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Is anyone with kids or younger relatives participating in this? What do you think about it?
When you were that young, did your parents/siblings/etc read books to you regularly?
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>>9315172
My mom read books to me all the time and taught me phonics before kindergarten. She'd also buy me lesson plan books so she could homeschool me during the summer.
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>>9315172
I'm planning to do it with my kid. I've got 200 of the books so far, with another 450 or so picked out to buy. I'm not really planning on counting rereads, which I know some parents do.
My mom read to me regularly, and I could read the first level I Can Read books by age 3. Hoping my kid will turn our similarly.
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>>9315172
It is offered in my library, but I dont read hundreds of 20 page picture books to my daughters, I read them chapter books with pictures. A half chapter of wind and the willows every night before bed takes about 2 months to complete, and the hobbit took us like 1 month.
tl:dr, only pleb soccer moms reading dora books to their kids can do this.
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They were the good guys right
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There are no good guys. Males are evil and domineering by nature. That's the point of the book.
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>>9315099
I wish <political group/figure> would understand that 1984 was meant to be an instruction manual, not a warning!
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Is that logo canon? Was IngSoc a multiracial society?
It's been a while since i read it.
How can we destroy postmodernism? It's not only destroying society, but it's destroying our very ability to interpret society as anything at all.
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>>9315027
I want mods to ban people who talk about psotmodernism without knowing anything about it.
I WANT THEM BANNED NOW
FUCK YOU
AND FUCK J PETERSON
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>>9315048
Maybe I'm just interpreting postmodernism differently to you, Anon. All interpretations are equal and valid.
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>>9315027
>postmodernism
>2017
Even Pelevin and Sorokin stopped write posmodernism man.
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hello,
sincere post here..im 80 pages in (chapter 3) to the recognitions and am liking it although there seems to be quite a bit that just goes over my head despite how many times i reread.
i can understand the plot, it is pretty straightforward, i am following somewhat consistently with the annotations on the gaddis website when i come across some religious or historical reference i don't know (which happens every other god damn line).
This book is very demanding. I think it is objectively quite difficult regardless of how well-read or intelligent you are.
I loved JR, and while I AM liking this, I feel like so many of the paragraphs of digressions from the actual plot are just over my head.
Also, I mean, just because I KNOW what the religious references are and stuff, it doesn't mean I know WHY they're there.
I just want to know if I should persevere if I'm at the point where I CAn follow, and am enjoying it, but feel like i'm missing quite a bit of the deep detail.
whenever i read or hear of someone talking about whether or not they should continue through infinite jest because they're feeling confused and discouraged, i always say "keep going!! it gets easier, it makes sense eventually, seriously!" and am wondering if this kinda does the same thing. although the plot of the recognitions isn't hard to follow (yet?).
anyway im rambling now
what do u think?
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>>9315009
Yeah it for sure gets easier. After the first quarter a lot of shit is laid down. If you are already using the net you should be okay after that. It also opens up to a bunch of different characters that are way easier to follow. Wyatt and his dad are probably the hardest parts of the books because of history/art/religion.
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>>9315009
>sincere post here
sad say when this becomes necessary
anyways, stick with it and reread it later. Its much easier to explore territory you're somewhat familiar with. you're not going to approach a work like that and just absorb it all in the first round. Don't worry about whether or not you "get it", just get familiar with the characters and scenes and ideas
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Religious stuff... or revealed-truth.
Revealed truth vs acquired knowledge is a common thing with Gaddis shit.
Revealed vs recognition
Revelations... Recognitions
I'm probably talking out of my ass.
Yo it's weird right, that like, there was enough hubbub around this guy that a false story went on to shape the modern world. What REALLY happened here?
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>>9314951
please explain i don't get political cartoons
are you saying that it was something like
"hey guys..... not me but, my friend JESUS, who i'm sure you'll meet sometime, said he we should do such and such."
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>>9314960
More like
"Hey guys, Jesus totally appeared to me in a vision, which is basically the same as meeting him face to face, also I totally met some of his friends. Also I know everything about how to run this religion so just trust me."
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Which books should I read if I want to become a Chad?
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>>9314917
the sticky
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>>9314917
Also A Hero of Our Time
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>>9314917
>unironically using the word 'Chad'
>posting anime
Never gonna make it.
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Convince me that the self is real or this lamb dies.
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>>9314837
You think, therefore you are.
Literally that simple.
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>>9314837
Cogito ergo OP is a faggot.
