How did Joyce avoid getting put in a mental hospital after people started reading Work in Progress / Finnegans Wake?
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>>9893484
You read it for the plot.
Prose fags are too unintelligent to realize this and get enamored by small things like butterfrys and Friday night lights
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>>9893484
I'll bet you don't read poetry well
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>>9893484
pretty sure the world knew he was a hack by then
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Stop admiring Napoleon.
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>>9893425
who would admire that manlet
inb4 hurr durr he was tall for his age
he was like 5'7'', that's a manlet I don't care. I could dunk on his little bitch ass
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>>9893425
who would? that dwarf was a fucking loser
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Lmao nah napoleon was dope.
>tfw you will never struggle with the innate meaninglessness of a post god society and win
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What does /lit/ think of the Bronte's?
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I don't want to shit-talk them as authors, because I haven't read any of their works, but I do consider myself better at inventing fake names than all three.
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I liked Jane Eyre, but that's all I've read.
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Wow they seem really cute, are they like this in their writing?
I like cute girls.
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Scared like a pussy, boy 2017-08-15 12:41:14 Post No.9893188
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I am afraid of speaking in class.
i am studying literature and although i am an intelligent person (i have got a really good university entrance score and i always do good in class even if i don't study) i can't seem to answer my teachers questions even if i know them or make meaningful contributions because i am always scared. Even when i do speak my heart races and i feel like i am having a heart attack.i feel that i am not getting the most of university education or life.. and you know what anon? all of this is making me feel very weak.
What can i do?? Anxiety medication??
(btw i am not a native english speaker)
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If you have no social skills, you are not intelligent anon. Force yourself to be in social settings.
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is it because you're afraid of being challenged on your literary opinions? that's a natural part of college and growing as a person. you need that criticism. speak to your prof, you're not the only one in the class that feels that way.
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If you're right, what are you afraid of? I always thought people are scared of talking in front of large groups because they worry about making a fool of themselves. Just put confidence in your knowledge.
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Should I read Paradise Lost? 2017-08-15 12:04:57 Post No.9893078
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Should I read Paradise Lost?
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I come across this book all the time and occasionally read reviews that are mostly positive. It seems to be a classic. I read a little about it and i'm just wondering if it's something that anyone can enjoy, people of faith, or atheists? I know it's about Satan, Adam and Eve and whatnot. I'm not sure if it's just telling stories from the bible in the authors own interesting way (something like Dante's Inferno) or if it's by a religious author that is biased and puts nothing in the story for non believers. I read Milton's purpose for the book is to "justify the ways of God to men". That doesn't sound appealing to me.
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>>9893078
Christianity is largely a Jewish religion. Try Kevin MacDonald's Culture of Critique Series to understand the real truth
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>it's just telling stories from the bible in the authors own interesting way (something like Dante's Inferno)
Anon in what paralell dimension do you live?
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>>9893078
why the fuck are you people so terrified of reading books
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What are some books i can read that do an in depth analysis and critique of the masses as a whole?
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>>9892835
Plato complete works
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>>9892835
ortega y gasset
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1984
You know what? Anything dystopian desu.
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I need to read something that will help me gain a perspective and perhaps a direction in life.
I don't need a book to teach me about discipline, as most of those self-help books seem to focus on, as I have plenty of discipline.
My problem is finding out why any of it matters and what my direction should be.
Generally, people recommend fiction like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance or Siddhartha, but I'm really not looking to make any sort of parables or similar to my own life. I just want a nonfiction book that can change my outlook.
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>>9892820
Want to join the white nationalist movement? Come to /pol/, but beware: once you realize how deep the rabbit hole goes, you'll never be able to unredpill youreslf
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>>9892832
Fuck that noise.
I'd rather kill myself than be deluded into being a professional victim where everything is a conspiracy and nothing is your own fault.
Everything is a fucking boogeyman to you people. Learn to take fucking responsibility.
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>>9892820
I've lived for this moment. Yes, you all, so clever, or so you thought. To think of the place where I started from! Almost no knowledge about my situation to absolutely dominating it, I am clearly the victor so far. How you laughed, how you all laughed! Are you choking on it now? Does it offend you, yes? How I laugh now! Yes, yes, is there something wrong? Well, why don't you say so? Oh, what's that? You lips are sealed? Why's that, huh?
AHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA DANCE, DANCE
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Can someone please explain to me: what is the Kabbalah? And why does madonna follow it?
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Crappy Jewish theosophy/mysticism.
Madonna 'follows' it because she rides trends harder than dick, and for just as long. Give her a few months and she'll be on Sufis.
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Thalia follows it as well
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>>9892699
whom?
What are some good war novels?
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Anything by Jeff Shaara.
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Read this at the end of last year. Enjoyed it.
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>>9892492
Starship Troopers by Heinlein.
Childhood is idolizing HP Lovecraft. Adulthood is realizing Clark Ashton makes more sense.
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>>9892385
>facebook meme
Kill yourself
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Ascendance is never reading again and instead just daydreaming about making sweet tender love to Rimbaud from here to eternity
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>>9892393
STOP BEING EXCLUSIVE!
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Explain the fucking ending
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Don Gately didn't die. He made an appearance in the beginning of the book. Or the ending I suppose.
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the rocket destroys the text
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>>9892347
Modernism becomes postmodernism
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Is this good writing? Would you read 600 pages of this? 2017-08-14 07:58:44 Post No.9892170
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Is this good writing? Would you read 600 pages of this?
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>A beautiful landscape, with the corn bright in it, but not abundant. Patches of poor rye where corn should have been, patches of poor peas and beans, patches of most coarse vegetable substitutes for wheat. On inanimate nature, as on the men and women who cultivated it, a prevalent tendency towards an appearance of vegetating unwillingly—a dejected disposition to give up, and wither away.
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please no cornfather
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>>9892170
A little list like, not great, not a dislike
i rhymed my criticism isn't that dope
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>dejected disposition
book dropped
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Am I missing out on a lot if I read books translated in an obscure language? Currently stuck in high school in a shitty country (Albania) and it's hard to buy books in English (LOTR cost $60). I can read them on my pc but I don't really like it and it hurts my eyes (can't afford a Kindle or any e-reader). So how bad is it?
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>>9892084
Unless the translation is acclaimed or done in concert with and edited by a bilingual author, I would be deeply skeptical.
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>>9892084
You are, but it's still better than not reading the books at all imo.
I read all my books translated to Norwegian (my language).
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>>9892084
>Dante Aligieri
Fucking Dante.
Where's Alberto Eco though?
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>a million stack threads
>a million bookshelf threads
>a million recent purchases threads
>no comfy reading spot thread
Where do you like to read? A nice park, your back yard, your study, your bed? Share!
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>>9891920
In my soaking tub with lavender oil and dead sea salts.
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>>9891947
don't the books get damp?
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>>9891952
Naw i open the window. Also I mostly read on my kindle and buy books that are special to me or look interesting in antique stores.
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What are the funniest stories in the bible?
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The part where god sends a bear down to kill some kids for making fun of a bald guy
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>>9891878
book of revelation is a real knee slapper
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Samson's wedding, Judges 14