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So, I've forgotten a certain word because I'm fucking stupid. But it's when you leave something of value with someone to make sure you come back. Say you're in a store and you're short just a few bucks to pay for what you're buying, so you hand the clerk your wallet and say "I've got the cash in my car, hold onto this and I'll be back." What is that called?
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>>9971013
Collateral
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>>9971013
Collateral
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Thank you so fucking much. This has been fucking with me for days.
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When you read something difficult, do you read analysis of the writing as you progress the first time through, or do you create your own thoughts on the writing and then come back and use outside interpretation afterwards?
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I just read it like normal and then go find a good analysis on the internet to tell me what I thought about it
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>>9970848
No, I understand.
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I pretend to understand and pretend to read
Best English poetry?
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Leaves of grass
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Now slain is King Amulius
Of the great Sylvian line
Who reigned in Alba Longa
On the throne of Aventine
Slain is the Pontiff Camers
Who spake the words of doom
"The children to the Tiber,
The mother to the tomb."
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What's the Citizen Kane of books? I swear this isn't a meme question, I'm genuinely asking.
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There isn't. Citizen Kane is such a benchmark because film is still relatively young.
Literature has literally hundreds of turning points, much like film will have if it manages to stay relevant for over a thousand years like literature has.
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>>9970567
citizen kane as in overrated american shit? anything by nabokov
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>>9970567
>What's the Citizen Kane of books? I swear this isn't a meme question, I'm genuinely asking.
Are you asking what book has equivalent importance in the history of literature, or what book has an equivalent form in terms of the storytelling?
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who is the ghostmane of literature
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whoever wrote the twilight series
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I don't know who he is but he looks like a lame suburban faggot LARPing as a wigger
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tought's?
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not a 4chan book
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I'm about to cop the entire modern library Proust box set. 2017-09-02 12:19:29 Post No.9970483
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I'm about to cop the entire modern library Proust box set.
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I do like aesthetic prose; but will it be a laborious read like Joyce, or something less difficult?
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don't know about that edition, but proust is comfy as hell. he writes very prettily about very fucked up and very beautiful things.
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Oh my god there are still so many boring as fuck books I have to read. Moby dick, the idiot, demons, Anna Karenina, the works of Austen, Faulkner, Chaucer, Gogol, Chekhov, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Hemingway, Proust, Tolstoy, gibbon, and on and fucking on.
The huge majority of those books will be boring as fuck.
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>have to read
What did he mean by this?
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>posts frogs
>talks studip
why do these correlate so much?
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>>9970366
>I only read LeCanon: /lit/ version
never gonna make it
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"So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee:
No, let them satisfy their lust on thee."
Why was Tamora the Queen of Goths so cold hearted that she's let Lavinia get raped and have her tongue cut off and her hands cut off? I'm just reading Titus Andronicus now and it feels like I'm not getting something? Is there back story in another play that provides a glimpse as to the brutality of the war between the Goths and the Romans?
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Barbarian things, you wouldn't understand.
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>>9970315
It's slashfiction. It's was quite popular at the time so Shake went into as well. You pile gore after gore and revenge after revenge, and hope it comes out well. It's a bit silly to be honest, but it is what it is.
Still can't understand your question. Tamora had he son killed by Andronicus, so she's only taking revenge.
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>>9970315
All the context you need is on the first two scenes of Act One. Tamora's son was killed gratuitously in front of her eyes, and she demanded satisfaction. The play is not only violent for the sake of violence; it's really about violence, its source and consequences. Both the Goths and the Romans are bloodthirsty. That's why it's such a shock that Titus learns to love only after being exposed to urelentless violence outside of war. He has done harm to others by the sword all his life. When Lavinia gets raped and mutilated, and his sons framed and murdered, he fully realizes the implications of his bellicose actions and behaviors.
Also Tamora is a bitch.
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Any good books on alchemy? Not necessarily the history of it, but more like a compilation and explanation of symbols and their interaction. From my quick google search I fear there are a lot of inconsistencies and contradictions, so I'm asking what to get and what to avoid.
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Start with the Greeks
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>>9970263
I also want to know, for research purposes.
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>>9970263
Early alchemy is a clusterfuck. You're better off with secondary literature like "Secret teachings of all times" and such for a comprehensible introduction. If you want primary texts, I recommend the works of Paracelsus.
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Don Quixote Translation 2017-09-02 10:00:10 Post No.9970217
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Just given this version of Don Quixote, translated by P.A. Motteux.
