/lit/ - Literature

I liked when Zizek summed up Lacans triad of the real using chess

"For Lacan, the reality of human beings is constituted by three mutually entangled levels: the Symbolic, the Imaginary, and the Real. This triad can be nicely illustrated by the game of chess. The rules one has to follow in order to play it are its symbolic dimension: from the purely formal symbolic standpoint, "knight" is defined only by the moves this figure can make. This level is clearly different from the imaginary one, namely the way different pieces are shaped and characterized by their names (king, queen, knight), and it is easy to envision a game with the same rules, but with a different imaginary, in which this figure would be called "messenger" or "runner" or whatever. Finally, real is the entire complex set of contingent circumstances which affect the course of the game: the intelligence of the players, the unpredictable intrusions that may disconcert one of the players or directly cut the game short."

Retourne contre la muraille.
Là l’esquisse un portrait de toi
Malgré lui mon œil soûl travaille
Sur la toile.. C’était de moi.


J’entends bourdon de la fièvre
Un chant de berceau me monter :
J’entends le renard, le lièvre,
Le lièvre, le loup chanter.

Va!nous aurons une chambrette
Bien fraîche, à papier bleu rayé ;
Avec un vrai bon lit honnête
À nous, à rideaux.. et payé

Et nous irons dans la prairie
Pêcher à la ligne tous deux,
Ou bien mourir pour la patrie
Tu sais, je fais ce que tu veux.

Et nous aurons des robes neuves,
Nous serons riches à bâiller
Quand j’aurai revu mes épreuves
Pour vivre, il faut bien travailler…

Just have the will to exist and it will all work out in the end

Have you read Dubliners and Portrait of a Basketball player?

Kurt Vonnegut because no one would believe him

>3153
>reading books written by humans instead of glorious machines programmed to write the most majestic prose.

In Morse Code

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Who says it is?

>>6090676
why else would he reference so many popular movies? I wish there were more pop philosophy documentaries like there are pop science

He knew how to write stories that give you a lot of anxiety. Thats one of the things I love about him.

>>6090695
tell Tao to go to bed. Minimalism isn't always better

pop philosophy

Go through all babys first existentialist novels if you havnt already

???

Proletariat's gather, we are here to discuss the philosophy of Karl Marx in a civilized manner.

no

I've never experienced these things myself OP, are you sure you aren't just spending too much time on the board that shall not be named?

>>6048218
Fuck, now I'm noticing people spelling it like that. Thanks OP

he doesn't exist though, no one gains anything from you missing him.

Dubliners is a great work of realism and an easy read

>>6048332
He is talking about the Real in Lacan's terminology.

I'm not into sci-fi but I picked up the Sheep Android book anyway. it seems to be essential sci-fi for people who don't read sci-fi.

>>6048246
You don't get to pick and choose your own starting point though. Thomism just assumes there can be no first term, but why did he get to just declare that without any good reasoning behind it?

You can prove some crazy things with axiom of choice. Check out the Banach–Tarski paradox