David Wallace, I'm LIN
Nobody cared what that was before I put on the new.
Why does he wear the bandanna???
>The Sincerity rises!
To our would-be writers on this board, how much effort and study have you put into the non-writing parts of actually getting a book published?
By this I mean researching agents, creating submission packets, formatting a good cover letter, etc.?
I have to finish my book first but I listen to various podcasts and sometimes read blogs about the publishing industry. I feel like I have a reasonable idea how the process goes and what agencies are thinking.
>>7458295
>podcasts
Which, if I might ask?
I've only had poetry published but I just sit down once a month or so and send things out. I havnt been able to write as much since I started my new job though so I'm back to square one: finding time in the week to read and write
How much more have you read than me in the last 3 months?
Gone Girl
Oblivion Stories
The Martian
The Glass Castle
An Unquiet Mind
Matterhorn
The Immortal Life of Henretta Lacks
Oryx & Crake
The Year of the Flood
MaddAddam
1984
Never Let Me Go
1Q84
The Book Thief
In the Lake of the Woods
A Canticle for Leibowitz
The 13 Clocks
It doesn't matter how many books you read if you've got such shit taste in books op
great list anon
>>7457968
>How much more have you read than me in the last 3 months?
>Kokoro - Natsume Soseki
>A Condeferacy of Dunces - Kennedy
>The Trial - Kafka
>Animal Farm - Orwell
>The Tempest - Shakespeare
>Wittgenstein's Metaphilosophy - Horwich
>The Duty of Genius - Monk
>Blue&Brown Books - Wittgenstein
>The Theban Plays - Sophocles
>Lady Windemere's Fan - Wilde
>Death of Ivan Ilych - Tolstoy
>Alice in Wonderlands - Carroll
>Portrait of an Artist (etc) - Joyce
>Ready Player One - Cline
>Lord of the Flies - Golding
>Pedo Paramo - Rulfo
Who's the most menacing, evil character in literature?
Judas Iscariot and the sanhedrin
most menacing is probably some weird horror like a lovecraft god
most evil is probably iago
The devil.
Let's have a /lit/ approved music thread. Any of you like to listen to something in particular when writing? I like pic and vid related in a very low volume, same with others I will post later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTjF2_-bneM&index=5&list=LLDr65GM9t0rv911TsfDL6lQ
Michael Franks makes me feel very comfy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSq-4NOIMuc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQBigIRlbk8
Any other answer is plebeian and should be thrown in the trash.
Groovera.com provides streams for ambient-type music.
I prefer the Low Mercury channel myself.
I just bought this, what is the recommended reading order for Lovecraft? Is it set up to just read from start to finish? I know his stuff is loosely connected and I just want to make sure I understand all the references and stuff as I read through everything.
>>7462857
If you read chronologically you'll be fine. I don't think he ever wrote any prequels to his works himself.
just read the fucking book
chronologically you'd be OK fine. but if you want a loose recommendation on some of the mythos related stories to read, here is an order:
Dagon
Call of Cthulu
The Shadow Out of Time
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Mound
At the Mountains of Madness
Can read other short stories in between, but I wouldn't read Mountains of Madness prior to Dagon, for example.
Unrelated, but The Colour Out of Space is best Lovecraft.
Food for thought
>>7462527
lol
I have to share this on Facebook xD
my favorite pokemon
What if your anime figures are victims of anime medusa?
so /lit/, what do you think of this?
Is Five Nights seriously still popular? Why?
Sounds SP00PY! xDDDDD
What the actual fuck.
ITT: Comfy Christmas Recommendations
Want something to read as my primary book this Christmas break, so looking for some ideas.
Have fond memories of first reading Catcher in the Rye around Christmas some time ago, Herzog too, and would like to replicate the comfy satisfaction.
Thought about Christmas Carol but felt stereotypical.
Any suggestions?Bonus points for Christmas setting
The Moomins
>>7462315
Go back to /lit/
>Working on this story. Looking for criticisms, feedback, suggestions.
