/lit/ - Literature

>>20477716
>get an idea
>just write down what I have for the plot in my head
>no outline at all
>my brain is the outline, nigga

>>16288726
It's a progression, and parts of any well written book will still go over your head. Books that I felt made me a stronger reader:

>American Psycho - when I was very young
>infinite Jest - god I hated it but def put hair on my chest
>The Brothers Karamazov - I always struggled with dosto but suddenly it was all clear to me. The idiot and notes from underground I read before, and they went right over my head

I read Moby Penis earlier this year and had no problem with it, loved it too. Just finished gravitys rainbow and it was beautiful. Glad I saved them for later in life. Now I'm gozing to livestream my suicide because there's nothing left.

My ability to express my writing skill is a tad sharper on the computer than it is with a writing utensil on paper. I have a feeling it's because of the speed, but it's also because I use the computer too much.

I recall that Nietzsche's writing style changed, subtly, when he became proficient with the typewriter

I can imagine a future where handwriting is considered primitive. In the far future we probably won't even have to type, but it'll instead be an interface between the brain and the computer.

>>10029819

>I remember saying "there it is, there's the madness" while punching the ground.

How can you call this a bad trip? These are the best moments you can have while on psychedelics. To lose your mind is to lose all sense of mental limits, to elevate yourself from the hideous and depressing mental complexes that have developed over the years.

To realize you've lost it all and to feel as though the depression and anxiety are ridiculous and useless concepts is the funniest thing and you'll find yourself laughing endlessly.

But then again you do come down, and your return to normalcy makes you realize that the behaviors and negative thoughts that pervade in your mind are serious and have a high degree of influence over you. Psychedelics don't absolutely teach you how to banish them.

Now I love psychedelics, but whenever I hear of people preaching enlightenment from them I think that most of the time they mistake jacking off for sacred knowledge. They mistake being a nonsensical hedonist for gaining divine knowledge.

Don't get me wrong, there is definitely something to be perceived and learned in the realm of the spiritual, the psyche, and your body, and wherever your interests may lie. But it is not to be indulged in because after a certain point what you gain from it ceases to give anymore.

Unorganized rambling on Psychedelics

>>8855657

>Canada and the US were considered shitty junk land for a long time, the real prizes were thought to be where they grew sugar cane, tobacco and so on, so the West Indes, Caribbean, S America etc.

Holy shit you're stupid. The whole point of the southern colonies was to grow cash crops. You can grow tobacco in Virginia, you can grow rice in the Carolinas, you can can grow cotton in Mississippi. That's why they imported so many black africans to the south, to use as field laborers. A negro buck in good working condition cost about $1,000, that would be five years wages in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. Think of how profitable your farm would have to be to afford that kind of "human capital." And it wasn't just the south, men from New England made an absolute fortune in whaling, manufacturing, and banking.

This is why you shouldn't try to learn history by reading novels.

I'll open your guts

>>8642377

Don't believe the Marxist lies OP

>>8638540

Am I talking to a commie by any chance?

I have a work that's sitting at 20k words, which I haven't touched since last year.

Why?

Because it's genre (sci-fi) fiction, and /lit/ talked me out of it because of it.

Now I waste my time writing philosophical aphorisms.

>>8183979

Beyond Good and Evil
Human, All Too Human
The Last Days of Socrates
Ulysses
The World as Will and Representation (Vols. 1&2)

Before: https://archive.today/YzkIS

After: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School#Cultural_Marxism_conspiracy_theory

It's trash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lbece7RqZU

(((((Modern Art)))))

>>8111014

>Essays and Aphorisms (Schopenhauer)
>Beyond Good and Evil
>Plato's Republic