I think this is F Gardner’s master stroke. Page 1 and I’m sucked in.
all of his works are available on z-library.
>>24764684It was .99 cents. The least I can do for this visionary.
Frank, this is embarrassing. If you told me a 6-year-old wrote this, I'd believe it
>>24765220It’s a genuinely funny book desu. If the writing style and personality was a kind of schtick it would be masterful but I fear it’s not. Every other phrase that the Jewish man says is “Oy Vey”. People on the reviews are saying that he used AI to write it. If they read the book they would be able to tell that AI most certainly was not involved lol. It’s not a good book but it has charm. Keep at it Frank
>>24765220You’re just a hater
Why is this board full of leftists all of a sudden? I’ve noticed it a lot in like the past month. Their posts are very easy to spot since they are so shameless. Is there some subversion campaign targeting this board now in order to undermine discussion they don’t want happening? Pic related, some interesting books I’ve found.
>>24764567that sounds gay as fuck desu thank god for zoomer KINGS and PRESIDENT TRUMP for saving this shitty website.
>>24764011This is the truth. We used to casually dismiss all the people pushing chud authors and gripes about women. >>24764048Not really. Honestly, it hasn't changed much. >>24764154It was never. >>24764660Historically, it was constantly snarky and left leaning.
>>24765673Is this a parody of a schizophrenic Redditor pretending to be an oldfag? I bet you don't even know Moot's most hated country, you absolute cuck
>>24765673Effeminate faggot.
>>24765673Remember when Ebola was some new meme being pushed?Remember Quentin?Remember TLJ?Remember that dude that posted harrowing tales of how he just couldn't read because women kept throwing themselves at him no matter what he did?Remember that dude that made really insightful posts about russian lierature but with caps loq?Remember when saging a non literature post was the default?
How do you become a good writerHow did pynchon or mccarthy do it?Do you just need to be born with a high iq? Cuz my iq is low 80s
Just write, I'd say start with the emotions you feel, it doesn't have to be good, just has to get the points across mainly, build from there.
>>24765301Mccarthy undoubtedly had a high IQ. His philosophic westerns show that he is the most serious thinker the novel has had since Dostoevsky. Otoh, jamming obscure references in your text has no correlation with IQ. You don't need a high IQ to read largely inaccessible texts.
>>24764092They never had to ask anyone. They just did. You want to be a writer. That's your problem. They just were writers. You desire the aesthetic of it.
>>24764092Reading Pynchon's early short stories in Slow Learner shows the learning process, you're not born a great writer. It's a skill you learn through practice like any other skill.
>>24764092First off, read a lot until you find out what you truly enjoy. Don't read to become a good writer but to develop your ability to enjoy reading for its own sake.Then, one thing Pynchon actually did when young, and which many other writers do, is write parodies in the style of authors you admire. Robert Louis Stevenson called this the equivalent of practising musical scales.
What's your favourite novel by the greatest living writer /lit/?
>>24763261Gross.
>>24763180>by the greatest living writerHe's not, and I'm a Murakami fan.For me, he died just after he wrote Kafka on the Shore. Or maybe before he wrote Sputnik Sweetheart. No books ever came from him after that.
Where my hear the wind sing chads at. Simple but I love it. It's so cosy. I also forget the entire plot like a month after reading that series and get to experience it fresh whenever I come back to it
>>24764695>before he wrote Sputnik SweetheartLiterally my favourite. Feel like the degrees of separation between the narrator and the person who actually has the out of body experience really work. Generally I also prefer him in novella form. The stories feel a bit too on the nose, the longer stuff like Wind-up obviously feels weightier, but I'm there for the delivery of his one core metaphor, not for side helpings of war crimes or whatever
>>24764915His shorter works are his better ones, I agree.
*dethrones Zizek as the most influential living philosopher*
>>24765374more flattering than OP's desu
>>24764651Capitalize your sentences or go back
>>24762963>it's another "victim of cancel culture who has a worldwide audience of millions and never had his speech meaningfully restricted" episodeJust another jew pretending to be persecuted to fleece money off people
>>24762881Zizek is irrelevant. Nussbaum and other kumbaya libtard Rawlsians are running the world.
>>24764416>implying democrats have a viable alternate candidate or even strategy
What was his endgame?
>"consciousness explained">doesn't explain consciousness
>>24765540>Consciousness is a tool used by the brain to interface with itselfDoesn't seem like a bad explanation to me. Sure, it doesn't really explain exactly how that works, but it's not like there's a better explanation.
>>24765646>>Consciousness is a tool used by the brain to interface with itselfWhy does a p-zombie brain need to "interface" with itself?>Doesn't seem like a bad explanation to me.You haven't thought about it.>Sure, it doesn't really explain exactly how that works, but it's not like there's a better explanation.The actual explanation is far more mystical than atheist cuck naturalist philosophers let on.
>>24765712>p-zombiesLow IQ thought experiment. >you haven't thought about itYes, I have. >The actual explanation is far more mystical than atheist cuck naturalist philosophers let on.Consciousness can be explained entirely in materialistic terms.
