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How to tell if a translated work is a good one? I want to read a collection of Goethe's writings because I can't be bothered reading separate copies and the collection is VERY cheap. How do I tell whether the translation is a good one?
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Learn German, you worthless nigger. If you're an anglo you have no excuse not to.
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You don't
How do you expect to know if you don't know the original language? You're just relying entirely on authority.
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>>9203329
Ok!
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post what ur reading atm,
others rate / judge / guess personality
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>>9202731
Brothers K for me
>Mishima
10/10
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That's a great edition of Sailor, anon. Great book too.
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The Magic Mountain
good choice OP
Has anyone actually finished this yet? Is it worth reading or is it a meme?
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>>9202524
> Alan Moore
Top kekkeroo.
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It's decent, but he was trying to be a bit too esoteric. Though I guess that's the point seeing as he's a Magician now.
I much preferred Voice of the Fire
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>>9202524
It's on /lit/'s top 2016 books for a reason. Meaning yes to both.
>go to the library
>ask if they have Book by Author
>"sorry Anon, how do you spell that"?
Wtf guys, why do those little sluts get a job in place of someone else?
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>the job of a librarian is to know every author ever
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>going to the library
Wtf guys, why do these little frogposters get a thread in place of someone else?
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>>9202284
it was a well-known author, you salty bitch
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Anyone have any counter-arguments?
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>>9201699
Yeah. "I haven't read that book."
Why do you consider it essential to the human experience enough to kill yourself
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>>9201706
Why is it that "just being alive is all right?"
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>>9201710
being alive in this period of time as your specific personality construct constitutes a very small segment of the totality of "being alive"
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what's the best novel you've ever read, /lit/?
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Stoner or War and Peace.
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>>9201690
atlas shrugged
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>>9201690
A Song of Ice and Fire (the books are really just one long novel).
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Are there any writings you know of, that recognize and admire the indifferent beauty and grace of cats? Similar to Lovecraft's article "Cats and Dogs" perhaps
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Bump 4 annnnsuhs
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Is alienation due to capitalist economic exploitation and consumer culture, or the loss of traditional norms and cohesive belief systems in modernity?
What makes you pick one or the other?
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>>9201490
no u just need to get off this board
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alienation is due to mental illnesses such as depression and autism
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>>9201490
Why do you presume that these are the essential negative generating principles is the better question. GO DEEPER
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Really fires up the neurons
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University of California, Berkeley, philosophy professor John Searle writes:
[Computers] have, literally […], no intelligence, no motivation, no autonomy, and no agency. We design them to behave as if they had certain sorts of psychology, but there is no psychological reality to the corresponding processes or behavior. […] [T]he machinery has no beliefs, desires, [or] motivations.[27]
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Searle basically makes a living saying obvious things that it's fashionable for philosophers to deny.
Not the most glamorous or interesting career, but there you go.
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>>9201394
So in other words, everyone getting on the AI train is a fool, and computers will never be sapient?
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searle-land debate WHEN?
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>favorite fantasy book/series of the 2010s
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The Silmarillion 2 Electric Boogaloo
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I think the only fantasy book I've read from that time frame is Wise Man's Fear. So that.
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>Waking up to a loud crash rarely means something good is happening. It’s never “CRASH! Mom made pancakes!” or “CRASH! We decided to adopt a Golden Retriever!”
Rewrite in the style of an author of your choice, other anons try and guess who you're aping.
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Why not a Greyhound?
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>>9200568
Adorning desolate plains,
The prior foes surmounted;
One enemy remained,
Or two if god were counted.
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>>9200568
That's almost tautological. Of course a crash is bad. It's the sound of something crashing.
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>tfw my 9-to-5 job is getting in the way of pursuing a literary lifestyle
Wat do, /lit/? I barely have time anymore to read or write.
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Stop browsing /lit/
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>9-5 job
>8 hours
>16 other hours in the day
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>>9200533
Get good. I also have a full time job and I have no trouble.
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This is why Jim Davis has chosen smoking:
It represents a recklessness, a disregard for what some would define as the beauty of life. Garfield may die from the nicotine; he may not. He defies life. He sits defiant, saying nothing but looking as if he could say,
"Then let me die"
"It does not matter"
"It does not matter"
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The Garfield shitposting has gotten out of hand lately and... I'm starting to believe it.
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The cat has your pipe
THE CAT
HAS
YOUR
PIPE
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So in the second panel, Jon Arbuckle thinks 'now where could my pipe be?' but he already knows the answer. Could this question be indicative of an existential search for meaning? Rene Magritte's pivotal painting 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe' comes to mind here. Clearly he is not looking for a pipe. The pipe is not what he is searching for. He is searching for something more. Something more than the pipe. More than life itself. The pipe represents everything in life that is the antithesis of evil. And yet, Garfield, symbolic of Satan, has it in his jowls. His look is an expression of moral nihilism, if not nihilism in full. An expression of distaste for the current state of affairs... and the pipe is his link to an absurdist's rendering of reality. We are forced to look inward, inside ourselves, as Jon's futile thought is combated with the pessimistic, hedonistic reality of the third panel.
Truly, Jim Davis was a sadist for this comic strip.
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> kids are assigned 1984 to read
> "oh my god this is like sooooooooooo our world right now"
> barely any of them will be introduced to Brave New World
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>>9200003
Yeah I have no idea why 1984 is taught before BNW. BNW is much more accessible anyway
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We>>>>BNW>1984
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>>9200003
What kind of shit school doesn't give both 1984 and Brave New World?
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What book would you recommend for a lonely 20 old guy who is new to literature ?
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>>9199881
Crime and Punishment
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>>9199881
What are your interests
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