/lit/ - Literature

tentacle erotica?

/sci/ niggers NOT WELCOME

>>17908315
Rude desu

>>17908315
How long are you going to do this?

Why am I only able to read in spanish while lying down in bed?
Any other place or position and the words lose their meaning, sentences their form and I just cant understand the most basic of sentences

This only happens to me with physical texts I haven't previously read and only with more complicated texts

How do I recognise a line of flight?

>>17908171
cute discount abigail, op

>>17910068
I think you need to take Spanish classes.

Has anyone had any luck with things like Authors Guilds, or forming groups with other authors locally in your area? I always see fellow writers as competition (They're reading his/her books, not mine!) but I want more than solitude sometimes, plus I feel like it'd be easier to get your name out if you had friends backing you up.
I dunno. It feels like other forums on the internet aren't really productive for being anything other than just another username and a few lines of text. I want to do something in the real world. (I'm in the United States if that helps.)

Should I get Shakespeare’s Complete works? I’ve only read a couple of his plays/sonnets in school. Why or why not?

>another /v/eddit thread

>>17908204
Not /lit/
>>17908315
Off-topic post
>>17908699
Don't respond to off-topic posts (only I'm allowed)
>>17909975
See above.
>>17910068
Your Spanish is likely garbage, no offense.
>>17910433
Stop reading 20th century French leftists. It's bad for your brain.
>>17910449
Take your childish cartoon fights to >>>/cartoon/ or wherever children post on this website.
>>17911257
No, that's gay.
>>17911387
Of course. What do you mean why? An adequate literary education includes reading all Shakespeare works and they're not that many anyway.
>>17911397
I don't know if you're referring to this thread or to some thread you observed on the front page before posting this, but I agree these threads are gay, dumb, and a waste of time.

Hope I answered all your stupid questions.

any good books about finance? tried to read reichpoordad, but he sucks himself too much and gives summary after 20 minutes of reading

>>17911652
videos are better
Economics of Money and Banking
https://www.coursera.org/learn/money-banking


https://www.naturalmoney.org/moneyandbanking-02.html
This document contains redacted course notes of the second part of the course Economics of Money and Banking by Professor Perry G. Mehrling of Columbia University in the United States that is available on Coursera.org. This course explains the basics behind money and banking that are essential in understanding the financial system. According to Professor Mehrling, the financial system is about balancing flexibility and discipline.

Professor Mehrling builds on his own background in the history of monetary economics and financial economics. He sees himself in the American tradition of monetary thought that is based on the tradition of British central banking thought. Each generation had to rethink the underlying issues for themselves in order to make sense of the conditions of their own time. The current challenge is to work out the implications of financial globalisation for money, banking and central banking.
The Economics of Money & Banking

The last three or four decades have seen a remarkable evolution in the institutions that comprise the modern monetary system. The financial crisis of 2007-2009 is a wakeup call that we need a similar evolution in the analytical apparatus and theories that we use to understand that system. Produced and sponsored by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, this course is an attempt to begin the process of new economic thinking by reviving and updating some forgotten traditions in monetary thought that have become newly relevant.

Three features of the new system are central.

Most important, the intertwining of previously separate capital markets and money markets has produced a system with new dynamics as well as new vulnerabilities. The financial crisis revealed those vulnerabilities for all to see. The result was two years of desperate innovation by central banking authorities as they tried first this, and then that, in an effort to stem the collapse.

Second, the global character of the crisis has revealed the global character of the system, which is something new in postwar history but not at all new from a longer time perspective. Central bank cooperation was key to stemming the collapse, and the details of that cooperation hint at the outlines of an emerging new international monetary order.

