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Has anyone here majored in STEM and minored in English? Has it done you any favors or does it just take up space on your resume?
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Yes. All my source code comments are in perfect iambic pentameter.
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>>9114447
I had a friend that did Math/English double major and he emerged pretty happy with it but he said he wish he had done math/philosophy instead
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>>9114447
majoring in english is the best meme, don't waste your time
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I just finished this. I was really excited after reading JDs first novel, Wolf in White Van, so I got this thing as quick as I could.
I liked the structure and narrative stuff, but I don't think it quite had the punch of Wolf and the ambitious stuff he did with time and perspective might have kind of blunted the story a bit.
Has /lit/ read any of Darnielle's stuff yet? If so, what do you think? If you've read both, I'd like to see which you enjoyed less or more.
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I am banning you from using the word 'stuff' as a noun for three months. This will significantly improve your life.
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>>9114412
I accept this punishment. Jesus, I should have read that a couple of time before I posted it.
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>>9114430
*Times
Fucking kill me.
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Why is english poetry so unbearably boring to read?
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>>9114367
Paradise Lost is my favourite poem of all time. It's transcendentally beautiful. But hey, that's just my opinion.
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>>9114367
>Not liking Gormenghast
>Not liking His Dark Materials
>Not liking Paradise Lost
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>>9114367
I can understand finding PL a bit much to take on, but that's not English poetry's fault as a whole. Give Blake a go.
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I downloaded the epub version of this from libgen, and I'm wondering if anyone here can confirm that it's accurate? Been wanting to read this for a while, but am paranoid that it will have errors or missing sections I won't be aware of. Can't afford to spent 1t9 dollars on it.
Also, if you did read it, what were your thoughts?
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>>9114234
I've only read ancient history and actress in the house. both were great. I'm awning on buying the new print that is coming out this summer from DZANC books.
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>>9114242
Yeah I saw that it was being reprinted, pretty exited about that.
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>>9114335
don't fucking do this on /lit
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Is this book worth reading?
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>>9114196
>1152 pages
>fiction
>genre fiction
>genre fiction about Asians
Definitely not.
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It is, and it's very good.
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>yet another economics book which doesn't define how 'needs' are determined.
Are we just to assume every individual is the same? Are we to assume there is a level that even the most rapacious, avaricious individual finds placation in their accumulation of economic goods so that the good is, in the Mengerian sense, non-economic? My problem is across the board. The only economist I've seen come even close to an appropriate theory of the development and origin of needs is probably Ludwig Von Mises. It is just ridiculous though, how Menger says non-economic goods are communistic in nature, but then turns around and stipulates some other tendency for them not to be if they won't satisfy everyone's needs.
Where is the line crossed? I would argue that the nature of good's relation to us physically and emotionally (spiritually), they are either capable of corrupted increase (almost increased indefinitely for consumption) or not (they satisfy some need which will not increase after satisfied). Something like an indefinite increase in output to satisfy the needs of individuals can be observed in food, where because of characteristic increases in personal consumption, you see the level of production every stage in the production period increase more and more, exponentially so, because the population increases WITH the need to consume. This is tied together with wealth increases being given to give individuals a certain life or livelihood, as in the Smithian days income was thought to be determined by the money necessary to help sustain himself and his wife and kids if necessary.
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Keynes, for example, in his general theory, introduced the concept that if you decrease money-wages, you will increase investment due to the decreasing of the interest rate, and the simultaneous raising of the marginal efficiency of capital. This will cause an economic boom, which will be followed by increasing prices, and therefore increasing output AND money-wages. You are literally increasing consumption by LOWERING the amount that you pay people in the end.
It seems there is a moral problem with economics, in the long run, then. And it is one of greed and rapacious individuals seeking to enlarge their store of goods and individuals because of invidious, or prideful circumstances.
What say you?
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bump.
I'll be reading this for a couple hours today
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>>9113890
>It is just ridiculous though, how Menger says non-economic goods are communistic in nature
What is a non economic good? The young Citizens who inherit the public park their great great great great great grand ancestors 'communally' purchased? Is that the 'conceptual frame idea' of what he is getting at with using those terms in such relational proximity's?
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Has anyone read pic related?
If so what do you think?
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>>9113651
I heard the translation is shit so I haven't read it
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>>9113651
I've read it, liked it and also found it to be a chore. It's a novel filled with ideas, with a lot of beautiful passages and also a lot philosphical digressions. Sometimes there's just a few pages of philosphical rambling by the MC and it turns out that he's just trying to annoy someone and not say anything useful.
