why is learning so hard for me
is learning supposed to be excruciating and feel like running into a brick wall
how can i help meself to learn better and faster
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What do you mean? "I can't learn" is very vague. Are you having trouble understand what you're learning? Or are you having trouble remembering what you learn? More info would he helpful.
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>>9380368
memorizing things with brute force repetition is only way I seem to learn, but can you call parroting learning?
I can't understand something just by contemplating it. I barely detect patterns and applying logic learned before to something new is hard for me.
I really fuckd up myself when I didn't care about school and learning to learn is incredibly hard
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>>9380382
Start with topics that are interesting to you. When you develop a habit for studying and learning becomes easier. Also, another general tip, don't study where you spend leisure time, your mind will be in a habit to distract itself with your other daily activities.
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fuck your dfw and your pynchonu. He was the only american genius of the late 20th century.
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>>9380291
Is that Charles Gocher? Love me some Sun City Girls
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>>9380291
is that william gibson's vietnamese war baby
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Is that Thomas Ligotti? Gotta have some Grimscribe in your life
In exactly 3 month I'll be defending my thesis at a university.
Thesis is written in french and I also will be defending it in french, and here lies my problem.
My french is absolutely shitty. Maybe B1 at best. I was able to write the thesis thanks to dictionaries and google translator and afterwards it was corrected by my supervisor who is french himself and he definitely elevated level of language but didn't make any changes to my arguments.
Now I have to prepare for defending it, I have difficulties in speaking and formulating long sentences, I tend to mix English syntax with the French one, and without dictionary at hand I build them rather simple. What can I do to drastically improve my language to successfully defend my thesis? Should I only focus on a part of the language related directly to the subject of my thesis? I firmly believe I can succeed; I have all the needed material to study, access to the internet, motivation – just please /lit/ tell me what is the best strategy.
Tl;dr How can I improve my French in 3 months?
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Kys
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>>9380222
stop being a cancuck
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>>9380222
Prepare premade answers for any question you can think of, when you don't understand the question, prepare some extremely general answers, vague enough to make the questioner think you know what you're talking about but he just doesn't understand you. Repeat with emphasis some of the answers when they seem to push on a certain subject.
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Who was the Ugliest Man?
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>>9380195
Me.
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>>9380203
Him
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>>9380203
That guy over there.
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What was his fucking problem ?
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What is yours?
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>>9380184
The world is as irrational as chicks.
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some people assumed that schopenhauer was just rustled that hegel had a career instead of him.
but there exist letters from schopenhauer's mother where she complains that he already blackpilled her too much as a teenager.
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How do I write a financially successful novel, /pol/
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*/lit/
Jaja sorry I'm high
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>/pol/
this thread has failed before it has even started
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>>9380182
Be a woman and/or nonwhite
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How do I introduce a romantic interest/lover into the protagonist's life without it being too cliche or forced
>Male
>"Marrying age", has never had a real relationship.
>A hopeless romantic, believes in ideal love. He has a hard time finding feelings for real people, especially since it's never had good results for him.
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>>9380133
Have them bump into each other in the street. She should be carrying papers which fly everywhere, and he helps her pick them up.
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>>9380143
he said "without it being too cliche or forced" jesus christ
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hi i'm genuinely new to this board
does /lit/ like camus? not as a writer, just as a philosopher
probably should ask this to /his/ instead but i saw this pic on another board which made me curious about you
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>>9379956
>does /lit/ like camus? not as a writer, just as a philosopher
You got this the other way around. camus was a terrible philosopher (his only actual philosophical work is myth of Sysyphus which is pretty weak stuff) but a much better novelist
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>>9380079
well he helped me find meaning in life so that should be any philosopher's job honestly
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>>9380128
a philosophers job is to help you find meaning in your life?
are you retarded?
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Kayne West is the modern day vision of Friedrich Nietzsche's Übermensch
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Using the best of your literary skills, support this theory.
