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Lets talk about Hegel and how his philosophy applies to today's word.
Has his predictions come true? Has spirit reached a purer reality?
Nah. We live in the age of scientism. We're fucked lads.
Hegel is literal nonsense for pseudointellectuals. Whenever I hear someone mention Hegel I discard every opinion they've ever had.
>>7999976
Did you just start reading Schopenhauer quotes and built up your philosophical views on those?
>So, anon, what's your favorite novel?
>Oh, definately Gravity's Rainbow
>Never heard of it, what's it about?
> ...
>tfw plebs will never understand why this is a masterpiece if they haven't read it themselves
>>7997545
>definately
Less time reading about magical dicks and more time on grammar, plebkun
>>7997545
>definately
pynchon fans, everyone
>>7997545
>definately
Man is something that shall be overcome. What have you done to overcome him?
I don't let spooks run my life for one
What does Nietzsche think about empathy?
Say I had someone I cared about and could easily relieve their situation because it would also make myself less anxious seeing someone I love out of a struggle.
What would the proper Nietzsche way to act be? The same action because it seemingly helps the individual or trying to unlearn empathy and try to pursue other things
read, watch anime, shitpost
What are you writing about, /lit/?
Just some shit that has no value but makes me feel special
So we can possibly separate books into two classes: commercial and non-commercial.
I mean, yeah, it's all commercial since that's what publishing is but I'm talking about the intentions of the writer here. At one end of the spectrum is the self-published stuff on Amazon that's written by formula for the sole purpose of giving the vampire/zombie/werewolf/space opera audience (pic related) something to throw their money at. The opposite end would be something like My Twisted World: The Story of Elliot Roger which he wrote and distributed with absolutely...
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>>8002783
There's a tiny market for inspirational poetry supported by grandmas and Christians.
>>8002783
That picture, although cheesy, is very relatable desu. That postcoital feel of waking up after disappearing into the universe of a good book is pretty amazing.
>>8002783
Music has largely replaced poetry nowadays; there shall you seek a distinction between commercial drivel artificially designed by large record companies, pretentious garbage spewed out by humanities students and truly inspired art. Not to mention that a lot of music's artistic appeal is based on the sound of it rather than lyrical content; perhaps hip-hop is the closest thing to conventional poetry.
Then you've got "poets" like Mira Gonzalez. I read some of her work - it could work as prose...
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Just finished this. I hadnt read any Delilo before this and it took me a bit to get used to his style but I thought it was great.
Pg 96-100.. About the poker games they played was incredible, but there are lots of gems in this book. And it seems to resonate with me, and I imagine anyone over the age of 25. it brings me back to that moment and the days after. How everyone around me reacted and how it compares to those in the book.
I have not seen much discussion of the book, though I've seen people say this is one of his wrorst. If that's the case I...
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>>8002602
I have this one in my soon-to-read stack. Glad you like it. I read his The Body Artist a few months ago and really didn't like it. I'm holding off on Underworld, but that one's supposed to be great.
>>8002602
Haven't read it yet but Delillo doesn't publish shit like Pynchon does.
Who else started garnering a significant interest in literature and started "actually" reading really late? I started at 20 years old, two years ago; I can't forgive myself for all these wasted years.
Am I alone, /lit/? ;____;
you didnt miss shit, reading is useless and if you think that it will give you any knowledge you are lying to yourself
That's not that late
>>8002517
I didn't start until 20 either, and now I'm doing a PhD in literature, have an enormous book collection and generally live a fairly literary lifestyle.
You've got plenty of time, OP.
Which translator is best for The Metamorphoses? Also, I know this is a meme, but should I necessarily read anything from the classical era before I read it? I've only read The Iliad and The Odyssey.
I'm actually interested in this as well (Not OP)
The advice I got from a friend who is in the Classics department at my school was Mandelbaum
>>8001839
You should also read the Aeneid.
