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Going to read the Bible for the first time, what am I in for?
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You'll be bored and you'll find you won't remember most of it.
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>>9647898
Basically just a lot of circlejerking.
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the first part contains a lot of incest so i stopped reading it as it's against my christian beliefs and disgusting
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What am I in for /lit/?
I don't know Islam well but I have the google.
Also general thoughts on Rushdie
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This is my first Rushdie book by the way
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>>9647868
From what I've read, it's not a satire or criticism of Islam, there's just stuff that can be considered blasphemous.
Midnight's children is better.
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>>9647868
I put it away for good half way through. Just a boring, postmodern kind of fantasy novel (nothing against postmodern novels, there are good ones, but this one isn't imo). I didn't even understood why some muslims felt offended by it - but I can't imagine this book sold as many copies as it did without said "publicity stunt".
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Books that involve psychological analysis 2017-06-17 12:40:09 Post No.9647773
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Books that involve psychological analysis
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One of my favourites
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>Robertson Davies
Jungian tripe.
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god i hate these threads.
post more than the fucking cover and going "hurr me likey" it doesnt tell anyone shit
Any authors that deal with the same subject matter as Ted?
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Da Cheeky Pynch
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>>9647612
Jacques Ellul (The Technological Society), which all of the non-retarded parts of his manifesto rip off. Also Lewis Mumford.
Also, Pynchon and Kirkpatrick Sale (Human Scale is a good one), but guaranteed they thought his manifesto was shit and pleb-tier luddism.
There's Paul Virilio although he's kind of different. Christopher Lasch in his "True and Only Heaven." Rousseau.
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Jacques Ellul, Marshall McLuhan, the anarcho-primitivist movement (Zerzan, Paul Shepard, etc) even if he doesn't necessarily agree with them.
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Why do you guys get off on making people feel like shit?
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Will to power
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ch5ZCGi0PQ&t=5m20s
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>>9647377
I don't. I get off to helping people get into poetry.
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We drove here for six hours on a sunny March day. After the first ceremony I slept a few brief hours on the thin foam mattress and although by any right I should have been exhausted, I felt fine. Having it again so soon, the day after the last ceremony, seemed crazy, but that was what we came here for.
In the afternoon, they dimmed the lights and the shaman performed his rites again. She sat to the left of me. When my turn came, I walked to the center and sat, cross legged. I drank the foul concoction as fast as I could. Soon it began.
Everything was different this time - gone was the easy feeling of euphoria and unity, today I was in for a difficult journey. After the usual feelings of nausea and brief geometric illusions had passed, my consciousness was taken by storm. The calculating creature that holds the reigns of my soul stood firm, I sat with my back straight against the wall with my hands resting on my knees on the sides of my body. Unmoving on the outside, I felt my mind roil with every thought. After my eyes adapted to the darkness of the room, broken only slightly by the evening light seeping in from the garden, I could see the movement of the moaning and wailing figures in the circle. The rhythmic music flowed through me, angelic, lifting me like a tide.
As I broke apart and came back again and again, time flowed through the thick gloom. I became aware and felt I needed air. Sailing on shaking legs through a crooked room, I entered the corridor and saw her, with a smile spilled on her face. Before my mind could register what had happened, she hugged me tight and whispered excitedly that she thought she had lost me forever. After a moment I put my arms around her familiar, awkward form and sunk my head in her hair. The creature slipped in its control, and all the feelings of our years together came crashing in. I was drowning in love, all of it at once, every drop.
I walked out into the cold night and stepped on the grass with my bare feet. In moments I ran for miles in the garden, and stopped by a tree. The creature was busy steering my mind to analyze my drowning conscience, and I punched the tree until my knuckles bled. The sharp pain brought me focus as the air cut through my lungs. I walked back and sat against the wall, next to her.
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Awful? Confusing? Any feedback is appreciated...
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>>9647214
brains in the top 3 at least
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still looking for any feedback...
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What makes a pleb a pleb?
Personally for me it is a general unwillingness to improve oneself, but I want to know more about what makes them so despicable.
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So-crates, they didn't cuck themselves, -inhibit themselves when they heard that one soprano call upon them, and such suchies.
And probably weren't banging ironically like you probably did.
So when all was good in the fucking, there was no need to build up the foundations of what the man was supposed to do;
As the spear was already getting wet, -maybe some jealousy may foster, but the wiliness to always do more is diluted.
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one who is acted upon by existence as opposed to one who acts upon existence.
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>>9647264
this, OP sounds like a pleb.
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>he turns in an application at the store i manage
>he put "reading" under hobbies/interests
>walk to paper shredder
Bet this loser never even read Desolation Angels. Oh wow you like to read? Fuck you. I bet you read while shitting, like a low life. So many of these applicants put reading under hobbies and interests. In fact I bet some of you have done it yourselves. Reading is not a hobby, kids.
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>>9647182
what is it then
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>>9647257
A way of life
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>>9647259
can hobbies not be part of your way of life?
Hello all. I was wondering- how do I sign up?
I read all the faq and things like that, but could not find a place to register.
It seems I need a picture to make a post so this image is just one I had saved.
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Anyone?
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>>9647456
You need to buy a 4chan pass, if you want access of the majority of the website's features.
https://www.4chan.org/pass
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what you looking to join, pal? plenty of cults, societies, fraternities, old boy's clubs, sects and movements on lit.
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Critique my work before it's published! 2017-06-17 05:42:52 Post No.9647152
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Critique my work before it's published!
