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>start with the greeks
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>tfw not chad enough to know how to read one book per eye
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what should i photoshop this book into?
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>>10012806
i love this photo, i posted it on here a few weeks ago. superimpose either lolita or the bell curve on there.
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What French pieces are considered mandatory? Voltaire I assume, but what else?
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>>10012635
go out and git yourself Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel. make sure you avoid the screech translation.
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>>10012635
Perec - La vie mode d'emploi is the modern classic!
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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
(And Salammbo)
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ITT - Overrated "Classics" 2017-09-12 05:52:13 Post No.10012578
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What a shit book. Desperately tried to make the "black community" seem respectable and intelligent - succeeds in making them talk like educated whites. Dat realism.
Bashes whites - but married one. Bashes whites - but was inspired by white writers.
Poorly-written. Unremarkable prose. Basically a muffled chimpout on paper.
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teen thread
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>>10012586
t. black.
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>>10012578
I'm getting the distinct impression that this post was written by someone who is not biased against blacks in any way.
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How do I become the Übermensch?
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>>10012486
You have to be selected for the Jupiter mission, survive your ship's computer's malfunctioning which kills everybody else, and bravely rendezvous with whatever the hell is out there - where the signal had been sent.
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Be an average German, obviously.
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Buy a fedora
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>How did scrambled eggs get stuck with breakfast exclusivity? You can put bacon on a sandwich without anyone freaking out. But the moment your sandwich has an egg, boom, it's a breakfast sandwich.
Are you boys excited for Turtles All The Way Down?
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>>10012445
the fact that this man doesn't know about eggs over easy on a burger indicates his opinion is moot
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is this guy really that stupid? eggs are breakfast food because when peasants and others who lived off the land woke up in the morning there might be new eggs laid, and if you wait to cook them there's just a risk they will get broken or eaten by a rodent
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>>10012451
This explanation makes no fucking sense.
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Where should I start with philosophical logic? I just started my math major, and I feel that I should be well-read on logic. I'm not looking for textbooks for mathematical logic -- I want philsophical logic. What books should I read if I've never read philosophy before?
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>>10012357
phil logic is just baby tier mathematical logic as applied to philosophy.
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Susan Haack has a good book on the topic.
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>>10012357
It's all so tedious.
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Just bought this. Did I get memed on, or do we really like it?
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>>10012303
It's good. I have no idea if 'we' like it or not though. Hopefully your goal is to read good books, not acquire in-group status on an anonymous image board through participation in vacuous "meme" culture centered around various arbitrary preferences.
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>>10012315
why not both?
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>>10012315
we like it, it's on the 2017 list
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Can someone give me a quick run down on Franz Kafka?
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No; for Kafka, you will need to walk, not run.
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Do your own fucking homework
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>>10012274
Heavily influenced by Austrian antisemitism and alienation of Jews in his homeland. Franz was deeply troubled, struggling to relate both to his society and his family, and explored the idea of fighting for your place in the world in his writing.
The metamorphosis is his most famous and, if you're doing a homework assignment, interesting piece. Appearing to be the story of a man who turns into a bug, it was actually about the alienation, disgust at and eventual destruction of the hardworking jews in the holocaust, a theme made much more specific in the stage adaptation.
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What are some comparable book series to Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones in terms of massive created worlds and full histories?
You could spend hours reading about the history of Middle Earth and the elves and men and all that, as well as reading about the War of the Seven Kingdoms and Westeros and that whole world.
What is something as epic and comparable to get lost in?
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Tolkien is clearly better but Martin is from Bayonne so gotta support the homie
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WHEEEEEEL OF TIME
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>>10012257
You could read about medieval Europe
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Hello /lit/
I'm a newcomer to the world of literature and would love to find some material that is very thought provoking. I'm a university student and believe that I have the intellectual capacity for most subjects. Currently, I have been reading pic related and would love some recommendations of similar material!
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>>10012187
Start with the greeks
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>>10012187
i was looking into this a few weeks ago, but i jump from thing to thing very quickly, been playing with and researching yo-yos now, literally. gonna try to bring back that fad, fuck fidget spinners. i also recall V.
anyway, is it good? it seems good, there was something else i recall standing alongside it, something to do with faces. or masks, let me see if i can find it.
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>>10012187
ah found it, The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. Those two were stuck together somehow during my research, maybe it will serve you, perhaps not in the same way as Jaynes, but it might amuse.
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Give me one(1) raisin why I should read anything other than scientific and analytical literature.
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>>10012152
you really dont have to. if thats what you want to read, go ahead : )
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>>10012152
cuz it's fun.
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They're both cancer based upon a web of delusional 'axioms' that they try to defend with themselves, or falling for the old Enlightenment meme: ITS SELF-EVIDENT!
It presupposes an entire fucking metaphysics, yet claims to be foundationalist.
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Poetry Education Thread / The Eagle 2017-09-12 03:12:02 Post No.10012086
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Very few people on /lit/ seem to understand poetry. Most don't know what it is, thinking it's little more than prose broken into lines and maybe a little more attention on how the words sound. You are wrong. Poetry is about condensed meaning, and as such it is superior to prose. A novel will take hundreds and hundreds of meandering pages and incorporate dozens of characters to convey a theme. A poem, when done well, conveys the same theme in only a few lines. Characters are not necessarily. Settings are not necessary. Plots are not necessary.
We're going to look at a short yet meaningful poem first. This is "The Eagle," by Alfred Tennsyon, First Baron Tennyson.
He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
Close to the sun in lonely lands,
Ring'd with the azure world, he stands.
The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
He watches from his mountain walls,
And like a thunderbolt he falls.
Now, the most obvious feature of this poem is the rhyme. Each line in the two stanzas has end rhyme. But we want more than that, more than recognition of poetic devices and features. Think about the effect this produces. For one, it gives a sense of unity to those stanzas, which is heightened by the (fairly) regular meter. Let's consider that meter more closely. Most lines seem to be iambic pentameter. And yet, like all good poets, Tennyson changed this meter subtly to produce meaning. It is not enough to follow a meter (or rhyme scheme, or any poetic device), you must also vary your usage in order to evoke meaning. Lines 2 and 3 exhibit trochaic substitution- their initial feet begin with a stress instead of a slack. How does this effect meaning? For one, it binds these words together. The eagle is close to the Sun, but he is still ring'd in by the azure world. What connection can we draw? Perhaps the eagle's very proximity to the Sun is what keeps him ring'd in. Or, venturing into some deeper meaning, consider the mythology around eagles in Western culture. They are the kings of birds. Perhaps Tennyson means that, however noble and close to the heavens such a creature is, it is nonetheless bound by the world, a representation of its 'creatureliness.'
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>>10012086
>Very few people on /lit/ seem to understand poetry.
>Puts a bunch of words someone without a background in poetry could never understand in his post.
Nice "education" thread, OP.
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>>10012086
>Trying to educate /lit/
Good luck
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>>10012086
you might wanna' start explaining exactly what iambs are. I'm barely entry level into poetry right now but I went years without realizing that the stress on syllables mattered. I think it's safe to say starting from the very bottom is best here.
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Any philosophers beside Ebola with far-right views? (Anti-women's suffrage, etc)
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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
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Of the western canon. What's the consesus. Is there a chart?
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fard on my dick
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W&P, Anna Karenina, In Search of Lost Time, Crime and Punishment, To the Lighthouse.
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>>10012017
>i've been reading for two years-core
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never let me go
the virgin suicides
mason and dixon
smugglers bible
the remains of the day
vurt
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thefucks with grills eyebrows these days?
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jennifer egan's
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