after that dude said I was pontificating too much that interview would have been over. I would have been a total ass clown after that.
>>9109161
not literature
fuck off
>>9109164
you must be new here. this is a DFW thread.
>>9109161
>shitponting
Im looking for a book on buddhist teachings and philosophy. Does /lit/ have any suggestions?
>>9108966
Stop being a lazy faggot and read the diamond sutra and the Lanka
In the Buddha's Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon
https://www.google.ro/?gws_rd=ssl#q=dalai+lama+books
>author tries to describe something
>mind can't visualize it at all
>Author names different trees and flowers and birds
>I have no idea what any of them look like
Where do people even learn that shit?
>>9108920
Just make sure you understand the word; don't focus too hard on what's happening in your mind and just focus on what's occurring on the page. You'll get something. It doesn't need to match one for one with the author's impression.
>>9108920
Did last night give birth to a new meme?
Rate my totally original story
>Fernando is the emperor of a christian kingdom that is bordering muslim kingdoms
>Fernando likes all his sons and daughters except his elder son Sancho
>So he decides to split his kingdom when he dies
>Alfonso his favourite son would recive the biggest kingdom and would inherit his title of emperor
>García his youngest son would inherit the kingdom with a holy site that brings lots of revenue
>Urraca would inherit the biggest walled city in the kingdom
>Elvira would recieve all the revenue that taxes from convents generate
>Sancho would recieve a peripheric county that would be ascended as kingdom to not piss him off that is known for having lots of castles from muslim raids
>When Sancho recieves this news he gets mads and moves to the small kingdom that he had inherited
>When he arrives there he realizes that all the soldiers there are seasoned due constant fight with the muslims
>To expand his territory he declares war on the bordering kingdom christian kingdom
>He starts a succesful campaign until all the other christian kingdoms decide to form a coallition against him which forces him to sign for a peace treaty
>He know understands that he needs the resources from the kingdom of his brothers to fulfill his expansionist desires
>He contacts Alfonso and they plan to split the Kingdom of García in half.The northern part for him and the other half for Alfonso
>They launched an invasion and they manage to capture his brother and force him to renounce his claims to the throne.
>Now Sancho offers his brother to fight in a duel.The winner of the fight would rule over all the kingdoms of his father
>Alfonso accepts
>They fight in the border between their kingdoms
>When Sancho was about to win, Alfonso's army charges upon him and as an answer Sancho's army charges against Alfonso's.
>This would lead to a brutal battle in which Sancho's army comes on top but his brother had managed to escape.
>Sancho is mad after he sees that his brother broke his oath so he decides to invade his brother kingdom's by force
>He marches and defeats every garrison that Alfonso has and in a decisive victory his army captures his brother.
>Sancho instead of killing his brother as this would be regicide forces him to become a monk.
1/2
2/2
>The war was not over as Elvira and Urraca were still in rebellion and weren't willing to recognize him as the emperor
>Sancho captures Elvira
>Sancho sieges the walled city of Urraca but it is taking forever and a lot of nobles wanted to return home
>A knight called Vellido that had apparently commited treason against Urraca told him that he knew a way to enter into the castle
>Sancho believes him and brings him to all his meetings
>One day when they were about to launch the final attack Sancho had to take a shit
>Vellido saw this and stabs Sancho in the back
>When Sancho is about to die he starts crying and agonizing realizing that he is going to hell for disobeying his father will and causing so much havoc
>His last will states that his empire had to be splitted as his father had wished and orders his soldiers to lift the siege.
>The noble from the Walled city arrives with the news and tells them to his lover Urraca after fucking her brains out
>Urraca tells these news to the city council
>They decide to give Vellido to Sancho's nobles
>The nobles decide to tie his arms and legs to 4 different horses and make those horse run in different directions
>Alfonso inherits the kingdom of his death brother and his old imperial title
>García becomes the king of his former kingdom again
>Alfonso calls him for a meeting
>García agrees
>Alfonso makes him his prisioner and forces him to capitulate
>Now Alfonso becomes the emperor of all his father's kingdoms as his father had wished from the start
>One of old Sancho's old nobles decides that this isn't fair and humillates Alfonso in his own court and makes him to swear an humillating oath
>Alfonso forces him to an exile
>Alfonso starts to invade into muslim territory but a coallition of muslim kingdoms defeats him
>Alfonso begs Sancho's loyal knight to fight for him and his family in exchange he could keep his independently conquered lands and become the most powerful man in his kingdom
>He does so and defeats the muslims
>Alfonso exhiles him again and steals all his lands
>The noble REEEEs and with his loyal men invades a whole muslim kingodom to hide his wealth from Alfonso and crowns himself king
>Alfonso gets his ass kicked again by the muslims and begs this noble's son for aid in exchange of becoming his Castillian and duke of the muslim conquered lands
>He accepts
>Dies in battle
>His father dies from sadness when he hears the news that his son had betrayed him and that he had died in battle
>This noble's kingdom falls in the hands of muslims
>Alfonso dies losing more land that his father had in the first case and his only heir is a women
And then the secule would be about his daughter and how she manages to keep the kingdom together.
