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Word salad-tier desu. Some good passages but overall lacking finesse and restraint
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It's sad that this masterpiece in storytelling will never gain mainstream attention because it's just a 'comic'. Hands down one of the best graphic novels I've ever read. The story starts off as a deconstruction of literature and ends by questioning the nature of reality itself. Absolute must read. For anyone who HAS read this, any recommendations for similar stories? They don't necessarily have to be graphic novels.
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I think this belongs in /co/ OP since it is a graphic novel.
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>>9848769
So where can I read this? I'm new to comics but I have read a lot of manga in the past.
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Can anybody help me with identifying these trees? I'm working on a short story and it takes place in that little spot(it is a park now), and although i've been there many a times thus far, I can't for the life of me find out what trees are those. I know google maps isn't exactly the best place to take a picture, but it is all I have(google images yields no results for that location and i'm a tad far from there now...).
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Poplars of some kind
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Whats the best bookstore in your countery/area? 2017-08-04 05:08:47 Post No.9848705
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Whats the best bookstore in your countery/area?
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Any Britfag who says Waterstones is a paid shill and should be shot.
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I love spending a day browsing my local W.H. Smith.
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>>9848705
BookDepository even though it's not even in my country. Free delivery worldwide, how do they do it?
Post the most triumphant grandiloquent hero poems or any other type of texts
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The lays of ancient Rome
>Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the Gate:
"To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods."
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>>9848599
Exactly what i was looking for, i will get into those
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Mentioned Marlowe's Tamburlaine the great earlier in another context, but he fits this one as well. Though 'the bad guy' he emerges triumphant in that 2-part epical play. In fact, he never loses.
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/fitlit/ question:
I finished reading a short article by James B. Rives on 'The Theology of Animal Sacrifice in the Ancient Greek World. He elaborates Porphyry's 'On Abstinence', who references 'a wise man' that one ought to worship the supreme god (of pure thought) with pure thought. This worship makes sense as one gives like to like. Importantly, however, I see myself as a Pantheist. If God is a physical reality, then worship ought to take place in a physical domain. I have an ethical imperative to worship with sacrifice, or some alternative physical means.
Since the /fitlit/ prank, I read Yukio Mishima's 'Sun and Steel' and I have adopted physical fitness to my life as an aspect of fleshing out the Beauty of existence as held by the Pantheistic reality I perceive (or, at least, wish to perceive). The question that asks itself is whether or not my gym excursions count as a form of worship? Does a certain element of mindfulness need to be adopted in parallel to the activity? Does anyone else in /fitlit/, from other faiths and creeds, see their physical actions as a form of worship or prayer? What do you do? What is the ideal?
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Worship or no, what does pursuing physical fitness reveal? Consider the state of a man who does not train compared to a man who does train. A certain degree of discipline is directed by the person onto his own self. The reality of the power which designs is made apparent, both in the physical/mental domain (Action - Labour - Skillful means) and the domain of the will (Discipline - Perseverance - Cardinality)
What does any practice reveal about us TO us?
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>>9848453
I have been doing strength training for a few months now, and would certainly agree that I see my work as having a spiritual element, however not as much as, say, my weekly excursion to church. Lifting, for me at least, comes to be a form of asceticism and work, in a pseudo-Benedictine tradition. By getting under a barbell and lifting, I am getting stronger to glorify God, building the temple that Saint Paul speaks of. It is also difficult, and I rely on a certain spiritual strength to get me through the lifts, even when I think a weight might be too much for me. In this way, I think that the work I do expands my spirituality and closeness to God, by getting under the barbell. To me, the Lord is my strength, my fortress, and my rock. He prepares my hands for battle and trains my fingers for war.
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>>What does any practice reveal about us TO us?
being spooked by sensuality. only hedonists lift
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>Decide to major in philosophy
>All profs are either historical phil., conties or analytics
>All historical philosophy is either mysticism/theology or speculation on well-being that can be easily verified with modern psychology
>All continetal philosophy is obscuritarian & speculative horsecrap that cannot be understood
>All analytic philosophy is pedantic discussions about farfetched and trivial assertions and endless attempts to conceive a counterexample to each other until we're left with truisms
The only aspect of my major that feels valuable is logic. At least there is progress and actual learning, instead of "deep" discussions, is possible.
