/lit/ - Literature

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A story is good to the extent that it forces a painful reimagination of life itself.

Otherwise we are slavishly bound to ornamenting an existing idea about being.

I do not mean to say that our current understanding of life is necessarily untrue. Rather, I insist that discovering what life truly is necessarily involves suffering.

The kind of suffering which great stories inflict is suffering upon the spirit.

The spirit suffers precisely when it is called to an order of ideas which it is forced to recognize as more true.

The phrasing "more true" is critical. Good reading (and good writing) is a dynamism which never ends.

Life, truly understood, is a series of shattering losses.

Walt Whitman and Hart Crane

Hell Yeah!!!!!

FUCK THIS BOARD!!!!

Im leaving too. You all deserve each other!

LiT iS GAy aNd POorLY MoDERateD!

>>13030405
Its one of the more memorable and fertile events in the novel. It lends itself to a great world of interpretation in its symbolism.

Good when ordered as the effective cause of birth, and thus a sign of hope in worldly life.

Bad when ordered as pursuit of pleasure.

Oh man, how ironic.

Suppose a man thinks it is good to determine for himself what is good. Would he then will tyranny of the self on other selves?

It is bad enough to suffer beneath the tyranny of the self. Now imagine you have to suffer the general will of a society which would have you do what you like. Or better yet don't imagine. You are living it already.

Gradus ad Parnassum, Fux

>>13024996
You have problems.

Recall that poems and songs often existed many centuries before being written. Recall that some of the poetry fragments extant in exg. the Rg Veda, Homer, the Song of Deborah, are perhaps three or four thousand years old, or more.

Consider that line breaks indicate something long beford printing presses or scribe transmissions.

The line is akin to the musical phrase. It is an elementary and essential aspect of speech and human thought, both of which occur in finite units.

The fascinating thing is that the sentence is actually a much newer descendent of the poetical line.

Thats a pretty cool drawing

>>12952895
Definitely In Cold Blood. Thats a page turner if I ever read one, and a neat blending of fiction and non fiction.

He put a lot of research into it, but a lot of its scenes are completely imaginary.

Its kind of funny because its kind of true. One associates mega churches and self help paperbacks with certain Protestant movements.

But there is plenty of Catholic writing that has this kind of sentimental approach. I would imagine there is Orthodox writing like this too, but the Orthodox Church has the pleasure of being less prominent in America, so they are less visibly drawn to books about How to Make it in America Using Jesus.

There is enormous depth in all of the Christian traditions. Key word is tradition.

Certain people have a developed curiosity on philosophy.

A developed curiosity is a natural curiosity which has been discliplined into a force of habit which guides a person's activity.

Probably nearly nobody has ever read such a difficult work on a whim. But many are drawn into taking on such a difficult project because they have already jumped many hurtles, and this is the next one they see before them.

>>12931750
It's a form of adultery, it often involves exploitation, and in its present form redirects the sexual impulse into an abstract fantasy world completely devoid of love, human contact or the possibility of childbirth. It also encourages perversions, which can approach idoloatary in the extent to which individuals pursue certain sex acts as the organizing principle of their lives.

Admiring human beauty in the abstract is distinct from lusting after particular bodies.

A man goes around and has some thoughts, narrated in first person.

OP is either a moron, a teenager or both.

Whelp, I should have figured it would only be a matter of time before Mr. Schuon showed up here.

I suppose I can look forward to every thinker I find refreshing, insightful, encouraging and influential to be casually memed and caricatured into a fragmentary shadow of whatever they actually were/are in book, deed and life.

Schuon, I think, has written on technology as tending towards maximal possibility of instrumentalizing human evil.

It is difficult to not feel that is so given the extent and degradation of pornography, the disintegration of serious engagement with ideas and their replacement with ridiculous memes or superficial Wikipedia renderings, the vulgarity of culture in general, the callous thrill with which people watch others get slaughtered on live video feed...

What a horrible time to be alive. Truth was never harder to see.

I had a drafting course at community college which was a great intro to the subject.

Sir Bannister Fletchers textbook in older additions can be found for like 10 dollars, and it has hundreds of pages of floorplans, historical, pragmatic and aesthetic comments.

Vitruvius wrote the classical study on the subject.

Don Luis is one of the most interesting characters in history. He was a Powhatan Indian who saw Mexico City and met Charles V in Spain, single handedly ended Spanish claims to the Chesapeake, and may have even participated in fighting the British at Jamestown. Some say he was the same person as the nearly hundred year old Opechancanough, brother of Chief Powhatan.

I read about him in "A Land as God Made It" which is a very exciting (but still scholarly and restrained) history of Jamestown. Highly recommend it!

>>12927720
Thats a good point. The Venezuela coverage has been crazy since the Chavez/Bush days.

The insane amount of negative press regarding Corbyn's supposed anti-Semitism comes to mind as well. And the press certainly seemed to be ruthlessley opposed to Bernie Sanders in 2016.

I suppose it's still a player, the anti-Communism. Noam said in an interview that he wanted to use a more general term for this, I forget what, and that Herman preferred to focus on anti-Communism specifically.

There are definitely ideological forces at work in media production, which would involve much more theoretical approaches in order to study, of the sort Noam has always avoided.

Rhythm is something you gradually get a sense for in reading poems.

There are usually multiple ways to interpret where the stresses fall in excerpted lines, but in the broader context of a poem (and poetry in general) it becomes clear where the heartbeat thumps.

It drove me insane when trying to read about it in the abstract, and while my reading skills are still basic, I can definitely testify to a continuous improvement in sensing rhythm simply gained from reading poems.

Iambic pentameter is NOT 10 syllable lines.

It is five FEET which are mostly iambs, but may be trochees, dachtyls or spondees, typically with non-iambs falling on the last foot.

Hart Crane, interestingly enough, wrote in 10 syllable lines approximating pentameter.

>>12926007
Nevermind, you dont matter at all and neither does your opinion or me and mine so let us both agree to refrain from talking about anything ever again because the result will be the same either way (which is that, in 10 billion years or fewer, earth will be annihilated and nothing will be extant which can testify to our existence in any capacity whatever).