/lit/ - Literature

the intellectual fraud scale of integrity, top being better
>Jordan B Peterson (probably not a hack)
>a typical charismatic impersonator making things up
>Richard Dawkins (biologist trying to forge a career as a theologian)
>used car salesman
>Varg Vikernes (paranoid quack - for reference)
>a clueless diversity hire
>Noam Chomsky (linguist pretending at being an economist/sociologist with only superficial knowledge of either/all)
>here be broken clocks
>literal paid shills
>Paul Krugman (famously and consistently wrong)

>>17549218
I'm at the end of all thought now that I've read and understood Cioran. He is the Exit door, so to speak. I am free from all concern and strife. Free from the fear of death, free from the need for meaning. All my supposed dreams were burdens this whole time. My world is mine too use, waste, gamble, or protect. Politics are irrelevant now. The future is irrelevant. My life, irrelevant. I'm not coping. I was doing well before Cioran and I'm doing "better" after, if those words mean anything. I am free from meaning. I couldn't go back if I tried.

>>15588644
>every white author has the same opinions and ideas
mid-wit idea desu

>>15307737
How can I write to Uncle Ted and is it even possible when I don't live in the US?

Because reading by using my eyes is doing an action rather than sitting still for an hour or two listening to something like in a lecture which usually gets me agitated after a while, also, I like looking at words.

>>12277175
Sure, if the game you're playing is giving you some food for thought which ends up with you writing stuff then why the fuck not?

>>10302972

When did /lit/ get so woke

wrote something people actually liked

>>6868475
>Don't know why I expected much else from 4chan.

mfw you don't deny being a women
mfw I was right

>>6852454

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8th U.S. History Teacher

I'm content with writing short stories (some historical pieces) and sharing it with friends, family, and a handful of colleagues.

I might keep the male family tradition in my family going; writing an autobiography before kicking the bucket.

>>6571847

I would find out who the English advisor, History advisor, and Education advisor is, and schedule an appointment to meet with them. This will clear up any questions you have. Also, the advisors will create a semester by semester plan for you.

Good luck though amigo, it's a very rewarding lifestyle/career. Not going to lie, it will be hard work the first few years you start, but once you have a nice collection of lesson plans created, you can recycle them with ease. In other words, the job gets easier the longer you do it.

Honestly, most myths and heroic legends are pretty accessible. Beowulf, the Tain, The Iliad and the Odyssey would all be good things for people to read, good strong role models in the shape of a cultural hero in some way or other. It would also promote a sense of healthy cultural awareness.

Having kids read Orwell, Huxley, Hemingway, I think turns them into clever Reddit-tier witticism creators. Modernist/science fiction is relatively new, and I think as a result it would be better for them to read something that's kind of... I don't know - pure? Unironic? Bold?

I do dislike this trend of having the hero be some wallflower with a big heart, it seems pandering to lazy disaffected teenagers to me.

>tfw casual
>tfw literally started reading books
>tfw finished 2 books
>tfw cant wait to read next one


god what a great feel

ITT: Literary mindfucks general

~~~~~~~~~~possible spoilers below~~~~~~~~~

>One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Bromden gets caught after the novel ends and narrates the events of Cuckoo's Nest from the mental institution
>>"I been away a long time" means put away in the hospital
>>Only characters in the first chapter are Ratched, aides, and Bromden
>>Various tense changes in the text

>Slaughterhouse Five: The Tralfamadorians are Billy Pilgrim's coping mechanism against his memories of the horrors he witnessed in war
>>"[Upon arrival at the German POW camp] Billy blacked out as he walked through gate after gate. He came to what he thought might be a building on Tralfamadore. It was shrilly lit and lined with white tiles. It was on Earth, though. It was a delousing station through which all new prisoners had to pass. Billy did as he was told, took off his clothes. That was the first thing they told him to do on Tralfamadore, too."
>>I can't find the passage, but there's a point where Vonnegut describes one of Kilgore Trout's science fiction novels that has aliens that look like the Tralfamadorians.
>>>This is also in the hospital, which he stays at after having an unpleasant experience with a war flashback at a function for him and his wife.
>>>It's worth noting if one follows the chronology of his life he starts time travelling around this point as well

An aside, there's nothing Kurt Vonnegut does that tickles me as much as his general use of romantic irony
>mfw "An American near Billy wailed that he had excreted everything but his brains. Moments later he said, 'There they go, there they go.' He meant his brains. That was I. That was me. That was the author of this book."

>>4045305

>>4037158

You write very interestingly, you know that?

Still hegel was a state philosopher in prussia in the early 19th century. Of course he played it safe with regards to anything pertaining to the state. Marx could go where Hegel could not.

>>3766787

>capitalism woud be goned by now
>If communism wasn't totally bullshit

toplel

>>3745480
>can't into logical analysis

Hello, /lit/. I was wondering if some of you had read any of these books, and what your opinion on them was:

>Romance with cocaine (Raman s kakainom) -- M. Ageyev
>The Island -- Aldous Huxley
>Journey to the end of the night -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
>The World as Will and Representation (Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung) -- Arthur Schopenhauer
>'Whatever'/(Extension du domaine de la lutte) OR The Elementary Particles/Atomised (Les Particules élémentaires) -- Michel Houellebecq
>Ik, Jan Cremer (I, Jan Cremer) -- Jan Cremer

Thanks in advance.

Ahahah what the fuck am I reading

>>2431754
>self-hating male feminist
>have some self-respect

>>2426267
lol I've been seeing this alot, people actually putting there name in the name field, well hello there bobby I'm actually surprised you didn't actually put your email in the email field:O