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Any books about wasted potential/genius or wasting your life?
>>8213890
Do you have something you want to tell us?
>>8213893
No that isn't what this board is for. But you can make a clear assumption on my situation based on what i'm looking for.
I woud just like to read something that mirrors my situation.
my diary desu
Who's going to be the next Kant?
Who will author the next Copernican Revolution in philosophy? Who will completely change the game?
Or have we already seen such an author, or authors?
>>8213796
No one from this shit generation, that's for sure.
ib4 nick land forced meme shitters
someone that manages to continue where hegel left off, which is not nearly as easy as dealing with a concrete problem like the copr or something
>>8213801
>Hegel
Wrong direction. What we're waiting for is in fact the next Nietzsche, who was the next Schopenhauer, who was in turn the next Kant.
Whoever manages to take Nietzsche's ideas to their logical conclusions, or else refute them, will claim that prize.
Why does genre fiction work so much better in other forms of media than in books?
>>8213762
Books are more mentally demanding than other forms of media (with the exception of perhaps plays), which means we also expect a greater reward that justifies the mental energy spent.
Books are more exclusively about ideas and sentiments. Genre fiction is more about action and character interaction, both of which for obvious reasons are better presented on a screen.
Tell me why you think that's the case.
Why are drawing skills seen as diametrically opposed to writing now when they were once seen to be both critical parts of a persons and in specific an artists education, as seen in William Blake?
Why have we gutted those skills from our education system and relegated them to an extra break time for kids?
Factual and functional, fussy accuracy and concision are qualities that are most often respected in writing these days, the equivalent of technical drawing. Creative writing that is actually artistic and beautiful is significantly out of favor so writers and drawers have mostly parted ways. Then again a lot of what people call drawing these days is shamelessly repeating anime and similar tropes
>>8213711
>Factual and functional, fussy accuracy and concision are qualities that are most often respected in writing these days, the equivalent of technical drawing. Creative writing that is actually artistic and beautiful is significantly out of favor so writers and drawers have mostly parted ways.
You know, I was just talking about this same thing:
>>8213702
I am glad to see I am not alone
>>8213657
Where to start with Blake? Innocence and Experience, Heaven and Hell, Urizen?
>chapter is 100 pages long
>whole book is 1 chapter
>chapters don't have a whole page dedicated to a new chapter but the new chapter just begins seamlessly at the end of or middle of a page.
this triggers me
>this page is intentionally left blank
>tfw you realize God exists but he's incompetent and lazy
>>8213592
>tfw you realize God doesn't exist outside the minds of incompetent and lazy thinkers
no shit we're made in his image.
>>8213602
>tfw you realize if you're not incompetent or lazy you're not a human soul as that is the very foundation of mankind and therefore God cannot exist in your machinery
Wagner says that he confessed to him about weeping to a monk. Wagner was a Romanticist, and Nietzsche was a classical philhellene, so it's possible he was trying to slander him for artistic purposes. But at the same time, Christianity is a reoccurring subject in Nietzsche's work, and we're all probably familiar with the infamous chapter in "Antichrist".
One account of this is mentioned in one of Nietzsche's biographies. If I recall correctly, so the story goes, there was a kindly Orthodox monk (I believe perhaps an archimandrite , or somewhere in that eminence range) who was being severely persecuted by the Lutheran Church or state, and he wrote an article on his behalf that led to the monk being exonerated by her. Some time afterward, he saw him in the street and prayed with him, and well, you can guess the rest. Later, he calls on Wagner, who I believe was a bitter enemy of his at the time, to come to his house and he confesses all this to him. Wagner was disgusted, and when Nietzsche saw the look on his face, he said something like "you cannot possibly love me as much as I love you!" From what I remember, the biographer seemed to believe this confession took place but thought Nietzsche was lying about it because of some weird pious complex he has, which seems like a stretch to me. I don't know whether or not he actually confessed this to Wagner, but if he did, I'm inclined to believe he was telling the truth. I mean, who the fuck lies about weeping to a monk?
Another thing... I recognize this has a lot less credibility, but probably like 6 or 7 years ago, I read a post on reddit from some guy claiming to be in contact with people from Kierkegaard''s estate and supposedly they had letters or diaries backing up the claim that he had confessed his sins. According to him, Nietzsche had some weird belief that being absolved by a priest "cleansed" him in some way. I assumed this guy was lying, but the only reason I didn't totally write him off is because when I messaged him for more info, he sent me a link to a translated version of some Danish website where Lou Andreas-Salomé (1st ever female Russian psychoanalyst, who supposedly rejected a marriage proposal by Nietzsche) claims he talked about doing this during a walk. This sounds like a very slavish thing to do, but at the time, confession wasn't viewed the same as it is today, and in particular, the confession to someone from a higher power wouldn't have been viewed as backward (see the depiction of the confession of the the Apostle Paul, Jew, a former Pharisee, in "The Dawn"), so a bunch of philosophers/philologists talking about during a midday walk wouldn't have been that unusual given their value system.
What do you guys think? Have you heard anything about this?
