Is it true?Was she here?What did she read?
what ? why would she be here ? how do you know that ? charlotte would you fuck a fat ugly poor black dude ?
>>25090357Some anon mentioned it.
College is the modern caste system. If you go to a top tier college you'll have an unbeatable network, better marriage opportunities, more career success and access to better jobs, and more money. You'll be plugged in to cultural creation networks.If you go to a lower tier college then people will forever see you as less intelligent and you'll do worse in all factors.
I got accepted to a much better school but ended up going to a lesser one that almost gave me a free ride. I sometimes wonder how different my life would have been if I went to the better school. But I ended up okay, so I don't wonder too much about it.
>>25090274Its also the most backwards institution in any given country still stuck in medieval times with sons/daughters of professors just inheriting their positions and the interpolitics of it all is worse then even on the worst medieval ottoman court.That being said if you have a chance to teach a semestar as a assistant its fun and useful to have in your bio but plese run away from there into the private sector or more cozy public if you are lucky.
>>25090274Prestigious undergraduate degrees are a meme, it's better to get a 4.0 from your local school so that your stats are better for grad/professional school.
>>25090326>it's better to get a 4.0 from your local school so that your stats are better for grad/professional school.Research experience and letters of recommendation matter too
>>25090274You can still fail and be a loser if you go to a good university. Even with good grades you can be a total loser after graduating if you didn't do any of the other things you mentioned. God, life is so fucking tiring.
Ive been a NEET for 3 years already because of a depression. My family is supporting me till i find a job.I need books to help me learn how to talk to people again, how to be social again. Pref literature but could be any book really. Heard Austen is good for this. I dont wanna find a job just to be an autist in there.Thanks anons, youre my only frens.
>>25088773>I dont wanna find a job just to be an autist in there.The longer you wait the bigger a social rift will be between your coworkers and your working body creating a permanent autistic scarring that everyone will look at and see right away, inaccessible to the artificial skills of conversation denoting truth of being different and rejected by your social betters, a permanent scarlet 'A' grafted on your face that stands for Autistic. Right now you could play it off like you were studying in those three years and people will just treat you like three years junior with a little weirdness to her, but if you keep waiting you will become permanently unrelatable to them. Don't worry about the shit games people play, you are going to a job to collect some money so you won't die. The best way to level up your social skills is to get out there and confront these people for the gaslighting and caste system they are conspiring to build.
>>25088957>go fuck up socially by getting a job that makes you talk to people a little bit. Yes you'll fuck up and maybe even get fired but who cares, it's just exp pointsBest advice I've seen on the /lit/ board in several years, especially the last part. Can confirm that it works
>>25090051workplaces should be held accountable for that.
>>25089890Finally
Join the army and read Shakespeare.
is le start with the greeks really the right answer?>Plato and Aristotle bore me to death>Stoics are pretty lame and mono thematic>Sceptics are too smuge for me to find any value>Epicureanism is just twist on stoicism or the other way around maybe?>Pre-socratics seemed funny but there are mostly few secondary sources left which sucks please any good and interesting reads to get a grip of this whole philosophy thing?
>>25090064Honestly, just read what strikes your fancy. Figure out the claim being made and it's justifications. It's a web
>>25090064https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_wopcEyf7iz2m8Z-SnggSrC4MTZ7NAY_
>>25090064>Heidegger is probably the best place for anyone new to philosophy to start.His work, Being and Time, is widely considered a foundational and all around good introduction to the basics of philosophy.
>>25090064you probably enjoy slop. Philosophy is the last bastion for men with intellect that hasn't been poisoned by women.
>>25090212Yeah seconded. Plus Richardson has a good introduction (Routledge) to Heidegger. Anyway I wish I'd read Being and Time earlier, before poisoning my brain with the French. That said, the French are a necessary poison. Start with Montaigne. Alternatively, start with the Chinese. Ziporyn's Zhuangzi is interesting in large part because his and Georg-Moeller's work comes from a European background, so there's a way to move between the two and come to grips with basic (occidental) philosophy. The former has an interesting article called "How the Hegel of 1802 almost became a Chinese philosopher." If starting with the Greeks go to whats his face's account of their lives. Diogenes of Sinope I think. Of course the best advice is to troll wikipedia until you find someone dealing with a subject matter that intrigues you, then bury yourself in their work.
