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>Tfw I never see H.L. Mencken mentioned on /lit/
I only just found out about him today, browsing Wikiquotes whilst stuck in work, but he seems like a thoroughly based /lit/erati patrician. Which of his works does /lit/ recommend?
>"How did one of America's seemingly great rationalists and modernists come to regard Roosevelt as more worthy of condemnation than Hitler? The answer, on the evidence of this and other studies, is that Mencken was a German nationalist, an insecure small-town petit bourgeois,...
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>>8118861
There was a Nietzsche thread yesterday. I think Mencken could rightly be described as the true heir to Nietzsche, or one of them at least. I never really liked Heidegger much.
On that note, I'd recommend:
>The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1907)
>The Gist of Nietzsche (1910)
Only thing I didn't like about him is his overestimation of America.
>>8118861
He's the American Evola. Thank fuck this place doesn't mention him.
>>8118871
>He's the American Evola
Really? Thanks for the recommend.
Glorious dawi edition
Recommendation
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
soo, any good /sfft/ published recently? as in the last five years or so? any new talent in the sea of mediocrity?
>>8118747
Give me good fantasy series to read. I'm almost ending Mistborn.
Something Medieval this time around
>>8118764
Malazan books of the fallen.
If you want military fantasy.
Book 1 is kinda confusing but it gets a lot better with the second.
I really want to become some kind of übermensch. For me that means finding maximum joy in just existing and maximising my chances of continual survival, thusly maximising my total happiness. I also believe this to be the most worthwhile thing to do, it is literally winning at life.
But both those endeavours are hindered by my imperfection and passions. I do not feel perfectly happy at all times and do not strive to fight death at each waking second. Now since this idea should not be new, someone more insightful must have written about it. Can /lit/ recommend some writings?
Also,...
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I haven't read Nietzsche, but isn't it impossible to actually become the Übermensch? I thought it was just something to strive for.
>>8118679
>I really want to become some kind of übermensch.
Well I've got bad news. It doesn't exist, you're infected with the same flaws as any other human being. In fact the less you feel like you have flaws and the more confident nothing is wrong, the more likely you have flaws and the more likely something is very wrong.
Real life sucks like that. If you could, you'd have to be as clever as Nietzsche described them, and that requires being contradictingly...
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>>8118679
the overman does not feel perfectly happy at all times and he does not fight death, he embraces it, along with the rest of his entire existence
can you recommend me books similar to this
>>8118480
Infinton & Jeston by Thimmy Pynchace is a must, opie
>>8118505
fuck off lol
>>8118511
>
rly tho
>ctrl+f
>no Stirner thread
But seriously though, while we don't have to talk about how he was right about everything, as an anon who read his Ego in German, I would like to talk different Stirner editions/translations.
What's the go-to English translation/edition? Does everyone shy away from capturing the allusion to Goethe in the introductory 'Ich hab' Mein Sach' auf Nichts gestellt'? Can you even be allowed to post Stirner without German or a sufficiently annotated version?
As...
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Dude I'm only here for le dank sp00ks maymays
>>8118396
As much as I hate Stirner threads like this are a missing pleasure.
>>8118396
I wish I were never born.
Who's the wittiest writer you've ever read?
Wilde
>>8118299
Shakespeare
sam pink
What do you do when you encounter some unfamiliar word/phrase/line that you don't understand?
(A) Break the flow and look it up
(B) Try getting meaning from context
(C) Skip and continue
(D) ?
>>8118283
>reading for flow
>>8118283
B then A
Keep reading to the end of paragraph trying to get meaning from context, then look it up. If I was wrong I'll read the paragraph again.
>>8118331
this
Understanding of the text is more important than speed.
Im high right now and to me this book it means that we are being controlled in everything we do, we don't created our own actions, we do them because somebody wants us to. We are being controlled. This is the trippest shit ever man. Haha
>>8118196
any one else who's smokin n reading books give me something tripp as fuck to read. goosebumps were alright but i want more fucked up shit.
