/lit/ - Literature

>>19459995
The bits I have read from Faust seem quite comprehensible, I don't think translation is necessary for Göthe.

>>18718013
Tough Boris by Mem Fox

please help me start my individuation process. I'm tired of living like a child. I'm 30 y/o for gods sake

How do I enjoy reading?

I don't actually enjoy literature and only read to be/appear more educated. My reading list basically consists of all well known literature roughly sorted by popularity.

>>7145278
>a lack of strong deductive arguments
just like the analytics who brag about being more rigours whereas they are not.


>>7145278
>because his power as a thinker lies in the type of things that can't really be expressed rigorously or through clean and clear argumentation.
the question is why you want rigour and what you call rigour in natural language.


>>7141851
>What makes it vapid and sterile exactly ? And how is that not an issue of your own subjective reaction to the work?

vapid because they do not even question their own endeavour. they lack reflexivity in telling to other people why their work matters

sterile because they claim to seek truth, again without motivating it, and even worse fail so far to discover their truths posited to exist. they do not even know what truth is apparently.


the first thing about rigour is to state what are the problems AND why they are problems. Just as this level, you will have many who will remain indifferent to what you say, you will have a few who will agree with you, more or less, and you will find others who will say that what you peg as a problem is not a problem at all.

I wish I could drop my obsession with history and theory to appeal more to women.