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Self is evident for I percieve myself as such. Therefore the evidence of the opposite is on you, lamb-killer
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I've tried posting this on /his/ but no one seemed to answer. Anyways i've been a long time lurker and i believe curriculum of these subjects are highly relevant to literary culture. So the question goes: If you could enroll to any university in the world BUT you'd have to chose between studying Psychology or Sociology, which one would you chose and why?
>inb4 Lacan, Marx, Freud, Derrida, Focault, Deleuze etc. have nothing to do with Literature.
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>>9314826
>Lacan, Marx, Freud, Derrida, Focault, Deleuze etc.
>even daring to put Marx in the same sentence as those charlatans
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>Psychology or Sociology, which one would you chose and why?
Is this a joke? If I was in such abysmal mental shape I'd choose a piece of rope.
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>>9314826
>If you could enroll to any university in the world BUT you'd have to chose between studying Psychology or Sociology, which one would you chose and why?
Suicide
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"Best Translation for (x)?" 2017-03-30 04:57:43 Post No.9314791
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"Best Translation for (x)?"
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What is /lit/s recommended translation for Don Quixote? I'm stuck between Samuel Putnam and Tobias Pollett.
If you were also looking for a translation rec, go ahead and ask.
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what the fuck is up with her torso b shit is all twisted
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>>9314801
>american sees a woman with a proper waist
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>>9314822
its clearly shopped. how can you see her other boob past the first boob? why is her nipple on the side of her tit? shit is stupid
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This is a dumb question but I'd rather ask than stay dumb. I have no knowledge of American history, are the events depicted in The Grapes of Wrath real? I'm talking about the migration of a large number of farmers' families after being evicted by banks, and them being treated like scum and put into camps. If it's real, when did it happen? How did it resolve? Any non-fiction book recommendations about that particular period of time?
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>>9314789
Yes
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>>9314789
The Dust Bowl.
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>>9314814
Thanks, looking it up now
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Should I buy the collected works of Aristotle or of Seneca?
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buy gay porn instead you enormous fag
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neither, they're both cucks
start with the Greeks then skip to the 1400s
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>>9315043
>start with the Greeks then skip to the 1400s
>Doesn't consider Aristotle a Greek
Lmao. Buy Aristotle though, OP.
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>Aha, so you say statement X is true
>But if statement X is true, then something scary and disturbing will happen
>Ergo, statement X is false
>Checkmate atheists
Is this accurate summation of this man's philosophy?
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>>9314696
Apologetics and philosophy aren't the same thing. That is pretty much what he was saying though.
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>>9314696
Shut the fuck up you dumb fedora.
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cs lewis is not a philosopher
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Post your reading lists, lit. 2017-03-30 04:25:24 Post No.9314654
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Post your reading lists, lit.
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I'll accept in the form of a written list or a stack. This is my plan for finishing off the Greeks and the Bible by the end of summer this year. Finished the Iliad today.
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>>9314654
(Sorry for the sideways picture. As you can see from my handwriting, I'm retarded.)
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I'm just kind of going though the "start with the greeks" meme based on Harold Blooms Western Canon picks.
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I've gotta lot of shit on my Kindle and I'm going through it whatever.
Also you're completely skipping greek theatre dimwit
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>tfw
Do you guys think Pynchon posts on r9k? I thought this book was supposed to be funny, but this passage made me feel the feels...
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What book is this?
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>>9314640
gravitys rainbow
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>>9314586
What kind of discussion did you intend to cause with this thread
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>/rejectionletter/ thread
Everybody post publisher rejection notices and rate other peoples'
>"Hey! Just finished reading your submission in full. I think that you're a talented storyteller, and the structure of the story was actually quite sophisticated in its transition into that central flashback, and then transitioning back into the central 'real time' narrative. That said, I think, regretfully, I'm going to have to pass. I was a bit on the fence, but ultimately I felt like the story didn't come together emotionally––and at the ending, it lacked a punch. I felt I knew about the characters; I knew a little bit about what they did, but I didn't really feel close to them emotionally. I also felt that much of the prose had a kind of rough draft quality. That said, I do feel that you're onto something in writing, and may ultimately have a talent for writing a kind of minimal Raymond Carver-esque story. That said, I didn't feel that you got there here. Sorry and thanks sincerely for sending the piece."
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>>9314540
>I also felt that much of the prose had a kind of rough draft quality
The dream's over kid, get it up
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>>9314540
looks like a template, that's sad
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>>9314563
Might be. Did seem like it rang true for elements of my specific story, though--the central flashback and the Raymond Carver comparison.