Third, absolutely central to the crisis was the operation of key derivative contracts, most importantly credit default swaps and foreign exchange swaps. Modern money cannot be understood separately from modern finance, nor can modern monetary theory be constructed separately from modern financial theory. That's the reason this course places dealers, in both capital markets and money markets, at the very center of the picture, as profit-seeking suppliers of market liquidity to the new system of market-based credit.
Perry G. Mehrling

>>17911710


https://www.ineteconomics.org/education/courses/the-economics-of-money-banking
YouTube links to download with jdownloader

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZbmfO7rtVLBGJ4Eu_iFBtSU
The Four Prices of Money

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZbVJfl0Se-1eQncA_2ZB4bs
The Natural Hierarchy of Money

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZZyyAkEniNUMTTnlJj6qiKW
Money and the State: Domestic

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZYfVv95KDQWd8-7UrJCJ9Pm
The Money View, Macro and Micro

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZZh6zLsntFVt3UIgQ3VqvVv
The Central Bank as a Clearinghouse

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZapRsqgacn0gLLO-5zQkcwU
Federal Funds, Final Settlement

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZZJrTj6tyB41ollE3V9ICDZ
Repos, Postponing Settlement

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZZ0iHoJmCN30Qm0PgyiD4c9
Eurodollars, Parallel Settlement

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZYdsq2xV-XMH_BktZzORjM2
The World that Bagehot Knew

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZa6t0f1aooC1QzPJmupu1Lg
Dealers and Liquid Security Markets

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZYlJeLypSZ5px_JnVHgFmOq
Banks and the Market for Liquidity

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZaBnW0RhzOOk6FO91MdsSEc
Lender/Dealer of Last Resort

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZa7lHhyQgkwSIhFy9VRF3my
Chartalism, Metallism and Key Currencies

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZZT848wo0fKzpjMm0FcOTv2
Money and the State: International

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZZfzK2aL4YHCgJDHIvicnkZ
Banks and Global Liquidity

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZaxgF-8EmoGUox54zLH6PC6
Foreign Exchange

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZYoo6ou5q3LQBC34hqw1A_G
Direct and Indirect Finance

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZZk--VcZIQCbki7JiVt4-hF
Forwards and Futures
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZb_WqDkpWLvzOmROPXf8bzL
Interest Rate Swaps

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZYv1g1Yp_AE5gFqJ7Ny80Hc
Credit Default Swaps

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZYl_kIW7KgBDCBNoUraW8zU
Central Banking for Shadow Banking

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmtuEaMvhDZYAHtKBvxC7dL-eL8apCOGD
Touching the Elephant: Three Views

>>17911710
>>17911714
thanks anon, will the answer change if i am not from the states? i am from india btw

Where do i go after Platos republic? I have the nichomachean ethics, but i should probably read some more Plato first right? What would you recommend.

>>17911719
If you’re interested in banking and finance then there could be different resources specifically for India, but it’s useful to understand the US banking system as there is probably a lot of overlap. Something like Rich Dad Poor Dad is more about personal finance and entrepreneurship, which is basically unrelated to banking. I’m not too sure about that topic but I enjoyed How to Get Rich by Felix Dennis

>>17911791
yup i want to know more about person fiance and investing(both stocks and crypto), i have no aspiration for opening some business

>>17911798
This is a good starting point

>>17911773
Nichomachean ethics is usually read in college just after The Republic, so you can compare both authors. I’d say is a good choice

>>17911773
I recommend reading his complete works

>>17911824
>The Idiot
wat

>>17911824
thanks anon, i will look for more /biz/ resources

>>17911831
thanks, since i have it in my shelf i just might do that straight away.
>>17911833
well yes i aim to do that, but which specific work should i read next was my question.

>>17911840
kek

>>17911419
Seems like it's going a good job cleaning up the board then, eh?

How do I get into writing. I'd like to start of writing witty poems such as pic related

>>17911419
Impersonating a mod is a bannable offense.

>>17908171
What is a stack? A pile of books you are reading, a pile of books you are planning to read or books you have already read?

>>17912663
You scared them off!
How macho...

Does anyone have a good list on speculative biology stories?

