/lit/ - Literature

if any one says infinite jest i will infinitely snigger and not in jest.

dermaphoria by craig clevenger was a beautiful work of words imo

>>4456884
Harry Potter 1

>>4456891
perf

when i was crazy i thought i wrote it and my mother sold it to jk rowling and that's why the rest of the books were pure swill

Mirrors Of My Eyes: A Trip To The Never Ending Bookstore With Jaden Smith

>>4456884
That is a fucking koan.

billy lynn's long half-time walk

>>4456884
Jaden Smith is the greatest thinker of our time

>>4456884
https://twitter.com/steveroggenbuck

>>4456897
>when i was crazy i thought i wrote it and my mother sold it to jk rowling and that's why the rest of the books were pure swill

what

>>4456897

>>4456958
i still think it's probably true tbh

The Iliad

>>4456966
*tips fedora*

>>4456930
that dude sucks.

>>4456920
it's actually true.

Cancer Ward

>>4456993
is there a reason why you pick that

Witz

Dean Young in poetry. He will be known as the master of neo-surrealist poetry in 10 years.

2666

Jaden Smith represents the future of philosophy.

>>4457034
the future is the future of future.

>>4457039
This post represents the future of philosophy also.

When I Die. Then You Will Realize
- Jaden Smith

>>4457053

As opposed to figuratively amazing ofcourse

>>4457055
>what is emphasizing

Neuromaani by Yli-Juonikas.

Altho he has a new book on the way.

>>4457057

>not what you think it is

cuntwarrior

>>4457061
tard

>>4457057
If people emphasize does that mean that the power of emphasis isn't the same anymore?

Pale King is the most recent masterpiece. I wouldn't know if it was the last.

>>4457063

so then Jaden in fact thought the Hunger Games wasnt amazing? That's what you're saying.

>>4457068
are you literally retarded?

>>4457063

Or to put it in a way that you might understand:

>I literally had cereal for breakfast this money

Is wrong, because I did in fact have cereal for breakfast this morning.

>I had literally 4 gallons of milk with my cereal this morning

Is emphasis as you mentioned, emphasising that I had a lot of milk in my cereal, while I did not in fact have 4 gallons of milk with my cereal.


U SEE?

>>4457071
No, figuratively.

I literally have keks while reading his tweets

>>4457082

I wonder if Will Smith is ashamed of him, and himself for creating him, or that he is just as ignorant of Jaden's stupidity.

>>4457077
he's emphasizing how amazing it was. are you just generally slow or what?

>>4457085
The whole family is scientologist, I've seen a couple of interviews where Will sounds just as retarded when he has to talk about things beyond movies and social events.

Kid never stood a chance.

>>4457008
>Dean Young
Thanks for the recommendation, Dean Young

>>4457085
If I was his dad I'd probably be ok with what he thinks, since he's only a kid you know, he doesn't know what's what yet, but I'd feel bad for him since people take it seriously and it establishes his reputation. I would be afraid that in the future people would see his 15 year old self and not who he is then. I've probably said a lot of dumb shit when I was 15 too, but it never got any exposure.

His friends say some equally weird shit.

>>4457085
if what you said when you were 14 was not mostly wrong, you probably didn't think for yourself

>>4457096

He doesnt need to rec his work on an obnoxious imageboard. That dude is a professor, an oldman who is already famous, faggot.

>>4457097

Any reasonable dad would keep his kids sheltered but Will Smith basicly put his kids into the public, to make them famous just like himself.
This is why I think Will Smith must also be really fucking stupid and barely realise how stupid Jaden really sounds.

I may have been a total idiot when I was 15, but never "how can mirrors be real if our eyes arent real" stupid. That's a whole new level.

>>4457102

You're not supposed to think for yourself. You're supposed to get educated by listening to your teachers and doing schoolwork.
If every child was left to himself to figure out the world around him, we'd still be fucking cavemen.

Also, did you REALLY say things like "how can mirrors be real if our eyes arent real" at 14, or even 8???

>>4457104
You are actually an idiot. How embarrassing.

>>4457111
>You're not supposed to think for yourself. You're supposed to get educated by listening to your teachers and doing schoolwork.
kek

>>4457101

>yfw

>>4457116


I presume you postulated yourself that the Earth goes around the Sun, right?
You taught yourself how to read your /lit/?
I bet you never went to school, or always wore earplugs when the teacher was talking?

If kids are left to themselves to explain the world around them, they get Jaden level stupidity.