"Adele and Drake cannot stop dropping hints about making a 'Hotline Bling' Remix together," Thomas read. Drake, the want-to-be-mohammed of the Jewish run music industry and the coal burning, fat-shamed, monarch butterfly, Adele would be teaming up soon to bring the inferior-tuned music listening world ever more race-mixing pornography to watch on youtube and listen to at the gay clubs that cater to the young white American college whore, Thomas thought as he pondered whether or not to click on the headline from GQ that had appeared on his page suggestions. He decided that the story was already contained in the headline itself and that clicking would be a shekel handover with nothing of value gained, not to say that any of the information he consumed could be considered 'of value' necessarily, but there was a certain amount of value in his selections and clicks and this, therefore, made the act of selection, in certain circumstances, akin to the most free a relatively poor-in-spirit person could hope to be.
Thomas was the equivalent of a basement dwelling faggot, but since he lived in Florida and didn't have a basement, he confined himself to a normal bedroom (obviously with less space than an average basement, but no less disgusting or degenerate).
Despite being a fully autistic white nationalist he ritualistically masturbated to interracial pornography that depicted the superior cocked American black alpha male inseminating the petite American white whore with extreme prejudice and racial-sexual tension. The floor of his bedroom was covered in unwashed clothing that would be re-worn several more times before it made it to the washing machine outside that was constantly being used by his roommate's stoner girlfriend to wash her massive collection of hippy clothing. He would occasionally steal a pair of her panties to masturbate with, but often this would get a little too real and he would go back to imagining a time in the near future when his dominate waifu sexbot mistress would become a financially viable reality and he could go on living out his depraved sexually fantasies of being impaled by massive she-cock.
In addition to the piles of dirty clothing, he had amassed a sizable collection of empty gallon-sized water jugs which he refilled with his piss so that he wouldn't have to interrupt his autistic conspiracy-information consumption or his pornography watching, to use the bathroom. He hadn't figured out a way to take a shit in his bedroom yet, but he imagined that if these habits continued it wouldn't be long before he was catalyzed to get creative. The piss jugs were beginning to accumulate on his closet floor. Fifteen in total. He justified this by considering that the house's water supply ran off an electric pump and that if the Russians, Chinese or muslims were able to run a successful EMP or cyber attack on a local municipal electricity monopoly the fifteen or so gallons of piss would be a-ok to drink (piss being sterile and all) until he could figure out a way to acquire a more reliable drinking water source. So the obsessive compulsive piss hoarding was really just an aspect of his prep.
Later in the day, after he had consumed a sizable amount of information, rhetoric, and opinion, he made his way to the gym. After the muslim attacks in Paris he had begun to workout. He did spic-tier manual labor for a landscaping company so he was relatively in-shape, but his genetic predisposition was not favorable to being completely jacked. He looked more like a slightly underfed Vietnam-era, white-trash infantryman and when he was younger he had occasionally larped as exactly that. Thomas hoped that working out on a regular basis would increase his testosterone levels and that eventually this influx of male hormone would break him free of his zog-prescribed mind-control, the sort of mind control that regularly induced him to masturbate multiple times a day to strap-on, interracial, and femdom pornography.
After doing a chest regiment he left the gym and grabbed a fresh jug of water from the local WaWa. He knew that this type of bottled water was no less likely to contain fluoride or estrogen mimickers, but he concluded that it was probably still more pure than tap water or the sulfur-laden well water at the house. He noticed the nogs working in the deli. He was finally beginning to see them for what they really were: low-IQ, aggressive welfare queens. They were all leeches on society, even the ones who worked. It was important to begin to make the transition from the state-induced constant feeling of sympathy and white guilt toward the poor, brown masses, to a superior feeling of pitilessness regardless of rule-exceptions. Each day he made breakthroughs with this enlightenment. Thomas began to see how the browns had a constant awareness of white sympathy and how they used it to exploit the white man.