>>24765712>Why does a p-zombie brain need to "interface" with itself?people aren't p-zombies BECAUSE their brains have to interface with themselves. If your brain doesn't know what's going on inside itself it would be incapable of thinking. In order to create higher level thought processes inside the brain, it has to be able to synthesize and interact with the processes already happening inside it. It does this by creating an image of the thoughts inside it. >You haven't thought about it.you don't know what I have and haven't thought about, nigger.
My favourite book is Crime and Punishment, my favourite game is Silent Hill 2, my favourite movie is Eraserhead. Gimme recs /lit/.
>>24763971Blood Meridian, Disco Elysium, and There Will be Blood?
>>24763485>Dota 2Based, that game is really fun. All the different mechanics and interactions and strategy and stuff makes it so it never gets boring
>>24763089dipshit
>>24763089lol
>>24763941Diary of a Madman is by Gogol
It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee;And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea,But we loved with a love that was more than love— I and my Annabel Lee—With a love that the wingèd seraphs of Heaven Coveted her and me.And this was the reason that, long ago,Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Nabokov stole this for Lolita, but unlike the narrator of the poem who accepts Annabel's death, HH spends the rest of his life trying to complete his unfulfilled relationship with Annabel Leigh.
After his wife died, Poe's poetry took on a complete other level
>>24763961His Love poetry is seriously underratedAt midnight, in the month of June,I stand beneath the mystic moon.An opiate vapor, dewy, dim,Exhales from out her golden rim,And softly dripping, drop by drop,Upon the quiet mountain top,Steals drowsily and musicallyInto the universal valley.The rosemary nods upon the grave;The lily lolls upon the wave;Wrapping the fog about its breast,The ruin moulders into rest;Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Take this kiss upon the brow!And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow —You are not wrong, who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream.I stand amid the roarOf a surf-tormented shore,And I hold within my handComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24764711Lolita has another Poe source in William Wilson, the evil twin being chased by his benevolent alter ego respresenting his own conscience.
ITT: Books only you have read
>>24764980YJK
I doubt I'm the only person who's read Moore's Confessions of a Young Man here; however, I've never seen it mentioned.It's an autobiographical work chronicling Moore's formative years as an Irish author navigating the literary circles of 19th century Europe.Moore's influence on Joyce-- particularly in Dubliners --is evident specifically in the nuanced depiction of social environments, and the focus of internal experiences of unnotable people.I'd recommend it.
>>24765650Fuck off, Gardner.
>>24763418He's obscure in the mainstream and in the local area where I live.
>>24765708Nah, you're just dumb. He's not obscure.
Look I'll be real with you. I spent years reading theology, philosophy, buddhism, all that shit. Thought I was being so intellectually honest by deconstructing everything, making sure my beliefs could survive scrutiny. Built these elaborate frameworks where God is process and persuasion, where everything has to fit with science and logic. Felt smart, felt mature.But here's what actually happened: I lost the ability to just pray. Like actually pray, not "contemplate the nature of divine persuasion" or whatever. My grandma would just talk to God like he was there and it *worked* for her. She had peace I couldn't touch with all my philosophy books. When her husband died she didn't need a theodicy about divine suffering and consequent nature, she just knew God was with her. And she was right, in the way that matters.All that intellectual honesty? sometimes it's just cowardice dressed up. Couldn't handle the vulnerability of simple trust so I made it complicated enough that I never had to actually surrender anything. Kept God at arm's length where I could examine him safely. The philosophical God can't actually demand anything from you because you're too busy revising the metaphysics.Yeah simple faith can be brittle, can be manipulated, whatever. But philosophical faith can be sterile. Can turn the infinite into a concept you masturbate over. At some point you gotta ask am i trying to understand God or control him? Because if your faith needs a PhD to function maybe you've missed something really basic that a kid can grasp.Not saying everyone should be simple believers. But for me personally? the complexity was cope. Just fucking kneel, anon. The rest is noise.
>>24763707Atheists really do come across as the most arrogant of low-IQ thinkers. They theorize endlessly about how God “doesn’t exist,” yet fail to grasp the core principle: worshiping God is simply acknowledging so far more wise/intelligent/advanced than yourself, that simply be aware of them brings you to your knees in worship. Logically, do you truly not believe it’s possible that somewhere in this vast universe there exist beings of such knowledge and intelligence that they would make you feel like an ant?Look at yourself: one tiny human, on a fragile planet, in a species riddled with hypocritical logic, egomaniacal copes, and an endless addiction to dopamine and validation. You really think you are the pinnacle of wisdom? Of knowledge? Of logic? Don’t delude yourself, little human.Every religion interprets God differently, whether through a church, a mosque, a temple, or a lone spiritualist, but the act of worship itself is the same: it is the admission that you are small, that the universe and what lies beyond your comprehension is immeasurably grand and what unknowable creation created this existence. To truly grasp that depth would make one weep in awe. To deny God is not logical skepticism, it is an ego’s flimsy defense, a coward’s cope.Think about it: if humanity doesn’t wipe itself out, by the year 3000 our descendants will look back at us in 2025 and laugh at how primitive and arrogantly illogical we were. If you stood before a human being from the year 3000, evolved in technology and cognition far beyond your imagination, you would tremble in fear and awe. You would beg forgiveness and in that moment call them god, not because they are divine, but because their presence shatters your illusion of "there is no god, i athiest am the best".Atheists make me laugh. Drop your ego, it’s obvious that disbelief is nothing more than fear disguised as logic.
