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Whichever answer one gives, there are problems.
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So? It's about seduction, not geese.
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Anser is Latin for goose; anserine is Anglified 'goose-like'. The pun is bad, pretentious, asinine (which means ass-like). The point, presumably, is that 'answers' count for very little in a world that seduces us into having the opinions we do, in fact, hold. Problems arise whether or not you ask a question, questions, answers be damned!
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Which languages is the best for poetry soundwise in your opinion?
German seems to be one of the worst for it.
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>>9136221
*are
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>>9136221
>German seems to be one of the worst for it.
Fight me, Neger.
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>>9136221
Kleine Aster
Ein ersoffener Bierfahrer wurde auf den Tisch gestemmt.
Irgendeiner hatte ihm eine dunkelhellila Aster
zwischen die Zähne geklemmt.
Als ich von der Brust aus
unter der Haut
mit einem langen Messer
Zunge und Gaumen herausschnitt,
muß ich sie angestoßen haben, denn sie glitt
in das nebenliegende Gehirn.
Ich packte sie ihm in die Brusthöhle
zwischen die Holzwolle,
als man zunähte.
Trinke dich satt in deiner Vase!
Ruhe sanft,
kleine Aster!
OP btfo
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Gogol and the moth joke 2017-02-21 12:14:35 Post No.9136196
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So did you know Gogol made the worlds first moth joke in a short story of his from 1835?
This particular short story is not very well know because it's rare and not well documented, but I found it in a collection of stories at the library in my local town here in Russia and decided to translate it to english.
пoвeceлиcь:
A moth goes into a podiatrist’s office, and the podiatrist’s office says, “What seems to be the problem, moth?”
The moth says “What’s the problem? Where do I begin, man? I go to work for Gregory Illinivich, and all day long I work. Honestly doc, I don’t even know what I’m doing anymore. I don’t even know if Gregory Illinivich knows. He only knows that he has power over me, and that seems to bring him happiness.
But I don’t know, I wake up in a malaise, and I walk here and there… at night I… I sometimes wake up and I turn to some old lady in my bed that’s on my arm. A lady that I once loved, doc. I don’t know where to turn to. My youngest, Alexendria, she fell in the… in the cold of last year. The cold took her down, as it did many of us.
And my other boy, and this is the hardest pill to swallow, doc. My other boy, Gregaro Ivinalititavitch… I no longer love him. As much as it pains me to say, when I look in his eyes, all I see is the same cowardice that I… that I catch when I take a glimpse of my own face in the mirror. If only I wasn’t such a coward, then perhaps…perhaps I could bring myself to reach over to that cocked and loaded gun that lays on the bedside behind me and end this hellish facade once and for all…
Doc, sometimes I feel like a spider, even though I’m a moth, just barely hanging on to my web with an everlasting fire underneath me. I’m not feeling good. And so the doctor says, “Moth, man, you’re troubled. But you should be seeing a psychiatrist. Why on earth did you come here?”
And the moth says, “‘Cause the light was on.”
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>>9136196
KEK
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It was a good joke.
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>>9136196
good on ya ruskie mate
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On 4channels it's characteristic to accompany a post with an image of a sexually attractive female to gain attention.
What does that say about ops choice of image?
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>>9135687
Are you a bigot?
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>>9135687
Did I somehow violate that characteristic, motherfucker? Because I don't believe I did.
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>>9135701
daaaaamn so it's on then huh. eat shit, guy.
What are some books that dive into the relevance of Freudian theory within the Marxist critique of modernity?
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>>9135420
Perhaps, but I am interested in how Freudian theory is related to Marxist critique, not whether Marxism itself is right or wrong.
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>>9135445
maybe:
Dialectical Materialism and Psychoanalysis
Wilhelm Reich
As I understand they didn't mix until Lacan tho.
>marxist critique of modernity
Im not sure about it, I think marxism is a byproduct of modernity.
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has anyone read this? thoughts/comments?
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No, but I want to. Have you read it?
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>>9135045
My question to you is how much philosophy do you have under your belt? You'll pretty much have to have the entire canon mapped out to fully flesh it out.
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>>9136219
Is this true, or are you embellishing?
I'm not OP, but I would like to read the work. I've only read a bit of philosophy thus far, however.
Plato's Republic, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, and Phaedo
Aristotle's Poetics and Physics
Epictetus
Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death
Sartre's Being and Nothingness and Existentialism is a Humanism
William Barret's Irrational Man (a summary of Existentialist philosophy)
Kant's Progelomena to Any Future Metaphysics
...I think that's about it. What do I still need?
>inb4: everything
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/lit/ I need your help nailing down a joke, this is very important.
