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>>8966482
If you write it from the perspective of a normie girl it's just going to be YA

just make it utra kawaii desu

>>8966482
>writing about my own issues in a self-aware way constitutes good honest literature

Bump, I'm interested.

just find a high school literature textbook

http://scaruffi.com/fiction.html
:^)

>>8966372
crime and punishment by dosto

The Turner Diaries.
The Bible.
If you're REALLY edgy, read stirner.

my diary desu

there are many top 100 chart variations. post the one you would like to follow.

What two clubs were you interested in? Some in the W&P group proposed a new Star with the Greeks group be established.

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>>8966361
This one. It seems to be the most accepted around here, and there isn't much difference between the most recent and it.
>>8966377
Shakespeare died and the Greeks was run a bit carelessly because OP got screwed by snow and some autists couldn't handle it. Like I said, this can be a fun thread to hop in when bored and see what book is being discussed.

I have a lot of free time anyways, so this isn't something I would mind running.

>>8966339
First time on /lit/, I hope you people don't notice my misspellings

that's cool. and i'm not referring to the pic ;)

>>8966339
My little boy used to say "yesternight".

>>8966246
you're to reflect on God as interpreted through the human lens

>>8966260
That makes sense because God is never seen in the bible as he truly is. God can not be truly seen because he exists in a realm outside of human cognition. God only appears as various earthly things such as a burning bush. Do you have anything more to say anon?

>>8966283
well, you're thinking on a topic that I won't pretend to have an answer to. I came to my understanding primarily through reading Melville, who struggled quite a bit with understanding God in this way.

I'd recommend you read through Moby-Dick with this question in mind. Think about the way the various characters understand the concept of 'God', and you'll find it relates directly to interpreting the bible. Also pay particular attention to the three sermons of the book,

Read Descartes or Augustine instead

>>8966198
Already did.

>>8966183
The Hong translations are the only reliable ones I know.

Thank you for your searing critique on searing critiques of the American Dream.

>>8966147
Crime and Punishment was good. Brothers Karamazov was a slog fest sometimes but overwall was really good. Havent read notes yet.

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>provocative
>irreverent

I have come to hate these words when used to describe novels, or anything really. At this point they mean absolutely nothing.

>>8966145
Find something with footnotes. Look up words you don't know.

There are tons of "translated" version of Shakespeare. I doubt anyone has done the same for Milton's pamphlets.

What exactly are you having trouble with? Can you give examples? I'm curious

To be honest, you should probably just learn Latin and read it in the original. It will only take you about 1000 hours to be able to read it relatively easily, as long as you do those 1000 hours over consecutive days for a few months.

Trying to read in translation is like trying to imagine a handjob from a robot is the real thing. There will be aspects that are similar, but you will know what you are missing the true soul of the work.

>>8966104
If you have not engaged yet, how do you know that it is corrupt and inauthentic?

>>8966135
I spent 4 years getting an Honours degree in it.

>>8966149
How does that make you feel?

Okay for what?

>>8966098
Yes for plot focused books

Bad for prose focused books

*vomits on self*

ok. sounds chaotic

>>8966049
Well, write it anyway, and produce a couple of hard copies. What does it matter if current tastes don't favor you, and it is published years, even decades after?

>>8966049
not awful. theres something there besides my own literal escapist fantasy but if in 2 or 3 years your idea hasnt changed at all your never gonna make it

Trying to sound smart just makes you sound stupid. If a simple statement doesn't in itself sound smart, that's because it isn't a smart statement.

"The mind of man, by nature a monist, cannot accept two nothings; he knows there has been one nothing, his biological inexistence in the infinite past, for his memory is utterly blank, and that nothingness, being, as it were, past, is not too hard to endure. But a second nothingness — which perhaps might not be so hard to bear either — is logically unacceptable. When speaking of space we can imagine a live speck in the limitless oneness of space; but there is no analogy in such a concept with our brief life in time, because however brief (a thirty-year span is really obscenely brief!), our awareness of being is not a dot in eternity, but a slit, a fissure, a chasm running along the entire breadth of metaphysical time, bisecting it and shining — no matter how narrowly — between the back panel and fore panel. Therefore, Mr Rack, we can speak of past time, and in a vaguer, but familiar sense, of future time, but we simply cannot expect a second nothing, a second void, a second blank. Oblivion is a one-night performance; we have been to it once, there will be no repeat.

>>8966055
How do I learn to do this

Bruh, are you in my class?

>>8966184
Possibly lmao

>>8966019
i just read his shit to disagree with him intensely.

Easy, I switch it to the track with one person.

Almost all people will do the same, the chances that my counterpart will switch the track are very high, leading to only one death.

Also, I am not responsible for the entire situation, only my actions, so I will continue to make the moral decision regardless of other factors.

>>8966033
>leading to only one death

But the cars will crash into each other.

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>>8966033