His first real action came when he was waiting in a Chic-Fil-A drive thru. The restaurant was located adjacent to a plasma donation center. Thomas knew about this place because it always had a fifty person or more line out-the-door of nogs waiting to donate plasma so they could supplement their welfare check. In addition to disgusting Thomas at the thought of ever having to receive a nog's AIDs infected plasma, it was a further example of a degenerate class of incapable beings.
"Hey mane, you got a dollar? I cane donate plasma 'til tomorrow. I need a buck for the bus," A nog—who had wandered into the the Chic-Fil-A parking lot and noticed Thomas' window down—asked.
For the first time in his life Thomas said firmly, "No," without hesitation. A few seconds later the nog had his bus fare looted from a pair of white college whores eating at one of the outside tables.
Living among blacks in The South it seemed to be understood that there were a certain element of decent, working class blacks who managed to infiltrate white society and lead essentially acceptable lives. It was, however, also understood that there was a far larger population of yooths, nogs and welfare queens who lived in a run down part of the city and were basically responsible for the majority of the crime and poverty. In the last twenty years favorable jewish lending to minorities and government programs to make suburban neighborhoods and schools more 'culturally enriched' had led to the construction and soon after destruction of many a suburban area. Areas that had once been reasonably priced, relatively white 'good-school' neighborhoods slowly, but surely declined under the pressures of ever more black, spic, and eventually muslim infiltration. Thomas, who had lived in these suburbs his entire life began, more and more, to notice how this change was affecting the quality of life, businesses, and aesthetic beauty. Neighborhoods no more than ten years old looked as though they were falling apart at the seams. Trash was everywhere, cars were parked in the grass, gardens were not maintained, and gangs of brown youths wandered the streets shirtless undoubtedly looking for trouble.
Thomas had, on occasion, run into the worst of this sort. The aggressive panhandler attempting to trade a worthless story of sorrow for five spot on the street outside a bar favored by liberal white effeminate hipsters the likes of which Thomas had occasionally larped as.
What has /lit/ done for the field of philosophy lately? Reddit just solved one of the major problems in the field!
>>7461909
>that image
lel
>>7461909
Regardless of the prisoner's *expectations*, he still doesn't know for sure when he will be executed. Even if he were killed on Friday, he'd still be "surprised" on Thursday when he came to the realization that the day of his death must be Friday.
I think the paradox is amusing and certainly resembles in form other valid paradoxes, however, I don't believe in this case it constitute an actual paradox, maybe instead some ambiguity of terms.
Where do i go now that i'm done with the Greeks?
>>7461707
https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/pub
>>7461710
i would like more fiction suggestions
>>7461732
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_fiction
I haven't read a book for my own pleasure in years. (not counting those I was forced to read in college) Recommend me something. I wanna get back to reading, but everything seems to be not interesting enough. No pleb shit you get at every "most popular books ever" lists, recommend me something actually good.
READ THE FUCKING STICKY
Moby-Dick
>>7461662
But I have no idea what I want to read. I haven't touched a book in years and I feel like a total idiot who's missing on something cool.I will go with anything ppl will recommend me here.
the only course i've taken has been an introduction to ethics.
i had a phenomenal teacher, and the textbook was great.
for those of you who have taken more, or whom have earned a degree in philosophy, are there any specific textbooks you could recommend to me that i might use to teach myself?
>>7461464
https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/pub
historyofphilosophy.net
Are you willing to spend time on specific phil books or are you looking for a 'history of philosophy' kind of text?
>>7461464
>yfw that is a full-size skull carved from a single meteorite
>imagine how much that fucking costs>I want it
Laurie penny has a frist in english for the uni of oxford after a thesis that involved talking about the profoundness of her periods.
Mattress girl has a degree from Columbia, ivy league, exclusive adn expensive as shit.
ITT you either explain why you're dumber than them, or you admit that all arts and humanities academia is shit.
>>7461160
I'll explain why you are dumber than them.
At least they had the ability to type properly and not to make overly logically fallacious arguments as you did.
>>7461160
the after pic should be a rotten corpse desu
BTFO
