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I just bought it and i'm feeling intimidated by its length.
>>8276098
that's what your mom said. to me.
it took me awhile because at first i would force myself at least 20 minutes a day for it, but once i got more free time i would crank out 50 or more pages with little effort.
>>8276098
reading is not a fucking difficult activity to do and if you can't commit to a task that can be tangibly confined to the palm of your hand you have bigger problems than /lit/ can help you with
that being said it took me about 1.5 weeks with ample free time
Quantum Age Star Talk ?
Trying to have a Conversation
...know your story like I do...
https://youtu.be/VuNIsY6JdUw
>music in their hearts
Heart our diamonds
Up in the Sky
How was Hyper Sphere and The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra written? Did people just submit random pages?
>>8276035
Good pasta
Hey I'd say it's time for a new one of these isn't it boys
What are your favorite books published in the last decade?
Oh, all of them.
>reading anything post 2000
2000(1)-2009(10) or 2007-2016?
What's your favorite book? Mine is pic related, makes every book boring to me. Probably have read it at least a dozen times.
>having a favorite book
pleb talks
This is jarring because that exact copy is resting on my nightstand; if we're going by sheer number of times reread as 'favorite' I'd have to say either M&M, Fahrenheit 451, Watership Down or The Mists of Avalon. Any one of those I could pick up and resume whenever.
Always has, probably always will be.
Hi /lit, firt of all sorry for my bad english, im from colombia. I was asked in my philosophy class at school to write an essay about the truth, but i dont quite have an idea or a personal thought about this topic, so i wanted to ask you guys if you could recommend me some books or text about the truth so i can build my own opinion. thank you :)
Plato's Gorgias for a dialectical view of truth
Nietzsche's essay On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense maybe as a counter to Plato
http://www2.fiu.edu/~harveyb/HI-NietzEssay.htm
>>8275983
Thank you! ill start reading those
Important writers about truth in 20th century philosophical discourse.
Quine.
"As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in the light of past experience. Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer . . . For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer's gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise. But in point of epistemological footing, the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind. Both sorts of entities enter our conceptions only as cultural posits."
He essentially showed that the analytic synthetic distinctions dont hold up and are intermingled with each other. Meaning that any data when we attempt tp grasp it, is already mixed up with out linguistic conceptions.
Previously it was thought that we can have objective reporting of "data" and the problems come when we try to interpret it.
Wittgenstein also put another dent in positivism.
Derrida on the other hand fucked over structuralism and showed that any words we use are dependent not only on their place within a synchronic structure of language but also on a diachronic progression.
The culination of all this was the death of foundationalism, the attempt to somehow find an objective position that is outside of the human conditions to be able to show how we can objectively assert anything.
The descartian attempt to do that failed.
Then pragmatism entered the picutre and ideas about cultural relativism and how truth is simlply what you get when you allow free information fow within society, only possible through a free democratic regime.
Meaning that there is no way to ground any knowledge as objective so we must rely on historical narratives and experience to judge what has worked for us and what hasnt to see what is more correct.
Then there is an approach that simply says that sine humans are part of nature and have evoloved just like other organism we are always bound by reality and function within it and that language is not a filter preventing us to see the truth but is exactly the means by which any truth can be aquired.
Objective truth is simply an incoherent idea and the "pure" knowledge is the filtered knowedge we get as it passes through language to us.
who are the good young authors? everyone we like is going to die in the next 10 - 16 years. who should we be watching? who has potential? is it ishiguro? he's the youngest author I know that's any good.
>>8275936
Tao lin
>>8275966
Ye.
how does one judge a plot?
How effective it is
How consistent it is
one does not. it judges itself. one can judge that judgment tho.
>>8275755
He'll finish The Winds of Winter but won't write the last one.
>>8275764
Pretty much this. No way this fat fuck has enough brain activity left in him to finish the whole thing. On the bright side, it doesn't matter since the books have been generic crap for a while now.
>>8275764
the fat fuck better writte some ending to major plot points in that one then
Addicted to buying books. What to do?
Goddamn I'm in the same boat. People who haven't seen my piles tell me its healthier than other addictions, but I'm starting to feel overwhelmed and I don't think I can stop.
Buy more
i bought 24 books this past week, i tell myself im going to stop for a while everytime
What does 4chan/lit/ think of this book?
Physical copy too expensive; some faggot stole the one my library had; therefore I'll probably never read it.
>>8275736
is that a pokemon
>>8275750
I managed to get it for £15 after waiting a while for a cheap one to come up. I think that's a reasonable price, though obviously I have no idea what it's like in other countries.
Is this the best study bible?
I like the Oxford Annotated Bible.
I also like this one for the KJV Bible.
>>8275701
Gppglr.told.me.it nearby begs
So now that we are no longer bound by the mind matter dualism but are facing a resurgent metaphysics based on emergence and vertical and horizontal pluralism(i.e. different levels of being: physics, chemistry, biology, psych, culture all with their own emergent and unique proporties and seperate non reducible ontology) and religion is coming back to the forfront as a driving force should we update our understanding of god as well? In what way?
After all, god is a personification, a literary subject through which we express our frustrations or that stands for the powers which we cannot control or cannot make sense of.
The ancient personal addressing towards problems in personified form might still have a place as long as we set the rules of interaction with such god or gods properly as a result of our contemporary understanding of the world.
>>8275667
simply that "god" is the principle of absoluteness and completeness, and that everything else is an aspect of this totality.
>>8275667
>emergent
Means nothing
>>8275835
Emergency emergency, this anon having emerged from his mother's funny smelling cunt over two decades ago has never experienced an emergent property, or even seen an emergent tree in the woods
what do Melville, Faulkner and Hemingway teach you about writing?
>>8275656
That America is retarded.
>>8275666
Okay, Satan.
>>8275656
Whales, Corncobs and Erectile Dysfunction
when we talk about the "future of literature " and the "logical progression of literature as an art form" who are the first writers that come to your mind? for me its
Tao lin
Me
The novel is a dying cultural endeavour.
University literature departments are effectively care-home's.... not shitty statutory care-homes where you are left sitting in a puddle of your own cold piss..... But a care home nevertheless.
The novel has slowly but surely crawled to the fringes of our culture.
>>8275629
for me as well although in a lot of ways he's pretty traditional
