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Whom are you quoting?

>>9088021
Explain OP

>>9088053
He wants your attention.

Sage.

Yes, hundreds of thousands of people have read it.

Are Mirra Ginsburg translations that great?

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I read the first chapter and put it back down. Dunno why.

Proust is good ey?

yep

>>9087717
>Proust is good gay?

The best kind of gay

Nicomachean Ethics

>>9087585
depends of what you want to achieve.
the enchiridion is the starting strength of practical philosophy

>>9087585
Candide.

By August, Smith revealed a disdain for eating and sex, and growing frustration with Marshall, who was 63 years older than Smith. The two married in 1994.

"I've been really stressed out lately and depressed and I can't quit eating. I feel like a pig. Howard has been buying me som jewelry but he call me 15 or 20 times a day it drives me crazy. I love him but he aggravates me somtimes," she wrote. "I don't no what to do about Paul hes strange guy. I hate for men to want sex all the time."

The entry ends with a large underlined "Chow!"

On June 13, 1992, she wrote that she was hung over and stayed home to watch a movie, adding that she "Took a Zandrex!"

An autopsy report showed Smith died at age 39 on from an accidental overdose of at least nine prescription drugs -- including a powerful sleep aid -- and that there was no foul play.

Her second diary is a much smaller spiral-bound paperback Guess Kids calendar from 1994. The individual entries are not dated but describe her relationship with Marshall, who was ill and died in 1995.

"Hes so very weak and fragile When I touch him Im afraid he might break," she wrote. "If Jesus desides to take him I dont no what I'll do. I love him so much it hurts me to site and watch him when hes hurting I just want to hold him touch him let him no how much I care."

After Marshall's death, the Texas high-school dropout who became a topless dancer took her fight for his estimated $500 million fortune as far as the Supreme Court.

That ongoing battle could make her infant daughter, Dannielynn, very wealthy. Howard K. Stern, her lawyer-turned-companion, and two other men have claimed to be the baby's father.

The auction house obtained the journals from an anonymous German businessman who purchased them and other items on eBay for more than $500,000 several weeks ago.

Doug Norwine, director of music and entertainment memorabilia at Heritage, said the man decided to auction the diaries after securing the publishing rights. Opening bids will start a $20,000, Norwine said, and he expects the diaries to fetch as much as $100,000.

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“There is something about spending Christmas alone, naked, sitting by the Christmas tree gripping a shotgun, that lets you know your life is spinning dangerously outta control.”
― Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries: A Year In The Life Of A Shattered Rock Star

I have them. They *are* enormously influential but they're also terrible. Moorcock's prose style is tedious. Same as Lovecraft; great ideas but bad writing.

Also, Moorcock is still alive and famously a prick about his intellectual property so probably isn't very helpful when people come to him asking to reprint them.

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>>9087510
I managed to read a portion of the first one and it's actually because of the writing style that I'm trying to seek the rest of the series out. I usually hate fantasy because the prose always ends up making me feel like I'm wasting my time.

> The Fellowship of the Ring - got right around the part where Frodo moves out of Bag End and to a new smaller house (1/3 of the way in and the book hasn't even fucking started yet) and thought to myself "jesus christ, is the whole book like this?" and never picked it back up.

> The Dark Tower Series - got all the way through to the end of the last book (through awkward dialog, bad story decisions and the completely out of place 4th wall breaking) and the final 100 pages ruined the whole damn thing.

> A Game of Thrones - got halfway through and thought "they're still on the fucking King's Road?" and dropped it like a rock.

From what I read of the first Elric book, Moorcock's style is the polar opposite of Tolkien and Martin - no pointless extra bullshit, no devoting pages and pages and pages to shit irrelevant to the plot, just stripped down and fun to read. The guy that turned me on to the series says this is because the series started as pulp paperbacks.

>>9087517
Yeah, from my searching it looks like this problem has existed for as long as internet forums have existed.

>>9087371
Everything is ideology, which mean that no ideology can be evaluated from an objective standpoint. You should instead think of ideology as a way of making sense of the world and your place in it. So just try different things on for size and see what fits you best. And if after a while it gets worn out, try something else.

start from the ground up.

