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Every time I sit down to write something, it inevitably turns into smut. I don't know why or what I can do to stop it but eventually I'll get bored and start imagining the characters having kinky sex in my head.
Can smut be good literature?
>>8059996
go back to /a/ or /b/ or wherever the fuck you came from
>>8060019
More like /u/ or /d/ with the direction my stories usually go but seriously help me out here. I just wanna write good stories.
>>8059996
>Can smut be good literature?
No. But if you turn that smut into cuckold erotica and market it towards middle aged women you'll become a renowned writer in no time.
>finally read Hegel
>think all is well
>notice that I suddenly think everything needs a dialectical synthesis
>every time I encounter a problem I just look at its elements and think "yup, this situation is still lacking its dialectical synthesis"
>tfw Hegel turned me into a fucking retard
>>8059954
>everything needs a dialectical synthesis
When I pointed out that Hegel uses dialectics I was called out for not having read Hegel. Fucking pseuds.
>>8059962
Ironically they're the pseuds for incorrectly regurgitating the "I'm so much smarter than you" trivia that Fichte is the one who actually said the thesis-antithesis thing.
ideas dont lack for a synthesis, they simply continue along trajectories until they meet their antithesis
Can /lit/ suggest me some intelligent anti-islam works in the same vein of the anticlerical authors of the 18th and 19th century?
>>8059918
Anything but the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse.
Nicholas of Cusa's Cribratio Alkorani f a m
Basically title. Looking to get into the Henriad and wondering which edition /lit/ would recommend.
Each play being a separate volume is a must, and notes would be handy but aren't a necessity.
if money is no concern - letterpress shakespeare
>>8060005
>500 dollars per play
Whose the fuck is buying these?
>>8060005
They look sexy as hell, i'd just need someone to do me a solid and lend me several thousand pounds.
What is the best biography of Hitler?
>>8059905
Forget everything- read Hitlers Revolution. You can find it on amazon
maybe Ian Kershaws
my diary desu
Can anybody rec me some literary novels about young adult women? preferably written in the last fifty years.
the crying of lot 49, broom of the system, pattern recognition,
(all pretty much the same book though desu)
>>8059874
i've read the first two, but the last one sounds interesting. thank you. any recommendations for books written by actual women, though?
>>8059880
joan didion's play it as it lays is great
Hello /lit/,
As one of the more intelligent corners of the internet, I wanted to share some thoughts with you, so that you could either expand upon or rubbish them with your learnedness and erudition.
One of the big reasons we strive for self-improvement - or, indeed, strive to create great works of art - is to appear attractive to the opposite sex, to make ourselves more worthy of the affection of others. The /r9k/ mentality is often rebutted by merchants of personal growth, people who advise the loveless and allegedly unlovable to go to the gym, start reading more, or do some other such salutary activity that will make them more romantically and/or sexually desirable.
I've been reading a lot on the Matching Hypothesis, which states, to quote Wikipedia, "that people are more likely to form and succeed in a committed relationship with someone who is equally socially desirable"[1]. This assertion is then backed up by quite a range of studies, all employing varying methodologies and arriving at (pretty much) the same conclusion: we're better off with those who share our 'social worth' (physical attractiveness being the main ingredient here).
All very well, you might say, but surely we should aspire to make ourselves have more social worth so as to find and flourish in a relationship with a 'better' partner?
The thing is, when you 'fall' for someone, whatever they were both (i.e. a 6/10, to use the tried-and-tested scale) they instantly shoot up to what is effectively a 10. You might objectively recognize that they are still a 6.5, but for all intents and purposes they're now a 10. This thought came to when I realized that the three girls I've had proper feelings for in my life have all been of a similar level of attractiveness, and that this might be more than a mere coincidence, and that I'm probably the equivalent thereof in male terms. What's more, when I had feelings for each of these girls, they were the only person I wanted to be with - no substitute, even if objectively possessing more social worth, would have done.
