/lit/ - Literature

>>5430007
But it's been finished for months.

Has writing for Miami started yet?

Alright, blokes: What type of book are you?
http://www.buzzfeed.com/isaacfitzgerald/what-type-of-book-are-you?utm_term=16tswp7#32fpzx9

If the price of the paperback was 14 or so, you wouldn't be ticked off. Likely, the mediums are coordinated through different companies, so they'd have probably not wanted it that way either. (But yes it ticks me off too.)

>>4500619
What need? I don't consider them, flat. (I'm trying to demonstrate that non-judgementalism implies a failure to meet people as equals.)

>book doesn't come in a floppy disk that encrypts itself immediately after reading

Infinite Jest

[Spoiler]Infinite Jest[/SPOILER]

>>4500524
I wouldn't have made this thread, personally, as I tend to see the uneducated as a kind of horde or seething mass and so am not too interested in how they 'apply their time', but it's only because of my elitism that I consider them unavailable for comparison. An absolute non-reader will, as a general rule, be something of an amateur, or downright non-participant, at 'learning and understanding', and so, naturally, if those are the values we want to espouse, it would seem disingenuous if we described these non-readers as 'other' rather than 'lesser'. Isn't that what we think, when we, say, are told a joke out of some worn-down tradition, when we know that if the joke's teller had bothered to keep up with the literature, the movements of culture, rather than be only dragged or destroyed by them, they'd have not told it, that they're doing something badly, that they're failing at something? I'm not awed by the fact that I might be somewhat more 'on the button' than some people, but the proposition, where learning and understanding is concerned, that such people are equals, or 'fellows', is raw sentimentality.

>>4500491
VL?

>>4500489
>exert yourself, over thousands of hours of reading, studying, experimenting and writing, to improve your lifestyle and abilities and outlook, whereas you could have been having fun doing nothing
>'but I mustn't ever dare hold myself in esteem; that would be elitist, that would be classist; i'm part of a cultural group now'
Just be an elitist, man. It'll feel better.

>>4500290
Buyers don't drive the market so much as potential buyers; because of all these former-readers/non-readers, publishing companies are seeking out works that are dumbed-down enough to entice 'new readers'. This process should continue until Western society is extinguished completely.

>>4500348
I don't know where the 'faults of his victim' bit is coming from but without that it basically means he goes too far in resolving disputes, in that he tries to alter people's principles when it's perhaps not necessary, given the smallness of the dispute at hand.

>>4500333
Isn't tumblr the group which is less likely to say that that's gay? They'd just call it 'natural exploration': "No one's gay, anon; because everyone's gay." Isn't that the tumblr philosophy? Not to not get your joke or to advocate for them or anything.

>>4499626
How is 'We'?

>current
The Tunnel, by Ernesto Sabato
>7/10, for such a short book it got me pretty hard in the feels, but it lacked the mania, or criminal insight, that it promised

>current
Titus Groan, by Mervyn Peake
>9/10, no discernible flaw thus far

>next
Poor Fellow My Country, by Xavier Herbert

>>4497543
pls don't be rude

>>4497496
Is there a floating brain in the sky that forces you to write on threat of death, OP? Because I was always kind of envious of PKD about that.

>>4497523
>schrizophenic shaming

>>4497586
And you, if you're going to declare your own idiocy, don't do it in the process of correcting someone (you're super wrong, btw).

>>4497569
Don't bump so quickly; you weren't even half way down the first page.

>all those instances where just some asshole actually manages to change the 'omnipotent' lord's mind by pretty much saying nothing other than, no don't

From notes on my phone, although I'm not sure how closely I believe them:

"An inoffensive artwork is a dishonest artwork; therefore it is no artwork at all."

"It is necessary to have some money, if you're to feed the neurosis of indifference."

"There is no more potent source of melancholy than a good outfit."

>>4483019
Ask him on a date, OP.

>>4478236
No, I think you misunderstand: he is capable of obedience to the law of non-contradiction because he has ignored it. He becomes intelligible.