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WE WUZ WITCHFINDERS AND SHIEET NIGGUH

>>10024525
About Puritans: The Scarlet Letter
By Puritans: Perry Miller's The American Puritans

>>10024525
depends on what you're looking for.
most early american literature is about the puritans. William bradford's account of the first few years spent settling comes to mind, and it reads more like a mythological tale rather than an historic journal.

None of them are good. But the worse ones are Crowley's and Legge's. You can find 100+ translations online, so read a few (its short, no excuse) and make up your own mind.

>>10024510

You know I exist because I know I exist, but I'm not too sure YOU exist.

>>10024510
You can't know for certain but you can abductively reason from the fact we have a mirror most of your behaviours that I have an inner life similar to yours

>>10024548
*from the fact I mirror most of your behaviours

>>10024438
maybe he's doing it to get young boys to buy him overpriced coffee, but it's probably for the money as much as any other whore.

>>10024438
Hahahaha holy fuck

>>10024438
is cliff a bottom

>>10024389

Ishmael is a faggot, but he's just there to narrate. Moby Dick is fine, if a bit long, but some people like long Dick. I liked it, but had to take it slow.

Also
>War and Piece
Isn't that a Tupac song?
I jest.

If you want postmodern literature that is half-decent I recommend Catch-22. Good shit.

>>10024362
>doesn't care about history
>starts a history major
Retard, also wrong board >>>/his/

>>10024362
Why don't you transfer to philosophy, and why did you want to do history?

>>10024464
>>10024362

ANSWER ME FUCKFACE

>>10024354
What kind of writer? A woman writer? A Jew writer? A black writer? The white male writer? There are massive differences. Only the last one is interesting and worthwhile. But you have to be born with a rationality and logic that the others can't grasp

>>10024354
>small brain: use made-up sentences
>average brain: follow the teachings of the creative writing 101 class you've taken 10 years ago in community college
>big brain: train yourself to think only in words: write fluidly
>giant brain: train yourself to think only in images, then describe them in words
>infinite brain: paint pictures that convey every possible information about them

>>10024354
Well sometimes in conversation I might hear a certain word that I either have never heard before or rarely ever hear/think of and think "good word..." or hear a saying either I've never heard or VERY rarely ever heard and think "Ooo, that's good, I've got to remember that one." The latest one to make me do that was "heavy lies the crown", I was quite unfamiliar with that saying but I like it. Then there's pleasant spontaneous moments of getting ideas for books, or if you're at a point in a book where you're not sure how to proceed and find yourself with some spare time just waiting for something you might think on the scenario to consider different possibilities. I never leave the house without a pen and a small pocket-sized pad of paper, but to be fair I mostly just use it for making grocery lists. I need to pick up some more bread and rum soon. Crackers and vegetable soup would be good too.

Oh, also, seeking experience. Trying different jobs, even weird ones, like chicken catcher. Trying new things out, seeing new sites, trying new experiences, or seeking out kinds of education that might typically be seen as useless. For instance, I love history, one of my favourite genres is historical fiction, and I wish to write historical fiction eventually, so I'd love to get a degree in history. It would certainly be a good thing to put on my books for marketing too, that I'm an actual professionally-educated historian, even perhaps mentioning what College and/or University I might have gone to.

As for instances that really make me feel like a writer, days when I pump out over 3000 words, or finish writing a scene that I think was PARTICULARLY good. Then there's days when there's a nice jump in sales, or pretty much every time another book is finished, expanding the ol' bibliography. I fucking love that word, it almost gives me a hard-on...

>>10024244
>t. unloved loser

>>10024244

He's one of the best for sure, but certainly not the only one.

While your post is intentionally provocative, I'll add that Schopenhauer would disagree with you. Just for another seven (that are all quoted throughout Schopenhauer's works): Plato, Aristotle, Seneca, Horace, Shakespeare, Goethe, Cicero. That being said, I've been going through Schopenhauer for the first time in a while and God is he great.

I've gone through him in a reverse order, starting with On Women (go figure), and then finishing his essays. Volume 3 of TWaWaI I've also finished, and holy shit is he spot on on so many points. The Metaphysics of the Love of the Sexes is a precursor for Darwinism but for me it goes further than that. I'm not gonna pretend I have more than a rudimentary knowledge in evolution, but Schopenhauer attempts to describe love, and fuck does he nail it. I honestly can't do it justice since I've only read it once and today, but it's a must-read. I love how he mentions that rarely has a philosopher tackled "Love," and never accurately, quoting Plato as someone coming close but only using myths, and then Spinoza as someone entirely off altogether.

>>10024248
I wouldn't necessarily call OP that. In the beginning of On Women Schopenhauer quotes Byron and Schiler of the praise of women and what our life would be like without them. He is obviously aware of their attraction.

Also, I'm a big fan of stoicism and it was great to see Schopenhauer discuss the true, practical merits of Stoicism, and then attack its critical flaw: one becomes wooden (and the philosophy is altogether highly incompatible with Love).

Idk, but was this worth the read?

I read it but poorly; feel like it could be shorter. Same can be said about "Conceptual Blending" judging by the reviews. Which is another book I wanted to read.

>>10024103
>browses the literature board
>brain so fried from memes that you can't speak English

There's a Sam Hyde video where he talks to some withered hipster twink with a sailor moustache on a fixie bike and asks how hold he is, the guy replies 35 and it's really sad because he should have grown out of being such a fucking tryhard faggot in his teens.

Cliff is exactly that. I hope he enjoys his 40s, and 50s, and 60s, as a nothing. As complete nothing. That's what you are Cliff. You didn't make it. You wanted to be so much more but this is the biggest you're ever going to get, and it's going to fade and fade.

>>10024088
I'm actually not cliff sargent.

>>10024074
I think the reason why signalling faggots rile us up so much is because they hold a mirror up to our own signally fagottry. This obessive desire to command other's narratives of us, to appear to them as "cultured", "tasteful", "transgressive", "virtuous" &c. has absolutely become a cultural universal, and before you put Cliff on blast for this behaviour, consider yourself whether he is not in fact acting out in a less subtle way your own primary mode of engagement with art and culture as well.

thats my two cents anyway

>>10023982
Fuck off, dumb frog faggot

>>10023982
I have. He's mediocre

>>10023982
Was Cioran really a hedonist though? He seemed to think the pursuit of pleasure caused intense suffering, which he did not embrace

What

>>10023967
exactly

>>10023967
>How smart do I have to be to understand philosophy/different philosophical theories?
That's what I meant. I'm really tired

>>10023944
yes, we have elevators and cars
we still don't know what is after death though

Philosophy hasn't solved anything since ever.

>>10023970
Well, we've at least created new problems

>>10023869
Don't be a theif anon, if you can't afford the class then ya don't deserve to pass