/lit/ - Literature

>>18795611
>this is the problem I have with modern art that's good, its always in influence of something else or is framing some story or information from the past
>I think the real problem is that humanity technically hasnt made anything original in hundreds of years, something is always echoing something else it feels like
No work of art in history has not drawn from the past. It's the prima materia from which we create. You might be tempted to point to Greek sculpture or epics, but they were reproducing nature and mythologizing historical events, respectively.
In our time we've advanced the mythologies of space travel and cybernetic society into new areas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6ywMnbef6Y
In a draft screenplay of 2001, apparently the "star child" at the end of the film was going to return to Earth and disable humanity's nuclear weapons: turning it into a story about humanity evolving into beings that could control time and space with their minds. A story about apotheosis, without reference to any gods of the past, only to man's innate divine nature.
This is mirrored directly in Star Wars 1977, with Luke realizing his psychic ability to destroy the "Death Star" (a metaphor for the potential for nuclear superweapons to destroy the planet).
These are new themes being explored in the collective conciousness: man as the master of his destiny, and not gods.
Also the specter of AI, a man made idol with the capabilities of a god, as either the one true enemy of the Superman, or as the logical evolutionary progeny of mankind produced through our intellect, rather than our physical passions.
Then if you are witting, you can see the recursive or circular problem: that if mankind is to become gods, or to create gods in their image, if we are to control time, did we not create ourselves in the beginning? The Tielhard Point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Cmf4BuNgg
What chaos could be released by young abortive gods?
What worlds would immature tyrannical children create?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2Hy96sOnq8

>>14250179
I know how you feel anon, but this book is absolutely worth finishing.

It really picks up at the beginning of part 2

>>12308421
roll

>>11480261
American Psycho
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
Fahrenheit 451
Bill, The Galactic Hero
The Odyssey

Does it cost anything to publish a book? What's the process?
Is it just
>pitch idea
>assuming they like it
>ask for edits
>make deal

>>8070785
>literally
>literally
>literally
>literally

fuck off to tumblr and die like a lil bitch you are