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not only do you have to be a literature major, but you must obtain a phd in it before the age of 25.

Don't major in English in an American Uni, you will be majoring in critical theory with sjw activism. Major in something that will make you more rounded like Philosophy or Classics.

>>9870565
PhDs are for scientists...
Unless that's the joke in which case hahaha

>>9870478
Artistic intent

>>9870492
inb4 barthes.

seriously though, if somebody declares that the , for example, low quality self-help book is literature should we think of it as literature

>>9870534
Yes. Whether or not it is good literature is up to the subjective taste of the individual.

Never heard about this book but from the looks of it i don't think you need it.

Although, i would recommend having some basic knowledge of western history, musical styles, the history of instruments and their development and music terminology.

It's not that difficult if you already listen to a wide palette of music. It would help with terminology and whatnot.

>source
I have a big interest in musical history, especially instruments, and have read a moderate amount regarding music history, though i know very little about theory, just the basics.


I'm sure this book will assume you don't know anything so it'll probably explain things proper enough.


perhaps watching Howard Goodall's Story of Music would help with getting the gist of it. very good series which i recommend greatly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0Y6NPahlDE

While i'm at it i'll recommend howards other series as well. one about the 'big bangs' in music, and the other about how music works, which will help with getting a general understanding of theory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOuHKlpkOmE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-P55m37hWk

I desperately need to learn music theory to a reasonable degree but I don't know the first thing about playing an instrument or reading musical notation

I'm dying here

Poast to Roast

>>9870345
Ugh, don't remind me. You think that's bad? Get a load of the short stories I wrote when I was 9 to 11 years old!

>>9870345
>tfw I wrote poetry as a kid before I knew what meter and stress were

>>9870341
You ok, Bugs?

>>9870411
:(

>>9870154
Haven't read that much philosophy but sounds like you have to read Aristotle before continuing

>>9870154
honestly, just skip that shit for now, don't spend too long on trying to figure it out

>>9870160
You think that I'd understand it if I read from the direct source? I guess it makes sense, but I wanted some book for beginners before tackling the stuff directly. I didn't expect it to be this hard (the "Logic" chapter at least, up until then it was good).

>>9870161
I've been thinking of skipping the chapter altogether and moving on to the other ones.

>>9870142
Neither. It seems as though only outside observers caricature me thusly, not knowing my own self parody is constant. What I aim for is rarely self consciousness. I gave up a long fucking time ago and have earned my life in experiment. In each moment I live to attain the psychology of a character that I will then consume in hatred. But then, I also play games when it is my fingers and not my mouth that opens doors.

The saying that a man is made at 20 would have a problem with my type of implosion. What myth stuck me? Well, you see, you can't look in the clouds, that's flying in a dream, and that's sexual. So cut it off there.

Except none have read my real poetry. None have yet found my books. Where do I keep them, where does one look?

Do you no what else contains lyrics?

>>9870206
what else

>>9870206
>>9870235
he posts that and then sages. are you okay

there is noi free wull
welcome ti the rela world kid

>>9870083
No shit people have free will. In the moment of a decision, you have multiple paths to take based on your thought processes. Philosophically, you can say that all your actions leading up to your death were 'predetermined'. But you are ultimately the master of your own destiny. The present is malleable, our actions shape its form. Technically you can say once it happened it was inevitable, but you'd be a moron to believe your fate is entirely in the hands of your own actions.

I can imagine a hypothetical group of rapists and murderers pleaing: "It was my predestined fate to kill those people, I had no choice in the matter!" Lel

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>>9870083
if you need an answer, you're not going to get one. pic related desu

it's just cool mate, chill out

It's what nerds get excited about in lieu of an actual plot, yes. Like a big game of Sims but, like, they thought it all up themselves. With their imagination!

>The dark tower of Azzinoth stands tall into the Plane of Zoos, the God-King of the Sky-Realms
>The civilians, or players as they're called within the world of MonoTombow, jerk each other off using their feet, and gnome scat as lubricant.
>Makoto Onanee, a 17-year old boy from the HellCity of Yog Sarron is on the run from the Space Police of the Ebon Dildos
The answer is nothing, and you're absolutely correct.
/tg/ is the single worst board on this website in terms of intelligence.

>>9869945
george...easy on the carrotsdelays.

Absolute dumpster fire of a thread. Get out.

Why couldn't they make a big budget show about Book of the New Sun instead?

Would beer and liquor and such be jelly too?

>>9869927
i have dreams about nuclear war regularly, had one last night in fact. I blame CNN and 4chan's constant happening threads

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>this is jelly

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>>9869814
>step one: don't be born

>>9869831
Cioran's fucking fantasic. High rec this one, OP.

>>9869814
you sound like a egotistical teenager who doesn't actually care about anything but recognition and validation

>>9869728
>Hofmann

Based.

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Looks pretty fun. Though I'm more hype for this based on how Pessoa shilled it

>>9869904
One of the most beautiful and massive French books. Chateaubriand's style is first-rate. No idea if it translates well, though.

There are no pure facts as far as we are concerned. To attempt to grasp a pure fact is necessarily to interpret it.

Just means that there's no such thing as an impersonal universal truth because we can't extract away the human viewpoint of a fact.

>>9869679
>Waht did Nietzsche mean by this?
He didn't understand Kant.

Nietzsche was a mistake. Evolutionary biology vindicates Plato.

My diary desu

There's a book called a-z of Tolkien and it's exactly what you want

>>9869704
Does this book have pages full of colored artwork? Funny story, I actually received this book for my birthday when I was much younger, only to give the book away to the same people who gave it to me in the first place. I forgot from whom I got it originally. That was such an awkward moment.