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Supposing work is the highest virtue, and life is only about money, why aren't more people rich?
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>>9964129
People are quite rich.
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>>9964129
given these suppositions, we can draw the conclusion that the virtuous are few.
thank god your suppositions are crosseyed horseshit
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Poetry's the highest virtue
I wish your mother never had you
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I have some questions about truth here, but I wont phrase them interrogatively in hopes of creating discussion.
Multiple construals are happening at any time and through convergence we find what we believe is truth.
They think truth to be what most accurately describes reality, but might I irk you to consider truth as merely incidental to being human (Like the purpose of color on fruit)?
Another thing:
>Jordan Peterson
>Ben Shapiro
>Sam Harris
>Stefan Molyneux
>Any famous personality who garnered a large following through pandering or garrulousness
These are all just sophists, making captious objections upon another and others. Replete with casuistry, false confidence, double downing, and biases in protection of ego so as to not render past efforts futile or meaningless.
These are the speakers to whom our curious neighbors listen and perhaps direct their less curious friend.
I ask you to consider:
Is this the cream from our strain?
Are these thinkers results of a selection of the lay masses, or the learned?
Why can't we offer more?
After some consideration I believe we are heading for some sort of terrarium style reality of the apt and inept.
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>>9964068
Have (you) read Vico, friend? If not, perhaps (you) should. Begin with the New Science.
One of Joyce's favorite authors fwiw.
Anonymity is so fucking overrated, it's like a world circling itself
I'm going to a better place. 2017-09-01 12:03:14 Post No.9964040
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I'm going to a better place.
Anonymity is so fucking overrated, it's like a world circling itself
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This place is bad. i do not know the full extent of my strength but this place is heavier i propose. there are good moments but you know it's gonna bleed you dry.
maybe i can let go because in society i am myself now, idk
I just know I want to leave.
THIS IS SIMPLY NOT LIFE.
between a great video game and /lit/ there is little differentiation for me.
if you can manage to not meme me baby i [s]wouldn't mind[/s] would like to hear why you stay here REGARDLESS ....
it's okay you do not have to acknowledge me, stay just as you are
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>>9964040
Rip in peace funny man
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There's love here anon
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>>9964040
But look at all the memes you will miss. Someone has to write more books on philosophy, unless you know shit on philosophy, do you?
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Im looking for that picture that gets posted here in which Borges is smiling with a pie on his head.
I will pray for your salvation tonight if you post it.
Also rare pictures of your favorite authors. Here is Thomas Pynchon's hand.
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Pynchon's son
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>>9964995
I actually like his band. It's called the Facts and Figures
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Recs for a total noob. 2017-08-31 11:32:17 Post No.9963912
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I know close to nothing about literature, except for some local thriller/crime novels that i've read during middle school. Recommend me some stuff!
Preferred genres are horror and adventure, but i'll read anything if it looks interesting.
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>>9963912
Keanu is always related.
Start with the Egyptians and learn about ejaculating on lettuce. Then proceed to the Greeks. Then make your way all the way to Infinite Jest. Finish those and you can shitpost here freely
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>>9963918
Recommend some specific books? I'm actually Egyptian so i feel really uneducated
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>>9963934
Oh shit really? There's a list in the sticky of books on Egyptian culture you might be interested in. Aristotle and Plato are two Greeks you need to familiarize yourself with, as well as the plays by Aeschylus.
If you want to get into the literature of certain locations, like Japan and South America, there are good reading lists posted in the sticky as well.
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>send my crush 400 words of brilliant, refined prose
>"haha that's pretty good"
>spent 3 hours working on writing that shit
>mfw
Is it time to give up lads?
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>>9963894
Post it here so I can pretend it's for me and that I'm someone's muse
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>>9963914
If you say so... https://docs.google.com/document/d/116HEtYhWmbMysbQUweQ6GKVmHB2i45cPLF-aW3QdH04
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>>9963920
I don't trust clicking google docs because I have autism.
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When did you grow out of contemporary fiction? For me it was in 11th grade after reading Murakami's' Kafka on the Shore'. I switched to classics, poetry and non-fiction and never looked back.
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Contemporary poetry is the absolute best, however.
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i neva gotta intoo it senpai
started reading at twenties
i wonder how many have
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> contemporary fiction
I was never into it. My school experiences with it were utterly terrible.
Anything post-1800 is intolerable.
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I've been thinking about doing this story idea I had. Here's the basic idea so far:
A middle-aged barbarian frost giant is cursed and turned into a dwarf.
He tries to find a spell to reverse this, learning several other spells (particularly ice spells) in the process, and becomes somewhat of a wizard. Since his home is too big for him to live in now, he stays in an inn in a town for more human-sized people.
The story would be a comedic fantasy (though preferably without anachronistic jokes because those are in pretty much every comedic fantasy) with fantasy elements loosely based off of Norse Mythology.
I'm not sure if I should make it a book, a webcomic, a cartoon, or something else. I think it would best as something with visuals, but I can't draw so I'd have to find a collaborator to do the art
What do you think would work best?
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>>9963779
Doesn't sound half bad. What are the themes?
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>>9963793
I've thought of a few ideas for that, but I haven't quite gotten anything concrete yet
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>>9963779
Have you started on it yet?
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Rate my stack? Picked these up at the used book store for about $250, I think it was a good haul.
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>>9963775
gay
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>>9963775
8/8
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>>9963775
250? You got ripped off pretty badly. If estimate you got took for at least 100
thoughts?
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meh art senpai
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>>9963770
Why do they have hats on their brains?
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>>9963770
Thoughts?
Recently come across this author; give me some suggestions.
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>>9963754
Your in for some good spy novels OP, have fun reading him. I recommend The Spy Who Came from the Cold, the Tailor from Panama, the Constant Gardener and Our Kind of Traitor.
Our Kind of Traitor is available as a movie and its pretty decent. The Night Manager is a book of his that is a good mini series on amazon prime.
Overall good writer.
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>>9963754
You're gonna get a heavy dose ofmolesat the top of The Circus
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>>9963772
Just found Our Kind Of Traitor for 1p on Amazon.. why the fuck not? Cheers! Good to get the heads up he's all about the spy novels. aven't read a good'un in ages.
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Thoughts?
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>>9963709
anyone?
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Is the book better than thr 2016 movie adaption?
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I'd put both in the "good not great" category, so up to your personal preference.
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>>9963691
The book was excellent, far better than the movie, it doesn't have a dumb jew as the main actor.
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>>9965309
>>>/stormfront/
But back to serious discussion, I think the movie does a fine job translating Endo to a mass audience. I still think The Samurai is his masterpiece, but Silence is a noble effort.
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I've read In the Miso Soup, No Longer Human and Piercing. Where do I go from here? Recs? Preferably something contemporary or in a similar style to those I've already read.
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>>9963667
setting sun is his best work
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READ
THE
STICKY
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the only acceptable artform from the japanese is anime
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Name a better short story written by Tolstoy.
Protip: you can't
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>>9963637
My mind heads towards Family Happiness, Cossacks, and Kreuzer- all of which I prefer for sheer variety alone (especially the second)- but I suppose each is probably classed as a novella, not a short story per se. Sergius IS great but like Master and Man thematically one dimensional. Of course if I choose Hadji I'll be accused of following Bloom, so I won't, although....
I'll give (you) this: Sergius is clearly better than The Devil. But really.. are not ALL Tolstoy's shorts great?