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is it a meme book made up by some chink or it's legit?
If you read it as literature it should be a rewarding experience, Jung's knowledge (intoxication, as he put it) of mythology is fleshed out very well in this recorded period of psychosis.
Worth reading
that's not what i ask though
was it really written by jung?
it all looks as a hoax
>>8040149
>was it really written by jung?
Yes..... the reader's version has an introduction by Sonu Shamdasani, who I'm guessing is the chink that you're so worried about. If that really bothers you get the facsimile edition written exclusively by Jung.
I'm not sure where you got the idea that its a hoax....
Was thinking that it's about time that I pick this up.
Can anyone recommend me a good version of it?
Anything i should now about it before reading it?
pic slightly related
some crap written by a dead white man
>>8040118
I would, but it's in Croatian. It's a great edition, which contains his essential writings across multiple fields, even his poetry and a hefty biography.
>>8040125
sucks man, that's exactly what I need, but I need an English version
Imagine life was different than it ever’d been before.
A rushing soaring pulling tugging certain king of roar.
The heavens cried calam’ous strife
and new was born once more.
The ocean king ascends his throne a glory new to pour.
But falcons soft descended in the underbelly fore.
A time, to shout, the softest pout, did ever ‘pear once more.
But canny was the falcons terror tearing sudden lore
The oceans pouring with their mist did wash away once more.
Now boater loft forgotten toys aloft another shore....
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>>8039971
bump
is this about someone losing their virginity op?
>>8040047
>The ocean king ascends his throne a glory new to pour.
his carnal scepter enters womb and smears her legs with gore
you are probably right :3
I'm not sure if this is the right place for this topic, but I'd like to talk about the idea of conciousness and and the possibility of reincarnation.
to preface my idea:
Let's say that due to the fact that time exists forever, black holes will eventually suck all the matter of the universe into a central point after eons have past, where another big bang would occur. Having this exact scenario play out over and over again for eternity, How likely is it that something like the reincarnation of ones consciousness occurs, and one would experience live again...
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>>8039916
>black holes will eventually suck all the matter of the universe into a central point after eons have past, where another big bang would occur.
better ask /sci/ but I've also heard that its just as likely that black holes will just fizzle out and all matter in the universe will dissociate into energy or something
anyway a really interesting idea if new universes will play out differently to this one, eternal return is just horrifying t b h
>>8039932
>better ask /sci/
>>8075395
>>8039932
>better ask /sci/
>>>/sci/8075395
I'm reading infinite jest and am about 200 pages in. The last book I read was catch-22.
Catch-22 made me feel very happy about living hedonistically--fucking women I barely know, drinking, smoking. Infinite jest kind of addresses these topics with a wink and nudge--they're good, but fleeting and shallow.
Mostly, I'm stricken by the impact of literature on everyday thinking. Does anyone else have some similar feels to share?
>>8039802
You sound like a douche.
>>8039802
You sound like a douche.
>>8039802
You sound like a douche.
Also, you people only read like 4 books here.
what does /lit/ think about text-based forum roleplaying?
it's how a learned to go from describing subjects or objects in one sentence to being able to write at least a paragraph about the thing in question, if necessary. but i can't say it made me a good writer because i never really developed past some of the people who i was writing with.
it also gave me a home, which sounds lame, but if you remember the ezBoard days of the internet, there was no 4chan/youtube/wikipedia. i still hang out with those people but no one really RPs anymore.
is it...
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>>8039694
I play around with Dnd to explore themes through improvisational story-telling
Write solo in tandem with your RPing and it shouldn't hurt
Just do it with care
It's a very good idea but I doubt you'll find anyone willing to play with you. I did a lot by email back in 2000 but it's dead, now.
>>8039694
>where does it stand in relation to solo writing as a whole?
It is the slam poetry of co-written digital texts. Full of self-indulgence, narcissism, and power fantasies.
It has the same problems as any collaboration in digital spaces, in that it is very difficult to strike the right balance between quality controls and barriers-to-entry.
i.e. Trying to control people too much will drive them away. But failing to control people at all will leave your project vulnerable...
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Post them haiku's. No copypasta please.
Here's one to start it.
