Who would win?
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Deutschland, no doubt
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>Empedokles Von Acraga
Wasn't just Empedokles not enough?
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>>9562040
Habermas kicks the ball first since he realizes that human beings have the capacity to communicate with each other in groups in order to achieve common goals.
Marx is issued a red card; Wittgenstein challenges the ruling by pointing out that we cannot know with absolute certainty that two people perceive the purportedly common color in exactly the same way.
(/sp/, to their credit, had this thread a while ago and I quipped the above).
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What is the most /lit/ way to dress?
If Joyce lived in the 21st century, would he ever wear t-shirts?
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Pretentious twat with a typewriter /lit/ as fuck fashion there.
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dress however you want faggot
literature is a hobby, an art, an interest, not a subculture.
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tshirts are underwear
if you wear anything other than a button up shirt in public you will look like a manchild
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Why are The Iliad and The Odyssey always included in the "start with the greeks" lists?
Aren't they basically the genre fiction of its time?
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>>9561876
Why are you such a retard?
Aren't you basically the biggest moron of our time?
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do you ever think before you post?
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haha wow srsly haha
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This is something that happened four years ago. I was spending the summer at Mishima in lzu, staying in a roorri. on the second floor of an acquaintance's house, writing a story called "Romanesque." One night, in the course of riding a bicycle through the streets of the town, drunk, I suffered an injury. The skin above my right ankle was split open. The wound wasn't deep, but because I'd been drinking, the bleeding was frightful, and I made a frantic dash to the doctor's. The town doctor was a corpulent man of thirty-two who resembled Saigo Takamori. He was very drunk. When he wobbled into the consultation room in a condition that clearly rivaled mine, it struck me as hilarious, and as he treated my wound I began to giggle. The doctor soon joined in, and before long we were both laughing uncontrollably.
We were good friends from that night on. The
doctor preferred philosophy to literature, and since I, too, felt more at ease with that subject, our discussions were always lively. The doctor's view of the world was one that might best be described as a primitive sort of dualism. He saw in all worldly matters manifestations of the struggle between Good and Evil, and this allowed him to explain everything in admirably clear and concise terms.
Even as I inwardly strove to maintain my
monotheistic belief in the deity we call Love, the
doctor's expositions of his theory were like breaths of cool, fresh air, briefly dispelling the gloom in my heart. One of his illustrations, for example-that he himself, who called to his wife to bring beer directly I visited them at night, was Good, whereas his wife, who would smilingly suggest that tonight, instead of drinking beer, we play bridge, was a true representative of Evil-struck me as flawless, and I had to concur. The doctor's wife, though small and plain, was fair of skin and had an air of elegant refinement. They had no children, but the wife's younger brother-a quiet, serious youth who attended a commercial school in Numazu-lived upstairs.
Five different newspapers were delivered to the
doctor's house, and in order to read these I would drop by for thirty minutes or an hour almost every day during my morning walk. I would come in through the back gate and circle around to the veranda outside the drawing room, where I'd sip the cold barley tea the wife brought me and read, holding the newspaper down firmly with my free hand as it flapped noisily in the breeze. Not more than ten or twelve feet from the veranda, an ample little stream flowed lazily through the edge of a green meadow, and along the narrow lane that bordered the stream, a boy who delivered milk would pass on his bicycle and invariably call out "Good morning!" to me, the stranger from out of town.
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At about the same hour, a young woman would sometimes come to the doctor's house for medicine. There was always something refreshingly clean and healthy about her, in her light summer dress and geta clogs, and I would often hear her and the doctor talking and laughing together in the consultation room. Occasionally, however, the doctor would accompany her to the door as she left and call out after her in a scolding tone of voice, "It's only a question of persevering a little bit longer, young lady!"
The doctor's wife explained it all to me one day. The woman was married to a primary school teacher who'd developed a lung problem some three years before and whose condition had just recently begun to show marked improvement. The doctor had spared no effort in making it clear to the young wife, however, that certain things were still strictly forbidden, reminding her that now was a crucial time in her husband's convalescence. She faithfully obeyed his commands, but there were, nonetheless, times when one look at her would be enough to move anyone to pity. It was then that the doctor would steel his heart and scold her, saying it was only a question of a little more perseverance, the implicit meaning of which was obvious to them both.
One day near the end of August, I witnessed something beautiful. I was sitting on the veranda
that morning, reading the newspaper, when the doctor's wife, who sat nearby with her feet tucked up beside her, whispered, "Ah! She looks happy, doesn't she?"
I glanced up and saw a radiant figure in a light summer dress walking briskly along the narrow lane before us, her clogs scarcely seeming to touch the earth, her white parasol spinning round and round.
