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>it was a metaphor bruh
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>>9746515
What is a metaphor?
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It was and it wasn't. Could you retards please read some commentaries before shitting up the board with this same garbage thread every week? It's painfully obvious that nobody starting these threads has attained any insight beyond "it was a metaphor...or maybe not!!" It's embarrassing.
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>>9746990
this board is polluted with numales who hate classical litterature and ironically recommend others to read the communist manifesto by marx
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i need to write my wedding vows and i don't want them to be full of clichées and sappy, oversued phrases.
can you help me out /lit/?
any excellent literature examples of expressing love?
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>>9746269
Just do the Catholic ones, you are not a special snowflake. If you need to speak, do so at your reception and dinner.
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>>9746269
Read Madame Bovary, it's a pretty good primer for your situation anon.
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>>9746269
I vow to love you with all my heart and soul for all of eternity. However, if at some point I find out you're a pleb, I will not hesitate to divorce you.
Why is this book so universally despised by normies despite being so great? Is it because they're required to read it in school?
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For such a short book it takes forever to get going, I've never finished it.
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>>9746017
this
snooze fest
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>be african
>read "Impressions d'Afrique"
>recommend to other African friend
>get told white people shouldn't write about us
>explain Roussel using Africa, an unimaginable land to him, to construct the most unimaginable tales ever.
>mention our history of mystic spiritualism
>get told I am shilling for colonialists
>get told to love my people more and read more African literature
>tfw post-colonialist literature ruined my friend's ability to immerse himself in really good literature
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Well if you would quit being such a Uncle Tom race traitor house nigger and started reading some black authors you would understand
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Which country?
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>>9745695
I'm from Sudan and he's from Mali
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Are there any good /lit/ youtube channels?
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Of course not.
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No unless you count things like 92Y readings.
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Harry Potter thread
Who was your
>favorite teacher
>favorite student
>favorite spell
Mine:
1. Snape
2. Luna
3. Killing curse
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wrong board
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>>9745458
WINGARDIUM LEVIOSAAAAAA xD
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>>9745510
XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD
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>editor's introduction spoils the plot
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>reading the introduction first
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>reading at all
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Happened to me with The Waves.
It's a book not primarily about the plot, sure, but finding out thatRhoda ends up killing herselfbefore even starting the book did annoy me.
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In the middle of what has been my worst year healthwise, I realize... He will outlive me. He will outlive all of us. Won't he?
Share poetry of death, as I await my own.
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>>9744587
he lives at 1000 pgs/hr
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>>9744587
He can't eat, he can't breathe, there's no discernable pulse.
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>>9744587
Oh, the torment bred in the race,
the grinding scream of death
and the stroke that hits the vein,
the haemorrhage none can staunch, the grief
the curse no man can bear.
But there is a cure in the house
and not outside it, no,
not from others but from them,
their bloody strife. We sing to you,
dark gods beneath the earth.
Now hear, you blissful powers underground —
answer the call, send help.
Bless the children, give them triumph now.
Most of my understanding of philosophy has come from second hand sources. What do I need to read in order to be able to get on to Being and Time?
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you'd probably do best to start by trying to get a sense of its place in the history of philosophy, what he's agreeing with/rejecting etc. I found Hubert Dreyfus helpful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaGk6S1qhz0
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>>9743900
Let me just begin by saying Nietzsche is my area of focus, and I do not think Nietzsche is required reading for B&T despite what many here would have you believe, outside of his essay "On the Use and Misuse of History for Life." Those who are essential to understanding B&T include Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Descartes.
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>>9744418
What makes Dreydigger its own philosophy?
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Is this one of the most underrated masterpieces ever? 2017-07-11 07:45:04 Post No.9743615
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Is this one of the most underrated masterpieces ever?
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This book is simply genius, it's up there with other great classics like Faust, Brothers Karamazov, War and Peace etc.
This and Ulysses are probably the best books of the 20th century, and yet the latter has far more fame than the former. Why is it? Are people scared of reading Musil's magum opus because of its size?
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Isn't annoying that the book is not finish ?
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>>9743633
Nah German is better than finish
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>>9743615
Yea maybe people are scared of its lenght, plus it's unfinished. It's not underrated though, it's widely regarded as one of the best novel of the 20th century. One of the greatest, along with Proust and Joyce.
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Penguin Books USA will announce a new novel by Thomas Pynchon next week, with the finished title and a vague plot synopsis. When the actual book is released, it will contain a pasta from /lit/ after the 200 page mark.
You're welcome.
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>>9742765
proof
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>>9742765
I hope it's the 19yo on his third existential crisis pasta
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What country has the best literature? 2017-07-11 05:51:58 Post No.9741790
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What country has the best literature?
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In this thread we will select a "team" of writers to represent each country, compare and contrast to see who the greatest are.
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>>9741790
Team Russia
>Tolstoy
>Dostoevsky
>Gogol
>Chekhov
>Bulgakov
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>>9741790
england, followed by france, then by germany
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>>9741798
>hack
>hack
>decent
>hack
>hack
'the best'
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General 2017-07-10 08:43:52 Post No.9739913
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General
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Meta edition. Discuss your favorite meta works in any manner.
Fantasy
Selected:
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General:
>https://imgoat.com/uploads/6d767d2f8e/21328.jpg
Flowchart:
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Science Fiction
Selected:
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General:
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NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
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What are "meta works"?
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>>9739919
my diary desu
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>got
>childhoods end
>scanner darkly
>solaris
>book (all four) of the new sun
>other non scifi
which one do i read next
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write what's on your mind
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Weenies should be allowed.
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>>9736741
Yes. David Lubar was one of my favorite authors in elementary school.
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>>9736741
http://www.strawpoll.me/13397131
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How do I deal with having a higher IQ than 99.9 percent of people, /lit/?
Serious question. When turbo low IQ types socialise they do so about pleb things like television, football, and the works of other plebeian folks. I don't participate in any of these things so I can't relate to them, or other people.
I can't make friends because I'm too clever for them, and even when I'm not trying to do so, I outshine them and they hate me for it.
I mean, I still get laid... but afterwards I usually call the chick stupid and never speak to her again, or insult her in some way because I don't like stupid people.
This is /lit/ related because I read at least a book a day, and have done for the past 8 years.
How do I deal with drongos?
How do I stop being too smart?
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>>9735781
>posts frog
>claims to get laid
sage and report
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>>9735809
What's so bad about frog?
I think it's highly artistic. It is alluring in a strange way.
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I guess I'm alone after all