>>8118196
You having one of those 'suicidal realizations' like in The Awakening or just a normal non-suicidal realization?
>>8118201
wtf man chill?? just want books. no fucked up retarded smart shit. i post on /b/ normally. peaceeeeee
writing now. begin in third person, start including first person view, go from omniscent to limited to smitefull to grrm... what up?
>>8117924
checked
>>8117902
Is that puppers okay?
>>8117902
Hmm. I remember GRRM changing the perspective in one of Victarions chapters.
What's the difference between religion and mythology? If there is one
mythology is dank as fuggg
jews
>>8117833
Seems like the only correct answer
Help me with my term paper
It's terribly redundant and doesn't name a single work or author.
>>8117588 i don't want to make ya feel bad, but continue writing
>>8117588
>at the time
Hello /lit/ I have posted a short story here before and it got great feedback. Please be rough on me.
This one is more of a work in progress than the last, but here it is:
The Brave
He sighed as he looked at himself in the shower mirror. He was at a truck stop on one of his long haul routes. His body was unfit and soft. His copper shin was beginning to wrinkle with age and inactivity. His black hair was cut short and it was thinning on top. He called himself David, but his grandmother had told him his name was roaring bear when he was a small child. He had left the reservation a long time ago so he could start a family. Now he drives trucks.
As he looks at himself he begins to see a strong fit man presenting his chest proudly. His hair is long, straight, and black like the feathers of a raven. His face is painted in bright pigments. His gaze is piercing and thoughtful. His vestments are hide and were made by rough laborious hands. He is a brave. There is a jarring banging on the door. “Hurry yer ass up in there! It has been fifteen damn minutes!” a hoarse smoker’s voice yells. He sees David again. His puts on his jeans and his shirt and walks to his truck.
As he drives the bumps of the road hurt his back. It didn’t used to be this way, but now it was. As the trees and bluffs pass by him he begins to feel as if he is riding a gleaming and powerful horse. The drone of the engine is no longer. He hears the clop of hooves, and the frantic breathing of a charging steed. He hears the call of a hunt. He sees the plains whip before him, conquered by a proud people. His truck drifts from his lane and he is galvanized by the honk of a passing car. His eyes are wet.
When he arrives home supper is already on the table. His child, a young boy almost eleven, runs to greet him as he walks in the door. The boy hugs his legs. He reaches down and tousles the boy’s hair. He sits and begins eating. He talks to his wife about her day, she says it was busy. She reminds him there is a bill that needs to be paid. He thanks her and said he almost forgot. She mentions that his boy did well on an exam. He turns to the boy and asks him for details. The boy confidently says that he has received the highest grade in the class on a mathematics exam. He smiles at the boy and congratulates him, he says he is very proud.
After dinner the boy collects the dishes and puts them in the sink. The boy goes upstairs to prepare for bed. The boy will think of how someday he will be a man like his father as he goes to sleep. David sits on the couch with his wife. She talks to him about her mother, what happened at the school yard when she picked up the boy, and how her trip to the doctor went. He listens and asks small simple questions. She rubs his back where it has hurt him. She asks him about his drive and what his truck carried.
When it gets late they leave the couch ready for sleep. She looks at him as he straightens the pillows, she sees a brave.
>>8117413
good job
>>8117433
Any criticism?
>>8117413
Hmm meh
Analytic philosophy and Continental philosophy are both useless horseshit, but at least Continental is fun to read.
t. engineering student
>useless
there's that word again
>use
why is 'use' good
>>8117380
I didn't say use was good.
Why are /lit/faggots so shit at thinking?
what did he see in that horse
a cow
>>8117219
himself
>>8117219
World War 1 and World War 2
>started with the greeks
>went all the way up to early moderns
>investigated the idealists
>fucked around with phenomenology
>hung with the hermeneuticists
>partied with the poststructuralists
Where do I go now?
What's next?
I'm extremely excited that gorillaposting has finally been brought to /lit/.
>>8117171
You write.
>>8117171
Jus b urself
