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/lit/, please may you share with me your experiences with plebs relating to literature? I need to feel worse.
Someone on /lit/ once posted an infuriating story about his younger brother telling him books are boring because "it's all been done before" and that "he could write better himself." Anyone have it screencapped?
> my little brother wants to write YA fiction
> I think it's kinda cool because, although I don't like YA fiction and I'm not part of its primary audience, as a writer myself I would like to talk to somebody within my family who is interested in writing and reading
> he asks for "big books" because he likes his shelf to "look nice" - this means that he will also take my Pynchon and my copy of Don Quixote just because they're chunky books and fill up his shelf more
> he wants to write sci-fi so for his birthday I buy him popular sci-fi works like Dune, A Scanner Darkly, Ubik and I Have No Mouth
> he doesn't read any of them
> he tells me his favourite book is Eragon
> he's 18
> he says he wants to write for a living but that he doesn't want somebody to edit his work/he doesn't want to edit his work; that he doesn't see any point to re-drafting work; he doesn't want to publish or promote work online; etc.
> finally read some of his first novel - a sci-fi about aliens who are discriminated against by humans (meant to reflect small town mentality regarding homosexuals) - and it reads like The Martian [i.e. "100 pirate-ninjas (yay) but I'm fucked (boo)" or something along those lines]
>>7941071
I wish to see this.
So /lit/-
Nietzsche refutes Plato, or Plato refutes Nietzsche?
Discuss.
Plato offers a powerful refutation of Nietzsche.
The trick with Nietzsche is that his greatest opponents are in the past. People try to find the person who 'opposed' Nietzsche, but none of them came after him.
Nietzsche's two greatest opponents came before him. His two greatest refuters are Plato and Jesus. They are both powerfully opposed to Nietzsche and everything he stands for. Both of them make compelling arguments against Nietzsche's view of the world.
Naturally, Jesus is a special case, and one might take the thinkers who follow in his stead as being additional refuters of Nietzsche. I speak of Origen, Paul, Athanasius, Basil, Augustine, etc..
Nietzsche is a mofucker nazi that could never get proper erection. That's why he hated the world and kept braging about being Clark Kent and that everyone was shit except himself. In truth, he can't. He was just like Lex Luthor with hair and no intelligence.
At least Plato made sense.
>3 page essay due at midnight
>only done one page
Help me lads...
>two 300 word responses to questions on Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality
>about to smoke a joint instead
as if i give a shit about this baby time bullshit. i'll pump it out in an hour, tops.
Chin up lad
>>7949337
How long does it take you to write one page double spaced
what do Melville, Faulkner, Hemingway teach you about on writing?
nothing at all?
''Show, don't tell''
Hemingway nothing. Faulkner so much. I haven't read Melville.
So what does /lit/ think?
0/10
>>7939842
I feel like looking up Off the Road now
>>7939844
>Ernest Hemingway
> Brave New World
> 0/10
Try harder faggot.
Why is philosophy often scoffed at by those who don't study it?
>>7948571
because they don't study it. Your question is loaded.
Sleep tight Plato
sleep tight Plato
>>7948571
They don't study it because it's ridiculous. Would you study alchemy?
Which writers best articulate their distaste for life?
Who are some anti-life writers?
Pic related
i don't think maintaining a negative view of life is anti-life
read the conspiracy against the human rance by ligotti and shut up
>>7947963
Lovecraft was definitely anti-life
In this thread we pitch story ideas and judge each other.
Bonus points for pitching something fresh on the spot.
Me first: so, it's set in an unknown time in the past with a vague environment. There's this girl, and every night her uncle tells her the story of how her father came into his fortune before he died. In this frame story, her father comes across various odd characters who tell their own stories, including a horrifically scarred pirate who tells seven wildly different back stories explaining how he got his wounds and became a pirate and then there's the giant who served a king, a bandit, and a prophet at different points in his life.
The frame narrative is interrupted occasionally when the uncle kisses the girl good night and the girl goes to sleep, which introduces a series of dreams in which the girl sees the eternity of the universe and discovers soul crushing truths. When morning comes the girl forgets her dream and has a minor adventure. Then in the evening, her uncle resumes the story of her father.
Multiple readings reveal that the uncle was lying to the girl; her father wasn't the kind, virtuous man he'd been describing, but rather a cruel and monstrous figure who deserved his death.
And also the girl and her uncle never existed. Maybe
>and also the girl and her uncle never existed. Maybe
Don't do that.
>unknown time in the past
That sucks.
it's about this depressed neet and nothing works out and he kills himself
I'm writing the story of a bar stool and it's toxic relationship to an alcoholic's ass. Everyday for four years the barstool waits eagerly for the drunk to visit and is overjoyed whenever he sits down. There's a few misunderstandings where the barstool gets jealous of another chair the alcoholic sits in but things smooth over after awhile when the drunkard returns and vomits on the counter.
It ends tragically when the drunken bastard breaks the barstool over the head of another man.
>"A new challenger has appeared!"
Multiculturalism does breed intolerance.
>>7950093
not to mention it allows a ruling class to institutionalise artificial/sterile versions of culture and use them to mandate people's identities. In a way it's a continuation of the policies of the british empire
>>7950106
A synthetic culture is perfect for a consumerist and neocapitalist society.
What makes a book YA?
If women like it, it's ya. If coloreds like it, it's garbage. If both like it, it's propaganda.
>>7949560
embarassing
>>7949549
If it panders to dumb teenagers.
>Last book read
>Currently reading
>Next book I'll read
Guess stuff about each other
>War and Peace
>How to Read Wittgenstein
>The Fountainhead
>Last
Light in August by Faulkner
>Current
Divine Comedy
Violence - Zizek
>Next
Essays on semantics and philosophy of logic - Gottlob Frege
>Last book read
Don Quixote
>Currently reading
Epic of Gilgamesh
>Next book I'll read
Conference of birds
What is the best book of the 2010's so far?
My vote goes to 1Q84
>>7944670
I think 3-6 of Knausgårds Struggle came in '11.
>>7944670
>Knausgårds Struggle
Also known as, Knausgårds Attention Whoring Sell Out.
That's one of the worst books ever written even by murakami standards
Post god-tier opening lines
I am Ishmael.
Dear friend now in the dusty clockless hours of the town when the streets lie black and steaming in the wake of the watertrucks and now when the drunk and the homeless have washed up in the lee of walls in alleys or abandoned lots and cats go forth highshouldered and lean in the grim perimeters about, now in these sootblacked brick or cobbled corridors where lightwire shadows make a gothic harp of cellar doors no soul shall walk save you.
Every happy family is all smiles, while the unhappy ones are all sorts of faces.
Would /lit/ be interested in a "Learning ancient Greek" reading group?
Yes, most certainly yes. But someone inevitably will have to take the lead and, looking at the topic, I think it will also have to be a faggot which is why I propose YOU name a book (say, "Anabasis") and then set a shedule and link a place for those who are interested to discuss it. If you don't keep steady contact with the people reading it your group will soon fall apart. Make sure you're interested and free enough yourself.
>>7937411
>strict schedule for learning and also reading ancient Greek
I don't think that will work m8.
But yes OP I would be interested.
ye, i'm interested.
>>7937369
God damn screw tape letters was excellent.