Dimly lit, I read in my study. I kept mostly to myself now, after a recent event I felt no need to communicate with others -- what purpose would it bring me, what could they offer that I, in my new being, do not already know?

A knock on the door, and I welcome the visitor.
"Hello Jaden, it's been some time," he greets me. "Indeed it has." "Well, I was just stopping by, wanted to tell you happy 15th birthday." I put my book down, took a deep breath and looked up. "I turned 15 a long time ago," I uttered. Stunned, he said nothing, truly the word of an erudite, what could he possibly say now? And without words he took his leave.

>>4457107
I don't know man, any kid nowadays can have a twitter. I never said shit like that when I was 15, but he thinks he's profound so he probably feels the need to say profound-sounding shit, he just hasn't developed critical reasoning yet.
>>4457115
Mfw life exists on other planets but not intelligent life, so your pic is a work of fiction.

>>4457123
>thinking for yourself means you don't believe anything else
you're really this stupid, aren't you?

>>4457127

Maybe I was just a lot smarter than you at 14, because I didnt spout Jaden level stupidity all day under the guise of "thinking for myself".

>>4457139
sure anon, sure

>tfw at 14 i participated in a poetry contest with the motto 'indifference is the apogee of perfection'
>tfw i won 2nd prize
>tfw now i think it's retarded

I was smarter than any of you lot here anyway

>>4457139
You're actually arguing with a 14 year old right now bro, can't you realise?

>>4457141

>mfw you actually DID say stuff like "how can mirrors be real if our eyes arent real" at that age.

You guys went to a different school than I did so thankfully I wasn't exposed to it. I am however dissappointed to find out that you frequent the same imageboard as I do...

>>4457143
>I was smarter than any of you lot here anyway
Oh that's a real accomplishment, here, have your trophy

>>4457148
>still at it
you were stupid as a child, you still are now, and you'll still be when you die. have fun there

>>4456963
You did. Don't repress the truth.

>>4457152

You as a 14 year old (that's the age kids start to learn calculus) genuinely believed your eyes, and mirrors too, weren't real. Yet you have the audacity to call me stupid.

>>4457166
see
>>4457145

Just chill, you're being gently rused.

>>4457166
literally all your replies to me have been strawman arguments, so you obviously can't into logic. hell, you even convinced yourself that i thought my eyes weren't real. you might be stupid, but you have hell of a delusion nurtured there to keep you safe and happy.

>>4457143
>indifference is the apogee of perfection
impressed

what could a 14yo possible know about indifference or perfection tho

>>4457181
>implying all 14yo are as stupid as you were ;0

>>4457143
>winning at poetry contests
>ending up on /lit/
scornful laughter

>>4457143
>indifference is the apogee of perfection
How long did it take you to come up with that just to post something on this thread?

http://youtu.be/PFOBd0TWgws

he's quite a cool guy

Aristotle's Metaphysics

Everything else is plebeian.

>>4457115
>All humanoid lifeforms have a common ancestor
>which may have been the fist intelligent species in the galaxy
>terraforming inhospitable planets and seeding them

we Evangelion now

Retched Realizations: My Wednesday Morning

>>4456896
Oh my god I just chortled milk up my nose.

>>4457054

lol what

>>4456993
Is Cancer Ward Solzhenitsyn's best novel?

Master Jaden meets Mateo, a MSFT that was a fourth-rate actor in his previous, lay life. He was rough and hot tempered. Such people are often great MSFTS because their need to be mellow is great. Mateo greeted the Master thus: "Congratulations on the anniversary of your birth." When the Master did not respond, Mateo asked if he was not excited about becoming fifteen years of age.

The Master instructs him to refrain from thinking and blank his mind. After a considerable time the Master uttered "I turned fifteen a long time ago."

Mateo was suddenly enlightened.

>>4456896

>>4456884

>>4457054
obviously a nod to the power of books and how, in that fleeting moment where we are completely at their mercy, they are the closest we may ever come to immortality.

>>4457125
spot fucking on
i remember fantasizing about situations like that when I was like 11 but geez at 15 jaden should've grown out of that by now

>>4456884
How to squat by Slav King.

>>4457054
2deep

>>4459747
cool screencap /b/ro you should share it on reddit

>>4459754
>that is pol

How Can Mirror N Real?

the road

gilgamesh

>>4457393

>implying philosophy did not make its biggest leaps in the 20th century

>>4457096
I also like him. His essay is interesting also. The recommendation is seconded, read away!

>>4461434
witty don decker please remove yo delf