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What's the most /lit/ lifestyle:
- part-time janitor, an extreme amount of drinking, huge amount of time to read and study anything at all (80+hours a week), no formal education or participation in academia, publishing etc. full experience of ups and downs of proletarian life and culture
- undergrad/grad literature studies, lots of classes, participation in low level academia, nothing but lite-bourgeois job prospects, medum amount of time to read and study at leisure, participation in petitebourgeois culture and social groups.
- buddhist training, ordained, 0 experience with contemporary culture, meditation 8 hours a day, abstinence, very few ups or downs.
NEET
read for at least 8 hours a day
The most lit lifestyle is not being a fuckig self destructive idiot and doing what makes you happy while providing you plenty of time to read and reflect
>>8184224
just mix and match all three and add alcohol and voilla you're a beatnik
>found Stirner in 2013
>been lazy ever since
>can't bear to spook myself
>know that without spooks I drift aimlessly and achieve nothing
Who else is like me? I've cast off so many spooks even you guys can't handle me. I've noticed that in general lit reacted to Stirner by growing a thin faux intellectual respect for religion veneer.
>>8176140
Take the redpill, cuck
>>8176140
yeah thats why I quit stirner. been reading normie shit like nietzsche to gain some discipline.
stirner made me a sociopath
>>8176153
Nietzche is just Tony Robbins for pretentious people
Can we get one of these going? Would appreciate some dumps
>>8166207
someone post template?
Dubs edition.
Old one's full.
Post your shitty work.
Rate other's shitty work.
PLEASE leave feedback before or immediately after posting your work. Otherwise these threads turn to shit. Seriously.
>>8154294
I can't post anything ITT, because I'm bringing back philosophy in the form of aphorisms.
If I post any, people will steel my ideas.
>>8154299
At least you got the dubs.
Post a sneak peak maybe?
>>8154294
The café Claire worked at was built inside a space originally used as a warehouse, presumably to store parts of the boats they used to build down by the river nearby. The original walls were still there, grey cinderblocks stacked on top of each other held together by thick white cement that sometimes ran and left chalky marks there like raindrops or tear stains. Claire had grown more sluggish at work in the past few weeks. She’d subconsciously trained herself to act on autopilot, gliding through the space, spectral-like, but also slow. Her manager often asked her kindly to work faster, but Claire didn’t feel like it was in her ability to do so – her body could only travel the speed at which her mind moved, and lately she’d felt her mind slowing down – the processes in her brain decelerating, growing more simple, monosyllabic. Claire understood that something was different, a small part of her worried that her persistent drug use was numbing her brain – another part was relishing the calm space she now occupied – but for the most part, Claire didn’t think at all. During her breaks she would sit in the storage space behind the café, and feeling a cold breeze coming through the open window, imagined her breaths slowing down, her mind slowing down, her body slowing down to the point where she could subsist near-comatose, not dead but hibernating, like a bear in the forest.
Then her break would end and she would go back to work and carry plates around and take orders, writing them down on a small notepad because she could never remember them all in her head.
Hey /lit/, I want to seriously get into philosophy. I'd attend to college, but I'm already studing a History degree and there isn't such thing as minors in my countrie's university system. How should I focus on my readings? I'm considering reading the big ones in chronological order, making no distinction between areas of study but only between authors and eras.
>>8190700
Start with the Greeks
>>8190708
I'm on it tho
>>8190708
It's a tedious meme but he's right.
Actually I'd read up on the history of philosophy, the big names and themes up to the present day (e.g. Plato to Popper). Then start with Plato.
This series is veeeeery comfy, and you can pretend you're a student at Oxford while watching his lectures. All free with videos and lecture notes/slides. Takes you through history, and then David Hume (the lecturer is a Hume scholar) and up to the 20th century.
After that you should have enough background to decide where you want to go.
Is Franzen a hack?
>>8190568
Yes.
>>8190574
How so?
>>8190588
It works but it's not good engineering.
this isn't bait pls don't meme me
are there any good books about being trans/with trans characters
this is the only one i found it was ok
The Wasp Factory
>>8190337
Middlesex, though it's more about identity, and intersexuality.
We had this thread 2 days ago
Anyone else here just completely put off by translations and translated works?
The older I get and the more I advance in my literature studies, the less I can stand translated works. Let me try to phrase this right. I'm not saying translation is useless, I'm not saying it shouldn't exist, I'm not saying people who read translated works are plebs or any of that shit (trying to have a serious discussion). I care a lot about the formal qualities of literature (structure, metre, syntax), and I mostly read poetry and novels. I have come to accept the fact that some things are just out of reach. Because I am fluent in several different languages and have a decent grasp on some others, I have often compared translations with the originals. It's not that all translations are bad at all, it's just that they're essentially entirely different products in the end. Of course, this doesn't happen to the same extent with entirely plot-based novels with mediocre style, but for the sort of literature I'm interested in, it's pretty noticeable. Fortunately for me, I have good enough reading comprehension in the 5 languages I care about the most. Still butthurt I'll never be able to read Russian lit, and Japanese lit to a lesser extent.
