/lit/ - Literature

>>23318355
>And that's why we don't have any Melvilles because no one does epic shit like that anymore.
Exactly. Now it's all boomerlennials whining about their scapegoats from the comfort of their own sheltered, suburban homes. /lit/ is full of this shit.
>Why are women so X, bros?
>TFW NO GF. Books for this feel, bros?
>What books can help me GET women, bros?
>I need to post coomerbait pics because reasons, bros.
On and on it goes. Same shit like on Reddit:
>White people, man. Why is everything so white?
>I don't get men, sisters. Why are moids so....
Etc, etc.
Melville actually LIVED life. So did all the great authors of the past. They didn't just sit around with their thumbs up their asses whining about how (insert group here) was mean. They didn't just consoom (someone else's work) and then write glorified fanfiction.

>>23321031
Because of climate.
The Inuits, who lived in the cold, were smaller.

>>23321057
>100% get on it this time, if she's not up to it then let it be but I guarantee you she expected you to make a move. Hope you're not too late.
thanks, yeah, I hope I'm not in friendzone yet, if I already am then at least I've tried and I'll just move on to the next one I guess

>>23319562
It was a meme here before it was on Reddit. People here would talk it up so much that it was eventually picked up by a safe edgy Youtuber who made an 8 hour video essay on it, and now its the quintessential must read for pseuds.

>>23321070
But you just said the proof working for both of them being physical was "exactly [your] point". How was it not your point for the soul?

There is no such thing as prehistoric history chud, my father discovered over one thousand stone penises in a dick-shaped cave

>>23320942
verity by colleen hoover for sure

>>23320272
How about you start by taking a position

>>23321005
in that case I think I might try and spread them out to span the gap between Disquiet Gods and book 7 when I get there. And I can't wait I've heard good things about Kingdoms of Death (no actual plot related things thankfully just positive towards the book) and frankly I'm ready for Ruocchio to hurt me lol

>>23321062
that part is a highlight of the novel in my opinion enjoy anon you should make a post when you're done with the book

>>23321066
Also if you read Heidegger in parallel English/German, or at least have an eye for when you should look up key load-bearing German terms he uses, with the M&R translation (because of its good explanatory annotations), you should be fine. Same with Wittgenstein, there's a reason most good editions are parallel with Anscombe's translations on the right. You just need the load-bearing terms to clear up ambiguities. That sort of reading (in parallel while actually paying attention to the German when your gut tells you it'll clarify some ambiguous English expression in the translation) is itself a good way to practice German, it's basically vocab practice.

Seriously, reiterating what I said above: Fuck Harry Potter. Fuck this "if you just [run some horrible ball-breaking odious gauntlet you have no innate interest in], you will be good." If you're going to suffer ANYWAY, why not suffer because you're reading something interesting but challenging, instead of suffering because you're reading something uninteresting but not challenging?

The whole Harry Potter meme makes me sick. I wish Harry Potter were real so I could beat the living shit out of him.

>>23320918
He doesn't live anywhere near the ocean so it kind of comes off as escapist fantasy

>>23321052
If you would actually like to debate about what exists, and what does not, it would be helpful if you provided an explicit description of both.

In my description, that I have outlined (in the above posts), the soul does not exist.

The mind does.

>>23320363
There was a guy in my school that looked similar to Oscar Wilde. Chubby, tall, long hair, claimed to be "pansexual". Or so he would claim so he could get closer to women, he would then get women drunk or high and try to get them to send him nudes or let him see them naked (he liked jerking off more than sex I think).
The fact their physiognomy and attitudes are remarkably similar I think says something.

>>23318386
I turn 25 in a month or so and I have basically zero achievements or plans on how to fix my fucked up life in the future. It is so fucking embarrassing.

>>23321054
Stop being a fucking bitch.

>>23318658
Agree with Sandberg, however I hate Anki and never do / did it for any language, also don't expect to LIKE Sandberg just suffer through it.

