>STEMfag
>reading work of philosophy/natural science
>can't help but compare everything to modern theories and think about how what I'm reading is horribly wrong
I think it is safe to say science killed my wonder of the world
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>>9575469
>posts image of Newton the Last Magician
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>>9575469
Sounds like you need some Wittgenstein.
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>>9575469
Don't blame science, pal.
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What do you think of Dr. Seuss?
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He's here to remind us to look up the definition.
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>>9575335
Unironically top tier children's reading.
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>>9575335
is that kanbot
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Is it strange that I can relate to Patrick Bateman and am influenced by this novel a great deal?
Him living in this world, that doesn't give a shit about anyone kinda reminds me of myself, although my suits are cheaper
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>>9575286
Do you have no one who cares about you or whom you care about?
That's sad. Are you a frogman?
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>>9575286
It's the fantasy of every marginally intelligent pseud to be like Bateman. Until they're forced to grab their ankles and get fucked by their bosses, that is. It just means you're a common person with unoriginal aspirations.
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>>9575286
No, it's a hilarious book that was unfortunately denigrated by DFW, who did however make some valid points
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Morals and ethics. Where should I start? Looking for western-centric works, no quran rebuttals or analyses.
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>>9575240
The Greeks
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>>9575240
Start by having less nazi imagery saved on your computer /pol/tard
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Nicomachean Ethics
Meditations
Varieties of Goodness
After Virtue
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nothing but the classicism
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The term "classism" defines the height of a culture. Here in Germany Johann Wolfgang Goethe is often called the "Dichterkönig"and for good reason. Question for you anons that know their way around german literature, do you think any period or author was able to or will be reach the classic period in terms of depth, lyrical quality or range of topics handled in a good way? Or are we doomed to be only confronted to second class prose for the rest of our civilization?
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>>9575237
>The term "classism" defines the height of a culture.
It doesn't.
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>>9575237
He was lucky to be alive at his time period (no other mass media except news papers and books.No TV, no cinema, just theater). If G lived and pubishled today he'd be one among thousands and drowned out by the mass and and other media.
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Okay, so I've read about 250 pages of this book, and although I was in stitches for about the first 150 pages or so, I was wondering if the rest of the book is just the same stuff for another 600 pages?
It really is funny, but it's getting a bit formulaic now and the jokes are the same.
Will I be rewarded if I stick to it?
Thanks. Hope we can stay close friends
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You won't understand it unless you read it in Spanish
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>>9575107
On the contrary I won't understand it at all if I read it in Spanish.
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>>9575099
1st part gets a bit dry when they're at the inn listening to the random traveller's stories.
2nd part is a lot more fun, because everyone in Spain has heard about Quixote and decides to play along with his madness.
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Why is it important to start with the Greeks?
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>>9574976
Start with the Messopotamians.
T. Greek.
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Start with them before they start with you, kot.
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>>9574979
Yeah dude i love Messopotamian literature, Gilgamesh, the list could go on...
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What's the best book/articles by this fella?
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from what i've read
>book
campaign trail '72
>article
kentucky derby is decadent and depraved
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Campaign Trail '72.
The Battle of Aspen.
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>>9574864
his suicide note desu
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Can we have an art/paintings thread?
I would like to know paintings that remind you people of poetry, or that gives you the feeling of something poetic.
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"Peace is a great maker of cuckolds"
- William Shakespeare
Please /lit/, help me better understand this quotation from a renowned work of literature.
What was Shakespeare (the most famous and acclaimed writer in the history of the planet) telling his audience with this line? Does it have any relevance to modern day culture?
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>>9574713
Why was Shakespeare so obsessed with cuckoldry, he literally wrote an entire play about it (Othello)
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First Servingman
Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as
day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and
full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy;
mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more
bastard children than war's a destroyer of men.
Second Servingman
'Tis so: and as war, in some sort, may be said to
be a ravisher, so it cannot be denied but peace is a
great maker of cuckolds.
First Servingman
Ay, and it makes men hate one another.
Third Servingman
Reason; because they then less need one another.
The wars for my money. I hope to see Romans as cheap
as Volscians. They are rising, they are rising.
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>>9574723
It's kind of funny
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Can /lit/ clarify something for me: when do you use ' and " for dialogue?
Some of the books I've read mark dialogue with ', others with ". Is there a preference when it comes to the two?
I'm post-editing my novel and need to know if I need to edit all dialogues, or should I leave it to the potential editors.
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i don't know either, so i just don't use anything
t. *spits*
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>>9574529
Anon said: "I heard OP's mom say 'Gee whiz anon, you're sure great in bed'."
That's the preference. Notably (for /lit/), DFW does it the other way around.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_marks_in_English#Usage
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Just be
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>>9574456
shut up you nazi
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jus go wiht the flo ;))
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>>9574456
kek, fuckboi
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Any good Napoleon-era books that are not navy-related?
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>>9574362
war and peace
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>>9574362
Written or set in the Napoleonic era?
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>wanting to read something not navy related
What is the correlation of literature and being a pervert?
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go away jim
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Imagination and drive.
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smart niqqas realize that some societal norms are arbitrary in a a certain sense
but they get fuqqed up beecuz those norms are actually there for a reason
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I just finished reading "The Last Wish". Is the rest of the series good or am I better off abandoning ship?
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Motherfucker if you liked it keep reading, if you didn't then don't
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do you really need to ask 4chan whether or not you should continue a series after reading the first book which only you know whether you liked or not?
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>>9574294
The next book is quite expensive in the country that I live in since it has to be imported, so I would like to hear others' opinions on it before buying it. Don't get me started on "eBook" bullshit because that's also expensive to buy here and I prefer the feel of books.