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my favorite author is also borges

>>12681053

>>12334411

From a purely literary perspective, how do religious texts (The Bible, The Quran, Upanishads, The Tanakh, etc.) compare to one another? Is The Bible the best one?

>no borgesposting yet
wack

>>11899382
kek

>>11894797
Don't even talk shit, you philistine. Borges is the best thing to happen on this board. He's not perfect, but he's pretty much the only thing that can make /lit/ have a normal conversation about anything.

I keep putting of writing so that i can keep my backup prospects stable

>>11122799
>>11122803
Back then, I was under the impression that a writer needed to experience what he was writing about. I was writing a novelette at the time that had a scene where the protagonist found out that his estranged brother became a trap; the protagonist lures it to a motel and beats the shit out of it. I went to confession the next day.

>>11122837
>>11122841
There's an entire album.

>>11079346
>>11079348
It saddens me to know that French "philosophy" has degenerated into this; a competition between paid celebrity academics to see who can frame the simplest concept in the most verbose, wearisome, and specialized jargon. Yes, Derrida, the act of speaking, by its reference to words, removes one to a world of that which is not lived, the abstract. You could have said as much without wasting my precious time with your tired academese.

>>10935034
>tfw no lit gf with whom you can have acerbic, cruel debates about how one another's tastes in literature relate to romantic shortcomings and angry, violent make-up sex

>>10916191
>Four eggs over easy cooked in garlic and olive oil, bacon, toast with butter, orange juice with lemon juice added, a diced mango mixed with diced strawberries
>The Ego and His Own

>not unlike

From my minor acquaintance with the Greek Stoics, it seems that they based their ataraxia on the idea that the gods would reward honorable behavior in the next life, and this is why one ought to die rather then tell a known falsehood.

But it is possible to still hold this position, i.e. to "stake one's life for truth," in the absence of God, like Schopenhauer did. Rather than viewing that kind of death as something one does for God, it is viewed as something one does for oneself: Schopenhauer would have rather died than intellectually belittle himself for someone he knew to be his lesser.

>>10747907
There are ten subcategories of adverbs. Did he mean to omit only adverbs of manner? Like the ones that end in "-ly" and others such as "very"? Per his vague rules, we can't use "here," "yesterday," etc. Does this apply to dialogue too? What if you've got young characters? Dialogue tends to use a lot of adverbs.

Following King's guidelines will only make you a coookie-cutter writer. Who the fuck thinks that it'd be a good idea to spend only three months on a novel? Everyone has their own routine. Imagine if King told Crichton, Fitzgerald, Proust, or Hugo this shit. Number 14 is the dumbest rule of all, yet it's his best one since it contradicts everything else he's said and going to say.

Number five also contradicts the three rules before it. The fuck's this guy on?

>>10464180
Rollin'

>>10070170
This guy.