Any philfags here that feel the same? Do you regret taking philosophy instead of, say, hard science like I do?
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>>9848410
Most people are jealous on you, you are just too autistic to comprehend something which are not in a particular system
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>the year 2011+6 of our lord
>not trying the Bolaño/Delorme Method
It's like you dont want to truly immerse yourself in literature.
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>Reading anything written in the 21st century.
ISHYGDDT.
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>>9848407
Not even funny or interesting
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>>9848407
What a bore. Glad he's dead.
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Is this any good? on reddit some people said it was surprisingly in depth and he is well worthy of taking up the Marx's ideological mantle but something makes me doubt a man that pretty could be very smart.
thoughts?
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No, of course it isn't you halfwit.
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>>9848392
have you read it?
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What does he even identify as now? He was calling himself an Anarcho-Syndicalist for a while.
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What's the best book by a British author?
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Probably the complete works of Shakespeare. Or the Canterbury tales or some other books of verse.
The anatomy of melancholy if you want prose
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>>9848268
Go to bed Bloom.
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Which book has specific nostalgic value for you?
Pic related for me when I was 14 or so.
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>the Aeneid but with rabbits
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FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
I never realized this.
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Watership Down?
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Of all the modern young adult fantasy schlock out there, why did the Kingslayer Chronicle get so popular? I have a pretty strong penchant for consuming a tonne of boilerplate fantasy, and the series doesn't stand out to me in any way at all compared to other similar books. What's the deal?
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It's because it's written in a way that makes it very easy to read and consume. It's a flowing writing style that leaves little impression on the reader.
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>>9847826
There was a massive advertising campaign for the first one. As for why people kept following it after that, plebs gonna pleb
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>>9847826
It shows some potential in the beginning, but then it becomes harry potter. Then it keeps teasing that there would be a bigger adventure story ahead, but then it just goes back to being harry potter.
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What would a left neoreactionary read?
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Definition: against cultural equality i.e. elitist but otherwise with mainstream and contemporary left ideas.
I'm thinking:
- Alexis de Tocqueville
- Historical analysis of the Inca (because of the policies of redistribution)
What else?
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https://antinomiaimediata.wordpress.com/
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>>9847773
Not such a fan of blogs but it actually exists, interesting to say the least
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Marx
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Post two quotes by two different authors that create an interesting effect. 2017-08-04 09:25:14 Post No.9847560
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Post two quotes by two different authors that create an interesting effect.
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"It follows, therefore, that the difference betweenfictionandbelieflies in some sentiment or feeling, which is annexed to the latter, not to the former, and which depends not on the will, nor can be commanded at pleasure. It must be excited by nature, like all other sentiments; and must arise from the particular situation, in which the mind is placed at any particular juncture."
-David Hume, Enqueries Concerning Human Understanding
"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him; and I will raise him up at the last day."
-Gospel of Saint John 6:44
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"Cranberry knew of Tama's magic. She could dig holes. If she dug in even the slightest, it would create a yard-wide hole. This included ground, concrete, steel, even humans--she could expand any opening she dug to three feet wide."
-Asari Endou, Magical Girl Raising Project
"Actuated by these enlightened views, our hero bade the gentleman sit down, while he himself took occasion to throw some faggots upon the fire, and place upon the now re-established table some bottles of Mousseux."
-Edgar Allan Poe, Bon-Bon
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great thread idea
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daijoubu
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The hungry Jew in wilderness,
Rejoicing o'er his manna,
Was naething to my hinny bliss
Upon the lips of Anna.
Meaning no insult, that hetaera
Got out her magnifying glass
And said "Er, love...I'd really like to
See what you use to fuck my ass."
- Robert Burns, The Gowden Locks Of Anna
- Alexander Pushkin, Advancing from the Rear