What's the point, then, in striving to make ourselves more attractive to the opposite sex? The Matching Hypothesis is the great leveler, ensuring the propagation of the human species by giving even the most hideous of our race the capacity to find and be happy with someone else.
tl;dr: self-improvement for the sake of romance is pointless, 'cus the Matching Hypothesis sorts us all out in the end.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_hypothesis
>>8059847
>One of the big reasons we strive for self-improvement - or, indeed, strive to create great works of art
>is to appear attractive to the opposite sex, to make ourselves more worthy of the affection of others.
Stopped reading right there. Reply and explain why I should give your low-effort thread another chance.
>One of the big reasons we strive for self-improvement
maybe the nerds on your autist board do this.
>you might objectively recognize that they are still a 6.5, but for all intents and purposes they're now a 10
this is some stupid ass idea. what if she hits and steals your money? your entire retard theory is based off the idea that once you get a girl you'll be happy, without considering the fact that she could break your heart.
>>8059847
Tbh I like to think lifting and reading is for me, but my ultimate goal is good house, good kids, good life, good job And so i somewhat agree all self done stuff is for the grills.
But There is no greater feeling than feeling self accomplishment, so we also do it to give ourselves a pat on the back. Anyway what thw fuck do i know i havent accomplished anything in my life
>>8059857
Subconsciously everything we do is for the opposite sex.
I have nothing but a complete lack of surprise that Collected Tweets was a pathetic, abysmal failure of a book, and I have nothing but scorn and contemptuous laughter for the morons who have been supporting Tao Lin for years with patronage. Laziness and lack of organisation will ALWAYS shine through, in the end.
Tao Lin has based his entire schtick around "humorous irony" but this time, when he himself was put to the test ("can YOU make a good book, with all your supposed knowledge about it?") his true colors shone through for all to see. I knew it would happen, of course. I knew it from the first time I decided to bite the proverbial bullet and attempt to read Tai Pei.
Hopefully as a direct result of this, one or more of the members of Tao Lin's entourage will realise that they are, and have been, nothing but an abhorrent failure "half-assing it" through life, and put an end to it. Their life, that is. Now THAT I would give patronage to.
Make your suicides happen, Tao and Mira. It's the only chance at redemption you all have.
>>8059793
Tao Lin pls go.
Let's talk about Mira Gonzalez's sweaty socked feet.
>>8059793
What's the point of this thread, exactly? No one even cares about Tao Lin anymore.
Should I buy a kindle
>>8059771
I would have used to yes but now my kindle displays adverts when on standby so I say buy a secondary brand instead
you should buy a knife not a kindle
>>8059776
Shit I read this as knife at first too
what would fit better into the last book you've read, vampires, werewolves or zombies?
>>8059691
vampires and zombies show up in the one I'm currently reading, no werewolves yet.
Cyrus Annihilator reminds me of being younger
Everything ruled when I was 13
Can "to set upon" generally be used in a way similar to "to set out on"?
I'm finding a lot of hits for "set upon the task of..." or "set upon a journey" in particular, but can't grasp how these expressions took shape. Wonder if one's a deformation of the other?
Probably overthinking it?
>>8059627
>Probably overthinking it?
Hmm you think
It depends what your definition of 'is' is.
>>8059634
I guess what I'd come to expect, when looking into it too much, would be a reflective/ "to set (oneself) upon". Was it perhaps originally so?
Pursuit of excellence or pursuit of pleasure and why?
Which do you put first, which would you ideally put first, which books do you like in relaiton to this?
he
Pursuit of thinking about things other than necking myself desu
Let me know /lit/ers
it's the future of the world's most shit content creators being advertised among links to music that i'm too cheap to pay for.
>>8059571
No, it isn't. /thread
Is it wrong to steal from small bookshops?
My local one has outrageous prices for some shit (7 dollars for some penguin classic from the 90s) and there's never enough people watching that I steal shit.
if you love barnes and noble and raping the local economy go for it.
Fuck all bookshop, even charity ones and also libraries. They're all staffed by normie fuckers, mainly women who look down on you because you read stuff and aren't a Chad.
of course it is you fucking moron
roll for what you're reading next from your backlog
0-1 Blood Meridian
2-3 V
4-5 Meditations
6-7 Hamlet
8-9 As I Lay Dying
pic not related
henry rollin
Just make a strawpoll
what's the point of threads like this. just go to /b/ if this is what you want to do
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