Hey /lit/ i wanted to know what your favourite book is because I'm curiousMy favourite book is Alice in wonderland and Alice in wonderland through the looking glass
>>24717857Nta, but those books are insanely creative and fun
>>24717857i think because it was just super wonky and nothing made sense to her and everything she did didnt make sense to anything else both the books are complete nonsense in such a percurlier way up is down left is right
Why did he hate manlets? THE MANLETby: Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)N stature the Manlet was dwarfish–No burly, big Blunderbore he;And he wearily gazed on the crawfishHis Wifelet had dressed for his tea."Now reach me, sweet Atom, my gunlet,And hurl the old shoelet for luck;Let me hie to the bank of the runlet,And shoot thee a Duck!"...
>>24717857Never read them but I like cute little girls and tried to play as little girls in video games; something about the smallness of girls made everything more terrifying. Actions I consider inconsequential become calculated risks for girls at least where I live. Perhaps my perverse thoughts impose fear upon them but seeing a cute girl with her parents always brings a sense of calm to me. Imaging the deciet and ill intentions others would do unto little girls is horrifying.
>>24717877great now im fucked up for life thank you for leaving your favourite fucking book
Post your own work and critique others.
>>24716407This is dogshit. Fucking embarrassing drivel.
Rum tum tum and a bottle of cum!Rindle dindle dee and a thimble of wee!Dum thum doo and a bucket of poo!Siddle diddle dot and a goblet of snot!Lum whum dom and a bowl of vom!Niddle biddle fool and a spoon of grool!
Etsy witches really killed Charlie Kirklmao lol jkBut maybe not, you do your own research.
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Please help me ascend to pure hyperreal shizo enlightenment. I must lose my mind.My interests are twofold:SIGNALS. The utter, endless inundation of images and signals from social media makes my mind lurch and reel. An example is with Charlie Kirk's death today, it's like kicking a hornets nest. A man's death, his sacrifice on the alter of social media summons a frenzy of signals and ideologies, a cacophony of hatred and vitriol. The words, the content no longer matter, it's just injecting emotions into others. (not saying he wasn't a part of it but that's not the point. The phenomena is what I'm after).LANGUAGE. The penultimate artifice. Do you ever notice in your speech or in your thoughts how words you use have utterly locked you into your worldview until the moment you noticed them? Words inform how I process and categorize phenomena, and this feels more and more evil to me. I want out of language.Books or authors I've read or am in the process of reading so far that at least touch on these themes include the following, but I need more:-1984-The Medium and the Light - Marshal McLuhan-Simulacra and Simulation - Jean Baudrillard-Industrial Society and Its Future - Ted Kaczynski-The Technological Society - Jacques Ellul-Nietzsche-Jung-Mediations on the Tarot - Valentin Tomberg
>>24714794You Will Never Be A Schizo
Illuminatus! And ego death medidation.
>>24714794>>24716229Take the RAW pill and read Prometheus Rising and Cosmic Trigger while on weed and acid. Then you are ready to read P.D. Ouspensky's In Search Of the Miraculous and Itzhak Bentov's Stalking the Wild Pendulum: On the Mechanics of Consciousness. After that you see through the matrix.
>>24715245>>24714840/thread
>>24714794Curious, why do you want to ascend to pure hyperreal schizo enlightenment?
>inb4: "t.ranny, troon/trooner/pooner, worthless moid/scrote kissless virgin incel loser, seething (((christcuck))), &c."I'm sure what you have to say is just as helpful as whatever comes out of this retard's mouth, holy shit.
>>24715658I'm not a Jew let alone Israeli, what was your point?>>24715924>>24716630I'm not transsexual, much less a "trans-identified male" that Feminists like Rowling use all the time, which is basically just plain misandry with the inclusion of deluded freak who believe they are of the opposite sex.>>24715928>t."No, U!"
>>24715419I spit on Feminists
>>24715476did your mom molest you?
>>24715931Maas being outed as one would make me cum. Bust all over those tatas
>>24717041>did your mom molest you?no. was she supposed to?
