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Looking for some recommendations regarding Borges? What should I buy, Labyrinths or the Penguin Collected Fictions? And how are the translations?
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Labyrinths misses a lot of stories from Aleph
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collected fictions m8 cept all the translations are by the one guy
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>>9502628
What would you recommend?
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What's the best "Hero's Journey"
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Naruto
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>>9502439
The Red Badge of Courage
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YuYu Hakusho. Even though it's a Hobbit rip-off
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>Being religious but avoiding reading any atheist philosophy
>Being atheist but avoiding reading any nihilist philosophy
>Being nihilist but avoiding reading any antinatalist/pessimist philosophy
You nice and cozy in your echo chamber, anon?
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>>9502438
I just avoid reading all together, really
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I lost you after the first line.
Why would an atheist refuse reading nihilism, or a nihilist avoid reading antinatalism?
I would have rather thought that all three of those go together well on some level.
t. atheist, existential nihilist and antinatalist
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>>9502515
>t. atheist, existential nihilist and antinatalist
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Who do you regard as the greatest extensionalist? 2017-05-13 06:12:28 Post No.9502186
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Who do you regard as the greatest extensionalist?
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>>9502186
Nietzsche and Dostoyevsky as a tag teaming combo.
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Neet
Heidi
Keerk
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Heidegger for me. Nietzsche never resonated with me.
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Is he a psychopath?
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No, but I am
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>>9502269
why 'cause?
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No, he's a NEET in the making. DOAWK is all about him learning how people don't care about him or his existence except for his close family.
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How to Be a Pseudo-Intellectual 2017-05-13 05:59:42 Post No.9502135
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How to Be a Pseudo-Intellectual
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>ALAIN DE BOTTON has become the self-help guru to the British middle-class—a life coach pitched at those who might read The Guardian on an iPad, buy ethical chocolate, and assert an interest in the Booker shortlist. If you’re a certain kind of amateur intellectual with self-improving impulses, it’s less vulgar to entrust your anxieties to a Cambridge- and Harvard-educated pop philosopher who speaks three languages than to the hearty exhortations of Tony Robbins or Oprah. Oprah asks the right questions, says de Botton—“how do we live with other people, how do we cope with our ambitions, how do we survive as a society”—but she “fails to answer them with anything like seriousness.” Enter Professor de Botton. But if the latest publications from his “School of Life” imprint are the current course curriculum, truth-seekers would be better off reading O magazine.
What does /lit/ think about “School of Life” ?
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>>9502135
I have no fucking time for this self-help, liberal-sentimental bullshit.
I'll take the Bible (or the Quran, or any handy anthology of the Pali Cannon etc.) over these fucking guru coaches any god damned day of any god damned week.
There cannot be anything more stupid than entrusting your life to power-point slide morality and How To Ethics that float on air or vaguely metaphysical cliches.
Fuck Eckhart Tolle, Fuck Tony Robbins, Fuck Joel Osteen, Fuck Allan Watts, Fuck Deepak Choprah, and Fuck Alaine De Botton.
THIS IS YOUR FUCKING LIFE. BE MORE SERIOUS THAN A BEST-SELLING PAPERBACK.
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>>9502159
Great post. This.
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>>9502159
Religion is actually far worse than de Button. Religion is pretty much The School Of Life without any ability to unsubscribe or watch something completely opposing.
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M A C O N D O
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHJiqiO7QP4
I need to reread it.
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Why do people get so lost with the characters in this book? It's very linear
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>>9501995
They don't look very colombian
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Thoughts?
Also Dickens general
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haha I had GREAT EXPECTATIONS when I started reading it but instead got GREAT DISAPPOINTMENTS lol
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>>9501870i went into it with great expectations :DDDDD:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD:D:D:D:D:D
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Can you guys tell me which of these plots sounds the most interesting(if any)? 2017-05-13 04:35:01 Post No.9501831
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Can you guys tell me which of these plots sounds the most interesting(if any)?
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Metamorphosis: Matt, a 15 year old high school freshman, comes home one night and catches his mother being attacked by an assailant. Completely froze up in fear, he watches his mother get stabbed to death by he assailant. His sister arrives and kills the assailant. At the hospital, the doctor tells him that their mother is dead but he also informs matt that they have technology that can bring his mother back to life, however it isn't covered by insurance. Out of desperation, Matt decides to enter "The games" which is an annual battle royale where competitors must fight to death in order to win the grand prize of a large sum of money and fame.
