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What are some good books about the Ancient Egyptians?
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WUZ
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AUTISTS
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degenerates
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So /lit/, what steps are you taking to build your eccentric persona? (a necessity to become a famous intellectual)
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not going outside, posting on lit, traps aren't gay, sweating for 8 hours on my sofa. but especially unironically eating nothing but bean paste
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I tell people that I'm a liar
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>>9062161
I also tell them I wouldn't lie to them
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What do you believe is the best way to experience Shakespeare?
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>>9061931
I don't know but what I do know is Wew
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>>9061931
who here /eat dat ass/
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>>9061931
I'd like to experience her orally.
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Fellow /lit/izens, I'd like your help please.
Is there a book like Bloom's Western Canon that focuses only on the Greeks and the Romans - something like a comprehensive guide to their literature that goes beyond the usual recommendations (but without excluding them, of course)?
In other words: if one wanted to expend his whole life (or at least some decades) reading only the Greeks and the Romans, is there a guide to help him do this?
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>tfw no one cares about your question
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Just study greek history. That one pomeroy book n the decent ancient greece guide mentions various poets, also that first poet thing. From thereon your knowledge builds itself automatically. If you want to dedicate your life towards the greeks and romans, then why try to follow an already set path?
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>>9062402
Thanks for your help, but I'm not looking for their poetry alone.
I'd like to find a guide that had also the historians and their works, the philosophers, the dramatists, etc. Much like the Western Canon, as I mentioned before, but with this specific focus.
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I want to understand what art is, exactly. What makes something art
Could someone recommend me a book that can tell me? And please nothing to do with philosophy of language
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Why dont you think about it yourself? Everyone changes the meaning of everything to fit themselves, so what I think is art could not be the same to you. That doesn't mean I'm wrong, neither that you're right, just proves that maybe there isn't right nor wrong. I think of art as something that provokes tought, that makes people have opinions about it, but I dont even know if that's what I trully think
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The Art in Theory anthologies will give you some idea. Also just looking at (and reading about) all art, of all genres and media, of all styles or movements, through all time.
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>>9061237
>"hey guise, anyone know the golden authenticity stickers they hand out for WORKSofART? Where are those again?"
>greek radio adverts
>jefferson davis highway 562-2533
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Do you like Lovecraft /lit/ 2017-02-04 03:44:45 Post No.9059459
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Do you like Lovecraft /lit/
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I was introduced to his books when i was 14.
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i read a lot of his stories when i was in middle school
god I would beat the fuck out of middle school me
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He's pretty neat. Poe is better, though.
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>>9059459
H E C O M E S !!!!
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General
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Fantasy
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
Flowchart:
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Science Fiction
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/IBs9KE8.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
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>>9058513
Comfy fantasy scene.
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Anyone read the Dragon Age books are they any good?
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>>9058513
>A book I don't like is in a chart of the OP so I will get butthurt and make a new thread where only the books I like will be posted
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Do you guys annotate your book while reading? Is it considered bad etiquette to do so?
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I buy a second copy that I will annotate in and beat up. The other copy remains pristine on my shelf.
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I only annotate library books. I keep personal copies ink free.
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>>9058375
I "reee'd".
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Thoughts on his philosophy?
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Misunderstood genius of his time
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>>9056154
he was such a badass that his philosophy has trickled into the minds of our infants flawlessly.
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>>9056154
A satanic entity.
Began the relentless assault against Theology and crafted a foundation for Atheism.
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Stack thread/recent purchases.
Show us what you got.
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>>9055238
dunno whether to be impressed by the Basho or disgusted at an abridged tale of genji.
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why did buddhism change so much from the orignal pali cannon?
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>weeb buys books he'll never read to provide a backdrop for the anime figures on his shelf
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>"oh yeah I love the classics! Charlotte and emily bronte, and charles dickens are so good!"
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>implying they're not
Fuck off, dumb frogposter.
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Aren't those classics?
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You just know OP's experience with all three begins and ends with the Muppet Christmas Carol.
