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>novel starts of seeming like it's a parody of pulpy novels with an anti hero but turns in to a boring melodrama filled romance novel just under half way through
Wtf.
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>>9743990
lol pepe is fucking not having a bit of it!! xD
CHEER UP PEPE, WE ARE FRIENDS MY FROG MEN
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>>9743995
>board called /lit/
>people focus more on picture than on the text
Alright.
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>>9743995
laughed out loud
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Did Nicanor Parra invented shitposting?
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no
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I don't know, but we took it to the next level.
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>>9743986
Is he good? I have atranslatedcollection of some of his stuff and I'm not sure if I should dive into it.
ITT: books that you think will never ever be topped
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>>9743971
Pic better be unrelated.
Also, Ulysses.
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>>9743975
pic is absolutely related. Ulysses is just Tristram Shandy with highbrow pretensions
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>>9743971
I really love this book, but certain segments were boring.
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What're the best movie adaptations of all of Shakespeare's (adapted) work?
>just read them
It's not for me.
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The one that shows an underage girl's titties.
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Coriolanus
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>>9743929
kek I remember watching that one in freshman year and freaking the fuck out
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Rate my literature degree's reading list /lit/
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All that Henry James?
Please transfer schools
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>>9743903
It's a good school though anon, one of the best
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That is really fucking bad dude
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Ok /lit/ i see you, but give me convincing evidence against free will.
And so we don't have to go through this, here are my definitions.
Free Will: The ability to create your own thoughts without them being necessitated by causal laws, IE what science and philosophy calls determinism. The ability to do otherwise in the exact same situation. I can just as easily choose to make a post about Bottom's Dream as i can choose to continue writing this one, and i can choose and will myself to think these things rather than them being the effect of the Big Bang.
Determinism: The doctrine that everything has a cause that guarantees it to happen. The universe is a game of dominoes.
Will: The conscious and subconscious stream of thoughts at any and all times.
And if you're unaware of the debate or just too cynical to wonder, here are some present-day libertarian defenses that are among the most popular and most stubborn:
Radical Emergence
Panpsychism
Quantum Mechanics/Quantum Mind
Top-Down Causation
Two-Stage Models
Multiverse Theory
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>>9743851
try the redpill, retard
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>>9743863
You do realize that if free will is as much of an illusion as you guys claim it is then all individuality and 'im better than thou" is thrown out the window right
This is not in your favor
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>>9743851
> give me convincing evidence against free will.
That's not how it works bud. You are the one making the positive claim that free will exists, you have to provide evidence.
It's simple: do something right now, go back in time and do something else. If you can't you can't prove free will. If you can't prove it I will not spend effort believing in it.
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quantum physic and pihlosophy
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http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/07/11/space-breakthrough-scientists-teleport-photon-from-earth-to-orbit.html
>scientists have successfully teleported a photon from the ground to a satellite in orbit.
>It’s been 20 years since quantum scientists successfully teleported a photon over 10 miles, proving that quantum entanglement — a process that Albert Einstein called “spooky action at a distance” -- was possible.
>The very unnatural phenomenon occurs when two quantum objects, such as photons, share a wave function. Since they come into existence at the exact same time and place, they share the same identity, even when separated. What happens to one happens to the other — wherever it exists.
>teleporting protons from a ground station in Tibet, 2½ miles above sea level, to a satellite orbiting Earth more than 310 miles away.
>It marks the first time an object has been teleported from our planet into space.
What sort of thinker/philosopher predicted this earliest?
What are modern philosophers who incorporate and talk about what quantum physics might mean to humans?
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>>9743803
Is quantum physics the biggest meme of the last few years ?
I have read articles about how quantum physics explains everything and can do some crazy shit yet i rarely see anything concrete coming out of it.
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>>9744804
Quantum physics supposes that true random is possible, so I don't fully trust anything of the field
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>>9744909
Einstein proposed that quantum mechanics was not truly random, and that there were hidden variables involved. He was proven wrong by experiment. Quantum is genuinely random.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_paradox#Bell.27s_inequality
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what are some must reads about war and game theory?
