN ARAB
anybody have the link to a literary magazine that was posted here i while back? each month they had a theme and it came out every two months, the latest theme was heat
>>7479936
>tfw no gf feet to massage
why remind me....
Can we please stop with the foot fetish thing? I like it to a degree but I just want to browse /lit/ for one day without stumbling upon some goddamn porno toe
Can we please continue with the foot fetish thing? I like it to a degree and I just want to browse /lit/ and stumble upon more goddamn qt toes
What's /lit/'s opinion on Dickens?
he's not american enough to be respected
>>7479804
Insecure little girl who liked to get his fudge packed in
>>7479804
Alright but a wannabe poor man's Victor Hugo.
Is Metro 2033 any good? I've had it recommended by a few friends, but I'd like your opinions on it.
looks like pleb font so probably not
>>7479801
It's Russian.
>>7479798
I liked a roadside picnic better.
Is there a bigger meme than "reading for prose"?
Fuck you for making another shit thread on lit you cunt
>>7479726
>insinuating
pic related 2bh
>Lying is man's only privilege over all other organisms. If you lie--you get to the truth! Lying is what makes me a man. Not one truth has ever been reached without first lying fourteen times or so, maybe a hundred and fourteen, and that's honorable in its own way; well, but we can't even lie with our own minds! Lie to me, but in your own way, and I'll kiss you for it. Lying in one's own way is almost better than telling the truth in someone else's way; in the first case you're a man, and in the second--no better than a bird. The truth won't go away, but life can be nailed shut; there are examples. Well, so where are we all now? With regard to science, development, thought, invention, ideals, aspirations, liberalism, reason, experience, and everything, everything, everything, we're all, without exception, still sitting in first grade! We like getting by on other people's reason--we've acquired a taste for it!
Who is the best author to read for the Christmas season, and why is he Dostoevsky?
>>7479713
it seems 2 me that u have answered ur own question
>>7479713
animals lie all the time, Dickens if the most comfy btw and perfect for the season
>>7479713
>that entire quote
Oh look, it's a universal truth that is actually a bland generality and where I'm not actually sure whether it's the author's view or just the hcaracter's view, or the author speaking through the character in order to sarcastically make fun of the view
Hey guys where do you buy your books?
>>7479665
bookdepository
amazon
>free 2 day shipping for students
>have almost everything
literally where else
>supporting bourgeois
pls
>Put in this world against your will
>Forces you to face the fact that life has no objective meaning/traced path
>Confronted to anxiousness surrounding death
>If religious, God supposedly judges your acts throughout a life that you didn't choose to have at first
>Repeat process by procreating
>>7479489
i have that image on a tile next to my door.
>>7479500
Did you make it yourself?
What?
You are part of a species of highly sophisticated social animal. Your quality of life and chance of passing on your genes is directly proportional to how well you adapt and fit inside the social order of whatever period in time you happen to be born into.
Because of overall improvements, even those with maladapted personalities; who throughout human history have been persecuted, maligned, rejected; can still enjoy the freedoms to live, work and breed in a society which they contribute nothing to and would be better off without them.
Contrarian ideas are not yours and yours alone through force of will and sheer determination. You're a genetic failure, a maladapted social retard, who in a more spartan world would simply be eliminated in the womb, sparing us all years of your torrid lamentation. Be thankful that the vast majority of normal people have decided to allow societies such as ours to be tolerant and let defective members of the species participate. If we were animals in the wild, your legs would be broken and you'd be left out overnight for the wolves to find.
Any Gadamer pros around? He seems pretty important - basically the man when it comes to hermeneutics, which is essentially the conclusion of the Neo-Kantian project.
But I don't know much about him, would like to see if there are any better-read anons around who could tell us how we might approach his stuff fruitfully.
>>7479339
I'd hate to see this thread 404 without a single reply so I'll contribute even though I've worked little on Gadamer.
From what I've seen, you could either approach him by diving straight into Truth & Method or read some essays he wrote (he wrote quite a few of them and they mostly reiterate his work in Truth & Method).
I don't think you really need to have read other philosophers in order to read him, just have a general idea about what modern philosophy, from Kant to Heidegger and the hermeneutical tradition is about. Reading Schleiermacher or Dilthey helps of course, but Gadamer isn't that difficult on his own.
The real difficulties come from reconciling hermeneutics with semiology, as a professor of mine said. It's no coincidence that the meeting between Derrida and Gadamer was unfruitful.
I've read Truth and Method as well as a lot of Paul Ricoeur as far as Hermeneutics goes. It's honestly pretty easy to jump in if you know vaguely what Heidegger and Kant are about, as well as a little bit about historicism and textual interpretation in the Theological. tradition.
One thing people often don't realize is how crucial Aristotle is to T&M! Definitely have at least a basic understanding of him or a lot will simply be lost on you.
Ricoeur does some of this, but I think a lot more work could be done to bridge the gap between Hermeneutics and Wittgenstein/Analytic philosophy, or at least to show how they interact.
>>7479339
Jumping straight in to T&M isn't too bad, just remember that he's going to take you on an Historical trip, so don't worry too much if you are lost.
Where Gadamer derives his conclusions aren't the only places the principles he describes can be found. Read some Ricoeur for some attempts to approach the ideas from places other than Kantianism vs. Romanticism. He does a lot from the standpoint of Psychoanalysis and Marxism.Historicism.
Help me /lit/.
I want to learn world history without the authors' bias. It might be impossible, but could you recommend me some books?
How the fuck can a turtle jump?
>>7479243
Like any other animal that has the skill, but it actually makes just a short jump while extending its really long neck.
was a 4 achieved by 2+2 or 3+1 ?
objective history begins after this problem is solved
what is your favorite books, /lit/?
This is my favorite book.
It is also, undeniably, the greatest book of all time.
>>7479413
i've been reading it for the first time. i have to admit it is extremely comfy
eugene onegin
What's the most fucked up book you've ever read?
not that I finished it
once they got into shit-play I decided I had enough
Hogg. Once you get over the shock it isn't actually very good, though.
Is this a good starting point?
>>7479147
Starting point to what?
>>7479152
Epikektus/Stoicism
>>7479165
>Stoicism
this is better
What's the worst fantasy series ever published?
>>7479131
you cant top this.
that's not shanananannarrraa
I'm asking this here because it would be to embarrassing for a /sci/ post.
As a typical failure anon I have a real small scientific knowledge, ofcourse I know the common things like the atomic model and also the basic statements of stringtheory and theory of relativity, but pretty much only the explanations you would get on a mainstream TV-show, so I have no real deep theoretically knowledge about science, you could probably settle me in a sixth grade physic lesson and I would learn things I didn't know.
So can /lit/ recommend me scientific literature that could get me from only the most basic knowledge to understanding the theoretically concepts of quantum physics etc.?
I obviously know that that would be a longterm self-study but i'm up to spending a lot of time on it.
I don't really know where to start with physics / chemistry / biology sience pretty much every instruction to these topics already requires some kind of understanding to really grasp the theory behind it or it explains it to simply to use the knowledge for more advanced writings.
So does /lit/ have a good how-to-science chart or can you recommend me where to start?
Sorry for the plebian question.
>>7479096
the ego and his own
Wikipedia
Grade 7 science textbooks
Math is required, prep anus
start with the Greeks
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