/lit/ - Literature

>>21221545
Well said, /lit/bro. I love you too!

>>21015732
LLPSI is just too comfy. The sheer amount of rage it brings to wheelockfags when they realize they have wasted their time is just too good. It makes me think: yes, we are living in the best of all possible worlds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_d7DdNzkLw
Is JP right here? Should I write down a summary of what I've read right after closing a book? Are there any anons here doing that and can confirm for it to be working for memorization and understanding of the book's contents?

My mother said I remind her of Edgar Allen Poe, with my prose :) feels good bros.

i started with the greeks

>>19800339
>I'd like to read convincing arguments for the opposing view.
Jan Assmann

Schwaller de Lubicz

Karl Kerenyi

Nicholas Luhman

Humberto Maturana

Edward T. Hall

Alexander Roob

Walter Otto

William Blake

Nietzsche

Byung Chul Han

Alfred North Whitehead

Douglas Hofsdatler

Kazimiers Dabrowski

Northrop Frye

Goethe

Holderlin

Heraclitus

Schiller

Alfred Korzybski

Ludwig Von Bertalanffy

Schelling

Technically related tangent: any good books on the futility of trying to analyze, understand, and explain absolutely everything? I've started to really hate the constant need to know "why"/"how" that permeates so much thought and so many fields. Why can't we accept the mysterious and the unknowable? I'm not a luddite or anything. I work in a STEM field, and I understand the practical value in understanding the "why"/"how" of physical phenomena, but applying this sort of analysis to the human mind, society, culture, etc seems fruitless or even damaging. I'd like to be able to explain my views on this in a more eloquent way. This thread kinda brought it up, because I have never read any snippet of psychological analysis that doesn't annoy me, with sex related ones usually being the worst offenders. Psychology as a philosophical subject is fine, but psychology as a science seems legitimately evil.

For the purpose of the thread, I am somewhat a fetishist (femdomfag), but I felt a lot better about it when I stopped trying to analyze it and explain it. When I started looking at it as just another random, unknowable aspect of myself that I have to accept and manage like anything else (laziness, vices in general, temperament), it lost its specific negative power over me. Maybe my hatred of psychoanalysis is just me coping.

>>19779064
It's funny that you mention it, because GR is the book that got me started on all this. A lot of the novel can be boiled down to "analysis is futile" I think.

“Bhikkhus, there are three things that give no satiation by indulging in them. What three? (1) There is no satiation by indulging in sleep. (2) There is no satiation by indulging in liquor and wine. (3) There is no satiation by indulging in sexual intercourse. These are the three things that give no satiation by indulging in them.”

Source: AN. Book of the Threes. Sutta 108

>>19059848
>>19059813
But you depend on the capability of the translator and language that is translated to. In my language classic works were translated by our famous poets, but then its more like a collaboration, no?

>Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I'm nobody, absolutely nobody.

>>11102601
23
sydney aus
infinite jest

cannot believe how much David speaks to me. we really are just looking for instant gratification daily. I'm do it right now posting here.

>>10404831
My grandfather was a STEM dude who got into humanities at a later age.

He did fine.

I'm the opposite.

I'm doing fine.

You'll be fine.

The fact that you even care about being a polymath is already a good sign.

I am writing a screenplay about a guy becoming a member of a cult. I want the nature of the cult to reflect the present times and to satirize neo-Marxist/SJW culture but for the philosophy of the cult itself to be as wacky and frightening as possible.

What ideas or philosophies should I look into to for research? What books should I read? Thank you 4chan.