Where do i start with baudrillard?
Do I need some knowledge on who he was influenced by or can just jump in (mostly) blind?

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It's the beginning of the end.

>Dude, life is a struggle, but you should.... deal with it, lol
>Also I'm a rich chad who bangs hot women and live like a high-roller, I totally know what struggle is like, take my advice

Why does the civil war basically not exist in American literature

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Any literature that will make me stop being like this?

>In 1963, Oppenheimer was asked by The Christian Century magazine what books shaped his “vocational attitude” and his “philosophy on life.”

>Here is Oppenheimer’s (unranked) list:

>"Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil)" by Charles Baudelaire
>“The Waste Land” by T.S. Eliot
>“The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri
>"Bhagavad-Gita"
>“Śatakatraya” (“The Three Centuries”) by Bhartrihari
>Hamlet by William Shakespeare "
>L'Éducation Sentimentale (Sentimental Education)" by Gustave Flaubert
>"The Collected Works of Bernhard Riemann" by Bernhard Riemann
>"Theaetetus" by Plato
>Scientist Michael Faraday’s notebooks (Alternately named "Faraday’s Diary, Being the Various Philosophical Notes of Experimental Investigation made by Michael Faraday")

Did J. Robert Oppenheimer have good literary taste?

HOLY KINO

How do you get into Hegel?

Realistically how do we fix the literacy problem in America's school system today? Do us "uncs" have to get on TikTok and make cool videos the kids will like about books?

Does /lit/ like contemporary poetry?

>Women have spent centuries writing down exactly what they find desirable in men
>And you won't read it

Or do you think his books are trash?

and why is it ancient Greek?

>plato says certain forms of music should be banned
>fast forward to 2025
>nigger music is everywhere in this decaying society

two sentence horror

More like picrel? Books that show the complexity and depth of human experience and intellectual life before modernity, actually takes them seriously, revives what has been lost or forgotten, etc.

Also, anyone ever utilized the mind palace methodology described herein? I experimented last night and just permanently memorized a list of ingredients on a box lol. Seems extremely potent.

How do you feel about the rise of anti-intellectualism within the last half-decade?

Is reading books a feminine hobby?

I have to date seen now proof that:
A) There is a subconscious
B) That it is persistent as opposed to occasional/situational
C) That it is intrinsically personal, as opposed to an ever changing RAM drive where current thing in-group morality/taboos are stored and constantly being updated, something which can hardly be construed as "self".

All of these things just seem to be taken for granted by any psychologist I read.

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>What is /wng/ - Web Novel General?
A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more

>Why read web novels?
Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.

>Why write web novels?
Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.
Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.

>/wng/ authors.
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You guy's think Raskolnikov's Great Man Theory was correct? I'm guessing people like Napoleon maybe felt bad for killing people to achieve great things, but they were able to simply handle it because they were great
Are you a great man?

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>“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!”
>Hunter S. Thompson

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I've seen starter-packs and image guides for Green Pill and Iron Pill advocates all the time. But never Indigo Pill. The closest suggestion I have seen is just to read Machiavelli.

I've been coming here for years now but I think it might be time to stop soon. It just doesn't do it for me anymore, it's not really helping me in any way. I don't get any benefits, hasn't helped me with women, money, or meeting people. I'm not getting any joy out of it anymore like I used to. It also eats up too much of my time.

So yeah after shitposting here for many years, on and off I admit, it might be time to finally call it quits and move on with my life, so my new years resolution will be to quit /lit/

This is the only genre that makes money and the money train isn't stopping any time soon. Short of a puritanical John Carpenter style government, there will always be demand for this shit.

The question is, can a dude write successful girlporn? This is the literary question.
I'm going to read this milking farm thing and see if I can't get a knack for how women write. I'm suspecting it's a bit like this:

