/lit/ - Literature

>>8967385
I wish I was a much better writer, but I would have to write more to do that. And every time I read my writing I hold backspace for a bit and slowly exhale. I can't even post on my favorite Peloponnesian waifu rating forum, because I know my opinion will either fall on dogmatic deaf ears or they'll just be another cupped hand in a circlejerk.

>>8947450
zozzle

>when you don't know whether to say Luykidas or Lissidiss

>>6086595
>Anyone else here have zero friends?
me, for years. I cannot say I had friends, well dear friends since middle school. I had a few friends in college but we went all apart now, and I was never truly a core member of the pack.
>How does this affect your life, in your opinion?
Well I have been friendless for so long, always actually, so I do not see any impact. From what I gather, it is quite a burden to deal with the maintenance and the problems they bring. The great drawback is that you are not aware of what you must be. Say there is an activity that is relevant to you, you would probably miss it if you do not take an active position in knowing what goes on in the world. To have friends allows you to chill a bit, since you can rely on them. The best illustration is the situation of a move from one flat to another. You would expect your friend to help you on this, by taking the appliances and what not, by helping to get a moving van etc. Since you are alone, you must do it all by yourself such as finding the moving company on your own as you cannot rely on word of mouth, in taking a leap of faith; you must also protect your furniture. To find a good restaurants, you must go online and read reviews (on fora). It is quite time-consuming at first, but once you find good sources, it becomes a lot easier. To have friends brings you randomness, spontaneity to your life. To be friendless, you must add this component yourself, if you need it.


Not to have friends is a lot of reasoning, mistrust, anticipation, schedule, finances. It is serious business. A lot of finances since you delegate some activities to private companies. For this, naturally, you must know yourself and on how the world works from a lot of personal analysis. Imagine to live without parents, well how do you enter into the worlds, how do you the know how the world functions ?

All these were materialistic problems. On the mental side, you have less problems, far more time for you, far more quietude. If there is a difficulty, I go to a specialized forum and ask for clarification. I see the internet as a wider real medium. The Real life is not really special.

>>4753859
>tfw walking through bookstore with qt casual gf and as we pass a The Fault in Our Stars display she mentions offhandedly that she thinks john green is very overrated

>>4573760
>he missed a comma
>I'll just act like I'm so dumb I can't discern his intended meaning, that'll show him

>aren't I clever

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>>4519603

Hey /lit/. It's my first time posting here. I looked through your wiki, but I feel your personal opinions might help me out more. See, I have $20 to my name at the moment, and I would like to purchase a book. I haven't read a novel in a few years, the last one being A Clockwork Orange. What novel should I purchase?

>tl;dr got 20 dollas need a book.

>How can Nietzsche say both X and Y if X is the opposite of Y?

>>4177408
American Psycho was bad.

>>4152028
I read, loved, and understood (to an extent) DFW

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>>4052230
House on fucking Mango Street, man.

>>4046215
It's the fresh new art movement. Spread the word.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamodernism

>>3586569
That's nice.

"Harness Bells", of course, allude to "Sleighing Song", a popular Christmas tune of the time the poem was written in which the refrain "Jingle Bells! Jingle Bells!" appears; thus again are we put on the Christmas track.

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>>2800141
I'm going to burn it as soon as it arrives

>>2773443

I will murder you in your sleep

>inb4 Wayward Son starring James Franco, coming in 2014

>>2440199
>the model is only a guesstimate.

LOL I guess assembly language is a guesstimate as well. I guess the changes we do to the brain of a rat which makes it move a different way or THINK a different way is a guesstimate as well...

>This is how we've been able to trace chromosomal bases to certain genetic mental disorders. But those are "large" genetic differences with a wide variety of differentiation of traits with numerous symptoms and effects. That's not the same thing as social aspects like language acquisition and shit like that. Look up and study a little bit about Williams Syndrome to get an idea of where I'm coming from.

I'm not even talking about genetics. Genetics just sets the initial conditions, I'm talking about the adult brain and how different things effect it. It's just a complex machine like anything else.

I had an American Lit professor who didn't teach Fitzgerald just because she didn't like his stories.

Oh well, I'll just refuse to teach my students Faulkner, so whatever

what are some good spanish language books that are relatively easy to read?

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