/lit/ - Literature

>>22390946

>Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Caro postponed his research trip to Vietnam and a visit to the Johnson Presidential Library, but continued work on the book from his home in Manhattan.

>>21332837
Thank you. I'll try
>>21332917
You know what? You're the third person who called me a kid today. And I f*cking wish I was. Adult life is a big f*cking shit. I hate society.
>>21332929
>you can't claim to not know any of the arguments someone makes and then call them stupid for making them. It's nonsense.
In the first sentence you quoted me for, I said "nihilistic arguments". In the second, I said
just "nihilism"; not refering to nihilistic arguments, but for the general (my) idea of nihilism. And if my idea of nihilism (learned through youtube videos which I forgot almost everything about.) is wrong, then Idk.
>>21332958
>to withstand a relatively miniscule amount of pain in service to the glorious light of consciousness
What if I can't get the pain to go away? Is it really worth it having consciousness?

>>20939508
>https://progressivegeographies.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/the-place-of-geometry.pdf
Amazing article. On Descartes (who, in contrast to Plato, seems to be a maestro of... division), and Newton:
>In reply to a letter from Mersenne, which mentions that the mathematician Desargues has heard Descartes is giving up geometry, Descartes says:
>I have only resolved to give up abstract geometry, that is to say, research into questions which serve only to exercise the mind; and I am doing this in order to have more time to cultivate another sort of geometry, which takes as its questions the explanation of the phenomena of nature.35
>What we find here is in some ways a reversal of the move made by Thales. Geometry is no longer the Platonic ideal of mental exercise, but a science of the real world. Geometry and physics have the same objectum, ‘the difference consists just in this, that physics considers its object not only as a true and real being, but as actually existing as such, while mathematics considers it merely as possible, and as something which does not actually exist in space, but could do so’. 36 For example, in the Discourse on the Method, Descartes says that the ‘object dealt with by geometricians’ is ‘like [emphasis added] a continuous body or a space indefinitely extended in length, breadth, and height or depth, divisible into various parts which could have various shapes and sizes and be moved or transposed in all sorts of ways’. 37 Geometry is no longer simply an abstraction from being, but is seen as a generalization of being. What Descartes does is to see geometry as equivalent to algebra. Just as algebra is symbolic logistic, geometry is a symbolic science. It is this, rather than the simple equation of arithmetic and geometry that is his most radical break with the past. 38
>As Jacob Klein has shown, ‘extension has, accordingly, a twofold character for Descartes: It is “symbolic” – as the object of a “general algebra”, and it is “real” – as the “substance” of the corporal world.’ So, not only is Descartes moving geometry from abstract mental exercise to practical science – the foundation of physics, a study of the world – he assumes that the insights of geometry can tell us about the world.

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> Keep coping, chud. You've been debunked

What's the literary equivalent to the "IT'S OVER" meme?

How do I get a better and more vivid imagination? Do I have to start tripping on psychedelics so that my brain can rewire itself? I can definetely pictures things in my brain and quite clearly so its definetely not the aphantasia meme but I dont know, I feel like I'm missing out on the beauty of a vivid imagination