/lit/ - Literature

>>20590830
I "bought" several e-books with my kindle, removed the amazon DRM and cancelled the purchases.
I upload the books on libgen for my poorfag homies. I will never buy zeros and ones.

>>16147555
I read Herbert as Hilbert as in David Hilbert and thought she was based. Who the fuck is Herbert? Why would Bradbury be in the science section?
... Oh, you said science fiction, sorry I read that as science section, my brain accidentally just skipped over a word so I got confused.
I see it makes sense now.
Why the fuck would someone want a science fiction section though.
...
Oh my god, science-fiction. Jesus christ. Now it makes sense. I thought you meant science fiction as in fictional science, like I don't know raelly. I'm guessing you mean Dune Herbert? Yeah Dune sucks. Read Hilbert instead.

>>15195116
>anthology of outdated out of context cetacean excerpts predates chapter 1

>>14076938
Styron said that too...
Believe it’s true

>>14063276
I liked your post.
one thing I’ve picked up...
American cops are the definition of normans.
Departments won’t hire people who can withstand mental stress—they don’t want cops questioning anything. Just people who obey and willingly do violence.
You might me a person who can handle mental stress...
Downsides to that are obvious.
Lincoln would sometimes say, it’s too hard, about mental stress.
Lincoln really could handle mental stress, too.
So, that’s what I do now, not drugs, not suicidal thoughts.

>>14062210
>orgyofthewill.net
That’s a good point
Adler, Bloom (and Bloom), et al.
Hutchins wasn’t a Jew
think Great Books started at Columbia, have to look up John Erskine...

Why do you even try to convince yourself you could ever write? Yeah, you can write, but it's all utter garbage. In that way you are little more than a downs kids scribbling in crayons all over his picture, not even able to stay within the lines. You'll never write anything worth being read. You know that great novel idea you've been working on an outline for? It's been done a hundred times already, and it wasn't even entertaining then. Not to mention your story, if you can call it one. The only way your plot could be reasonable is if the cast was black out drunk half the time, but that would require adding more depth to your characters. Right now they're about as complex as cereal mascots... go ahead... walk away... go on and try to "clear your head." You know I'll be waiting for you when sit back down and stare at that page.

There is literally nothing more self-indulgent that writing a book. Imagine spending thousands of hours writing something just to satisfy a desire to have your name recognised somewhere.

Unless you are meaningfully contributing to a field of study or writing something that is completely original, the act of writing and publishing a book is a gigantic jerk-off. You are fulfilling the same urge you get when you see wet cement and want to write your name in it.

I'm 6'3 and my facial aesthetics are 8/10, broad shoulders, intelligent, well-read and a good sense of humor but despite all that I have had very little casual sex in my life. I cannot for the life of me stay hard while wearing condoms, no matter how many I try, it's more frustrating than erotic to have sex with a condom. I attribute it to me being circumcised. The only thing that comforts me is that I can stay hard and withhold ejaculation for literally as long as I want while raw.

I have only had sex with 3 women despite being in my early-mid 20's and despite all my advantages. My sex with all of them was unprotected, typically we go home, make out, feel eachother up, then I try with a condom, it gets soft, then I mumble something about how I can't stay hard with a condom but I'm clean and then they consent to unprotected sex. I have not caught anything so far but there is no way I can try to rack up a high score like that because I will inevitably get STDs.

I've come to conclude that I had better just get married as soon as possible so I can beat my wifes pussy up everyday without having to worry about anything. I guess I can get (non-violent!) revenge on the Jews responsible for my circumcision by marrying early and having 4 or 5 white children.

>>11222445

Is it simulated? You are talking with them, playing with them, etc. Maybe it's the fact that there's no face/no eyes to look at during the interaction.

>tfw exceeded my page quota again
>the library threatens to cancel my card

>>10955596
>tfw no gf

it's hard to read.

>>9827816
On my morals, my ethics, my will, my actions and my beliefs. None of these factors implies grounding your entire personality on whatever archetype the society you happened to live in pushed on you.
I would say that technically Jeff is the one with an identity here. You, instead, are nothing more than a shell of a man.

>>9645483
>I just think that the real world is boring enough already.

This says so much about you I'm not sure you can be saved OP. You live in interesting times, are fortunate enough to shitpost on 4chan, but can't find the will to paddle out from the literary kiddie pool. You are 15. Maybe an exceptionally slow blooming 24. You have suckled on the teat of the Spectacle for so long you don't realize there is a cordon around your waking life. You are dying for something original and don't know how to express it. Genre fiction is death, but you wear it like a warm blanket or a pet dragon.

Start with the motherfucking Greeks, child. If you have absolutely no knowledge and need a bare bones list:

Graves: The Greek Myths
Homer: Iliad, Odyssey
Plato: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo
Epictetus: Enchiridion
Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics

Skipping the Greeks and reading ahead to KJV Bible, the Enlightenment and beyond will just leave you spinning your wheels. To be accomplished, you must do work. There are no shortcuts to the palace of the patricians.