>>17912807
Seethe. We're not going to tolerate that sort of faggotry around here.

Hey wazzup my bros, this thread is totally lit! xD(Smiley face, tears in pinched laughing eyes, and holding up an okay sign with gloved hand)!!!

YOOOO wazzup peeps, my dudes and dudettes, guess who just published a new chapter in the super cool, you really want to read and review, publication of awesomeness, that is totes availiable for free on fictionpress, so you can read! For everyone to read YES!

I mean, you're so cool and mysterious, like a sexy witch or darklord. You should like totally read and review my books and stuff! You're such a complicated person, so smart and well-read!

Just do it. Oh! It will be such an honour for me, you know, it is a HUGE honor for me to have YOUR REVIEW!!!! on my bookzies. bruh.

FICTIONPRESS -> SEARCH -> SYNTH PILL

I am currently writing the sequal on my first book ever yo. I'm pretty stoked about it soon being finished.

OH! you know what you should do!? You should like totally read my new chapter and shiet! Chapter 20 is called VAPORWAVE MALL? Yeah, you into that shit? That sum of that good good!

Here, have my poem:

Colorful clothes in pink and teal
Sun in the sky shining bold
At night neon lights up the Ferris-wheel
Such were the seasons of gold

As the sea mirrors moon from above
By the beach the campfire dances
There on the beach we first made love
City noise said we took our chances

Dead are the malls we used to enter
The Ferris-wheel removed from it's coast
Yet I am still around to remember
Golden seasons of pink and teal clothes
----
OOOOH you can't brushie the dog against it hairs!

>>17912911
Mass replying ówò?

>>17911387
Yes. Barnes and Noble had a decent edition of all his plays for like 7 dollars.

Any books that will tach me how to pollinate pepper plants?

>>17911257
I was a mod for a writer's forum for a while. And one story I read about is that there are some weird writers out there, like a lady who made LOTR Frodo Erotica regularly.

Other times, I'll have to move stuff to trash because a schizo posted his art in the wrong area and I lack enough info.

You can try to find one, maybe one exists on meet-up or your nearest big city, and if you hate it, I'm not sure. I just joined groups and online forums.

>>17912200
Dictionary websites help a lot. Or write some lyrics to figure out how to tell a story on a line. Even if you mage braggard rap, you managed to write a poem.

>>17915357
Oh god on the LOTR fiction, since when I promote authors it's usually Tolkien, but I mean if she managed to make a living from it or she was memorable enough to bring up down the line she did something right.
I mean there's a certain risk with trying to network, if anyone remembers the book Misery by Stephen King.
I live near Atlanta so the short of it is yes, there's probably a group if I look hard enough when the pandemic is over since everything's kind of touch and go at the moment, but what I really want out of it is a way to advertise through teamwork. Amazon requires keywords and all of this setup etc and I can't read people's minds so I feel like the old firm handshake might do me some good.
On that note I could be entirely wrong. These are really just shower thoughts at the end of the day, but if nothing else I want to say thank you for letting me pick your brain on the subject.

Was on wikipedia yesterday reading all sort of things, like usual. Going from one thing to the other, at some point I went to the Eloquence page and the entry reads:
>Eloquence is fluent, forcible, elegant or persuasive speaking.
For no particular reason, when I read that I remembered something about that oxford common I had seen some time ago (long time).

Now answer me something here,guys. Having no common after "elegant" would mean that Eloquence can be either elegant or persuasive, but not both? (Yes, english is not my mother language.)

>>17908171
Looking for novels set in the bronze age.

Looking to get Hesse's Gertrude, what translation do you think is better?

>WHEN I TAKE a long look at my life, as though from outside, it does not appear particularly happy. Yet I am even less justified in calling it unhappy, despite all its mistakes. After all, it is foolish to keep probing for happiness or unhappiness, for it seems to me it would be hard to exchange the unhappiest days of my life for all the happy ones. If what matters in a person’s existence is to accept the inevitable consciously, to taste the good and bad to the full and to make for oneself a more individual, unaccidental and inward destiny alongside one’s external fate, then my life has been neither empty nor worthless. Even if, as it is decreed by the gods, fate has inexorably trod over my external existence as it does with everyone, my inner life has been of my own making. I deserve its sweetness and bitterness and accept full responsibility for it.


