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HELP. I'm taking this survey of English literature class right now and made myself look like a complete fucking idiot in class today. We were reading this sonnet by Shakespeare talking about Autumn or something, and the proof picked out ME to explain what it means. I didn't know what the fuck to do so I just started reciting the definition of a sonnet and talked about its structure. How do I save myself from looking like such a retard again, /lit/?
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>>9998962
>Twin Peaks: The Retard
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>>9998962
Stop being a 4chan memelord moron, moron
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>>9998962
you're supposed to look for phrases that stand out to you and find contradictions, just like your japanese lawyer games
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I would rather not exist.
Books for this feel?
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Should read Crime and Punishment
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>>9998935
everyone has already read that book. that's like suggesting people on /mu/ listen to floyd
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>>9998930
Why don't you kill yourself?
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*destroys 5000 years of philosophy*
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And nothing of value was lost.
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how do you know that?
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>>9998768
>DUDE COLORS SHAPES AND NUMBERS LMAO
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Nietzsche is the cancer
Kant is the answer
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Kant is the cancer
Merleau-Ponty is the answer
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Kant falters into solipsism though, just as Jacobi articulated
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>>9998777
Then what is your answer, bearer of the trips?
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Am I the only here who wants to own a bookstore? Seems like such a comfy job, selling and restocking all kinds of books and talking to all kinds of people with differing tastes in literature.
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*blocks your path*
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I worked in a bookstore for 3 years and it has its ups and downs.
It feels awesome when you convince someone to buy a book you recommended but most of the time people don't want to talk, they just want to browse without being bothered.
Also you can't be picky about what types of books you sell or you will go out of business very quickly.
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>>9998765
shut up faggot
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Who really enjoys reading Sherlock Holmes?
When I was younger I found it to be pretentious and it felt like the stories were written in a way that you couldn't figure out the culprit before the ending.
Having gotten a little older and having some of my own minute mysteries to solve I have begun to appreciate Sherlock Holmes very much.
My favorite story happens to be The Musgrave Ritual; http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/40/the-memoirs-of-sherlock-holmes/577/adventure-5-the-musgrave-ritual/
Are there other mystery and detective novels that /lit/ would recommend?
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>>9998609
My girlfriend loves this stuff.
I decided to write her a book. It's about a small town conspiracy involving a sex cult and some kidnappings. This sherriff (former fixer with new creds) starts to question his wife's motives in running for mayor after a strange case comes to a foreboding close. Concurrently a young couple seek out a rumored Alaskan tribe society that worships a man claiming to be the spawn of the Devil and God. Inspired by True Detective but not as explicit.
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Agatha \\\\\\\christie?
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>>9998609
>it felt like the stories were written in a way that you couldn't figure out the culprit before the ending.
that's the fucking point
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I want to know what it's like to be depressed. Can you recommend some books that can represent that state of mind? The closer to suicidal the book is the better.
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Steppenwolf
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>>9998535
European demography reports
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>>9998552
very cool and hip. I like it!
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Which books will help one overcome a bitter cynicism?
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Have you read this yet?
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>>9998495
My diary desu
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Learn the fundamentals of cynisism. Embrace the naturalism.
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Can't remember a certain short story 2017-09-08 11:10:58 Post No.9998435
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Can't remember a certain short story
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When I was a schoolboy my teacher read us a story about a school teacher that began to notice something "wrong" with one of her students. Something along the lines of the kid being body swapped or something.
Soon she notices other kids being off/swapped, but no one else sees it. She goes mad one day and ends up murdering several of them in the school's soundproof music room before someone stops her.
The story ends with the teacher being admitted into a psych ward. The person watching over the teacher meets one of her students one day and notices something "off" about the child.
Ring any bells?
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Anyone? Man, starting to think I hallucinated this story.
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Write it.
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>>9998664
Considering I'm a few months from being a certified teacher that doesn't seem like the best idea.
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Thoughts on Sartre?
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He's pretty good, but I like Kevin MacDonald a bit better.
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>>9998336
un ténia
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>>9998336
Pseud. Also a nihilist pedophile
>attempt to start reading Nietzsche
>look up what's his best work to start with
>get suggested On the Genealogy of Morality
>reading preface
>"you should read my previous works before this to understand what i'm trying to convey"
where the fuck does one actually begin with Nietzsche?
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start chronologically
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Ever think of taking the redpill, cuck? Start with CULTURE OF CRITIQUE. By my boy KEVIN MACDONALD. Skip the bullshit and get straight to the source: this guy influenced Schopenhauer, Plato, Nietzsche, and your mom. That's how old and influential he is. Uh-huh, you can thank me later.
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Untimely Meditations or Human, All too Human
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I'm looking for insight on PTSD in police and warfighters. Reading Lendon's Soldiers & Ghosts, it's good but not exactly what I'm looking for.
What are you reading, /lit/?
Poets, playwrights, and other layabouts stay out.
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>>9998300
bugs.. te carrots ..you need to stop.
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>>9998300
easy on the carrots, bugs (;
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>>9998324
>>9998445
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Any good novels about dead girls who become an obsession of the main character?
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the virgin suicides
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Psycho.
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>>9998292
The Ring of Thoth
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>Disgusted at the guilt or absurdity of Mankind, the Misanthrope flies from it: He resolves to become an Hermit, and buries himself in the Cavern of some gloomy Rock. While Hate inflames his bosom, possibly He may feel contented with his situation: But when his passions begin to cool; when Time has mellowed his sorrows, and healed those wounds which He bore with him to his solitude, think you that Content becomes his Companion? Ah! no, Rosario. No longer sustained by the violence of his passions, He feels all the monotony of his way of living, and his heart becomes the prey of Ennui and weariness. He looks round, and finds himself alone in the Universe: The love of society revives in his bosom, and He pants to return to that world which He has abandoned. Nature loses all her charms in his eyes: No one is near him to point out her beauties, or share in his admiration of her excellence and variety. Propped upon the fragment of some Rock, He gazes upon the tumbling waterfall with a vacant eye, He views without emotion the glory of the setting Sun. Slowly He returns to his Cell at Evening, for no one there is anxious for his arrival; He has no comfort in his solitary unsavoury meal: He throws himself upon his couch of Moss despondent and dissatisfied, and wakes only to pass a day as joyless, as monotonous as the former.'
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>>9998105
Exactly, so stop watching anime you miserable neet and go get a job. The contentedness you feel is but fleeting.
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>>9998122
but I don't watch anime
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>>9998141
Good. Now go clean your room.
I've started reading blood meridian and I'm about halfway through and I've just got to say what in the good fuck have I gotten myself into.
>mfw the first raid on the village
>mfw the decapitation
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>>9998072
>mfw a goat
>mfw not a priest
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he never sleeps, the judge
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>>9998072
Yeah, it's a bit bloody. I recommended Blood Meridian to my dad after finishing it. He told me he had to take a break halfway through because it gave him nightmares. So, enjoy yourself, OP!