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When did you realize that Plato was right about the need for a noble lie?
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>>9120185
I had always thought it was fine to do that even before reading plato
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>>9120185
Plato is right about everything, so from the very beginning
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>>9120185
When le sniffleman told me it was ok.
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>Han læser Soren "Storkeben" Kierkegaard
Virkelig?
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>>9120132
Fedt meme
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I should be this excited at understanding incredibly simple Danish, but I am.
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>>9120364
>I should be this excited at understanding incredibly simple Danish, but I am.
>Should be
>But I am
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Greentext the plot of your new novel, it's not like is going anywhere.
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>>9120016
>high modernism into mystery genre into lovecraftian horror into metafiction
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>Only one enemy remained, two if you counted God...
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>>9120016
>avant poet never writes anything, and just lives his life man
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What is your favorite play of Shakespeare's?mine is Macbeth
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>>9119948
King Lear!
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The Taming of the Shrew
It's a huge middle finger to feminism
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Boring answer, but it's Hamlet.
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Sicut exspectatum, /his/ est plenum stultorum, ita hunc nuntium huc affero.
O.P. Catamitus omnibus plurimam salutem dicit.
Non sum certus hanc rem hic oportere, filum Latinum verum volo. Certe lingua Latina multa per saecula erat modus totius eruditionis, ac abavi nostri erant rectissimi in existimando linguam Latinam esse fundamentum sententiae rectae sensibilitatis veraeque, nam ea lingua non solum dialecticam magnufice docet, sed etiam ipsa sono dulci est poesis profundissima. Itaque hoc filum omnium Latinitatis amantium vel cupientium causa facio. Si ego ipse ubique in Latinitate erro, certe me corrigite, vos amabo.
Ecce nostra Venus Callipyge, maximum Romanitatis opus.
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As expected, /his/ is full of idiots, so I'm crossposting this here.
Salvete c/lit/s,
I'm not sure if this belongs here, but I'd like a Latin thread. Of course, Latin was for many ages the platform for all learning, and our ancestors were most right in thinking that Latin was the foundation for right thinking and true appreciation, for that language possesses not only teaches logic excellently, but also is itself the most profound poetry by virtue of its sweet sound. So I'm making this thread for everybody who loves or wants to learn Latin. If I myself have made a mistake in my Latin anywhere, please correct me of course.
Here is our Venus Callipyge, a very great product of the Roman spirit.
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>>9119805
The Classics department is infested by SJWs who like Harry Potter and only want to talk about Penises.
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Last thing I read in Latin was Pliny's letter about the volcano, pretty enjoyable ngl
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>>9119805
>O.P. Catamitus omnibus plurimam salutem dicit.
accedo, ut melius dicas. vale.
comp's hard man, and it's harder when you're writing 4chanism in Latin. I'll have a look over later if anything obvious pops out, but have a bump you cute motherfucker.
Anything you're reading in particular?
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I want a list of all of the writers who influenced Proust. Here is what I have so far:
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François-René de Chateaubriand
Charles Baudelaire
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné
Jean Racine
Henri de Saint-Simon
Honoré de Balzac
Alfred de Vigny
Anatole France
Pierre Loti
Henri Bergson
John Ruskin
Robert Louis Stevenson
George Eliot
Thomas Hardy
Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Thomas Carlyle
Stendhal
Michel de Montaigne
Gustave Flaubert
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
William Shakespeare
Are any of these wrong? Who am I leaving out?
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Oscar Wilde
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Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
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>>Appalachian literature is the best form of American lit.
Discuss.
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>>9119399
I don't like these people's way of life and feel the modernization of their terribly poverty driven culture will better America.
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>>9119446
The poverty is due to internal colonization. Appalachia is one of the most materially rich sections of America. Outside influences enter and strip the resources as well as marginalize the people through cultural tricks.
For example. The "Mountain man" archetype seen in a lot of literature was created by the brother in law of one of the earliest mining companies in the region.
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>>9119399
I've read some KY literature, and Cormac's Appalachian stuff, but I think Appalachia's greatest cultural contribution is musical: folk ballads and bluegrass
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Look what I got in the mail today.
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>>9119206
That was a waste of $250
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Unpacking :)
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>buying gay porn
dude, the internet.
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Is it reasonable for a chapter to only be one page long?
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Is it reasonable for a part of a book to be only one sign?
t. Georges Perec
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Yes.
Sage.
Hidden.
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>>9119186
Only if it's a prologue/epilogue
My current book has like 3 pages per chapter
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Who are the best contemporary English poets?
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>>9119165
Devlin
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>>9119165
Anne Carson, by some distance
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>>9119165
whose this penmen femen?
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Thoughts on this book/ author? Last night I was reading Crime and Punishment at work (Im a valet) and some really drunk and pretentious dude came out and started telling me "Dostoyevsky is entry level college trash. If you want to experience something truly profound then read this book by Peter Heller"
So i looked this dude up and theres very little info about him online. This drunk douche claimed Heller will be considered the most prolific writer of our generation. Anyone read his shit? Is he really that good?
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>>9119140
A literal nobody. That drunk guy was probably this "Peter Heller"
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>>9119140
Dosto is community college-tier but fuck off petey.
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>The Dog Stars is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel by Peter Heller. Set in Colorado, a man lives a lonesome existence in an airplane hangar with his dog and dour gunman he has befriended. When a mysterious transmission comes through on an old Cessna, it sparks a hunt for the provenance of the sound
WOW THIS SOUNDS HIGHLY ORIGINAL. NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE
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What books would you read if you had to spend a couple months in county jail?
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>>9119104
Gulag Archipelago, for different reasons.
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>>9119109
>Gulag Archipelago
Reading about other people in confinement, even if worse off, probably isn't the best idea.
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>>9119117
Personally I think I'd benefit from hearing how much worse it could be, especially if it's just a county jail. And I don't think I'd get through the unabridged version if I'm not literally locked up for months.
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I know there's a thread around this guy every few months but fuck it. Seriously, what is this guy's deal? After hearing about him for years I finally found one of his books for cheap and all it seems to be is anecdotes about having "nigger" prostitutes piss on his face spliced with interview questions lifted from nonfiction books on child pornography. Has his past three decades of writing just been self-loathing rants about his own pedophilia?
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he's the logical conclusion to literature
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If you care enough to ask that just means you have the same problem as him.
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>>9118960
little confused as to where you're going with that.
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1984 was suppose to be a warning, not a instruction book. What went wrong?
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>>9118396
>implying we're not living in Brave New World
The ruling classes don't need to torture us to keep society compliant, they just encourage the growth of enormous bread-and-circus industries that keep us nice and calm and sedentary.
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People cherry pick and misinterpret it.
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Big Brother did nothing wrong
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What are the essential chrisitan mystics? I really want to get deep into this pratice but I have no idea where to start. Is pseudo-dyonisus good? Recommend me books that will blow my mind. Neo-platonist christianity or gnosism welcome too. Thanks
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If their texts have survived this long and they aren't obvious heretics (Hermeticism and the like), then they're probably worth reading.
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Forgot to use frogman to get decent replies my dude
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>>9118254
They're probably worth reading even if they are. Heretics are interesting.