Living in a tent
"Become a writer" they said
"You'll be rich" they said.
>>8039453
Dark Side takes over
Fear not for the Galaxy
We know Good will win.
Sins last for ever
Salvation by Devoution
In G-d we shall trust.
the turgid shaft extends
the field yields to the plowhead
yeah take my dick boi
so i was browsing an upcoming christie's auction of rare manuscripts, and as i was scrolling through the lots of patrishness i stop dead in my tracks like wtf is this shit? can one of u genrefags explain me this? they're auctioning like old shit from Edward Gibbon's personal library and like first edition Mark Twain's and shit, and like some personal papers of some 20th century fag like Hemingway or Kerouac or whatever...and then ... this.
>>8039450
If they're all first editions in great condition and 15 of them are signed by the author, they're worth something or will be eventually.
Those books are fairly popular and may be around to stay as YA fiction.
Christies sells everything, remember jacques is dead and its one of the most beloved series in england, it might not seem like much but to someone its worth something.
Also
>2-3,000
people buy vases from christies as much as sports cars on a weekly basis m8, its really just a tiny fun little auction piece.
>pic related something a little more valuable from a christies acution.
>>8039471
that shit isn't even a generation old yet, the rest of the auction was old musty shit that will fall apart if u sneeze on it and this shit is like some crap that could have been taken off a barnes and noble shelf a decade ago
What are some good books with deeply psychological themes? This includes psychological horror, studies, etc.
What does 'psychological themes' even mean?
>>8038919
The life and works of Sigmund Freud.
>>8038931
Sorry if I did not make myself clear, books that focus on the human psyche.
Do you prefer Milton's Paradise Lost or Dante's Divine Comedy?
>>8038875
Coldnt read more than a full page of either
PL. DC makes me want to take fatty snooze tbqh
Paradise, for sure.
has anyone ever won any writing competitions or contests?
what was it? what did you win? how long ago was it and how is your writing progress now?
(post your winning entry if you're brave)
>tfw only losers
When I was in kindergarden me and my dad wrote a poem in some sort of poem competition and won some candy
>>8038549
Chem Eng major, won a uni Shakespeare competition by taking the plot to the crucible and rewriting it using Shakespeare's own lines. I think i used lines from Henry IV and Julius Ceasar the most.
Won it last year, received a $100 gift card to the Union Bookshop. I'm rewriting the Illiad as a family drama, similar to Johnathan Franzen's The Corrections.
Are pronoun shifts really that bad? I've been struggling with the aesthetics and the implied fracturing of a character's thoughts in regards to narrative shifts. Is this very common? Will people misunderstand the conscious disconnection that my character's exhibit when a passage becomes a bit "too revealing" for them? I think it's a great way to deal with writing about mental illness and the disconnect that some people practice in regards to "the person" and the illness.
but apparently that's wrong lmao
c'mon, there's 10 or so meme threads and none of you professors can answer me lmao
>>8038586
Simply by creating an unreliable narrator may better convey a descent into insanity. I think the pronoun shift may turn into too easily of a crutch. The art comes into creating the unreliable narrator's world both being reasonable and disjunct, therefor making the gullible reader fall prey. Look at Lolita for a pervert's empathizable narrator through wit, look at Poe for madness (The Eye, I believe it was called), American Psycho, Fight Club, etc.
Unless the pronoun shift is absolutely necessary, it...
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I don't recall seeing pronoun shifts except in free-flowing narration where they go smooth and unnoticed, prose-wise, unless hard looked at
>>8038945
I'm not a quality poster and I'm frequenting much less often so I think you're projecting something here
Drier than the Sahara
borges was a cuck
>>8038296
Wasn't he a virgin?
>>8038296
Serves him right for falling in love with a H2G slut.
How are the NYRB Classics editions?
>How are the NYRB Classics editions?
What did he mean by this?
>>8038134
Dude, you can just go fucking ask OP directly. No need to be passive-aggressive like this.
>>8038128
they're doing fine, thank you for asking
ITT: Post children books that have some deep or philosophical meaning
>>8038125
The Calvin and Hobbes comics mix in a bit of social critique and philosophical nuggets here and there, if that's something you're looking for
>>8038139
don't reddit children
