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>>9428304
Wuthering Heights.

House of Usher

>>9428304
its non-fiction, but Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor goes into the whole "TB makes you an artist" trope. Totally weird thinking, but I guess it was considered romantic to have TB.

>>9428288
an original Latin copy used in a Catholic university centuries ago.

Euclid's Elements Redux

>>9428288
depends. Don't read latin for obvious reasons.

If you want to be a student of ancient geometry, read the green lion press edition

>best translation: heath
>large page size
>large figures
>quality paper, easy to write on, no bleed
>no distracting commentary from heath
>single easy-to-reference volume

if you are a lifelong student of mathematics who is only passing by, buy the heath

>best translation: heath
>smaller than the green lion press
>separated into 3 separate volumes, can be irritating
>good page quality as well
>absolutely exquisite commentary from heath

despite all of the pros of the green lion press edition, heath's commentary is invaluable, very good stuff in there, but as I said it can be distracting, and if you want to take seriously the idea of immersing yourself in ancient mathematics instead of just peering down at it, I strongly recommend you get the green lion press and don't buy the heath until you are sure of it.

If you want recommendations of parts to read from the text itself I can give them to you, as there is a great deal in there that any reasonable person might want to skip over (the articulation of dozens of kinds of irrational numbers in book 10 (making for 107 propositions) for example is something you might want to treat with a bit less weight and care as other parts of the book.

if you want a recommendation for the best greek edition of the text i can recommend one as well.

>>9428287
Poor bait.
Pls post some recommendations anyway.

There was one I played a long time ago, I got stuck in a missile silo and saw a goblin I think. Vague, I know.

>inb4 go to /vg/

>>9428386
He is technically correct, too bad that no actual literary genius will ever even begin to consider this idea.

I'd explain to you the complex algorithm I use only I don't want to strain that little pea of yours.

A pick the thinnest book from the pile of books next to me.

Ask God.

>>9428204
he really liked tennis

>>9428204
if he didn't commit suicide and was instead hit by a car his work would be judged entirely differently which proves how intellectually incompetent most people are who talk about his work.

I'm not sure about this one; one told me about it: starting with I think IJ, Wallace was into controlling the layout of words on the 2-dimensional page. For simple proof of this, the phrase "top and / bottom" is split between the bottom of page 3 and the top of page 4. For a while in IJ he puts together little tableaux on each page, until he gets tired of it and stops; the explanation for stopping is given in the section starting on 144 about the rise and fall of 2-way videophony. He gets in a couple good pages, though, I think. I might have made a lot of this up.

p. 64 is a mini biography which seems depressingly short and suicidal, except for the fact that it contains footnote 26, which includes the filmography, which includes IJ (V) recursively. It also includes a footnote pun; he puts 25 on the word December to make Dec 25th. The page ends with an "untimely suicide at 54" which certainly would be untimely, as Wallace's scheduled bucket-kicking was at 46.

>>9428042
Money killed blogging. People stopped writing what they wanted and started writing what would get views and clicks.

/thread

>>9428042
facebook killed blogging. No one wants to read a blog anymore, they want to scroll a newsfeed and watch funny videos.

>>9428042
twitter

just fucking blurt out whatever and get it out of your system

>>9428041
momentarily making me feel like someone else is there and sharing my thoughts. Exhilarating meetings with minds who share my concerns or aesthetic sensibility which make me feel slightly less alienated and individuated for a short while.

>>9428041
>What's the highest achievement literature can reach?
Bible status.

>What has literature done for me?
It taught me to be more introspective and empathetic. It improved my vocabulary, diction, and confidence when speaking to others. It gave me wonderful worlds that now feel like pleasant dreams, and it's always inspired me and encouraged me to always seek the beauty or simplicity in life. It taught me that I'm never alone, and even when I feel by myself, I have nothing to be afraid of because I understand myself better. It taught me to be patient, to listen, and to do my best for myself by others. And that greatness can come from anywhere at anytime, and to never give up.

>>9428122
Damn dude i wanna read the books you've read baka. Please tell me lol.

>>9428008
How to win "friends" and influence people and come off as the slimiest autistic creep fucker you have ever met

The Bible

>>9428008
The Charisma Myth won't help you directly manipulate people, but it will help you hide your autism and gain at least some charisma

>>9427950
What are you trying to say exactly? Even if we made this grammatically perfect, some of the points you make don't fit the culture of English language.

>>9427950
The book has been a best friend of many throughout the ages. However, the world around us and the lives we live are rapidly changing. And the way we read is no exception. The e-book has fast become a popular alternative to the physical copy. With a host of advantages such as travel weight, bookmarks and lookup features it's easy to see why the e-book has grown to be so successful. However, as with all new technologies, the e-book isn't without its disadvantages.

>>9427989
sorry i translated it word by word
( i have a good french version of it if you understand it)

Kill yourself

>>9427860
That's a bit like asking someone to post an example of an attractive woman.
It's easy to do, but there are many. To look at just one or two as an example would be stupid.
What's are your favorite books, OP?

>>9427878
As I saw other books on this board i find it quite embarassing to post what i like. But who cares.
Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Inheritance Cycle but i read those when i was underaged

Sophie's Choice

My diary desu

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https://blog.bakuninlibrary.org/chapter-from-an-erotic-tale-1848/

Marx BTFO. Turns out the state is not all that Bakunin liked to smash.

>>9427827
Please don't post leftists here. This is a redpilled board

>>>/leftypol/
>>>/r/books
>>/tumblr/
>>>/lgbt/

>>9427834
Somehow redpilled has come to mean rejection of the truth. Go back to /pol/. This isn't a redpilled board.

What does he actually have to say about existentialism? He's right about how and when it spread, but not he's really saying why, or talking about the consequences.

I've read enough of his repudiation of bourgeois literature to make some guesses.

Sartre's generation had serious tension with the mainstream basic bitch Marxists like the PCF and he definitely overhauled it with existentialism in opposition to them. There are certainly plenty of things to criticise about their approach, and the structural and poststructural were even worse according to many of these criticisms.

>>9427755
i like and dislike aspects of both.
Why do you have to make this a 'vs' thread? What is even the point

>>9427775
Why not?

>>9427799
Because it seems to suggest that there is some sort of battle going on between the two, which is ridiculous

>>9427743
redpilled shit (mostly anti-feminist stuff)

>>9427743
My diary desu

>>9427751
You are a brace one

why do we seek to pathologize degrees of normality

>>9427724
I am just interested in if thats his writing style intentionally or accidentally.

>>9427696
It was done on purpose. He wanted his writing to seem stylistically "fractured", which is also why he added the footnotes and endnotes.