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Prolific Edition
Who's your favorite author with 15+ books?
Does too much quantity weaken the quality?
Previously: boards.4chan.org/lit/thread/7937357/sffg-science-fiction-and-fantasy-general
damn, those your PKD's? i dont have nearly that many
Recommendations for god-tier high fantasy?
>yfw Whitman BTFO'd STEMfags all the way back in 1855
When I heard the learn’d astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick,
Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
>>7947064
That is not good poetry. Stemfags are annoying though yes
isnt he btfoing himself? "i'm too lazy and dumb to ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND space but ill rhapsodize about le starry sky anyway, which i unironically will call mystical"
Questions that don't deserve their own thread thread
I have enough room in my reading schedule to read either Pere Goriot or Blood Meridian? Which should I read?
>>7946547
Pere Goriot
Brothers karamazov vs the idiot; which to read first?
ITT: God-tier short story collections. Single author.
This thread again, with dubliners again, with 'le god tier le shit tier' shitposting format. Sage my friend
new delillo is out soon, anyone planning on reading it?
why isn't he a meme?
Does it come with a buttplug?
my buddy gave me a copy of The Body Artist to read and I really did not enjoy that, so no.
What will be the name of the book you're currently writing?
>>7943469
sanctuary
Gunther my Love, Where are my Pants?
Call Him God
working on teasing out what the core narrative is in between stuff for lit journals. daddy's gotta eat, yknow
Thoughts on Slavoj Zizek?
the last of a long chain of amusing charlatans. With any luck he will not create a lasting impact on the collective consciousness.
I generally think he knows what he's talking about. Says questionable things for various reasons. I think he knows his Hegel, Lacan, Marx, Freud, Foucault, Deleuze, and Derrida better than probably anyone reading here. Where he stands and creates his own position between them in debatable. His chapters in this book are pretty good, especially "Da Capo senza Fine" (I also quite like Butler's response as well). A lot of shit gets talked about him but he's a worthy philosopher.
I've tried Buddhism and decided it sucks.
Which philosophy is anti-Buddhism?
You didn't try shit
what did you read?
Nietzsche is pretty far from Buddhism
DMT and Soul of Prophecy has a section about the author's change from Mahayana Buddhism to Judaism. He more or less says that his monastery advocated for the worship of idols, past bodhisattvas, says he wanted to study the source, pray to the source instead.
Now turning your back on two decades of philosophical thought and practice doesn't just come out of the blue. He was also disappointed by his findings during his dmt experiments back in the early 90's. Said he expected to find something akin to nirvana but found that the Jewish bible and their prophets...
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>3000 word essay on the influence of Christianity on the fall of Communism due tomorrow
>haven't started
kill me por favor
Will you resort to plagiarism, OP.
>>7945141
no i'll get failed
that's a stupid assignment since christianity and communism are the same thing (communism with a different metaphysics of course) while Islam and Judaism had more role in undermining it, but what really happened was communism became its opposite in display of dialectics, baby!
Are there any polyglots here on lit? I speak five languages and I'm not bragging about, I'd just like to know any experiences and techniques which helped you improve your knowledge or comprehension in this domain. Also which languages do you speak?
That's bullshit but I choose to believe it.
So far I can read in spanish and english. I can get by in french but am working on it.
after this I'm learning russian
>I maintain fluency in five languages and I still shitpost on 4chan
Except you're lying
Just finished this amazing book. Any similar recommendations? Also, Stoner general
>Stoner
>doesn't get stoned even once
He raped his wife
>>7943296
Started this book on Tunein audio book and got 4 chapters in and loved it. Then I go to listen to it the next day and they removed it.
Feelsbadman
What does /lit/ think of Terence McKenna?
>>7943376
I like him, but I like doing drugs, so there's that.
>>7943376
DUDE WEED LMAO
why is /lit/ so degenerate?
Just started Food of The Gods
Write an original, terrible opening line. The worst you can possibly come up with.
>>7938353
He was a small man, but with a big heart.
Dr. Pavel I'm CIA
>>7938359
He was a small man, but with a big dick.
Hello /lit/, I'm visiting from /mu/ today!
I'm planning on studying philosophy next semester, but I'm not an avid reader. Will this be problematic? Should I read anything in advance to better be prepared? I'm studying the subject only because I've always been very intrigued by philosophical discussions. Is this dumb? Will I walk into something I'll hate. Please help, I might be moving away for this in only a few months.
why do so many /mu/ pseuds board hop to /lit/?
Philosophy is more than just "thinkin bout life", it's about logic and systems of thought and you have to interact with texts in a far different way than you're used to. Though I imagine you're taking a piss easy intro course anyway in which either they'll guide you into the way you should be reading philosophy, or they'll just spoonfeed you reductive highlights from it. Just do what you should be doing anyway, if you're having trouble talk to the professor.
>>7945973
It won't be a problem as long as you become an avid reader and have the capability and passion to be one. Research some philosophers and read them. Also don't be intimidated by the kids at school who come in with prior knowledge, befriend them if they're legit, but usually they'll be some pretentious fag. You won't know the difference at first but it will become very clear soon after.
>>7945973
>pop music
You're too dumb and will probably just write about patriarchy anyway.
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
You have one lengthy paragraph to comment on this statement, good luck /lit/.
[claim that OP is in highschool and that this isn't a homework board]
>>7945568
Can't we just have nice things for once, you minimalist frog poster?
>>7945558
That's wrong, however. As emotions can be traced all the way to the animals, neither the most basic emotion will be fear, nor the most basic fear would be of the unknown.
