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Ambient albums to listen to while reading? 2017-05-24 10:19:59 Post No.9548623
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Ambient albums to listen to while reading?
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2017-05-24 10:19:59
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>>9548623
Discrete Music
Substrata
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>>9548623
Depends on the book. I do most of my reading without any music.
You have ambient noise all around you anyway.
If you need music to block out noise, use earplugs instead.
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https://youtu.be/ArofBzXGa0E
this is the only thing that i listen to desu
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>age
>location
>current book you're reading, etc.,etc.
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>21
>Aus
>Demons
Eh, it's alright. Sometimes Dostoevsky just rambles on and on and on which bores the shit out of me. When I get to a section with philosophical dialogues they're only a couple of pages. Maybe the last 1/2 will be better.
Tolstoy is so much better at writing it's not even funny.
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>19
>USA
>Metaphysics - Aristotle
Dense but rewarding. I'm ready for some eternal first principles
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>20
>Brazil
>Moby Dick
Almost finishing it.
Its hella frickin epic
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>book has the N-word in it
Why don't publishing companies remove or at least censor this?
I mean, I can understand that the books that have the N-word were generally written in a different time, but come on, it's fucking 2017, if I'm reading a modern publication of one of these books I don't wanna see this detestable racist shit in it
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>>9562915
Laziest bait
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epic thread my n*gro
>tfw since I started getting more into philosophy fiction seems like boring children books
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>>9561130
Good for you. Keep reading and you'll come full circle.
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Most of philosophy is fiction though, since a lot of it is outdated speculation
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>>9561143
>outdated
When will this meme end?
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Hello /lit/,
I have to write a psychobiography paper for Graduate School and this is what I have thus far. Can anybody please give me real criticism and pointers to make it sound much better? Thank you in advance.
Early life, whether we are aware or not, shapes us into the people we will grow into. During my childhood and adolescence, there have been numerous circumstances that have led me to my current path to choosing to get a degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling and to become a therapist in order to help individuals with their psychological issues that they face on a daily basis.
For my personal journey, it dates back prior to my first memories. Before I was even consciously aware, I was introduced to psychological disorders, even though I personally did not know it at the time. During my childhood, my mother had Hoarding Disorder. When a family member has a mental disorder, it is very easy for that disorder to drive a family apart, which is what happened my father and my mother. For my mother, she would spend hundreds of dollars at a time at Wal-Mart on ‘things’ and the entire house was filled with clutter that she would not depart with and would not see about getting help for her issues. Because of this, the bills at the house began to not be paid because only my father was paying bills and did not have enough income for them all, while my mother spent all her money on items at Wal-Mart and none on the bills.
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looks good to me
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>graduate school
"no"
also not literature, so fuck off
try homework board >>>/hm/
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The details of my life are quite inconsequential... very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a fifteen year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds- pretty standard really. At the age of twelve I received my first scribe. At the age of fourteen a Zoroastrian named Vilma ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum... it's breathtaking- I highly suggest you try it.
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Should there be a lit for non-fiction books only?
I don't give a fuck about the stupid fucking fairly tale hurr durr my emotions bullshit most of lit seems to like.
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>>9560454
this board is already dead enough as it is
there's no need to create a new board just to please pseuds like you
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Do you consider poetry to be fiction or nonfiction?
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>>9560469
Maybe the board wouldn't be dead if people were nice, you really hurt my feelings.
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Was William Blake schizophrenic?
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Yes, probably
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No, probably
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Maybe, probably
So I've started reading "History of Peloponnesian War" by Thucydides. Superb book so far, really well written, I'm enjoying the concept of antagonisms in speeches written by Thucydides and attributed to historical figures.
And also most of what we learn about the Greek Antiquity from popular media finds its reflection in the book... Athenians are same, Macedonians, Corinthians too... One major disappointment. Spartans seem like >cucks so far and I'm halfway through book I.
