At which point is one person "well-read"?
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>>9075346
western canon
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>>9075346
Finished Reddit's top 100
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>>9075388
Link? A /r/books list?
can someone give me a quick rundown on this book?
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>>9075325
Is this subtle bogposting?
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>>9075325
Reading "classic" works of archaeology often ignores the tons of new work done in the field, i recommend against it.
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>>9075393
> i recommend against it
>doesn't recommend any 'new work done in the field'
wtf
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“There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others. Of course, there is a bigger infinite set of numbers between 0 and 2, or between 0 and a million. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. A writer we used to like taught us that. There are days, many of them, when I resent the size of my unbounded set. I want more numbers than I'm likely to get, and God, I want more numbers for Augustus Waters than he got. But, Gus, my love, I cannot tell you how thankful I am for our little infinity. I wouldn't trade it for the world. You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I'm grateful.”
Holy shit, that's pretty good.
Did /lit/ meme me again? He isn't as bad as you say/
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>>9075207
The fact that one exists disproves the statement that infinity exists between it and zero
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>>9075207
>There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection of others.
well, yeah. I read this in a babbys first quantum physics book when I was 12.
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It's not a question of good or bad, but a question of being painfully sincere or appropriately ironic.
This is all I can tell you. Goodbye, my child.
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When it comes to reading, what would you expect from a partner?
Would you be willing to settle for someone who doesn't read at all?
Or could you only be with someone who was an avid reader?
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I(me) would fuck whatever vagina i could, if you ask me.
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>When it comes to reading, what would you expect from a partner?
I really don't care. I don't need anything more than a good, faithful woman that puts up with my shit and whose own shit isn't too difficult to tolerate
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>>9075199
That picture has to be satirical. I was at a bar a couple months ago talking to a girl who was doing her undergrad in English (and was a huge cutie) and I asked her about he favourite books. She said if "She had to pick one it would be the original Harry Potter." She also added that she was going to England to do her post grad the next year.
Anyways yeah I could date a girl that didn't read.
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Is there an author with a more punchable face than Salmon Rushman?
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>>9075195
Any author who takes a back cover shot where they're looking back over one of their shoulders at the camera.
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can't compete with me
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Post a graphic novel you enjoyed.
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>>9075123
Kek, but what does the lead singer of Panic! at the Disco think?
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>>9075133
I didn't notice and now I'm embarassed.
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Let's hash out Polish literature and its language. On a personal note, I haven't read anything Polish yet, so any suggestions?
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>>9075107
Witold Gombrowicz
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Czesław Miłosz
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I've only read the doll by boleslaw prus. It's like a polish war and peace or buddenbrooks.
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>go for a walk after downloading Four Thought episodes from BBC radio 4
>a show that has talks from "intellectuals"
Holy shit. What a joke. There was a Jewish sounding woman economist who called everyone who disagrees with her irrational (she was literally talking about promoting big government and indoctrination of kids for SJW values). There were some literary types that gave it their best shot but ultimately had nothing more than "muh smartphone taking attention muh modern fast paced life muh feels". And a philosopher who did the same as the literary types but with a framework that produced zero insight.
Is the intelligentsia really so intellectually bankrupt? I always joke it is but this was shocking.
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>>9074996
holy shit a woman globalist SJW liberal Jew communis?
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>>9074996
I can just tell you're a libertarian.
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>I bought a kilo of bananas yesterday
>they were all black inside and tasted horrible
>are bananas really such a shit fruit?
This is you.
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Can anyone recommend other tastefully written books dealing with boy love?
I also really enjoyed 'The Confusions of Young Törless'
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Maybe The Immoralist
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>>9074893
I downloaded that recently but haven't yet delved into it. What might I expect?
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>>9074909
The Stranger if instead of shooting a brown man Meursault lusted after little brown boys.
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>the author doesnt leave the sex scene ambiguous
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>author uses Victorian-tier euphemisms for genitals
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>>9074876
>he thrust his shimmering nephrite scepter into her velvet cave of passion
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>describes vagina as 'her sex'
>From the moment I met you, all those years ago, not a day has gone by when I haven't thought of you. And now that I'm with you again, I'm in agony. The closer I get to you, the worse it gets. The thought of not being with you- I can't breathe. I'm haunted by the kiss you should never have given me. My heart is beating, hoping that that kiss will not become a scar. You are in my very soul, tormenting me. What can I do? I will do anything you ask...
When did you realize that George Lucas was our way back?
New sincerity at it's most direct.He wrote the script so it's /lit/ relevant.
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lul
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>>9074941
>/tv/ forever stuck at post ironic detachment
Used to make me sad, now it's just ugly.
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>>9074949
good
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The debate is over. He is truly /ourguy/.
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>>9074788
Stop it with the /ourguy/ stuff, that's commie talk.
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>>9074799
>implying /lit/ isn't a comrade board
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What do you personally enjoy reading the most: fiction or philosophy?
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>>9074755
Philosophical fiction
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>>9074755
What's the difference?
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>>9074760
/thread
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The sailor who fell from grace with the sea 2017-02-07 08:33:39 Post No.9074749
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The sailor who fell from grace with the sea
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Serious question, is there a reason as to why the title of Mishima's book is phrased
>The sailor who fell from grace with the sea
It seems awkward and incorrect and I cant bring myself to make sense of it. Every time I search book depository for it I find myself spelling
>The sailor that fell with grace to the sea
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it's not the sailor doing anything graceful, it's the sailor "falling out of good graces" either with the sea, or the sea's graces
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>>9074749
are you native? For me, as an Eastern European, the first original sounds way more natural than the one you propose. I don't know about grammar
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>>9074749
Gee I don't know, maybe if you read the book you'd understand.
>Chapters have titles
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>>9074719
>chapters
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>book has a title
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>paragraphs