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why is this regarded as a masterpiece of literature?
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>>9347881
Read a single sentence in it bitch
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>>9347881
It's not. It's just well done genre fiction.
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>>9347881
as much as people call mccarthy a meme, you have to admit that his works are far above most of the stuff published these days
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holy fucking shit dude
Badiou is literally unreadable
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learn french and come back
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>actually reading some coffee-consuming circumlocutory commie cuck
Only use for Badiou is in the future where you find out who borrowed his books out of the library and use those names as a kill list.
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his less mathy stuff is better. read ethics or conditions or TotS
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In terms of pure technical skill.
Who is the best writer on history?
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use of the language, prose and maybe poethry.
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Writing encompasses a lot of genres, but for prose I'll go with this guy.
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>>9347816
never heard about him.
care to elaborate your answer?
Explain why this play is so highly regarded. /lit/ seems to think that because the play is so simplistic and allows for various interpretations, that's enough to make it a genuinely good work. That's not the case unfortunately. Waiting for Godot has direction, without a doubt, but it lacks purpose. Literature and plays that leave the story open for your personal interpretation are lazy, only considered masterpieces due to the audiences ability to insert their own narrative.
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What a stupid thread.
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>Waiting for Godot has direction, without a doubt, but it lacks purpose
>it lacks purpose
Must be bait
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>>9347791
You're more than welcome to tell me otherwise. It doesn't lack purpose because they're literally waiting if that's how you're misinterpreting the post.
Has anyone read City of God by Augustine? Is it a good exposition on the theology/doctrines of Christianity? I've heard a lot of good things about it.
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>>9347768
I've read city of god by paulo lins. Shit was gangster as fuck.
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>>9347771
Thanks... I guess I'll keep that in mind?
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>>9347768
>Is it a good exposition on the theology/doctrines of Christianity?
I can't say I've read it, but I've read Confessions, and was raised and Catholic and have pretty good understanding of Catholic Doctrines.
You have to remember, Catholic Dogma was created, influenced, and added onto over a period of two millennium (Don't tell the pagans but that's a long ass time for a single institution to exist)
I'd suggest reading it because why the fuck not, and you probably will learn many things. But with regards to Catholic Doctrine and Theology overall, you're better off studying Catholicism as a whole. Its not like you're gonna get Aquinas, the Council of Trent, and all the other things that influenced the Church out of reading it.
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Post your daily journal entry or drabbles.
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These past few weeks have been a haze. I am finding it harder than ever before to simply think clearly, to recover words, ideas, and emotions which previously flowed freely. Perhaps I have become an automaton. A cheap imitation of humanity, kind of like a smile which doesn’t quite reach the eyes. It feels as though my mind just doesn’t quite reach my brain. I like to think that I am in there somewhere, lost among the countless cerebral folds and grooves. Perhaps my mind is tucked away and hiding within the pineal gland, that Cartesian bean which may or may not be the seat of the soul, waiting for a reawakening of faith. I may never know.
A mind fashioned after the great processing machina which drives our world, that is what modern culture demands of us. A mind which displays a certain prowess for efficient consumption of information. Yes, I think that may be it, society demands a brain ripe for consumption. Consumption maybe, but digestion? Perhaps my brain is experiencing a sort of mental constipation. I have become a drone plodding along in an indescribable haze so thick that it smothers and poisons the soul into obscurity.
Perhaps it is psychogenic fugue.
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my diary, desu
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I feel like I'm climbing up a massive mountain. Sometimes I'll slip on a patch of ice or loose gravel but I continue to climb. I'm not sure why I climb, only that I will. Sometimes I'll catch myself wanting nothing more than to give up and slide back down on the seat of my pants but I never have the balls to do it.
What's at the top of this mountain? What will I meet at the precipice. Should I give up? Odds are it won't be anything near as worthwhile as the effort I'm exerting.
I wish I wasn't so fucking unsure. Every step is made with total anxiety. Every handhold is taken with fear of it giving way. What if I fall? What is the worst thing that could happen?
These thoughts are only accented with the memory that I have seldom actually stood on my own legs throughout this trek. Often my well meaning climbing partners (both far more experienced and in much better physical shape) will praise me for taking steps which had been nearly totally facilitated and acted upon by themselves. I am dead weight attached to their life-line. It would be moronic to cut myself loose, yet equally idiotic to continue in this manner.
I'll figure it out. Or perhaps I'll give up, sever the lines, and tumble back to the ground on my neck.
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Stephen King Discussion 2017-04-07 01:16:44 Post No.9347645
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Currently listening to the 'It' audiobook and enjoying it. Though damn does Stephan King waffle and slow the narrative to a crawl.
Favourite book? Memes about how awful he is?
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He has to draw out his narratives because he can't write a satisfying ending to save his life.
