/lit/ - Literature

>It's summer on a cool, isolated Canadian beach
>you are me, dipping your toes in the sand
>breathe in the salt air while an aesthetic fog rolls across the other end of the cove
>Zizekian coca-cola in a glass bottle in one hand, you polish up Being and Event to the sound of the waves
>You brought Totality and Infinity and the Platform Sutra with you just for this inevitability
>but for now, you watch the ebb and flow of the tide while you mull over the transcendent knowledge at your fingertips, knowing STEMfags will never understand this special feeling
>and just then, you think you hear the distant sounds of a galloping horse, as the free spirit of Godiva races ever onwards towards you in two-scene love, your very own Truth-event

>>12584169
>implying the Tractatus isn't top tier obscurantism
cute

>>12584220
>Godiva
...like Lady Godiva
I'm gonna go, go, go
There's no stopping me
I'm burnin' through the sky, yeah
Two hundred degrees
That's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit
I'm traveling at the speed of light
I wanna make a supersonic man out of you
Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time
I'm having a ball
Don't stop me now
If you wanna have a good time, just give me a call
Don't stop me now ('cause I'm having a good time)
Don't stop me now (yes, I'm havin' a good time)
I don't want to stop at all
Yeah, I'm a rocket ship on my way to Mars
On a collision course
I am a satellite, I'm out of control
I am a sex machine, ready to reload
Like an atom bomb about to
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh explode
I'm burnin' through the sky, yeah
Two hundred degrees
That's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit
I'm traveling at the speed of light
I wanna make a supersonic woman of you
Don't stop me, don't stop me
Don't stop me, hey, hey, hey
Don't stop me, don't stop me
Ooh ooh ooh, I like it
Don't stop me, don't stop me
Have a good time, good time
Don't stop me, don't stop me, ah
Oh yeah
Alright
Oh, I'm burnin' through the sky, yeah
Two hundred degrees
That's why they call me Mister Fahrenheit
I'm traveling at the speed of light
I wanna make a supersonic man out of you
Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time
I'm having a ball
Don't stop me now
If you wanna have a good time (wooh)
Just give me a call (alright)
Don't stop me now ('cause I'm having a good time, yeah yeah)
Don't stop me now (yes, I'm havin' a good time)
I don't want to stop at all
La da da da daah
Da da da haa
Ha da da ha ha haaa
Ha da daa ha da da aaa
Ooh ooh ooh

>>12584254
Ironic, he got wrecked by aids

>>12584232
This. OP's approach might have merit, but citing that book makes him look like a dumbass. That book has the obscurantism and intellectual rigor of ancient Greek cosmologists with the dry and excessively analytical aspects of modern philosophers. That Wittgenstein's later work is so disparate and largely incompatible with it and that even Wittgenstein's strongest defenders must sort to considering it as anything but the truth should be telling.

One should take from it what one might take from Nietzsche's poetic style: not so much as truth, but entering that of a deep mind in their perspective on profound subjects, which can often be more interesting than the truth, yet has a worse deficiency to more rigorous speculations where the merit is in the truth value, or at least in fairly analyzing questions even if the answers are suspect, than fiction has to non-fiction, as there is little conflation in a person's mind with what is truth and what is beautiful expressed and thought after reading fiction, but people are apt to believe questionable ideas well-expressed than truth in plain and unassuming dress.

>>12584302
Jesus what a sentence

>>12584321
Ah! You didn’t know? A man of literary style writes a paragraph as a single sentence. This is justified because all the sentences relate to a single idea, so the comma splices are necessary for the literary man.

>>12584321
>what is truth and what are fancies beautifully expressed and uniquely imagined after reading fiction
Typo is corrected and more detail is added. Clearer? One should first aim for truth, then precision, then clarity, then grace in language, and my greatest fault in writing is that I naturally pursue the first, second, and fourth objects while considering clarity of lesser importance, which may impede the understanding of what I write.

>>12584359
Your greatest fault is that you are, anon, retarded

>>12584350
I can't help it. Perhaps I need to relearn how to write, and perhaps my taste in style is corrupt, or, (more likely), my capacity is not equal to fulfilling the requirements of my favored style.
Even Johnson I think bit off more than he could chew with the following sentence, but still remarkable is the unity despite its length, which is largely justified.

>That writer may be justly condemned as an enemy to goodness, who suffers fondness or interest to confound right with wrong, or to shelter the faults which even the wisest and the best have committed from that ignominy which guilt ought always to suffer, and with which it should be more deeply stigmatized when dignified by its neighbourhood to uncommon worth, since we shall be in danger of beholding it without abhorrence, unless its turpitude be laid open, and the eye secured from the deception of surrounding splendour.
>>12584366
Verbosity is equivalent to retardation, or is necessarily symptomatic of it? I am not convinced, but I am open to persuasion.

>>12584366
and also gay.

>>12584385
How do I get hair like this without looking like a gay?

>>12584398
take a time machine back to the 80's.

>>12584398
I've got a head of hair like that. Not so gay. I hope. Please, God.

>>12584485
Perm and all? Long hair isn't so bad as long it doesn't have that kind of severe taper with the obvious perm. Protip, if you want long hair as a dude, always keep the front as long as, or longer than the back. Makes you look and feel 10 years younger.