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What's the essential stoicism reading list beyond Meditations
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Medications
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Seneca
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Enchiridion, and the bible.
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I just finished Motorman by David Ohle today. I really enjoyed it but I found it really confusing. Is there supposed to be some deeper meaning to all of it? Also, Is Ohle's later work worthwhile?
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Holy fuck what are the odds. I just finished this book tonight as well. Crazy.
Anyways I don't know about any hidden meanings but as an exercise or an 'experiment' I think it was really successful. Bunce scares the shit out of me.
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>>9425136
Wow that's a huge coincidence considering the obscurity of the book. Did you get a first edition copy or the reprint?
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>>9425143
PDF of the reprint. The Introduction was excluded so I didn't get to read it but it seemed sort of shit from what little I read on the Amazon page. So I take it you didn't like the book?
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>>9423359
Pick it back up then
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>>9423359
Yeah man don't just leave stuff on the floor.
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pick it back up when you're done with high school
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Will postmodernism lead us to our ruin? Should we go back to the modernism ideas or even older philosophy?
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modernism huh. world war 2 wasn't deterrent enough?
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>>9423241
let's go neo-neo-classisism
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Postmodernism ruined women. That's for sure.
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ITT excuses wannabe authors make
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"Stephen King said 500 words is enough!"
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>>9422213
>smart but lazy
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I need to read more before I start writing
None of my ideas are any good
I am going to do Nanowrimo this year
Nobody publishes good literature any more
Trying to find "my voice"
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General
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what's our Hugo best novel then - edition
Science Fiction
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Fantasy
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>>9421255
ninefox looks like trash
closed and common could be good
obelisk gate and birds in the sky got no idea
honestly its between Death's End and Too Like the Lightning.
Personally altho Death's Head was amazing not sure another book in a trilogy needs to be another Best Novel Winner.
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>>9421255
Ninefox and Obelisk Gate are my picks.
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>>9421255
>black woman
>white woman
>asian trans man
>white trans woman
>asian man
>white woman
It's like poetry.
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Coming soon (1/3).
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2/3.
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3/3.
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What the hell is a neoreactionary?
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Beckett to me is intetesting because it feels like he knows each of his works are failures.
It is an interesting dichotomy to Joyce, who he tried to emulate for so long.
Joyce believed the power of words and language could reach the truth, and Beckett followed suit.
He eventually realised he could never compete with Joyce's enormous vocabulary and craftsmanship.
He, in a dramatic turn of events, completely went the other way. He believed language could not get to the truth, and it is better to say less than to say a lot.
Beckett believes language is futile, and it is all ultimately in vain.
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i keep having the beginning of murphy echo in my brain. i read it here, haven't read any of Beckett, and it just resounded until it forced me to go out and grab one of his books. i really can't think of a better opening, and haven't seen one yet.
the sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. just blows my mind. i know it's cliche, but it's a cliche of a cliche about cliches.
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>>9419984
Is someone who needs every word to express what they want to say really a believer in language? Is someone who needs every story to tell a story an advocate for the form?
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beckett is awesome
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I noticed that most of the books I read have little to do about romance and love.
I'm propably gonna start reading Pride and Prejudice soon since that is the only book I already have but haven't read that is a romance novel.
What novel that you have read has in your opinion the best, most interesting love story?
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>>9418859
Of that ilk, but uncommon is Blackmore's Lorna Doone. It's exceptionally well written. A romance of a different sort, published less than 20yrs ago, is Penelope Fitzgerald's The Blue Flower (based upon the earlier portion of Novalis' too early ending life).
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>>9418859
so not Romeo and Julia
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>>9418859
"If on a winter's night a traveler" is probably the most interesting one I've read.
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Why dont we like IJ anymore?
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>>9417861
Oh god, not another thread of this shit.
Saged.DELET THIS
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>>9417869
y did he and Don Gately dig up his fathers head w/ the mater copy in it
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>>9417876
master** sorry im gay i didnt catch the typo
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tfw you finally understand what makes a good poem 2017-04-23 12:52:16 Post No.9417217
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tfw you finally understand what makes a good poem
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>>9417217
Do share, op.
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>>9417496
it's when you take words out of a specific thematic field.
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>>9417496
inb4 the understanding is irreducible to language
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>ran out of page swipes
>have to spend another $7 to finish the book
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>>9429371
>paying for books
you literally paid for an eb00k, retard.
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>>9429378
That's not the same as the individual page swipes themselves.
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>>9429371
Does kuckdle really work like that? Why would anyone not get a kobo and download shit from libgen instead?
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Suggest to me some great practical /lit/erature.
Thank you very very much.
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>>9429384
i want to believe this is a subtle way of calling OP a frog, but that would imply you read that shit
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ausfag
YA fiction featuring autism 2017-04-26 04:14:45 Post No.9429177
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I am working on a piece of YA fiction that features a character with autism. I'd love to hear your YA fiction experiences that deal with this topic. I don't think there is enough, thats whats driving me to do it, but I know its out there. More broadly what do you think are the best YA fiction in general, your favourite YA fiction and what about other fiction books dealing with autism (pic unrelated)
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>>9429177
Your diary desu
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>>9429177
Lol holy fuck that glacier is about to attack that seaside town
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>>9429177
I hope you die of aids
Is Naked Lunch just a book full of nonsense or were you guys able to extract something from it ?
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It's nonsense - like the alice in wonderland of a junkie's mind. Oh and it gets pretty gay at times
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>>9429135
whos grill
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>>9429140
So random art I found scrolling through FB .