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Unless you speak latin, ancient greek and at least one other european foreign language besides your mother tongue then you are a pseud.
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Who are you going to speak Latin to?
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>>9300799
Its common amongst people who went to the best public schools in the UK. I.e. at dinner parties people speak to each other and tell jokes in latin just because they can. its an elitism thing
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>>9300812
No they don't.
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Dialogue in Murakami's Stories
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Why do his characters speak in such a matter-of-fact way? Is that his style? Are Japanese people simply more honest? Or are the translations of his novels bad?
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>>9300740
Little bit of everything.
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>>9300740
Yes.
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>>9300740
Just a thought : his stories doesn't focus on the characters but rather on the events that are taking place, characters are just "answering" to the events and not building them, murakami emphases that by giving them "straightforward" voices, this way of seeing one as a piece of a chain of event, as a part of the universe just as important/unimportant as a wave or a mountain can be found in buddhist littérature
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How to write an introduction?
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I'm so fucked up right now guys. Been working on this passage analysis for Hemingway's short story "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place" for AN ENTIRE MONTH as of yesterday, writing and re-writing about twenty times now, examining it from all different angles. The intro is killing me, it still sounds so choppy and retarded and I don't know what to do. The essay specifically is on the passage where the young waiter tells the old man he should have killed himself, and I wanted to focus on the themes of hypocrisy and isolation. To me, the characters are very paradoxical in nature.
Anyone else every do an essay on this short story? Any tips or pointers on how to do a proper intro in general? Whatever you can suggest is so helpful, I tried taking a two day break and coming back to the essay and it didn't help it all. I'm so lost. Thank you in advance, anons.
>pic unrelated
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>>9300685
Do like the old man, it's the only way out.
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>>9300711
I wish I could, but my dream is to go to university. So I gotta do a couple dumb college courses first, before I can transfer in.
I'm usually really good with essays and Hemingway, but it's been a long time since I've been in school and I'm struggling a lot rn
Any other advice anon?
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>>9300685
What's the problem?
An intro is just explaining subject, problematic, approach, chapters, authors, sources, etc etc depends on what field
Unless you're incapable of explaining in 2 or 3 paragraphs what you're doing in your essay, I don't see the problem
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This thread
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>>9301335
>a dozen pages of two women telling a man to sit down
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Is it morally acceptable to eat and kill animals, /lit/?
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probably not in that order, but yes
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Yes, meat is important for your brain
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>>9300641
Source or higher res version of that image?
Why is everyone, intellectuals and layman alike, so drawn to hacks, obfuscatarians, pretentious philosophers?
Basically all of continental "tradition", which more like poetry than anything close to philosophy.
Just word play salad.
It's pathetic really, from both sides, writer and reader.
Cringe.
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>>9300607
Thinking for yourself is difficult, and if the philosopher in question uses obscurantism to hide holes in logic he becomes difficult to argue against.
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Betrand Russel vs Friedrich Nietzsche
Analytic vs Continental
Clear Thinking vs Emotional Exploration
Rigor vs Feeling
Prose vs Poem
Understanding Problems vs Finding Problems
Simulation vs Stimulation
Excavating Knowledge vs Obfuscate Knowledge
Statesman vs Artist
Egalitarian vs Narcissistic
Masculine vs Feminine
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>>9300690
This is why Derrida was right
>muh dualistic sets of opposites
>muh eternal conflict of axioms
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"i went of google images for gandalf with an AK47" edition
Fantasy
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg
General:
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Flowchart:
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Science Fiction
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/IBs9KE8.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
>https://i.imgur.com/IJxTQBL.jpg
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>9300600
Nice
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>>9300600
please put sffg in the title so i can search
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3rd for queen of /sffg/
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Which was the first ''classic'' you read?
Pic related, got it for my birthday. Didn't much care for it when I first read it but I do now.
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I think it was Sartre, the Age or reason
- or maybe Mishima, The Sailor who fell from blablabla. But maybe this one is not as much of a classic, rather some young adult stuff.
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my hyperdiary desu
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>>9300585
Lolita.
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>norwegian wood
>after the quake
>sputnik sweetheart
i want a sad story. which of the above should i read?
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Norwegian Wood. It's also the easiest.
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>>9300457
can't stand murakami and endless flood of pseudo-enlightening statements. if you have to, read 1 book and never look back.
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>>9300545
>endless flood of pseudo-enlightening statements
where do you think we are?
FffFUCK the LEFT and Fuxk Donald Trump. Fuck them BOTHany literature about this?
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>>9300441
NeoCon lit, I'd assume, or conversely read Buckley and Kissinger.
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>>9300441
You sound like a college freshman full of angst.
I suggest reading the dictionary.
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>>9302521
this guy's diary desu
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>Sartre on Jünger: "I hate him, not as a German, but as an aristocrat”
what did he mean by this?
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>>9300440
Read 'fellow aristocrat' and you've got all you need.
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He was probably jealous that Junger was banging cute Flemish girls and directly engaged in the real on the front lines of human history while he was in his stuffy Parisian apartment jerking off and wishing Beauvoir wasn't too busy fucking Pierre to spend time with him.
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>>9300464
Beauvoir seduced young female students of hers and passed them over to Sartre, get your facts straight
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>2017
>Non sa leggere in italiano
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Veramente imbarazzante
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>posts Dante
>who didn't even write in italian
Italian has no books. Go read your shitty Ecos and Calvinos
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>>9300403
Does double-sided count? I get the general all idea of what's going on.
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>labouring through yet another western canon '''''''''classic'''''''''
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Are you judging others or is this a post that's supposed to say >mfw ?
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About to read Dubliners, gonna try and finish by the end of the day, even though I've got some work to do. Please tell me its an easier read than the big meme.
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>>9300410
>tfw to dumb for short stories
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Are you a body without organs /lit/?
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>>9300294
cogito ergo sum
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>>9300308
Tsk tsk, Des Cartes-senpai, let us rid of unnecessary assumptions
>aliquid cogitans
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>>9300294
No I'm an organ without a body
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Books about lazy, apathetic, ignorant characters with a lot of potential?
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>>9300235
Oblomov
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my diary desu
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>>9300236
Cool I forgot about this book