/lit/ - Literature

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I'm >>19852882 and this was a really nice post, Anon. Thank you. I genuinely appreciate it.

Sometimes I wonder if the "field" I emit isn't my particular religious commitments. I'm a pretty serious Catholic and so I'm not into casual sex, and I date with the aim of finding a girl I can marry and start a family with. Maybe having those elements on my mind is what puts women off from me. Maybe they can tell, in this age of casual relationships and noncommitment.

But I will take everything you have said to heart. I actually appreciate you putting all that effort in.

Another critique of Fukuyama is that as far as I can tell he has no answer for the slow churn of history that grinds all mountains to sand.

Maybe that's unfair to him. He's speaking of a few centuries of development, after all. His concern is the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries, and the 20th Century in particular. I suppose he's not to be blamed if he can't think 100, 300, 500, 1000 years into the future.

But maybe he can. What happens as America inevitably falters and weakens? It's already happened, what if it happens in earnest? No empire has lasted forever. No cultural and political hegemony has endured for all time. The Persians didn't, the Romans didn't, the Spanish didn't, the British didn't. Why should America be any different? And what happens when America declines and collapses as all other imperial powers have done? Because so much of Fukuyama's "end of history" seems dependent on US hegemony. Is the implication that when the United States crumbles, history restarts?

When does a work stop being an essay/short writing/article and becomes a proper book? For both fiction and non fiction
Is a book in An Essay on Understanding equivalent to a book on its own? Are enlightenment-era essays books?
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I keep looking at all these serialized fiction websites and I keep wondering where to put the first book of my story. Royal Road? Inkitt? Wattpad? Even this new Kindle Vella thing from Amazon? They all have their advantages and disadvantages. Which one is the best?

As a Millennial I always feel compelled to apologize for the shitty poetry and fiction my generation has put out. Or at least, those who have gotten published. I feel like there are some great Millennial writers and great poets on the fringe of things, but none of them have gotten popular with the mainstream. I feel like we're not living up to our artistic potential as a generation and we're letting the Zoomers down. I'm trying to do what I can myself to correct this.

Thanks to /lit/, I’ve managed to become a habitual reader. But I’ve found that When reading more complex books, I feel like I only just read from first page to last. How do I begin deeply analyzing and fully understand literature?