/lit/ - Literature

In order to be a true /lit/zen you need to manage your time, plan your studies and organize your life efficiently. If 5 minutes can be scrapped from your daily routine and allocated towards reading and learning that's already going to make a difference by the end of the year. No time should be wasted.

>>14047578
That is true, I think I might.

Would suit this board well I think.

I want to become /fitlit/, I have the fit part down but I am in serious need of the rest. I've read a few of the classics already. By that I mean 1984, The Great Gatbsy, your high school required books etc. I know I need to start with the Greeks, but I want to know why.

Do you know any software for scholarly works such as translation?

I'm looking to keep notes quickly linked to specific words or sentences as well as have running commentary for myself next to the text, and would prefer a lightweight text editor with dedicated capabilities rather than a complete epub/PDF editor.

Gimme good books about language. If possible something that deals with the power words have over our emotions. Or phonoaesthetics, that is also fine.

>>7420471

>I yearn towards some philosophic song
Of truth that cherishes our daily life,
With meditations passionate from deep
Recesses in man’s heart, immortal verse
Thoughtfully fitted to the Orphean lyre;
But from this awful burthen I full soon
Take refuge, and beguile myself with trust
That mellower years will bring a riper mind
And clearer insight. Thus from day to day
I live a mockery of the brotherhood
Of vice and virtue, with no skill to part
Vague longing that is bred by want of power,
From paramount impulse not to be withstood;
A timorous capacity, from prudence;
From circumspection, infinite delay.
Humility and modest awe themselves
Betray me, serving often for a cloak
To a more subtle selfishness, that now
Doth lock my functions up in blank reserve,
Now dupes me by an over-anxious eye
That with a false activity beats off
Simplicity and self-presented truth.
Ah, better far than this to stray about
Voluptuously through fields and rural walks
And ask no record of the hours given up
To vacant musing, unreproved neglect
Of all things, and deliberate holiday.
Far better never to have heard the name
Of zeal and just ambition than to live
Thus baffled by a mind that every hour
Turns recreant to her task, takes heart again,
Then feels immediately some hollow thought
Hang like an interdict upon her hopes.
This is my lot; for either still I find
Some imperfection in the chosen theme,
Or see of absolute accomplishment
Much wanting—so much wanting—in myself
That I recoil and droop, and seek repose
In indolence from vain perplexity,
Unprofitably travelling toward the grave,
Like a false steward who hath much received
And renders nothing back.

How will the novel grow post White-people?

>>7173987
You don't want to be the voice of your generation. I had a writing professor who was hailed as such in numerous publications when he was a young man in the 60s.

You've never heard of him, I guarantee it.

Eventually your generation just isn't that interesting anymore and someone else takes what you did and makes it more compelling and you fall off the map.

>>7073879
I'm living in a tiny room away from all my support networks while writing my novel and I really can't recommend it.

If you've never experience solitude then go for it but don't expect it to be a huge epiphany unless you're one of those girls with 500 likes on their facebook profile pic.

>>7071744
Yeah the only reasonable policy implications of group IQ differences is that affirmative action quotas shouldn't necessarily be pegged directly to population. If this creates a de facto caste system, then tough titty, dumb Englishmen have a hard time getting rich too.

>>7016257
Richfag trustfund babby here.
I'm happy because I have goals and interests that don't revolve primarily around the making or conspicuous spending of money. I'm not denying that I'm happier than most people in really dead-end positions, so hear me out. When you grow up with a lot it just changes where you set your standards for the parts of life that require money and I think it largely comes out to be a wash. For example it was just expected that I would go to a high-tier private university, and it would have been a crushing disappointment to only get into the honors college at a flagship state university, even though that would be a huge point of pride for a middle class student. I'm using a large chunk of time to work exclusively on a novel, and that's easy and secure for me, so I guess that's a major difference if you derive your happiness from creating art. It also means that I can securely start a family younger than most, which is a huge priority for me personally but probably not for many here. I still drive a 2001 F-150 and live in a single room on someone's roof to save on rent because I value financial security and flexibility over the cool shit I could buy.

When you see rich people going to what appear to be needlessly expensive places, just know that they aren't necessarily having more fun or experiencing more happiness there than you do at your hangout. It's just that getting sniped at having your car keyed by jealous fags isn't fun so they only really loosen up with their own kind.

>>6856245
Because I manage my desires. I can abstain from the ones I deem dangerous and pursue with appropriate detachment the ones I think add value.

>>6856871
There's a chapter early on in Infinite Jest that suits your needs perfectly. Lots of fun with ebonics.

If you want old-school ebonics, try "Pimp" by Iceberg Slim.

>>6842666
Because at least in the United States there are more like 20 universities where an undergraduate can learn as much about philosophy and literature as he would at Harvard or Stanford, and there at at least half a dozen graduate programs where he could expect to gain as much as he would at Harvard or Stanford. As for "history of outdated ideas" you seem to be forgetting that academics like the ones you're talking about publish articles as quickly as they responsibly can, and often tell other academics what they're doing before the articles appear in print. It might surprise you how many of the philosophy PhD candidates at the schools you listed did one or two year unfunded masters degrees at "lesser" universities before arriving at their PhD program. Honestly you'd probably be surprised at just how careerist and usually wealthy one has to be to land at any Harvard graduate school. A unique talent like Kripke is the exception, even at the pointy tip of the long ivory cock.

>>6798626
You aren't interesting unless you have creative (not necessarily artistic, could be stuff like cooking, racing cars or business) interests that you can gladly prioritize over socializing or mere entertainment. If you don't have an interest like that you are not interesting and have two options: get out and explore the world until you find something that you can throw yourself into, or do what most women have done for millenia and make a man that interest. They're both equally legit, not trying to say you'll necessarily end up substituting a man for an interest or that it's a bad thing.

I promise that you will find people who don't just see you as a sex object if you're a genuinely interesting person.

>>6781119
Read a lot of short nonficition, listen to NPR, and pay attention to your surroundings as you go about your life.

I get all my "what if..." ideas for stories from these three things. By short nonfiction, I mean stuff like The New Yorker and The Atlantic.

Studying an antiquated writing genre is detrimental to your writing capability and applauding it even worse. Taking up these styles whether by habit or instinct will bruise a potential innate pomo style crisp out of the contemporary ignorant, yet classy generation. You will never truly fathom a time of language you were not born into are limiting your ability.

agree?

>>6560309

>>6480429
What do you do in life, and where is it going?

>pic related

>>6369005
awesome dude tell me all about it

I often read here something to the effect of there being no red thread / common narrative anymore in our the west / our society / similar. I feel like that's true, it's something I often thought myself one way or another. But what do you do at this point? Do you create your own narrative? Won't that be inevitably hollow, since it's based on nothing? You can't really base it on most of history after all, since history was part of a narrative that doesn't really seem to be 'in effect' anymore.

Sorry for the shitty english.