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>explains every subtlety in the book every chapter like the reader is a retard
>still makes it good
Hmm...
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What the fuck are you even talking about. Have you studied eastern philosophy at all? The no, you didn't have "every subtly" explained to you retard.
Also where to go next with Hesse? I was thinking of reading Beneath the Wheel and then Stephenwolf
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>>9408049
I'm Asian you dip. And you don't exactly have to be a great thinker to get that his journey is symbolic when every chapter is named after the part he's taking on.
Read Steppenwolf just to get to Narcissus.
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>>9408035
Yeah, but Last summer of Klingsor was worse
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There is no such thing as "the canon". One man's idiosyncratic opinions don't constitute some absolute standard, no matter how many WPM he claims to read.
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What's your WPM?
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>>9408003
I don't understand why people say "art is subjective read what you want" and then get so buttblasted when Bloom shits on Harry Potter
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>>9408010
"art is subjective read what you want" is code for "don't criticize my shit taste"
It means don't read HP if you don't want to, but also never say anything bad about it
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I speak French and English fluently and am saddened by my not knowing Russian. Can somebody recommend some good starting points for learning Russian?
Also language general
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>>9407969
Cyka blyat, idi nahui.
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>>9407973
Have you this book? is this any good start?
https://www.amazon.com/New-Penguin-Russian-Course-Beginners/dp/0140120416/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1492746674&sr=8-3&keywords=russian
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>>9407973
what is the decryption key for this?
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so who was right, /lit/?
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What's the difference between an orthodox and a traditionalist?
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>>9407966
orthodoxy is a denomination of Christianity like protestantism/catholicism you retard
you can be a liberal/modernist Orthodox Christian
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>>9407970
yeah you mong, as is traditionalism.
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So long ago when I thought being a pretentious book snob made me the coolest kid who ever saved Latin, I had a 100 year rule about books. If a work was not at least 100 years old I didn't read it. Save your girls on trains and eat pray loves and other popular cool kids literature. No it would only be Voltaire and Chaucer and Milton for me. Then I got bored and lowered it to 50 years. Over time I realized I was likely just reading the pop lit from that time period. I wasn't rediscovering some ancient unknown truths. I was just pretentious. However I was never able to break the bad habit and kept with a 50 year moratorium. Just finished reading pic related because its on this years liberated books list (originally published 1967).
I found it enjoyable. Almost certainly it must rank as Plebian tier as a /lit/ soft consensus.
My question is, am I right in thinking that pic related is just girl on a train or eat pray love or million little pieces of the late 1960s? Is it literature or pop lit?
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>>9407928
>am I right in thinking that pic related is just girl on a train or eat pray love or million little pieces of the late 1960s
no
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There is no difference
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>>9407928
So in theory once you reached 50 you would read books from your childhood? But you wouldn't actually read them now?
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Who /gradschool/ here? This board can't be ALL undergrads, can it?
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i am but i don't think it's much better than undergrads either way
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Tell me, wiseguys, is grad school worth it?
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>>9407998
For academia absolutely yes. For industry almost always no.
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So, /lit/, is it gnostic or what?
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>>9407828
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxi5-6LdSpE
Solid lecture on it, and Elaine Pagels believes John was written as a direct refutation.
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>>9407828
I used to like it more before I realised how hating this world achieves nothing, I don't think this world is "evil" or that suffering is inherently bad.
still all great poetic stuff though
check out Thunder of the Perfect Mind
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>>9407844
Yeah I heard that. Pagels bases this on the "doubting Thomas" scene and the fact that he doesn't receive the Spirit with the other disciples when Jesus sends them on their apostolic missions, right? Sounds pretty good.
What do you think of DeConick's idea that Thomas' kernel was written in Jerusalem around 50? I think she has pretty good ideas about the mystical reinterpretation of early Christianity's eschatological discourse as the main component in Thomas, but I've heard people say that her reconstruction of the kernel doesn't follow strict methodology.
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There is no greater literary lesson to be learned than the fact that
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we are living in a borrowed body. On borrowed time, and a loaned out place. We live lives of chance and circumstance, and die a nomad's death, no matter the place.
