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Which writer had the most active sex life? What about the author with the least?
Did this affect they they wrote about characters interactions with women in the books they wrote?And which writer had the most attractive wife?
Mao
Tao
Did Sigmund have an active sex life or was it all penis envy?
What is your favorite Tolstoy novel and why?
>What is your favorite Tolstoy novel
None.
>and why?
Because I haven't read em yet.
I have only read The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Confessions and some of his other religious writings. I plan to read his major novels but from what I understand everything I have read from him is from a diffrent part of his life.
>lel lolstoj
What are some good books for someone who struggles to accept that they are going to die someday?
.... helped me thru some dark times : )
KJV
>>7815425
You'll never die
Singularity is near
Hey /lit/ I'm feeling blue and thought maybe you could help me feel even more melancholy. Post any depressing quotes from books, authors, philosophers, anything.
But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface
"Tears do not burn except in solitude." — E M Cioran
"...and that boredom is a direct proof that existence is in itself valueless, for boredom is nothing other than the sensation of the emptiness of existence. " - A. Schopenhauer
I was bored and wrote a short story. I want to see if I am utter trash or not in other people's eyes. Where do I share my shitty short story to be judged? 3,8k words.
literotica.com
Pastebin link on /lit/.
Please share, I love this shit.
>>7814186
http://pastebin.com/zCrJshF5
One person is one more than zero.
Maybe there is a broken sentence or two, I am a lazy faggot.
Who /Niezsche/ here? Gentle reminder that this guy BTFO'd Christcuckery, inspired the religion of Thelema, was the main inspiration of Evola and also the root of all postmodern philosophy, including feminist theory.
He inspired both Anarchists like Emma Goldman and Fascists like Benito Mussolini, reactionaries like Evola and progressives like Foucalt. He was a protean figure without comparison in history.
He's the king of fedoras and degeneracy.
>>7814110
>progressives like Foucault
:-S
cool so just because he inspired those people he should be focused on
what about the people who inspired him
why not focus on anyone after him
what makes him so great? is it that he inspired all those people? doesn't that imply that he is great because he influenced greatness? if thats the case then why not study his descendants?
if its the source of the influence that is great then why not study the influences of nietzsche?
if I only want to understand Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari and Land where should I begin?
assume I have no other philosophical knowledge (though I am reading Republic)
>>7814090
Read this first: http://www.aaronvandyke.net/summer_readings/Guattari_Felix-Mary_Barnes_Trip.pdf
Has land done anything besides scattered blogs?
>>7814430
books and essays
no reason a blog can't be a philosophical work (though I wish he organised it a bit better)
What are you writing, anon?
My diary desu
>>7815315
Evangelion x Gravity's Rainbow crossover set in the south that isn't readily identifiable as a fanfiction.
The most epic work of literature. Ever.
Philosophy was a mistake
-L. Wittgenstein
but a necessary and inevitable one.
its like saying that perspective vision, the way we see the world due to the human eyes anatomy, is false. it is indeed not the "objective" state of things, yet it is the way we see them and, despite not being "true" (note the irrelevance of the question), it is practical. or have you ever seen a child failing to walk just cause he sees in perspective?
>>7815105
"Philosophy too focused on concepts and not logic was a mistake"
ftfy
Haha I like cocks
-L. Wittgenstein
Is Kate Beaton the supreme patrician qt?
"no"
>>7813992
Maybe you should stick to Penny Arcade
>>7813992
desu that fathers and sons comic is pretty fucking funny
Has anybody here written anything set in a war? I'm currently in the process of writing a novel/novella set in World War Two, but the war will only be seriously discussed for 30-40 pages. What's the best way to capture the authenticity of being in war?
>>7813881
Being in the war
>>7814018
This
Nothing matches actually being out there, but you can't do that.
I recommend reading, watching, listening, and absorbing everything you can about the war before you try and accurately capture it.
>>7813881
Visit eastern Ukraine
Daily reminder that he was literally cucked by Bertrand Russell
That's just depressing. At least he got to talk with Groucho Marx.
>>7815101
Who wasn't ?
>>7815122
Wittgenstein. :^)
Name a better contemporary prose book (or author for that matter).
Protip: You cannot.
Man, I'm gonna read the shit out of this book once I finish Brothers K
ondaatje is all that comes close in terms of modern authors imo, but it's a different poetic style.
it really is the perfection of modern prose, reminiscent of evelyn waugh
>>7813786
>contemporary prose
Is homestuck, or any other webcomic for that matter, worth reading? I've never read one because I feel like every single second spent reading a webcomic is a second that could have been spent on reading an actual book. I simply see them as YA lit with pictures, which just makes them worse than YA lit.
Having that said I really enjoyed some comics, for example Watchman, and some manga too (Berserk is a masterpiece imo).
Am i wrong?
>>7814946
If you're actually asking yourself this question, you're probably pleb enough to enjoy them, so go ahead and read them.
>>7814946
well youre wrong in comparing them to lit yes. theyre just for a quick giggle m8
Homestuck is literally the Ulysses of the 21st century. It's incomparable, inimitable, and perfect in every way.
“HS is supposedly a story that is also a game. In games, the characters die all the time. How many times did you let Mario fall in the pit before he saved the princess? Who weeps for these Marios. In games your characters die, but you keep trying and trying and rebooting and resetting until finally they make it. When you play a game this process is all very impersonal. Once you finally win, when all is said and done those deaths didn’t “count”, only the linear path of the final victorious version of the character is considered “real”. Mario never actually died, did he? Except the omniscient player knows better. HS seems to combine all the meaningless deaths of a trial-and-error game journey with the way death is treated dramatically in other media, where unlike our oblivious Mario, the characters are aware and afraid of the many deaths they must experience before finally winning the game.” -- The James Joyce of the 21st century, Andrew Hussie
Just...wow.
Are there any contemporary writers who you follow?
How do you follow them? Where do you find them?
/r/ someone write this.
>>7813780
It seems to be that this is a major problem in literature, or rather, with the supply chain of literature. There aren't really labels you can put on a book to make it stand out from your average tumblr-core writer. There's no platform onto which one may receive the upcoming good writers.
>>7813780
I prefer to follow them on foot, because I blend into a crowd pretty easily. Also, it allows for greater mobility.
I tend to find them by googling around and figuring out what general area they live in, and then I hang around somewhere it seems like they go. I manged to follow Houellebecq a while in Paris because I figured out he liked to shop at the large grocery store in the XIIIeme. I followed him around the aisles, peering around corners to look at him. He shopped very slowly at times, carefully checking any...
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