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I recently took up a personal project with the end goal of having it published. I have already received bids on what I have from Penguin and some other notable publishers, but I figured I would crowdsource some of the critique.
Thoughts?
I am planning on expanding it to a trilogy, but as the world develops I might do more.
CH.1 - My long dong -Figgy Guzzi
The morning sun brought my morning boner, as i pulled back the covers, I was greeted by the warm, familiar scent of smegma. Bliss, is the only word that could describe the pure state of euphoria that washed over my ravaged body, after laying my eyes on that magnificent dong. They say that dongs can't be long, I shall be the one to prove them wrong.
Ch 2 My wonderful ass
full of life and stool.
Its stench makes me euphoric
It comes from my ass
Ch 3 Go Go Go
After admiring my extremities in the mirror, i decide it is time to begin my day. The rancid stench emanating from my butthole reminds me of something i need to do- a morning ritual. I need to go get breakfast at the local chinese restaurant. I descend from my house steps and begin my tireless journey. My long dong drags behind me as the euphoria from my recent defecation carries me aloof. I pass my neighbor’s porch and recite my morning greeting “Hello there beautiful buttercup of mine!” She looks at me with disgust, takes a wiff of the air, gags, and closes her door. I continue on my way. Eventually I reach downtown, where I find Man Hong’s Chinatown Eatery.
Ch.4 Long dong at Man Hongs
The looks I received from the faceless passerby’s was of little consequence to me, for I had just seen an angel. My “beautiful buttercup” is the sun to my sky, not one day passes that I do not stare longingly into her window. Her name… Razborki. Never before had I laid my eyes on such perfection, a living embodiment of the goddesses Aphrodite and Athena, for her sheer beauty was only matched by her quick wit and intelligence. As I walked into Man Hong’s, my hopes were high that Hong had just made his famous fresh dumplings, for one, because I love dumplings, but that day also happened to be a very special one indeed. It was the 100th day mark since I began stroking my dong in honor of my darling neighbor. “One Long Dong Dumpling Surprise please.”, I said with near reverence, the words flowing familiarly out of my mouth. “Sure thing, coming right up!” Hong quickly replied. Man Hong was an old family friend, and he had heard many a tale of my magnificent dong, naming a dumpling in honor of its girth. With my thanks, (and a fresh box of dumplings) I quickly dashed out of the eatery with my long dong bouncing along right behind me, hoping with all earnesty that my darling buttercup had just finished her daily theater rehearsal.
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Is Ben Brooks posting here again? Also, who bumps a thread in less than 2 minutes? Hi Ben, we know you exist.
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That shit was actually pretty alright
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Is this what you had in mind when you wrote this?
I don't know if this is the right place to ask but is there some sort of list of all the texts that we have preserved from a particular dead language? Like a list of everything that was ever written in Latin, everything that was ever written in Middle English and so on.
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Those would be very long lists.
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>Like a list of everything that was ever written in Latin
I thought you were asking about dead languages.
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Would they? The vast majority of texts written in those languages have been lost.
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hi can /it/ recommend a good bible?
like what's the best translation?
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google it fag
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Douay-Rheims, or RSV-CE for a more modern, though less accurate, translation.
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>>9647014
Vulgate
Which language has the best literature? I think it would probably be Greek (Homer, Plato, playwrights) and Italian (Dante and other medieval writers).
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is this bait? the answer is clearly english, even if you aren't an anglophile
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t. anglo who hasn't learned any other language and has read nothing but anglo literature for his entire life
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I'm not going to pretend that I can appreciate anything written outside of English, because I'm only just now approaching fluency for Latin, my first second language. BUT can we agree that this discussion is pretty dumb? What we want to know is what language we should learn to maximize our time on earth in order to read the best literature. You have:
>English - Shakespeare, Melville, Milton, Joyce,
>Italian - Dante and I'm sure more but he alone may suffice
>Ancient Greek - The Greeks
>Latin - The Romans
>Russian - Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and many others and I'm showing my ass here
>Spanish - Cervantes
>French - Proust
>German - Goethe and many philosophers
So really if you want to talk objectivity then you have to define who is objectively the best, but not all of us are going to know because not many of us know 4+ languages. But to those who have known that many languages, and have proved credible, I bet they'd say the same thing. "Start learning a language and read instead of wasting your time. Oh, and all asian languages blow."
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Which classics/lit in general is best to listen to in audiobook form? I'm asking because I'm going on a solo hiking trip soon, walking 20-25 miles a day. Instead of being bored as fuck, I'm hoping I can knock out some books which are relatively easy to understand in audio form (e.g. not fucking Pynchon).
What's a good place to start?
PS The longer, the better
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Why don't you listen to music instead?
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I actually typically listen to podcasts on hikes like these, reserving music for shorter trips. Just figured I might as well fit a good book or two in the mix.
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>>9646925
Find some human interaction for fucks sake. Otherwise listen to some podcasts and not books. I'd recommend RE:Joyce if you've ever attempted Ulysses by Frank Delaney or The History of Rome and Revolutions by Mike Duncan.
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>O. I. C. Bodine in Against the Day, presumably an ancestor to Pig Bodine in V. (and who also shows up in "Low Lands" from Slow Learner
>Mucho Maas in both The Crying of Lot 49 and Vineland
What else? How deep does the rabbit hole go?
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Pig Bodine is also in a good bit of Gravity's Rainbow.
You did read it, didn't you?
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Heehee Dickensian names
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Fender-Belly Bodine, an ancestor of Pig, makes an appearance in M&D.