I hate the "highlight the word" method, maybe it works for some people but desu the answer is ALWAYS more comprehensive input. Just stop caring about having to look up words when you have to look them up. Your brain understands how to learn a language, it's primed to remember shit if you just encounter it a bunch of times, literally a magical device that goes "Zerknupfung?? Why does he keep feeding us Zerknupfung??? I guess we'll just remember this forever, he seems to like it a lot."

Just BOOTSTRAP yourself to the point that you understand basically what is going on grammatically in a sentence, and by basically I mean don't read in "chunks" and "try to feel your way around" but also don't obsess over knowing every single rule from memory. Just know what is going on, so when a sentence is a shitpile of ambiguity you can intuitively go "this is obviously the subject, this is obviously the verb, this is obviously the prefix of the verb, this is obviously an adverbial phrase" and bracket out the ambiguities so you know what to actually look up and can do so efficiently.

Once you can do this to a decent level, you can literally just take any text short of a Heidegger-type author (who uses language extremely deliberately to draw attention to the deeper meanings of ordinary terms, which adds an additional layer of complexity that may be hard to track) and read it extensively. Who cares if you have to look up every other word? Who cares if the words you look up are words you already encountered in Sandberg? What are you going to do, cry and shit your pants that your brain wasn't the perfect Sandberg-assimilating machine? Just keep reading anyway. Eventually it'll go from being every other word to one word every sentence, then one every few sentences, etc. And this is not a linear but an exponential process since your brain is soaking up so many secret patterns in the background and getting a "feel" for the language. Sometimes I get sick of reading a language and just stop reading it at all for a while, and when I come back to it, I'm somehow 10x better than I was. I call this the Vegeta Principle.

Fuck Harry Potter bullshit too. Just read whatever you want, although obviously something with "steady, medium-level," non-literary prose is better than an ultra-dense philosophical thicket. Also fiction is always harder because 70% of the vocab you're learning is useless trash vocab like "The thicket rustled with the chirping of wrens and I put on my mittens" instead of core vocab. Just read whatever you want honestly, even Heidegger.

>>23319256
>It's not schizoposting, it's fancy-named, academically-approved schizoposting

>>23320476
Explain Crowley without saying something to the effect of "you just don't get it"

Protip: you can't

>>23320666
I'm probably lowering the level of discussion itt and am out of my depth on Buddhism but I see Catholicism get compared to Mahayana or Vajrayana more than Theravada. Mahayana has its own exclusive sacred sutras and Vajrayana has the tantric scriptures not accepted by Theravada, just like Catholicism has the Greek deuterocanon not accepted by Protestants.

>>23320831
damn, you passed me
just got to the Imperial Library on Colchis

Seethe anon. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged Evangelion shirt. He stokes his penis. Outside lie dark turned fields with rags effay and darker 7-11s beyond that harbor yet a few last tendies. His folk are known for jerkers of cock and drinkers of cum but in truth his father has been dissatisfied with him. He lies in monster energy, he quotes from boards whose names are now lost. The anon crouches by the computer and watches him.

Night of your birth. Thirty-three. Dubs. The autist they were called. Shaka how the wall did fall. I looked for BCC, holes in the heavens. The nigger stove.

The mother dead, raped by pakis, did incubate in her own bosom the creature who would carry her off. The father never pays his bills, the anon is NEET. He has a sister in this world that looks down at him like he is garbage. He watches, pale and unwashed. He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless politics. All shitpost present in that visage, the anon the father of the bant.

https://medium.com/incerto/iq-is-largely-a-pseudoscientific-swindle-f131c101ba39

>>23320514
Either listen to an audiobook or skim through all the details of going north, south, east, and west.
Unless you're studying Tolkiens maps he provides in his books, then its useless to even pretend you care about the legitimacy of his directions

>>23316836
>we have this thread like five times a week and it's the same people telling you the same thing with the same starting point recs
I should just keep bumping this thread so that people stop making the same thread and posts.