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Never share your wisdom and insights with normies!
They fucking put me into an asylum (five times in the last six years) an diagnosed me with Schizoaffective disorder. Never again! Fuck the plebs!
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Maldoror go back to sleep
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>>9978084
Share it with us, then
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>>9978084
we is gonz keeps lockin you up til yous aksin fer the nex i-fonez, y-heerz?
dhat boii aint rite. maybe hes wunnudemz der seral killus
BOY! GET OFF DAT DERS KERPOOTERS! IT AINT GOOD FER YE!
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The Chemical Forces by Thomas Pynchon 2017-09-04 10:18:54 Post No.9977973
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The Chemical Forces by Thomas Pynchon
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What the fuck did I just find?
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DOWNLOAD IT BEFORE YOYODYNE SHUTS IT DOWN
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>>9977978
it's physical copy
http://www.empik.com/the-chemical-forces-pynchon-thomas-ruggles,p1111723954,ksiazka-p
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>Originally published:1870
Pynchon time traveller confirmed
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I've been doing a bit of research and practice on alleged "speed reading" over the past couple of hours and I am torn.
Some say that they can read over a thousand words per minute with above-average retention. All you have to do is to quiet that internal voice.
Others say by doing such, you are greatly damaging retention, and that the only way to truly read and comprehend faster is to speed up the voice rather than silence it altogether.
These to me are two radically different ideas, and I'm having trouble discerning which is correct. I'm leaning towards the latter, that being that the "voice" in your head is necessary for retention, but I also don't want to jump the gun simply because it would be more difficult to train my mind to "speed read."
I would greatly appreciate your thoughts, and, if you have it, any physiological evidence to point either way. Thank you
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>>9977426
Retention is not the same as comprehension. You can retain a lot without necessarily comprehending it.
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ever see rainman? it's like that. good will huntings don't exist.
next.
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Is there any point in reading ancient philosophers today, given that they were wrong about virtually everything?
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>>9976931
Yes because the concepts and themes they brought to the table are still relevant and will always be, at least until we all get nuked or something like that, which will probably happen pretty soon
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>>9976945
You can get that out of a history book.
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>>9976931
They weren't wrong about everything, so they will always be relevant
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Was Pozzo Godot?
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No.
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>>9976864
Yes. No. Maybe.
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Godot derives from the Middle English "goddot", which literally means "God knows". So "Waiting for God Knows What".
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Who is the best of the English Romantics, and why is it Wordsworth?
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>>9976808
Because it just is. Shelley's next, but back a ways-
Meant to reread the 1805 Prelude again this summer but haven't yet. Still almost three weeks. Perhaps I'll finish up what I'm on and begin this week.
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>>9976808
I have a question relating to Wordsworth. My first (and so far only) exposure to Wordsworth has been the Lyrical Ballads. I found that I loved Wordsworth but thought that Coleridge was painfully mediocre. Am I a pleb?
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>>9976808
Blake's quite a bit better
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Critique thread. Post what you want us to read. 2017-09-03 11:54:32 Post No.9976597
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Critique thread. Post what you want us to read.
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The 36th floor. The 35th floor, the 34th.
The sky was getting farther away, which was a bit disquieting. Why couldnt the sky be getting closer and the ground gaining its distance? Danny figured if heaven existed and he was bound for the glory land and kingdom come, all that would be happening in due time. The sounds of car horns began to crescendo melding into the chilled rushing winds swishing past and through his ears. Danny instantly understood why people scream while falling. Given the events taking place splattery doom zooming at you 15 plus miles per hour, screaming seemed like a pretty fair and casual reaction. Taking a deep breath he sighed out, wondering if breathing up would push him down, increasing his descent speed. Even while dying Danny told himself he made dumb descions.
Gazing up at the moon growing regrets creeped in. Regrets of how he will never live long enough to see it colonized. Or at least a space station, for Christs sake. Daniel always wanted to see space up close. All in its own time a subconscious voice cooed soothingly. Other events that could've been but wouldnt come to pass due to dannys demise gave him his last woes. He would never date the columbian girl, he really wanted to see her spaces up close as well. Hed never have kids or date any other girl at all for that matter. And if his brother really did pass away without having a son, well then that was a wrap for his families lineage and last name.
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Strangely, he wasnt panicking either. There was adrenalin coursing through veins which might have explained the rapid thought process. Increased brain activity and so forth. Ones life truly does pass before ones eyes if only because youre trying to follow the chronological path that lead to this final situation. That penultimate moment before our last big crimson splash onto the surface of a world well never know again. In retrospect, there wasn't a damn thing you should've done differently. Lets paint the town red Daniel thought as Queen Luna and her tiny shiny minions escaped from him bit by bit.
The 19th floor, the 18th, 17, 16.
With a sort of emotional detachment he pondered how pain wont be a problem anymore, emotion or physical. Neither would lose matter or crying or death, not anymore. Death can't matter to the dead. He thought about the glorious golden kingdom in the sky, that if it truly actually was real, how he might see his parents and everyone else he loved. That even if heaven wasnt above us, if we were alone, if Danny never saw anyone ever again, if there was only blackness in the end, at least he wouldnt have to miss the lost ones. These were the thoughts dancing through the minds eyes as the music of life came crashing from underneath reaching an almost deafening peak.
