/lit/ - Literature

>>19816296
>tfw rich, married, comfortable, and still hate jews

>>17490424
*Is completely based in metaphysical assumptions and uses empirical methodology as a deflection to deny it*

>>16006716
>Why are psychedelics frowned upon? The Catholics in South America have integrated Peyote and Psilocybin Mushrooms into worship. Psychedelics are non addictive, non neurotoxic, and they help enrich people's quality of life while also eliminating mental illness for many.

>expecting christcucks to logically evaluate anything...

>>15759637
based
@nigger1019
sad bait

Is reading lots of books genuinely better than watching lots of movies when it comes to getting inspiration for creative projects, or is it a meme pushed by boomers?

What is "Kafkaesque"?

>>14504907

>>13752758
>>13752784
If you're gonna start your every sentence and interaction with the person's name obviously it's gonna be annoying and weird.

Serious question, what's the point of goodreads besides reviews? Is this just MAL for book nerds?

I don't know why people are saying Latin is easier to learn — the exact opposite is true. Greek's definite article simplifies so much, and is used in reflexive pronouns and to start relative clauses. It's also much more beautiful than Latin (IMHO), subjunctives are piss-easy (especially compared to Latin), genitive absolutes are piss-easy, the list goes on...

The Greek language is also alive in a way that Latin is not. When you learn the subtleties of the language, you can almost adopt a classical worldview about process, stasis, teleology, etc. Since Latin inherited so much from the Greeks, Etruscans, et al., it's hard to see through an "authentic" lens of Latin society. Furthering this distinction is the fact that so much of Greek history remains a mystery, and it's fun to piece together clues and insights as to:
>who the fuck the Greeks were (e.g. the Mycenaean kingdom)
>what they accomplished
>what they feared and why (e.g. the Bronze Age collapse)
>their mythology and their low-religion
>their natural sciences
>their metaphysics, soteriology, logic...
On that last point: have you ever tried to read the Organon? I have, and it's a fucking slog. But in Greek, Aristotle is one of the clearest, neatest linguists (aided by untranslatable things like the "men... de" construction). Plato is downright heavenly at his best.
>tl;dr START WITH THE GREEKS

>>12704450
I can’t speak to his early work, but his output this decade has been a shameless, hamfisted and, worst of all, blatant imitation of Fellini’s greatest pieces. The Great Beauty is La Dolce Vita sans the cinema celebrity glitz, whilst Youth takes 8 1/2’s themes and spa setting. The Young Pope is an expansion on Fellini’s irreverence regarding the Church.
Sorrentino has the same affection for dream sequences, but his imagery lacks the vitality and surreal dream logic present in Fellini. In addition, a preoccupation with Jung and dream analysis was avant garde in the 60s but 50 years later, it’s trite and tired unless done properly.
Finally, Sorrentino’s cinematography is flat and artificial. Often his camera movement is unmotivated so it feels choreographed and unnatural whilst Fellini’s fast, frenetic is literally kino. For the cherry on top, the dialogue he writes is often expository and wooden.

I met a woman who had (iirc) a small speaking part in Youth, though, and she said he was brilliant to work with - but what the fuck do actors know?

>>12617848
>>12618065
>his eyes are closed and his heart is hardened to the majesty of tigers
Imagining living like this lads. Haha wtf.

>>12590431
THIS!! I'm a pro-race mixing Latinx male (Brazilian), and I want to create la raza cosmica. That baby is ugly not because of the black genes but because of her genes!! So sad that beautiful black male wasted his seed on this white devil. A huge tragedy. The baby's nose is so large and ugly. Its skin is yellow and sickly. And its eyes are nearly crossed. All because of her inbred white genes! Can you say busted???

>>12549824
> pajeet philosophy
> life-denying

ever heard of tantra, dummy? it's more life-affirming than anything nietzche could even fathom. he was literally a myopic, low IQ syphallus ridden beta virgin begging some thot to marry him and going crazy from seeing a horse beaten like a pussy (for all his rhetoric on strength). he was worse than that kid who shotgunned his face on livestream. enjoy worshipping that beta faggot.

>>12538192
A classicsfag is a priori gay, just like any X-fag, where X is some quality attributable to the fag or else something said fag takes an interest in, is a priori gay. In other words, basically, yes.

>>12531553
> mindfulness doesn't work for a psychotic schizo bitch with an anxiety disorder

huh kinda weird

>>12505078
You are so dumb. 8ch's /lit/ board is fucking dead. I have been on there several times and it seems like it NEVER moves. I would love to migrate there whenever I get three-day bans here, but it's so dead that there is no point. I have no clue what you're talking about when you say all the readers are on 8ch. If they are, then they don't go on /lit/!

>>12420596
It isn't that big you pseud, carrying around a 20-100 page dialogue would be utterly pathetic.

How about non-Atheist critiques of Christianity?
>>12394822
>Evolution created singular cellular organisms from dust
>makes sense
>God created homo sapiens from dust
>ummmmm lol what?

>>10005996
Them dudes look like green with the trichromes n errythang

>>9213106

Milo,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fEnTj2GNlU

Busdriver,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cU0HcuO8Yk