/lit/ - Literature

Congratulations, anon you just discovered topology and retracts.

>>11529708
its almost like combinations of things become different things entirely.

>>11529714
i don't believe you

>>11529714
>>11529713

Scramble the dictionary 1,000,00000 times and you get the holy bible but the main character is mickey mouse and his home is the dragons lair from Tolkein

Scramble it another 1,00,00000,00838 times and you get albert camus’ the stranger but he shoots a whale instead of an arab

Scramble it AGAIN. And the whale in moby dick is now an arab

>your face when

That would imply every word is only used once in a book, and that every word in the dictionary is present in that book.

Great thinking Einstein

>>11529724
U high bro?

>my face when when

>>11529732
Just because i am critical thinking doesn’t mean i’m h- Ok yes

>>11529708
did baby read his first jorge luis borges?

>>11529724
>every explanation already exists we just need to order the words correctly

why are we not doing this? fuck scientists, we should use super computers to generate the cure to cancer

>>11529708
Borges pls

If you keep following this thought OP, you'll eventually be writing literature as higher dimensional kernels of a recursive abstract semantic space of dimensionality = [unique word count].

>every piece of life is just proteins folded
Woah..
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-a6JPEFg3lg

>>11529708

Stop this, they're onto us

>every thought you have ever had is the same few dozen words used in differing arrangements

>>11530309
Protein can't explain consciousness

>>11529724

there is a specific scrambling of the dictionary that tells the exact story of your life, everything you've ever thought, and an accurate prediction of exactly what will take place in every single day of the rest of your life

i've read this thread and now i'm woke, thanks guys

>the dictionary defines words using other words
>others words are defined using said words
>this loop is repeated ad infinitum
My Foetus Weeps when

>>11529708
>everything that has ever or will ever exist is just atoms scrambled

>>11530836
>light is made of atoms

>when you realize the romantic notion of the author limits all text and must be done away with to liberate it, that nothing is original and all texts are merely a tissue of quotations

>>11529724
This thoght process has fucked me up lads, hopefully it fucks u guys up too

>>11530789
not all definitions use idem per idem structure though, and yes, phenomena exist in relation to other phenomena, so why wouldn't the signs signifying their definitions also function as complexes of others?

>Bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunnt

I think you mean a permutation if the dictionary.

>>11529724
>>11529708
Holy..........I want more

>>11529708
So, you find it strange that sentences are composed of words?

>folds a dictionary in half and sticks a pencil through it

>>11532182
Based.

Holy shit at the pretentious posts. What kind of website is this

>hmpphh, Op, ever heard of sentences? *laugh emoji*

>HAH, get a load of OP, first time hearing about the english language bro?

Just

https://dpaste.de/wDar
https://libraryofbabel.info/browse.cgi

>>11530905
>light exists

>>11530936
Who dat

>>11529708
Show me a dictionary with all the words Joyce uses

How? The dictionary only has about 1 instance of each word, so if you have more words than in the dictionary it won't work; if you have a made up word that never became lexicon it won't work; if you have an outdated or obscure word it might not be in the lexicon; if you have an untranslated foreign word it's probably not in there either.

>>11529708
unless you make up words

>>11529708
Yeah, Georgie.

>>11530789
>the dictionary is indra's net

Oh shit

>>11530789
Shouldn't you be discussing American imperialism with your research assistants, John??

>>11529708
Its not if you make up your own words.

>sitting listening to music
>trying to relax
>associate is reading letter's from his wife
>he hasn't seen her in ages
>he is reading out loud and excitedly telling me banal stories of his wife's domestic duties
>just want to listen to music in peace
>about to tell him to read them to himself
>pause, reflect, realize he needs to tell me these things more than I need to relax
>continue to humor him with small talk about his family

>later
>recounting this story to my brother as an example of self-control when stressed

What's the word for what I am doing when I am telling my brother this anecdote which casts me in a positive light, but I am using it as a genuine means of instruction and help?

>>11533739
Mentoring, parenting, good brother