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woke af
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holy
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Anybody got an epub or pdf of the Iliad translated by Lattimore? Can't find it anywhere.
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Yes. Yes I do. Dunno where to upload it for you, though.
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>>9407789
Mega or some other filehosting shit mate
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>>9407798
It's on bookfi my man
http://en.bookfi.net/book/1330952
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Post words you have invented
>anthological
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>>9407763
glad to see /lit/ still has a sense of humor
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>>9407763
not sure if this counts, but I invented the "astral imprisonment" ability in DotA (and DotA 2)
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i invented saying "nigger nigger i'm a stupid fucking nigger kill whitey" in my head whenever i remember something embarrassing
>>9407774
cool, that's one of the more interesting abilities in the game
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>Crime & Punishment
>Siddhartha
>Letters From a Stoic
>Tao Te Ching
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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>another teenage chart thread
fuck off to /mu/ and kys imbecile
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>>9407731
>says my favorites are teenage tier
>does not know I have read the entire western canon and know 5 languages fluently
>does not know I'm super smart
Just shit the fuck up
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>>9407758
He's right though. Your picks scream "I'm edgy and need attention."
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What poem would you show to someone to get them into poetry????
Here's my pick:
But I shall not want my death so soon.
For even asylum takes of the world for being.
Even asylum goes mad with winter, summer, autumn, and spring.
And my children will change into men.
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I wish I could find his, couldn't say, might be love, somewhere
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I'm not into poetry.
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>>9407519
Not the snow of flowers,
That the hurrying wild wind whirls
Round the garden court:
What withers and falls away
In this place is I myself.
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Für Deutschland zu übersetzen ist uns’re höchste Ehr’.
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– SYNOPSIS –
One day, ‘I’, who liked the “German army” of World War II,
asked my little sister to wake me up later and took a nap.
The person to wake me up wasn’t my little sister, but a strapping Caucasian officer.
“Fuhrer, did you have a bad dream?”
1941-08-21, a single page of history starts to change in Berlin, Germany.
I don’t want the flag of the Soviet Union being hung on the city hall of Berlin!
Furthermore, I don’t want a Berlin that falls into ruin by nukes!
There’s a need for ‘me’ to change
in order to change history, but······
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>>9407504This series is something I discovered only a few days ago.
Here I was thinking it was just some sort of joke, but it evidently wasn’t.
It’s a web novel that was just recently published in a paperback form.
Seeing the title was enough for me to immediately purchase a copy of the novel.
I know that some of you might be confused by this development.
Some of you might even object to this sort of content.
After all, the title of this series is literally called 〈I’m Hitler!?〉.
Just hear me out, and you too might become enlightened.
Out of all the novels I’ve read throughout my life, this stands at the absolute top.
Korea doesn’t spit out masterpieces like this every day, you know?
Everyone is just going to have to embrace my decision and enjoy this series.
this book exists
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>>9407504
bump
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>>9407504
bump
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>the sun also rises
>the main character's dick is unable to RISE, making it impossible for him to have a SON
i see wat u did there hemingway
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>>9407472
The book is literally a shitty sopa opera in book version
Worst book I ever had to read
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>1984
>it's set in the year of our lord 1984
orwell you magnificent bastard
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>The Brothers Karamazov
>Four guys all names Karamazov
>and
>they're all brothers
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I was browsing /lit/ and it came to me. All threads are about books made by men. Are there people who read and particularly liked novels or philosophical papers becsise they were authored by women? Do people have recommendations? My intent is not to bring up a topic about works about being a woman; rather works unrelated to the female condition, however written by women.
>I'm an anon
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>>9407455
>because they were authored by women?
i don't know about you, but i read books because they get memed, or are interesting to me, and are written by russians.
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>>9407455
Good female authors are good in spite of their gender, not because of it.
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>>9407465
/lit/ has a fetish for white male philosophers. I was wondering if at the same time whether it was because /lit/ consisted only of white-male-special-snowflakes-minded people or there also were femanons on the board. And whether these femanons - simple anons are also invited - wanted to recommend or talk about some works authored by women.