Do you like my totally original medieval fantasy?
>>9108863
>Elvira
really?
>>9108871
>Elvira
What is wrong with it?
Where is the /SWTG/ Start With The Greeks reading group?
Can someone post the schedule and links so that I can read it on my own time?
>>9108720
They ascended into the ether.
>>9108829
What are your thoughts on Milton Friedman?
Fuck capitalism
>>9108488
A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.
>>9108488
Given that the failure rate of the implementation of his system of thought is only exceeded by the failure rate of communism, I'd say he's a gargantuan faggot.
>get an article published in an academic journal
>but i wanted to publish fiction
mfw
>>9108456
Congratulations. An academic journal is better anyway.
>>9108456
It doesn't count as an academic achievement if it's a humanities or social science journal
All text is fiction. You will do better in academia if you realise this.
>/lit/ read-through of The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson
This is the bi-daily thread for those of us who are reading The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea and R. A. Wilson. The reading schedule is below. Every reader is allowed two days to finish each chapter, plus after every chapter that is fifty pages or longer there will be a two day break. There will be a new thread every other day, made by OP.
You can join us and catch up at any time. There will be a brief summary included in the OP of every just-completed chapter's events and key themes and ideas.
OP hopes you enjoy the book, get something out of it, and hopefully don't get too lost within its contents.
>a .pdf is inlcuded here: http://www.integralbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Wilson-Robert-Anton-Illuminatus-Trilogy.pdf
ch.1 50pgs (feb. 15-16)
ch.2 33pgs (feb. 17-18)
ch.3 47pgs (feb. 19-20)
ch.4 78pgs (feb. 21-22)
rest 2 days (feb. 23-24)
ch.5 88pgs (feb. 25-26)
rest 2 days (feb. 27-28)
ch.6 80pgs (mar. 1-2)
rest 2 days (mar. 3-4)
ch.7 89pgs (mar. 5-6)
rest 2 days (mar. 7-8)
ch.8 89pgs (mar. 9-10)
rest 2 days (mar. 11-12)
ch.9 46pgs (mar. 13-14)
ch.10 78pgs (mar. 15-16)
rest 2 days (mar. 17-18)
appcs 73pgs (mar. 19-20)
fin. (mar. 20)
hey cool this is a fun book i wish you all welll i read this like 3 yrs ago it was good
good luck
this book fucking sucks!
'
honestly, what a garbage book. to think people waste their time reading this pile of shit instead of gravity's rainbow really grinds my gears
>>9108757
Bump + well wishes
Madame Bovary is one of the best books I have ever read.
Where do I go from here if I want to continue to read Flaubert?
>>9108111
Flobert Bovson
You go to a library and get some more Flaubert.
>>9108111
Sentimental Education. Be warned. Frederic Moreau is one of the most insufferable characters of all literature.
Just purchased all the books required for this semester. Rate my university's taste.
What uni?
What course?
>>9108178
QUT
Education Majoring in Modern History.
>>9108145
blurry/10
How in the ever-living "*FUCK*" was this allowed to be published originally, how in the ever-living FUCK is it still allowed to be on shelves, and why are all the readers and fans and talker-abouts this book not in jail for being fucking perverts? This is a sick fucking world we live in.
>>9108054
How can you even bring yourself to make a thread about this filth, you degenerate? Don't you think I can see through your little game here? Make a thread apparently denouncing your pedo fantasy, all in order to fish for your fellow perverts, bring them out of the woodwork, so you can shower each other in your professed admiration for this filth. You people and your wily ways make me sick.
>>9108054
No children were harmed in the making of this book
It's not our fault France exists, you perv.
Is there a name for the idea that any philosophical theory with real-world applications must rest on unverified assumptions? And any theory that doesn't rest on unverified assumptions is inevitably so rarefied and arcane it has no bearing on reality?
So it's /lit/ related, is this idea discussed by any thinkers?
>>9107870
Possibly fictionalism?
constructivism and radical constructivism
>>9108857
I should've known that, I used to teach. I think that's as close as we'll get to what I'm looking for, thanks bubby.
What was his endgame?
>>9107914
AIDS
>>9107914
to just fuck philosophy up desu
to be dead and talked about
Agree Y/N?
N
Sam Harris at the top with that pic of Homer Simpson's skull
>>9107048
Your taste is spoopy. I like it. Keeps the craven leftists out.
What is the funniest classic work of literature you have read?
>>9106025
That image us enraging
True History by Lucian of Samosata
>>9106025
moby dick
not even memeing
Don Quixote
The Canterbury Tales