Kill room: Derrick spends most of his time using a chat room called ChatT where users are able to create accounts and talk with another on the chat room. Over the course of being on the chatroom he has made a lot of friends and enemies. One morning while he's walking to school, he gets abducted by a criminal who knocks him out with chloroform on a rag. He wakes up and finds himself stuck in a building with 12 ChatT users. The kidnapper instructs them that they must kill off someone every hour or they will all be killed.
The dupe and the devil: Rochelle, an esteemed royal knight is given the task of escorting a prisoner to the capital to face an execution.
Black company: Cynthia,a hot headed demon gets beaten to the pulp by the leader of black company: a mercenary group that kills demons in exchange for money. Instead of killing her, the leader takes an interest in cynthia and tells her he will spare her life as long as she swears allegiance to him.
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>>9501831
1 and 2 are kys tier
3 is not a plot but at least has the potential to become one
4 is high school tier again although it vaguely appeals to my guilty pleasures
All in all, none of these are plots; they are just scenarios from where your plot would start.
2 is pretty much Cube the movie by the way.
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Getting a headstart on NaNoWriMo this year huh?
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What does /lit/ think of literary critic Dan Schneider?
http://www.cosmoetica.com/
His review of Infinite Jest: http://www.cosmoetica.com/B326-DES266.htm
His review of Gravity's Rainbow: http://www.cosmoetica.com/B1277-DES888.htm
His review of To The Lighthouse: http://www.cosmoetica.com/B318-DES258.htm
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Is he the guy who fucked all those kids?
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>>9501765
Greatest living poet
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This dude is middlebrow sensibility incarnate. His criticisms are 75% at his understanding of the perception of something and 25% at the actual thing itself. Not to mention his writing is fucking dreadful, a weird mish-mash of soft-slang and curses. Because his idea of the truest intellectual is, of course, a negotiation between the actual curious high-mindedness and the schmuck down the street who articulates his own lateral, localized and low discourse perfectly. Make sure to stay right down the the middle of the road. Can't look too dumb to the smarties, can't look too smart so as to be alien to the dumbasses you regularly encounter. What a cunt.
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Post pics of small bookstores where you live.
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The black swan, Lexington ky
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How shall you define Zen?
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>>9501577
教外別傳,不立文字,直指人心
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>>9501594
(A separate transmission outside of the scriptures, not establishing texts as the final truth, pointing directly to the mind)
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>>9501577
Could you describe it as Eastern Stoicism?
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Probably not the place for this, but fuck it. I'm writing a research paper on film adaptations of Hamlet and i need to fill 8 pages with bullshit. Its literally my last paper before i graduate; couldn't care less.
What does /lit/ think of the play or any of the screen plays of it? I've read it more than once (twice for this semester, once in high school) so I'm pretty familiar with it. Was ophelia's death a suicide or an accident, like some people say? Was his mom incestuously inclined towards him, like in the Olivier version, or was she just a slut? Is "to be or not to be" an overrated soliloquy, or some of the best writing in the english language?
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>>9501312
Well you can comfort yourself by the fact that if you're writing a paper based on 4chan's advise, it doesn't matter if you fail or pass anyway because you're attending a shit university
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>went to film school
wow there's your problem
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>>9501335
im resorting to 4chan because thats how little i care. i have 3 other papers that i actually have to think about, this is straight research and regurigitation of what i find - i wont be citing anything, just here for thoughts and input
>>9501337
nope, this is an english class on shakespeare. almost as bad, but not quite. its a topic i selected because i figured there would be a lot of stuff online (there is) but i didnt know i had to fill so much space. if i did know i wouldve started a week ago
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Who was in the wrong here
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Capitalism
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>>9501269
Who?
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>>9501275
I fuck your mom
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What does /lit/ think of this man? 2017-05-13 01:21:50 Post No.9501244
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What does /lit/ think of this man?
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And if you approve of his writing, what are your most favorite novels and why?
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I like him, bust most of his novels have shade of soap opera.
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>>9501473
>most of his novels have shade of soap opera
Please, explain yourself.
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>>9501488
For example, Great Expectations
>Wow! Pip become rich!
>Wow! Pip's money from prisoner whom he saved when was kid!
>Wow! Pip become poor!
>Wow! Prisoner is father of Estelle, Pip's love of life!
>Wow! Estelle's mother is maid in lawyer's house!
>Wow! Anotheer cliffhanger!
etc
It's fucking Brazillian tv show.