/lit/ - Literature

>>18413936
It's print on demand. They're almost absurdly fast. It's not just Amazon. Barnes and Noble can get a hold of print on demands in two days. I don't get how it works. It freaks me out a little. Capital will devour us all.

>>17956782
and this is also why meditation in its modern sense and any sort of SSRIs are lobotomy

>schizo ESL namefag with emoticons
the absolute state

>author still uses "he" for a general person
when will this bigotry end?

>God conceived not as the universal subject and substance
Many such cases. Sad

Crazy shit happens in the capital of my eastern european shithole.
90% of the beggars on the streets are on the payroll of the local corrupted police department.
If someone tries to help them (take them to shelter, clothe, feed them etc.), the pigs come up and try to stop you, shooing you away.
There was a guy last year who headed the "help the homeless" type of organization and he was killed off by the police, which they tried to cover-up but did it so badly, they left tracks all over the place.

>>17359466

Why bother writing an essay?

Most of the time, students write essays only because they are required to do so by a
classroom instructor. Thus, students come to believe that essays are important primarily to
demonstrate their knowledge to a teacher or professor. This is simply, and dangerously,
wrong (even though such writing for demonstration may be practically necessary).
The primary reason to write an essay is so that the writer can formulate and
organize an informed, coherent and sophisticated set of ideas about something
important.
Why is it important to bother with developing sophisticated ideas, in turn? It’s because
there is no difference between doing so and thinking, for starters. It is important to think
because action based on thinking is likely to be far less painful and more productive than
action based upon ignorance. So, if you want to have a life characterized by competence,
productivity, security, originality and engagement rather than one that is nasty, brutish and
short, you need to think carefully about important issues. There is no better way to do so
than to write. This is because writing extends your memory, facilitates editing and clarifies
your thinking.
You can write down more than you can easily remember, so that your capacity to consider
a number of ideas at the same time is broadened. Furthermore, once those ideas are
written down, you can move them around and change them, word by word, sentence by
sentence, and paragraph by paragraph. You can also reject ideas that appear substandard,
after you consider them more carefully. If you reject substandard ideas, then all that you
will have left will be good ideas. You can keep those, and use them. Then you will have
good, original ideas at your fingertips, and you will be able to organize and communicate
them.
Consider your success over the course of a lifetime. Here is something to think about: the
person who can formulate and communicate the best argument almost always wins. If you
want a job, you have to make a case for yourself. If you want a raise, you have to convince
someone that you deserve it. If you are trying to convince someone of the validity of your
idea, you have to debate its merits successfully, particularly if there are others with other
competing ideas.
If you sharpen your capacity to think and to communicate as a consequence of writing, you
are better armed. The pen is mightier than the sword, as the saying goes. This is no cheap
cliché. Ideas change the world, particularly when they are written. The Romans built
buildings, and the Romans and the buildings are both gone. The Jews wrote a book, and
they are still here, and so is the book. So it turns out that words may well last longer than
stone, and have more impact than whole empires.