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What books will help me learn the italian language?
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Bumping for recs
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>Non sa leggere in Italiano.
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>>9424895
Caesar - Mea Pugna
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>that new book smell
Ahh simply intoxicating. I am a huge proponent of e-readers, but damn, it's the little things like the smell of a new book that always have me crawling back.
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>buying new books when every decent book is available second hand in a billion places
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>>9425360
I don't buy used books. I don't know where they've been.
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>>9425360
>being poor
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One of the most brutal and eye-opening things I've ever read in my life 2017-04-25 03:22:36 Post No.9424716
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This is the work of Clayton Schwartz, a man who was paralyzed in a motorcycle accident. He, unfortunately, ended up killing himself.
http://www.2arms1head.com/
Why do I post it on lit? Aside from its value as a chronicle, it is a searing bit of writing. And I want to bring some attention to the talent that this man had.
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>>9424716
Note: if you struggle with depression, suidical thoughts, or anything of the sort, you should probably be careful about reading this. It really is harrowing.
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Bookmarking it.
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>>9424716
For the last fucking time
>you
>cannot
>orchestrate
>an
>automobile
>accident
>without
>unintended casualties
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What is /lit/'s preferred translation of the Bible and why?
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NASB. It's the most readable and accurate.
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King James because that flow.
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>not reading the bible in a latin language
plebeus
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>finally have the living room to myself at ten o'clock
>get out the whiskey, my mouth fedora and write some bullshit, but don't have much on my mind, so plan to read instead
>suddenly Dad comes out, can't sleep, and throws on the TV
>trying to concentrate through Pawn Stars blasting in my ears and the occasional talking from my Dad, but give up
How does one achieve calm and solitude when they're surrounded by literal and figurative noise?
Staying at the parents' because I was laid off, btw.
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>>9424713
You don't have a bedroom?
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>>9424767
Not anymore. My father took it over because he doesn't like walking up the stairs more than necessary (operations on his legs) or maybe my mother doesn't like sleeping next to him because he is fat and loud and smells. I get the room sometimes.
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>>9424713
>my mouth fedora
You vape?
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>400 word essay due at midnight
>Haven't even started
Woe is me
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>he can't write 1000 words an hour
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>1 word essay due in infinity
>Just started it last night and clearly not going to finish
>Can't think of a good excuse to tell my teacher
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>>9424706
All the starving third-worlders who are literally being raped by warlords' soldiers right now empathize with your terrible predicament, OP. What a terrible lot you have drawn.
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>the chapter where Liza says she wakes up and finds a bunch of tiny demons running amok in her room
dude wat?
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>>9424686
She's fucking crazy,just wait till you get to the part where no one's around and she just slams the door on her finger for no reason.
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She was corrupted by Ivan's atheism.
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>>9424686
She's supppsed to be the secular equivalent of father ferapont
She's such an odd character, I can only imagine she was going to be expanded upon in the sequel
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I just printed my first chapbook of poetry today and will be giving copies to all my friends as I use up my school printing credit for the rest of the semester
Anyone else ever do small time DIY publishing for fun?
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>>9424680
I'm doing this week! Im p excited. I've been published in small magazines (going for some bigger ones this year) and It's nice to have a thing I have more control over.
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>>9424680
Greentext your best poem
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>>9424680
Best? nah but heres one I like without greentext
maybe I'll miss the
solitary soundtrack
scratching away
the silver ink of dusk
beaten dog baritone
and fuck you falsettos
rising to a domestic- crisis
crescendo
with the cow choir
diesel beasts rattle my road
as the fine china
finds the floor
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>When Diomedes gets a massive STR buff
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>tfw Ares !Rr3sC4nvZIto tries to get Zeus !LeDKil3r69 ## Admin to ban Diomedes !gYSJoKnSNs but Zeus bans Ares for being a bitch
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>>9424564
>when Medea kills her own children
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>when Atlas' reflect spell goes ineffective against Herakles
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/lit/ I want to write about shit that happened in my life without being a trite motherfucker. Not a memoir, fuck those things, but literature if possible.
Trying not to write conceited drivel or hackneyed emo shite (good luck, I know), but I'm too stuck in my own stupid head/personal experiences to not fill the pen and paper with the faggiest tears.
Asking here because a lot of you seem to read more complex and interesting books in a month than I can in a year.
>I'm not Harry Potter.
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You want to write something that isn't shit but you realise whatever you write will be shit. The only way to not write shit is to write shit and realise how it's shit. Realising how it's shit can be done by reading complex and interesting books.
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take your real experiences and make them much better by turning them into a fictional story that you can add better details to.
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>>9424531
Did anything interesting actually happen to you? If you wanted to read a book about someone would you pick a book about you? What happened to you that could be interesting?
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Is Atlas Shrugged really that much of a meme book as people say it is? Asking not ironically
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If by "meme" you mean "shit," yes.
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Most people that talk negatively about Ayn Rand haven't even bothered to read the book. Rand isn't a perfect writer (Sometimes a chapter drags on for too long) but her writings go against the collectivist status quo so that's why you'll often see liberals hate on her and make strawmans out of thin air.
That being said, remember /lit/ as a board leans more to the left than the rest of 4chan. So they'll most likely tell you to read Marx instead.
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Chapter 2 is great. The rest is ham-fisted.
The length is what really makes it a meme.
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In Jurassic Park, dinosaurs were created using toad DNA and ancient mosquito blood. The toad DNA allowed the dinosaurs to change their sex enabling them to mate. Then Ian said "life found a way" and he meant that the dinosaurs found a way to reproduce. What if before the dinosaurs went extinct, the dinosaurs planned on being recreated after death in order to keep being dominate over the Earth? What if that was life finding a way to keep living?
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>>9424469
https://youtube.com/watch?v=XbOx8TyvUmI
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It's really hard to believe, that if frogs spontaneously change their gender, this would go overlooked by the people creating the dinosaurs.
Maybe a point of that shit is just like where Malcolm says "you were so preoccupied with whether or not you could you didn't stop to think about whether or not you should", which is weak and lame.
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>>9424534
>This
But realistically if you had the power to bring back dinosaurs wouldn't you?
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What are some good Spanish translations of classic lit?
alternatively, what is some good spanish literature?
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>tainting classic literature with your subhuman language
fug off
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>>9424396
I'm Russian, anon. My sister just learned Spanish and can speak it fluently now. I'd like to get her a decent book for her birthday that puts that to use
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The poems of San Juan de la Cruz are supposed to be the most beautiful poetry ever to be written in spanish.
Any good, trust-worthy literature on meditation? As far as I've seen, there is a overabundance of scams, useless self-help trash, cult-like programs, and more in general I always have the impression most of these people are trying to sell me something.
Any book that bypasses all of this corruption?
Also any experience on meditation and how it affected your discipline, your mood and your appreciation for art?
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Just look up mindfulness and call it a day.
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>>9424371
mindfulness in plain english is okay
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The Mind Illuminated is pretty cool. Simple to start and follow whilst building up ideas and useful descriptions as it becomes more advanced and in depth.
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Who makes the best hardcovers and why is it Everyman's?
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>>9424333
Everyman's is, quite literally, for poor plebs. Get some Franklin Library or Easton Press books.
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>>9424349
Only girls who read YA and want a vanity copy of Tolstoy to make themselves look well read buy either of those. Everyman's prints high quality books that will last for you to give to your grandkids, and they'll still look classy when you do. If you buy Franklin or Easton, they'll know you were a pseud.
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>>9424349
Easton and Franklin are, quite literally, for poor plebs. Get some leather-bound antiquarian books.