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"The world is as horrible my dingitty-dang, fookney-clad western boy boy boy made a silly compartment in a bohemian oh yeah a bohemian I am the parody of my own Gertrude I am a verse that is too. Srš srš machen srš srš machen d i e B r ü c ke"
What did he mean by this?
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Where is that image from?
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>>9228228
Nvm, I see it's a drawing by Roberto Aizenberg.
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Can you recommend some good contemporary anglophone poetry, /lit/? Preferably something published in this decade and not meme tier like Mira Gonzalez.
Much appreciated
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Also Poetry General i guess
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>>9228153
hello
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>>9228155
hello
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Ever read any feminist literature hidden gems? 2017-03-12 04:08:02 Post No.9228132
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I bought this book on a lark cause the store didn't have the Ken Kratz book anyway, and I worked in the same field so I thought it'd be worth while just for the stories.
Anyway, it was actually amusing. I thought I had missed pages or something cause there was no way she had a case for sexual assault. And in the end she tries to claim she got PTSD but the doctor told her she was bipolar so she didn't get even veteran's benefits lmao. She couldn't even make herself sound in the right in her own book. For the sexual assault parts, I guess one instance was a guy playing footsie with her, which admittedly, the guy was in his underwear, but it was a camping trip and enh. The other one, I think I missed it because I only caught it in the recap portion about her being grabbed and pulled close, but I suspect she was being grabbed because she was getting yelled at for zillionth time, not for sexual reasons. I don't want to go find the specific passage again for that reason. It'd take forever.
Worth it for sure, I've never read a book about a person being terrible at their job for from their own point of view.
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>>9228132
The second and third volumes of The Neapolitan Novels are interesting, because they are from the perspective of a woman in her 60s regretting her cheerful trashing of her family life in her 20s for feminist ideals.
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only patrician opinions itt 2017-03-12 04:03:27 Post No.9228117
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>best
Ithaca
>runner up
oxen of the sun
>worst
Penelope
>overrated
Circe
>underrated
Cyclops
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>>9228117
Why do you consider Ithaca the best? I know what it has going for it, but is it really the best chapter in the whole book?
I agree that Penelope is the worst though, although it's hard to call any chapter in the book "worst".
Here's my list
>best
Hades
>runner up
Wanding Rocks
>worst
Penelope
>overrated
Circe
>underrated
Nausicaa
I know "Hades" and "Wanding Rocks" aren't that good when it comes to the prose and structure if you compare it to some other chapters in the book, but I really loved how comfy they both feel.
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>>9228117
>best
Ithaca
>runner up
oxen of the sun
Nothing to change here.
Wouldn't consider Cyclops underrated though. I'd rather leave that category to Sirens.
And worst is actually Aeolus.
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>best
Oxen of the Sun
>runner up
Nausicaa
>worst
Eumaeus
>overrated
Not sure
>underrated
Anything from the Telemachiad
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Can we all agree that uppercase is next to useless and should be abolished?
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yes.
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correct
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agreed.
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>ywn be Napoleon's page
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What's with Dostoevsky and Napoleon anyway? Was he the epitome of the Nietzchean superhuman in the 19th century?
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>>9228064
i don't want to read this book because i am an idiot and i think reading it will make me feel bad
i already feel bad enough there is no need
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redpill me on him /lit/
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>>9228039
he has FAS facial characteristics
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>>9228039
Maybe 5 if the books he wrote are decent. The rest are total horse shit and yet he considers himself the best horror author to ever live.
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Dark Tower series is pretty fucking great.
>>9228049
I love how FAS is the only fucking syndrome you faggots know so you diagnose anyone who looks ugly with it
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I want to know which readings about philosophy could help me as a graphic designer. I guess aesthetics and semiotic is the principal one, but i want to know another philosophical areas of interest for visual communications. Also, there's any recommended authors for this?
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Start with the Greeks.
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>>9228149
Nice meme, boi. Now go to bed and let the men do the talkin.
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What book did you write your senior research paper on in high school?
What book should I choose?
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>>9227999
Nice trips. My high school had nothing resembling a senior research paper.
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>finishing high school
stay striving mr. peti-bourgeois
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>>9227999
my HS didn't have us do research papers over books, but rather topics. In any event, they had us do "book reviews/reports" (I forget the exact term) over a british author and one of his books and then test the class over the book after given a brief overview of said book.
For the latter, I did William Golding's "Lord of the Flies"
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how does body condition influence literary output?
if pkd wasn't a gross slob would he write different prose? if joyce wasn't a scoliosis ridden glaucoma gobbler would his prose turn out differently?
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When I'm on my period I find I write more decadent prose.
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>>9227998
a/s/l?
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>>9227998
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Really makes you think... 2017-03-12 02:11:25 Post No.9227827
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REALLY MAKES ME CRINGE FAMASENPAIDESUHONEST
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>lit is full of angsty, alienated young beta men
>nietzsche appeals to this demographic like twilight does to tween girls
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>>9227834
Nice roast to all of us Anon
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Philosophical / intellectual legitimacy of internet thinkers 2017-03-12 02:11:08 Post No.9227825
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Philosophical / intellectual legitimacy of internet thinkers
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Which ones are legitimately respectable based purely on their abilities? Which ones are not?
I can see the case for calling [Pic related] a sophist.
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I don't think you know what the word sophist means. The dude (who by the way I don't like) speaks in straight up 12th grade English and makes simple arguments.
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Pls defoo this thread.
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Hey /lit/
I just read the first chapter of Beyond Good and Evil.
All I can actually confidently say I can remember is when Nietzsche talks about thoughts, how language confuses philosophers because the sentence 'I thought' implies the thought is your own, when it is not. This tied into what he was describing earlier, when humans use falsities to help us make sense of the world, and that trying to learn what is true is not the best question for philosophers to ask(?).
The rest of it went over my head. I find when I read these kinds of things it takes reading twenty-odd pages in order to get 7 sentences that actually make sense and are interesting.
Is this normal? Am I too pleb to read philosophy?
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WHAT SHOULD I READ BEFORE MY DIARY???
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>Is this normal?
On the Genealogy of Morality is better organized and easier to read for plebs, but if you plan to read a critic of Christianity without even glancing at the Bible, and a teacher of the Greeks without doing the same with the Greeks, you'll get what you pay for.
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>WHAT SHOULD I READ BEFORE MY DIARY???
What did he mean by this?
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I'm a freshman at my local community college after taking a few years after high school to work and save up money. I'm only taking 3 classes, one of them being English 101 where the whole class is based on writing essays and developing writing techniques. I'm lost.
I never learned to write in High School because my English teachers every year said "You learned this last year" and to be honest, I didn't take my education as seriously as I should have. Is there any advice that you guys can give me on how to write a paper, essay structure, etc?
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Go to Edx and Coursera and take some of the writing courses.
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Healthy diet of blue crabcakes and you'll be fine
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Do you have friends who read? What do they read? Do you discuss books with them?
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yes one normie friend and one alcoholic bipolar friend
normie and I discuss more contemporary writers - Cormac, Philip Roth, Delillo, Vargas Llosa, Denis Johnson
alchy madman and I discuss more 19th century stuff. Though he does like Cioran and Beckett's novels particularly the Trilogy
He's a big Dostoevsky fan. Notes from Underground and White Nights in particular
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>>9227648
A few, but their reading-orientation is largely political, with a smattering of conteporary fiction tossed in.
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>>9227648
One, but he's apparently been reading The Brothers Karamazov for the last 6 months, so I'm not sure if he actually reads or not.