I shall be marking you based on your spelling and grammar, how substantial your thesis' are, and how many references to Nietzsche's work you incorporate.
Yeezus is the Übermensch.
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>>9379792
This is an awful thread, kys you fucking nigger
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>>9379798
F, you fail the class. Come back next semester, Anon.
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>nigger
>Übermensch
Pick only one
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Thomas Pynchon thread!
I've read a great deal of Pynchon's works, save for Bleeding Edge, half of Against the Day and Half of V. (which I am currently working through).
What's been your experience with Pynchon? Speaking to people about Gravity's Rainbow, I get the sense that people see it as a very serious, nihilistic, purposefully grotesque and impenetrable novel. From my experience it was probably the funniest thing I've ever read and certainly one of the most fun experiences I've had reading a novel. Its scope is huge and there are a number of things I don't (and am probably not supposed to) understand, but I also feel as though this contributes to the comic nature of the novel - the plot and subject matter so complex that there's nothing you can do but laugh at Slothrop becoming a rocket-themed superhero who just deals drugs, or at the novel's weird parallelism with the act of masturbation (the arc of the rocket...)
I was also wondering if anyone had a digital copy of Zak Smith's "Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel 'Gravity's Rainbow'" that they'd be willing to share. I'd love to flick through it (just to visualise some of my favourite moments) but cannot justify paying £40-50 in my current financial climate. Plus freedom of sharing information is almost certainly what Pynchon would want... :D
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i haven't read any pynchon in a long ass time, i should read something this summer, maybe just crying of lot 49, i'm not up for a mega slog at the moment
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Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.
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>>9379807
Don't think anything's made me laugh more than the Rocket Limericks, they just keep coming and get more absurd every time
There once was a fellow named Ritter
Who slept with a guidance transmitter
It shrivelled his cock
Which fell off in his sock
And made him exceedingly bitter
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Any other Brazilian here who also thinks fantasy is extremely corny in our native tongue? I used to thought that the genre was genuinely bad, but i recently read Gene Wolfe Shadow of The Torturer in english and my mind changed much. It's incredibly how translations can twist or perception.
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Have you read much Brazilian/Portuguese fantasy, or are you just reading translations? Também, eu estou aprendendo português, então você sabe alguns livros bons nessa língua?
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I've had the opposite experience, though admittedly I've only read ASOIAF in Portuguese. I highly enjoyed GoT to FfC, and when Dance of Dragons finally came out I wasn't gonna wait, and boy was it terrible. I never understood all the complaints /lit/ had about GRRM's writing until I actually read it in English.
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>>9379777
I have read only translations. Em português eu gosto muito do José Saramago, mas com sinceridade não tenho nenhum interesse em literatura brasileira.
>Novels that follow a family/families and a town through multiple generations, as it hurtles towards a modern tragedy
More like this
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>>9379752
East of Eden
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Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks
I wanted to do a edgy 4chan triangle shitpost but the spam detection won't let me
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Things Fall Apart, sort of
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fuck your dfw and your pynchonu. He was the only american genius of the late 20th century.
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Who
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>>9379884
Haha
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What book explain the reason and general signs and patterns of the rise and fall of empires or nations?
I hear pic related is quite good but most threads on /lit/ talking about it usually say the opposite.
So what other books are there?
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>>9379686
Stop trying to generalise.
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>>9379686
Glubb's The Fate of Empires
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>>9379692
Why not?
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Is there such a thing as North Korean lit? If yes, what is best?
Thx
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didnt kim jong il write six operas and many movies?
dont recall many books but im sure he probably ghost wrote the works of david foster wallace
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I think only South Korea is allowed to express themselves t b h. They make revenge movies which probably stem from their hatred of North Korea (which are good movies).
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>>9379648
That reminds me of when Kim Jong-il kidnapped a guy to make a really shitty Godzilla rip off
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abduction_of_Shin_Sang-ok_and_Choi_Eun-hee