/lit/ - Literature

Tell me, would a complete retard write something like THIS?

>>16820858
you tell me

>>15306035

>>13391110
all of the book is like this

>>13013581

I also read slowly, but I notice my retention of what I read tends to be higher than others. I often write notes about what I read and copy down noteable paragraphs. Not sure whether I should maintain it or aim to be less thorough.

>>12509303

There is no 'edge' despite the universe being apparently finite, in the same sense that if you're living on the edge of a finite sphere, you can travel around it forever without reaching the end.

Or something like that, according to Hawking. Better off asking /sci/ for this.

>will you be still you

You'd also have to define what you meant by 'you' first.

Thoughts on post-modernism?

I gotchu OP

someone please translate

it's become far more relevant than ever, but you have to try and keep up

>>12238394
The first 5-7 essays shouldn't be too bad if you have a background in philosophy, and the end is just horror fiction. The middle gets a bit weird.

>>11598329
Cooking Lobsters isn't all that hard to read. If you spend 10-15 minutes reading it the words start to make sense. By the second read it's second nature. I can read it probably 70-80% of the speed I read the rest of his stuff. It's actually really creative, it works almost like a lingual-virus in the sense that once you have read it, you can always read it. Once it's in your brain it's there forever.

the book in OP

>>11415001

Can someone better explain the whole language/virus thing Land is working with here? I read Snow Crash just to try and understand him better and now I'm even more confused.

Is theory-fiction supposed to be 'theory written as fiction' or 'fiction written as theory'?

yep

>>11178769
Fanged noumena is "amphetamine psychosis"-core but actually shit, so I'm only mentioning it because it's the closest you can get to a Ca++ kindling cascade on paper after the beat generation.

bump

>>11136941

>>11133502
Yes it's great

>>11122394