>I ALLOW MELKOR TO DO CRIMES FOR THE GREATER GOOD >I ALLOW GOLLUN TO EAT HUMA BABIES >HUMANS WANT IMMORTALITY?! TIME TO NUKE NÚMENOR!! Tolkien's Absolute Good.
>>25087492>the world is moving towards absolute goodIt's possible. Think of the cosmic evolution; from a singularity to the multitude, from waves to particles and chemical compounds, and their evolution towards biological life, it's perspectives and changes... There is a spirit to all things. Each phase has seemingly added something. >abrahamicsStuck in attachments; regardless of what the next evolution is, they will be gone. Though religions have also evolved in the past.
“The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.”
What Ilúvatar tried to tell us when he allowed Jackson to portray the books on the big screen?
>If there is any good out there, save me, save my family from Morgoth's curse>WILL YOU SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY, I'M TRYING TO MAKE MUSIC HERE, TAKE YOUR COMPLAINTS TO THE VALAR
>>25087492nonsense bot post.
A group wherein we learn a language through a great text, or multiple great texts, mostly verse. Cast your vote for a language you would be willing to learn. Voting ends in a week, then study begins. Obviously plenty of materials will be supplied. If you want opt for a other text lmk. You can also vote for a language that isn't listedGreek through HomerLatin through VergilHebrew. The BibleArabic, the Quran.Italian through DanteSpanish through Lorca, Neruda and MachadoGerman through Goethe and RilkeComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>25089044>Italian through DanteWhile it can be great to know where the Italian language comes from (Dante is considered to be "the father of Italian"), it is very different from today's Italian (the Divine Comedy is 700+ years old, after all). I'd recommend to use a more recent author, like Foscolo, Manzoni, Garibaldi (Memorie), Verga etc. alongside Dante.This is my opinion as an Italian native speaker.
>>25090132Good luck getting /lit/ to be more interested in reading Garibaldi than Dante
>>25090144I think Dante is a better author than Garibaldi too, but if you talk and write in 1300s "Italiano volgare" nobody in Italy will understand you (in fact, Italian students use notes and translations when they first study the Divine Comedy). Garibaldi writes in a modern Italian that can be understood by today's italians without notes. Reading Dante (or Boccaccio) to learn today's italian can be useful for abstracting some grammar rules and understanding why some rules exist today, but using it as a first source I don't think is a good idea.
>>25090195Realistically though do you think this particular board, if given the choice, would be more interested in being able to speak vernacular Italian, or being able to read Dante, Petrarch and Bocaccio?
>>25090207You're right. Then Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, Cecco Angiolieri, Bembo ("Prose nelle quali si ragiona della volgar lingua"), Tasso, Ariosto are all great readings. Machiavelli too.
>High fantasyAny fantasy story that takes place in a secondary world in which real-world geography and/or history have no consequence. "Magicalness" is not quantifiable and irrelevant to whether or not it's high fantasy. >Low fantasyAny fantasy story that takes place in the world as we know it at any established point in history. >Dark fantasyHorror stories with fantasy elements. Can be high or low, but the most iconic dark fantasy stories are low fantasy. Stories about vampires, mummies, and other living dead, curses, witchcraft, and macabre folklore. Simple as.
>>25090171Don't make up your own definitions.
>>25090237I didn't. These have been the long-established literary definitions of fantasy. They only got muddied and "vibe-based" when visual media got involved.
So it seems that Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are unreadable to normal people.But what about Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ? Also, general James Joyce thread, tell me what do you like in his work etc
>>25089651>I can't take this shit seriouslySkill issue
>>25089806Just rolls off the tounge
>>25089477I wish I could have hung out with the Lost Generation in Paris. They seemed like a blast.
