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>>9639897
I have "forgotten" going to class for two days
I have also "forgotten" to do any studying and getting out of bed for two days
And, at last, I have "forgotten" to not smoke weed

>>9639897
Love.

Names of the people I used to call friends. I legitimately can't remember them or their faces. It's been 7 years.

good thread

>>9640001
Thank you, I thought there may have been some sort of technical error keeping my threads from being seen.

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Well since this thread was a failure, let's salvage it by making it a general e-reading thread and talk about the general argument of e-ink vs. LCD. For instance, is it true that you retain less when you read on the latter?

>>9641053
this is capital W water

Such ultracrepidarians.

>>9639873
cancer

>>9639873
It is the prime example of nostalgia-babbies being mentally stunted

>>9639907

Is it supposed to be a YA novel? It just seems like wish fulfillment for the author.

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>bittersweet hoarded sun

I have a physical aversion to reading my own stuff, I never edited my stuff in uni, probably why I never rose above mediocrity. I put it down to self loathing

>he doesn't read or write

Me, t b h

>>9639862
bump

>>9639862
harry potter and other YA trash

If you don't have interesting things to say to people already then books wont help you.

>>9639770
Ignoring all its literally merit, the ancient Greeks held Homer in something like reverence, viewing his works as the foundation of their society, in much the same way as modern Europeans view the Bible, though they were not seen as religious texts.

It's one of the first texts in the canon and its symbolism echoes through to the age of chaos we have now. It's also a wonderful work of art.

You're missing the transition from an oral, "moving" tradition of myths to a written, "stable" canon of writings. In the former retelling and reinterpretation are the same the process, in the latter the text doesn't change meaningfully, because the words are written, so the interpretation is separate.

Poets would use Homer and Hesiod as the foundations for their education programs, and when Plato would show up in the Republic to criticize such pedagogical practices, he would still reference them for their cool authoritative sayings (like people in the American South reference verses from the Bible they memorize all the time).

Were you to go back in time and change the contents of the Iliad you would have a butterfly effect all over all literature in European languages.

Ideas of canon, writing, education are all part of the same set that is at the core of this civilization.

A historical Homer may have known he was a great poet and giving the Hellenes a national epic, to be recited in every polis, yet never would he imagine how much he was about to transform the world.

>>9639751
Bump

Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations

>>9640120
thanks for the response

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>>9639739
I could never finish that book, the stream of consciousness style pisses me off so much. Im glad my feelings towards Necromancer being a non-nonsensical novel has been validated. Thank you OP. Now might I suggest an actual Sci-Fi Book.

>>9639750
not sherrif serious

>>9639739
Damn. Does he live on twitter? His output is astonishing

I don't think you actually read the book.

>>9639752
Yeah, he definitely watched the movie and thought this attempt at shitposting was a good idea.

>>9639781
I don't know how you could get that from the film either.

Here the list:

Desmet-Grégoire, Hélène, Le Divan magique: l'Orient turc en France au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, L'Harmattan, 1994.
Dufrenoy, Marie-Louise, L'Orient romanesque en France, 1704-1789, Montréal, Beauchemin, 1946-1947.
Bonnerot, Olivier H, La Perse dans la littérature et la pensée françaises au XVIIIe siècle: de l'image au mythe, Paris-Genève, Champion-Slatkine, 1988.
Grosrichard, Alain, Structure du Sérail: la fiction du despotisme asiatique dans l'Occident classique, Paris, Seuil, 1979.
Hentsch, Thierry, L'Orient immaginaire: la vision politique occidentale de l'Est méditerranéen, Paris, éditions de Minuit, 1987.
Martino, Pierre, L'Orient dans la littérature française au XVIIe et au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Hachette, 1906 (fac-sim. Genève, Slatkine, 1970).
Robert, Raymonde, Contes parodiques et licencieux du XVIIIe siècle Nancy, Presses universitaires de Nancy, 1987.
Rouillard, Clarence Dana, The Turk in French HistoryThought and Litterature, 1520-1660, Paris, Boivin, 1941.
Douthwaite, Julia V, Exotic Women: Literary Heroines and Cultural Strategies in Ancien Régime, France, Philadelphie, University of Pensylvania Press, 1992.
Chastel, André, L'Art français: Ancien Régime, 1620-1775, Paris, Flammarion, 1995.

>>9639731
Germinal is top tier desu

Fuck off, Jacques. /lit/ is not your personal assistant.

Because there is no such thing.

blooms is definitive until something better comes up

now shut up

Absolutely. Human condition AND use of meter/rhyme

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>>9639630
This album is poetry. Prove me wrong.

>>9639630
I think that they definitely can reach pretty high.

The message I provided collided within the melody
A metamorphosism reliving giving debauchery
The resurrection of a savior coming out of Nazareth where you could catch a laceration and a crucifixion
Under what condition d'you make the decision moving like it's in a mild position living at the bottom wishing I was with it
Couldn't tell the difference
So tired of giving the false opinions
My faith in the book that was written by other people
They probably worked with a genius
So every role was intended for anyone to follow
Attention, I got a testament
Just like the book of Mark
I'm sparking a revolution
My story a revelation
Amazing, I'd rather save it, debate it
Everything on my mind
While I was taking a mental picture
OK, so my train of thought is evasive
I'm faded within my memory
From a daily addiction of always staying sedated and claiming I wanna make it
I'm nothing more than a follower
The problem is that most people only look at popular rap and miss all of the actual good stuff.

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>>9639618
It's good but it seems to be a mouthfull. Otherwise, pretty impressive

>>9639621
I've actually written it the way Eminem would rap his stuff.

Thanks anon

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/36714.The_100_Most_Influential_Books_Ever_Written

>>9639615
Any book where a bourgeois tells the sheep to watch their gardens

Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, The Social Contract (for academic) and Emile (for literary) by Rousseau