>Minimal attention to details and the world, emphasis on personal impressions and feelings; the world as a set of things that make you feel different ways.
>Braindead, 12-15 year old brain simplicity.
Imagine a Middle School girl trying to "speed download" social gossip updates to a friend.
>Vanity, ego, zero accountability, petty delusions, cliches.
This will require a bit of research and marketing savvy just to collect up what today's cliches are. Fortunately, women are dead simple and just go on TikTok/Twitter and see what buzzwords come up a lot.
>Sultry language.
This one's tough. From what I understand explicit, gross language is what sells this shit and is the female equivalent of visually seeing porn. On the other hand, I have a feeling that I could write porn that is vastly more detailed and explicit than what women read and would alienate them. I have a feeling it's just stuff like, "sweaty" "bulge" "heaving" "cock!" "pulsing". Words that sound distinctly naughty but remain vague. It's not about visualizing, even through text, sexual mechanics. It's about breaking social taboos so women feel "naughty" and liberated from their neurotic sexual restraints.
>Female attraction
This is tough. How far do you go with "big muscles, ripped body"? How much do women want to read that, and when is it too much? Women like being dominated but they like to feel it was their choice to be dominated. As a man who understands women very well, I don't want to tap into their sexual triggers too accurately because that might lead to a sense of "revealing too much" about female sexuality which women don't like. They like most of it to remain implicit and simple.

That said, after I nuke my brain with Morning Glory Milking Farm, I'm going to try a couple more to see if my sense of the format is correct.

It should be utterly trivially to right one of these things after that. They're poorly written and short. I can easily embellish the sexual acts to be ten times as spicy as long as I'm aware of the boundaries, men visualize way better than women do. Secondly, as long as I pander to women, I could probably produce a plot a thousand times more compelling.

I literally need like $50k in my life right now for a couple things and I have a feeling I could just pump out 10 of these fuckers in a series and get there.

Is it worth reading nowdays? I'm talking about Harvard Classics, Great Books Reading List and Curriculum, etc. Princeton Classics Department not even require Greek and Latin for students anymore.
Why most college and university reading lists nowdays are 10 books tops? Cambridge recommends I Am Malala, Life Of Pi, Dune, but not Seneca, Plato or Aurelius.

>provides the most surface-level commentary on subjects he doesn't really seem to understand
>stunted vocabulary
>constant use of malapropisms and improper grammar/sentence structure
Is it just because he's American or what?

I've been making myself depressed lately by googling the names of all the academics (specifically in the social sciences and humanities) and lit world figures whom I admire personally or who are fashionable. Without fail, they got their B.A.s at Ivies or at small, selective liberal arts colleges. Even the authors of the textbooks I am currently reading for classes this semester all went, at least, to selective liberal arts colleges.
Of the names of living, serious, quality academics I can think of, the one whose alma mater is the least prestigious was Stephen Kotkin, who was an undergrad at the University of Rochester, which has an acceptance rate of 40% (today, I don't know what it was like when he was there). That's still significantly lower than the crazy high acceptance rate my school has. The university I attend is shitty, and even the professors I'm fond of aren't completely competent lecturers, and certainly none are intimidating geniuses, but rather, they're endearing because they make an effort to teach and have been nice to me. I don't go to a community college or an unaccredited scam college or a school no one's heard of in the third world, it's a public university, but the Wikipedia list of its notable alumni doesn't include a single high-quality academic, and is dominated by non-academic fields.

Is it really true that literally only people who went to good schools go on to become important in their field, much less celebrity academics? I'm aware Tim Cook dropped out of such-and-such and there's a thousand dyslexic CEOs who got all Fs, but it seems like academic success obeys different laws, and getting into a good school at 18 (and doing good from the very start, so that you graduate cum laude, are recognized early, etc.) really is a prerequisite. It's crazy to read Eric Nelson's (the historian) Wikipedia bio and to learn that's what it takes to be a historian as highly esteemed as he is. Even a literal e-celebrity podcaster like BAP, or somebody who went viral for writing an article for a marginal/scrappy online magazine like Helen Andrews, always has a bachelor's from an Ivy.
Are there any living writers who are good and important but who went to bad schools? I've been mainly distressed by how it seems like all important academics had star-studded careers from the beginning, but I'm fine with hearing about novelists, too, since the same rule seems to apply there. A random example is that Tony Tulathimutte went to Stanford for an entirely unrelated degree.

And if you went to a shit school, or had trouble academically, what's the best strategy for recouping your losses? Getting a second B.A.?

OBVIOUSLY I'm talking about the present day. I know you retards will say something like Faulkner was a college dropout as if it's relevant.

