/lit/ - Literature

>>14262933
Much of it is marketing. The Mona Lisa is a good example because it was stolen on top of being from a well-loved painter.

I personally appreciate plenty of modern art for offering strange and mesmerizing aesthetics. Like this perfectly conical pile of gravel in the original post. You could perhaps find something aesthetically similar to it at an actual gravel processing plant. You could perhaps even find this visual at the very same gravel processing plant this gravel was supplied through. What you couldn't do is find that visual boxed inside of an art gallery as a packaged and delivered visually in the context of all the other art pieces present in the rest of the museum.

Whether the details that make up a piece give it value is ultimately up to the viewer. Personally I would find a few seconds to a minute spent in that room marveling at all the work required to stick a pile of gravel in the middle of an art gallery satisfying to some extent. It would be a wholly personal experience, and I believe I could derive a certain degree of value reflecting on not just the art piece itself, but the concepts it brings to mind.

Does anyone on /lit/ struggle from time to time with solipsism or am I alone in this?

>>14245188
The editor just gave it their second pass, we're pretty much good to launch once I finish encoding all the secret messages and stuff we're going to slip with in it. Full Secret of Psalms 46 mode.

>>14195027
Run your finger under the words fast enough that you can no longer subvocalize, train yourself to read with your eyes OP.

>>14177829
Mine was perfectly satisfactory really. It even culminated in my being published in the college magazine, which put me on track to pursue a career in the field.

The best part about it (potentially) is the feedback during group discussions of larger projects. Every now and then you'll get some advice that cuts deep and true, even though a lot of it tends to be people trying to couch their terms in soft-spoken ways on the off chance of offense. When the advice is good, take it, and be sure to give return the favor as best you can.

That and probably connections too, but I did not think to pursue those at the time.

It's easy to exaggerate the faults, but one time I heard a guy read one of the most awe-inspiring descriptions of a hobo lighting up a crack pipe that may ever exist.

Definitely worth it.

>>14157102
That's fairly reasonable advice, thanks. I will take it.

How's your work coming along anon?

>>14150861
Thank you

>>14139243
Stanley Parable and The Beginner's Guide developer Davie likes this book enough to subtly showcase it in the latter. That was enough of a recommendation for me to pick it up, but I got distracted somewhere around chapter two and moved onto something else. I mean to pick it up again some day but Calvino knows how it is judging by the opening chapter.