What went wrong?
Your father didn't pull out.
Same thing that happened to Blockbuster. They thought people would rather leave the house, drive to a physical store, pay out the ass for a product, and then leave. Then they realized people would rather buy things in their pajama's, in the comfort of their home, for less money, and receive a digital product instantly.
Borders closed.
How should I read poetry? Should I just read it and see if I like it for whatever reason? Should I learn rhymes, forms and patterns beforehand? Should I study accompanying notes that explain what the poet meant by a certain analogy, or what feeling is he trying to evoke with a certain alliteration or the choice of a particular word?
And what when I switch to poetry in another language? Should I do something to get it (for examples, rhymes and forms may be different or have a different significance in other languages and traditions) or once I do it for one language I'm set for all the languages (that I can understand)?
By the way, I've bought image related. It's a big book of poems ordered by date of appearance to the public, going from poems in middle English to contemporary ones.
Read in your native language first. If you're older than 6 you should be able to feel the rhythm. You don't really need to study any technicalities to enjoy poetry. Notes are useful, but not essential.
i tried several times and i just don't get it. the closest to evoking any resction in me was rilke and only slightly and occasionally. guess poetry just isn't for everyone
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Why is this guy so overrated?
>He appeals to multiple audiences
Who gives a shit?
>he invented the jar jar binks style comedy relief
And?
What have you actually read, anon?
>>9078821
Not OP, but I'm reading The Wasp Factory now.
>>9078812
>"he invented"
how about you cut back on coffee for a while, young illuminatus
I'm going to post non-literary things that I like, and you're going to find some coherent themes and recommend me a book based on that. Preferably novels.
Let's take this painting as a starting point.
Next up is Wagner
Pic unrelated
that's an awesome painting. i thought it was a photo in the tumbnail...
only downside is that i don't like those "structured art" thing. reminds me of housewifes that take "art classes"
Big Bowie fan - Station to Station being my favourite
If you hate all these booktubers, why don't you try?
>implying any booktubing is worthwhile
>>9078738
Because making videos of yourself and putting them online is for attention whores.
>>9078738
>chubby Michelle Trachtenberg
Thank you universe
I would like to be less miserable, what book can do that for me?
>inb4 Meditations
Preferably something that doesn't suggest becoming a professional cuckold
Les Miserables
>>9078663
>I would like to become less miserable without changing myself
Try killing yourself.
Would you change it? Why?
>>9078608I would put u and i together ;)
Alphabet - no. Retarded English orthography - yes.
Unfortunately, it's never going to happen.
Do what korean did and combinethe letters into phonetic blocks. Imagine the reading boost
Is there a place I can dl Larry Niven books for free?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Niven_bibliography
bump
>>9078590
>>9078590
Can anyone give me a simple rundown of Heidegger's critique of Plato? What exactly was his problem with him?
Can anyone run down the secrets of the fabric of the universe in 120 characters please
>>9078509
Facis argumentum ad absurdum et argumentam ad lapidem. Vērus, non puerum decantatum est - sed non imposibile est.
I only wanted help with a general understanding before diving into Heidegger for the first time.
>>9078500
all H did was cut the prawns out
other than that he has nothing new to say
This is it, /lit/?
I don't really know why but I ended up on a Starbucks™ today here inNuevo León, MEXICO; there I saw a GIRL praising about this specific board, is it that common nowadays? Whats your opinion about this?SHE WAS QT THO
>>9078366
Now she knows who you are
I smell a burgeoning romance.
you should have dropped some dank memes on her
>Can machines think?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9GbzX6tMo
>more empty semantics
Boy I sure do love modern philosophy
>>9078368
He's cutting through the empty semantics
>>9078329
I'm curious and headphone-less, does he do a chinese room thing or is it different?
Why does Anarchism not work philosohpically?
It requires relativism to function and the destruction of ethnocentrism. Often the people who are against ethnocentrism and the intervention in another society's moralty and the idea that one culture is superior over the other, create an objective standard with a moral code with no right or wrong. This is unreasonable because it is self-destructive to remove all senses of right and wrong. It rrejects the legitimacy and credibility of relativism because when you hold the moral doctrine of relativism consistently it will erase relativism itself instead of creating a moral philosophy that promotes being free of right and wrong. They also have no grounds to tell other people what is right or wrong or how to treat other societies as they themselves cannot define what it means to form a culture or society, are cults a society, what about two people forming a strict moral code? To reduce moral issues to personal taste is the destruction of philosophy, if it were a simple matter of personal attitude then two people with conflicting views would not have conflicting views at all. But since moral views cause conflict moral arguments matter and must be discussed, we cannot simply argue that there is no conflict at all.
>>9078302
Read a book.
>>9078321
Recommend me one
What did you make of this one guys?
>>9078202
It was funny sometimes.
You have to be pretty aware of life in USSR and all it's quirks to get a lot of the charm and humor tbqh.
t. russki
>>9078208
Oh, I might as well drop this meme.
"Há quatro traduções brasileiras até o momento (2013): duas a partir do inglês e duas diretas do russo. A primeira tradução foi publicada em 1969, pela editora Novo Tempo, sob o título O Diabo Chega a Moscou Travestido em Professor Alemão de Magia Negra. "
Quick translation: There are four brazillian translations until now(2013): two from english and two straight from russian. The first translation was published in 1969 by the the editor Novo Tempo under the name "The Devil arrives in Moscow dressed as a german teacher of black magic."
i love it to read book
>>9078189
what if you had a perfect clone of homer but he was 6 inches tall
you you make him scream the funny scream
Stacy's dad has got an iPad
At what age did you grow out of Nietzsche and into Hegel?
Me? I was 16.
>grow out
explain yourself
>>9077885
>At what age did you grow out of Nietzsche and into Hegel?
I grew into Nietzsche and never liked Hegel to begin with.
>>9077885
>he thinks Nietzsche is muh teenage nihilism
>he pretends he understands Hegel at all