Hello, anons.This will be my last post on, /lit/. The board has become unbearable with too many retards and faggots littering garbage, low-quality threads on my board and leaving low-IQ comments in my high-quality threads. Enough is enough, I am done.I know it will be painful for the handful of high-IQ individuals to lose a productive member of /lit/ like me, but I am left with no other options. All the intellectuals like me are leaving, leaving only the midwits.Goodbye forever.
>>24716083>Goodbye forever.You're still shitting up the board as we speak
>>24716098>Is there any other place that discusses literature on a decent level?American/English-language literary culture happens in four places, basically -- /lit/, in the replies of a loosely connected NYC-adjacent twitter account archipelago, some small discord servers, and r/rsbookclub / r/truelit. (Seethe all you want about le heckin plebbit it's true.) If you're a regular /lit/ poster you probably won't fit into the other three places but you can try
>>24716083See you tomorrow, retard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM
>>24716083How do I make better posts? Prose? I like reading but my writing feels rough.
Our time has come, schoppybros./lit/ is now a full Schopenhauer board. Only today I read a bunch of schoppy threads. Great!
>>24717777>the Fourfold Rootwhat is it?
>>24717764>>24717810Guys I cant tell who or what youre responding to or criticizing. As an open minded anon who is a fan of Schopenhauer based on reading of his essays, the linked post was my post, trying to wrestle with the criticism of the post I was replying to criticizing Schopenhauer's understanding of Kant (which I dont even think in principle is necessarily ridiculous, but the anon contexualizing and reminding how Kant is a response to Hume and that not incorporating certain tenets of Kant leaves you open to the criticisms Hume posited that Kant was trying to escape from)So what are you guys responding to specifically?
>>24717837>Schopenhauer based on reading of his essays, Read "On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason" and then his main work until then you haven't read.
>>24717838Im currently reading something else I just browse these threads and this board to learn new concepts through osmosis to develop interest to read in the future in the first place. This was the first Schopenhauer criticism that made sense to me. I just want to know if it can even be addressed or if Schopenhauer even dodges the problem of Hume or if the criticism is apt
>>24717630I'm reading a book on Idealism, and the authors mention that F. H. Bradley's philosophy of the Absolute, despite its name, actually is much closer to Schopenhauer's Will than the other Idealists' Absolutes. I don't know if it's an influence, but it's interesting, nonetheless.
Has anyone on here actually read this bullshit?So let me get this straight: he joins Communist Party USA in the 1920s out of his own nihilism and hatred of the world, gets suckered into being a paper boy in the alleged communist underground, then his wife refuses to get an abortion which causes him to change his values entirely and abandon communism only to become a rat for the US government? Am I missing something here?Were Americans in the 1950s really that fucking gullible they can't see how his story is full of holes?
Wasn’t this Ronald Reagan’s favourite book?
>>24717355Or maybe he has a homosexual relationship with Alger Hiss while both of them were younger and flirt with being communists. Hiss goes on to reach a high level position within the State Department and Nixon exploits this to show how our government is being subverted. In reality there is no subversion and it’s all just political theater mixed with some bitterness on Chambers towards being jilted.
>>24717534Yes, I’ve also read that Chambers was secretly queer from other sources.
The first conservative grifter
>>24717363Summarize it for us.
>commence to read the preface by literally who>immediately spoils the ending
>>24717742That doesn’t exist
>>24717634It's commences to read not commence
>>24717612relatable. I also read the commence after watching this video
>>24717829Not if first-person
>>24717850A thing commenceCommence to read is more like a teacher announcing a test is starting.>He commences to commence the test
Write your suicide note with your best prose.
>>24707999509 words of worthless slop >>2470843126 words of unfiltered brilliance Amazing how much more you can do with less if you've got the talent
>>24713651Don't get me wrong, I have no delusions I'll ever be anything even in death. All the same though my work and giving form to my characters and their story is more important than my life.
>>24712349Coming from darkness Saw faint stars flickering Now darkness again
>>24708431good post
>>24707955I have decided to commit suicide because my supply of BBC has been cut-off. I hate you all.Sincerely,-a loyal slave to BBC.
