What are /lit/'s thoughts on slam poetry as a whole?
Lit generally dislikes it. Harold Bloom called it the death of art
The reasons I'm not a fan are that it rewards easy, immediate engagement rather than depth or complexity, the importance of rhyme is inflated, the current culture is all about oppression and mentioning that you are oppressed instantly makes your poem better, regardless of content, it makes art into a competition, and the fact that judges are chosen from the crowd makes for a weird system.
It'll be forgotten before—well, I wanted to say before the end of this sentence, but that's not quite true. It'll be forgotten before the people who currently do it are dead. And they'll all be forgotten before they're dead, too.
>>7459963
Good example.
Are there any books or guides on writing realistic characters
Yes, going outside.
Write an honest, accurate version of yourself
No one can claim it's unrealistic
>>7459768
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Does anybody know of a book about the "ultimate" high class? For example, I remember reading stories about UK politicians that were involved in pedophile rings during Thatcher's government, or that guy "The Jinx", or that other pedophile ring -I think in Sweden- that had sex slaves, involved a lot of high-up people, and we only know about because one got caught by miracle and spitted it out. They seem so untouchable, so utterly disconnected from out reality. In my head they are invincible, they control the world, and I want to know how their life is, about their crazy sex parties, who they are, what do they do, how they got to be so powerful, etc. Of course it's all beyond secretive, but some account of it has had to come out somehow (akin to how there are leaks of private government files).
Ideally looking for factual accounts, hopefully not a novel.
>>7459726
They got to be so powerful and they're privileged to such taboo things exactly because they don't go confessing their sins to anyone.
Especially writers.
Chubz: The demonisation of my working arse.
it's just depravity without consequences involved, wouldn't be of much interest if it did exist beyond being disgusting
satanism is boring
okay i don't like eastern stuff but i'll bait
what do i read to eliminate desire? the tao te ching?
kill yourself my man
take a high dosage of an SSRI
>>7459621
You gotta go buddhism if you want to eliminate desire
read the Dhammapada and learn to meditate senpai.
Is worth reading the bible if I am agnostic? Why?
Of course.
It's full of good shit, even if you're just reading it so you can catch all the allusions other works make to it.
because kjv is to english literature what homer was to the greeks. it's the cultural foundation of the whole thing.
and by whole thing i mean western civilization
>>7459474
douay-rheims*
What book will give me some direction/purpose?
none
find something you care about
>>7459442
I can't decide.
>>7459442
if i had it i wouldn't be asking for it
Anyone else also guilty of “Tsundoku” - the Japanese word for the new books that pile up on our shelves?
I'm guilty of this, and glad to know that there's a word for it.
>>7459246
I have a little over 550 books that I own and haven't read/have only partially read.
Which means I've got nearly 100 per year since I started buying them that I haven't yet read. So probably yeah OP.
>>7459246
Tsundoku Calibre is what I suffer from.
How do you get over the feeling of utter insignificance as an individual?
This feeling is especially strong when I'm reading philosophy, and sometimes fiction, because I'm just 1 person out of 7 billion(and counting) and I just feel a deep,slow anger because learning about shit just feels like a waste of time because I could be killed at any time or something.
Those lofty ideas just seem inconsequential when I'm just another cog in the machine.
I know my perspective is the only one that is supposed to matter but I can't really shake this feeling off.
Reality has a severe nihilistic bias.
poo
for me it doesn't have an angering effect, but a depressing one. The feeling that your life, in the end, doesn't matter any more than one sand particle on the beach. But, I learn to live with my depression, mostly ignoring it.
>"In Antiquity, even the slave had hours of leisure and merriment that were all his own; he had his games of dice in the shade of the columns of his master's portico, his coarse jokes, his free chatter, his free life outside his daily routine".