>>24765108> do you truly not believe it’s possible that somewhere in this vast universe there exist beings of such knowledge and intelligence that they would make you feel like an ant?why would they concern themselves with my prayers or want me to worship them? I don't care if ants worship me or not, lol. your philosophy leads itself to lovecraftianism (cosmic atheism) before it does theism.
>>24765010>Don't you see how they're smiling in the paintings?
buh, what does philosophy have to do with faith? if it felt like you were trying to control God its because philosophy is a tool for mechanizing the world.
>>24765675ok but democritus didn't kill himself and was famous for being happy all the time
>"If they killed men as they did this fall the Allies would be cooked in another year. He said we were all cooked but we were all right as long as we did not know it. We were all cooked."
>I give you the unalive-place of all grindset and fine shyt...I give it to you not that you may remember gyatt, but that you might cook it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your rizz trying to fanum tax it. Because no looksmaxxing is ever mogged he said. They are not even bussin. The function only reveals to man his own goblin mode and doomscrolling, and edging is an skibidi of sigmas and bluds.”
>>24763617gem
>>24762997It's not even just zoomers not having sex, a good portion haven't been in a relationship. I'm friends with a productive group of good-looking guys and gals, beyond four of us, the rest haven't gotten laid in the past year or ever.The zoomer's celibacy is one of atomization; quarantine never ended, a life of screens and masturbation.That being said, picrel would shag an unreal amount of overly drunk girls; a perm is like flicking the devil's tongue.
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>>247656914chan has only existed for 22 years althougheverbeitasitmaybe
>>24765376my aunt is their neighbor and apparently tom used ancient magickal techniques to transfer his mind into jackson's body so he can keep on writing for decades to come.
>>24750634this guy is still alive?
>>24752357>writes a 1930s mystery book instead of literally anything at all that is relevant to modern timesYou've got to be kidding yourself if you don't believe Pynchon has mentally checked out
>>24765692Why wouldn't he be?
>>24765695GR takes place in ww2 but is actually about Vietnam...
>some things can be true and not true at the same time Woah
>>24765595>It has nothing to do with the phenomenal world as far as the idea is contained in itselfyes that's more or less what i've said. people take kantianism to be a kind of solipsism, or at least an intersubjective idealism, because they feel the limit placed on representation by CPR is too strict to remain realistic. the appeal of Hegelism is that it accepts "noumenality" may turn out to be a shrinking field. That doesn't mean its a correct reading of the actual argument of the CPR. As you said, "it has nothing to do with the phenomenal world." But that nothing has substance according to some 20th century lines of thought
>>24765589I'm pretty sure Kant makes a distinction early on in the Cirtique on how objects are known to us through appearances and therefore impossible to know in and of themselves but that an immediate knowledge of things as they are in themselves would be possible to a divine intellect, though he doesn't use that term specifically.
>>24765618divine, ie not temporal, ie not empirical, ie never given in evidence, ergo speculative, ergo whose to say, ie antinomical.
>>24765626100%
yeah but so the realization that kantianism is just common sensical can feel crushing after oh say 700 pages but it opens the gate to the pristine temple of Encyclopedia Logic
Is Dimes Square the most important literary scene at the moment?
>>24763091I was there for thatit was an awful experienceTLoTiaT 3 was dropped because people kept erasing everything. Not even trolling, just erasing everything all the time in a way that going back meant undoing other parts of it. The philosophical treaty got "edited" by some retard that took out anything he didn't understand and he didn't know shit about anything, and then added a bunch of nigger and cunt to make it funny.TLJ was fine, it was pretty good, but that wasn't really a /lit/ project. It was 3 dudes that wanted to make a cool zine and happened to find like 4 decent writers at the peak of this board. It quickly devolved into one of those four and trash no one bothered to read to fill out space./lit/ isn't conductive to creation, only destruction.
>>24765524She’s ugly but you’ve been heavily conditioned to automatically register female mugging for the camera, especially when it is repeated, as “pretty”
>>24765524she's mid and she's making it worse by conditioning herself to appear non-chalant/careless/sleepy all the time. this is what a step above average intelligence women think being sophisticated is
>>24763185Doesnt look like it has anything to say, just descriptive self-wankery
>>24765164>tagging sam hyde and mdeobliterate her
didn't see anything in the catalog about our favorite poet, Charles "deal with the devil" Marx
>>24765039Marx was born with his signature beard. to claim otherwise is bourgeois
>>24764718These aren't very good
>>24765058He was like 19 when he wrote this stuff
>>24765142Yhea his real satanic shit banger was Das Kapital.
>>24765009you're joking, right?It's one of those cases I can't tell if it's parody or you're actually retarded
