/lit/ - Literature

>>15346858
>>15346707
Just wanted to use this post to say you have such awful views and taste.

>>15207738
>o me, the words describe a kind of meta story, of mankind's attempts to transcend himself and how that all shakes out. It's commonly observed that the structure of the song suggest a sort of cyclical nature to the story, that what is happening will continue to go on and on without end. A joker and a thief to me are romantic and pragmatic nature of the human being. Two ways of being, two meta copes, if you will. The joker sees the futility of it all and laughs about it but doing so never gets him anywhere, he is not laughing when he pines for a way out. The thief is the pragmatist, he steals what he needs to survive, he tells the joker to relax. Bids him to trust in himself. The fact that the joker is looking for a way out suggests to me that the two riders' approach is blind. They can not see the tower. They only know there must be something in the wilderness of it all. Something.


Imagine writing all this out for a fucking Dylan song

>>14592095
How can a nail be cute

>>14513351
Neet living the /lit/ lifestyle unironically, as in, he just reads and shitposts on twitter:

https://youtu.be/iOk6HB609po

>>14452674
I dislike him, but mostly because he's vehemently against worker unions.
However in general, I'd think the ideas of someone who's in rich circles but also reads is more interesting to listen to than some uni prof or whatever. They are exposed to more impactful circles and perspectives.
"nouveau riche" would be a good goto thing, then.

>When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed very hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.
>The man who’d introduced them didn’t much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all times. One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.

Generic plots aside, what can make writing "feel" like an airport novel? I assume one example is a writing style that puts an exaggerated emphasis on surface level descriptions. How can aspiring writers avoid those decisions?

>>10956929
it's a cliche to mention him around here but Baudrillard essentially predicted the social media society and it's contradictions with his work concerning hyperreality and simulation. Telemorphosis is particularly good in this regard:
"There will soon be nothing more than self-communicating zombies, whose lone umbilical relay will be their own feedback image – electronic avatars of dead shadows perpetually retelling their own story."

>just America
This man is the cancer of all modern media.

>he thinks being bilingual is anything better than being monolingual
lmao lenguagelets

>/lit/ is actually full of the kind of pseuds that can't watch silly children's movies without sperging out and going "This is inaccurate, it needs more rape and he needs to murder Megara and the muses should be white as the driven snow"

>>10823007
Identity politics is extremely toxic, my advice is to everybody ITT is to steer the fuck clear of it except when it's immediately beneficial to you (i.e. playing the social justice card to help your career). It's extremely easy in the epoch of post-modern fragmentation and social media alienation to fall into an identity echo chamber, whether it's social justice or some form of white nationalism. Fuck all of that shit. I've been down both rabbit holes, first as a indoctrinated intersectional uni leftie and then as a bitter post-grad who fell into (for complete lack of a better term) the "alt-right" for a bit, or at least an extremely racist "white" identity reconstruction project. As someone who already suffers from an ill defined sense of self it took a long time for me to realize I'm making myself fodder for internet meme movements.

>>10804047
>Henry George
>laissez-faire capitalism
I know this post is from yesterday and is probably being ignored by people who don't know who Henry George is but you are absolutely fucking retarded

>>10733068
As you know we don’t really get married anymore like the Grayhairs used to do, so it’s odd to hear Dad talk about it. He said back then all he wanted to do was have a family, and in those old days you had to get married to do that. To not do was so frowned upon. That was the bigotry of the old society. While a few Grayhairs realized how silly this was and rebelled against the system, practicing what they called “free love,” they still had to get married if they wanted kids, otherwise they would be outcasted and talked down to.

However, they even had a loophole for this, it was called divorce. Basically, all you had to do if you really wanted kids but didn’t want to get married was just pretend to marry someone! Well it was real, but you didn’t mean it. Then you would enjoy all the nice things about marriage: the big white cake, the car with the cans tied to the back, the house with the yard, the dog, the cat, the kids! Then when you were ready to get out of the thing (usually you waited until the kids were at least 10-13 years old) you just called up a lawyer, he typed up a piece of paper, the couple signed it and it was like they were never married. Of course some people were dummies and didn’t do a Preenup (I think that’s what dad called it), so they had to give some of their money to the other person for a long time. Still that was better than being stuck with them forever. Til’ death do us part they used to say, haha!

3/3

Stereotypical modernist jibberish

Late capitalism is nonse-

>tfw know russian language but haven't read a single russian book or a novel in my entire life