gday /lit/
its one of your old friends from /fit/ here
i am a sailor and was wondering if any of you big-brained gents and ladies can point me in the direction of a comprehensive book about astronomy constellation myths/stories (orion the hunter, etc.)
thanks, missing you always /lit/ :'(
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>/fit/
>sailor
wew
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Greek Myths by Robert Graves or Mythology by Edith Hamilton
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I was a sailor too, but I can't recommend you any book about astronomy, sorry. Take Mahabharata with you, Iliad and Odyssey, Divine Comedy, Moby Dick, Anna Karenina, Don Quixote, Selection of Shakespeare's works, Proust's In Search of Lost Time and Ulysses with commentaries for good measure. That should last you for a long time. Take KJ Bible as well, and Montaigne. Plato's works too. Have a good voyage my friend
The child stepped out into the dry heat of the world. The theater wasn’t that far, but the city had become something of a maze in recent years. He looked down the twisted streets that wound out of sight in both directions and weighed his options. Deciding that time was more important than complete confidence, the child spun on his heel to the left, stared down the mile high abandoned spacesave factories that were his only landmark, and started off, hoping he would find his route along the way.
On the other side of the city, in a cavernous old style bathroom, Severous Snape sat at a porcelain desk by the enterance. There was shelf behind him that contained boardgames from all walks of life, Monopoly to Candy Land to Life itself.
And so he had sat, for how long he wasn’t sure. He felt somewhat one dimensional, as if half remembered.
The vibrations of the room signaled the march of the Fox fanfare above- the next show was beginning! His musings interrupted, he turned slightly to face the soon-to-be rush of people that would be needing the facility, and as he did so couldn’t help but again think he had not been born to sit in this chair.
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Penises
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io
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m,
what is the most /lit/ religious text?
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Pali Canon
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>>9391373
Obviously Ezra to Chronicles (and back again) in the TANAKH.
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>>9391373
The Iliad.
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Ego thread?
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>>9391367
So this proves Stirner is just a meme? Have you guys not read him
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This is my ego, this is my bum
This is for fighting, this is for cum
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>>9393217
It seems like none of these clowns have, which is sad given that he was a fantastic thinker
Is this what passes for Modern Japanese literature?
What trite. Of all the japanese wns,vns, and lns, this is what you guys recommend?
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play:
Tsukihime
Saya no Uta
Ever17
Kikokugai
Euphoria
Kara No Shoujo
my friend.
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>>9391337
It is literally porn picturebook
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What are you reading right now?
How did you hear about the book?
Would you recommend it?
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August Strindberg - Giftas
I obviously knows about Strindberg, found it in mint condition in a used book store.
If you are Swedish, even though it's dated. The book is about marriage,women rights and stuff like that. Tiresome subjects nowadays but the book is a fun insight in the past.
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Hej Swede
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>>9391327
>What are you reading right now?
The Confederacy of Dunces
>How did you hear about the book?
Here
>Would you recommend it?
It seems like everybody here has read it.
I would recommend it for people wanting to read (semi) contemporary fiction
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Stop worshiping germans
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Worship is a spook.
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>>9391280
>T. worshipper of French thought
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Who was in the right here? 2017-04-17 07:51:01 Post No.9391277
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Who was in the right here?
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How is "you" "we" and how can consensus be attained
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The mouse in the house doused the spook of the goose.
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>>9391277
Donald is "right," but Mickey's epistemological framework does not operate in terms in which "right and wrong" have any determining value for actions, knowledge, or beliefs.
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Critical Theory and Post-Structuralism
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None of this shit makes sense to me. In fact, I spent a decent amount of time on forums dedicated to discussing things like critical theory. This only confused me more, and the people who discuss these topics openly and often admit they don't know what the hell their theories mean. Moreover, everyone seems to have a different interpretation of everyone else.
Is this a tangible philosophy in the sense that it can be encompassing and intelligible or is this verbal masturbation for radical leftists?
>read the intro to phenomenology of spirit
>go to read the wiki because wtf
I shit you not this is a real quote about Phenomonology of Spirit on the wiki: "Hegel's approach, referred to as the Hegelian method, consists of actually examining consciousness' experience of both itself and of its objects and eliciting the contradictions and dynamic movement that come to light in looking at this experience."
