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Is it true if Plato didn't show up to class Socrates would just cancel the whole day? kind of a dick move I mean I know he's the golden boy but that's unfair to his other students right?
>>8228111
Actually I am writing a screenplay based on this premise. Its called Plato's Day Off. Nobody has ever heard such a thing before
>>8228116
This sounds really interesting. I wish you the best of luck that I may one day see it on stage.
>>8228116
I think "Plato's Big Day Off" would make for a better title anon.
>mfw i realize Brave New World is just Notes From the Underground-lite
>>8228068
Its a "I pretend to read books" thread
>>8228070
Surprisingly I have read BNW.
I read a bit about NftU and noticed The Underground Man was kinda like John the Savage ideologically so, I thought to myself, "You know what would make a good shitpost?"
>>8228095
>Underground Man was kinda like John the Savage ideologically
What did he mean by this?
Apologize
>>8227952
>Greenposting
Please stop.
>>8227952
sorry I didn't finish you
So /lit/, you guys consider yourselves wordsmart... but have you ever beaten the computer at scrabble?????
>>8227875
you cheated, faggot
>>8227881
In what way do you think I cheated?
>>8227875
Scrabble is probably the worst word game possible.
Natasha is a whore?
y/y?
Also, General audio book thread
>inb4 inferior medium
I listen to it at work
>>8227863
>work
>2016
Inferior medium.
>>8227863
Natasha is the biggest sl00t in the book and Nikolai Rostov is gay for the Tsar's dick t b h.
When reading a long book (900+ pages), I tend to bounce between the audiobook and the physical text so I can listen to that shit while playing Euro Truck Simulator. Anyone else bounce between the two mediums like that?
How can I counter persistent underhanded sarcasm?
With genuine naivete
Stop countering it.
>>8228071
this, weirdly enough.
How's the writing career coming, /lit/?
kek
Essays, as of June 5, 2016
>http://freetexthost.com/xr0alni1rd
>Alchemical Diamond bodies
>http://freetexthost.com/k6pbnqohhm
>Universe creation
>http://freetexthost.com/pvk1bh2tq3
>The Mathematics of Soma body mechanics
>http://freetexthost.com/uxjrfxfytp
>Quantum State transfer
>http://freetexthost.com/cvi4kku6aq
>Soma and Buddhism
>>8227726
>the closest you will come to a literary career is 'post successful!'
Sincerity or irony, which is more pleb?
sincerity is no longer possible
>>8227673
arent you being sincere right now?
new sincerity and unironically being ironic is the hip thing
Hello /lit/ I have posted many stories here before. Some with good reception and others with lots of criticism.
This is a thread for short stories, I will read and critique any posted here. I have posted one I am working on for a competition as well.
Thanks /lit/
>>8227598
Here is the story
>>8227598
bump
>>8227598
Its pretty good. You need to finish it though.
Why is it so great, /lit/?
What should I expect before reading it
STOP ASKING DUMB QUESTIONS
FUCKING FAGGOT
HOPE YOU DIE TODAY
your wrists might get sore depending on how long and in what position you read it
>>8227433
Because it is.
Now read it. Take your time with it--comfiness lies ahead.
yo /lit/ what type of books do you listen to with your audible membership
>>8227395
what?
Dostoyevskeet skeet skeet skeet
>listening to books
Have you ever wanted to set a book on fire?
>>8227339
Thought about torching my copies of Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged; gave them to the goodwill instead.
my diary desu
To The Lighthouse.
Seriously who the fuck is doing what and are they actually doing it or just thinking about doing something??
Is pic related worth reading?
This is a retarded question.
Yes. (don't forget her essays too.)
>>8227331
The best. Yes.
what are your thoughts on audiobooks?
>>8227244
listen to them every day at work
I'm interested in Stanley Lombardo's Illliad and Odyssey. Moby-Dick might be good too.
I'd rather stick with stuff I'm familiar with. I don't think I could just plunge into a thing I never read before.
>>8227244
I use them sometimes for nonfiction when I go on long car rides.
>Nowhere is the hostility of the Anglo-American tradition toward the dialectical more apparent, however, than in the widespread notion that the style of these works is obscure and cumbersome, indigestible, abstract—or, to sum it all up in a convenient catchword, Germanic. It can be admitted that it does not conform to the canons of clear and fluid journalistic writing taught in the schools. But what if those ideals of clarity and simplicity have come to serve a very different ideological purpose, in our present context, from the one Descartes had in mind? What if, in this period of the overproduction of printed matter and the proliferation of methods of quick reading, they were intended to speed the reader across a sentence in such a way that he can salute a readymade idea effortlessly in passing, without suspecting that real thought demands a descent into the materiality of language and a consent to time itself in the form of the sentence? In the language of Adorno—perhaps the finest dialectical intelligence, the finest stylist, of them all—density is itself a conduct of intransigence: the bristling mass of abstractions and cross-references is precisely intended to be read in situation, against the cheap facility of what surrounds it, as a warning to the reader of the price he has to pay for genuine thinking.
When are you going to wake up to the fact that obscurantism is an ideological pseudo-idea constructed by bourgeois philosophers to suppress critical thinking and the necessarily dense form it must take if it is to say anything meaningful?
Created by more than just philosophers. Media, stem. They all want you to think the truth should be as easy as an apple falling on your head.
>>8227289
But the patron saint of continental tryhard philosophy and professional Santa Claus lookalike Karl Marx even says "philosophy is to the real world what masturbation is to sex".
Is it so hard to believe that books written in English and not academia-speak might have more to say about life? Could it be that there's more to be discovered reading Moby Dick or Ulysses than Jameson's entire body of work? By criticizing the foundations of post-structuralism, do we really attack every difficult or ambiguous sentence in a book? No. Jameson got meme'd into spending his career writing fake books for failed states and edgelords hamming it up as bohemian philosophers whose reflexive insult of choice is "bourgeois".
>>8227398
>But the patron saint of continental
>marx
so you don't read books huh how is that going for you