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>>9743792
anything by hitler and goebbels
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my diary
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>>9743792
Not so much "war" per se but Conflict and Economics, ed. Varoufakis, uses game theory to analyzes situations where two or more parties are willing to risk more resources than they stand to gain by conflict with the other parties through a game theoretic perspective on microeconomics
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Can you notice the similarities between the three men in the picture?
Well, I've noticed that they're all witty English writers who were quite plump and very out of shape.
The three of them had a strong passion for smoking, which is most likely the reason for their receding hairline.
They were all charismatic and were good public speakers.
They were involved in the political affairs of their time in one way or the other.
All of them wrote about religion and were praised by their followers for their witticism and ability to eloquently articulate their arguments.
I can go on and on, but there is something more to it as I will explain shortly.
Cont.
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>>9743726
Now can you draw the parallels between these three men and William Shakespeare?
This is where is gets spooky. All of the traits mentioned above can be found in Shakespeare, even the smoking.
But what is the explaination to all of this? I think that it's reasonable to assume that Shakespeare reincarnates himself every once in a while in a man who resembles him from his own country. Notice how all of them admired Shakespeare too.
I know this sounds /x/-tier, but how else can you explain such parallels?
There could be more Shakespeares to come.
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And they were never photographed in the same room together at the same time ......
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But Christopher Hitchens admitted he could never write non-fiction because he was non-creative.
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How long does folio society take to process orders, usually? I ordered something on the 7th, about 6 things on the 9th, and one thing on the tenth. Yet it still says it's processing on my account, and I wasn't able to get a hold of any representatives at folio society. Has anyone has experience buying over seas with folio society? I just want to know how long it might take to finally get my order shipped.
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>>9743626
Wow. I never knew Mahler was a manlet. I guess he tried to make his music sound more grandeur in order to make up for his stature.
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>>9744078
but look at this jawline
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>>9744078
It feels strange looking up the height of a conductor, that's not something I've ever cared to know until now. He is curiously short.
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Leave this board and never return if any of these apply to you:
>you read any form of genre fiction
>you barely know your classics
>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected
>you speak a single language
>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
>you read for the plot
>you read for solely for entertainment
>you rarely read nonfiction
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy
>you don't have at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer
>you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon
>you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon
>you mostly read contemporary literature
>you believe 'the author is dead'
>you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology
>you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point'
>your rarely read poetry
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules and laws restricting creativity
>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work
>you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism
>you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities
>you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight
What book are you reading?
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Leave this board and never return if any of these apply to you:
>you have never read Heinrich von Ofterdingen
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>>9743585
>look mom, i posted it again!
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>>9743747
who are you quoting?
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Some real good book about Satanism? None of that gay shit of LaVey pls
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that's what satanism is, there was no satanism before lavey
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>>9743444
Google "theistic Satanism" and go from there to avoid edgy libertarians who resent their Christian parents
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>>9743482
Except theistic satanist are even MORE edgy libertarians/fascists. And for fuck's sake, avoid Joy of Satan like the plague.
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It's just a literary snuff film. How is this regarded as good?
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>>9743431
Evidently you did not read the entire thing. A snuff film centers around, and in fact the only plot is, the killing of a person/people. Which tells me you didn't read much of this book, or didn't understand much of it.
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>>9743441
What is there to understand besides violent, abhorrent, random scenairos?
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>>9743448
>They don't understand the plot of naked lunch
It would probably help if you read Junky, Queer, and Yage first, I'm guessing. But if you don't like the style, some people just don't care for the cut-up method, or Burrough's sense of humor. Because the thing is, most of this book is comedy.satire, which, if you have the edition in the OP pic, there should be plenty of material explaining this, both from editors and Burroughs himself. But again, it's not for everyone.
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frenetic
commoner
supposes
emergent
ecstatic
elements
laconic
actuality
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Peasant. It feels so good to use.
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floccinaucinihilipilification
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>>9743280
cuck
meme
pepe
kek
red
pill
gas
the
kikes
nigger
faggot
white
race
is
supreme
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What is /lit/s opinion on this book?
I think it wasfunny and so on.
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summer time
and the living's easy!
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>>9743242
I'll admit I'm not a /lit/ regular so excuse me if I'm not too familiar with board-specific memes.
Can you explain what's actually wrong with the book?
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It's fucking shit, as expected of Vonnegut.