/lit/ - Literature

>>23794097
skepticism can ruin your life because you question everything which is not good

Don't question the father

The fact that we don’t know how the universe was created is pretty much the only remaining argument for the existence of a god. It’s not a particularly strong argument.

>>23794073
Nigga look around

>>23794101
>counters skepticism with dogma
lol

>>23794073
Most will ring individually by a bell interior most toward fine Truth, sweet Beauty or ever-glowing Goodness, giving one no readymade fix.

What happened? He was still here like a month ago

>>23794039
Fucking hate this faggot. He's gone now? Good riddance. He was some Latinx tradcath pedo, absolutely awful poster.

>>23794050
He was on /tv/ a few weeks ago

>>23794053
>on /tv/
That's because he's a pedo obssessed with pre-pubescent McKenna Grace.

butters was better

The heading at the page is non-sequitur, there are no jokes on those pages.

>>23794035
It would be cute if an actual low-functioning autist made these jokes but you know this was churned out by a chinese ESL slave.

>>23794035
That's way too many !'s

>>23794015
>Bataille
Ain't this the nigga that wrote The Poop That Took a Pee?

Start by jerking off onto the bible

I started to read Histoire de l'œil because I thought it was going to be cool but it was just about sex and masturbation
Maybe I misunderstood it because I was reading it in French but I quickly lost interest

Not really, GR is one of those life changing works. I finished it last month and am already rereading parts. Marquez kind of reminds me of it in ways but its hardly the same ballpark

>>23794012
>Marquez
Never heard this before. What book?

>>23794018
Love in the Time of Cholera but really any of his novels
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/06/15/reviews/marquez-cholera.html

>>23794026
Ok now I finally have an excuse to read these. Cool

What sort of action are you wanting to take?

>>23793906
Tao de Ching

>>23793906
the Turner Diaries

>>23793903
I don't understand how people can read and actually comprehend what's being written when they're reading in a loud place.

I haven't had my fuckin thing sucked in so long I want to kill myself

>>23793935
>the absolute state of so-called men

Kaddish

>>23793873
The ones where he talks about fucking young boys on that gay jewish shit.

>>23793873
I find Burroughs' wife killing to be much more palatable than Ginsberg's NAMBLA membership. This nigga was into fucking boys so much he joined a club about it

>>23793932
His daughter was there nigger

>>23793861
>probably
Proof or your post is worthless. Jk it is worthless either way.

>>23793872
>>probably
>Proof
"Proof: Evidence or argument establishing a fact or the truth of a statement."
If I had something that establishes what I said as a fact, I wouldn't have said "probably."
>worthless
My post can save a young boy of majoring in literature

>>23793975
>t. OP (not the anon who wrote those threads)
Ignore the bait, lets make this a good thread.

>>23793982
What?

>>23793975
This is a good start, but you should re-read my initial response. It will help you in your reading. I was under the impression you were familiar with Joyce's later works, but hey, you need to start somewhere. Good luck anon.

You become what you hate kek

>>23794038
u checked that all out at once? nigga...

>>23793836
In Portrait, Joyce began exploring this idea by reflecting Stephen’s growth through increasingly complex prose and references. However, as you noted, it remained somewhat limited by its conventional narrative structure...

With Ulysses, Joyce took a significant leap by condensing the narrative into a single day and filling it with timeless and universal references. This allowed the novel to evolve with the reader’s understanding over time, making the characters’ lives a dynamic interplay of the reader’s growing knowledge and experiences...

Finnegans Wake represents the culmination of Joyce’s efforts to create a literary equivalent of life. The novel’s cyclical structure, dense allusions, and multilingual wordplay aim to mirror the fluid and interconnected nature of human consciousness and history... While this complexity can be daunting, it also offers a unique reading experience where each encounter with the text can reveal new layers of meaning...

Your point about the challenge for readers who might try to understand every reference is well-taken. Joyce’s work invites readers to embrace the ambiguity and partial understanding that mirrors real-life experiences, rather than striving for complete comprehension...

He's confusing at first, but after a play or two you get used to his eccentricities. You only get an occasional word or line that manages to stump you.
If you still need more help get Folger editions. And if you want to go in-depth get Arden.

>>23793777
This. Shakespeare is not hard at all once you get used to him.

millennialslop

>>23793683
Joss Wedon

>>23793683
my diary desu

>>23793683
Jewish

>>23793683
prose

>>23793790
Based

>Take, then, an ugly soul. It is dissolute, unjust, teeming with lusts, torn by inner discord, beset by craven fears and petty envies. It thinks indeed. But it thinks only of the perishable and the base. In everything perverse, friend to filthy pleasures, it lives a life abandoned to bodily sensation and enjoys its depravity. Ought we not say that this ugliness has come to it as an evil from without, soiling it, rendering it filthy, "encumbering it" with turpitude of every sort, so that it no longer has an activity or a sensation that is clean? For the life it leads is dark with evil, sunk in manifold death. It sees no longer what the soul should see. It can no longer rest within itself but is forever being dragged towards the external, the lower, the dark. It is a filthy thing, I say, borne every which way by the allurement of objects of sense, branded by the bodily, always immersed in matter and sucking matter into itself. In its trafficking with the unworthy it has bartered its Idea for a nature foreign to itself.

> For it is as was said of old: "Temperance, courage, every virtue – even prudence itself – are purifications." That is why in initiation into the mystery religions the idea is adumb rated that the unpurified soul, even in Hades, will still be immersed in filth because the unpurified loves filth for filth's sake quite as swine, foul of body, find their joy in foulness. For what is temperance, rightly so called, but to abstain from the pleasures of the body, to reject them rather as unclean and unworthy of the clean? What else is courage but being unafraid of death, that mere parting of soul from body, an event no one can fear whose happiness lies in being his own unmingled self? What is magnanimity except scorn of earthly things? What is prudence but the kind of thinking that bends the soul away from earthly things and draws it on high?

Plotinus

>>23793680
Virtue based upon true perception of reality is good. So it must serve a function if its to lead to less suffering/more joy/a good/correct life.

What brings true happiness? Being selfless in all aspects to the point where happiness/love is left over. No selfish act/thought, no jealousy, no hatred, no disgust, no lust, just pure indiscreminating and universal joy towards all

>>23793784
You may have only one soul, but this soul is not uniform. It has a rational and conscious part but also an irrational sub/unconscious part: your desires, emotions, etc. The Stoics claimed that the rational and conscious part is all there is to the soul, and that the emotions are basically a form of degenerate knowledge that needs to be corrected into being proper knowledge. This is what scholars mean when they talk about the psychological monism of Stoicism. The Stoics also thought that the virtues could be reduced to knowledge, and that all you need to be happy is to "install" the proper knowledge firmly in your mind.

>>23793915
Your soul is God

A Feast for Cocks

>>23793648
Thought it turned to shit after the first book

>>23793648
truth is, the series was ruined from the start