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Anyone have an ebook of the Oedipus cycle translated by Fagles? Hell, the Fitzgerald will do, but I can't seem to find it anywhere.
Also, now a rare ebook request thread
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Here you go, friendolino.
>The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus
https://u.nya.is/spnnlh.epub
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I'm taking requests by the way.
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>>9416191
Ok, trying my luck:
Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars
Zazie in the Metro by Raymond Queneau
(Both have to be in English.)
Anything by Unica Zürn
Anything by B. S. Johnson
Thanks.
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what are some good books for someone interested in getting in to female psychology?
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>>9414320
stop posting
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Start with Greeks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assemblywomen
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>>9414320
Marx
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this book is racist as shit and everyone speaks in fragmented japanese too much
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bauk nuaw ho ho! iowa jima!
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doggu for dinna!!
haso waso eeets dinna time!!!
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skeptic, atheist, etc. books
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Allo? I wanna feel euphoric.
what are the best atheist books or just books in general that get that noggin jogging.
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Get Kaufman's portable Nietzsche. Don't waste your time with new atheist crap.
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But why? Why would you? You don't need to study atheism or its origins, it's not like some guy did a world changing thing over athiesm. You don't even need a book to argue for athiesm.
It's simple: Religiousfags are idiots for believing in magic and are illogical.
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I finally finished the outline for my trilogy, but the land that the stories take place on is quite large and there's sizable gaps between each dot that I'm trying to connect. In a time without any mode of transportation besides horseback, how do you pass the travel time in writing? It's obviously easy to just wrap up whatever it is that you're doing at one point, end a chapter and have you pick it up at the next point and just mention the length of time that it took and how boring/exhausting/etc the whole trip was. I just dislike that as a whole because it's used so often when I'm sure there's another way to go about things, I'm just apparently not smart enough to think of what it is. I would make the land smaller, but for the various points on the map that are going to be used and how it's set up it's unrealistic to have them any closer together so I'm at a loss.
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>>9413953
Write what is important, discard what isnt
A 15 day horseback trip can and should be summed up in a few concise sentences if nothing of importance happens
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>>9413953
Write a filler arc
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do what tolkein does
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Why don't Catholics into The Ladder of Divine Ascent? The author is a celebtated saint among both the Catholics and the Orthodox, but it seems like the former virtually ignore his incredibly holy writings.
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>>9413942
because they know it's made up. Catholics aren't stupid
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>>9413942
For whatever reason, the most influential Catholic spiritual writings tend to come from the Counter Reformation period or later these days. So John of the Cross, Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa of Avila, and so on. But generally speaking, Western Christians were influenced by stuff written originally in Latin and Eastern Christians by stuff in Greek and Syriac. So, despite the fact that they consider them saints, Eastern Christians don't really read Augustine or the Rule of Saint Benedict that often like Catholics do.
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>>9413954
It's not a novel, it's a spiritual manual
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>Want to learn more about theory of narrative and how symbols shape everyday life
>Anon, you have to read Lacan, Barthes, Saussure, Foucault! You will find all the answers you need there!
>Pick up Barthes
>First page sets up a non sequitur line of reasoning
>Second page takes it for a fact
>On third page he starts drawing diagrams, requesting you to use this arbitrary reasoning as a key for understanding the rest of the work
>On the fourth page he contradicts himself
>Fifth page has another diagram
>Pick up others
>Same exact thing
That was dissapointing. Should I just read McLuhan and that other guy?
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>>9413850
>muh identity thinking
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You have an aggressively limited mind. Go meditate or something mate.
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If you read that kind of theory looking for iron-clad """"""logical"""""" reasoning you will not get far. I mean, really, with any kind of advanced theory, you need some good will - it's trivial to crumble any theoretical building if you want to. That's not the point. Calling out supposed logical fallacies on page fucking 1 is just ridiculous.
If you want to proceed it will help to aquire a decent understanding of Freud and Saussure.
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The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time the sun came up, the author wrote instead that "young dawn shone with her rose=red fingers."
I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Homer's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that he has no other style of writing.
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homer is 3/4 convention
t. nietzsche
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daring synthesis but I mus give it 5/10 the smile is already gone from my visage and I beat on, hands on the keyboard, searching ceaselessly for dank memes
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>>9413785
>not reading the Fitzgerald translation
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Why did Edith become such a bitch?
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>>9413684
search the archive
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>>9413684
Edith was raised as a human ornament, married because 'that's what you're supposed to do', resents Stoner for the state of her life, and honestly was probably extremely mentally ill to begin with
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>>9413684
You didn't always have that impression of her?
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Could anyone recommend a good book about the horrors of war?
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The Thin Red Line.
It doesn't lay the horrors on thick, but its matter of factness about war can be sickening if you think about it a lot.
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>>9413635
I read a book about the tunnel rats in Vietnam. It was alright but I can't remember the name.
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Bloods: Black Veterans of the Vietnam War: An Oral History
Read excerpts of this in a history class and there's a lot of carnage described
Also, watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4Pd527GN48
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please respond -edition
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>please respond
sry will take too much unnatural effort
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>>9413652
i understand
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>>9413493
What's important besides nature?
ITT: Write some surrealistic wordplay
Rougholophically squeaking, it could be spetuated that all menes are entwisted with the crates of udders
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>>9413410
a gamboling pod of seething humans, clipping along on their jumbles of ore. the scorched wind licking at their torn garments, the sun glinting from their buggutted glasses. Fierce reefs of thorns zip from horizon to horizon over the centipedes of earthly stubble. Claps of garbage plume after the fact.
King Solomon poked his head out of the room with a rope around his neck, and the crowds looked with wonder as he mysteriously turned purple. Eventually his father came about and commanded him to be well, and all was well. Lethargic coriander seeds languished in the heat of the small jar in the cupboard, and there was no hope for them to be spread into the foamy languid tonsil soups of the crabtree brilliances.
Importune offerings left only the leveed scallions of orbital squarings in the clamp of tripoli.
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>>9413410
Autism speaks
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It was hemispherealistically possibilious. Although highly unsightly.
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How the fuck we gonna get rid of these pseuds who think expounding on philosophy and Joyce is a sign of their incredible intellect?
They're coming in here, like they own the place, demanding polyglotism and infinite stacks of 'patrician' literature.
These fucking tryhard pseuds is what saps the uniqueness of /lit/. Do we want people to shit out their love for Pynchon all day, until the board is uniform, all plebs cut from the same cloth? nothing bizarre or outlandish?
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>>9413349
i see you've met the kettle, mr pot
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>>9413358
the fuck are you talking about? when did i start bullshitting about my superiority based on how many languages i know, or wave my dick around about how many books i've read?
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>>9413349
4chan is the summation of western dialect. Relax, anon
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William Gass' Fifty Pillars 2017-04-22 03:01:17 Post No.9413339
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William Gass' Fifty Pillars
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long interview
http://raintaxi.com/online/2013spring/William%20Gass%20Interview.pdf
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Gass' recommendations:
>Literature: John Hawkes, The Lime Twig. Stanley Elkin, The Living End. William Gaddis, J R.
>Philosophy (for beginners): Plato, Apology & Symposium, Bachelard, The Poetics of Space, Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, Santayana, Skepticism and Animal Faith.
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>>9413339
Nice to see Stendahl, Le Morte d'Arthur and Thucydides next to so many memes
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Thoughts on this book /lit/ ?
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>>9413230
>ghostwritten
She should've written her biography herself.
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>>9413240
lul what?
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>>9413250
It's Tina Turner's diary desu