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Reading the Canon in 1 Year
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Hello I recently inherited pic related from my uncle, a nd was wondering if I could possibly read the whole thing if I devoted half of my waking hours to reading it. I have the first, edition, and supposedly in total it is around 37 thousand pages. Would it be plausible to attend such a daunting task?
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You should be more concerned about understanding it than reading it quickly.
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Not a good idea, OP. Those are general canonical Western texts with varied focuses and divergent subjects. Ask yourself first why you're interested in exploring them and what you hope to get out of them. If you're interested in philosophy, then check those out. If you're interested in Greek plays, then go early. But with your modern sensibilities, jump into Volume 60, possibly 59, for the most satisfying reads. For everything else, except for Shakespeare, you're better off reading summaries and seeking out more accurate modern translations.
As a final note, you may be interested in exploring literature about "the canon," how it's been assembled and promoted, and why you ought to be skeptical of any attempts to solidify some words as the best words to make the best people. It's tricky territory. Check out the Wikipedia entry for "Western canon" for a great general introduction, and seek out more in the references and sources.
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Books that are literally the author masturbating.
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Probably not in the sense you intend, but masturbatory nonetheless—in the most delightful way.
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>Only approximately 650 lines of Sappho's poetry still survive, of which just one poem – the "Ode to Aphrodite" – is complete, and more than half of the original lines survive in around ten more fragments. Many of the surviving fragments of Sappho contain only a single word[60] – for example, fragment 169A is simply a word meaning "wedding gifts",[77] and survives as part of a dictionary of rare words.[78] The two major sources of surviving fragments of Sappho are quotations in other ancient works, from a whole poem to as little as a single word, and fragments of papyrus, many of which were discovered at Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.[79] Other fragments survive on other materials, including parchment and potsherds.[61] The oldest surviving fragment of Sappho currently known is the Cologne papyrus which contains the Tithonus poem,[80] dating to the third century BC.[81]
>In antiquity Sappho's poetry was highly admired, and several ancient sources refer to her as the "tenth Muse".[100] The earliest surviving poem to do so is a third-century BC epigram by Dioscorides,[101][102] but poems are preserved in the Greek Anthology by Antipater of Sidon[103][104] and attributed to Plato[105][106] on the same theme. She was sometimes referred to as "The Poetess", just as Homer was "The Poet".[107] The scholars of Alexandria included Sappho in the canon of nine lyric poets.[108] According to Aelian, the Athenian lawmaker and poet Solon asked to be taught a song by Sappho "so that I may learn it and then die".[109] This story may well be apocryphal, especially as Ammianus Marcellinus tells a similar story about Socrates and a song of Stesichorus, but it is indicative of how highly Sappho's poetry was considered in the ancient world.[110]
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>>10028956
I would never read a women, so I don't care. They are inferior to us as white men.
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>>10028961
She was gay too, you could get hitched. Just need a time machine.
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>>10028961
>2 years in
>"Their inferior to us as white men" guy finally learns that his spam is grammatically incorrect
YOU DID IT! YOU FINALLY DID IT! I'M SO PROUD OF YOU
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Any "unconventional" books you've read which changed your life?
What i mean by that is essentially none of the obvious ones and not necessarily deep ones.
For me, unironically it was reading the phrase "What would carrot do?" in "Guards! Guards!" by Terry Pratchett.
It stuck with me all the way into adulthood and still steers me toward behaviors that have made me many friends and opened many doors.
I do realize its silly, but that's a bit of the point. Ofcourse the Bible changes many people, and many people will claim the same for Atlas shrugged etc.
But what are some books or phrases that changed YOUR life?
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The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters
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>>10028959
Care to elaborate?
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>>10028975
Well, for starters, I degrease my pizzas now.
How hard would it be for someone with no formal training in writing who just took the basic gen ed requirements in college but has a creative imagination and is a good bull shit artist to make a bunch off money off the self help meme?
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The true, I dare say it, /ourguy/.