Never read it before, should I look for a different translation or is this alright?
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the original edited by the RAE works great
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>>9970217
You should try reading it in the original Arabic
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>>9970217
Samuel Putnam all the way. Motteux isn't particularly reliable. Same goes for his translation of Rabelais.
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What is the literary equivalent of Bastion? 2017-09-02 09:01:01 Post No.9970117
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What is the literary equivalent of Bastion?
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This was a meme game that had good concepts but was marred by the shitty narrator, who got way too old way too quickly. So I guess it would be IJ.
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>>9970132
> the anonymous little fella typed it all, he probably hoped he'd get enough (you)s to satisfy him for the day, acting surprised when it didn't happen
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When I was thirteen years old the headteacher convinced my parents to have me jump up a class and be a boarding student because I was doing so well academically. That is when it all started to go change for me.
By a month of being so a abruptly promoted to the mysterious world of seventh grade, I had already started smoking cigarettes and trading erotic newspaper cutouts for stationary and food. Tie loosened, shirt untucked and hair spiked heavenwards, I was slowly making way towards the romantic world of puberty and substance abuse.
But it wasn't until after the summer vacation that I started to cut. It began with an obligatory reply to a girls letter that said "you are my life" in cursive writing she has written with her blood from her fingers with the infamous paper cutter that was going around the class. The first time was quite hard, but since my friends encouraged on I managed to engrave a rough I LOVE YOU, and a heart sign that was quite difficult and...ink consuming because it was not just outline but filled. That heart became quite dark later, which I boasted around proudly was what my real one was turning to. She went home and I went dorm, where I was in the usual referee team I in a violent wrestling match. I was feeling good. I rarely participated in the fights because nobody really wanted me to and when I did I gave up in like 5 seconds or made weird rules like no punching. I was happy being a good referee and a passionate cheerer of the underdog or a close friend. This continued for many years and the game evolved a lot, one of which was punching each other's arms, numbing arms of everyone in the dorm for life.
A few of us practiced wall punching, which quickly evolved to wall rubbing. Here we rubbed our knuckles and joints against a rough wall until it bled and the white bones inside showed through. I excelled in this particular field and all ten of my fingers were properly injured.
Scratching with compass tips was a popular thing and I had a few myself, little knowing that the marks were there for life. It was usually symbols, initials or a rock band/song title. It only god serious when two of us really started to cut. Starting with lots of little cuts to write something, we challenged each other for deeper cuts and more blood. After a while there were cigarette burns and cuts all over our body, arms, legs, chest, stomach, head, everywhere that could be covered during class. We picked up a hoarse accent, talked very little, bullied and were huge Nirvana fans. In he meantime the cuts got bigger and bigger, with no symbols, and we were using the more effective razor blades by this time. We also shaved daily.
Before long we got into alcohol. At this point I might have to disclose to the reader that it was one of the most violent schools full of spoiled kids, and the rich upper graders frequently beat any warden so it was basically a guy that controlled the lower graders and ignored everyone else, in charge of the whole thing.
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let me know it this is shite or I should continue. If not...the story is..things happened, and for everyone else, life went on....
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The house looked quite large for the outside, but looking at the mess indies, anyone could guess that no woman who could at least walk and see lived there. I knocked and waited.
An old man arrived at the door very slowly and took a long hard look at me, possibly trying to see if he recognised me. I took off my hat and bowed, and told him who I was. If he was at all pleased by my visit, his face surely didn't show any signs I'd it. But he greeted politely and invited me to the drawing room. The he proceeded to apologise at length for the unkempt status of his dwelling since his maid and servant were staying at the farm for harvest and he only came there himself to rest, hence there would be no tea but he had some really good grapes in the back garden if I would care enough to take some. I politely declined and settled for the water in a large pitcher he offered me as he took away my coat, hat and stick.
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"So you come from town do you? And anoseph sent you? Hmm..I haven't seen old boy Joseph for quite some time. Is he doing alright down there in Charleston?"
"He looked cheery and talked quite a lot. Sir, I'm not from here, I came down from four hills just for this purpose. I would rather invest a bit here in the country than just gamble away at London. Besides, a little corn and cheese would be nice for the kids, or maybe vacation even.
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>everything is the same
>nothing is moving
>your senses are lies, bro
>nothing happens literally ever because nothing can happen
Whoa...
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Damn...
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Parmenides was a genius and the real start of western philosophy.
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What kind of mind does it take to leave the physical world behind and go unadulterated pure reason?