>Soc. And a thing is not seen because it is visible, but conversely, visible because it is seen; nor is a thing led because it is in the state of being led, or carried because it is in the state of being carried, but the converse of this. And now I think, Euthyphro, that my meaning will be intelligible; and my meaning is, that any state of action or passion implies previous action or passion. It does not become because it is becoming, but it is in a state of becoming because it becomes; neither does it suffer because it is in a state of suffering, but...
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>>8000167
Did you not read the dialogue? Doesn't he describe in there somewhere his belief that everything comes from having been not because it is? You aren't led because you are in a state of being led. You are led because you were once not being led now you are. He uses this meme to justify his belief in an afterlife. For you to become dead, you must live. For you to live you must have been dead or some state previous to being alive. In his words, not mine, he believes that because this theme is common in nature....
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Few things:
1) Euthyphro is an early dialogue and entirely concerned with refuting the eristic argumentation of the sophists (specifically, not clarifying their terms) This involves linguistic ambiguities, often things as simple as making false equivalence between homonyms that look or sounds like, but are nevertheless loaded with different meanings:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthyphro#Third_definition
>To the modern reader, this part of the argument (10a-11a) sounds painfully convoluted. But it had to be written this way, because the...
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>>8000167
Existence precedes essence
ITT we talk about our creative writing process. When, where and how do you write? What makes you go on? Why haven't you given up? Which authors do inspire you?
Sit down in bed with pen
Watch porn for 7 hours
Get KFC/pizza
Go to bed
>>7998668
I usually try to write during the morning and the night. My word count improved a lot since I have two writing sessions a day.
I always try to convey my character's traits like Tolstoy does, describe details as best as I can like Nabokov would recommend, and present it in an interesting prose. My style has been tooled a lot by Pynchon and Tolstoy lately, I believe. Even though I know I'm not as good as them, the idea of becoming a decent writer in the future keeps me going.
I usually write in the evening because I attend to college in the morning and I'm too lazy to wake up before 7:30. Sometimes right after lunch, sometimes before dinner. On weekends I use to stay awake for some hours after dinner (usually at 23:00, mediterranean hour) and write if I don't go out partying. My standard writing session is one hour long and something between 500 and 1200 words. Although I don't write everyday.
Started writing in september of 2015 and I feel like my progress has been pretty fast. Now I check some drafts I wrote in september/october/november...
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Sup lit fags, do yall read books with pictures?
I-I'm sorry OP, say again?
Yes, they're called comics.
The Burning Plain - Rulfo - University of Texas ed. I don't know if the Spanish original had pictures.
Got any sauce for that image? I don't know if looking at these types of photos satisfies my lust or just aggravates it but in any case I'd like some moar if you would be so kind.
It's even possible to become a respected writer if I want to make cartoons?
I'm planing on majoring on literature (licenciature, because there's no other literature degree in my taco city) and maybe have a minor in graphic design or fine art.
I'm also planing on taking some classes both in history, philosophy, politics or economics, or just read the basic literature on such topics if I'm not able to afford such courses (because of time constrains).
anything with pictures will attract a wider audience than something without because pictures don't require as much thought. and seeing as how the greatest authors of our generation are JK Bowling and etc. who make a point of appealing to the lowest common denominator...
yeah go ahead. but if you're just in it for the money then become a fuckin banker or something.
Aside from the Quran, what other works of Arabic literature are worth reading?
>>8001653
Rumi, comes to mind.
Maybe Kahlil Gibran?
>>8001653
So it's not Arabic, it's Persian, but the entire field of Rubaiyyatic studies is fantastic. (That is, the study of Omar Khayyam's Ruabaiyyat, which means 'quatrains' or 'verses'). Old Omar was a poet in like 12th century (Islamic) Persia.
Really you can't go wrong with Fitzgerald's translation at least for an aesthetic experience even if it's not a literal interpretation
>>8001653
ibn arabi
Do you have a diary or document your life?
MY
>>7999006
dairy
God's eye sees my life. That's good enough.
Is it smartass, or smart-ass? Anyhow, I don't mean to be a smartass, but I believe it's spelled smartass.
Kind regards,
Smart-ass