If any of your hearsay anecdotal evidence and hazy memories are true ("I remember reading something on Reddit 6 to 7 years ago", come on) then he's Christian in a false U.S Army "no atheists in foxholes" way and doesn't have an effect on his work.
>>8213586
is this going to be a a new copypasta? i might start on a joyce and dfw version tbqh
>>8213586
Why would any of this impugn Nietzsche's credentials in any way? He must have been pretty close to Christianity in order to attack it as radically and thoroughly as he did, anyway.
last year i read every day including the summer
this year i read only 15 books so far
100 pages in the last 10 days (confederacy of dunces)
is it the antidepressants
what do
>>8213528
>Force yourself to read
>Vary your book choice
>Read nonfiction
>>8213528
Allow yourself to take a break. I find it's a lot easier when you don't have a voice inside of you telling you you need to be doing something right now.
Perhaps try rereading a favorite you haven't read in a while, it should be easier to get through.
How much cultural capital do you have?
cis-gendered straight upper-class white male American reporting in. Any recommended reading by this bourdieu chap, anon?
>>8213540
I haven't read him, sorry.
who else waiting here?
>>8213417
Book 3 of the Kingkiller series is taking its fucking time.
Recognitions got me feeling this way right now. I'm moving through it with enough interest but it's a slow journey towards the 1000+ final page
>>8213440
It will be crap.
Just like the other 2.
About to go to Paris. What book do I read on the flight? I have enjoyed fantasy and dystopian in the past, but that doesn't mean I need one of those.
>>8213253
The sun also rises or A moveable feast by Hemmingway
read one perfect day by ira levin. i know you will not regret it.
>>8213253
I read 1Q84 on a flight to Paris
Pretty comfy desu
ITT: God tier publishers
That + Dell.
End list
Schism Press
Punctum Books
Mimesis
Penguin.
Pleb here. How do you distinguish between good and shit poetry? What are the criteria?
The quality of poetry is measured using a metre. You need to see how many feet it is.
>>8213181
kill yourself my guy
>>8213175
Jesus Christ watch the first 30 minutes of dead poets society.....
basically, poetry isn't something to be measured... honestly literature can just barely be,
what is good and what is shit between this
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and now tyrone has left me here
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and also pay for aids
cuz tyrone came inside of me
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theres a thing inside of me
its kicking like a lil monkey
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or
who are you,little i
(five or six years old)
peering from some high
window;at the gold
of november sunset
(and feeling:that if day
has to become night
this is a beautiful way)
you just can't because poetry is fucking whack yo
Should authors be allowed to discuss this deeply detailed about a characters personal life? Especially about literature meant for kids?
>Stephen King admits Roland from The Dark Tower series likes to be pegged
Who cares
>>8213121
They shouldn't not be allowed but they should know better than to engage in that kind of nonsense.
>>8213121
>Harry potter books are full of murder
>Wizards and witches dropping dead like flies, many of them children
>End of the world stuff every academic year
A tweet merely implying a sexual position is worse than all that murder?
Morality in 2016
>My sweet little whorish Nora I did as you told me, you dirty little girl, and pulled myself off twice when I read your letter. I am delighted to see that you do like being fucked arseways. Yes, now I can remember that night when I fucked you for so long backwards. It was the dirtiest fucking I ever gave you, darling. My prick was stuck in you for hours, fucking in and out under your upturned rump. I felt your fat sweaty buttocks under my belly and saw your flushed face and mad eyes. At every fuck I gave you your shameless tongue came bursting out through your lips and if a gave you a bigger stronger fuck than usual, fat dirty farts came spluttering out of your backside. You had an arse full of farts that night, darling, and I fucked them out of you, big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from your hole. It is wonderful to fuck a farting woman when every fuck drives one out of her. I think I would know Nora’s fart anywhere. I think I could pick hers out in a roomful of farting women. It is a rather girlish noise not like the wet windy fart which I imagine fat wives have. It is sudden and dry and dirty like what a bold girl would let off in fun in a school dormitory at night. I hope Nora will let off no end of her farts in my face so that I may know their smell also.
>You say when I go back you will suck me off and you want me to lick your cunt, you little depraved blackguard. I hope you will surprise me some time when I am asleep dressed, steal over to me with a whore’s glow in your slumberous eyes, gently undo button after button in the fly of my trousers and gently take out your lover’s fat mickey, lap it up in your moist mouth and suck away at it till it gets fatter and stiffer and comes off in your mouth. Sometimes too I shall surprise you asleep, lift up your skirts and open your drawers gently, then lie down gently by you and begin to lick lazily round your bush. You will begin to stir uneasily then I will lick the lips of my darling’s cunt. You will begin to groan and grunt and sigh and fart with lust in your sleep. Then I will lick up faster and faster like a ravenous dog until your cunt is a mass of slime and your body wriggling wildly.
>Goodnight, my little farting Nora, my dirty little fuckbird! There is one lovely word, darling, you have underlined to make me pull myself off better. Write me more about that and yourself, sweetly, dirtier, dirtier.
>>8213109
MODS
>tfw no gf
tfw no gf
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