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I ask every year as I go every year: anyone going to Dublin for June 16th?
It's usually pretty nice and people don't quiz you on the book or anything, so it's not like you have to have understood EVERYTHING about it.
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>>9521575
While we try to live the dream, anon is living the meme
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yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah i'm heading for the first time, it's gunna be sick. How many people dress up old style?
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I usually go to a smallish thing in Sandymount rather than the larger affairs and even there there is plenty of dressup. But it's also still perfectly accepted and ordinary to just show up and hang out without "living the meme."
Dublin's a nice city to visit anyway, though I don't think I'd want to live there.
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What are some books that I should read to get into International Relations? I'm interested in the theory of international politics - like sovereignty, human rights, realism, liberalism, power etc. So whats a good starting point?
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>>9521518
Fukuyama's "Last Man" mea culpa (pictured) and Huntington's Clash of Civilizations.
Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoğlu and The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer are also really decent stuff for murricans.
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>>9521518
watch these brief lectures, they provide comprehensive coverage of the most important schools of international relations
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6iehBVKuUKeyau9ApMx1EQ/videos
And watch this playlist of short videos covering nearly all relevant concepts and aspects of international relations
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB5965C13F4B0B2DA
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>>9521572
not OP, but these look great. Thanks!
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Repeat after me:
This is water.
This is water.
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The reason why I consider most of the presocratic philosophers as irrelevant is because the sources we have are flawed and indirect. We can only speculate and guess what Thales actually meant by his assertion that water is the basis (arche) of everything: is everything made of water (e.g. through a process of vaporization, condensation, etc) or is water the initial element that gave rise to the development of the rest?
It's also completely possible that Thales's views were distorted or misinterpreted by Aristotle and Plato.
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Or, you know, they're irrelevant because philosophical physics are obsolete, and their scope of metaphysics only broad enough to barely scratch what would today be considered empirically unfalsifiable.
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I'm already at 4.1122, but just can't move on because it is so dry. What do I lose if I don't finish it?
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>actually reading the tractatus
Why would you spend your time reading 100 pages of incorrect outdated autism? Just move on to late Witty.
>inb4 you need to know le process of ideas
Just read secondary sources instead of wasting your time
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Props 5 and 6 get much better, consider then the real 'meat' of Tractatus
>>9518952
PI is fucking garbage
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>>9518930
It gets interesting at 5.5 in my opinion, but to understand what I really like of tractatus you only need a rough picture of the figurative theory, I'd do this >>9518952, then read his lecture on ethics (imo this contains the 'meat' of TLP) and then move on to late witty with good secondary.
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Most /lit/ historical figures?? 2017-05-24 01:46:47 Post No.9545162
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Most /lit/ historical figures??
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Did he ever live to rewrite any of Voltaire's plays?
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When I have free time at my uni, I always stop by my library and read a book filled with Bonaparte's letters, orders and documents. The man is one of the most underrated writers of all time. His love letters are a bit melodramatic, but they have a charm.
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Hands down Marcus Aurelius
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Why did women have sex with Bukowski? 2017-05-23 10:50:54 Post No.9544409
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Why did women have sex with Bukowski?
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What was his appeal?
My GF recomended him to me, she's into ugly unkept drunks. I thought this was her unique weird quirk, but after reading some of his stuff it seems she's not alone.
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>>9544409
Daddy issues.
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>>9544416
Did he remind them of their shitty dads, or was he the dad they never had?
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There's a subset of the female population that's attracted to the type. It's hard to explain but the half drunk, don't give a fuck mentality is like a bug light to the trashier women out there.
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I have discovered why women like this book so much.
One is the amount of gossip is so overwhelming it speaks to their nature.
Two is the pretentious tone of it all makes women feel superior.
Is Jane Austen really just pandering to womens narcissism though? What a frightening thought.
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I DO NOT HAVE SEX
BUT I POOP THE NIGGER!!!
shitter of the fart cum
farter of the shit cum
he poop he poop
the wenisbanger!
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that probably why desu. it has it's merit, I suppose. but it's all damn dialogue. i like Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth though, that's a nice thing i guess. Mr. Bennet is pretty funny as well
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I enjoyed Sense & Sensibility a lot more
Speaks to anyone who feels better than everyone else really
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>he likes george orwell
>he likes aldous huxley
>he likes ray bradbury
Then you're a fucking edgelord that probably also thinks pink floyd are musical geniuses because of "le wall lol :DDDD"
kill yourself
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>>9543251
contrarians should be shot to be quite frankly honest with you famalamazoids.
