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Why do women love YA so much?
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>>9591196
Why don't you ask them? 4chan is the worst place to learn about women.
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>>9591220
this
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>>9591220
I'm a woman and know other women browse here...
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How did you increase your reading speed?
How did you minimize subvocalizations and read for phrases/ideas/groups of words instead of individual words?
I'm trying but I'm having trouble.
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Continue reading
>How did you minimize subvocalizations
You can't that, how we all interpret written language.
Your brain will start reading phrases subvocally rather than word by word is what most people mean.
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meth eyedrops
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Read books while listening to music, it'll help with getting rid of slowly subvocalizing every word
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As a male I have noticed that I lack a vocabulary for certain feminine things, and I wish to correct it.
For example, I call flowers flowers. I can perhaps identify a rose or a sunflower, but that's about it. I recently realized that every girl I've met can name many varieties of flowers. I know many men are the same as me when it comes to this.
I've also just noticed that I lack a vocabulary of colours. I call things black, brown, red, purple, yellow, etcetera. At best I could identify beige or navy blue. Women seem to know hundreds of different shades.
Thinking about it, I suppose I am also ignorant of fabrics. I can identify cotton and wool, nylon and silk, but that is all.
The men I know are also like this. Are there any other feminine categories that I am ignorant of my ignorance of?
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>>9590708
Step 1. Buy an excellent thesaurus.
Step 2. Read the thesaurus.
Step 3. I mean: read it. Page through it. Read it.
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types of black cock: Mandingo, Gorilla, Racehorse, etc.
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>>9590708
Use fucking Google you mongoloid.
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>Danielewski (House of Leaves) is currently in the midst of writing 27 consecutive 880 page books about a twelve-year-old girl named Xanther and some loosely connected characters from across the world
What other writers have seen a modicum of success and then gone batshit insane?
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House of leaves is unreadable.
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>>9590508
He burned too bright and snapped in less than a decade.
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>>9590513
It's very readable
on a train or public place, not so much
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"A real artist respects the silence, which serves as the foundation of all creativity." What did he mean by this?
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WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU
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He meant exactly what he said. Now fuck off retard.
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shut the fuck up, stop playing with your dicklet, and think
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The sophists were right all along
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Prove the principle of non-contradiction exists without begging the question
Pro-tip: you fundamentally can't
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ok, how's this - nobody cares you strawweight memer
now either pick up a shovel and help us kill some persians/dragons/usurpers/tyrants or get the fuck out of the city of philosophy
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>>9590404
> a victim
No you are an agent.
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How can someone be right or wrong if the principle of non-contradiction doesn't apply, you idiot?
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Do you think there's an essential human nature that's not produced by historical and social development?
What are your arguments for this?
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Human Nature I'm assuming is whatever is particularly inate in humans as opposed to other species? Anyway all I can come up with is a faculty for complex language; other than that I don't see anything exceptional about us.
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There is an essential self which is untouched by all forms
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>>9589923
>'essential'
>'human nature'
spooky
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Does anyone hear write super short stories or poetry?
Share what you got!
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I am trying to get better at writing short poems. I am not very got but they help with my grasp of english figures of speak
We danced in the back room
With a broken disco ball for a moon
And artichokes for hearts
Pretty tough until were baked
I got on the pink line at 3 a.m
And made it to the liquor store by 3 o’ five
All the guys out front tried to sell us kill
But we had enough death in a bottle
For the two of us
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>>9589916
i'll start
baby condoms
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For sale: >tfw gf, never used
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What would Sartre think of the current political climate?
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He would probably think Emmanuel Macron is even worse than François Hollande, and would have quite a bit to say in favor of Charlie Hebdo. I think He would be a fan of Michel Houellebecq too.
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>>9589740
He wouldn't have been a writer if he lived in modern times. He would have been an activist for the Manlet Acceptance Movement
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>>9589758
> implying he wouldn't go full pro-islam
Is there a book about a genius living in a world of idiots?
It seems like a theme that should appeal to authors, yet I can't think of anything.
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>>9589583
"Hard to be a god", by the Strugatski brothers
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>>9589583
my diary desu
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>>9589583
kafka at his worst
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Where should I start reading Charles Bukowski??
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>>9589318
In a comfortable chair.
But seriously, I would start with factotum before the poems to get some insight into his life.
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>>9589318
Near the end. The whole thing's been like that until then anyway.
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>>9589318
I started with the "Women" and I highly recommend doing so.
I still miss it /lit/
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Oh man, I remember we used to have Borders threads every day, people would just walk out with armfuls of books without paying and the staff couldn't care less.
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>>9588693
Same
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>>9588710
Newfaggot here. That sounds like a lot of fun.
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IsmodernGreek worth learning?
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>>9588098
Anju is turkish.
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>>9588098
I imagine it would set you up for eventually learning classical and finding a job in Greece, but in terms of marketable skills I think Chinese is the way to go.
You can argue until the cows come home about which language has the most "aesthetic value"
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>>9588098
yes, modern greek is really similar to ancient greek in grammar especially koine greek. If you want to read Homeric Greek you will need to study some more but it's worth it
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/lit/ and its pseudo menace
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Why pseudos so angry when I say reading poetry or classics in its translation is literally not the masterpiece its supposed to be? Are there people that truly believe reading the Odissey, Iliad, The Divine Comedy etc in english is the same as reading it in its original language?
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cool troll threzzzzzz
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A translation can be better than the original. Russian literature is better in English.
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>>9587999
So how come the translations aren't the masterpiece instead of the original work?
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Sincerely question. How do we purge the English department?
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>>9587957
Hooks and Butler are compelling thinkers desu. The problem lies with obnoxious brainlets who make muh feminism the primary marker of their personal brand.
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shouldn't the faces be reversed or are they just performing?
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Igne ferroque