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brb suicide

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Pretty bad, but there were plenty of outlets for escapism on the world stage.

mix of very good and very bad.
it was quite a ride.

2017 please be comfy instead.

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>>8908063
Here is the NEW chart.

Catch up or get ahead days tomorrow and the next day. Hopefully this helps the 3 or so people who are just joining us.

I guess people might also be doing stuff considering it is new year's. I probably should have factored that in from the beginning like with christmas.

Let me know what you think.

>tfw no barouche full of qt Roman pesants to throw bouquets at

An obscure feel but a feel nonetheless

The execution scene made me want to observe one. It was dantes' line "the more you observe death the better you can deal with the thought of your own death".

I mean, that isn't the exact quote but it was something like that.

Which is worse?
An empty parcell or one with a badly built house?

None of those things impact you. Stop being an elitist pseud

>>8907454

exactly

I figured this out a while ago.
As an artist you are in a constant competition between Self-Awareness and Narcissism. If you do anything of note, narcissism won. Being an artist is trying to not let narcissism win before you've put in enough work to make something decent.

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>>8907567

Perhaps.

>>8907019
Y'know I'm gonna be honest OP, I was gonna say "all of them" but then I had this strange feeling that compelled me to not be a jackass and I don't know why.

So ... 20-ish

>>8907019
412

>>8907019
ALL OF THEM

he meant you don't have to use money in the real world

>>8905867
into the trash he goes

muh blockchain

Given that this is the oldest question about Plato's Republic in human history and has dominated all interpretation of thee work for 2500 years, I predict this thread will completely ignore all those major interpreters and their proofs aand immediately descend into the retarded opinions of random 20 year old faggots on the internet and then ultimately into shitposting

>>8905370
>For example, the killing of deformed children, the controlling of who has sex with whom
But those are good ideas. Try the redpill

>>8905370
>dude how could this ancient philosopher possibly have ideas that aren't popular or politically correct today? Is this some kind of joke?
Liberal justice isn't the only justice dipshit

>>8905276
he was redpilled on women and leftists. A hero of mine

>>8905285
He unironically is

Leftism = slave morality

>>8905276
Nice b8.

Also, not an argument.

good thread desu

>the scene in to kill a mockingbird where they kill a mockingbird

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>that scene in the torah where moses writes the torah before the stuff that happens in the torah happens

>>8903830
omg was she a women???

normies, rooooo etc.

>>8903830
That didn't happen

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>>8903830
>going to college for a LITERATURE COURSE

>>8901898

You're responding to the claims made by people who are incapable of reading Lacan. Nobody worth responding to would claim he's actually a hack.

I do think he uses red herrings to throw people off track very deliberately though. But I can't think of any examples and I'll be honest regarding the fact that quite a lot of Lacan is beyond me

Side note: I once got marked down in a uni essay because I referenced Lacan without including the feminist critique of his ideas. And the part of Lacan I reference had nothing to do with the Oedipus Complex, which I assume is the part feminists have a problem with.

Anyone want to bitch about academia?

>>8901938
>red herrings to throw people off track very deliberately

well he admits that he prefers the way into the text to be difficult somewhere. but yeah. there's times where i'll read half a page and have no idea what he's talking about, and then the next page he picks up a point from before the digression. sometimes within the sentence too. he loves to squeeze a whole new concept in between emdashes lol.

i never get marks off on papers. i literally can't remember the last time i got less than an A on a paper. so i can't exactly emphasize. but your teacher sounds very hackish.

>>8901950
empathize*

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Reading Schedule

>>8899565
Quite the embrace there, Your Excellency.

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>tfw 2 full days behind

>>8898210
I speak mostly in anxiety ridden cries for help and memes

>>8898210
My vocabulary is gooder than yours

>>8898210
i ain't got no needs for ur fancy vercabulury

MELVILLE, Herman (1819-91), American novelist and poet, born in New York City, a product of the American mercantile gentry. After his father's business failure and death in 1832, however, Melville left school and was largely an autodidact, devouring Shakespeare, the Authorized Version of the Bible, and 17th-cent. meditative writers such as Sir T. Browne, as well as the numerous historical, anthropological, and technical works which he used to supplement his experiences when he wrote. After sailing as a 'boy' on a packet to Liverpool in 1839, Melville shipped in 1841 on the whaler Acushnet for the South Seas, where he jumped ship, joined the US navy, and finally returned three years later to begin writing.

The fictionalized travel narrative of Typee or A Peep at Polynesian Life (1846) was Melville's most popular book during his lifetime. Like most of his works, Typee was published first in Britain, for prestige and to guard against piracy, and throughout his career Melville enjoyed a rather higher estimation in Britain than in America. After a well-received sequel, Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847), the perfunctorily plotted Mardi and a Voyage Thither (1849), an allegorical romance with philosophical meditations, fared less well.

Having married Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of the chief justice of Massachusetts, in 1847, and with a mother, sisters, and eventually four children to support, Melville wrote the realistic sea stories Redburn: His First Voyage (1849) and White-Jacket; or The World in a Man-of-War (1850), which he considered potboilers. Inspired by the achievement of Hawthorne, Melville changed his next sea tale into Moby-Dick, or, The Whale (1851), whose brilliance was noted at the time by some critics and very few readers.

After the critical disaster of Pierre, or The Ambiguities (1852), a Gothic romance with Shelleyan overtones and a satire on the literary profession, Melville wrote anonymous magazine stories, among them 'Bartleby the Scrivener' and 'Benito Cereño', which were collected in The Piazza Tales (1856), and the historical novel Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile (1855) about a neglected hero of the American Revolution. To recover from a breakdown he undertook a long journey to Europe and the Holy Land (depicted in the narrative poem Clarel, 1876). Sceptical and tormented, but unable to discard his Manichaean view of God, Melville remarked while visiting Hawthorne in Liverpool in 1856, "I have just about made up my mind to be annihilated."

The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade (1857), a mordantly nihilistic satire of human gullibility, was Melville's last novel. After unsuccessful lecture tours, he worked as customs officer in New York harbour, where he wrote Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1865), trenchant poems of disillusion with Civil War era America. John Marr and Other Sailors (1888) and Timoleon (1891) were privately printed. Despite some revival of interest in Britain, Melville died virtually forgotten, with Billy Budd, Foretopman still in manuscript: contemporary misunderstanding, censorship, and neglect, and the subsequent revision of Melville's reputation since the 1920s, have made him a classic case of the artist as reviled Titan. He enlarged the stylistic range and metaphysical concerns of fiction while helping to create the characteristically American mixed-genre, symbolic novel which Hawthorne called 'romance'; and Moby-Dick is the closest approach the United States has had to a national prose epic.

From The Oxford Companion to English Literature (OUP, 2000)

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>>8896477

>>8896509
has anyone got the beavis and butthead version of this?