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What is your favorite translation of a written work? Not which is the most critically acclaimed or which is the most accurate etc., but which is your favorite? Doesn't necessarily even have to be a English translation

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I'm in the mood for some good GRI's, recommend some for when I finish The Prince of Nothing pls.
Also, is reading Blood Meridian for the GR ending a bad idea? I've enjoyed what I can so far, but I feel like I haven't consumed or remembered a lot of what I read, like i'm just looking at the text instead of actually reading it. Will a few re-reads do me sone good?

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I need someone to do some calligraphy concepts for me for a madeup language.
There's a special structure to the alphabet of this language I'll want to influence the details.
I am paying for a brainstorming phase. I've already got these concepts.

There's an overall aspect to the written form I want to do my best to preserve. It's a bit fuzzy for me right now. I believe it's possible for vowels to attach to consonants in different ways. and perhaps consonants on themselves can have a way of compressing. You may see opportunity for that with some of the structure I can explain in detail.
For example. R L W can come after a lot of other consonants like K G T P & F.
So why not have the natural shape of the letter "lock in" perhaps sensibly correlate to another form.
R L and W exist at the 3rd layers... blah blah blah
I'm paying in bitcoin .008.
Idk what that is, but it's not $100 and it's not $20.
So it should be fair enough for someone to take.

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Hi /lit/, does anyone have that political philosophy reading recommendation image that says something along the lines "read each book in the order that they are given, do not skip any"? Also general political philosophy book thread

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Hey guys, I wrote a thing about school. It's writing, see? You should totally read it!

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Who wrote this?
What do you rate it 1-10?

The cage that is my body, I wish to escape.
Grief, torment and sickness it offers me.
Where shall I go, if my body torments me so?
Is there a place of rest for me?
It was supposed to be in her arms. She waited for me. I being a coward, could not show myself. My body is my cage, she cannot see me for I am deep beneath the skin of this carcass, screaming for aid and no ears to hear.
Too proud and too pathetic, O the words I spoke were half truths. For I am the man my cage hides, deep beneath the skin, I scream.

It was only half truth my beloved, why have you left me desolate?

- unknown

so... anyone know?

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What does /lit/ think of the Foundation series and Asimov in general? Never really hung around here and I just started reading these so I'd like to know what you nerds think

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What is the best version of The Ascension of Isiah?

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Childhood is loving Inferno. Adulthood is recognizing that Purgatorio is better, and Paradiso is the best.

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Any advice/books for helping focus and visualizing when reading or concentrating?

I used to be able to concentrate and read novels at a steady pace and actually visualize the scenes and have them play out like movies, actually hear characters talking. Now I just basically skim through them, skip over a lot of passages and burn through a novel in a day or two. I used to read a lot of different novels but now it's mainly history books and really violent horror books because I can kind of visualize that .

What to do?!

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Remember when the Reverend sacrifices the monkey, though?

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>"Timshel!"

Was Adam Trask a gigantic troll?

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What are the best comfy books about loving books? I've been reading Calvino and a lot of Borges, and found that I really enjoy, strangely, the aesthetic of comfy intellectual environments. The Magic Mountain had something similar going on, with all of its comfy intellectual discussions

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funny guy actually

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Then check out Suburra by Carlo Bonini. It name-drops the characters from the TV series directed by Michele Placido, plus it's pretty vicious and brutal too, if you happen to like you reading material that way...