>tfw had to explain the christmas carol to a brainlet who didn't understand any of itThe most simple explanation i could muster was a spiritual scared straight I fucking hate normalfags
Just show him/her the muppets one.
Unironically discussing dickens in 2017 should get you the rope breh
>>10380017being too stupid to read one of the greatest victorian writers in his entirety should be publishable by lobotomy but I guess that wouldn't do much for you would it
>>10380006>The most simple explanation i could muster was a spiritual scared straightHow is it any more complicated than that?
*blocks your path*Stop watching Seinfield
>>10378151The bigger deal you make of it the more awkward and disappointing it can beBe social, don't look or act like a sperg, you'll be okayyou could try adjusting your standards too but then you'd have to settle, and even though you probably want a QT to settle for you you'd like to not have to date an ugly girlI'm not blaming you, but it does solve your problem
>>10378303This is why DFW killed himself. He used to try to avoid television in the mid 90s cause he knew he couldn't take the cold indifference of nihilistic shows like Seinfeld, which is why he advocated new sincerity. He wasn't held enough as a lad and shit that had too much self reflected irony was painful, so he attempted to create an antirebel: objectivity with a hug, just a bit of warmth.
/ourguy/ Bloom of course
>>10378151I didn’t kiss a girl until I was 21, ended up losing my virginity to the same girl a couple months later. I lied and told her she wasn’t my first kiss and she never asked if I was a virgin. Just play it cool, they can’t tell.
>>10380022>they can’t tell
>not unlike
>>10379920>arbitrarily demarcating acceptable/unacceptable phrasing>>not freely deploying the entire range of rhetoric to pinpoint the perfect transfer of connotation
>and but so then
Who dis
Ok hi /lit/So I'm looking for some recommendations on philosophy books I can read. My teacher gave me "1984" and I loved it. I was considering starting off with "Republic" by Plato but I've heard mixed reviews about it. Also I watch a lot of social commentary on YouTube as well and have an interest in behavioural science.(Keep in mind I'm 15, so nothing too challenging)Thanks!
What should one avoid when writing fiction? Besides grammatical mistakes.I have created a whole plot for a novel (300 pages, more or less), but I'd still like some tips on how not to make it a complete failure of a book.
>Unpronounceable names.>More than 4 major POVs (I think showing random povs of very minor characters, and only for like a page or 2, is pretty interesting.)>no environmental description (this a pet-peeve of mine, I adore when writers describe the environment and characters, visualizing comes easy to me).>A lacking use of semi-colon and dashes>female characters maneuvering like elite athletic men; able to, through "only" physique, beat men in fights>happy ending>tacked on macabre ending, they often feel rushed>more happens in the last 100 pages than the previous 400>fading anything to black/knocking out the pov/jumping forward in time then describing what just happened—the fallout of an action—in past tense: Fuck Jew>Purple vocabulary. Is that a thing? Feels like it is. "Look at me I have access to a thesaurus. Even if I have no idea what X word means in this context."
IMO avoid writing a bad book. It doesn't matter if there are grammatical mistakes in your manuscript, you can always edit and reedit every line, using line spacing to make it easy to spot those - and if need be google the lines to see if they are proper English - but more importantly, when you look at TV where the best writers arguably work there's always a plot and everything is easy to understand, like King novels, and the plot advances all the time and there are no useless details or bad dialogue lines, etc. Write dialogue all the time, like, say, in Grapes of Wrath, and don't share *too many* thoughts. No one cares about your thoughts unless you are literally Sartre. The normal reader wants a good story. King doesn't share his own thoughts for example: he tells a story. But who am I kidding I have never published a novel and I'm only starting out, it's just that it's obvious how bad writers write badly and good writers well, and that being aware and using one's concentration and imagination and reading published novels to know what to do in the first place makes one a better writer than shit.
>>10377334Avoid lists like these. A good writer will break every single one of these rules and still create a compelling, lasting read.
What does /lit/ think of DW Griffith
What would be a good addition for Buddhism and Islam here?Other religions also acceptable
>>10379885Unironically based truthposterYou'll find that most Catholics are big supporters of war in the Middle East because it matches up with their pathetic DEUS VULT roleplaying
>>10379885yes, ISIS are just active nihilists, while the degenerates on the west are the more the passive nihilist kind
>>10379897The Pope believes in climate change which is fundamentally a nihilistic doomsday cult, educate yourself and go Orthodox
>>10379892>You'll find that most Catholics are big supporters of war in the Middle East because it matches up with their pathetic DEUS VULT roleplayingI'm fully convinced that the only reason /pol/ (and by extension 4chan as a whole since they're fucking everywhere now) suddenly became Catholic is because they couldn't bear the fact that Trump turned out to be a NeoCon shill who bombed Syria and wants to rebuild the Middle East as Greater Israel so now they're pretending it's some sort of epic ISIS-killing second Crusades whereas in reality they're just funding them even more. It's a sick joke the way things turned out with him.