>>9447050
I spend 8 hours playing the piano and studying composition, 5 hours reading philosophy, 1 hour walking and 30 minutes shitposting on /lit/ and /his/.
When studying I usually do 1 hour and then I'll take a 20 minutes break, in which I'll either eat, shower, clean my one room apartment, meditate or read novels/history/manuals.
Every 2 or 3 days I'll have 1-2 hours to meet friends and generally mantain any semblance of a social life, mostly for health benefits.

I wish every anon on this board to manage to train their discipline up to this point: we've got way too much free time to avoid striving for something that, at the very least, matters to us.

>>9391775
Another question: how much control do you have over your imagination?
I can almost never see anything, but sometimes, before falling asleep, I'll be able to ''glimpse'' at random images that have nothing to do with what I'm thinking about.
The way these images form themselves is strange: at first (but only when I'm really tired) I see ''shadows'' (I don't really have a good term to describe them): lines, curves, perspectives that move randomly, most of the time geometrically (although it's always very simplistic, I never get even close to imagine fractals), which are colorless (everything I'm seeing is black, I'm just able to point that black out: I've found no related effect in my day to day experience). Every once in a while, without me noticing how it happens, they form a extremely realistic, vivid image: it doesn't take my entire ''field of view'', it's more like a painting, abstractly framed in darkness.
These paintings are extremely vivid representations of mix of things I've seen before going to sleep. If I jack off I'll se incomprehensible pink organs, that looks to genitalia only in their textures. If I walk in woods before going to sleep I'll see extremely vivid, incomprehensible natural landscapes. It has no resemblance to those actual landscapes, it's more like what a alien would draw if you just showed him some of the materials you can find in nature and described him with words what nature looks like.
These pictures are rapidly changing: sometimes I manage to induce into the hallucination and see them morphing costantly in radically different pictures. Most of the time I'll just get scared: having no control I know that I may see some fucked up deformed face staring at me, or abstract ever-morphing dogs running at me. It's rare, but it has happened enough times for me to be extremely cautious about these hallucinations. It saddens me to a certain extent, since I think that there is some real aesthetical value in this experience: being a (sorry for the pretentiousness) creative person I'd love to benefit from it, but I'm simply not able to do so without getting seriously spooked.

Is this experience relatable to yours in any concievable way? Does it ever happen to people with an actual, fully formed imagination?

>tfw parents are middle-class
>tfw they're fine with me staying in my room all day long practicing on the cello and reading philosophy

>tfw I'm pretty sure that I would have killd myself had I to renounce to everyone of my passions for meaningless jobs

>tfw everyone I know thinks I'm a loser because I'm not working in a cubicle
>tfw I don't care and I'll drop the best contemporary music there is in a few years from now

I'm sorry for you guys, I really am.
To the NEETs in this thread: FOR FUCK'S SAKE START WORKING ON SOMETHING ON YOUR OWN, SEIZE THIS OPPORTUNITY.

>>9241354
>The fact that one is technically more complex than the other means nothing because at no point during the creation of the piece was there an attempt to achieve this.

I haven't talked about complexity, I've instead talked about deliberacy and craft, which is a completely different thing.

>The argument is that classical music has no bearing on the album being shit.
Classical music has bearing on wether it is worth listening to that album, which was my first point.

>It is not shit because a completely different style of music exists and is superior technically.
Not what I've said, in fact I've even said this:
>This is not a deliberate, cautious choice, rather it is a product of cluelessness and complete ignorance on the craft that is being used (and that ignorance is not even being channeled in new, interested ways, instead they go for the 4 chords/song form route, wich is the most banal thing you can do with a acoustic guitar). Virtually everything in NMH music is formulaic.

>What do you feel is achieved by comparing two things so completely different?
You get a sense of priority, which was the point of this discussion.

>>9241335
>Fine, explain to me how Bach has created a better lo-fi indie rock album than NMH.
See? You're equating every idea, as if they're the same.
Too bad that I haven't taken the parameters of the genre to give a judgement, instead I've decided to look at the music itself, bypassing your beloved critics.

>You appear to have zero understanding of the importance of intention in art
Although I'm not the one spouting theory on how to critic art, you're the one that is being excessively naive here. Using your method (if we can call ''that'' method) you end up being able to compare only pieces of art that are built upon the exact same foundations, which is the death of criticism. It's cause of naive people like you that pseuds can make up arguments such as ''well, I guess that this scribble is as good as any Rembrant painting'': this happens because behind your judgement there is NO criteria, nor is there the ability of giving any sort of judgement.
Keep praising your moderateness, while forgetting that this is exactly what makes your opinion worthless.