Do they count if you’re listening attentively?
>>25187269no
>>25187269Yeah, it's fine, I wouldn't listen to philosophy because that requires a lot of pausing and going back, but for a novel it's fine as long as you aren't distracted while doing it. On the treadmill at the gym for instance you are just as attentive as reading, or for me more attentive.
I tried listening to audiobooks and hated it. Reading is much faster and you can quickly double take a paragraph or go back to a reference.It's like interfacing with a phone computer versus desktop computer. You can compute so much better on a desktop/laptop, phones feel like shit.
Everything was dictated in antiquity.
Sure, why not. I usually use em for fiction rather than non-fiction as I don't pay quite as much attention as I should.
is my prose decent or is it terrible and I should kms
>>25190278as I said my life is very boringso if I were to only write about interesting things, I'd be writing about things I have zero experience with
>>25189638did you make this or is it AI
>>25186529splurged out stream of consciousness with zero real thought or effort put into making it concise or interesting. didn't bother to finish reading it, most people won't if you write crap like this. It's just self indulgent navel gazing with no real substance.
>>25190414That's not what he said, retard. He said, the piece has to be centred around something, anything, there has to be an actual point to what's being written, rather than it being an incoherent ramble.
>>25190414You're autistic. There are entire genres in the world of things that don't exist.
ITT: we post pictures and recommendations for liturature based on the pictures.
>>25190860>A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter
>>25190860I have seen this woman delivering exceptionally sloppy top on pornhub?
>>25190895No you have not.
>>25190860She looks like a young Lorraine Braco (Bracco?) idk that woman from the sopranos.>>25190895You however, are Indian.
But if you think the writing is extremely amateur then are you implying you could do better? That you can actually write something that entertains a lot of people? Can you really, amateur?
>>25181008Retarded Aqua poster
>>25180896
It's not amateur, its professional, thats why its badDilettanti, dilettanti! This is the slighting way in which those who pursue any branch of art or learning for the love and enjoyment of the thing,—per il loro diletto, are spoken of by those who have taken it up for the sake of gain, attracted solely by the prospect of money. This contempt of theirs comes from the base belief that no man will seriously devote himself to a subject, unless he is spurred on to it by want, hunger, or else some form of greed. The public is of the same way of thinking; and hence its general respect for professionals and its distrust of dilettanti. But the truth is that the dilettante treats his subject as an end, whereas the professional, pure and simple, treats it merely as a means. He alone will be really in earnest about a matter, who has a direct interest therein, takes to it because he likes it, and pursues it con amore. It is these, and not hirelings, that have always done the greatest work. Schopenhauer
>>25184266I feel this way about Infinite Jest. The dumbass author begins sentences with shit like "and but so but". Not even dialogue, literally just prose sentences. Insufferable.
>>25189614Yeah, just assume they’re all brown.
>is literally just a Trump sycophant nowWtf happened?
>>25189669When Moldbug wrote about the Cathedral he was talking about all intellectuals, not just the ones you don't like.
>>25190828Stop embarrassing yourself landian
>>25189669boomers gonna boom
You know if you think about it, Land enthusiastically championing for humanity to become soulless nodes in the circuits of sentient Capital and soifaced redditors cheering for liberalism to consume the globe are both advocating for the same thing.
I wonder if Nick Land is right and also part of the time travelling AIs recreational stuff. Once they got done with the flu they decided to really screw with us and set things up so a baby would have his diencephalon replaced with a meth producing gland.
What advice would you ask her for, as aspiring writers yourselves?
>>25186227Is she not ashamed of herself? That she sucks cock for money? Like when she dies, will she not feel great regret for her gross debauchery and iniquity in her last moments?
>>25186227Are women scary?
>>25191094Nah, they’re dumb and often sexy, they give me erections but they’ve also made me kind of sad in the past, you get over it though. This one in the OP would likely get PTSD if you punched her in the jaw. So no, to reiterate, they’re not scary.
>>25187760link please, cuz I dont know waht "simpcity" is.Much appreciated.
>>25186227POV: You *Krkrkrk* walk in on *Pffrrtt* me writing *BRRRPPFFTT* my fant-*plrrp*-asy book *Prfpfprbbfpfprt* done
Why are there so many actual faggots on /lit/? What about this board attracts so many who lust man ass?