Discuss the philosophy of the most /lit/-philosopher. Why did Nietzsche call him the apostle of virginity? Why is there no English translation? Should we all kill ourselves?
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>tfw your books finally arrive
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>>10028851
There's no English translation because Ligotti was right. The world knows more about a doof like Weininger than this guy, for a certain reason.
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I am a pleb and can only read English what poetry should I be reading? I like pessimistic stuff.
What I've read and liked, Keats, Bryon, Yeats Larkin and Dickinson. What else is worth reading? Also any good prose poems in English? The Symbolist poets all interest me but I can't read French. Not sure if a translation is worth it.
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>>10028843
Eliot, frost, crane, DH Lawrence.
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>>10028849
Also hardy and Donne
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>>10028843
william blake's songs of experience for some grade a pessimistic lyric poetry
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What books should I read to attain a sound understanding of the civil war and the following reconstruction? I've looked into books by Woodrow Wilson, Cecil Chesterton, and Eric Foner, and I don't feel that I've learned anything at all. Chesterton and Wilson tell me that Reconstruction was a period of chaos caused largely by the enfranchisement of an illiterate slave population and the political opportunists who took advantage of the chaos, but many of their statistics seem to be wildly inaccurate. Foner tells me that it's mostly the fault of extreme racism, which surely was rampant. But he also believes that freedmen were competent to govern themselves, obviously an absurd fucking delusion. Also, he has written articles which clearly show that his instincts as an historian have been compromised by moral cowardice.
Anyone know of some good books on the period free from inaccuracies and moral hysterics?
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>>10028706
Kevin McDonald's Culture of Critique Series
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>>10028716
Just looked it up. There doesn't seem to be anything about the Civil War or its consequences in those books.
Which one should I look into for that?
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>>10028706
DiLorenzo
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I get that Swift's creation of the word laputa came from a derogatory Spanish word. But why that word particularly, and why from Spanish?
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>>10028700
It's a corruption of "el apeuto" which means a pig's penis. Spanish, because his nanny was from Guatemala and he had picked the dialect as a kid.
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What the fuck was his problem?
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>>10028665
Being fucking awesome all the time takes its toll on you, ya know?
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>>10028665
Western hypocrisy, the then anemic state of academia (now worse), the so-called "free press", being charged with treason, being thrown in a nuthouse and so on and so on.
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>>10028665
He had to watch the Jews deal the final death blows to Western civilization in slow motion
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>dude weed lmao
Why do you faggots like this shitty book so much?
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good question
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>shitters like a shitty book
Gee, I wonder why.
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*dispels the mystifying elements of philosophy to keep it from developing into totalitarianism*
pff.. nothing personnel kid
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>>10028528
B-but JEW
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>>10028543
Trying to be ironic? Try harder next time. Derrida's work is quintessential jewish philosophy, or the transvaluation of western philosophy.
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>>10028559
>tfw Nietzsche was quintessential jewish philosophy
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Solid books about the supernatural that are written as if "non-fiction"?
I'm currently reading pic related and it's good but of course it's a collection of fictional short stories.
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Anyone? I guess I didn't mean supernatural in a sense like mothman, ufo and ghost sitings, etc. but more so Occult and Pagan literature.
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Im working on writing historical/non-fiction horror with supernatural elements
Its surprisingly difficult desu
My basis is events like euro exploration of the new world, but certain elements of native folklore are realbut they actually arent real, and are simply an elaborate manifestation of the explorers conscience after the maddening isolation, alienness of the world, constant danger, and guilt at the crimes they commit. A group psychosis of sorts. I never explicity state which side is real of course,
just give probably evidence for both
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>>10028422
COMMUNION of course
The Black Arts by Cavendish is a nice kind of 'encyclopedia' of sorts. He doesn't pass judgement on whether any of it is real, just how specific occultists did different rituals, the histories they drew from.
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alright, which one of you is this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu0PVToGfM8
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which one should I get
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Hamilton's good, readily available in physical formats as well as ebook.
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>>10028397
Nice cropping asshole
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>>10028562
How will OP ever recover?