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This guy's clearly smart. He has tons of really interesting ideas, and I really appreciate his blend of Hobbes, Nietzsche, Jung, and psychology. His lectures are some of the most interesting I've found, and his writing does a great job of efficiently laying out his beliefs
So why was he so retarded when it came to the Bill C-16 fiasco? I share a lot of the same concerns as him and if any of what he was saying was true it'd certainly be worth the outcry, but nearly everything he said the law could lead to really still can't happen at all. What am I missing here?
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Is he
a) right in a way that I can not see at all
b) paranoid and panicking over something that doesn't exist
c) nefariously trying to drum up publicity
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>>9481073
He's unfortunate he was born in North America, if he was European he would have had a chance to be doing serious intellectual work. He would have made a fine Lacanian
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>>9481073
I'm going to fuck his daughter.
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Does anyone have a good book about the daily life of a soldier in combat to recommend? doesn't matter if its fiction or not.
>unrelated pic
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Private Peaceful is a decent read, though it takes a while to get to the war parts. It's tailored to younger people but highly enjoyable imo
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>>9481033
Fear: A Novel of World War I is pretty good but not sure if that's what you're looking for.
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Are there any books out there that are like Harry Potter but more mature? Like Harry Potter meets Battle Royal?
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I hear if you hang yourself, after about 3-5 minutes, you get to read a lot of books that are like Harry Potter but more mature, like Harry Potter meets Battle Royal
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>>9480997
The Magicians, I guess. I don't read fantasy often, but that is probably what you're looking for.
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Aubrey-Maturin, His Dark Materials
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>/lit/ complete this sentence.
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for faggots and they still are.
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>>9480922
kek tru
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>>9480889
printed on paper
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Got this as a Christmas present and finally made it through most of the other stuff in my backlog. I've never read any Vonnegut before. What am I in for?
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Just read Breakfast of Champions desu
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>>9480813
That doesn't really answer my question, buddy.
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Ever read a Stephen King novel? Pretty much that. Great plot ideas and not great execution. Rather janky characters as well. TBF, I haven't read Cat's Cradle yet, but I have read a couple of his other works.
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What's the best way to approach his sonnets?
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>>9480778
Don't. Read Hamlet, Macbeth, and Othello. Maybe King Lear if you're really into him.
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>>9480778
Read them in order.
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>>9480785
>Don't
Why not?
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Post writers who were murdered/assassinated/executed.
No plebby suicides allowed.
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>>9480755
DFW
>he thinks DFW committed suicide
It was a government plot.
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>>9480757
It was actually Netflix that killed him. He predicted the loneliness of instavailable entertainment and made people woke, so they killed him off so they could maintain business and mindcontrol over unwitting victims.
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>muh travels
>muh jazz
>muh coffee and apple pie
>muh bennies
>muh tea
>muh Buddhism/suppressed Catholicism
>muh aunt
>muh Okies
>muh Mexico City-New York-Frisco
>muh gang
>muh asceticism
>muh "void"
>muh French-Canadianisms
>muh AMERICA
Why was this guy sobased?
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>>9480582
His cat actually writes all his works.
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>>9480582
>tfw on the road is her favorite book
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>Termites of the Gods: San Cosmology in Southern African Rock Art
>In Termites of the Gods, Siyakha Mguni narrates his personal journey, over many years, to discover the significance of a hitherto enigmatic theme in San rock paintings known as ‘formlings’. Formlings are a painting category found across the southern African region, including South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe, with its densest concentration in the Matopo Hills, Zimbabwe. Generations of archaeologists and anthropologists have wrestled with the meaning of this painting theme in San cosmology without reaching consensus or a plausible explanation. Drawing on San ethnography published over the past 150 years, Mguni argues that formlings are, in fact, representations of flying termites and their underground nests, and are associated with botanical subjects and a range of larger animals considered by the San to have great power and spiritual significance. This book fills a gap in rock art studies around the interpretation and meaning of formlings.
academia was clearly a mistake
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>>9480511
dunno, that sounds like a cool book.
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>>9480511
I'd probably read this on a long trip
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>>9480511
>mfw I put months of labor into my thesis, and the only person who will ever read it was my professor
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is it the first postmodern novel?
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No. You can both trace it further back and say that it's just a parody and pomo proper comes later.
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>>9480463
Steve Coogan was playing a pseud, you're not supposed to take him seriously
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>>9480483
>it's just a parody
Go read it again buddy.
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Book Recommendation for Class Project?
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I'd like a book recommendation for my sisters lit class. It needs to be 250+ words and not have a movie adaption. It needs to have some literary merit or enough to write an essay about. I'm prolly gonna be the one to end up reading it but even so, I'd like it to be something a high school student can tackle.
There's a lot of good books with film adaptions ands it's tiring going through the top lit books when over half of them have adaptions.
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>250+ words
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>>9480363
I have a day due tomorrow's essay 250 words pls help
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>>9480363
I feel nothing but contempt for you. You are asking "give me a book".
Go fuck yourself
Been a while since I last saw one.
no bully
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>>9480346
>inb4 I get roasted for liking le fatman
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>>9480346
But what was Father Zosima's tax policy?
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I wanna read Don Quijote but my Spanish is not the most amazing. I'm not sure which simpler version to buy, any recommendations?
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Spanish is my mother tongue. I read Don Quijote for the first time when i was 19. There isn't as big a difference between modern day spanish and Cervantes' (although the letter by the king and his scribe were really tough to read).
If your spanish is good enough to read, say, Cien años de soledad, you should be fine
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>>9480355
Really? I had heard/assumed that his Spanish was like Shakespearean English
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>>9480327
Is Lathrop's translation good? I bought the Signet Classics version some time ago because it was dirt cheap and just left it in some corner gathering dust.
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>his favorite book is 1984
Is there a more talent-less, overrated, pandering to fedoras writer than George Orwell ?
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It's a good book though.
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fpbp
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kek
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Yes; John
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George r martin
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what's a good place to submit a short story? it has some elements of criticism, so might be eligible for journals of criticism, but is fiction. does anyone ever take submissions from non-published authors? i wouldn't want to get paid or anything.
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>>9480252
blimp
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>>9480252
Probably the same places that you see short stories you enjoy being published
I don't really know where that might be to be honest
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>>9480393
fair enough