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thoughts on blood meridian?
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What on earth makes you think Inarritu would be good for Blood Meridian?
We lost our best chances at a great adaptation when Peckinpah died and Apoc Now broke Coppola.
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The ideal director for Blood Meridian is Werner Herzog. He pays the right amount of attention to landscapes and seems to personally enjoy McCarthy's prose.
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Inarritu is a decent choice for a director.
Memeoa makes no sense for Judge Holden. He's supposed to be a large, baby-faced man. IMO someone like John Goodman makes more sense (might be a little old now).
>>9738487
The Revenant is a pretty good application form to adapt Blood Meridian, imo, although like I said Herzog is a better choice.
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Paul Thomas Anderson could probably get a good crack at Blood Meridian if he was allowed to make it a 4 hour film.
>>9738585
1970s Herzog could've done it if he had the budget. Present day Herzog is at his best when doing documentaries now.
>>9738479
I think we all know Inarritu was only brought up because of The Revenant which is just Blood Meridian-lite. I don't think he would do such a good job with the actual novel.
Awful choices for lead actors though, I will fucking smack you one.
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Prime Day is coming up, and I am interested in a Paperwhite but curious if /lit/ has any suggestions or warnings about buying one of these. I have head the Paperwhite recommended, so that's that, but is there a specific generation that is better than others or a good place to look for used Paperwhites? Also, if you got the one with ads ("special offers"...) can you do some hacky shit and get rid of them and skip out on the extra $40 tip they charge to have the device come without them? Any other suggestions, including suggestions for other devices are welcome.
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The ads go away if you just leave it on airplane mode for a while and you just get a generic "visit the amazon bookstore" ad with a pretty background as your screensaver.
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Oh, that's not that bad. Are the ads obnoxious? I had a Fire for a while, and the ads then would display themselves for a few seconds before they let you access your device which was annoying.
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>>9736557
I recently got a PaperWhite.
When you put the device in sleep mode, a static ad appears on the screen which persists the whole time it is in sleep mode (this doesn't affect battery life cause e-ink). When you want to exit sleep mode, you push the power button and swipe the screen and you are immediately back where you left off, no ads play or anything.
It hasn't affected my experience too much.
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>Know thyself and do thy job
-Montaigne paraphrasing Socrates/Plato
>"Why Francoise, he doesn't know himself. It's his nerves."
>"There is no happiness like the transition one realizes after finally knowing who they are."
-Proust, Swann's Way (The latter quote is a paraphrase, and if anyone knows the actual quote pls let me know).
>"This above all to thine own self be true."
-Shakespeare (Polonius, but still), Hamlet
>One cannot be a good lover unless one knows oneself
-Ovid
The stoics have their say in it too, as do many others. What does it mean to know oneself? How does one know oneself?
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If you know how to spell your name then you know yourself.
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It is a trope but it has never been proven
(like the hair by the way)
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I look at it like this: in the history of all of existence you got dealt your one. Every flaw and every positive is yours only to own and you have to own them.
Delusion is the gatekeeper of dissatisfaction, recognise your strengths and weaknesses with the true scrutiny of truth and you'll have achieved self actualisation.
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I stumbled upon this board by chance. I usually watch the others. Anyhow, I saw Infinite Jest here often. At first I didn’t believe the stories. But then I decided to buy it and give it a read. I have now bought all the different covers with Infinite Jest. At first I would read it normally. Then I started reading it from end to beginning. Then I just opened the page and started reading it. Sometimes I read it out loud. When I do that I use different voices. For example I do a yelling voice, or a seductive woman, or I do a documentary voice. I try to memorize parts of the book and would see how much I got right. I usually spend most of my time like this. My family worries about me and tells me there is more to life as Infinite Jest. I just think they don’t understand it. I also read reviews of Infinite Jest and when I read them I make a face you see on those funny David Foster Wallace reaction images. I keep at least one Infinite Jest book to whenever I go (but well, it is not like I go away that much). It is a bummer the book is so heavy but I think it is worth it. I lurk here often but I am too timid to actually post here. I get scared easily and when I do I find comfort in thinking about Infinite Jest. It took a lot of courage to make this post but I just wanted you all to know that I and Infinite Jest are really happy together and I wouldn’t have found out about this masterpiece without this board, so thanks.
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youre welcome
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Is it better than Brothers Karamazov and Crime and Punishment?
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Any good literature set during the Victorian Era? That isn't YA hopefully. I remember really liking the setting as a kid reading The Golden Compass and Bartimaeus series, but the only thing I can remember reading as an adult taking place in that era was From Hell. It can be fantasy or sci-fi or whatever I don't really care as long as it's good.
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>>9743445
Just getting in to this myself, so far I've been binge reading Dickens. Don't get all the hate for him because I fucking love it so far. This thread had better survive.
