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>>8980113
baka

>>8980113
Beautiful prose is extremely refreshing. I can get seemingly insignificant phrases stuck running through my head for days or weeks.

I would suggest you try reading more literature written in your native language. translations can never entirely express the nuances of language of the original work, although many translations are beautiful.

>>8980179
Thanks, insights like these help me going on. Well that's probaby why philosophy suits me as well, i am a native german, so i can read most of it non translated.

>>8980058
poe - the raven

>>8980068
Nope. Definitely not. Pretty sure the poem was written by a woman too. Thanks anyway though.

>>8980058
Cheeseburger economy
-ayn rand

>>8980057
rich people are super depressed man

>>8980057
1. Sit comfortably, close your eyes, and take two or three deep breaths. As you inhale, imagine drawing in masses of clean air toward the top of your head; then let it flow through you from head to toe as you exhale, washing all concerns away.
2. Think of any occasion in your life when you performed a good deed, however great or small. Focus on that memory for a moment.
3. Now think of one being who could have great affection for you. Imagine their warmth, their kindness and compassion. See it in their eyes and face. Feel their warmth radiating toward you, enveloping you.
4. See yourself through their eyes with warmth, kindness, and compassion. Feel them giving you complete forgiveness You are completely and absolutely forgiven. You have a clean slate.
5. Feel them giving you wholehearted acceptance. You are accepted as you are, now, at this stage of growth, at this moment imperfections and all. You are perfect.

How do you feel?

>>8980077
i didnt need to do this to come to this conclusion but

>luxury is a subjective term.

thank you

>>8980045
Araby

>>8980051
This

>>8980051
>>8980054
Why?

Who framed Roger rabbit

The death of the Author

who is jest from infinite jest

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examples
works by wagner
one by him and another containing libretto from one of his operas

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You can also view the lectures on youtube. It's probably helpful to view them at the very least for the parts where he refers to certain musical phrases and such as he plays them on the piano.

>>8979944
You don't speak/read a language one hich books are written? What are you, a fucking Martian?

>>8979953
I speak and read one language. Therefore I don't have the experience of reading a book in two different ones, I'm unable to make a comparison. Does that help?

>>8979968
You're fine OP, it was clear in your first post. I can't bear witness because I'm illiterate in the other language I speak (amharic). Also, I don't think there's any translated amharic texts. I wish I was greek like my cousin.

Thus at the North have I chased Leviathan round and round the Pole with the revolutions of the bright points that first defined him to me. And beneath the effulgent Antarctic skies I have boarded the Argo-Navis, and joined the chase against the starry Cetus far beyond the utmost stretch of Hydrus and the Flying Fish.

With a frigate's anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of harpoons for spurs, would I could mount that whale and leap the topmost skies, to see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really lie encamped beyond my mortal sight!

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>>8979902
Tatiana's letter to Onegin by A. Pushkin.

I write to you . . . when that is said
What more is left for me to say ?
Now you are free (I know too well)
To heap contempt upon my head.
Yet if some sparks of pity dwell
Within your breast you'll surely not
Abandon me to my hard lot.
When first I saw you I desired
To hold my peace : my shame ('tis true)
Would ne'er have been revealed to you
Had life's conditions but inspired
One gleam of hope that you would come
To see us in our country home
From time to time, so that I might
Hear but one word, catch but one tone,
And live by dreaming on alone
Till our next meeting, day and night.
But then it seemed there was no hope;
Our rustic quiet bored you so,
Folk said you were a misanthrope;
And we—we do not make a show—
You found us narrow in our scope.

Why did you come to visit us
I n this forgotten quiet place ?
I need not have been tortured thus
If I had never seen your face.
My inexperienced heart maybe
Had grown resigned to this dull life,
And future years had brought to me
Some other love—my destiny
An honoured mother and true wife.
Another's! Nay, to none on earth
Could I have given this heart of mine.
By the decree of the Most High,
And by Heaven's willing, I am thine.

Allotted unto you was I
E'en from the moment of my birth
And loyal to my future fate;
And God, I know, sent you to be
My champion and my advocate
Till the grave closes over me. . . .

Oft in my dreams you did appear;
I loved you then before the days
When palpably I saw you here ;
I languished in your wondrous gaze
And in my heart your voice rang clear
Long since. ... It was no dream to me!
You came—at once I understood
This swift confusion in my blood,
While my thoughts whispered : ' Lo, 'tis he.'
Was it not true ? Am I not sure
You spoke with me in hours of peace
When I went visiting my poor,
Or when I strove by prayer to ease
The pain in which my spirit toss'd ?

Was not your image wont to rise
A vision sweet—too quickly lost—
To light my gloom ? Did not mine eyes
See you bend gently o'er my bed ?
Were not some words low whispered
Of love and hope ? Now in what guise
Come you ? As guardian angel good,
Or tempter in some wily mood ?
0 speak, and set my doubts at rest!
What if all this should prove at best
The empty dream, more light than froth,
Of a heart simple and untried ?
Well, be it so! But from henceforth
I must to you my fate confide.
Must weep my tears about your feet
And for your sheltering love entreat.
Picture me now. ... I sit alone
With none to heed or guess what ails . . .
And now my very reason fails!
I wait for you. One glance of yours
Fresh hope unto my heart restores;
Or else the cruel dream comes back
Of merited contempt. . . . Alack!

[She seals the letter.]

'Tis done! I scarce dare read it through,
But overcome with shame and fright
I trust my honour now to you,
And dare to think I trust aright.

Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves

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>>8979873

We don't actually read Bloom and look up to him. We just meme around with him a lot.

you can appreciate the spirit of his criticism without believing everything he says. it is hard to say that there could be right or wrong in lit crit particulars but there is a right direction overall, which is what Bloom stands for.

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>>8979873
>reading anything by British "authors"

The novel is a French/American form.

Shit for nerds.

ha, i just started reading that series. still trying to isolate what it is about Asimov's characters that doesn't seem right - they're all bland and very logical. i've never seen an Asimov character get drunk and punch out a shop window before collapsing in a puddle of his own vomit because, because DAMN IT sometimes you have to get that drunk and what the hell are YOU looking at pal

The guys who attacked Hari Seldon with knives seemed like parodies of street thugs.

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>>8979875
back to >>>/sp/ with you, boyo.

>>8979853
melville

>>8979857
which book by melville?

>>8979853
kek liberals would try to integrate these apes into human society

Don Quixote

Also snek is best

>>8979839
Already read it, but thanks senpai.

Been Down so Long It Looks like Up to me has a similar feel, but only slightly. It's still funny though.

Also, bird > bee but crab > all

This man and music - Burgess

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Anything written by Charles Rosen.

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i didn't get a physical copy

>>8979745

DISCERNIBLE

>>8979752
TALENT

>>8979629
You'll need:
>A printer
>Paper
>Tape
Now:
>Save the picture
>Print the picture
>Cut the picture to size
>Tape the picture over your current copy

Viola!

>>8979666
>666
Viola!

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>>8979629