/lit/ - Literature

>>23375579
Imagine a random homeless dude - rather filthy, slightly drunk, in the mood of talking “big things”. His life experience is diverse, but lacking formal education. His observations are scattered. His conclusions, chaotic. Yet he may be naturally bright, and even though his train if thoughts gets continuously derailed, its power may be rather impressive...

Well, this is Epictetus for ya. He knew less people than average social network user follows, and absorbed less worldwide stories than an average TV owner consumes monthly. His education was more primitive than what an average public school could deliver today. Yet, his thinking is bright, and reasoning, often quite deep.

Epictetus “discourses” may have been an enjoyable and enlightening reading, if not for an unchewable “translation” of someone who was focused on dumb exactness of the words, rather than smart explicitness of their meaning.

Result is tragically retarded. Academically so. Making you work on translating these “academic” mumblings back into the actual thoughts they bury, sentence by sentence. From English that seems as broken as that of an international refugee.

And these thoughts, though not too many, may have been the only reason you would have wished to spend your time on this book.

Sorry, Epictetus. Maybe one day we’d have someone with live and sound imagination re-delivering your messages to us, the way they would make sense In the mean time, three stars feel way too much for what we’ve got.

>>23375657
elaborate. why are you losing your mind over this?

>>23375649
shut the fuck up analytic

>>23375546
Also not pictured, volume 2 of contemporary American Philosophers.

>>23374325
>Septa Lemore is _______?
A real sexy bitch if Tyrion's POV is anywhere close to accurate.

>>23374368
Best books from ostara?

>>23375646
>Why not?
Because it's purposefully written to be the English Proust.

/wg/, I want to write again, but after writing caused me a mental breakdown all I can feel when I think about it is shame and anxiety. I dont even really believe I can finish a short story. Is it even possible to bounce back from this aftet 4 years of struggling?

where do you start-- what inspires your outline/story? characters, themes, worldbuilding?

>>23373000
Hillel Ehrenberg

>>23375609
If you drop a line now I can nag you to finish, plus I wanna see the current version without having to trawl the board for all your posts.

>>23375649
every Sunday after mass

>>23374583
>she isn't clever
But she is.

>>23375137
>I realized that if I make my poems le mysterious in the 20th century style I can obscure their lack of actual value
Everything written before, say, Rimbaud or Mallarme was "blatant", retard. In her own time there are few poets more reticent. Her delicacy and grace and truly spiritually aristocratic playfulness are what mark her out, qualities that are the exact opposite of that of which you accuse her.

>>23373801
meditate on the tao te ching

>>23374946
>>23375193
sameposter
the dude was obviously autistic, he never in his life leven once eft his hometown, he punctually took walks so regularly that people would adjust their clocks based on when he walked by, and that "socialization" you mentioned consisted of things like organizing his dinner parties into segments that he would formulaically follow e.g. the first topic of conversation is always the weather, the last topic is always jokes so that nobody leaves in a bad mood
take your own advice and read a book

When was the last time you felt close to ἀταραξία?

>>23375328
>But what, operationally, is feminine power? What examples?
Sexual selection and creating the home from which men operate (go look up the percentage of household income is controlled and spent by women). If you ever get a serious girlfriend or a wife you'll get it.

>>23375630
I read it this April

>>23375640
>Doesn't count
Why not?
Proust is a response to Henry James, doesn't count

>>23375606
Yea, you need to tard wrangling it a lot, if you want anything specific. Just getting the Bard Gog to look like that took a lot of time.

>>23373714
> "theatrical"
You're definitely at least a little fruity

this faggot won't sell more than 30 books, and now he's giving half of that away. who fucking cares.

>>23367916
He spoke the truth..

>>23375606
>included the word duck it gave your character a bird cage with a pigeon thing
The descriptions were not what I used, rather what inspired the prompts. The bird and cage are referenced in the story but in another excerpt I did not post, also I did not use duck as a prompt, that was just in the description of his eyes I based it off.