>>61308
Debate class.

>>61308
Start with a random word out of the dictionary and try and work it into a starting sentence and just keep writing from there.

>>61308
I talk to myself. A lot. And I sometimes pretend I'm a narrator, but mostly I just first person describe everything and everyone. It's better the more emotional the thing is. Also, I argue a lot. It helps me think.

>>61308
I'm pretty much where you are know except I'm writing more frequently. Just right about anything that you see in your immediate vicinity, then criticize it or glorify it. This is good practice. Also, look out your window and look for the meaning of things and the wisdom of its creation, and its purpose, then write that on paper.

I don't know why, but all I can think about is how good your poetry will be when you lose everything you hold dear.

>>61307
It's good op but to me it's also cheesy as hell, especially "I disregard the concept of race
as races only happen with motorcars"

I can imagine 16 yearold girls listening to it and it's written by some boy band.

It's good and I can see where it could be coming from, I just happen to see it as not deep enough and just on the surface of a happy little ditty.

>>61314
elaborate on that my comrade

>>61307
Go deeper. Also show the ugliness of the world and then argue why the world is more good than bad , I think that would engage the reader. You should be careful not to be cliché or cheesy

If I had an orchard, I'd work 'til I'm sore.

A twisted grape master

>>61344

fleet foxes!

>>61381
Yes! Popped into my head when I was planting my garden. I haven't been able to get it out since!

"I was bathing myself in sperm" - Moby Dick

Happens all the time with me when reading Thomas Pynchon or David Foster Wallace. I'm not a native English speaker and sometimes I have no idea what a certain word means and it's difficult to understand by the context it's being used.

I do this too. I suspect that much of the reason my Kindle is crashing repeatedly is that I have hundreds of words marked to write down later, from when I didn't have a notebook handy.

I also do this. I wrote down A LOT of words while reading House of Leaves.

Sometimes most of the time I'll look it up there and then, it seems to happen an absurd amount of times with HP lovecraft- it's very handy to have an annotated version as well, because he makes so many obscure references.

You are so cool! I do not suppose I have read a single thing like that before. So great to find someone with genuine thoughts on this subject matter. Really.. many thanks for starting this up. This site is something that's needed on the internet, someone with a bit of originality! Schmertz http://jaydeesplace.jimdo.com/

You should pick up intro books to logic, philosophy, metaphysics, and ethics. Focusing on a particular doctrine will just make you doctrinal. Banish ignorance rather than just telling it to move over.

>>61356
Any suggestions for them sort of books ?
preferabley ones what I will be able to find in mobi format for my kindle

>>61352
The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell is a good book to test the waters with. It deals mainly with some common epistemological and metaphysical problems, how other philosophers have approached them, and some critiques/commentaries on attempted solutions. A good introduction about what philosophy is about and the standard method of doing it. The book is also in the public domain and can be downloaded from gutenberg.org.
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaardner is another popular introduction. It's a young adult novel that explains the major portions of the history of philosophy and introduces philosophical thinking. I don't remember whether or not the story is any good, unfortunately.
I would also recommend looking around the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy to see if anything catches your eye. They're both free, peer-reviewed, and most articles have bibliographies. The problem with general introductions to philosophy, like the two books above, is that there's no room to go beyond the basic repertoire of philosophical giants; Descartes, Berkeley, Kant, etc. Neither book, to my knowledge, mentions philosophy of religion, science, law, or language, for example. Links:
http://plato.stanford.edu/
http://www.iep.utm.edu/
Once you have a general idea of what sorts of topics interest you, then I'd try to find intro books. E.g., you mentioned that solipsism interests you, so you may want to get a book on philosophy of mind. I'm not sure that every introduction will mention solipsism, but the idea is closely related to Cartesian skepticism and the problem of other minds, which is a common thing in philosophy of mind. My introduction to the subject was "Philosophy of Mind (A Beginner's Guide)" by Edward Feser, but I'm not sure how it compares to others.

If you find that you like philosophy, make sure to pick up some introductory logic and critical thinking books. Logic is the foundation of philosophical inquiry.

Zen Mind, Beginners Mind.

No bickering over whether it's philosophy or not, it's good.

>>61352
Women were treated kind of like animals in Ancient Greece. Aristotle compares them to things one owned, like slaves. Epicurus taught women and slaves though, you may enjoy reading him, he was an hedonist and had an interesting (sort of)chaotic conception the world.

I wonder why do we all start reading philosophy because of nihilism and existentialism? It makes me feel like such a stereotype, it's cool though, better to start from there than to not start at all right?. Try reading some Dostoievski, he writes novels so it's a lot easier to understand, don't waste your time on Nietzsche, it takes some time to get something out of him. I'd suggest Memories from the underground, which is really short and has a really philosophical first chapter, or if you're up to the challenge you could try reading "The demons" (it's like 1000 pages long, don't start it if you don't plan on finishing it).

You should listen to what the others guys said though, read a little bit of everything, there are some really interesting philosophers out there. Plato, Descartes, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche, Sartre are just some of the classics. You should also read Hume, he may give some sort of answer to your solipsism (guy was a skeptic)

Just remembered that Naked Lunch and Trainspotting were on it aswell :)

>>61349
glue
acid house
secret recipe of the master chef
filth
crime

>>61349
It's from the future's recommended reading

>>61353
Thank you very much kind sir.

>>61353

Hm... I see "Less Than Zero" but why no "American Psycho"?

>>61043
May is here; and here is the TAR issue!

Our award winner this month was Logan Ellison's "A Likely Visit."

"Too Late, Buddha" was pretty good too.

Enjoy!

http://archive.org/details/themisstudyofsoc00harr

Google is your friend.

>>61335
You and Google have my undying gratitude.

Do you know Web of Knowledge? Your university probably has a connection to it, use it and download all the articles you want, there's no need for google or asking /lit/...

>>61304
>>61311
everyone's a little queer

Boris Vian, "The Autumn in Peking". Very surrealist/absurdist, it's has nothing to do with Autumn or Peking (Beijing) and it's very good. I just don't know if there are english translations of the book...

>>61303
OP Here.

I've heard of Kurt Vonnegut and his works, gonna check it out and see what his writing's about!

Ryu Murakami has some great books

to s suggest some more Japanese authors:

banana yoshimoto
beautiful use of language.

natsuo kirinho
fascinating description of modern Japanese culture.

you've posted this after your most recent update. Continue it.
I don't remember really enjoying it, but you aren't going to get any better if you stop writing.

>>61319

>you've posted this after your most recent update.

Well, I was hardly gonna go back in time and post this after my first update.

>but you aren't going to get any better if you stop writing.

Well, I'm never gonna stop writing, I was just wondering if I should continue with this specific project.

>>61320
you ight as well continue...

In retrospect this actually probably belongs on /his/

The greeks by hdf Kitto he also wrote a book about the Greek tragic plays

50 shades of Aegean

>>61288
Are the books on the front page all that're available on that site?
Doesn't seem like a hell of a lot to me.

>>61293
Nvm, I'm retarded and reviewed the original post.
Nb my mistake.

>>61288
I gave him some op. nb