It's been a minute since we had one of these, so it's that time again.Post pics get recs.
>>24717711Thus Spoke Zarathustra?
>>24717760Annihilation
A language which doesn't mark a prepositional phrase for which noun it's modifying is simply retarded.If someone asks for an X-Ray of a Kangaroo with three legs, a sophisticated language would tell you if they mean LEFT: An X-Ray (of a Kangaroo with three legs) or RIGHT: An X-Ray of a Kangaroo (with three legs).
>>24715396thanks
>>24711735Can I get an X-ray of that/this 3 legged Kangaroo? I want an X-ray of this 3 legged Kangaroo
>>24715396What are the merits of learning logic outside of an academic philosophy or mathematics setting?
>>24711735This problem is generally solved by not being a retard on purpose
>>24716759Grammar, logic and rhetoric (the trivium/critical thinking) are the tools of thought, how to think. It benefits everyone to learn how to think better. When I say logic I mean grammar, logic and rhetoric as a unified system, these subjects are interconnected and were taught as one subject in the past. Logic deals primarily with language. Studying logic benefits you in all aspects of life where language is involved, primarily in determining if information you are getting contains arguments, what exactly the arguments are and whether or not you ought to be persuaded by them. It turns you into picrel. And conversely it also makes you better at constructing arguments and persuading others.
Is he based or cringe?
Was he a better poet or a novelist?
>>24706821please don't do this to him, he was a soulful writer and you're puttin that X-sloppification on him.Anyway, The Pill Vs. has a very high batting average of good poems.
I want to make sweet sweet love to Miss Hawkline.
>>24706821He's kind of hippie cringe, imo. Sombrero Fallout could be fun if he stopped whining about his 'japanese girlfriend'.
>>24712270>Hippies weren't the "movement" we think of them today.Mostly it was just imbibing youth pop culture of the day. That was the extent of what being a hippie meant to most.
>Pertinently to this they say that Midas, after hunting, asked his captive Silenus somewhat urgently, what was the most desirable thing among humankind. At first he could offer no response, and was obstinately silent. At length, when Midas would not stop plaguing him, he erupted with these words, though very unwillingly: ‘you, seed of an evil genius and precarious offspring of hard fortune, whose life is but for a day, why do you compel me to tell you those things of which it is better you should remain ignorant? For he lives with the least worry who knows not his misfortune; but for humans, the best for them is not to be born at all, not to partake of nature’s excellence; not to be is best, for both sexes. This should our choice, if choice we have; and the next to this is, when we are born, to die as soon as we can.’ It is plain therefore, that he declared the condition of the dead to be better than that of the living.
>it's better for a being that exists to never existNonsense statement.
I wasn't expecting this book to be so fucking funny. The first half wasn't anything out of the ordinary for a realist novel, but the second half, once Emma starts her affairs, is non stop genius comedic situations after another.The clubfoot guy. Rodolphe writing the letter. The theater. The punchline at the climax with Emma hearing the blind guy. Good lord. So good.Probably the funniest book I've ever read.Discuss.
>>24700244>Emma was a feminist heroineIn the sense that feminism valorizes her antics, yes; but she can hardly be called a heroine in any other sense. Madame Bovary is a book written to vindicate the 18th century belief that women shouldn't be allowed to read novels because they make them go insane.You know, same moral as the entirety of Booktok.
>>24715343But she didn't go insane because of her books though? But because of the patriarchy denying her living her romantic dreams. When you seclude a star into a small house then don't be surprised when it burns it down. Emma was made for better and finer things than what her social class could grant her. She was Emma Bovary.
>>24709046That's literally me fr
Emma is the kind of woman you know will ruin your life but you still get her pregnant as a way to chain her to you for at least a couple years even if she will be cucking you non stop. She's that hot
>>24715373LMAO, and she believed all that, too. She DESERVED better. Insert a hoe_math video here
Books against advertising as a concept?
>>24717783Im also very interested.
>>24717783Kierkegaard's The Present Age.
>>24717783Wallace, David Foster. "E Unibus Pluram" A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do AgainYou might like itAlso maybe Manufacturing Consent