>>25089651kino. stay filtered, brainlets
>>25089477literally stephen deadalus meeting bloom irl
>is le sad pessimist>likes to sit alone and think nonstop about shit no one cares about>dude life sucksdo pessimists really? Nietzsche was right baout these people
>>25090174even without being a pessimist that statement is 100% true. It's not so much being a pessimist that makes you "like to sit alone" and "think nonstop about shit no one cares about". If you are in any way sensible and smart, even as a very young kid, you will begin very quickly to be saddened by how slow, intellectually unstimulating and incapable of keeping up with you everyone else is. This is how you end up alone, thinking nonstop about shit no one cares about. It's not like you chose this, it just becomes saddening to talk to other people and see that they can't keep up - neither with the intensity, the depth or the quickness you have. And mind: you don't have to be surrounded by anyone particularly stupid to experience this. If anything, stupid people can sometime be creatively stupid and are entertaining to be around, in that they at least don't think like everybody else. It's average people, i.e. the vast majority, who will wear you out. Being constantly surruounded by people who are fast enough to function but always a little to slow to catch up with whatever you're on will make you melancholic with time. You will keep giving the same advice, seeing people commit the same mistakes, go through the same arguments tens of times with different people, all the while listening to them explaining things to you, often well meaning, at 0.5x your speed and in ways that are completely uneffective - sometimes forcing you to dig out the actual meaning of what they wanted, which could have been said in one or two sentences, if they knew how to properly express themselves.Do you know the feeling of talking to old people and the sadness and impatience you feel sometimes when you see them struggle cognitively? A smart person experiences this with almost everybody else from day one of their lives. I have memories of kindergarten of drawing with other kids and seeing them unable to do things as well as I did, or of playing with them and seeing them move their hands in way that already at that age I could register as lacking coordination and grace. It's not like they can't do things: they can. Just never on your level.After a while (I'm in my thirties) you really find yourself struggling to find an interlocutor. You talk to people and feel very lonely. I wasn't born sad, btw, I was a very cheerful kid, I have a social life and I've had several relationships. It's just, if you're even slightly above average in anything or different from others, it takes a toll on you in the long run.
>>25090174nietzsche didn't disagree with this quote, he just disagreed that life had too much suffering to be worth enduring. nietzsche fucking hated the masses kek
I have no life and no friends and no gf. By this I know: I am a superior man
What do you think of this book? So thats how its like having a gf?
I don't bitchterature
>>25086269to what degree one can single out rooney for this is questionable to me. i can't think of a single contemporary author who succeeds in this regard. say what you will about fisher (lol) but at least within literature today there is no radical imaginary that doesn't end with cataclysm. sure, rooney is a good example, but that's only because the problem is one endemic to "culture" today. even philosophically: habermas, not sure why he comes to mind, has a problem parallel to rooney's. i'm not sure what the solution is, barring a new, sincere political vision of the future.
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>>25083006Female authors are not well known for their realism or honesty. I doubt anything this foid wrote would teach you anything about relationships.
>>25088705people can enjoy two things at once anon
How would one start a publishing house in two-thousand-twenty-six? Is it even possible to compete against the "big five" or is there still a chance for the little guy
>>25086258I'll write some in your honor when I next visit a toilet stall, how's that?
On that note, indie music publishing is booming, granted it's a bigger market, but if their success is any indication, then the future looks good.
>>25085968You made me check this publisher's website and their marketing strategy is making me physically ill
>>25089980It's by and for women, and women run the world anon.
I'll invest my life savings in your publishing house if you vow to never use shitty laminated cover stock that peels after 2 weeks of handling.
Recommend more zoomer books like this. The kinds with the lingo.Saw this recommended on some obscure imageboard, and I realised I saw a thread of the author here just this week. Then I connected I've seen her being posted before that too. As an ESLcel I found the audiobook to be a very cool contemporary piece, and I would love to "read" more like it. I'm doing a bit of the same type of writing myself.
>>25087250Who's gonna be the guy version of honor levy?
>>25088975Yes but being lame and gay like you is eternal
>>25087250HONOR CAN YOU WRITE MY SECOND BOOK ALREADY, BITCH
>>25089955Angelicism01
>>25087441>A Tree Grows in Brooklyn>Zoomer lit??????????
