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Looking for interesting secondary literature that relates to Homer's works, essays, theoretical works and so on.
So far i have Wilamowitz-Moellendorf on my list, also that essay from the "Starting with the greeks"-flowchart.
I also count fiction that relates to the Iliad or the Odyssey, like Goethe's Achilleis or the Aeneid, though not something like Ulysses.
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I saved your dfw image so I feel obligated to give you a bump
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>>9118230
The Hero With a Thousand Faces
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>>9118891
thank
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Best books on human sexuality?
The red queen was good, but is pretty old.
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my dairy desu senpai
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Piano Teacher
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Someone explain Dasein to me I'm too stupid for Heidegger. Is it like the Buddhist concept of "being" as in being present?
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>>9117226
Dasein is the german word for "being", yes.
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>>9117226
A being that is aware of its own being is a Dasein.
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>>9117226
Is asking about Heidegger the new 'redpill me on Evola' posting by anti-intellectual alt-righters?
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I know some of you are spanish. What is the best spanish translation of the Divine Comedy in your opinion?
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Dante wrote in Italian.
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>>9117157
Yo leí la que hizo Juan de la Pezuela. No sé si será muy certera pero respeta los tercetos en rima consonante
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>>9117183
/lit/, everybody.
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New stack thread.
Not here for validation, just need to know where I went wrong/right. Library had a huge sale, so I went balls out. Also open for suggestions (kys, included).
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I've only read one of those books (Gatsby). I fapped to Love in the Time of Cholera but got bored halfway through anyway.
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>>9116736
>need to know where I went wrong/right
Are you a man or a woman? This is important.
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>>9116736
I keep hearing on lit that Henry James is supposed to be really boring, but Portrait of a Lady is great with beautiful prose and interesting characters. Hope you enjoy it. Not familiar with most of the rest, but the stack looks pretty good!
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>gift from a friend tonight
>thought it was a ratty book
>first edition '54
>MFW
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>>9116647
you've got a good friend
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Nice.
Check 'em
First edition Bound For Glory, Heart of A Dog, House of Dolls, and a fancy 1950s slip-case edition of Siddhartha.
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Any more antique books?
Hi /lit/ what do you think of my nonfiction selection?
What would you recommend?
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>I'm a literal assassin: the thread
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Read some philosophy. Start with Plato and Aristotle and work your way up. You'll get a more encompassing look at history while you're at it instead of a list of events or incidents
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>>9119729
What does this have to with being an assassin?
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How do I make my life better? I hate it
Should I move overseas? Should I do more drugs?
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I'm terribly insecure and lonely and sad
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Gym
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Neutralize your nurturing
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>prevents you from adding new fonts for some reason
>gives you one good font (Baskerville)
>other options include Helvetica (for body text), fucking Caecilia Condensed and Palatino
>can't change font weight
Anyone else fall for the fucking meme
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>>9119562
What's wrong with Palatino?
t. formatting pleb
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>>9119565
It just looks all over the place, too flowery for body text. It's good for titles.
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>>9119576
I love Palatino, and it was the reason I bought one.
I did fall for the case meme though.
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Is it possible to derive an "ought" statement from an "is" statement?
If no, why do Samuel Harris and a couple of other philosophers keep trying to?
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>>9119439
why cant you derive oughts from ises?
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Op is a fag therefore, he ought to kill himself
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Logic can't create morals, but it can shape them.
Logic can demonstrate a contradiction in an "ought", thus falsifying it.
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>His list of those whom he calls the “good writers” — Melville, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner — precludes anyone who doesn’t “deal with issues of life and death.” Proust and Henry James don’t make the cut. “I don’t understand them,” he says. “To me, that’s not literature. A lot of writers who are considered good I consider strange.”
How could he be so wrong?
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>>9118472
>people who don't like what I like are stoopid
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>>9118472
He's always been a nitwit corncobbing tortilla raping spitting on the ground and saying ye hack.
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>>9118472
just another idiot who takes himself way too seriously because he confused the aesthetic experience of his pretty little purple prose with actually deep knowledge
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I took a LSD and wrote this sentence: everybody is miserable when they are truly isolated, but when you make someone laugh and socialize with them, they become happy through you, and so you both become happy, but the reason is YOU.
are there any books that give wisdom like this? I mean like meditations marcus aurelius but more on a spiritual level, thank you.
inb4 OP fuck you lsd junkie
I dont do drugs last time was like 3 years ago. thanks for understanding, love
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yikes
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That so deep dude!
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>>9118425
Non-comment. Was your goal to be noticed and heard in this world? I know youre isolated, its ok famalam I got ur back :^D
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What was the best goosebumps book?
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>>9118229
Yur mum
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>>9118243
i dont know that one, cant find it on google either, whats it about?
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>>9118229
I Live In Your Basement scared the shit out of me.
Beast From The East was stressful to read.
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Has any author ever ruined their legacy as bad as she has?
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>>9117641
i don't think she had a legacy in first place
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She ruined it by not making Malfoy a qt tsundere that ends up with Harry and redeems herself.
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She's doing just fine desu
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>you will never major in technoccultic studies under the supervision of Dr. Nick Land at Miskatonic University
life can be cruel bros. what should i read to emulate a potential syllabus taught in a class or university like this?
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>>9115870
Probably Ballard, PKD, Jung, Robert Anton Wilson; books to give you an idea of the nebulous nature of reality, perception, and the subconscious, and give you an inkling of how constructs like drugs, media, government, and religion can shape your own subjective perceptions. Perception IS reality, and is fluid, and each plane of reality has its own logic. Moreover, perception and identity can be inflicted on a person by a strong force.
Throw in some gnostic ideas, like dualism, and the imperfect/illusory nature of the material world - the Nag Hammadi texts, specifically the one commonly perceived to be Valentinian. You want to get the idea that the established Christian churches of today are constructs of man, and that grace can be reached by interior and intuitive means (knowledge of the divine spark within.)
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>You will never be driven mad by indescribable eldritch horrors
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>>9115870
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Euclidean_geometry