I was going to lament the way this thread went but then I saw the font "Protestantism" was typed in the OP and realised it was a shitshow from the beginning
If a 10/10 is Joyce's Ulysses and a 0/10 is Fifty Shades of Grey, what are Dan Brown books?
i liked it, good pacing and plot
>>10379118Same, I honestly think hes good at intricate plotting and sort of simple, readable charcterization. Absolutely no worse than the average published book. He's just become this punching bag for losers. They type in the exact same tone as the depressed 'atheists' on a Christopher Hitchens youtube clip, I notice
I think The Vin Chi Code was the last book I ever binge read. I can't remember a thing.
>>10377677I take it Harold Bloom wrote this. Thanks for at least including the pic but in the future could we attribute the source in the actual body of text? Thanks.
>>10378638I think it's fair. Anon is saying that popularity doesn't equate into quality.
What are some good books that advocate cultural marxism? I'm trying to consider different points of view?
>>10379217>communist propaganda>coollmao
>>10379596The art not the message it carries.Propaganda usually looks cool.
>>10376771It doesn't exist. It's an idea made up by the right. There are no 'cultural Marxists'.
>>10377317Obvious false flag is obvious
>>10379648Things existing or not existing are not relevant to how a concept can change culture.
>Marx, Adorno, Horkheimer, Marcuse>"German" philosophers
>>10376179>>10376179>father of """""""marco-economics""""""">who is KeynesI hope, with all my heart, that every single one of you leftists die a painful, humiliating and slow death.
>>10377315Why do you speak the language you soeak? why do you live the way you live? why do you look the way you look?>Empty, meaninglessWhy are you on /lit/ where all writers have inherited something from the past, where do you think "Start with the Greeks" meme comes from?Even Marxists can't argue against inhertience, they inherited the works of Marx!
>>10376933You believe a dog born in a stable might be a horse?
>>10376951No one is Chinese, only decendants of Chinese.
>>10376140>>10376124>(((German))) """""""philosophers"""""""ftfy
hi /lit/, it's your butt buddy /fit/.plz be a fren and give me suggestions on what i should read.some stuff i recently enjoyed in class/picked up:c&p, the idiot, three kingdoms, the iliad, the lais of marie de france, snow country, thousand cranes, fathers and sons, the stranger, lolita.and if you have any suggestions for non-fiction plz tell me. thank you.
>>10377279Drop the stranger and read more nabokov + greeks
>>10377279What’s the function of the wraps on her feet? Aesthetic?
>>10378404Nothing
>>10378087Exactly this
Bump
>only read philosophy, hard sci-fi and religious texts>only drink water and lemon juice>only eat bread, fruits, and vegetables >don't consume illicit drugs>walk seven miles each day (same route)>haven't verbalized since January 1st >only communicate via anonymous online forums, pseudonyms and written notes (to cashiers etc)>no longer responsive to attempts at inter-personal verbal communication>only wear black>avoid onanism and thoughts that may encourage it>avoid looking at women online and in public>transcended duty to family, society and species>no longer identify with a consistent Self>hacked my subjective value system and no longer feel external pressure to conform>transcended feelings of shame and guiltComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>10379623Jfc, I read two sentences of that and quit. I think if there's one thing to learn from this thread it's that all advice from others is useless and you should just listen to yourself.
>>10375541This. Do a martial art, OP. Or Yoga. Or the Wim Hof method. Or go out into the woods or something.
>>10375776
>>10375346You're what they call a phony OPYou live a fake life but you'll die a real death
>>10379623>emotions arent real but muh knawledgeLife isn't a spectator sport.
Hey /lit/, I've been trying to get into Infinite Jest but I constantly lose and regain interest in reading it. I can't seem to focus or enjoy it when I occasionally read it (which is rarely). It happens with almost any book I read but I love literature. Is there anything I can do about this?
yesstop browsing the internet for six hours a day, learn some patience, turn off your phone, and just read
thinking of asking for a chair to read in for christmas. anyone have any comfy/aesthetic chairs to recommend?
>>10375706 kek
My gf has a knock off Eames Chair as seen in OP's pic. They are about $2000. Pretty comfy.
>>10377762>the fact you think you can greentext<pls die
I got this off Amazon for £150. It's nice but since I basically do cube dwelling I just read in bed.
>>10375782My grand father has a pair of them.
Daily reminder that Alfred North Whitehead is one of the greatest metaphysicians of post modernity.
>>10372718he is the greatest, PBUH
>>10377781Not really. He's more physics-ally inclined. Also, he grants even the smallest existent particle with a level of subjectivity. Etc. Incredibly engaging..
>>10372718His day's still to come. Unquestionably.
>>10372718What's the best introduction to his metaphysical work?
>>10379664For me, Thomas E. Hosinski's Stubborn Fact and Creative Advance.