The joke relies on four premises:
1. Virginia Woolf was a writer who often used elongated sentences and was more of a friend to the comma than the full stop
2. Full stops are called periods in some parts of the world
3. Virginia Woolf was a woman who menstruated
4. Menstruation is colloquially known as a period
Now how do I put this together?
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>/lit/ I need your help nailing down a joke
I already fuck your mom by myself last night
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>mfw there's a world out there where people tell literary jokes with friends
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>>9134723
sounds like some high-brow humor, worthy of referencing a literary great! i'm sure high brow readers who read woolf will get a kick out of it!
I need some help guys, I am supposed to have read Atlas Shrugged by last week. My lazy ass hasn't gotten past page 150. Have any of you read it and can give me a summary of what happened?
All is appreciated.
Thank you so much.
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Communism is bad. Objectivism is good. That's it.
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>>9134554
>All is appreciated.
>Thank you so much.
I haven't read it yet, but those good manners will probably get you some help tonight.
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I like green eggs and ham
>Bumpity bump-bump
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Anyone read anything by Pentti Linkola? Was thinking buying his book.
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>>9133896
Sharp-edged. Then again, perhaps that is exactly what is needed in desperate times. If you are too nuanced from the start you risk ending up with ideas that lack both intellectual and practical force in the end.
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>>9133896
He is the autistic son of the Unabomber and Malthus.
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>>9133896
Crazy old Mongolian man. He looks a bit like my grandpa who also went cuckoo in the head in his later years and would unironically and elaborately hit on women in their twenties until he found one who unironically and lucratively agreed to marry him if only he could add her to his will and leave her the nice historical downtown house the old fucker lived in, until my auntie had to move in and unironically and literally kicked her out in the city square.
Same sweater too, I swear.
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General 2017-02-20 07:11:32 Post No.9132584
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Fantasy
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
Flowchart:
>https://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg
Science Fiction
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/IBs9KE8.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg
NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
>https://i.imgur.com/IJxTQBL.jpg
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Feanor did EVERYTHING wrong.
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Feanor did absolutely nothing wrong
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Feanor a good boy he dindu nuffin
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sup /lit/,
tell me what's your favorite couple and why
Benedick and Beatrice?
Sherlock and Irene?
Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan?
Scarlett O’Hara and Rhett Butler?
Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester?
Eowyn and Faramir?
Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley?
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>>9132335
Emma Peel and John Steed.
Cause the first time I saw them, Emma Peel used a shotgun to save John Steed from a giant dandelion from mars.
I watched it everyday until they stopped airing it.
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>>9132363
i'm with you friendo, but this is /lit/ and not /tv/
also, this is Cathy Gale and not Emma Peel
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What are some political philosophers/writers one should know about?
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>>9140837
Fukuyama and Huntington, not necessarily based on quality but on their huge influence. Looking forward to pic related.
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Ayn Rand
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Hitler
Sam Harris
Schopenhauer (On the Women-question)
Kevin McDonald
Milo
Stephen Molyneux
Spengler
Nietzsche (on leftism)
Peter Hitchens
Evola
Moldbug
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>In 1986, as a student at Stanford University, Harris experimented with MDMA
>Leaving Stanford in his second year, he went to India, where he studied meditation with Buddhist and Hindu religious teachers
>Eleven years later, in 1997, he returned to Stanford, completing a B.A. degree in philosophy in 2000
What was Sam Harris really doing in the early 90s? Am I really supposed to believe he spent 1986 to 1997 in Indian studying meditation? He looks like he is hiding something.
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>He looks like he is hiding something
His brain desu
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>Harris was born on April 9, 1967 in Los Angeles, the son of actor Berkeley Harris and TV producer Susan Harris (née Spivak), who created The Golden Girls.
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He's hiding that thing damned well, then
Hey /lit/, what are your opinions on Elie Wiesel's "Night"?
(need to pick a holocaust book for school, this is just one i was keeping in mind)
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Never read Night, might check it out.
This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen is a pretty good Holocaust book.
It's a collection of short stories by a non-jew who was at Auschwitz.
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>>9139605
Sorry, but I'm really not into reading fiction.
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>>9139624
lol k
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Horror is not a genre that exists 2017-02-22 02:52:26 Post No.9139458
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Horror is not a genre that exists
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There has never been written a story which is actually scary
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>>9139458
what about MY MOTHERFUCKING DIARY, DESU
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>>9139458
the book of revelation
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>>9139458
wrong
>post reccs
>BUT THAT WASNT SCARY!!!
>DIDN'T SCARE ME :^)
That's because you're a low IQ mong who will never fully comprehend the endless terrors that can come to life through literature
You probably aren't scared because the ramifications of truly existentially terrifying texts go over your head
You probably expect jump scares or something