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>chiaroscuro
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Grotesque
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>>8976640
milquetoast
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Opal
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What are some works of literature that deal with abstinence? Is there actually any justifiable argument against sex?
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Kek, one hour in and still no reply, just pay a whore op, then you'll know how amazing sex is and that is with someone you don't like. If you do it with someone you like it's, on a whole different level.
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>Is there actually any justifiable argument against sex?
i heard a theory that women are actually extraplanar creatures who need male semen to survive because it's filled with our soul juice
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What did he mean by this?
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Euthanasia
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>>8976615
Being an active user on 4chan is worse than death.
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>>8976619
Being a passive user is even worse.
I didn't understand it.
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That's not extremely surprising. Hopefully you'll do better on your second read.
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> that face when GR made TOO much sense
oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck
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>>8976612
Nobody really does. It's a vanity piece. All /lit/'s meme books are.
Hey, I'm a byron. I go by byron seventh. It's my first time in /lit/, but you don't have to be nice if that suites you.
I am a former chemist and current artist and poet. I will share my art with my poems.
I am working on a children's book on aliens and evolution called "Further," which I aim to have done by 2020.
The poems I am writing will go into another book I call "Red on the Line." I started the idea while riding on the Red Line in Chicago, but I am from Michigan, originally.
I'll get right to it then.
(That's a painting of Spock I did 7 years ago, and destroyed while having a schizophrenic episode when living in Pilsen in Chicago)
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cool
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“Plastic Bubble Wrap” by byron seventh
“Tell me, tell me
tell me more,” I said
Did I stutter?
Sh-should I stutter?
Rules left unbroken
are bound to death
Minds in gutters
Thoughts once sputtered
With utter, other rules we find to follow
The rules are hollow,
The rules we follow,
yet we mutter under our breath in sorrow
We follow rules
which some make sense
in sensible, empathetic sort of ways
The rules we follow
The rules that are hollow
I say, “We break today.”
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“Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.” by byron seventh
Another morning
the sun is rising
on a cold winter day
There is ambient light
behind the clouds
where the sky stays gray
Yet, upward I look
by reading a book
and drinking hot tea with lemon
Some honey too
soothes my throat through
a cold I fight for a hardened heaven
Each day passes
as they surpass us
Each day surmise
behind my guise
Until the day
until the day
that day we are forgotten
the day we truly die
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How bad is this?
I'm trying to start reading and I remember liking these books when I was a teenager.
I, however, remember the author relying on randomness as the main source of humor and the thought of it really makes me cringe. I feel ashamed to have this on my book shelf.
Should I just follow the memes and start with the Greek epics?
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>>8976504
Listen to the radio version it's much better than the novel
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>>8976531
this. Also, as for the style of humor, yes, it's pretty british and whimsical, in a proto-futurama sort of way. It's allright. I'd say it's worth going for
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>>8976504
Posts like this make me cringe harder than this book ever could
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>finish Volume One of a three-part series
>google Volume Two
>article published in 2015
>in it Kotkin says he has a draft of Volume two ready to edit
>2017
>no news
Should I be worried?
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No, because there is a video of him speaking about the book and you can always get anthoer stalin book. A good one woukd be stalin breaker of nations.
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It takes time to write a comprehensive book on Stalin that isn't opinionated pop-history garbage
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>>8976496
No. I go to his school, and right now he's on sabbatical to write it.
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WRITE 30 WORDS NOW FUCKER 2017-01-15 01:24:23 Post No.8976481
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You're always procrastinating, right?
Open up a word processor and type in 30 words (or close) which would fit into a novel.
Share results here.
>I’m a fraud. There are many frauds like myself – we all meet up on a Sunday and go for lunch together at the weekly Gathering of the Frauds.
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John Smith hadn’t written anything since high school.
“What do I write?” He thought. “Maybe something ironic.”
But it was too late. He was too old to start now. He didn’t even know basic grammar rules.
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"Pull my finger", Sally said.
Billy reluctantly gave her digit a gentle tug.
"Pfffftt". "Eww, what was that?" exclaimed Billy.
"A delicious queef" beamed Sally proudly.
Also kys you cancerous faggot.
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CRASH was what I heard after my golden retriever slammed into the table that my pancakes made by mommy dearest were atop which made me realize that no matter what
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Over the past year I've read about 30 books, but going through the list I barely even remember reading most of them, I might remember one or two bits of information from them.
