/lit/ - Literature

>>928586
It's pretentious poetic nonsense, and people shouldn't indulge in it.

Your comment is at least marginally useful, though. It perfectly illustrates why you shouldn't use drugs to be creative, since it results in horseshit like that.

>>928547
It's an incorrect statement, so yes, I do have a problem with it. As entropy increases, the universe approaches a state of uniformity, which is the opposite of complexity.

Basic thermodynamics.

Hiro Protagonist. Best name ever.

>>928518
You're injecting a false sense of importance into your statement by dressing it up in polysyllabic nonsense. If that's not a textbook example of pretentiousness, then I don't know what is.

Nice thing about Demonoid is you can request things. And new shit gets posted all the time.

>>928490
>>The universe can be seen as a "spiral" of complexities giving way to even greater complexities.

That's horseshit.

>>928484
iPad's a good choice for reading comics. Other than that, it's pretty useless.

>>928472
Actually, to a certain extent he's right. The whole e-ink thing is surprisingly close to physical print. It's still absolute shit; in three years, all these early adopters are going to be kicking themselves. Nothing's gonna change that.

>>928452
Even though that's precisely what you are?

>>928436
Holy shit, that was pretentious. Even for /lit/.

You smoke an awful lot of marijuana, don't you?

>>928433
>>the guy you are arguing with is a pedophile

Fixt

This, ladies and gentlemen, is a troll thread.

>>928265
This.

>>928260
Drugs don't really improve your work, they just change how you work. And keep in mind, drugs will always affect people in different ways. Often drastically different. Experimentation is fune, but please try not to make a lifestyle of your habits, else they become all you ever write about.

And then we'd have to relegate you to Livejournal.

It's a book that needs context to catch your interest. Try reading some of the other Lazarus Long stories first, then come back to it.

It's a good story, but doesn't stand on it's own.

>>928247
You're an idiot, then. Carry on.

You sound like a pothead already; might as well start smoking up. One less contributing member of society.

>>917573
oh hey that's the one I read

Wow, I just found out that I read a horridly abridged version of CoMC when I was in High School...

i feel horribly cheated...

fr4cture, this is the first time I've replied to you, and I come in straightforwardly saying that I know nothing about freudian psychoanalytical whatever it is that you like.

Would you mind pointing me in the direction where I can find an analysis of books (hopefully ones I've read) that have been analyzed in this manner?

I, too, generally fall into the "author's intent" club, but as it is, I don't know very much about analyzing texts at all.

>>917473
>picture is Suica
>1) They haven't really taken off in my country yet
you in Japan?

>>917354
>>913959
>King Gorice of Witchland and the Lords of Demonland
fucking AWESOME

So I just finished this. It was satisfying, I guess.
But it left me with a question...

Was F. Scott Fitzgerald a socialist?

if not, what was with that big rant at the end of the book? It seemed like the book was full of Fitzgerald just spitting out his own poetry and opinions for the sake of getting them published -- but what's up with the socialism?

>>916926
Hawthorne probably wasn't the best person to choose for that argument, but we had just read The Scarlet Letter, and I was kind of sick of the teacher going through all these different interpretations.

I also threw in the whole, "You can either get what the author is trying to say, or anyone can come up with whatever interpretation they want, at which point each individual interpretation is meaningless due to the countless number interpretations that counter it." Line in there somewhere.

angsty toward teacher? perhaps a little