Ask yourself if there is any one thing that you still strongly believe. Test that belief in all ways you can, not by asking dumb metaphysical questions like 'what is truth' or "who am I to feel strongly about it" but by searching to see if there is any way that the belief is contradictory or can be disproven by data that actually exists

You don't need to subscribe to an ideology or school of thought to have strong organic opinions, and often it only weakens your own moral base. Read Descartes's Rules for the Direction of the Mind and try to discipline your thoughts. Often you can pick up from popular culture and philosophical arguments a sort of malaise and start fearing that there is no way to be self-secure in a belief due to the fact that all beliefs are called into question. This is untrue. Any belief that can withstand questioning is only made stronger. You need to practice questioning your beliefs in a holistic, productive way.

>>9087371
labels are limitations. anyone and i mean ANYONE who describes themselves as /pol/-tier right wing needs to get off 4chan and go outside

Do you like their work? They're great

Do you not like their work? They're plebs

When will people understand that experience is subjective? Especially art. Do you really believe everyone has the same taste?

>>9087403
so when your kid eats sand, you're gonna respect his taste ?

>>9087290
you can probably discern the great and the plebs judging from their gods or idols.

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>>9087403
Your paradigm is basically egocentric wankery that has zero room for growth via art. Do you honestly believe that all aesthetic enjoyment is qualitatively the same or have you just adopted an easy opt-out position that allows you to put yourself smugly above any effort to overcome oneself and feel good about mindlessly consuming the cultural equivalent of cud specifically designed by a team of very well paid professionals with express purpose to extract money from hapless imbeciles such as yourself? Kys, my man.

>>9087268
if you are thinking that hard about the physical copy of the book while listening, you may as well be reading. Also:

>reading ebooks

>>9087275
>not reading ebooks

What the fuck does it matter?

>>9087275
what is this post about

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I am sick and tired of this. Every day I come to /lit/, and every day there is at least one thread up with an OP image of an attractive woman dressed scantily and posing seductively. It's probably the same one or two people who do it honestly. Let me tell you something, you faggot pieces of shit who are doing this: you are the poster child for everything that is wrong in literature, art, and society as a whole today. You are incapable of coming up with anything creative, thought provoking, or of substance, and you lack even the smallest modicum of intelligence, so you use "style" and "flash" and pizazz in place of it and to draw attention to yourself, because that's the only way your SHIT "creation" and ideas would ever get seen by anyone. And before you say anything, this has NOTHING to do with the fact that I don't have a girlfriend. Anyway, I will be petitioning the owner of this website to ban your asses, so enjoy being able to post here while it lasts, because it's not going to last long, just like you that one time you convinced an obese girl to let you fuck her.

Tao Lin's Taipei narrated by Kirby Heyborne is a perfect match; I already read the book through once and wanted to just have it on while I commuted and his inflection and manner of dissecting Lin's meandering sentences really made me appreciate the text more than just imagining it read in Lin's typical monotone.

>>9087135
>>9087124
That's without a doubt a high school uniform likely Australia or New Zealand

>>9087106
Writing in different coloured inks.

>>9087111
colored*

>>9087106
Just about nothing. Get that fucking piece of shit out of my sight by shoving it up your ass, thanks.

>>9087017
Plutarch, Livy, Virgil, Arrian's Life of Alexander IMO

>>9087020
Also Cicero and Caesar.

Sallust and Dio Cassius and Diodorus and Appian maybe. Suetonius if you like ancient celebrity gossip

>>9087017
http://www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/cas_sites/classics/pdf/M.A.%20in%20Classics%20Reading%20List.pdf

Boston College MA in Classics mandatory reading

>>9086930
Looks boring, what does it say ?

>1. The dialectic paradigm of reality and subcapitalist theory

100% trash, no need to read further

Refresh the page.

Slight overreaction.

vengeance

Fragile masculinity

>>9086803
Go to a used book store and buy the complete works of Plato.

>>9086803
>starting with a philologist
>starting with the guy who invented the genealogical method

Literally the dumbest thing you could do. I don't usually recommend this, but... just start with the fucking Greeks. If you don't come into Nietzsche without at least some historical context you're just going to miss all the nuance and come out an ego-inflated edgelord.

>>9086803
used bookstore or kys, up2u
>>9086822
what is the best to start with?