/lit/ - Literature

>erstwhile

Which alcoholic beverages and tobacco products—and in what quantities—ought I to consume in order to optimize my brainal thought processes for maximal reading and writing prowess?

Hey anons I'm a retard trying to be less of a retard, what are some great basic culture books? I'm talking like economy, politics, religion, history, philosophy, etc. Books that you would enforce the reading of.

Just read them all at the same time.

>>19748860
>when you go back to a text you struggled with after some months and can read it with ease.
that's the real feeling right there

>>18955498
>Meaning is a prison
>Embrace the meaninglessness and become your own master
Has to be bait

>>18889477
Flashcards. This way I never forget and in a few years I will have the biggest brain on Earth.

>>18847466
>>18847417
Better options for /lit/ 2021 meetup:
>Pukchang Concentration Camp, Best Korea
>Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, Antarctica
>The ISS
>47°9′S 123°43′W
>Alpha Centauri A
Only the truest, most dedicated of /lit/izens will have the will power to make the journey, thus filtering out all the weak-minded, beta, pseudo-intellectuals.

>>18778837

>Memorize every Latin + Greek root word
>Know every possible English word

>>18019537
Do you seek wisdom?

>>17955660
>science "fiction"

>>17871239
Big brain take anon

>mfw I just realized that there is no necessary connection between the structure of thought and the structure of the world which renders 99.9% of abstract thought and political debate obsolete and irrelevant from the point of view of effecting change in the real world
are there any books that elaborate on this idea? to my mind it basically BTFOs the entire 2500 years of philosophy in the West. were there any philosophers with the similar idea?

I've reached the state of knowledge that transcends the possibility of articulating it in language.

>>17456029
ISV

Time’s a growing block
The past is on the clock
If not a growing block
Then Time can suck my cock.

>Someone mentions Hegel
>Immediately reply "Hegel didn't say that"

>>17305841
I am not competing with them. They are my literary colleagues.

Been reading the Greeks all summer, taking an Ancient Greek philosophy course, already feeling bigger brained. I know it’s dunning Krueger and I really don’t know anything but it feels good to be starting out

>anime is deep

> The Art of War

What do you guys think of presocratics like the miletians, Heraclitus, and Parmenides? All of their takes on monism are somewhat interesting, as is the idea of the first principal. I was also wondering if anyone was learned on Parmenides and could explain his poem about the two different ways. Namely, what is the consequence of everything being “what-is” and the concept of “nothing” not existing?