/lit/ - Literature

All of this bullshit that all of us talk here is just more or less unsuccessful cope for lack of GF, or at least lack of the GF we wanted.

Does anyone here actually know anything about writing? Publishing?

>be me
>at goodwill
>see a woman bring about 30-40 hardcover books to donate.
>all new and undamaged
>they are all from "book of the month"
>"wtf is that"
>look it up
>a subscription based service that delivers a book every month.
>costs between $12.50-17.99 per month
>at best she spent $375 for books she didn't read
>mfw

>>22621716
I read some short stories and novels of Wolfe to build up to BOTNS and I loved all of them, and then I got to BOTNS and hated it.

>>22586739
90% of the IJ is David Foster Wallace dancing his humogous nose around his own sphincter
10% is him taking a huge whiff
/lit/ calls him a genius regardless

>>22540287
>Why is the sky blue?
>Because if the sky was green, it wouldn't be blue

>>22516204
>women love honesty
Read this book ten years ago and it was no help.

t. 34 year old virgin

>>22495117
>zero predictive power
>zero evidence for your claims or why your prescriptive state would be better
>excessive psychologizing
mfw

>>22484277
>Papyrus

>female author
>every scene has a full page describing what each character is wearing in painstaking detail

>>22376135
>unchangeable, yet all-changing

>>22368161
>I’m Jewish

Formal logic is pure math. You won't need any of this in philosophy. In fact, knowing formal logic will ruin philosophy for you. Philosophy is the opposite of logic. Logic is rigorous and produces provable truth. Philosophy is subjective. Trying to put philosophy on a logical basis only leads to cringeworthy infantile language games doomed to fail right from the start.

>If there is a god then everything is permitted because your sins will be forgiven as soon as you confess and repent

>>22321765
All of them are tranny enablers. There is no anti trans philosopher because trannyism is a prerequisite for becoming a philosopher.

>>22317370
Challenge a mathematician - he will respond with a proof. Challenge a scientist - he will respond with facts. Challenge a philosopher - he will respond with an infantile insult. This is the pinnacle of a 3000 year intellectual tradition. Embarrassing.

>>22305028
>>22305032
>>22305034
You guys only tell me this after I just bought it?

>Buy “The Yellow Peril”(1983) by Revilo Oliver
>It’s more about da jooz than asians

>>22215733
>How to read a book
>Author: some writing styles will not suit you
>I dislike author's overly-repetitive style
>Litcel: you didn't understand the book

>>22206624
Challenge a mathematician - he will respond with a proof. Challenge a scientist - he will respond with facts. Challenge a philosopher - he will respond with an infantile insult. This is the pinnacle of a 3000 year intellectual tradition. Embarrassing.

1. Avoiding pain is not a moral "ought". You don't pull your hand away from the not stove due to philosophical daydreams, you pull it away because that's a heckin instinct, preprogrammed by your genes. An animal, a human NPC or a sufficiently trained robot would do the same, and we can all agree that those are incapable of morality.
2. There does exist a universal ought. You ought to accept logical arguments. Nothing about logic itself implies that you cannot reject it. Yet rejecting logic is immoral in an a priori sense.

>start reading some relatively modern philosophical work
>the author starts namedropping philosophers and their works left and right
>does this throughout the whole book
yeah I think philosophy is garbage

>>22169196
>image
Yeah, you're not obligated to be the same person as you were five minutes ago, but you have the inertia of habit, your preexisting neural architecture, your memories, and the social pressure to retain a consistent character, all of which amount to something much more forceful than an obligation.
I get that Watts was popular specifically because he offered these vague platitudes to boomers, but this quote is retarded and everybody who's been alive more than five minutes knows it.

My boss is a 25 year old grad student and she lends me books. She's lent me Down the River, Wisdom Sits in Places, the Ecological Indian, and The Last Taxi Driver. I lent her my copy of Gravity's Rainbow and she said it was "confusing".