>>25191091What a childish thing to blurt out. You know you can't be here, kid. >>25191095Giving a brief site history lesson is "feasting on the cadaver" of 4chan? Noticing your latent homosexuality is "feasting on a cadaver"?Turgid prose, lad. Do expand beyond Nabokov sometime. Wilde or maybe Vance might be up your alley. >>25191104They have latent homosexual tendencies because of their sociopolitical inclinations. It goes beyond American politics.
>>25190857Uhm, comrade, it's 2026 not 1926, we stopped doing this 'accusing nazis of faggotry' tactic ages ago and started admitting leftism is all about sucking cocks, didn't you get the memo?
>>25191104That’s all people do here. Talk about politics. It pisses me off too, look at how most of the threads that reach the bump limit are sociopolitical in nature.
>>25191131>it's 2026 not 1926,*2011>we stopped doing this 'accusing nazis of faggotry'Anon. Please. The patter is right there to see.>admitting leftismLiberals are not leftists. Didn't you get the memo? The truism? Fascism is liberalism in crisis.
>>25190775The greeks don't turn you gay. It was Hadrian. He's a grecaboo. So dreamy.
why is publishing 100% leftist
this is because rightoid already decided what's true (their religion) whose right (their country) who has value (their race). art at its core is about open ended questions
>>25191118I see no practical difference between them and you at this point. All must conform to your preferred holy war direction or be cast out. You will deny this but a blind man could see it.
>>25191107>>25191112Why not? Lizzo played Thomas Jefferson's flute. Barack Obama hangs out with Bruce Springsteen, why are you acting like Jonathan Franzen can only hang out with Ph.D.s lol.But let's concede the point. Just imagine Milton said he genuinely thought Trump had some good ideas. You think the strength of his writing would prevail over ideological favoritism? I think you've enjoyed getting to play the troll and say all conservatives are drooling retards too dumb to read or write books, but I think you're being dishonest if liberal publishers wouldn't be deeply tempted to suppress work of artistic merit if it came from ideological opponents. I really do believe, in my heart, that if a beautifully written story came across your desk, and a conservative wrote it, you would reject it and think you did a morally good thing. Your side has lost to Trump twice because people sense you're too supercilious to admit you're malicious, and too malicious to admit you're supercilious.
>>25191130Milton probably would think that Trump had some good ideas, he's Milton. Strong conservative elements to his thought. But he's John Milton. He'd get recognized. There's no conservative or liberal cultural figure today that's equal to Milton, so I don't really know where you're going with this. You're going to accuse me of playing dumb -- I get what you're trying to say, but the idea that Lizzo playing Jefferson's flute or Obama hanging out with Springsteen is equivalent to Milton chatting with Kid Rock is ridiculous. Do you only see culture in terms of ideological affiliation or something?>all conservatives are drooling retards too dumb to read or write booksAll of them? Nah, there's some great conservatives out there. Eliot, McCarthy, Yeats, if we're grouping them in terms of conservative/liberal. Trumptards are absolutely too retarded to read/write good books though. This persecution fantasy you've got going where there's a heartbreaking work of trumptardian genius that's being silenced by evil liberal publishers is laughable. Could a conservative write good literature? Absolutely, yes. Could a trumptard, the mass of the US right-wing? They don't give a shit to begin with
>>25191143>This persecution fantasy you've got going where there's a heartbreaking work of trumptardian genius that's being silenced by evil liberal publishers is laughable.no one has said this or thinks this>Could a trumptard, the mass of the US right-wing? They don't give a shit to begin withthis can be said of any political movementa good 70% of leftists at this point are retarded resentful third worldists, browns that want gibs or downwardly mobile low IQ white service workerswhy are people labouring under the delusion that leftists are still putting out good art? sure it may have been a true a while ago but they're living off fumes
The universe will continue to spread and spread outward. Entropy will turn a chaotic infinity into a homogeneous controlled system. This will take billions of years and in that time humans will push technology to heights we can't imagine. We'll explore and inhabit space and occupy more and more of the universe, just as time allowed our ancestors to multiply in numbers and populate more and more of the Earth. And as the specific people come and go, their physical bodies will be born, and grow, and die. But their thoughts will remain. And Jim Davis' comics, his glorious Garfield comics, are recorded ideas of his that will still be here. Even when the Earth is no longer inhabitable, and humanity has long since moved away to bigger planets, they'll carry with them a record, a record we all keep ... a never-ending feed of ideas, immortal ideas, forever placed in the ether of dualism.