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What about literature written during the Victorian Era that uses geometry and dimensions to satirise and critique Victorian society?
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walter benjamin's arcades project- massive, encyclopedic, unfinished- attempts to map the psychogeographical subconscious of 19th century Paris.
https://monoskop.org/images/e/e4/Benjamin_Walter_The_Arcades_Project.pdf
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is there any non-newfag literature board?
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>>9743411
try my diary desu
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Every other place on the internet is worse.
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What do you mean when you don't want newfags? What exactly is it that makes this a worse place?
If there was a more avant-garde place I would settle it, but there doesn't seem to be
I no longer go on /his/ because it are the same threads day after day, /lit/ is more creative even if it has some reoccurring topics as well
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So lit, what do you think is the best way to get rid of old books or books you simply won't ever read? Sell them online (of so any suggestions as to how)? Donate them? Excuse me for my lack of /lit/ knowledge, I'm migrating from /pol/ for this.
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>>9743382
Personally I just donate everything to my library, who sell used books in the back room to raise a bit of extra funds. But if you've got hold of something valuable you could always do Ebay or similar.
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>>9743382
my plan is to donate 90% of my fiction paperbacks to a used bookstore that supports the library once I fill my current shelf.
or else just give them to friends
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>>9743382
Donate to friends and local library.
>Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.
What did he mean by his era "pretending" to do this? Do we still do this?
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He is talking shit to woo the ladies
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maybe he means things like anti-art/conceptual art?
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>>9743383
This is true of every Great.
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Who is the most important writer alive today, and why is it Sam Harris?
- constructed the first scientifically proven ethical system
- demolished political correctness, situating himself neither Left, nor Right
- proven most religions wrong
- proven spirituality is possible without religion
- became enlightened in Tibet and documented it in his writing
- discovered the dangers inherent in Artificial Intelligence
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>>9743008
I know this is bait but I'd like to respond to one thing
>- constructed the first scientifically proven ethical system
the first scientifically "proven" ethical system was Utilitarianism.
protip:there is no such thing as a proven scientific ethical system
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>>9743008
more symmetry
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>>9743008
Divine character nub... Every good person shares the same character.
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Thoughts on the Robert Greene Series 2017-07-11 02:35:24 Post No.9742768
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Thoughts on the Robert Greene Series
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I've recently started trying to hone my personal strategic thinking and leadership skills and would like opinions on specifically Greene's "33 Strategies of War" and "48 Laws of Power"
Any other alternative recommendations in the same sort of genre would be greatly appreciated.
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I used to read it but think it is lowbrow bullshit nowadays
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So you mastered all 33 strategies and 48 laws? Whew.
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>>9742776
Not quite, think I'm on strategy no, 27 think it will take me at least 3 re-reads to truly "master both of them but one must start somewhere right?
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Hmmmmmmm
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They like him because he isn't afraid to speak the truth.
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>>9742666
Nietzsche was the proto-beta. Like a robot who could write.
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>>9742684
>robots are really the intellectual master race
nice meme
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What are some books about self-improvement that actually carried you through harder times and made you stronger in hindsight
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The Ego and Its Own, not even memeing
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Books don't carry you through hard times. Females do.
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A book is like a female. Full of useless and unsolicited advice.
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What is the most patrician Ibsen play, and why? 2017-07-11 01:36:57 Post No.9742586
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What is the most patrician Ibsen play, and why?
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Ibsen thread, discuss his works and tell us why you love a certain play over any other. I recently got 'Ghosts and Other Plays' and was wondering whether I stumbled on anything overtly patrician.
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>>9742586
Nah, Ibsen's hella chill and hella easy.
Enemy of the People is my favorite from him, but I haven't read all that much of his works. Ghosts is pretty good, even if it's stupidly convoluted.
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>>9742586
If it wasn't for Shakespeare, Ibsen would be remembered as the GOAT playwright. Rosmersholm is probably his most patrician, if you don't count the text to Peer Gynt
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When We Dead Awaken
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What are people talking about so much, what is it that is so interesting and they can't stop talking about it. They even make new friends all the time like its nothing and they just keep talking and they don't even seems to be the type of people who care about literature, philosophy or science to have so much to talk about. They never stop doing it and expect even me to talk about something, but what should it be when they are not interested about the subjects I mentioned already. I understand that they might have some interesting stories to tell but that just doesn't stop, ever. Its driving me insane and even makes me think I'm becoming insane so please help me /lit/.
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>>9742555
Another "I'm a genius that can't relate to normies!" thread. You're not nearly as clever and different as you think you are. I hope this answer helps you.
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>>9742555
If we don't stop this shit, lit will turn into /r9k/
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damn
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mind = _____
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>>9742545
Does anyone else break all writing into prose, verse, and lyric? Poetry at least has to be verse imo.
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>>9742545
Pomo was a mistake.