/lit/ - Literature

>>20582648
>posting the most famous living novelist on a board dedicated to literature is "raiding"
yeah, i'm thinking schizo on this one

>>19027131
>BURGERKING84 I KNOW IT'S YOU!!! ANIMEFAN555 DOXXED YOU ON HIS PODCAST AND AS AN AVID MEMBER OF THE ANIMEFAN555 DIGITAL ARMY I AM ON THE CASE

Those sounds pretty specific, Will. Care to share the tale with us?

ONLY valuable books that have helped you improve yourself.
recently i've found these good:
+ the i ching (wilhelm's version with the carl jung foreword). something about the presentation of everything in terms of becoming instead of being is good for focusing me in the moment.
+ meditations (duh). most of the advice here is pretty effective.
+ the philokalia (kallistos ware's version, the four-volume set). a gem i've just recently learned about. good counterpoise to something like the i ching, although this has a heavy focus on becoming-and-not-being as well.

>>18936821
>mass killers are nihilist
I'm not going to respond to your posts any longer. You have never read Nietzsche.

They didn't.

>>18595244
you're an idiot, keith doesn't do that
>>18595265
see >>18595269
>>18595272
>>18595310
you're both spergs and retards. marxism is a tiny portion of late marx's works, and then a much larger portion of additions and revisions over the next half century. no "marxist" today holds to all the stuff Marx said before 1845 AND everything after, that'd be absurd.
marxism exists on its own and retards like you are the ones who continue the "tradition," they don't refer back to Marx as a founding source or something.
>>18596177
every political document is writing about ethics, this screed makes no sense.
>>18596233
yeah, the USSR was degenerate. Lenin legalized homosexuality, Stalin attacked the church. you can't be le bhaysed leftist while supporting any of the actual left-wing gov'ts from the 20th century, they're all gay.
>>18596332
"material things are social things!"
you found the most retarded part of marxism on accident in ur poast and ur not even smart enough to recognize that it's a problem.
>>18596257
all leftism is liberalism.
>>18596301
obviously russia's less degenerate than the USSR.
>>18596509
>materiality is a linguistic abstraction, and yet it’s given meaning by what it represents in common social reality
and as you said before, sociality is material, right? so materiality is given meaning by what it represents in material reality.
and if i ask what material reality is, it'll have to be given meaning by material reality.
meaning that your knowledge of it has to come from somewhere else (there's no dictum in a recursive statement like "material reality is grounded in material reality")
which is your social being, which isn't material.
>>18596541
you are a RETARD
>>18596553
>these social relations are held as a veil between people to confuse relationships between material and between true social actors
this is the kind of incoherent bullshit you can accept when you believe that social things reduce down to material things (thank God we can disprove this by reductio!)

should knowledge legally be freely available to all?

>not imagining everything as anime

ngm

>>17564925
why u say that anon?
>>17564931
i thought it was a meme

>>16397069
Based and classicspilled

>>16324548
American critical theory should be suitable for your mental disability.

>>16313710
très basé

>>16291765
god is not real anon yes, I am very smart

>>16194364
Patricia Highsmith is probably the only dyke that has ever written something good. The rest of dykes are indeed trash.

Looks like the bootlicking fascists are raiding /lit/ now

Also the world in 1984, in contrast to BNW, IS a dystopia but not for the reasons commonly ascribed. The reason why the world is dysfunctional is because a system of government was instituted in a climate where such a system is not appropriate and can be anything but dysfunctional.
The regular 10 minute hate screenings are only needed because without them society would be much more likely to rebel. If in equillibrium the society is likely to rebel, that fundamentally means the system is dysfunctional and that there's a lot of friction going on. BNW has no need for such forced manifestations of intense negative emotion towards some political opponent, they don't need to be reminded of the constant danger to their order (the logic in 1984 goes that sure this system might be unstable, but the alternative (goldstein) is much much worse, so you better be happy with what you have) because people in the society are already content, the system is functional and does not present friction.
Another proof of dysfunction of oceania in 1984 as opposed to BNW is the constant lying. In BNW there's literally no need for lies because society is content. You already saw the main character trying to expose the truth to others and nobody cares because they're happy. Why should they care?
In contrast, in 1984 exposing the truth could be deadly. Everybody lives in fear.

>>15517474
You are 46. The clock is running boomer. You probably have menopause and you probably look like an old hag.

>>15263609
Math is the language of the universe, anon.

>>15257258
>non-euclidean

>>15058277
Based

>>14956647
And yet it's still not B.

>take an old book with expired copyrights
>change all the characters' names and the most distinct details of the milieu and characters' appearances
>add ones that you like more, throw in some fucking dragons and make one male character female so now the romantic side plot is lesbians
>use this as a first draft, edit out the boring parts and re-write the whole damn thing until it's unrecognisable

congratulations, you've just written an original novel.

For me, it's Natasha

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