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>>9543251
>edgelord
>kill yourself
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/lit/ I need some advice and I'm not joking.
I just won a short story competition with a story I wrote in one day. It's 2,000 words about an older working class guy full of regret who retires and decides to fulfill his lifelong ambition of conducting an orchestra, only to form one and to have the debut performance ruined due to bad weather. It's "humorous" and I suppose "cute" and there is a $1500 prize, which is something.
However, I fear that by having my name (and image) associated with said story I am condemning myself to a "style" of writing which is kinda low-brow and superficially interesting at best, and admitting, in a sense, that I'm capable of no more. I fear that finally making my "debut" in a literary sense in this manner I am just letting myself down by going from saying nothing and being considered to be "full of potential" to saying something (at last!) only for that that to be retarded.
Am I overthinking things here?
My instincts (autistic and exhausted due to working full-time) are telling me to pull out, demand my name be scrubbed from the site, quit my job, and then write what I feel is the most sincere and passionate thing I am capable of, and the ultimate End, which is a lengthy memoir-manifesto which I have for a long time intended to write, before posting this online for free in pdf form and ending my life immediately afterwards.
Am I going insane? Please respond. Please.
I don't want to be just another mediocre jerk off entertainer. But I also don't want to look back and think "goddamn, that could have been a good place to start!"
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>Am I overthinking things here?
yes
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Do not remove your name from the work. Use it as name recognition so that people actually give a fuck about what you write next and are willing to read it.
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I have Just finished being and time and i would like to read more or continental philosophy. What do you guys advice ? Is Derrida any good?
> I ve already read husserl, Heidegger and sartre
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>more of* continental
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Read Wittgenstein first
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>>9543186
For Derrida? No.
Just pick a primer on Saussure.
> people are summer funnin' outside
> tfw just inside having a little read quietly with a cup ofhot coffee
What books are you reading this summer?
Are you going to read at the park? Prime summertime reading spots?
Best drink to have while reading?
Any summer reading groups?
Any new releases worth checking out over the summer?
Summer vacation/reading plans?
Happy Summertime btw love from OP, thank u <3 xx
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Cup of water, windows open to catch the breeze, sitting back in a chair with a long novel. I don't even want to read a lot this summer, but I'm thinking I'm going to dive into Les Miserables. Something lengthy and powerful but accessible enough that I don't find it mentally exhausting.
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>>9542723
Current plan is to spend the summer focused on Russian and Chinese non-fiction, alongside reading Moby Dick.
Always pair books with water + coffee.
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>>9542758
In french or english? Abridged or not?
As for me, I have quite a stack to read and I will read and explore the city a bit this summer.
Is it still possible to write something so controversial it will be banned?
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certainly, depends on where you live though.
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In some countries holocaust denial and other forms of "hate speech" will land you in prison and get your book banned.
I'm sure Herr Hitler would have seen the logic in this kind of censorship, he not being especially fond of free speech himself.
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What are the essential Shakespeare plays and which plays can I safely skip?
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>>9541739
Essential, Titus and Coriolanus, Hamlet, Macbeth (fuck the comedies)
SKIP THESE: Timeon of Athens. Two Gentlemen.
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>>9541741
is Julius any good?
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how's King Lear?
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What do you think is the place of romance and sex in serious novels? How often is it used in order to flesh out characters or advance the plot instead of just for the sake of itself.
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>>9541459
A novel that does not address romantic or erotic love in some form will never be truly great.
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>>9541464
Then you don't read many novels.
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>>9541474
When I read, if a character never has any mention of a romance or carnal desire, they just feel fake. Love and sex is kind of intertwined with being human.
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>Controversial government law passes
>Neckbeard says "We're turning into 1984/Brave New World!"
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1984 and Brave New World paint with really, really large strokes, which is why everything can be distilled down into something that fits one or both of their precognitive ideas.
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>1984 wasn't supposed to be an instruction manual
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>>9541434
Brave New World guys are way more smug and annoying about it because they think they are intellectually (and oddly morally) superior to the 1984 guys. Either way, I hate reddit