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>>9907434
>retarded frog poster

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>>9907434
Ye

>>9907440
Excuse me SIR that is incredibly rude!!

>>9907444
I don't agree with many of Marx's writings and find his attitude reprehensible.

>>9907401
>human nature

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Here we go again.

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>>9907401
Here I reveal the secrets of Goonan's views. You guys can use this chart as reference when reading FfE

>>9907363
9 refers to the supreme area of Paradise in Dante

>>9907389
I see.

>>9907363
'On Cloud 9' means that I'll probably listen to Psychedelic Shack at work this evening..

>>9907359
I recommend Kevin McDonald's Culture of Critique Series.

>>9907359
Journey to the End of the Night

>>9907366
i guess this can be a new meme
it is funny
it:s a shame some newfags will take it seriously, but so be it
the worlds going hell anyway
guess ill just learn chinese then

>>9907356
No. Though there are many youtube videos. But none of them ever feel clean to me. Something dirty about them.

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i've only ever read philosophical texts out of my own volition

i think german idealism is cool

>>9907241
t. frogposter who shitposts in every thread about poetry
>yo poetry is for dumb people everyone can write a poem lol suck my dick yo

>>9907228
No, sorry.

>>9907228
sure do, friend.
https://archive.org/details/barontrumpsmarve00lock

Thanks !

Endymion was a mistake

>dude I'm in love with a messiah who's literally cucking me with the entire cosmos lmao
>dude the Shrike getting beat up by a girl lmao

>>9907224
But she wasn't. She was completely faithful to him. She cucked him with his future-self in any case. It's Rachel whose the whore.
>cucks Melio with Kassad

Essential geriatricore

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English translation is ''Ancient Tillage'', by Raduan Nassar. There's other great Brazilian novels but this one is particularly neat.

/lit/ would love this book

>super dense, difficult and poetic prose
>incest
>is a lot about being a weirdo and a disappointment to your family
>the author is a reclusive mysterious figure who quit literature after writing 2 books
>it's also about incest

>>9907172
My take is that "show, don't tell" means, instead of writing "John felt sad", you expand and unpack the "felt sad", to make the sad-feeling vital, palpable, real.

A lot of children's stories, as well as stories that are over 800 years old, tend to tell a lot more than more contemporary ones. For good examples of telling, folk tales, Dr Seuss, the narrative parts of the Bible.

Good examples of showing can be found in modernist fiction, though some people would say that some modernists go overboard. To The Lighthouse, imho, is an excellent example of showing, without showing too much.

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My Last Duchess Launch Audio in a New Window
BY ROBERT BROWNING
FERRARA
That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now; Fra Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
“Fra Pandolf” by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance,
But to myself they turned (since none puts by
The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)
And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,
How such a glance came there; so, not the first
Are you to turn and ask thus. Sir, ’twas not
Her husband’s presence only, called that spot
Of joy into the Duchess’ cheek; perhaps
Fra Pandolf chanced to say, “Her mantle laps
Over my lady’s wrist too much,” or “Paint
Must never hope to reproduce the faint
Half-flush that dies along her throat.” Such stuff
Was courtesy, she thought, and cause enough
For calling up that spot of joy. She had
A heart—how shall I say?— too soon made glad,
Too easily impressed; she liked whate’er
She looked on, and her looks went everywhere.
Sir, ’twas all one! My favour at her breast,
The dropping of the daylight in the West,
The bough of cherries some officious fool
Broke in the orchard for her, the white mule
She rode with round the terrace—all and each
Would draw from her alike the approving speech,
Or blush, at least. She thanked men—good! but thanked
Somehow—I know not how—as if she ranked
My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
With anybody’s gift. Who’d stoop to blame
This sort of trifling? Even had you skill
In speech—which I have not—to make your will
Quite clear to such an one, and say, “Just this
Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss,
Or there exceed the mark”—and if she let
Herself be lessoned so, nor plainly set
Her wits to yours, forsooth, and made excuse—
E’en then would be some stooping; and I choose
Never to stoop. Oh, sir, she smiled, no doubt,
Whene’er I passed her; but who passed without
Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands
As if alive. Will’t please you rise? We’ll meet
The company below, then. I repeat,
The Count your master’s known munificence
Is ample warrant that no just pretense
Of mine for dowry will be disallowed;
Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed
At starting, is my object. Nay, we’ll go
Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,
Taming a sea-horse, thought a rarity,
Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!

>>9907105
The Idiot is probably the most under-appreciated Dostoevsky novel

nothing matters bro so have to make everyone at comfortable as possible and you do that with profit

>>9907105
Holy fuck, I'm into slave morality now!

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I am just interested about your opinions on this subject. So I will put some art to up the thread, if you don't mind. Btw English is my foreign language.

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Actually my own opinion is that the edge between real things and illusions is very subtle. So you can say, that there is the great world behind your room, but in the same time the same great world is inside the same room.

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I have almost nothing to do so bump.

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Shit, that file size is stupid. Have a lightweight jpg.

>>9907039
What are the major differences between the denominational editions? The text is the same but the notes are different?

>>9907072
The Shiite and Salafi translations rely heavily on commentaries from their respective traditions to translate the meaning. But the biggest difference is the notes, the Shia one has notes on Shiite doctrine and observance and biased notes on Islamic history. The Salafi one is similarly biased, but towards Salafism of course. The notes of the Sufi translation reflect more mystical interpretations though the translation itself is relatively non-biased.

>>9907024
I recommend Kevin McDonald's Culture of Critique Series

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>>9907033
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