/lit/ - Literature

Books to reverse my antisemitism to the point of philosemitism or, atleast, ambivalence towards the Jews?

Is there actual difference between the KJV and Geneva Bible?

>Never hear about Stein a single time before today
>Nobody I've ever known in real life has ever mentioned her, not my friends, not my professors, not even random art hoes, nobody
>Nobody on /lit/ has mentioned Stein for the five years I've been visiting this place.
>Nobody has ever once mentioned her books by name either, never
>Suddenly, today, there is randomly a Gertrude Stein thread in the catalog, and then another Gertrude Stein thread
>One of them a random twitter screenshot of a guy using her to attack Hemingway for no reason
>The other calling her massively influential when I have literally never heard her name in my entire life
>Google her
>She's best known for hosting Hemingway and Fitzgerald at her Salon and that's about it
What the fuck is happening here
Is this some attempt at manufacturing a new Guenon

>if you insult McCarthy you'll be laughed out of high level literary circles
>btw these same circles are the only reason trash like Faulkner are still read and they're all pseuds so you shouldn't care what they think

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I'm looking for a job that would give me a lot of free time. Any suggestions?

Determinism - we are born sense organs with the impressions made on them totally out of our control. Early impressions and our impressions upon those impressions, themselves determined by previous impressions, determine how we will act in any situation. Is there a hole in this logic?

is there a reason why glasses wearing people read more and are infinitely better than everyone else?

Would be interested in you guys' thoughts and opinions. I love writing and still have a long way to go.

P.S. English is my second language. If there are some things that sound off or wrong, feel free to tell me.

>I sat close to a campfire that I had conjured up from a dying tree's scattered branches. I felt sorry for the tree and thanked it for providing me with its warmth. My tent was set up in the middle of an expansive glade, up against that poor tree. It was all by itself out there, which was probably the reason for its malady, I thought. From where I stood, in the near distance, pines rose all around me and high mountains towered even beyond that. Sounds of birds and other creatures came from the distant thicket. It felt like it was just me on that hill of grass and stone. If it was not for the freedom of the sky, the encirclement would have made me go mad. But the dying tree, the campfire, the tent, the sky. They had all gathered there for me. Together we broke away from the lonesomeness of the unfamiliar night and witnessed its shine.
I sat there for quite a while, soaking up the heat, when after some time my eyes were aching to close. I decided to end the night and crawled inside my tent. It was hard to let go. Though a moment ago I felt accompanied, suddenly I was disillusioned. Perhaps I was alone after all. I tried my hardest to believe again, the utter separateness was unbearable. Then I realized something that my rational mind immediately tried to refute. Right now, other than the occasional sound, there was no sense-data to inform me of any outside world. All I was able to know was this tent, nothing else. So I tried my hardest to believe in that. This here, is all that exists I told myself. It worked, my body calmed and I fell asleep soon after.

Looking to get more educated on politics. I wanna create a solid foundation for myself. The plan is to read in this order: conservative/right, then moderate/progressive, ending with socialist/communist literature. What are good books for each of these categories?
Thanks.

Is there a website for discussing writings and text that isn't primarily an image board? So similar to 4chan except you would be able to upload full pdfs of essays and discussion would follow

Thanks for helping me install arch, luke.

Any books where the main character is always chasing perfection and has to deal with never being able to achieve it?

I really liked, that as the headspace of a person changed, for the worse or better, their physical wellbeing declined or got better. Dostoevsky does this in a lot of his books, either with Raskolnikov ,Snegiryov or Fyodor Pavlovich.

I have realized that often when I physically feel bad, it often has its root in something that is either bothering me unconsciously or something that I don't want to confront.

bump

A high tech weight loss center onboard a space station in the distant future. Meant for the daughters of the world's most rich and powerful. The AI controlling the station has gone mad, locked it down and is rapidly fattening everyone. A lone female hero is covertly sent in to resolve the situation. Thoughts? I might start working on it tonight.

At what age did you start reading seriously?
What were your first books?

jk nigger

>lecturer shills his own book

I got a new pair of glasses (old ones were pretty shit desu and got them like two years ago) and i can read for 10 minutes before my head and eyes start hurting, wtf is happening, what to do frens

>notwithsitting

I've never put effort into writing anything creative before, any advice on how to approach it?