/lit/ - Literature

How is this guy not even relevant ? His Metaphysical and Epistemological arguments about Will-to-live being the Will-To-death and that Death is not a phenomenon of the Will-to-Live but the true halt to life and the will to death strives to die because the Universe is the corpse of a suicidal god.

Seriously how the fuck these genius is not popular it's literally the best argument

Any got it?

I reread The Dark Enlightenment at least once a month and it's probably the most impactful piece of writing I've ever laid my eyes on. How comes his reactionary writings get so little attention compared to his earlier methed-up schizo nonsense, asides for hand-wringing dismissal and moral grandstanding disapproval from political opponents? They try to act like it doesn't exist or that it's just "stupid" and nobody should ever read it, despite embodying one of the most compelling critiques of the Leftist project ever made.

Did he write anything worth reading ? Post some recs

>Add a random passage where the story enters a POV of a Fox
>You can hear the sentient thoughts of this animal
>This is never ever mentioned or brought up again throughout the entire LOTR Trilogy
What did Tolkien mean by this?

Should I care about this as a reader?

Writing dialogue is hard

I was disappointed that the wendigo wasn’t described as having a deer-skull head as most depictions have it, but the scene where Défago

Was he right about The Shards?

Could you recommend me novels with similar themes? Bonus points if they were originally written in russian, preferably pre revolution. Complex and lengthy novels are welcome but less serious works are ok too (i already know of Lidia Charskaya's works).

What book should I ask for for my birthday?

Where do I start with Nietzsche?

Which is the best? The most profound? The most literary? The most fun?

I just finished this. I was disappointed yet can't stop thinking about it

Yes?

Marxmaxxing

This guy is a great writer. I vaguely remember having a read a few of his short stories in a high school class. It seems kind of odd that he isn't talked about that much, or propped up as a major American writer. I mean, maybe he is, since I read him in school, but I'm talking about outside of school. And I didn't even remember I read him until I read "A Watcher by the Dead" this morning.

I understand why the 20th century seems to overshadow all literature these days, but I don't understand why we give it so much space, especially for leisure reading.

a book about PTSD has more reviews on Amazon than the first book of A Game of Thrones. has anyone read this book? how's it?

The most "life-changing" books by number of reviews

Are antiheroes our only hope?

What is your favorite novel, short story, or poem from 1925 (the year which some have called “the greatest year of literature”)?

Books for when I’ve read the entire Western canon yet everything in this Leddit post describes me?

>Isn't it strange that modern physics embraces process over substance but our metaphysics doesn't?
>Hmm I guess you're right Whitehead.
>Alright so everything is conscious and has free will, occasions are the real actors in everything, every moment anywhere influences every other thing that occurs and objects absorb every piece of data from anything they interact with.
Uh what?

>peak
>mid
>slop
>crash out
>unalive
What the hell is up with modern speech turning into newspeak straight out of 1984? The word "ungood" genuinely wouldn't look too out of place with all the neologisms I just listed.

give me your best books on decolonization

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“Real Writers” Edition

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Please remember that /wg/ is focused primarily on real writers—that is, authors writing frequently and with the intent to garner an audience. If you’re a sniff-your-own-butthole author, you are reluctantly allowed in this thread, if only because you’re technically on topic. But you will be made fun of at all opportunities.

Genre Fiction and Web Novelists welcome with wide arms. “Literary” authors should go to their containment thread: >>24851315

if you could unlearn certain things from your mind, what are those, /lit/?

>I read fiction!
what are you, 5?
how are y'all not embarrassed to admit, with a fully adult body, that you still read story books?

check this out

https://www.gururamana.org/Resources/Books/Who_Am_I_English.pdf

if it is for you, you're blessed. if it is not, then one day it will be

Thank you Elon for finally killing the Spinoza meme by forever associating it with this pseudery.

For reading in general, what's the best to retain information?

Should I get a journal and note stuff after reading?
What methods do you guys use?

>I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

>so that all may know, from where the sun rises to where it sets, that there is none but Me; I am the LORD, and there is no other. I form the light and create the darkness; I bring prosperity and create calamity. I, the LORD, do all these things.

How many planets are in the universe?
If you take every single grain of sand on earth and imagine that every single grain of sand on earth is 1 billion planets, thats how many.

Any books with some philosophy to address this? I'm finding it very hard to imagine humans are important against such numbers as these. Like how could you possibly argue we matter at all vs that?

Do you do a fiction and a nonfiction concurrently?

>"Your style is much too sanctified —
>your cut is too canonical" —
From the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera Patience duet ‘So Go to Him and Say to Him’.
I struggle to understand what is meant by ‘canonical’. I’ve tried Wiktionary and I still don’t get it.
https://www.gsarchive.net/patience/webop/pat15.html
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JutFKM17Pl4&pp=ygUkc28gZ28gdG8gaGltIGFuZCBzYXkgdG8gaGltIHBhdGllbmNl

Why do people pretend to like this book?