Tl;dr I find reading works from cultures entirely foreign to yours originally written in a language you know nothing about is not good enough for me and I would much rather entirely focus on stuff I can understand better at the expense of a narrow, in a sense, knowledge of literature.
What's your stance on this issue, /lit/?
Pic unrelated.
>>8190198
>Because I am fluent in several different languages
>I have good enough reading comprehension in the 5 languages
We get it. You speak multiple languages.
Translations are shit and they should be avoided at all costs.
They are for the monolingual American masses, not for intelligent people who actually care for literature.
>>8190198
Humblebrag.
Can translating a book make the book worse or even ruin it?
Potentially yeah
>>8190081
did you seriously have to ask this?
>>8190081
are you retarded?
What have you bought/borrowed lately?
Pic is my latest haul from the local book shop, cost about $25 total, most expensive book was Directive 51 at $8.50. Why do people pay $30+ for new books that we have piles of?
>inb4 poorfag
Getting the exact same experience for less money is just good finance logic.
The fucking bird encyclopedia is 1000 pages full color hardback, $3. Reference material is cheap as fuck.
>>8189963
Bottom right two look pretty good.
Sometimes I forget I am on 4chan and that people actually buys these books, lol.
>>8189981
I was super excited about them. I love reference books and birds so the encyclopedia was a great snag.
The forestry book was pretty neat. I wanted the Official Handbook they had on the shelf, but when I put it back to check out the red one, some old guy who was next to me snatched it up and walked away, so I had to settle for this one. It has a lot of really interesting information in it.
>>8189987
It's mostly cookbooks and a couple "informational" books. There's literally two narratives there, and they're both pretty decent series, what could you possibly have a problem with?
Or are you just memeing it up because you saw the word Halo and haven't actually read any of the books at all?
How can I start with Stirner? Could you orientate me in which of his books should I read first in order to 'get him right'?
>>8189870
1. The Ego and Its Own.
None, whenever he references a specific work he quotes or paraphrases the parts that he's referencing.
>>8189870
>orientate
Orient.
Which novelist do you find to dissect our 21st century situation best?
I'd say Houellebecq. Maybe Bret Easton Ellis too.
I don't think many come close really.
Can't forget about Knausgaard.
>>8189717
Pynchon or Delillo.
Ive read posts on 4chan that are more int une with the problems of humanity than anyone in the media.
BEE is pretty much generation x.txt
There was a segment i saw on CNN about the alt right and it was a bunch of multicultural corporate stooges decrying them and then they mention how they masturbate to anime and worship taylor swift.
And its like, olds cant even comprehend when people are fucking with them, especially on the internet
Has anyone on /lit/ been published?
What is the title of your best known work?
How long did it take you to write?
How long did it take you to get published?
Has it all been worth it?
My roommate worked at the university paper and published something I had written about the campus's ugliness and lack of character. It was published under a pseudonym because the architect who designed some of the newer buildings is very much alive and I don't want that kind of static.
Wrote for a couple school newspapers. Did some MMA journalism online for a while. Have done blogs and put some poetry snd shit out there too, but no glorious published Work of Art for me, yet.
No one on /lit/ accomplishes anything.
Is this the key to being alt lit?
actually it's more benzos and e.
no, xanax, anti-depressants and low testosterone
Eros is a mysterious energy inherent in the whole of creation, fascinating seekers all over the world. Across the cultures, Eros takes different names but still remains the same agent that has to be awakened from within, since it is the only element that can transform the human psyche. Psyche has to be pacified and Eros’ "fire" has to be transformed into "light" so that he can become the mediator and guide that gently pushes and pulls the seeker towards the source of divine love—Eros the Beloved—that awakens from within, guides and accompanies the seeker from within the inner planes. He is the inner witness, the agent within the seeker that unfolds gnosis, or divine knowledge
>"fire" has to be transformed into "light"
Ellie Goulding Burn
https://youtu.be/M1SqP9ePky8
This divine knowledge awakens higher levels of consciousness within him and, in turn, these levels of consciousness aroused by Eros lead the seeker back to the source of light
Ellie Goulding - 'Stay Awake'
https://youtu.be/JKvEUJpAEQc
i clearly see the influences of hesiod's theogony and dante's divine comedy
Ban all shitposters and tripfags