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Is is possible for a KHHV to write kiss or sex scenes?
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Sex scenes are distasteful and you should not write them.
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Sex is about what you'd expect. Yeah there's some subtleties you only pick up after doing it, but it's about what you imagine it as a virgin. You touch and kiss each other. You take off clothes. You touch each other more, slowly moving to the genitals. Some oral sex maybe, more kissing. Then, penetration, thrusting, and climax.
so yeah go for it.
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>>9067762
pfft, vanilla.
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Could you guys help me figure out what Mythology book is that? I'm curious.
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Edith Hamilton
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Are you sure?
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>>9067676
I don't think anyone else could get away with that title.
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New Years Night
Christmas eve, 1999, Manhattan. The four horsemen slowly rode down the streets in front of the parade. It was barely snowing. A giant blimp hovered over the marching nut crackers, all the same height and dressed exactly the same with little to no difference in face shape. All of them were men in pale white foundation and rosy red cheeks. Behind them were the skipping Mrs Clauses, young and sheen all still looking the same, but one girl stood out in my mind... Santas sleigh dragged behind them being pulled by horses dressed as deer, they even had Rudolph lighting the way. I didn't care much for the show, the only show I was watching was my one love, Keanna. I met her in high school a couple years back when she moved here from Utah, I usually go by Andrew, but she likes to call me Andy. We became good friends, but I could never tell her how I felt, not that I was scared, I just didn't even know myself. I've never known how I feel about anything, its always changing. People hate themselves for not being able to change themselves. Change is all I am. It's like my personality changes by the hour without notice. I'm a different face every day, a different mind, a different person... When I look in the mirror, I see a hormonal teenage boy, but no soul, no genuine artifact indicating there's someone inside that shell. She makes me feel whole again, when I'm with her, I'm my true self that the many variants I go through every day have ripped off and twisted into their own people. My mind is shared by many, and the list doesn't stop. The only time I stop generating these versions are when I feel this spark. This spark of life that illuminates inside me when I see her. Its warm, fuzzy, Its what all those cheesy feel good movies are made of... Love.
As she and the rest of the parade stopped, and the nut crackers stopped tooting their horns and beating their drums, Santa stood up, stared into the crowd, and yelled “Merry Christmas! And a happy new year!” The crowd screamed with joy and the paraders tossed their hats into the air. As they all bowed, she looked up and we caught our eyes. I smiled, and she smiled back. She looked to the streets and turned back to face me. She speed walked over to me and gave me a hug. “Hey,” she said softly. “Hey. Are we still watching the ball drop tonight?” I asked. “Of course. I'm allowed to stay the night to, if that's alright.”
“Yea that's great, it'll be awesome, just the two of us, and the end of the world.”
“Ha! Yep, just the two of us”
“HaHa, yea. c'mon, lets get out of the cold, its freezing out here.”
“Sounds good, I'm dying. My legs are so sore.”
“Wanna skip back to my place?”
“NO!”
cont?
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I like the description of the parade. I can't quite see a direction with this, and the prose feels a little muddled. This feels like a stream of consciousness thing, is that the intent? Even so, the way you switched from parade to yourself to the girl was a bit rusty. Specifically where you mention there's a girl andy likes but you change to the parade and describe her a few lines later. I'd also be hesitant to so hamfistedly talk about the character's mental problems, people don't really think like that in reality, try to make it subtly apparent that he's an outsider by his actions, maybe he's standing alone looking at the parade or something
I'd just overall reccomend you clean up the text a bit, it feels very unpolished and reads like a students first draft. Not to say that there's not something good there.
Good luck
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>>9067635
yea it is very rusty. im not a good writer
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>>9067641
Don't be discouraged, I just mean I think with some mindfulness, and even reading the story back to yourself aloud, you'll almost instantly improve the quality
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The other day someone on /lit/ recommended I buy this book and I have to say, I'm about 1/4 of the way through it and it was fantastic read. Thank you so much whoever you were, anon. I'm loving it
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That was me. You're welcome.
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>>9067540
No it wasn't, you liar.
It was me.