If you're not sure if you want to read it, read Sorrow of Young Werther first and see if you like his style.
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It's on deck to read once I finish The Magic Mountain this weekend. Thought it might be a good segway from Mann -- sorta picks up where the story of Hans Castrop left off.
On a side note -- the magic mountain has exceeded my expectations. I was on the fence -- then I read "Snow"...
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I find it difficult to read with my computer nearby. Once I reach the second page I get bored and watch videos or play pc games. Anyone else?
I want to read...
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If you want to read, then read. Turn off your computer and read.
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Computers, the web, smartphones, etc. etc. have all been proven to stimulate the brain to a high degree and build up an expectation on the dopamine kick that comes with it.
So get off the internet and stop video gaming.
I myself have an hour limit a day for going on the web.
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Where to cop
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I'm a Cambridge educated lover of rap
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I'm a Cambridge educated lover of rap and I can't believe you silly boffins actually believe rap isn't a form of poetry.
When I walk with my Cambridge boys,
Big up to Eton and their children's toys,
Sit on a prairie and fight the power,
Pick a daffodil and smite the flower
Ain't no chicken livers in ma spot,
Cooking with daddy in ma crock pot,
Mother in the garden, getting fitter
Sis next door as a babysitter
Yo Allison Montgomery, cmere you
How many times have you been...Late to school?!
A spank here and there ain't bad,
Shank you later if you do it again famm
Keeping the young ruffians in line,
Keeping them toe to toe with the cricket swine,
Fight me, I dare ya, snare ya, lock you in ma trap and double dare ya
Just business, finger licking good twizzlets, no need for strife no need for pain, double down now, I need muh gains
Booyakashah!
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>>9112503
that's a nursery rhyme
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>>9112503
10/10 new copypasta manifesto of David Cameron
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>>9112503
I haven't been able to use the word "prat" in ages. Thank you!
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to blaze or not to blaze
was Weedman Tokespeare the GOAT?
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>>9111016
A Midsummer Night'sToke
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Hamlit
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>>9111016
Othelloaded
Hi /lit/
Pls, no bully
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My collection so far, most of it anyway
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All of the best living authors are going to die in the next decade.
Thomas Pynchon, 79
Don Delillo, 80
Cormac Mccarthy, 83
Joseph Mcelroy, 86
William H Gass, 92
You get to decide who lives long enough to finish more work. You are allotted the time to complete 1 novel, 1 novella, and 1 meme length book to distribute among them. Who gets what?
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All I want is a final Pynchon masterpiece.
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>>9116619
Novel -Thomas Pynchon
Novella -Thomas Pynchon
Meme Length Book -Thomas Pynchon
And I'm being serious.
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3x3 influences thread.
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No, shitty image.
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this is getting ridiculous
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>>9116569
It was a bitch to make.
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You lied to me /lit/, you said this book sucked, it's a masterpiece.
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>listening to anything anyone on this entire website has to say
good on you for finding out for yourself
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>>9116294
Some of his books are better than his others but none are bad.
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>>9116294
They said prince of thorns was good
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Is John Green the Woody Allen of literature?
>all their lead male characters are versions of their creators, either as they see themselves, or as they wish they were
>all characters have the exact same interests and hobbies as their creators (classic literature, jazz music)
>their characters live out the sexual fantasies of their creators (having a hot girl teach another hot girl how to give you a blowjob, dating a high school girl without all your friends thinking it's weird)
>they both present themselves as wimpy and emasculated
>they both consider themselves intellectuals
The only difference is that Woody Allen movies are entertaining.
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>I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man. [Henry Jaglom], I've never understood why. Have you met him? Oh, yes. I can hardly bear to talk to him. He has the [Charles Chaplin] disease. That particular combination of arrogance and timidity sets my teeth on edge... Like all people with timid personalities, his arrogance is unlimited. Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. He acts shy, but he's not. He's scared. He hates himself, and he loves himself, a very tense situation. It's people like me who have to carry on and pretend to be modest. To me, it's the most embarrassing thing in the world-a man who presents himself at his worst to get laughs, in order to free himself from his hang-ups. Everything he does on the screen is therapeutic.
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Woody Allen is actually neurotic and doesn't pretend. And his films are decent.
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>>9116154
Not really. He hasn't made anything worth watching since like Husbands and Wives.