A fat woman screams, "Oh god, hes falling!" she points at danny.
the pedestrians chorus cranes their neck upward then in unison they gasp 'awe and fascination'.
The vocals differ.
"Oh shit, somebody catch him."
"Nigga is you retarded? The boy is dead as fuck."
"Why do people kill themselves?"
"Damn my phones dead."
"Dude, where did i park my car?"
Not a word of care. And why should there be?
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>>9976600
I really don't want to critique this because it'd either be falling for b8 or absolutely shitting on a passage that you've tried your best on.
>>9976603
Slightly cliche'd but I liked it Anon. Interesting use of grammatical tools, but have you considered working on the form? I don't see how the broader form and structure as it currently stands enhances the poem
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I'm still mad.
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>>9975772
Why? That's the only possible way the book could have ended while still maintaining the spirit of the series and without resorting to asspulls. One of the most haunting and memorable endings in all of children's literature imo.
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>>9975772
Refresh my memory. How does it end again?
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>>9975784
With The Penultimate Peril. Almost every character from the books was in that hotel and fire could kill them all. When I read it in first time I was sure it will be the finale book, because premise sounded really... final.
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>“In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I’ve often felt I had to be careful in public, like I was up on a wire without a net. Now I’m letting my guard down.” —Hillary Rodham Clinton, from the introduction of What Happened
>For the first time, Hillary Rodham Clinton reveals what she was thinking and feeling during one of the most controversial and unpredictable presidential elections in history. Now free from the constraints of running, Hillary takes you inside the intense personal experience of becoming the first woman nominated for president by a major party in an election marked by rage, sexism, exhilarating highs and infuriating lows, stranger-than-fiction twists, Russian interference, and an opponent who broke all the rules. This is her most personal memoir yet.
>In these pages, she describes what it was like to run against Donald Trump, the mistakes she made, how she has coped with a shocking and devastating loss, and how she found the strength to pick herself back up afterward. With humor and candor, she tells readers what it took to get back on her feet—the rituals, relationships, and reading that got her through, and what the experience has taught her about life. She speaks about the challenges of being a strong woman in the public eye, the criticism over her voice, age, and appearance, and the double standard confronting women in politics.
>She lays out how the 2016 election was marked by an unprecedented assault on our democracy by a foreign adversary. By analyzing the evidence and connecting the dots, Hillary shows just how dangerous the forces are that shaped the outcome, and why Americans need to understand them to protect our values and our democracy in the future.
>The election of 2016 was unprecedented and historic. What Happened is the story of that campaign and its aftermath—both a deeply intimate account and a cautionary tale for the nation.
Thoughts?
(Btw why is Hilarious not in prison yet? I thought Trumpet was man of his words)
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>>9975081
>a loser history book
Why would anyone ever read this?
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>>9975081
>"The deplorables didn't vote for my vagina because they're sexist."
Her campaign was constructed on lies, her boo is further explanation of those lies aimed at her fanbase who don't know how to think.
>Btw why is Hilarious not in prison yet?
Clinton in jail is a fever dream. Obama as well. Any high DNC player, really. That would cause instability on par with something like a Trump impeachment.
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>500 pages of muh Russians, feminist whining and self pity
God fuck no
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Describe this latrine.
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In the barren waste it lay--
Too cold to shit
But I must stay,
Shiv'ring all the while.
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>>9974667
Poo in the igloo
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I just finished the iliad and the odyssey. loved both of them, especially the iliad. what do I read next that packs the same weight? i got about halfway through the Aeneid but didn't like it as much (also the fact that virgil just keeps taking so much from the illiad it gets annoying)
what are some other patrician tier readings?
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>>9974516
Obviously, the next one in the line is Dante's Comedia. End the ending of the pentalogy is Joyce's Ulysses (but maybe that's just Joyce's opinion).
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>>9974516
Take a gander at the meme list(s). Read whatever strikes your fancy.
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>>9974516
>He didn't read The Fall Of Troy between the two
BAKA.
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>reading about the lives of farmers 500 years ago
This is the look of classicfags
I hate you
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>>9974068
is lizarde ok?
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>>9974097
shhhh
he' sleeping
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>>9974101
When he wakes up he has a surprise lol
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Childhood is thinking Piggy and Simon were the good guys, adulthood is recognizing Jack and Roger made more sense
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Riveting analysis. I bet your AP Lit teacher was proud.
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Adulthood is not remembering the names of the characters in Lord of the Flies.
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What the fuck did I just read?
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Some dude's end of the world fever dream, heavily inspired by the old testament prophets.
It also got Muhammad's dick really hard when he heard the Christians preaching about how fucked up the end times were gonna be.
What was your favorite part anon?
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>>9973214
An impenetrably symbolic-allegorical polemic against the Roman Empire.
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>>9973251
also it was written right after the fall of the second temple and what looked like the end of Judaism as we know it
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bring on the lit humor boys
I'm ready for the teehees
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*clears throat* uhh
Thomas Pynchon is one of my all-time favorites because I love uhh goofs, pranks... tricks, and whenever you open a book by him there's snakes that pop out in your face and you pick the book back up and you've been pranked by pynchmeister, the card. Buzz you get a shock and he laughs. Huge golden gong.