>human knowledge is limited to phenomena, the world as structured by our mind’s categories (space, time, causality, etc)
>the noumenal world, things as they are “in themselves,” independent of perception, is unknowable

this distinction was meant to preserve both empirical science (which studies appearances) and metaphysical limits (beyond which reason cannot go).
but If we truly can’t know anything about the noumenal world, then how can we even assert its existence or claim it causes appearances?

>beta readers love it
>the edgy dick in my writers group begrudgingly likes it
>I followed elements of style to a T
>yet still, out of 500 queries, I get one partial request

Am I missing something? Is there, like, an automaton approach to send out queries and i just have to numb my heart and just focus on hitting every even somewhat open minded agent with automaton bullshit?

What am I in for?

Pretty good

>did well at school
>no girls ever attracted to me
>made fun of by women as a loser beta
>went to university
>no girls ever attracted to me
>girls didn't acknowledge my existence
>got part time jobs in summers
>no girls ever attracted to me
>got a full time job
>no women ever attracted to me
>moved to a big city
>no women ever attracted to me
>made online dating profiles
>no matches
>just went outside
>no women ever attracted to me
>regularly gone to gym for over 10 years and have squatted over 4 plate
>no women ever attracted to me
>now in my 30s
>no women ever attracted to me

Ok. Now what? I'm a totally social exprienceless mid-30s male with zero social life at all.

"On Being Born"
Born. What is there to do after the fact? A life, an existence, but what for? We are conscious in the pale mirror of our own eyes. But nothing is seen except the strangeness of our self-realisation. Nothing is born as soon as we enter the world, screaming. As the curtains of death draw, to reveal a stage; at its centre dances a clown named Life. We clap. We cheer. What a cosmic joke!

"On Night"
What is the point of sleep when life itself is a nightmare? When night descends, beasts and demons rise out of the tenebrae. These creatures are hungry for flesh and thirsty for blood. But what dreams can monsters infest if all they know is the darkness?

"On Resentment"
Why do I resent the world after the tears of society's lamentations have dried away? If there is a god, he must see that I am angry over his Creation... The anhedonia of crazed hatred infests the mind and makes me wonder why I deign to mock the heavens! My bile, my black blood, all surge in the moment of realization that my own father mocks my very existence. He has committed every crime, the worst of which is being a father.

What are all your book related apps?

Society already is divided in 3.5/4.
3.5 are the cattle, 0.5 the remnants dissidents.
The internet is owned by them, everything is controlled by them while we control almost nothing except partially where we can choose to go and die.
Diagnosis: We lost, no organization on our side, the NWO is heading strongly toward their goal, which is total control of peoples lives through digital surveillance and technology.
While we are all divided between meaningless reasons and most refuse to acknowledge the truth.
Christ here, Allah there, YHWH here, Buddha there.
Truth is God and pathetically everyone who says they fight the good cause doesn't know it and avoids it at all costs.
There will come a point where we have to choose to do what is right or retreat to the mountains in order to die off with the knowledge that we did absolutely jack shit to try and change things.
Fuck politics, fuck false religions, fuck scientism, and most of all fuck whoever gave their responsibility up to someone else instead of developing within them the true will.

What are some books that explain killing your enemies is all that matters or accomplishes anything?

the last time I felt something reading anything post-WWII was about a year and a half ago when I picked this up. didn't make it past the first few hundred pages because of personal reasons and I never really got back to it.
not Houellebecq, not no Knausgård or Beckett, not even Bernhard whom I consider to be a true titan of 20th c. literature, one I absolutely regret not being able to read in the original German, made as immediate an impression on me as Gaddis' condensed, surchargé, relentless prose.

In fact, of all the authors mentioned above and their underlying projects that served as both the means and ends of their respective œuvres, Gaddis' encyclopedic approach, while not as interesting as Beckett's linguistic fragmentation as catharsis or the political predictor/provocateur whoremonger Houellebecq, seems to me the most efficient.
Knausgård, just to say a few words on him and authors of the same strain en passant, the yuppie, stream-of-consciousness, refuses-to -acknowledge-they-read, or maybe even unironically chooses to not read any classics for fear of losing "voice", or some similar effeminate notion, is just that: effeminate.

I don't see how the novel as a form can progress beyond encyclopedic doorstoppers.

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>What is /apug/ — Alternative Publishing General?
A general for writers and readers of non-traditional published works—that is, works that weren't published by a large publisher, especially self-published and web published. Mostly genre fiction.

For discussion on reading trad pub works, check /sffg/
For writing of non-genre fiction, check /wolw/

>says whales are fish
fucking droped lol