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How the fuck did he find the motivation to write Ulysses for seven years?
I can't even write a single page without giving up. How do I love my writing the same way this madman did?
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>>9715345
maybe being an artist isnt for you
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>>9715353
*autist
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>>9715345
>he hasn't read A Little Cloud
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Another One
When you’re a child you learn there are three dimensions: height, width, and depth.
Like a shoebox.
Then later you hear there’s a fourth dimension: time.
Hmm.
Then some say there can be five, six, seven…
I knock off work, have a beer at the bar.
I look down at the glass and feel glad.
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>>9715096
Absolute trash.
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>>9715096
This is prose.
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>Another One
>Hmm
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It's hard to read while working full time.
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>working full time
wait, is that still a thing?
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>>9715294
There's no reason for it to be
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>>9715285
read during your lunch breaks.
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Let's settle this once and for all 2017-07-04 06:12:16 Post No.9715000
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Let's settle this once and for all
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Are P&V a good choice to read or not? Are their translations accurate? Are there better ways to go?
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>>9715000
THEY'RE FINE
NO MORE THREADS ABOUT THIS
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>>9715000
Google could have answered that question, there are articles about how bad they are. They're just heavily marketed and have the best shelf appeal by far. Especially the Everyman's.
That being said they aren't "bad" they're just bad in comparison.
If you want a good contemporary translation try Avsey or MacAndrew. They're extremely readable and capture the message accurately for westerners.
If you want the more archaic tone try Magarshack or revised and edited Garnett. Don't get an unrevised Garnett.
McDuff is also great.
Honestly anything BUT P&V and unrevised/unedited Garnett is fine.
If you don't believe me just go to the bookstore and compare passages
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How is the MacAndrew translation?
>pic related
I know above guy said it was "contemporary" well is it true to what Dost was trying to say?
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Can we say that, from a Buddhist and stoic point of view, corrupt politicians and extremely wealthy and greedy tycoons (who pressure and influence politicians to vote laws that are beneficial to their ambitions, often with social costs to the majority of population) are suffering?
Can we say that those people, although they make thousands of others suffer, are themselves filled with frustrations and painful feelings?
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we don't need a buddhist point of view, we don't even need an aristotlean view - this is logically necessary from any good perspective on life. it's their inner dread of existence and life which makes them cling onto the fruit of others' labor. they're parasites, and parasites aren't individual beings, they're slaves to their hosts - and thus, never truly human, alive or happy.
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>>9715041
No. You don't know how they feel. Stop using Buddhism as an excuse to not strive.
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>>9715061
Never taught about it this way. It makes me feel better to consider reality from such a view.
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Reading becoming second nature 2017-07-04 05:52:17 Post No.9714941
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Reading becoming second nature
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When did you guys feel that you "got into" reading? I've been plowing through books and audio books for about 3 months now (managed to get by like 18, I'm on sick leave) and I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of it. I've read things like Catch 22, 1984, The Process and One flew over the cuckoo's nest. Have you gotten to a point where you yearn for the next book, where you can't wait to read another classic? Can you describe when it happened for you and what it's like? I enjoy reading for different reasons, but it's not second nature yet.
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what a gay thread
delete your life
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>>9714941
Pretty much never. I read one book or 3/4 a book then don't read for like 6 months. Come back and finish the book I left and then start another and do the same thing.
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>>9714950
no u
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Anyone happen to know any good anthropology (text)books? 2017-07-04 04:55:29 Post No.9714705
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Anyone happen to know any good anthropology (text)books?
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Interested in:
- Cognitive anthropology
- Biological anthroplogy
- Rites of passage
Preferably something recent, will probably ask /his/ too and maybe even THAT site
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>>9714705
The Interpretation of Cultures - Clifford Geertz
The Ritual Process - Victor Turner
The Origins of Consciousness - Julian Jaynes
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also interested, especially books about early man
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>>9714713
I am thankful for your contribution
I'm thinking I should look if I can find what textbooks universities require students to read
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So the meaning of life for mankind is heroism or to be a hero, is that why video games are popular?
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psychoanalytic video game theory when
>far cry 2 did nothing wrong
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what did it mean by this
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>"The Greatest Boss Battle In Gaming: How I Learned To Love The Smelter Demon"
what did georges bataille mean by this
>or nietzsche
>or jbp
>or baudrillard
>or
>also or
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Beginner guide to the stoics? I'm pretty new and have pretty much only read high school level stuff.