Your crush is out there living her life and enjoying the autumn, going out with friends, socializing, having fun, making memories, forging meaningful connections and getting ahead in life, while you are here shitposting about some literary bullshit nobody cares about on a beautiful autumn's weekend. Any last words anon before you inevitably end it?

so are you faggots even aware that the best science fiction novel of the twenty-first century was finally released in english today?

We should follow Mark Fisher. He seems smart.

So, what is the value of being a good person?

Books to help me cope with absolutely vile and vicious anti american sentiment? Im seeing it everywhere, their gross protestant and barbaric derived culture with no real sense of ethics and entirely practiced by people so empty minded, dim witted and mindslaved they put the chinese to shame! I know some american wil probably reply "hurr durr cope and seethe" but my general hatred towards the anglosphere is absolute and I feel that if I don't find a way to fix it I will just end up going fucking mad and killing myself. Show me some good american books that aren't ass and are pretty self aware about american nature like some of Melville's works...

Interested in seeing how posters on this board score in comparison to /x/, where the overwhelming majority seem to be schizoid sadists or complete autists living in internal fantasy lands:

>The CIA uses the PAS for the assessment of characters, its self-assessment online form has 64 outcomes and doesn't sugarcoat anything, if you have bad luck, the test will call you out for being schizophrenic, a recluse, or worse.
https://www.pasf.org/pasq/index.htm
>To get your type among the 64, take the 'primitive' test first and then type your results into the 'basic' test and take that.

The primitive personality type determines your core personality that you developed as a child, while the second test determines whether you outgrew that core personality to adapt well to society, or whether you indulged those core behaviours to become psychologically maladaptive or attain some kind of arrested development.

It really does not pull any punches; while an MBTI test will only tell you positive personality traits and leave you to infer the negative, this one is the opposite. Depending on how you score, it will tell you that you're an exceedingly mediocre well-behaved citizen (one of the best endings) or have the profile of a serial killer, autistic shut-in or concentration camp guard.

How does someone get good at poetry as fas as possible? Ideally within 2 months or a year?
>What books should they read
>How often should they write poetry
>Should they write in their voice or try exercises
>Any youtube channels or audiobooks
Assume I'm starting from zero and don't know shit, assume I'm going to be naturally good but have no knowledge of the medium as a whole

I need to be at a published level asap

Tolstoy constructed his own version of Christianity through his translation and re-writing of the four Gospels, placing considerable emphasis on the Sermon on the Mount and considering any claims of miraculous occurrences nonsense. This was, of course, heretical. What I find surprising, as an inquirer into Orthodox Christianity, is that Tolstoy was not smart enough to recognise that Orthodoxy contains the fullness of the Christian faith and was founded by Christ at Pentecost. Tolstoy, who was lucky enough to be born into a traditional Orthodox Christian society, rejected the truth in favour of a heretical interpretation of Christianity. Did Tolstoy ever consider that the Gospels he wrecked were only available to him because of Eastern Orthodoxy and its members, "the Orthodox" he equated to the Pharisees? One would like to have seen him hold his own against TAG.

Do cute twink guys browse this board? Apologies, but I get this impression sometimes browsing here.

I have been writing stories for as long as I can remember, but I have been writing them only in Turkish as it is my mother tongue. For work related reasons I am permanently in Japan. I didn't have any prior knowledge of Japanese before coming, but I have been studying Japanese and living here for around 3 years.

My problem is that there are basically no good online communities for Turkish stuff AFAIK. When I was back in Turkey I usually met with people irl. I have been trying write in English to share online or write in Japanese to show people around me. But even though I can "write" in these languages I cannot get the feelings for a story in another language. Whatever I write feels lacking, and kinda flat.

Has anyone struggled with this kind of problem before. I have been practicing, reading, writing and scrapping a lot of stories and feel like I have hit a roadblock.

For reference I actually rarely ever read books in Turkish, my usual reading is only in English. Even though that is the case I can only write in my mother tongue for some reason. Even if you don't have experience with these language I would still like to hear your thoughts on changing the writing language or medium. Any comment is appreciated.
(I am not sure if this is the right place to ask. I don't really use these kind of forums.)

I'm writing a War and Peace about suburban South Dublin. I'm what Ireland needs to heal from Sally Rooney.

What am I in for?

Recommended reading charts (Look here before asking for vague recs).
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>Archive:
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>Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg

>Thread Question:
Why haven't you read Malazan yet?

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