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tortilla coffee squat spat
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Yessir
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Which vulgate version and print does /lit/ recommend?
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>>9170909
bump
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>>9171330
another bump I suppose
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It's a slow board, stop bumping retard. Also stop being a retard and read the Septuagint instead.
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Are so many smart people unable to think critically due to the degradation of language and therefore difficulty in forming complex thoughts?
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>>9170818
I'd argue that learning by rote for invisible qualification grades is a bigger factor.
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That would be double plus ungood.
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Think it has more to do with specialization and narcissism. Smart people find themselves proficient in one sub-field and hubristically think this must translate to proficiency in all fields, see smokedegrass tyson and big dick dawkins.
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What is the best major for someone who wants to eventually become a fiction writer? I've heard a lot of bad things about literature/English programs, but I wanted to hear your thoughts. Would philosophy be a better option?
>inb4 the major doesn't matter
Okay, I get that writing is a self-taught craft, but if you had to choose the most optional major to complement this path, which would it be?
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>>9170765
>What is the best major for someone who wants to eventually become a fiction writer?
Nursing. That way when you fail at writing, you'll have a career instead of debt and a useless degree in who gives a fuck.
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>>9170765
Do whatever intrigues you most. As your aspiration doesn't require a degree, there's no wrong option here.
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Depends what you want to write about.
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What is some essential poetry/poets? Where do I start with it?
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Here you go
http://dlx.bookzz.org/foreignfiction/758000/a7218c2080740cb55b226a520fa1470e.htm/_as/[Leopardi_Giacomo]_The_Poems_of_Giacomo_Leopardi(BookZZ.org).htm
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>>9170732
thank you!
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>>9170727
Start with Clive
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What books should one read to understand himself?
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The Farted Child
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Ydd
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my diary desu
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The world is in a sad state. I believe, or I want to believe, that people are inherently good - however, they are often shielded, ignorant and misguided, or perhaps misunderstood.
What is some good literature on EMPATHY and its limits?
E.g. why we more easily empathize with physical pain than psychological. Or why sympathize even less with women who have anorexia because they "just want attention" (doesn't everyone want to be seen?). Or why it's easier to sympathize with someone within our borders than it is with someone outside them.
(Perhaps bad examples, but you get the point - the limits of empathy)
Looking primarily for non-fiction. Any stories that deal with it.
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Social Psychology
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>>9170557
me in the clown costume
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*tips fur cylinder*
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I brought a book to school and left it under my desk during my last class of the day which ends at around 5 p.m. Fairly late, and it was in one of the less-used, high up floors in my building. I was worried, but assumed it would be there today when I checked at 9 a.m. I was wrong. And now I'm filled with so much anger. Who the fuck steals a paperback book?
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Ask the cleaning lady or security guard what happened to it, brainlet.
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>>9170525
First place I went. The janitors are supposed to turn lost things over to a particular office in our school, the women at the desk said nobody handed anything in. I'll check again tomorrow though.
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>>9170531
Burn down the school for Academia is a corrupt body, friend.
Embrace Autodidactism.
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Is majoring in philosophy retarded? Genuine question. I'm going to graduate in philosophy this year, but I feel like I just wasted my time on something that wasn't half as good as I expected. It feels like a wasteland, with no serious question left, where everything that counts is logorrhea from so-called specialists about insignificant garbage, completely unintuitional and with no link to the real world. Studying philosophy just made me really nihilistic, the wrong kind of nihilism, Cioran's nihilism. What to do now? I'm stuck.
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You sound like you've answered your own question.
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>>9170461
You've versed yourself in many of the sets of assumptions that drive most people's decision-making, information-processing, and opinion-structuring styles, and the inborn pitfalls of those. I'm sure you'd be one insightful motherfucker if you'd get rid of all the "isms" and accept that you're not likely to ever transcend uncertainty.
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Yes Nihilism is the only real philosophy sadly
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The Bible.
I liked the characters, and the story, and the ending.
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>>9170414
was fully expecting that username to be some pedo scandal. instead it belongs to a 12yo and this is a selfie. wtf, 21st century.
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I would suck those feet like there was no tomorrow
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fuck the patriarchy
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What books did you do in school or college?
Hands down, this is by far one of the worst books I've ever read.
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>>9170322
I got stuck reading this one.
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>>9170322
Get some taste pleb
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>>9170322
A bunch of irredeemable, unlikable assholes destroy and kill each other. The survivors fuck off into bolivian.
I'm going to write a dictionary of about 30.000 words and a bibliography for it with about 1.000 works. However I'm not sure about the layout.
How would /lit/ prefer its dictionary + bibliography?
Additional info: the language is basically dead, so the main focus will be to translate from it, not to it. (though a reverse index might be useful)
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Day 2 : "/lit/, I gave up."
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Contribute to Wiktionary.
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>>9170300
Nah, I already collected all the sources and described many of them and found which are just cheap copies of older ones.
>>9170301
That would mean that I invest thousands of hours into unquotable work. No. Better I first write a quotable book and then someone uses it for Wiktionary. Also, the special language I am working on is highly discussed (by which I mean dramatically uncertain) and you really gotta lay a good basis for it.
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Hey cucks, I'm looking for some books/ authors concerning a topic I'm really interrested in: "fetishizing of sexual intercourse (pleasure) in modern society"
in other words gimme books that denounce and despise sex.
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>>9170279
Your diary desu
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Stop shitposting on 4chan and get laid already, frogshit.
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>>9170279
My Twisted World by Elliot Rogers :^)
tfw lit is literally in the clit of heraclitus
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whoa
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>>9170203
I guess you could say that lit sets pussies...on fire
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What are some good authors that are similar to cormac mccarthy?
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>>9170109
Faulkner
Or rather, McCarthy is similar to Faulkner
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>>9170121
Thanks
What stories should I get started with if im going to read his stuff?
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>>9170121
Melville
Or rather, Faulkner is similar to Melville