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What is Daphne to Apollo?
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>>9209725
The impossible.
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I thought you meant Daphnis and Chloe for a moment.
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>>9209725
Everything
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what are philosophical works that require you to have read nietzsche to understand them?
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>>9209606
None really since Nietzsche is a hack and his influences are easily comprehensible on the fly
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>>9209606
On the other hand, every philosopher, psychological and social writer, that comes after Nietzsche of any value. Adorno, Freud, Weber, as instances of each class. Protestant theologians, as well: Tillich, Bonhoeffer, as two instances.
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>>9209606
The Bible
how easy is to get a literary agent?
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>>9209464
As easy.. as it is to come up with, and actually write, something satisfactory.
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>>9209558
No, it's much harder than that.
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>>9209577
Thinking up a book is hard as hell.
Writing it is fairly easy.
Publishing one is a motherfucker.
Did he really bang a 12 year old or was he trolling turgenyev? according to strakhov he did. but strakhov was also a lying asshole anyway.
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I would like to know this too
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Me too pls reply to op
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>>9209155
AYY EXISTENTIALISM LMAO
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What is Lovecraft's best work or collection of works? I am currently reading The Shadow over Innsmouth.
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>>9209000
I'm bumping this so you have a chance at someone answering your question.
Also, Google.
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Necronomicon
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>when Rats in the Walls is a masterpiece but you can't share it with anyone because it says nigger
>when Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath is great but no one reads it because it doesn't have muh Cthulhu
take these feels as bumps
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Any resources/methods to learn Latin or Greek?
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>>9209320
/thread
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>>9208898
textkit.com
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Herman Melville
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>>9208627
Nice picture. What about this terribly lonely master, exactly. The poetry's actually pretty good. Typee Redburn Moby Dick are the novels to read. Pierre is schlock but weirdly fun. Mardi I find unreadable. White Jacket and Omoo.. I always forget about them when making lists like this, but theyre good too. The four major shorts (I include the Encantadas) are fantastic, major monuments of American Lit along with the doctor. Anything else? Confidence Man, perhaps?
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>>9209422
Fucking Bartleby
I don't know why Kafka gets such praise when Melville already finished his lifes work in a short story
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I didn't understand Bartleby. Am I a brainlet?
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For me, it's Czeslaw Milosz.
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anachronic, incomprehensible, pretentious fucking prick
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>>9206151
Ehh some parts of the Issa's Valley were fun to read, but it is really just a passable and very forgetable book
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>>9206151
Fair enough, actually.
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Why aren't you writing a pessimistic, nihilistic, anti-progress, anti-society, anti-sex, anti-women, pro-ascetic, pro-racism manifesto /lit/?
Answers in 14 words or fewer please.
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Because its not the 90's anymore. Post-modernism is done.
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>>9213250
You have to be 18 to post on this board, by the way.
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>>9213256
It's not even a question of age, if you can't adapt to your environment you are fated to die. Post-modernism has been done to death at this point. I'm sure you have no problem reading the same basic ideas regurgitated by yet another special snowflake that didn't submit to the system and everyone else just doesn't get me, maaaan.
So, I wanna start with the Greeks, but where do I start?
Besides like Homer, what is THE essential Ancient Greek literature?
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Start with the Greeks.
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Don't be a pleb. Start with the Sumerians.
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Start with the myths, I highly recommend Prometehus Bound.
It's an ancient play, one of the oldest we have, about a simple man who was horrifically punished by the powers that be for the terrible crime of trying to bring light to the common people.
In the words of Aeschylus, "No good deed goes unpunished".
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Why does everyone want to adapt this book to film and always fail miserably?
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jodorowsky's dune sounded like it would have been a huge pile of shit to me.
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>>9202622
I liked the idea of film that could take you on lsd trip
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>>9202613
Lynchs Dune is good. Can a 'womanly fainting dramatic "always"' equal relatively 2?
>>9202622
>I am worthless nothing but for some reason I dont feel as such when I call things that are far from worthless nothing worthless nothing, and but so also too I read the books when I was young and noone had as genuine a relation to the material as me and my imagination and so any attempt by any number of geniuses would indubitably fall incredibly near incredulously short
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Rama?
Middle-Earth?
Neverland?
the cave from The Rats in the Walls?
The House of Usher?
Mars from The Martian Chronicles?
The Sprawl?
Dr No's island?
Locus Solus?
Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius?
/lit/?
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>>9213720
Postwar European capitals. When I read about the Middle-Ages, The Renaissance, Enlightenment, Humanism, Science, the Greeks, the Romans and then think of the works of generations of thinkers, scholars, artists and politicians being broken, burned, blown up and blown away in such a short span of time I get a literal hard-on.
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>>9213844
I think maybe that's why I like Beckett so much: not just because he's brilliant, witty, funny and benevolent, but because you can feel the strain, of centuries of learning and humanist thinking rubbing against cataclysm and the abyss.
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Miss Kitty's vagina
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How does my dear friend /lit/ cope with the horrific prospect that the majority of the population does not engage in the finer art that is literature?
It is such a shame, alas I say, that so many common folk are preoccupied with money, social status and consumption of lesser phenomena. While they spend their ordinary lives doing such things, I spend my time reading the classics, as well as mastering rhetoric, logic, reason and rational thinking.
Alas, while they believe in futile ideologies, religions and other fairy tales, I am reading philosophy, the sciences and high art. Yes, you got that right, by all means I am a skeptical atheist.
You might say, correctly, that I am a humanist, and you are not mistaken for I am. At times I do secretely think that perhaps the plebians should not be educated and that, dare I say, religion should subdue the masses.
That said, with populism at the backdoor of my beloved Europe I fear that democracy is failing and that Plato was right.
Does /lit/ understand this feeling? Of being alone in your pursuit of the higher gifts in life but surrounded by people who could not care less? Sometimes I weep, and in my anger I sometimes set aside my book, while I take the time to calm again and read on.
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>being a teenage pseud in current year
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you are me
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>>9213648
literally me
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>tfw skipped the greeks and started with the romans
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>tfw started with the Trilobites
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>>9213624
>There's Romans after the Greeks
Dude spoilers
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>>9213624
>implying that's not really just the same thing
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Lads I suffer from hypochondria/somatic symptom disorder (medicated for it). I'm considering CBT therapy. Although the cheaper route would be to get a book and try to do the therapy myself. I'm in a really bad spot going through hell this year. Any of you ever try to help yourself by reading a book or should I just go to therapy. Sorry if this isn't rhetoric right place for this question. Please don't ban me.
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>>9213302start with the greeks
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>>9213324
Came here to post this.
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>>9213324
Lol you fuckers I'm a regular here. How about your diary desu. But seriously when I mean have you tried a book for therapy I'm not talking self help I'm talking about manual on cognitive behavioural therapy. Anyone ever try learning something like that to help themselves? How did it go.