>>25190707Overboard exaggerated praise for a comic strip hack.
>>25190707Elaborate ARG, all just to blackmail not-murderer Jim Davis.
Universe is spreading it's legs more and more.
>>25190707>>25190731It's an elaborate joke about how Garfield is not funny.
>>25191141It should be more obvious if you look at the ones where the joke is just that they're explaining the joke and that ends up being funnier than the original comic.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wFnNB6ra3o
>>25190994They're letting WHO in the libraries?
Are there any book reviewers who are actually good? I don’t think I’ve met anyone who buys books based on reviews, but I also don’t like the idea of wasting money on some shit novel
>>25190745confirms my suspicion that mishima now belongs to the beta male dorks
>>25190577this dude's ok. The only tolerable one I've found but I can't say I've looked too hard. Talks a bit about what he liked about the book, references a few lines, then brings up some other books that he saw some parallels to.I genuinely don't know the point of most book reviews desu, most of them are just summaries with maybe a line or two at the end saying if they liked it or not. I really don't know who that's even for, because if you read the book you don't need a summary, and if you didn't then what are you doing reading a summary? It seems to be mostly an exercise for the author of the review, and there's nothing one can gain from that.If you can find a college lecture on youtube of the book you want some discussion on, that seems to be the best place imo
I like Angela Collier, I just think she seems groundedchannel's acollieralso
>>25190577>A clockwork orange>Evangelion >that book>that hair>that beardA man can only take so much reddit in one pic. Yes, I know he’s the guy who said nigger or whatever but that changes nothing.
>>25190577I trust https://www.youtube.com/@thelibraryladderOdd to listen to his softened voice sometimes, but whatever.Also love the mini essays of Feral Historian, though he does talk film and television in the same genre, listen to whicheverhttps://www.youtube.com/@feralhistorianSomeone I've only seen a few from is Liminal Spaces. He's all about the weird side, but seems like a nice guy.https://www.youtube.com/@LiminalSpaces03
—Ulysses! that whole business again, well it's not true it's bullshit I did not read it I'm telling you I did not read the damn thing I did not . . . In that cramped interval between his fingers' faltering insistence and the floor's mute expectancy, the cylindrical burden already half‑forgotten as an object and remembered only as the fleeting damp it had impressed upon his palm described its reluctant descent, a kind of minor abdication enacted with all the misplaced ceremony of something that had never belonged to his grasp in the first place. —Oh hi Anon.
>>25188347Yeah, how the fuck is this thread still up? OP was 70 days ago (???) christ
>Very long-running and lengthy thread that started out with some promise and gradually tanked into irrelevance and tediousness Wow its just like Gaddis' career
>>25169420grown man organizing psychological warfare against authors he doesn't like on an egyptian woodworking forum
>>25190829art imitates life (or is it the other way around?)
Gaddis is gonna get painted on da 'oad
Doomers win
>>25189450The idea that we can't grow without starving was sold by the Bilderberg elites. The economic conditions of modern capitalism was designed by these same elites. The "doomer" generations of teenagers arose from these conditions and they were sold this doomer literature and lots of drugs.The Epstein class have been found out, more than ever, and they're unleashing the Zionist plans which will destroy the fragile interdependence of international shipping and cause a lot of shortages and they hope starvation.Do you seriously want them to win? These child raping cannibals should be killed.
>>25189450It is not yours if you can't destroy it
should I waste the rest of my life studying rabbinic hebrew to master kabbalah or study hochdeutsch to master german idealism? pease advise
>>25188455no
>>25188455I was going to suggest, since you're into languages, become a translator. In our increasingly global society, it seems like there will always be a need for people to facilitate international communication. But then again: AI will probably take over that function before too long. So I don't know.
>>25188911I choose none of the three.
>>25188455Kabbalah. If you’re spiritually satisfied, life will be lighter on the shoulders.
>>25191098Sex magic takes you to immortality
what books to read to a baby so that it does not go full chud
>>25188664If you got gud, your woman wouldn't withhold sex. She'd want it more than you do.
>>25188706Why are leftists so obsessed with pleasing women?
Richard ScarryI really enjoyed Eyewitness books as a child and they helped kickstart my interest in history.Those huge cross-section booksHoly ScriptureJust generally being a good father
>>25180627i dunno
>>25180627Where the Wild Things Are. Maybe the Secret Garden when they’re older.
