Last one hit its bump limit. Post your writing, receive a critique.
Have fun!
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>>7426736
Heh.
>>7426736
5/10
What do you use to write, /lt/?
My hands usually
>>7457126
fuck you :(
Started with a pirated version of Scrivener.
Eventually payed for it since I came to rely on it.
All the structuring options were useful to me since I'm working on a world building project, but the decision still fells silly to me. As does the idea of paying for any kind of word processor in this day and age.
Do any of you guys have the problem where you feel there's so many subjects you want to explore through its literature and various texts but you know that if you don't focus on a couple, then you'll always end up becoming a dilettante with cursory information?
There are so many fields I want to learn more about through lit but it's daunting and I'll never strive to any sort of "excellence" or expertise in things I love if I don't pursue a few with full-force.
Even polymaths in their day would say things like, "Medicine is no hard and thorny science, like mathematics and metaphysics, so I soon made great progress; I became an excellent doctor and began to treat patients, using approved remedies."
How do you guys cut off some of your interests so you can concentrate on a few more pertinent ones and become knowledgeable in that field? I don't want to do it to impress others but rather learn and become excellent in it for its own sake.
>>7456555
essence of knowledge is the same, regardless of subject.
>>7456563
But there's a difference in its form. I would feel better about being a man who knew a great deal about a few things than a man who knows a little about many things. I want to understand some fields as much as possible and I want to respect them.
>>7456569
>essence little
>form great
i raise an eyebrow.
Ask a pure utilitarian anything.
Are you a communist?
>>7456481
how do you decide when to terminate the chain of consequences which are relevant to the utility calculation for your action
Would you sacrifice yourself to make me and others happier?
Ask a pure Kantian anything.
>>7456443
you have some jews (or aryans if you're from /pol/) in your basement. A man comes to your door...
>>7456451
"Where is zee joooz?"
Your response, OP?
>>7456443
but seriously how do you determine what the maxim of your action is let alone whether its universalization is coherent
Whats the best way I can learn about structuralism and post-structuralism? I want to follow where the Continental philosophy went after Existenitalism as I feel I have a pretty good grasp on that field.
I'm aware its not going to be a simple explanation, but is there a good place to start? Some kind of introductory book? Shit even a video can help.
Yo homie slice.
It depends on what area interests you the most.
Do you want a phenomenology take after existentialism? This leads to issues regarding ontology and the like.
Do you want a linguistic take prior to or after existentialism? This is specifically regarding continental issues of language, which will lead to postmodernism, etc.
If you want the former, I would probably start with Heidegger.
If you want the latter, I would begin with Saussure's Introduction to General Linguistics.
>>7456441
They honestly both interest me but I might go with Saussure first. If I was to read Heidegger, what would I read?
>>7456466
Depends on what you like. If you want the more existential orientation, I would begin with Being and Time in effort to understanding his theory of language that arises there. And thus, contradistinguish it with his later works like Letter on Humanism. One is an earlier work, the one he is most known for, and the other is a later work where he renounces his allegiance to his prior conceptions of ontology, phenomenology, etc.
Either way, to understand some of the shit going on in structuralism, post-structuralism, and postmodernism, you need a basic understanding in phenomenology imo. Especially if you are going to read authors like Derrida.
What's your opinion on The School of Life? Is it just a meme?
I like it. They were my introduction to Epicureanism, and Stoicism.
Okay if you want inaccurate summaries that morph philosophy into self-help.
They're pretty bullshit. They condense too much at the cost of quality.
And some of their videos are really cringy. Like Vice-tier.
In this thread we post what we're reading and then close 4chan to go read the book. We do this to escape from memeland and run from the degeneracy this place breeds.
I'll start: A Scanner Darkly
Bye faggots
>>7455778
Against the Day
Lettres Persanes.
Just picked up copies of The Crying of Lot 49, and Inherent Vice. Which should I read first? I'm leaning towards Lot 49
>>7455777
full house niice. Cus of that I'll see if I can find it at the library tomorrow
>>7455775
Read TCoL49 first because its shorter and in the case that you actually have a brain and are not just a mindless drone liking whatever /lit/ does, you might not want to continue reading the *holds up spork*-tier cringe of Pynchon.
Why does this make me want to hang myself?
But this actually gets a smile out of me?
cause you're an autist sperglord who should go off himself
>>7455451
Because of bullshit publishers that can't accept the fact they should go out of business and declare bankruptcy.
What book are you reading, Anon? Currently im reading the Metro series. Played the games and they were lots of fun.
>>7455435
Currently I'm not reading any book. Sorry, anon.
>>7455435
I'm reading pic related. Very enjoyable. :^)
I just finished a paper on a related topic, so I figured I'd pick this up. It's off to an underwhelming start.
>unreliable narrator
>>7455395
What are some books with an unreliable narrator? I've heard the term thrown around but don't know of any books that have one.
>>7455400
One flew over the Kekoo's Nest
>>7455400
Everything by Gene Wolfe (Peace and Book of the New Sun). Lolita, Frankenstein and other stuff I can't recall.
>Learning a foreign language (a hard one think Japanese or Urdu or Arabic)
OR
Reading extremely advanced, high level books by Based Literary Geniuses, Scientists at the top of their fields and God-Tier Philosophers
>In your native language?
The latter.
neither.
the correct answer is
>shitposting on 4chan with frog pics
grats OP you did it!
what's "native language"?
t.a genuinely interested immigrant in europe
Let's do a list of essential readings for inept aloof virgin basement dwellers to make them stand on their feet.
"Pleasures of reading in an age of distractions" - overall introduction to the medium of books - it treats about how you should read on whim and debunks books like 'how to read classical literature like a pro'
"The Game" - sex life - silly but straightforward and condensed knowledge on PUA and its hazards, also opens eyes on the fact that you can develop skills to pick up women on your own and that it is in scope of one's abilities
"Figh Club" - philosophy - on throwing away material possessions, on self-destruction that is a form of self-improvment
How does it 'debunk' that since most of the advice given in it is just basic literary criticism.
>>7455201
Don't know about any of those but Meditations was good. Hagakure has some good advice too. For romance? Just read about body language.
Although I like the idea. I am sure that /lit/ would never be able to agree on a list. The closest thing to this I can think of is the various ebook torrents such as the 'Everything you need to know ever" torrent on /t/
Are you loving what you're reading right now, /lit/? If not, I recommend this
it's too popular to be good
>Protag is a pedo and marries a literal Meme
It's like 4chan: The Novel
I didn't really care for it:
30 pages in: Wow, this is pretty funny, innovative.
60 pages in: Jesus fucking christ! How many goddamn characters are in this!?!?!
100: What the fuck! Is this going anywhere! Will you lay off with this goofy random shit? It's seriously getting old! And how many more fucking characters are going to show up?!? Fuck this! *throws book*, imma go jerk off.