"The ban was lifted this morning," the doctor's wife whispered again.
Three years, I thought, and a wave of emotion swept through me. As time goes by, the image of that young woman at that moment is something I've come to think of as ever more beautiful. And that, for all I know, may be just as the doctor's wife meant it to be.
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>>9561670
Only the picture caught my attention.
Sorry anon. Best of luck to you.
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I liked it. Would read more.
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Really makes one ponder
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>>9561461
>Pynchon writes a literal shit scene
>it's considered a masterpiece
>GRRM writes a literal shit scene
>it's considered commercial garbage for the masses
What did literary scholars mean by this?
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why have i not read this yet
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>>9561477
Because Pynchon can actually write
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>There are STILL people who haven't started with the Chinese
How do you expect to understand life without having read the Daodejing?
How do you expect to understand modern societal structure without having read The Analects?
How do you expect to understand military strategy without having read The Art of War?
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>expecting to understand the Daodejing from a western man's perspective
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i have, theyre ok but not very relevant and honestly a lot of fluff
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>>9561320
>Not being able to morph cultures and perspectives at will to gain maximum understanding
Pleb
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Why didn't the wizards just euthanize everyone who got sorted into Slytherin house?
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>>9561210
Universe demands balance.
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>>9561210
evil slitherin man wanna be keepin the huflepuff man down
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>>9561210
What the fuck are you talking about
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What are some /lit/ approved short stories?
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psh, real stories take at least 300k words and are 95% world building
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>>9560951
That's the shittiest opinion I've heard all day. No one with a job has time to read anything over 20k words
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dubliners - joyce
nine stories - salinger
chekhov
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My brother thinks he can be a filmmaker without ever reading a book and just watching movies.
How do I tell him he's a stupid pleb?
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let reality tell him
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He's correct, but I would point out that script writers read a fuckton and if we wants to truly understand every part of filmmaking he should read.
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Bela Tarr and Laszlo Krasznahorkai power duo.
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Are there any books written from the perspective of an inanimate object? I'm going to write a story about a life of a boulder, and I want to know how original of a donut I'm being.
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>no sensing abilities to explore the outer world
>no cognitive capabilites for introspection
Autism aside, IMHO the story about the experiences of a 3.5 billion year old boulder has great potential.
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>i am boulder
>moss growing on my side
>fuck off you moss faggot
>oh look the dinosaurs are extinct
>but I, I am still the same...
>this rocks
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>>9560589
Italo Calvino's Cosmicomics have a variety of stories about plankton, planets and other objects you wouldn't generally consider subjects.
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Where do you lads read? Show me your battle stations.
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on my bed
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>>9560333
me too!!! wanna go rape somebody??
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On my phone
now gimme SIX words
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>>9560295
Shit piss cock cunt cum fucker
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sick sex six seconds surely short
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All women are sluts. Fuck them.
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Do you use an e-reader? If so, what kind? I got a Kindle Fire a couple months back for only $20, and it's served me well so far.
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>>9560192
Your books stink.
Only The Road is tolerable.
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>>9560192
>buying a tablet to read instead of an e-reader
You fucked up.
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Since /mu/ is a worthless board full of retards, what does /lit/ like to read about music?
Theory? Critical theory? History, biography?
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>>9560171
Kanye West
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History and biography about music are pretty useless, unless you're highly interested in someone's life. I like critical theory.
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Honestly here listening to music is a lot more interesting that reading about it, but in special cases where I know there's a history behind it like Elgar's Enigma Variations I do some research, though nothing more than that. I found Mann's Doctor Faustus to have some good combination of fiction and music theory if you're into that
What exactly is humanism? It gets mentioned on this board quite a bit so I thought I'd ask.
Outside of /lit/ I've mostly seen it brought up by atheists as a basis for a morality without religion or some-such. In reality it seems like it's just a way for 400lbers to meme that we're all space brothers working towards a techno-enlightenment without the need for borders or god.
oh and they always point to the founding fathers as some sort of primitive example of themselves.
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any system or mode of thought or action in which human interests, values, and dignity predominate.
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presuming here but we all live in humanist societies today, but once upon a time theological, or divine, issues were prioritised over human concerns. humanism is a rejection of that thinking. or im wrong idk, im not a 1600s scotsman
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>>9560153
It's a bunch of different things that correlate to this >>9560155
It differs quite a bit, maybe read the Wikipedia article on it, it's pretty short and straight-forward. It describes the Philosophical systems and modes of thought and their origins, basically.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanism
"humanism" in of itself can just refer to an action benefiting humanity too, not necessarily any philosophical connotations. You might be humanist simply by being concerned for humanity's welfare, future and views.