whats the best book of ciceron?
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Which version of the Kybalion should I read? I'm seeing that some copies are translated and abridged
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Was Voldemort /ourguy/?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN0BXXx-reM&t=29s
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"Video not available to straight people"?
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>tfw I can't verify this
fuck
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>>10028288
Fuck off.
Is it true that Theravada isn't the oldest form of Buddhism at all and was constructed in the 19th century for shady reasons?
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scholar anons pls help
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Character Looks and/or personalities 2017-09-15 09:19:14 Post No.10028222
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Character Looks and/or personalities
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Hello /lit/
I would like to ask of any characters that have either the personality or the looks of a "wanderer"
What I mean by wanderer in this case is a character who has been through a journey of some form of solitude and travel, is mysterious and understanding, and who has a most powerful and intelligent manner of speaking.
Any entries would help me out
Feel free to ask for your own characters and keep it civil
THX
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>this triggers the /lit/
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Comic books are still books, just as cookbooks/textbooks/atlases are books.
They just aren't literature.
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so what is it then. if not a book? a remote control? a shelf? a pillow?
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>just aren't literature
AHEM, EXCUUUUUSE ME?
Self-Published anons, how did you go about designing a cover? Did you draw it yourself? Take a random painting that's old enough? No picture? I want to put out a good collection, but I think I'll need a decent cover to get any attention (alongside my shilling). I'm thinking about commissioning an illustration, would that be wise?
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Commissioning something will make your book look generic but for some reason people like generic.
I just booted up GIMP after thinking of a cover concept and photoshopped some stuff together, it looks kinda crappy though. But cheaper than the 50 dollars plus you'd pay for an established cover artist. You could also just try talking to a drawfag or something, they might do it cheaper than a so-called pro and it might not be as generic.
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pay me and i'll illu strate you a cute anime girl
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Point taken, I have some friend that *could* do it, but I worry about doing business with friends in general.
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Hmm, maybe.
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Have you ever met someone who seemed to have read everything *worth* reading?
Is such a thing even possible?
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ur just a brainlet
the more you read the more you reailze how much you still have to read
only brainlets think they can even come close to reading everything "worth" reading
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>>10028048
I think most are lying or read the cliff notes version
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I didn't think it was possible
I was just thinking about how someone like that would be
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wow, so this is the power of genre fiction.
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I want to rape Kvothe so fucking bad.
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Don't we all, lad, don't we all
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>>10028153
He's fuck you up. He's one bad motherfucker.
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I haven't sat down and read a book in over 5 years now. I have money and will go to the bookstore and buy and read one, but I need recommendations for something that will truly make me love reading again.
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Anything by John Green
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Socrates' Apology is what got me into reading, but we all have different tastes so you shouldn't take what anyone says at face value and just try out different things until you find something you enjoy.
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Augustus by John Williams
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So I've finished writing a book I've been working on for the past 3 years and unsurprisingly when I started posting a preorder launch about it on social media sites, not even my family gives enough of a shit to at least share the post. So I'm wondering if anyone here has any tips, advice or phone numbers to a decent publicist to help get the word out about it.
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Ask your agent and publisher what their writers usually do.
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>>10027938
Did that, they said to "use your network of social media to spread the word about your book, and seeing as how I'm here now asking for advice you can see how well that went
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The Story of an Autodidact 2017-09-15 07:44:01 Post No.10027900
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The Story of an Autodidact
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"Autodidactism is a waste of time," they said.
"Only academics make contributions to fields," they said.
"You're never going to uncover the past as an architect," they said.
"Linear B is indecipherable... it's a fool's errand," they also said.
Well, I proved those complacent and incompetent fools wrong. I, Michael Ventris, uncovered the language used by the Greeks during the age of Achilles and Odysseus. I didn't have formal training, a fancy degree, or a large grant/fortune; only my blood, sweat, tears, and passion generated my work. And I literally did it in my spare time, a side job to my career as an architect.
Don't let anybody tell you that a disciplined, intelligent, hard-working, creative, and wise autodidact can't outsmart academia. I paid for this humiliation of deep academia with my life so you wouldn't have to.
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cool
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what does it say?
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WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION
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ITT we write like we're in the Victorian era
Perchance that I would find my mirrored visage on this pallid afternoon. Please give our love to thy Mother and say we feel much obliged for her invitation. I hope she is now in stronger health, but the weather lately has not been favorable for invalids, so cold and ungenial, more snow has fallen during the last week than through the whole of the winter previously with us. Prithee that I might return to the residence on the first of May of next year of our lord.
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When this morning's ray first glanced upon the film of the oculus of my spirit, my mind was at once awoken and the days festivities begun. Trembling with a colic temperament, I made haste to the parlor, where Bertrand was aptly preparing a platter of cucumber sandwiches. As I stationed myself at the windowpane, the gentleman proffered me a spot of hot Jasmine. From the aroma of the liqueur I ascertained its freshness, imported stuff direct from the colonies, and blessed the man as I reclined to peruse the morning papers.
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Cringe
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>>10027972
Isn't that the point of this thread
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Is this version bad because of one error? 2017-09-15 07:37:58 Post No.10027872
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Is this version bad because of one error?
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I have the uncorrected version with the error on page 139-140. Should I bother reading it? I've never heard of any other major errors in the deluxe besides that one.
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only time I've seen any reference to other errors was from the amazon review that claimed several errors in the first 100pgs. I haven't noticed any though.
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any evidence for other errors?
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What good (I mean) valuable and serious travel literature (preferably travel memories) do you know?
I like Théodore Monod (pic rel) and Roger Frison-Roche. One liked the desert, the other liked arctic ice. Both french. Do you know any travel writers from other countries?
I know also Kapuściński.
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I don't know what travel literature is
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Would Kerouac and Krakauer count?
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>>10027833
they traveled and wrote novels about it, so yes
I love Volkswagen Blues by Jaques Poulin, a great fucking oregon trail trip!
yes, oregon trail... love it!