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Just b urself
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>>9714619
Yeah I've already done that
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>>9714625
No dude....
Just. E yourself
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What's that opposite version of Lolita with a woman and a boy/boys? I've seen it discussed here, is it any good?
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Tampa and no, it's trite.
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why ruin
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>>9714997
Opposite version of Lolita would be about a little girl falling in love with an old man.
So, Leon: The Professional.
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should you apologize to society for being an awkward autist, or should you not give a fuck? is not giving a fuck anti-social? is autism a sin?
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>>9714550
Of course not, fuck them. It does however not mean that you just have to sit down and do nothing while you have the chance to better your life in whatever way you think is best.
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>>9714558
>fuck them
i'm so tired of being alone. life ain't worth it if u don't have anyone to share it with.
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>>9714550
Society should apologize to me for my being autistic.
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After giving up becoming a mathematician, I changed my major to AI before I decided to just give up and find some mediocre job somewhere. I wanted to reshape my life and thought that maybe I should also stop playing chess and start reading, and so I ended up here. This is my first experience with literature:
I read the first 30 pages of Zarathustra and now I want to kill myself. Is that normal?
At first I recognized Zarathustra's words as a reflection of the transcripts of my old therapy sessions, and so I said to myself that Nietzsche is nothing but the child I used to be. But then, when the line dancer spoke his last words, I realized that those are my words now. I went up to those mountains, I lived in that cave enjoying my spirit only to come down again as the line dancer? I resisted for so many years, but the therapists finally won me over. I have taken the dull shape of everything I despised, handing out career advise to poor souls persuading them onto the same path of filth and scum that I have walked the last 10 years of my life.
I just want to die. There is nothing for me in this life, nothing worth living for. My life is only a small quirk in the infinite reaches of things. My vision is blunt, my arms heavy and my mind is weak. I had potential, now it is too late for me. Please tell me to lay that book aside, leave this hellhole, and return to my life as an illiterate programmer.
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dont read nietzche without knowing some philosophy beforehand: plato, descartes, kant, schoppenhauer
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While most mathematicians or literary theorists are born (knowing their passions and meaning by 10-13 and pursuing them) there are still those who are made a bit later. Someone may be ahead of you in whatever you like but if you hop in now then you will be one more ahead than if you would do it a day later.
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>>9714869
fpbp
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Interested in sorting myself out...any links to get it for free? I'm poor.
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damn it, i did again, edged for like 5 hours...i read a vice or buzzfeed contentfarm article like a year or two ago saying 2016 was the year edging would become the new getting off or something, damn were they ever right...might have to actually get into this gay ass nofap crap, damn
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read the fucking sticky faggot
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1. whole food plant based diet
2. daily exercise
3. proper sleep schedule
4. meditation
5. no drinking and drugs
6. clean your room
7. engage in meaningful activity
there, sorted.
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I am looking for literature that seems to transcend the drama that seems so trivial and all encompassing. I'm not talking about any sort of religious or spiritual writing, unless your definition of spiritual is loose. I am looking for a work that transports your mind, travels up a ladder of consciousness, into places that you did not know existed inside of your mind. Perhaps Franz Kafka or Siddhartha would be the closest thing I can think of, but please no DADA/absurdism. That becomes noise to me, not worth paying attention to.
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my diary, desu
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Book of Disquiet
sage
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>>9714356
That's a good book, one of my favorites, but I do already know it. Thanks anyways, even if your post is very sarcastic and you sage my thread.
Hey /lit/, I don't usually come to this board but I've run into a lot of problems in life and I don't know where else to turn. Due to some circumstances, I am homeless and the only internet connection is at the library. I want to at least try to improve myself and my brain in the mean time, but I destroyed my memory from years of drug abuse. Does anyone have any tips on how to retain more information from reading? Should I use notebooks and write important ideas down and expand on them? Thanks for the help /lit/.
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Read the Bible, sounds like you need to.
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>>9715016
I honestly planned on it. Was looking for an orthodoxy bible but there aren't too many resources in the library and I prefer hard cover so I can take it with me.
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Anything you do don't read the Bible, it's all lies.