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hey /lit/ are there books that you would recommend for studying psychology? If not is okay I guess
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Are you ok with pop-science? What interests you? Cognitive biases, politics, personality, intelligence, creativity?
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>>9371515
I guess? intelligence, creativity, and personality yep
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Just finished this one. A major recurring theme was language and writing, but to me, the most interesting thing about the book was all of the inevitablecuckoldrythat seems to set in later in life among members of the itinerant upper crust. Is this an inescapable fact of life?
I highly recommend looking up the places mentioned in this book on google maps as you go along. Feels like a vacation.
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>cuckposting
>still no replies
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>>9371562
A reply
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Has anyone read his short stories? Thoughts?
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Thoughts on Updike?
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>>9371460
Whats Updike?
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>>9371559
About one fifty
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>>9371559
>This much hate
>current year
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>The best writers are those who've spent a long time around people and a long away from them
Is this true, /lit/?
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It's not even wrong.
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>>9371387
Yup, it's why Chad types and /r9k/ shutin types are usually equally shit writers.
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>>9371362
I mean yeah, underatanding social conditions and human interaction is integral to any artform; since at its core Art is a representation of a person, and on a larger scale it represents the culture of a society.
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How well does french translate to Russian?
my local bookshop has got some old ,high quality, leather bound Translations of Anatole France's poetry as well as a few volumes of Stendhal and other French'eis that they are selling on the cheap.
for any bilingual people, how well does French, especially verse, translate to Russian?
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>>9371200
Both are hard langages to learn, the best you can do if you really want to read French is to become billingual, else you won't understand the meaning of it by direct translation. It goes for every literacy.
t. French
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>>9371522
i'm fluent in Russian.
the issue is that some languages translate better into each other then others.
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>>9371546
slavic langages aren't roman langages man
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I'm watching this show called Mad Men and I really like the loneliness themes from the last seasons... What are some good books that evoke the same type of feeling or themes?
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>>9371022
You'll like something happened by Joseph Heller
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obligatory mdd
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>>9371022
No idea but Matt Weiner cites John Cheever as an influence
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What is the point of Stirner?
We all inherently act out of egoism sure, but if we do that then aren't all the spooks we have also furthering our egoism? For example acting in a way that is for "the greater good" is natural and makes us happy, so why try to rid yourself of spooks if they make you happy? What is even the point of saying we all inherently act out of egoism if it doesn't even change anything?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tEW2oXMBeM
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>>9371017
that was really interesting thanks, got anymore links or any reading you can recommend me?
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>>9371040
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/max-stirner-the-ego-and-his-own
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/max-stirner-stirner-s-critics
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What kind of person wears this?
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One who eats much baloney.
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A phony, ironically
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>>9370956
Someone who got raped by her big brother
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Who`s your favourite badass protagonist?
Trying to read something entertaining :)
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>>9370924
Tony Hawk really let himself go.
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>>9370924
Unironically.>>9370924
Karsa Orlong from Malazan is pretty great as well.
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Redrick "Red" Schuhart from Roadside Picnic is pretty badass. I found that book to be very entertaining, can only recommend.
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Recommend me depressing books /lit/
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Man's Search for Meaning seem like companion books to me. One just takes place with Nazis and the other with Communists. So you might like it.
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Stoner had me depressed for a few days until i fully thought through the novel, now when i think of it its kind of a sad happiness
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M Y D I A R Y D E S U
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What was Kafka's problem?
Why didn't he just suck it up and act normal like everyone else?
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He couldnt
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desu I would fire him.
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>starting with the greeks
>not starting with the Mesopotamians
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Western civilisation starts with the greeks
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>>9370651
despite what /pol/ may tell you, first post does not necessarily mean best post
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>starting with anything else
>not starting with the Vedas
Civilization starts much after the Vedas
>There’s no reason to blot the page up with weird little marks. I mean, if you write properly you shouldn’t have to punctuate.
>Entire first chapter is in italics
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>>9370397
This is now a literature class.
Why do you think he made it in Italics, OP?
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>>9370397
Is he reading something in italics in that photo?
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>>9370401
to indicate that the whole chapter should be read with more emphasis
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Please remember me
My misery
How it lost me
All I wanted
Those dogs they love the rain
Chasing trains
Coloured birds above
They're runnin circles round the well
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>>9370386
Remember me
Finally and all my uphill clawing
My dear but if I make
The pearly gates
Do my best to make a drawing
Of god and lucifwr
A boy and girl
An angel kissing on a sinner
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High school sucked for me too. It doesn't get better f.am
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>>9370458
nah, sure it do
>out of high school
>college way better
listen to that mountain goats song, "You Were Cool"
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Hi /lit/, I've been struggling a lot with this recent CAPTCHA. It says "please select all road signs", but because I've been reading so much Baudrillard recently, and I've come to the understanding that everything is signs, I select all the squares and I always get it wrong. Is it my fault, or is CAPTCHA inherently flawed in its understanding of the universe?
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>reads clifford the big red communist once
fuck off
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>>9370156
it's worse than you think.
By completing captcha's you are accelerating machine learning. You are helping to build the Basilisk that will torture and enslave humanity. By completing captcha's, you are saving yourself by demonstrating your servility to the future (or already existant) Basilisk, but you doom the rest of humanity.
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Kek nice thread