I am a lot smarter than the people I interact with. Even among highly intelligent groups, most of them are stupid. What this feels like is that everyone I talk to seems fucking retarded. Day in and day out, it's just retards. Retards online, retards in person, retards on the phone, fucking retards everywhere. Everything is run and decided by retards. I have to listen to retards, pretend their retarded ideas are good, and pretend to be retarded myself, just to interact with the world. The natural reaction is withdrawing socially, but that won't save you when most everything is written and created by retards. Imagine if your entire life was a special ed classroom. Except the teacher is special ed too, and the desks were made by special ed retards, and the entire curriculum was written by a retard. That's what it feels like. It's just immensely tiring and frustrating. I don't know if I can handle it any more. Books for this? No Schopenhauer.>erm calling yourself intelligent is hecking cringe o algoShut the fuck up you stupid fucking pseud. I'm tired of you fucking animals.
>>25089953I hate to go outside of designated threads but have you considered picking up the pāli suttas? I say this on account of what I am perceiving to be a legitimate intense discontent, i.e, not just something with the external world, the other, as the source. In any case, if you're actually intelligent, I trust that the scope could not exceed the subject.
>>25089953>Imagine if your entire life was a special ed classroom. Except the teacher is special ed too, and the desks were made by special ed retards, and the entire curriculum was written by a retard.Try your hand at writing. Seeing as you lack talent for it, you might relate more to the "retards" out there.
>>25089993>tired of being forced to interact with retards? Don’t want to dumb down your language or ideas so retards can understand them?>you should write an entire book for those retards to read!!!!This is what I mean. The retard lashes out in anger.
>>25089953Go ask ChatGPT. This board is not your psychologist
>>25089953>shartycuck calling others retardedYou laugh at poorly-drawn men. Go ask your friends on the sharty.
>Makes a video to talk about the process of accepting rejection from his dream PhD program.>Spends the first five minutes or so talking about how high his grades were, how excellent his thesis was, how incredible the letters of recommendation he received for his application were, the amazing network of influence he was able to develop thanks to his YouTube channel to get the support he needed to be accepted into the program, and in general how exceptional and solid his "credentials" are.>Gets rejected anyway. >"Yeah dude like they just didn't have enough money to accept me dude like it has nothing like to do with me or my research proposal dude like I wasn't supposed to get in dude like I actually just want to make Youtube videos dude but like anyway I'm gonna like apply next year dude like I don't care to get in like the university of my dreams dude like academy is for losers dude but like I'm gonna do it anyway dude but like I just really don't care dude..."Midwits are so funny, man.
>>25085661fpbp
>>25086632>every queenslander i met had mental problems. without exception.You're a neurotic fag who tries to armchair psych everyone to feel in control. Of course QLD cunts hated you. They knew you were a poof right away.
>muh cuckbourne>muh pissbin>muh shitneycitycucks are a scourge
>>25087606lol this is such cope. indonesia is already a bigger economy than australia with 300 million people, one of the only countries in the world that is able to feed itself with its own food production and is rich in energy and minerals. And get this, as huge as it is, its growth is just starting. aus is sooo fucked hahah
>>25089852Mad much? Aussies are top 15 in GDP per capita, about 30 times ahead of Indonesia. It's a muslim shithole with no education, no infrastructure, trash and mental pajeets everywhere in the street. Get real, it is nobody's dream to emigrate to Indonesia to study or live. The only immigration you receive are poor, underqualified aliens from shittier places nearby that can't make it to the the first world.
This is just romantasy for guys...
>>25089050Conan is legit good just divorce yourself from your modern lens and enjoy it for what it is if possible
>>25087463If for guys just means "no romance" why call it "romantasy"?
>>25089050I wouldn't call conan a murder everybody, but he does live in a pretty brutal world.
>>25089050>Why are we even in this brutalass hell world?Because back during the dawn of humanity all the pacific tribes got wiped out the by the warlike tribes
>>25089081I find it interesting how many people who never read Conan think it's somehow bad by default. In fact, after you read GOOD pulps like Conan you'll realize exactly just how hopelessly bloated fantasy novels in general are.