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I enjoyed Salem's Lot and The Shining (though I thought most of Kubrick's changes were improvements)
I thought the ending of The Stand was ass
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>>9347649
Examples?
It's probably because his books are more like serial television series than a singular film-like story: it's hard to end TV series due to all the open ends.
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Over the past few months I've seen a couple of people refer to Ted Kaczynski as a critic of the left (and as a social critic in general, to be sure). Reference is made to a particular quote:
>When someone interprets as derogatory almost anything that is said about him (or about groups with whom he identifies) we conclude that he has inferiority feelings or low self-esteem. This tendency is pronounced among minority rights advocates, whether or not they belong to the minority groups whose rights they defend. They are hypersensitive about the words used to designate minorities ... Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society. Political correctness has its stronghold among university professors, who have secure employment with comfortable salaries, and the majority of whom are heterosexual, white males from middle-class families
Ted Kaczynski cites, for his analysis, Eric Hoffer's conception of a 'true believer'. Eric Hoffer, the American philosopher who prefered to be referred to as a longshoreman (guy who throws ropes and shit around boats), characterized the true believer as a particular person who follows a movement with a strong degree of conviction. He emphasized the following characteristics of the true believer:
>Identifying with a group and identifying personal achievement with the achievement of the movement.
People will, of course, have varying reasons for this: Hoffer cites as examples ethnic groups which struggle to assimilate, the chronically bored, unsuccessful people of all shades (particularly artists); Essentially, those who feel worthless and who feel their lives are meaningless.
>A tendency to focus the locus of control outside the self.
There are many levels to this, such as the need to demonize the toxic present and to glorify the prestigious past, the need for a devil (even in the absence of a God), the notion that their lives are irremediably spoiled and they must strive to correct whatever ills they perceive.
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Not /lit/
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>>9347559
cultural critique isn't /lit/? i'm not here to discuss any particular ideology, i just think that Eric Hoffer has some very interesting and fruitful ideas.
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>>9347552
If that is all you get after reading the unabomber, you are crazier than him
Also, you are underestimating, and awfully generalizing a lot of people
For what we can tell you are probably yet another degenerate sociopath that lives in his own world
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friendly remainder that life is not worth living
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>>9347244
your life might not be
mine's great
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>>9347244
I LOVE LIFE
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Get that shit out of here. We're on the cusp of a shift in human experience. It's analogous to living a few years before the industrial revolution. There is plenty to live for.
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What work of literature best encapsulates the American Dream?
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>>9347228
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
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>>9347228
american psycho
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>>9347228
Atlas shrugged i guess
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Is this what happens when you go too deep into philosophy? Did Aristotle sound like this?
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is he...uff! here I go. I'll dare to say it! our guy?
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>>9347219
Yes I dare say he may be representative of the average /lit/ user.
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Kind of imagine all analytic philosophers to sound like this tbqhf
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>open a book
>50 pages long editorial foreword
Why do these people assume anyone gives a shit?
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>>9347016
Fully appreciating any book requires a good amount of historical, biographical, and critical context. It's okay to read the forward after you're done reading the actual text, but if you completely ignore it, you are a pleb.
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>>9347016
Tenure is often predicated on writing these introductions.
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You don't but someone else might, because one person's view doesn't necessarily reflect that of everyone. It's a concept called subjectivity.
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How do you read literature?
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I feel like a stupid person asking a stupid question.
Basically, how do you read literature? Is there a certain criteria by which literature is judged?
In high school and college all of my teachers emphasized interpretation and using examples of classic literature in my interpretations. I did well, and I felt like I get a lot out of reading it, but I also feel like there's something I'm not grasping.
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Usually I just read it from left to right.
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>>9347021
Hmm I just can't grasp it
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you went to college and still can't read? Maybe try getting a PhD in readology
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Are there any books about how guilt ridden abusers should proceed?
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>>9346932
wtf, I do all those things. Am I a bad person?
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>>9346932
>parents trying to stop girl from seeing pedo is emotional abuse
Nice try.
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>>9346932
That first one is just women unable to handle banter. The last one is women unable to handle getting a taste of their own medicine.
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What are the escential Plato dialogues? Do I need to read presocratics before jumping into Plato?
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go 2 bed with itchy butthole
wake up smelly finger
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>>9346917
Plato is a good place to start in my opinion. It's where I started and the organic procession of the arguments were a real pleasure to read. To be specific, I started with 'the republic' and branched out from there.
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luckily there's literally a book called "essential dialogues"
https://www.amazon.com/Plato-Reader-Essential-Dialogues-Classics/dp/1603848118
you don't need to read pre-socratics, but you probably should read some sort of secondary introductory work on Plato if you are completely fresh to him or philosophy in general