There's a poet who keeps performing in my area who thinks he's real good and he wrote a poem vs the haters
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1T40rL0Fifs&feature=youtu.be
>>7361436
OP, stop trying to shill your own trash.
>>7361436
No, this is trash.
>>7361436
People who fucking write prose with a few rhymes and puns then call it poetry should be beat the fuck up.
Take advantage of the medium ffs
Is Ignatius legitimately autistic? Or is he just proto-fedora?
>>7361417
Both.>tfw I am Ignatius
>>7361417
All fedoras are autistic to some extent. Ignatius is an autist before his time. A Diogenes of autism
>>7361417
he is proto-lit.
What do you guys think of my novel's opening sentence?
>For the past five years, Brandon Cooper had lived in a warzone in which death could appear around any corner, in which patience was not a virtue, in which footsteps meant trouble, silence meant even bigger trouble, and camping, for any reason, was a mortal sin; this is all to say that Brandon was the infamous xChaosWolfx, snack-food devourer and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player to the bitter fucking end.
Nice moar
Trash
>>7361253
It feels awkward to me because you're not using parallel structure.
I'd personally revise it to be more like:
>For the past five years, Brandon Cooper had lived in a warzone in which death could appear around any corner, patience was not a virtue, footsteps meant trouble, silence meant even bigger trouble, and camping, for any reason, was a mortal sin; this is to say that Brandon was the infamous xChaosWolfx, snack-food devourer and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive player to the bitter fucking end.
What is some essential nationalist and fascist core?
>>7361213
Drieu la Rochelle
Montherlant
Le Maistre
Barrès
Mauriac
[Céline]
>>7361218
>>7361213
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doctrine_of_Fascism
So is this a self help book for the sociopath crowd?
Why did Max Stirner pick his pen name?
His real name was Johann Kaspar Schmidt
>>7361195
Read and judge for yourself.
Kaspar the friendly spook.
Yes OP, yes.
How does one live a literary lifestyle?
tfw reading infinite jest on psychedelics for the first time #literarylife #LMAO #DFW
>>7361175
Oh look, another arbitrary mention of DFW.
Kill yourself, meme lord
>>7361171
Read good books and discuss good books. The latter is not necessary but helps. That's it.
So I mumble. A lot.
I am an entrepreneur and winter is here so things are going to be slow until spring when I can resume work and start my next venture.
I want to learn a language in the mean time, and I feel like French would be easier with my mumbling, but German would help with that, but be more difficult to learn. I am monolingual.
What do you think? Pic unrelated.
>>7361105
You sound like a fucking idiot.
>>7361105
have you considered the glamorous world of sucking dicks for a living?
>>7361105
fellow mumbler
What route you lookin to go down? I did both Rosetta Stone German and French i gotta say German was a hell of a lot easier. I dunno if it's cause of my Kansas accent or what but my god is Rosetta Stone particular when it comes to speaking French.
Also French is a romantic language, so it's closer in line with Spanish and Latin. English is a west-germanic language, and easier to learn being a native speaker of English.
That being said, learning French kind of sets you up for Spanish, while German sets you up for Dutch or Swedish, consider that. . .
ITT books that haunted you in one way or another.
Once you understand it. Fuckin creepy shit.
The Time Machine. I re-read it many times over the course of a year and anytime I want my thoughts and imagination haunted. Not sure what or why it is but I always return to it.
I want to write a story, but I don't know how stories are written.
Do you know how stories are written /lit/?
>>7360971
I think your going to have to expand on this, do you mean story form?
>>7361017
That depends.
What is story form exactly?
>>7360971
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramatic_structure
I feel like I'm the only one that really likes this book. I need some opinions.
Go fuck yourself.
>Grendel a good boy he din du nuffin
>>7360976
Explain.
Anyone read this?
Thoughts, concerns?
It's a study in sociology by Émile Durkheim. And it's called 'Suicide'.
Just my two cents. Now do me a favor and just read the fucking book.
>>7360979
>Now do me a favor and just read the fucking book.
or you could just watch this instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cu29S-jvxQ
>>7360991
If Ivy League courses are on the internet why is going to college still a thing?
I'm thinking about writing a novel set about sixty years from now. I do not intend it to be sci-fi or futurist.
Nonetheless, it seems that I won't be able to avoid at least touching upon the technologies of the time period. So how do I do that without turning my book into sci-fi genre fiction or creating fictitious technologies that will appear very silly in a decade or two (not to mention to people living sixty years from now)?
Pic somewhat related.
>>7360893
just vaguely describe them, dont try to give details or in 20 years people will laugh at you 3MB of ram.
>>7360893
Just don't go into technology. Write your story, then set it 60 years in the future.
But really, try not to worry about it looking so silly in the future. Nobody will care if the story is strong enough. Take William Gibson and Neuromancer for example. The tech in that horrendously outdated and that was supposed to be in the future, but it held up because it's setting and story was fairly interesting and relateable.
>>7360893
>I'm thinking about writing a novel set about sixty years from now. I do not intend it to be sci-fi or futurist.
What are some good books/authors defending the notion of free will?
I wish to change my view on the matter...as Marcus Aurelius said...providence or atoms...I long for providence. But I cannot shake the idea that everything that is, is but a system constantly adjusting towards equilibrium. It makes me think life is without value. It further depresses me to think I think thus because of the aforementioned. That I've lost some roll on happiness, as I feel the need for what is a romantic conception of value as per my understanding of the world. Regardless of how incompatible the two are, belief in both is the sum of life's conditioning. Is there no hope?
Currently I define an individual's will...as what they want to want. Derivative of Schopenhauer...it effectively reconciles my thoughts on the matter...with my thoughts on the matter, my meta-cognitions I mean. But also dooms one to defining themselves on what they're not...
So, /lit/, know you of anything that can offer a preferable view of the world? I don't want to be a flawed automaton.
>>7360480
>I don't want to be a flawed automaton.
it's too bad your programming's made you that way but that doesn't make it wrong
The Bible, by God.
>>7360755
>the Word of God
>implying
sp who has a pdf of the english version
>>7360351
is this book good or just a meme
>>7361125
>Anything Xi Jinping has influenced
>Not incredible
I don't. But as someone who has read and learned a lot from this book, it's written entirely in the awful translated ideology-speak of the Chinese Communist Party. If you can engage with that and take it relatively seriously, then you'll find this book educational; otherwise, don't bother.
Can anyone pls recommend me an economics, philosophy or political book which talks about the rise of suicide and depression in our increasingly competitive and globalized world?
>>7360248
just read Kafka and Henry Miller since that's that
>>7360250
these guys are just edgy novelists bro
i'm looking for more of an economics and politics book that has references
>>7360279
Read Durkheim