>"The modern slave has not the privilege of loitering, completely carefree, for half an hour. His so-called leisure itself is either filled with almost compulsory entertainment, as exacting and often as dreary as his work, or -- in "lands of freedom" -- poisoned by economic worries. But he is not openly bought and sold. He is just taken. And taken, not by a man in some way at least superior to himself, but by a huge impersonal system without either a body to kick or a soul to damn or a head to answer for its mischief.".
What's the point of these critiques,senpai?
Being a wagekek is fucking awful but capitalism is so deeply rooted that it's not going away,barring a massive catastrophe.
Spot on to be honest.
>>7459170
She's not wrong.
Premises.
1. There exists an entity, G, that is omniscient.
2. If an entity is omniscient, the entity is sound (if the entity believes something, it is in fact true).
3. If an entity is omniscient, the entity is complete (if something is in fact true, the entity believes it).
4. The sentence S is defined as "G does not believe S is true"
Argument.
5. G is sound (1, 2)
6. G is complete (1, 3)
7. >> Assume S is true (Assumption)
8. >> G believes S is true (6, 7)
9. >> G does not believe S is true (4, 7)
10. >> Contradiction (9)
11. S is not true (Reductio from 7-10)
12. G does not believe S is true (5, 11, Modus Tollens)
13. G believes S is true (4, 11)
14. Contradiction (13)
Conclusion.
One of the premises is incorrect. Since 2, 3 are obvious, and 4 is just a definition, 1 must be incorrect. Thus, an omniscient God does not exist.
>>7459163
This is a very shitty argument.
Oh and this sentence is not true.
>>7459173
Thank you for your well-reasoned argument!
Anon, you can't really explain God. You just have to believe.
What did Lenin contribute to Marxist theory?
"Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism"
Non-Marxist non-urban non-industrial proletariat (third world, Russia)
Groundwork for nationalisation of proletarian revolution
>>7459080
Wasn't Lenin opposed to nationalism? If so then why did he write a book advocating nationalism for "oppressed" people?
What is about "/lit/ is for the discussion of literature. If you want to talk about politics, go to /pol/" that you don't understand, OP?
Keep this off-topic garbage off my board.
So the novel I am writing has a lot of shoot-outs in it, the characters are able to take on enemies and survive, but its by taking cover, using suppressive fire, flanking, etc..
I am curious how you would write such a combat sequence. Should I describe it blow by blow? How do I describe "he shoots at the enemy soldiers" without it getting repetitive as fuck?
Describing the sounds of the guns? I've tried using words like "barking" and "chattering" to describe the gunfire. But it's hard to insert it between lines of dialogue without feeling samey.
I dunno, anyone got any examples of well-written shootout scenes? My novel is probably a really lame story but I at least want it to be well-written lame story.
Use your imagination
>>7459026
Rip off some famous military biographies. One Bullet Away, Storm of Steel, etc.
Focus on the tactical mindset. Where are they positioning themselves and why? How are they scanning the environment? How do they come out from around cover to shoot without getting shot themselves?
Was this book ever relevant to the general public? It's clear that, since it's release, it's been loved by poets, critics and prolly those people for whom literature is a major interest. But did it ever affect the general educated public in anything approaching the way that ... say, Shakespeare did?
I get the impression that this book might have been more prominent back when Christianity and poetry in general were more important to people's lives but I dunno.
>>7458866
Paradise Loft.
>>7458871
Paradife Loft, my friend.
>>7458871
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How do you define 'art'? Can there be an objective definition, or is it a pointless endeavor which everyone has opposing but equally "correct" definitions?
>>7458777
Beauty achieved through skill.
>>7458777
>objective
stupid word
>>7458777
Dunno, read some books on easthetics. Kant's Critique of Judgement is probs an easy starting point.
I gotta say /lit/ you've inspired me
>>7458708
All solid buys OP, hope you enjoy The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, it's certainly an interesting read. Also a decent translation of The Iliad, you won't go wrong with Lattimore.
Don't forget to Traverse with the Travellers
>being inspired by post-/his/ /lit/
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