Which one of these is best for learning about Greek mythology?
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>>9797412
Left.
Bulfinch's is largely the same thing but Graves supplies some cultural and etymological history with each story, as well as some theorizing about what symbols mean or references were made. Hamilton is reddit tier; okay if you know absolutely nothing.
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I liked Graves' Greek Myths, but they are only simplifications (all followed by brief musings that irritate scholars)
I haven't read Bulfinch or Hamilton's, though Her The Greek Way was very good.
>>9797433
>okay if you know absolutely nothing.
Why must you insist on advertising for sites you claim to hate? What is this neurosis everyone on this site has?
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>>9797441
>tripfag is also a redditor
Quelle suprise
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Do you believe in fate?
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>>9797335
The written in the starts kind? No.
The "your prior judgments and mistakes, successes and failures, wants and needs and interactions with other have affected who you are today and will affect who you are tomorrow"?
Sure
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who else am i supposed to blame for my various failings?
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Fate and temperament are the same thing
t. Novalis (paraphrased)
I'm giving this up at about 120 pages in. Too much is going on.
It feels so great to give it up. Not that it's a bad book, I just love not being chained to it because pseuds claim it's part of the canon and I have to read it and like it or else I'm dumb
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>>9797172
What the fuck are you talking about. It's just science fiction my man.
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>>9797172
>pseuds claim it's part of the canon and I have to read it and like it or else I'm dumb
who the fuck you hanging around, its pulpy science fiction
i read it and enjoyed it at about age 15 but my life is no better or worse for having read it, its such a missable book, have I been baited?
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I like the rat-things
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What was the IQ of George Orwell?
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>>9797138
no clue look it up
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>>9797138
>socialist
probably around 50. Try Hitler instead
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>>9797138
probably around 120-125, not hypergenius but high enough for making him well aware of his surroundings.
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How do you find names for your characters when you start writing a novel?
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>>9796582
I usually plagiarize
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Use an existing name or make up a new one that's never been heard before.
C.S. Lewis described the German word "Sehnsucht" as the "inconsolable longing" in the human heart for "we know not what." As I understand it, nostalgia for something one's never experienced.
Can anyone recommend any writing that either evokes and/or analyzes this feeling?
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The writing for that game was so ridiculous, holy hell(a).
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watch midnight in paris
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.. easy on the hella
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Which book best encapsulates Western degeneracy and why is it 101 Reykjavik?
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>>9796416
Who?
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>>9796425
Hallgrimur Helgason
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Surely you mean JR, A Confederacy of Dunces, and Infinite Jest
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I propose we finally write the end of our magnus opus:
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra III: Easy on the Carrots
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>>9796345
Sit on your damn fucking carrots and spin. This is not funny. Never was. Get fuck back to /b/
And start with the greeks
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>>9796351
>Sit on your damn fucking carrots and spin. This is not funny. Never was. Get fuck back to /b/
Indeed. Just an unfunny inside joke among faggots with their stupid /b/ tier shit.
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>>9796351
the original bugs...easy on the carrots was funny
and using _____ easy on the ______ is funny and expressive
the reddit pic is dumb though
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What are some good post apocalyptic Books?
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>>9796315
There are none. Move on kid
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>>9796404
>apocalyptic books: not found
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The road
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Most patrician drug to read on?
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I love to read but my depressed state of mind prevents me from doing so. What's a good drug for this situation?
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SSRIs
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>>9796134
Would rather not have to see a quack
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>>9796119
Amphetamines and/or marijuana.
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Guten Abend.
Ich habe gerade festgestellt, dass die Spanier hier einen eignen Thread am Laufen haben. Darum habe ich gedacht, dass man das auch auf Deutsch mal versuchen könnte.
Hier einige Frage um das Ganze ins Rollen zu bringen:
Gibt es eigentlich momentan gute deutschprachige Autoren?
Was haltet ihr z.B. von Clemens J. Setz?
Oder sowas hippes wie Kat Kaufmann?
Christian Kracht? Stuckrad-Barre?
Heinz Strunk?
Warum kaufen die Leute so Kram wie Sebastian Fitzek oder Charlotte Link? Das ist doch Sellout, oder?
Und warum ist der Markt überschwemmt von diesen ganzen Provinzkrimis? Ich scheiße drauf, was auf der Alm oder hinterm Deich passiert ist.
Schönes Restwochenende wünsche ich euch.
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shouldn't you let someone who actually speaks german start this thread?
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>>9796104
Ich spreche Deutsch. Wo habe ich mich denn nicht vernünftig ausgedrückt?
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>Und warum ist der Markt überschwemmt von diesen ganzen Provinzkrimis
Oh mann, ich hab keine Ahnung. Sowas hab ich nie gesehen eher ich nach Deutschland zog. Mir graust die Idee das die besten Tagen hinter uns sind, aber langsam glaub ichs. Wenn ich nie wieder einen Krimi mit einem Hirschkopf über einen karierten Tischdecke sehe wärs noch zu früh.
Wie schauts aus mit Schätzing? Guter Autor, oder Genreschlampe?
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In my time here on /lit/ I've discovered a fair number of authors that I would know nothing about otherwise. I guess I just don't typically run in literate circles, but I would never have heard of Borges, Wolfe, or Gaddis without coming here.
Let's have a thread for good authors that are obscure even by /lit/ standards. Post authors you rarely see discussed here, but that you've read and know the greatness of firsthand. Let's try to name as many names as we can.
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>>9796045
Well I'm sure this won't just devolve into namedropping and other forms of pseudo-intellectual posturing
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The best spanish playwright, from the spanish golden age.
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>>9796061
*Pedro Calderón de la Barca
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My writing is shit, my novel is shit, my dreams are shit.
Everything is shit.
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>>9795910
No. Just your perspective is shit.
Read something for that.
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>>9795910
Try reading something uplifting~ I enjoy reading this, it gives me peace in times of doubt
http://humanreality.org/
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>>9796173
Might as well have recommended Chicken Soup for the... series.
Same drivel.
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What is the greatest line ever written about love?
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To be or not to be, I have an erection.
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>>9795818
>and then I told him that so far his has the biggest dick of all the men that I selected for sex; he was happy
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Corinthians 13
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Where is the most partrician place to read?
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>>9795501
birds....easy on the lgbt activism
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At the carrot farm so you can go easy on the carrots lol