The more you try to reduce this the more absurd it becomes, and don't even get me fucking starting on the likes of Foucoult, Zizek, or Derrida. This is not to say that there might not be legitimacy to someone like Zizek or Hegel, but it is to say that some of their work is so inaccessible as to verge on horseshit.
Someone needs to explain this shit to me like I'm a 3 year old because I doubt more every day
I'm becoming convinced that academics that write about this garbage are just masturbating a la Sokal, being ever so careful to maintain ambiguous but similar themes.
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>>9391259
a few points to make before this thread goes any further
1. the anon has pretended to make an honest effort at understanding difficulty texts. don't be fooled though, because
2. he spends his times on forums instead of reading the difficult texts he wants to understand
3. he uses wikipedia to try and get a handle on hegel.
he's an idiot, and not worth more time than it takes to type the following sentence:
SPEND MORE TIME READING BOOKS, FAGGOT.
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i am about to go to sleep but would like to discuss this so i will check back tmrrw morning. if you want to talk 1on1 lmk and i'll make a burner email.
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>>9391279
a few points before this thread goes any further
1. this anon makes absolutely retarded assumptions based off limited information
2 he spends his time shitposting on forums instead of using the platform for substantive discussion
SPEND LESS TIME MOUTHBREATHING, ANON
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>studying and reading at home requires me to use a table at an uncomfortable height, have lots of distractions, disruptions due to noise and family members interrupting, and feelings of social isolation
>nearest university library is filled with Chads, Staceys, and normies during "the best time of their lives", requires me to use the bus to get there, and would make me feel like a huge loser due to aforementioned normies and the fact that I went to that university and hated my subject and had no social life, though it is a good place to study apart from that
>city's main library is further away, would make me feel like an even bigger loser due to not blending in with students, and its staffed by awful normies who probably look down on people who even read books
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Fuck off, imbecile.
>>>/r9k/
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yeah this doesn't belong here, also, go to a fucking cafe you mook
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>>9391249
Do you ever take a seat and try to think through your crippling autism or does the stick in your ass make things too difficult
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Who did more damage to the vampire genre, Anne Rice or Stephenie Meyer?
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Meyer. The Vampire Chronicles is actually pretty good.
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>>9391245
Bram Stoker.
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>>9391245
Anna Rice just created romanticized image of the Vampires. I see no damage done here.
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Are there any living contemporary Russian authors worth reading? 2017-04-17 07:34:09 Post No.9391243
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Are there any living contemporary Russian authors worth reading?
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Pic unrelated.
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Viktor Pelegin
Probably spelled that wrong but he has a book about insects (fiction) which is pretty neat at times.
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You know the answer, globalist
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>>9391387
It's Pelevin and he ranges from slightly above mediocre to shit.
Alexievich, Prilepin, Shishkin, Sorokin, Vodolazkin, Ulitskaya
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What's your defense for intelligent design anon?
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This can't all be down to chance and serendipity
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>>9391157
A random existence would certainly be a dismal one. Maybe it's a pattern - the way our universe behaves is it starts and ends infinitely
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>>9391154
like 'capitalism', 'intelligent design' is reaction formation and cannot be adequately defended. those however pro- either position are instinctually correct, but will lose any serious argument.
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How does one write a, how do you say "Badass" character in a work of fiction without said character possessing the qualities of a "marie sue"
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The male version of a Mary Sue is a Marty Stu.
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>>9391072
Write the character as a straight white male
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Base on a real life "badass" and exaggerate. But then make him gay or something so readers know he's flawed
What is the saddest or most endearing passage you've ever read?
Why did it work while others fell short?
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The part of Catch-22 where Yossarian goes looking for the ripped up shreds of paper that had that girls number on it, and then just desperately moves about the city looking for her absolutely shattered me. Not sure why.
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>>9390774
That part in the Iliad when Hector is talking to his wife and his baby son gets scared of the helmet he is wearing. Makes you sad that such a good guy is going to die
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House by the Pooh's corner.
Because Cristopher Robin says goodbye to childhood forever, but the bear doesn't understand it.