Redpill me on Pride and Prejudice.
Is this actually a significant novel or can it be seen as the 19th century precursor to shitty generic romance stories?
Was Mark Twain justified in hating Jane Austen with every fiber of his being?
Yes.
Yes.
>>9235535
Almost got the new writing format (the novel) banned, becuase it put unrealistic expectations in the minds of women, women too stupid to understand it's fiction.
>Did not contain a single example of realistic dialogue, historically innacurate, everything is a contrived drawn out speech.
>Silly bitches today still romanticize the language.
>>9235535
much better with zombies
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.
Was he right?
He was right about LOTR against Atlas Shrugged but wrong in that only these two books can change a fourteen-year's old life
>>9235479
LOTR changed my life
Dune changed my life as a 14 year old
Дa хyй знaeт
One day at a time :)
>>9235441
learn their cryllic alphabet. you'll see that when you learn the sounds and letters it really isn't too much different from learning spanish or french. learning a language just takes time, but don't be daunted by cryllic.
Anyone ever worked a job that you found gave you downtime to read? I work a warehouse job right now, I work 50 hours a week and make a stupid amount of money for what I do and moving up the 'ranks'. But no downtime, just work work work. I used to work on an ambulance for 3 years and it was great. Somedays I had enough downtime I would go through a book a day easily waiting for calls. For certain reasons, I don't want to go back to the ambulance and I'm willing to look into any new job, hopefully nonsocial, that will give me an opportunity to read some in between moments of work. Long shot I know.
Current book...
Technically I have a lot of free time in my job, but it's impossible to read anything because my stupid whore coworker WON'T STOP BABBLING in my ear all day long
>>9235205
What job?
I worked in a prison and had a lot of time unless something happened. I have considered going back even though I am studying to become a teacher. I think I will have more time and energy if I work in a prison rather than a school or university.
>implying icycalm has anything on this beautiful genius
http://www.dialectics.org/dialectics/Welcome.html
http://www.dialectics.org/dialectics/Applications_files/F.E.D._,_Hermes_de_Nemores_,_%27Hegel%27s_%27%27%27Algorithm%27%27%27_for_Dialectic.%27_,_Parts_I._and_II._,_Last_Updated_27JAN2017.pdf
also Hegel discussion thread. working my way through the lesser logic right now. really did not understand his derivation of the Infinite Quantitative Progression, but his critique thereof made perfect sense. im thinking about his critiques of the "bad infinities" especially in relation to Derrida's notion of iterability, which seems to be nothing but the rhetorical materialization of the notion getting tripped up in the "superficial alternation" which gives way to false infinity. but at the same time, the nature of rhetoric and writing seems such that its absolution just isnt possible.
>>9235153
>>implying icycalm has anything on this beautiful genius
who are you quoting
>implying the presence of world-spirit icycalm among us does not prove hegel was correct all along
bro do you even dialectical-overman
Hegel is a bunch of bullshit. Can anyone here tell me one useful thing Hegel talks about, in plain English?
Original poetry, and remember to post a few thoughts before contributing with a poem.
This thread
Is dead
Fred.
What I say amounts little to what I never may say,
like polishing dunes as do fine Yggdrasil ash.
And like a lubber, I'll fool the sky-tomato mix with the grain
- both or either the grains, now's the world out of land.
(My sail is a color, and the soup is warm too.
And the color is orange wishing you were here too.)
What's the time when you're lost? Time is hot as sand
when its gear tires chewing a day's bark off the main.
(The ship is all hull. There's no sense in it.
This is all a bad dream, I should wake out of it.)
Anticlea can embrace the wind, and I
have no warmth at sea, nor scent of orange.
>>9235150
takatakatatatak
takatatakatata
takatakataka
takatakkata
katakkata
kataktka
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Violets are blue
best translation?
William Henry Denham Rouse
>>9235046
Gregory Hays
>>9235046
Francis Hutcheson and James Moor.
>tfw you listen to jazz and cook spaghetti on a foggy monday night
>spaghetti
Literal cereal tier difficulty. Horrible pairing with jazz. Horrible pairing with Monday.
Just kill yourself.
>>9235071
is suicide the most murakami form of death?
>>9235043
I love Murakami, but even I know that most people read him because of how exotic he seems.
His books have depressed protagonists, surrealism, jazz, quirky characters; furthermore, he's Japanese, and even his name is attractive.
Seriously. I'm sure that most people just read him because of how exotic and different he seems, and because that makes them seem different and alternative, too.
Are there any philosophers that talk about anti-intellectualism seriously without just being like a father is a father a son is a son shit?
I thought 4chan would know all about this question
pynchon?
Neutral milk hotel is irredeemable trash and so are you
Anyone here read this? I'm about halfway through right now, and honestly it's really fucking good. Maybe the best I've read from Vollmann yet.
Vollman should get the Nobel
>>9234933
Unfortunately I've only read an excerpt, but it was brilliant. Thanks for reminding me to purchase this. What other of Vollman's works are worth it?
>>9234933
Is this a good place to with Vollmann?
>>9234681
Dude weed lmao
>>9234681
What if you touch your finger with another finger
What then?
Why do you hate him?
>>9234390
Because negan made him look like a bitch.
Because he is a meemee on a weeb image posting site which has dubious taste/standards at the best of times
>>9234390
I love him
What are your thoughts on Ralph Waldo Emerson, 4chan? What were his best teachings and what was he wrong about?
>>9234210
Bit too liberal for my liking (I'm redpilled)
>>9234218
Isn't that cute.
Great writer, but I don't really care for much of what he had to say.
What are you passionate about, and when did you realize it?
>>9234177
the redpill, /pol/. white identity politics, and masculinity.
When I found 4chan
Probably computer networking around 18. It's something we take for granted, an invisible infrastructure that powrrsost of modern communications. Whe. I realized all internet connected machines have an IP address and can be accessed through its ports... My mind blew up on the possibilities of exploit and ways to counteract being exploited at that network level (usually a firewall).
>>9234179
Is this the same fucking poster?
>In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris and Jordan Peterson discuss science, religion, archetypes, mythology, and the perennial problem of finding meaning in life.
https://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/meaning-and-chaos
>>9234037
Why would anyone listen to these hacks
>>9234037
You lost me at Sam Harris
>>9234049
Yo seriously. Philosophy is so gay. Come up with your own sheeeesh.