Infact I've seen books on my kindle and thought "Oo that one looks interesting" and then I realise it's something I've already read before.
Am I retarded? Do I have memory problems?
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“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
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You're not retarded, just unpracticed. The more you read the more you'll remember things. If you really want to recall things, take notes. It's also possible that you just need a little prompt to get going, so you could try taking some of those little quizzes on CliffsNotes and other sites on the books you've read.
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Unstead of Reading as Many Books as you can, you should try to find one that you actually Really like and Then Not just read it but do something more challenging with it. for example summarize the content of each Chapter, rewrite a Paragraph from Memory, etc...
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Best "The Republic" Translation? 2017-01-15 12:24:04 Post No.8976334
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Best "The Republic" Translation?
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I'm looking for the best translation of Plato's Republic, who should I look for?
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https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Republic
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>>8976334
Desmond Lee's is the best translation.
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Op here
What about Allan Bloom? Found this question asked on another website and they recommended his translation along with John M Cooper's translation.
>start reading this book to make fun of it
>discover that it has some valid points
>the author herself is not comfortable with the term "mansplaining", coined after her essay
>sees feminism as a civil rights issue (rape, killings, etc), to which any man could relate
I was positively surprised with this book (read half of it yesterday). Not super deep or anything, but explains a few interesting ideas in a very clear way.
Anyone else read it? What did you think about it?
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>>8976210
Feminists are the result of a decline in domestic violence. Letting women vote was a mistake as well.
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>>8976210
>>sees feminism as a civil rights issue (rape, killings, etc), to which any man could relate
So...just like every other feminist book out there?
You're going to have to shill this a little better if you want to trick /lit/izens into reading it.
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Is this good?
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yeah
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It's relaxing af and sometimes funny
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>>8976196
yep
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Where do I begin with Star Wars books? There's a ton of them. I don't care if they are canon or not, I'm more interested in generally fun reads.
in b4 start with the Greeks
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>>8976147
The Thrawn trilogy if you must, the rest are trash.
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Dune is Star Wars before it was corrupted by Lucas's shitty fan fiction
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>>8976147
>Where do I begin with Star Wars books?
You don't
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This is amazing, What did you guys think?
What are books that have the same comfy feel? (Especially the Godliness/Jesse Bentley chapters)
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>>8976105
Omensetter's Luck
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>>8976105
Is this more like a connection of short stories in the same setting or a novel with chapters? I want to know if I should read it from beginning to end or I can dip in and out, one story at a time.
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>>8976239
*collection
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>Ruling is hard. This was maybe my answer to Tolkien, whom, as much as I admire him, I do quibble with. Lord of the Rings had a very medieval philosophy: that if the king was a good man, the land would prosper. We look at real history and it’s not that simple. Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the question: What was Aragorn’s tax policy? Did he maintain a standing army? What did he do in times of flood and famine? And what about all these orcs? By the end of the war, Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?
>The war that Tolkien wrote about was a war for the fate of civilization and the future of humanity, and that’s become the template. I’m not sure that it’s a good template, though. The Tolkien model led generations of fantasy writers to produce these endless series of dark lords and their evil minions who are all very ugly and wear black clothes. But the vast majority of wars throughout history are not like that.
How will he ever recover?
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MUH ORC BABIES
NO ARAGORN
NO KKK
NO FASCIST GONDOR
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TOLKIEN FUCKING FOUGHT IN THE TRENCHES YOU BLUBBERING CANCER MASS, HE DIDNT GIVE A SHIT ABOUT EXPLORING YOUR 'DARK' HISTORICALLY ACCURATE CONUNDRUMS BECAUSE HE HAD ALREADY LIVED THROUGH ENOUGH OF THAT SHIT, HE JUST WANTED TO WRITE A NICE FANTASY WITH GOOD WORLDBUILDING, SOMETHING YOU WOULD KNOW NOTHING ABOUT YOU GREASY OLD FUCK
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>Sauron is gone but all of the orcs aren’t gone – they’re in the mountains. Did Aragorn pursue a policy of systematic genocide and kill them? Even the little baby orcs, in their little orc cradles?
I think bacterial genocide with antibiotics is much more relevant to our times. Why are we so anthropocentric? Why can't we learn to live and thrive with deadly pneumonia?