>MY life, as I look back on it now, does not seem to have been a particularly happy one. Yet I cannot call it unhappy, in spite of my many mistakes. When all is said and done, it is very foolish to question so much about happiness and unhappiness. It seems to me that it would be harder for me to give up the unhappiest days of my life, than all the happy ones. For, if to live, means consciously to accept the inevitable, to probe fully good and bad, and to conquer, besides our outer destiny, an inner, a truer, and a less casual fate—then my life has not been poor and worthless.

Alright. Are there any Canadians on tonight?

>>17917490
Pretty sure there's a few on this thread.

>>17917490
hi hi hi

Does 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' apply to women whom you are trying to flirt with or should I completely disregard its contents in this regard?

Good books withou much sci fi gobbledigook or weird character names?
I tried to read dune but I got bored because of this

>>17915997
It's just a list whether the comma is there or not. You'd need to shove an 'either' in there or better yet restructure the whole thing if you wanted only one of elegant or persuasive at a time.

>>17911387
imho complete works are worse laid out (less readable) and have worse notes than individual, separate editions, especially for a writer as voluminous as shakespeare

>>17918617
completely disregard its contents

It apparently takes me an average of 1m7s to read a page. Is this good?

The Portrait of Dorian Gray is a biblical allegory right? Hallward is God, Wotton is Satan, the portrait is Jesus, Dorian Gray is humanity.

Right? Jesus gives us eternal life and when rejected we absorb all the sins he protects us from.

>>17919901
Depends on the reading level.

>>17920078
It's for a fitness book (Peak) that involves scientific terms and English isn't my first language. I think it's good, but I wish I was faster.

Do I need to learn formal logic to get philosophy? If so where should I start?

>>17920656
Socrates.

>>17920844
Assuming you mean Plato's depiction of Socrates, I have already read the apology and the republic and a dialogue here and there. Am a really set?

What are some books with the same atmosphere as the serious parts of Tsukihime and Kara no Kyoukai?

>>17921200
The VN.

I'm looking for a short story.

It's formatted as an online chat between two people, other claiming to be an alien, and they end up discussing all sort of scifi concepts.

>>17922397
Any genre on the short story?

>>17921111
Yeah, you are.

Some months back I read this quote that went along the lines of "Our art is best when technique is crude, and when technique is great then art declines". Anyone know where it's from?

>>17925142
Pablo Picasso

>>17925200
No it was someone else

>>17920002
I heard these characters were written to represent Wilde himself and how others see him, but I guess it's all up to interpretation.

Nobody likes me and I have no friends no matter how hard I try people just seem to hate me and be angered by my mere presence are there any books for guys like me or books authored by people like me who managed to find happiness despite being hated by everyone?

>>17925277
Matisse?

>>17926237
That’s it.

Just finish Time Spike by Eric Flint. Didn't realize this could be a genre, but
what are some alternate history novels? The one I mentioned has the tiniest bit of scifi for plot purposes.

>>17927880
>alternate history novels
Anything with Harry Turtledove.

Bump

>>17928108
thanks

>>17920656
You don’t.

>>17925304
No.

>>17917208
The First.

>>17916578
https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/bronze-age-5000-to-1100bce-fiction

Does Aristotle's idea that you can become virtuous by practicing virtuous actions have any implications on habituation more generally that are interesting?

I am wondering, more particularly, if the common rejection of the mechanical theory of habituation towards virtue, where the student of virtue is a mere automaton who is able to acquire virtue merely by repetition with no cognitive element, would end up requiring a cognitive element to be present in cases where one acquires a negative character trait through repetition.

>>17933988
That’s a nice list.