What is the best book of the Bible?
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Ecclesiastes and Matthew.
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Tipitaka.
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Chimmichanga
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>finish writing
>have to go back and edit everything
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progress is progress friend. how many words? when you say "finish" do you mean you finished a session or writing or you finished a writing project?
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What kind of writer doesn't have an editor?
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editing is the fun part my friend
I always cringe at my original draft, I have a lot of fun going back to make the sentences sound nice, or coming up with more creative ways to express my ideas
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Why do you guys even try to become "patrician" when people like Arno Schmidt exist? I swear he has read every single book that ever existed
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Arno Schmidt does not exist.
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Because if being patrician means writing something like Zettel's Traum or Finnegans Wake, I'd rather keep trying all my life.
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ur mum dont exist
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I'm unspooked as fuck. I see myself living in a meaningless world. I see people as disgusting. My jealousy comes out of nowhere and it disgusts me.
>see guy with his gf
>get madly jealous and randomly the thought, "the best revenge is a life well lived" goes through my mind
>realise as I'm thinking it how pathetic and spooky it is, the coping mechanism of a genetically deficient organism
>see someone reading a maths book
>feel hatred for them because they might think they're smarter than me
Guys I'm not going to lie, being unspooked is tough as fuck. I worry that marketers and advertisers are trying to take advantage of me.
I have no life philosophy. Work on many things? Work on one thing? Do what I enjoy? Do what others say is important? I have no clue. I want to do 50 things at once. I see all sides. I started reading more recently and worry about "reading myself stupid". I try to remember what I read when sitting on the train and although I know the condensed outline, and see this as enough, I get annoyed for not remembering perfectly.
I am an ugly beta male who has never had female attention, even at the age of 26, has had no social life since 18, and became the ugly loser loner that nobody talks to within two days at work. Seeing attractive women everywhere is torture when I know they have lives on easy mode, consider me a disgusting non chad, as have 50999 tinder matches.
I trust my intellect and taste but I am always abused by the pseudo intellectuals who claim I need to suspend these and worship and spend my money. If I spent all my time doing all the shit I'm supposed to do, I'd have no time for anything. Everyone else is a fraud. Everyone else is either a woman who gets everything handed to them or a normie who glides through institutions while being judged by their clones.
My spiritual malaise is entrenched and I refuse to sprinkle Christian (or any other) droplets on it like the low IQers, pseudo intellectuals, and the frauds.
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This.
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If I had to give some advice, it'd have to be.. Just be yourself.
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Hi /lit/, I have a request. Please don't laugh at me but.. Any books or philosophers on how do I cope with the fact that my mother will die someday? I am not religious.
Thank you..
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The Bible
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Are you looking for books detailing how to deal with the feelings accompanying death, or books to read as a means of dealing with said feelings?
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>>9832533
I'm not sure i'm understanding you, but I think the second one might be more close. It's not only about the feelings, but also about the... comprehension of such a dark certainty that is going to happen soon.
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Are all Canadian writers this shitty?
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>Canadians
>ever good.
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>>9832383
They have Anne Carson. She redeems everything
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Who is your favorite poet and why?
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Blake and Yeats
I like my floruishing mysticsm
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Blake because I love his creativity and imagination. His mythology is fascinating to study and his personal or visionary world is inspiring to me.
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Keats
Also how come Goethe loved Byron so much, but nowadays people generally prefer Keats and Shelley?
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Favorite work of His and why?
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The Bible
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None. He's a hack and even the cat can acknowledge it. You can tell he's uncomfortable and maybe a little bit ashamed by his side.
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N.wood
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Hello again /lit/, we meet again. After weeks of roaming this board I was told to "read the greeks" and to "read rowling" and I have done so and I gained NOTHING...So I have taken up the blade like a REAL MAN. Try to recommend me another book and I will punt it in the air and slice it to SHREDS. Even try to recommend a book on "the blade" and I will slice it in HALF for my skill knows no boundaries. So while you FOOLS keep reading words and books..I will be training. You have been warned
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A foolish warning coming from a foolish cur. I am sorry anon but you have much to learn and your life on this earth is too short to engage into such foolish rebellion. You have challenged us 100 years to early and your just reward will be yet another humiliation notched on your fedora. I shall give you one final warning, before I use 20% of my power to finish you off: "Go back anon! Read at least the Book of Five Rings five times and challenge us again and we shall see how far you have progressed."
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Ah! so this is where you're going! you're a strange fellow indeed Ha! Ha! Ha! but I'll tell you the truth without quarrels, I've no intention in stopping you with wathever goal you may want to achieve, in fact my good fellow I may even help you! But not now, now I have to go and see to some meeting I have in the other side of the city and I will not be back until late in the evening, bye bye old chap!
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pic related by the way. And the time for words has passed. I challenge any or all of you PEASANTS to meet me at the side fountain(by the new mill) and bring whatever books you will for they will do you about as much good as they did me. Tis time to dance
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DUDE PARADOXES LMAO
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What's interesting is that Chesterton is actually on to something with his obsession with paradoxes, since there actually is a lot of paradox built into Christianity. "The last will be first and the first will be last," and so on. He was right to hone in on them, being as focused on Christianity as he was.
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How long does it take to become literate in Russian?
Not necessarily fluent, but still able to read some decent Russian lit without consulting a dictionary too frequently.
For what it is worth I'm already bilingual, just looking for a third language to pick up. Currently looking at Russian but worried it may be too much of an investment (in comparison to an easier European language)
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Spanish or French would be easier and have a comparable richness.
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>>9832122
>not even remotely answering the question.
Why solve a captcha to contribute nothing?
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>>9832122
I'd sooner learn retarded made-up language like klingon or ASL over spanish
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/lit/, please settle an argument
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Is it...
"They send an email to themself"
or
"They send an email to themselves"
if the "they" is a single person.
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>>9832007
They send an emaille to they're own mail address.
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this2bqhwy
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>if the "they" is a single person.
it's neolanguage so you can just choose whatever will rustle more jimmies
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>Stop having sex.
>I SAID STOP IT.
>STOP IT.
>STOPITSTOPITSTOPIT
What did he mean by this /lit/?
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"yes"
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>>9831927
He didn't say that, he's fine with sodomy.
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I wonder if he has a gf/wife.
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>German "Literature"
I've worked with a few Germans before and they just seem like humanoid robots. They would go into work 30-60 minutes early, take quick lunch breaks, and have no problem working overtime if needed. A strange breed of people. Anyway, this guy says Heinrich Von Kliest was his favorite author so I gave it a read.
It's exactly what you would expect some AI to produce if it were tasked with writing some sort of story. So now I'm here to ask you about it...Is this common in German literature? It's not bad by any means, but it feels mechanical and too precise. The portrayal of human emotion just goes from extreme to extreme -- no subtlety.
And tell me what you think about The Marquise of O-- in particular if you've ever read it
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sounds right. No fucking humor. But nah. There's some decent books out there, but I couldn't name any off the top of my head. Still, there's a reason why germany used to be lauded for it's writers.
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>they just seem like humanoid robots. They would go into work 30-60 minutes early, take quick lunch breaks, and have no problem working overtime if needed.
That'a the Japanese you're thinking about. You lazy fuck.
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>>9831877
Frag mich, wie ich weiß, dass du nie einen Deutschen kennengelernt hast.
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>start losing argument
>call opponent a pseud and close thread
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can some good white boy just dump al the reaction pics of DFW? Please I want to see this in a thread
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>>9831858
Lurk longer
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>mfw I deliberately argue without providing any real evidence or reasoning
>mfw no one can successfully refute me because there's basically nothing to refute