>They hold a pre-war council and invite their allies
>Corinthians (who are their allies) call them out on being idle when Athenians are pillaging their allies' colonies, say they're lethargic, they couldn't get their shit together during Persian War too and basically Athenians defended Hellas singlehandedly when Sparta was yawning
>Athenian envoys who weren't even invited stroll in like they own the place, praise themselves, offend and threaten Spartans to not even think about going to war
>old Spartan king gets up and is like "huh m-maybe l-let's send some diplomats and ask Athenians to stop... that will help...pls"
Do Spartans ever get good in this book or was the manly image in popular media all a lie? So far Corinthians look more like they were supposed to.
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books written by athenians grossly overrepresents athenes
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>>9559411
Thucydides was exiled from Athens, and clearly displayed admiration for Sparta. The war aspect of the book is a less important point anyways, it's about human nature.
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>>9559404
>really well written
Oh wow OP, you're reading it in ancient Greek?
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Meta General
What did you do while you couldn't post?
How do we get rid of /pol/posters, they are worse than redditposters.
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I was trying to post
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>>9559254
I filled up every board with my favourite /lit/ character.
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>>9559254
test
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Is there a book that discusses the beauty of teenage girls and man's relation to it?
Non fiction would be better.
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Unironically Lolita
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>>9559194
Picture of Dorian Gray talks about boyish male beauty.
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Les Particules Elementaires
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Am I the only one who thinks its amazing how the right wing has utterly co-opted the analytical tools of the Marxists?
The thought of Marx, Gramsci, Debord, Marcuse, Deleuze, etc. has all been subsumed by NRx and its offshoots. Modern-day "communists" just LARP as revolutionaries and scream confusedly about minorities and the proletariat while the far right is doing serious intellectual legwork to lay the foundation for the re-establishment of functioning polities worldwide.
Protesters bought and sold by the world's largest corporations will still be making their voices hoarse over seizing the means of production when Capital has fully deterritorialized and leaves humanity in the dust. Strong homogenous tribes of HRx subsistence-farmers will be thriving in the woods in a way that Woodstock-attendees and hippie commune-livers of the 70's never could have even dreamed of at the same time as Tim Cook's AIDS-riddled body is dumped into the oven by our sentient machine overlords after stealing his brain.
The future is bright.
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no. they're not doing anything new, just continuing what was considered normal if not progressive in some circles only a hundred years ago. picking up from where fellows like lothrop stoddard left off. largely due to internet + anonymity since many of their ideas, at least when stated bluntly rather than couched in obtuse language, are violently unfashionable. was only a matter of time before they resurfaced.
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The left is actually also doing what you describe. Recuperated Marxism (Third Way leftism) is the enemy of the far left and the fart right. The future looks bright because Debord is becoming a hot topic again.
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>>9559019
I'm not sure how selling Soviet tees to college kids is doing anything for the left. Do you think the normalization of communist imagery is going to affect a major social change? Because universities have been doing the brutalist architecture thing for decades. If you could clarify a bit I'd appreciate it.
>>9559014
HRx has ancient roots, obviously, but right-accelerationism is pretty new
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First person or third person?
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second person
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>>9558866
You are going to chose Second Person.
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I just realized Notes From The Underground is written from all 3 perspectives.
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I have no words.
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Houellebecq is for /pol/acks who don't want to read old Nazi-era literature desu
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I have 1 (one) word
boner
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Great thread then, retard.
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What are some books where i first have to read the Bible to fully understand them?
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>>9558305
biblical commentary? the bible will definitely help understandings of literature but usually the works themselves are self-contained enough to the point that the bible isnt necessarily prerequisite. you'll just be able to understand the imagery a little better.
reading genesis alone will help your understandings of paradise lost and faust (goethe), so i would probably at least start there.
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The Greeks
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>>9558320
No no. Sorry for expressing myself wrong. I was wondering which novels have Biblical references, which without reading the bible couldn't be understood. It's like "you must read the Odyssey before you read Ulysses." In a thread below I saw how they said that Demons by Dostoievsky had a lot of biblical references, and that's why I made this thread.
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Is marijuana weed the key to good writing? When I use it, all my descriptions become superior.
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My writing speed just slows waaayyyyy down and I second guess myself way more
I find a beer or two helps a lot more but I rarely drink
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Yes, all the great authors were fucking baked all the damn time. They were all bi too.
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>>9557976
Daily reminder that you can't write genuine love into your stories if you aren't bisexual