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>he can't explain why he likes/dislikes a book
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I'm so bad at it that I've given up.
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I really want to explain better instead of just going to the plot directly. I know I'm a pleb but what else should I said if I didn't like it?
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nice projection
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whats the divine comedy equivalent of golding's metamorphoses?
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what uh....what the hell man?
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>>9831788
Basically a faithless translation that's actually just a great english retelling?
Did Pope do one?
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>>9831802
precisely
if i wanted a literally accurate version i would read it in a romance language.
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>O you are fair, my friend, O you are fair. Your eyes are doves through the screen of your tresses. Your hair is like a herd of goats that have swept down from Mount Gilead.
>Your teeth like a flock of matched ewes that have come up from the washing, all of them alike, and none has lost its young.
>Like a scarlet thread, your lips, and your tongue— desire. Like cut pomegranate your cheekbones through the screen of your tresses.
>Like the tower of David your neck built gloriously. A thousand shields are hung on it, all the warriors’ bucklers.
>Your two breasts are like two fawns, twins of a gazelle, that graze among the lilies.
What if Song of Songs is actually a 16th century parody of Petrarchan love poetry?
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>How beautiful art thou, my love, how beautiful art thou! thy eyes are doves' eyes, besides what is hid within. Thy hair is as flocks of goats, which Come up from mount Galaad.
>Thy teeth as flocks of sheep, that are shorn which come up from the washing, all with twins, and there is none barren among them.
>Thy lips are as a scarlet lace: and thy speech sweet. Thy cheeks are as a piece of a pomegranate, besides that which lieth hid within.
>Thy neck, is as the tower of David, which is built with bulwarks: a thousand bucklers hang upon it, all the armour of valiant men.
>Thy two breasts like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
your translation is a desecration of art and whoever did it should be hanged
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are you working on any intellectual projects? academic or autodidactic.
i'm trying to start some kind of project but getting started is never easy. one is a conceptual toolbox kind of like A Thousand Plateaus, another possible one is (mereological) analysis of contemporaneity as phenomenon, the third is just staking a claim about post-postmodernism. (if you want to collaborate on any of these projects that's fine too, especially i or ii). i probably need to read way more for any of these projects to be viable.
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>>9831449
not /lit/
sage and report
go back to /soc/
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>>9831449
you didn't even sage this, are you being ironic
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Post a literary quote, other anons give examples of it's revelance to their lives.
Starting with one I suspect is bullshit.
>We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
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>>9831241
>Holy
>Roman
>Empire
wee wee ohhh-la-la monsieur my favorite author of course French. he sniff the cheese and wave the white flag of the Frenchmen, dick in my butt wee wee monsieur
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TFW he actually made money with this dross.
I mean, he goes on with a lower case after a full period. Why? Is it pretentious? Outright lazy? An attempt to discern himself?
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Any good book about norse mythology that is not just normie shit?
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>>9831171
Kalevala. Everything else is normie (indo-European barbarians) shit.
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>>9831177
Kalevala is patrician, but it's not norse.
>tfw have a copy from the 70's that my mom used to read
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Poetic Edda is what you need, and then the Prose Edda, and then the Sagas. Find good translations and some explanatory works to help you get all the references, and read some comparative mythology to be able to understand it all better.
I can read the original, but I read Andy Orchard translation too and found it okay. It's the most accessible, I would say.
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Anyone read these as a kid? The first four books were kind of cute. I still think about them from time to time. But The Morphing Mystery was pretty weak and made me realize (finally) that she had too many powers.
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>>9831089
I read the first one and started reading the second one a few times but never finished it.
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Help me /lit/...
I'm trying to find the name of a book I read in middle school. It's kind of a fantasy type book. I don't remember if the main character was human or a rabbit, but there is definitely rabbits or mice and other animals that talk and what not. There are also dragons.
I know it's a not a helpful description but I really want to remember what this book was called.
I read it around 2000.
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It's not Kenny and the Dragon, is it? This came out in 2008.
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>>9831075
unfortunately no
I'm trying to remember other details about the book. It's been so long...
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Can anyone direct me to some articles discussing the idea of valuing freedom more than comfort?
>pic is somewhat related
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Ayn Rand's oeuvre.
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How do I become better at verbally conveying my thoughts?
Whenever I have a discussion with someone, something will come up that I've looked into or read about, however I can never think of the words to use to get my thought across. Sometimes I even forget words and end up googling "word for __"
I just want to be well spoken with a decent vocabulary. It's not even that I don't know a lot of words, when I hear it I know what they mean, but I can't think of them when I'm talking
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>>9830772
Speak more with smarter people. Also use the words you define everyday, make an effort to do so. Writing might help too
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I think the termyou're loking for is well articulated.
Read more, talk more, and think before opening your mouth. It'll come naturally.
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>>9830852
>term you're
Fix'd
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Reminder that pic related did nothing more, in terms of writting style, than what Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu did not do in his work, specially in The Les mendiants de miracles
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>tfw make your post so smug you forgot to make it a complete sentence
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>>9830734
>DFW stole all of his ideas from A Romanian writer no one has heard of
But he's already admitted to plagiarizing DeLillo?
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>>9830734
Leftist trash
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our game goes like this:
anon a names a WORD
anon b makes a sentence (or several sentences) with that word and other WORDS the next player can chose from to use in a passage of his own (he doesn't need to use ALL of them.).
e.g.:
a: "SCHADENFREUDE bla DASEIN bla ÜBERMENSCH bla WELTSCHMERZ bla bla."
b: Pierre grinned with schadenfreude about the weltschmerz and SPLEEN Liza visibly suffered at the sight of Pierre having dropped his PANTS just like her LITTLE BROTHER did before having a dump. "I want to shit on you", she blurted out. Well! Was it her or was it the GESTALT of all the dropping pants and all strained grinning she experienced in her life?
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I've been invited to write an article for an undergraduate magazine at my university on pretty much anything as long as it has 'intellectual rigor'. I'm studying classics and i'm sick of all these article about how the classics are relevant or making forced modern comparisons. Instead I thought it would be fun to write on my other favourite academic discipline literature. I've never written any proper literary criticism before so I was wondering if /lit/ has any pointers or tips? Thank you in advance
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tip for classics: dont try and say something thats never been said. publish-or-perish academics are always trying to force some tortured thesis.
just find something that someone smart said hundreds of years ago (preferably in some underknown epistle), and recast it for a modern audience. "transexualism in ancient athens" does nobody any good.
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>>9830646
yeah thats the sort of thing im sick to death of seeing and reading. It's a modern academic obsession.
Is this readable for plebs like me who don't speak Greek or Latin? I heard that it doesn't translate philosophical terms.
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>>9830615
>he didn't learn greek latin hebrew russian sanskrit german and french just to read books
what a nerd
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>>9830912
this.
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>>9830912
>he didn't learn to directly experience the Logos, bypassing the need to read
what a pleb