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Please recommend me a book (fiction or nonfiction) that has the feel of an intelligent older man giving sincere advice on how to live life.
Something practical that could help a young man that's never had a mentor understand the unspoken wisdom of living, navigating society and indecision, etc.
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Looks like you need
1) A father
2) Stoicism
Pick one
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Somebody once told me good things about "Letters to my son" by Nerburn. I havent read it though.
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Philip Stanhope's Letters to his Son
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
Aldous Huxley's Human Condition
Richard Francis Burton
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I want a friend like DFW that I can hang out with once or twice a month, drink shitty beer with, play vidya, talk /lit/ until early in the morning or whatever. Is that strange?
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>>8891304
Imagine being a fgrown man and saying 'vidya' unironically.
Follow the example of DFW
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>>8891306
> Follow the example of DFW
And write a novel that nerds will read for the next 30+ years? I wish bro. I'm not that talented.
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>>8891304
he'd fuck you in the asshole at some point
What's his favorite song?
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>>8891194
probably something wacky! he's so random.
Postmodernism is so funny
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVEhDrJzM8E
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>>8891194
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4M-Vby2qHE
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http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-38446309
Don't know if you guys give a fuck but Richard Adams died over the weekend, and no one will really give a fuck because Carry Fisher just died.
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>>8891161
holy fuck normies amirite fellow frogbrother? reee etc.
Read Watership Down the other week. Sad loss.
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>>8891161
Damn. I loved Shardik and Plague Dogs, and Maia was filthy as hell.
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>>8891161
Literally who???
Oh for fuck's sake
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F
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>>8891108
It's like this fucking year is going for the final push.
https://twitter.com/BBCBreaking/status/813807473987559424
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Literally who
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How do I write a short story?
HOW?
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One letter at a time.
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>>8891062
1. create a story in your mind
2. got it? ok, now you pick up a chekhov short story and read it five times
3. now you sit on your computer with the short story in one hand and start your story as if you were chekhov
4. ????
5. eat free pussy, get tons of dollaridoos, make friends and travel around the world
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>>8891065
Yeah but how do I write good characters and shit>?
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Can you recommend me books or websites with good information about astrology?
I'm particularly interested on knowing more about the symbolism of planets and also meta books on the history of astrology. If you have anything on Chinese astrology, post them too.
I know people bitch about that not being scientific, while others bitch about how it "makes so much sense". I don't care about any of that. I simply find a lot of loose material which is somewhat consistent (but not really), though without any sense of history or tradition. Astrology websites that appear out of nowhere. If I could find at least a book that had sources (mystic sources, but sources nevertheless) and some discussion about it, I'd be happy.
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>>8891030
Sailor Moon.
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>>8891040
What a bullshit response, this is a serious thread!jk, I've seen it already
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>>8891099
I meant no joke. It's a beginners guide to astrology. Very accurate.
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Recommended translations?
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>>8891000
for which book in particular? you're not going to have many options from the start. jay rubin usually does a fair job. check out sanshiro which is one of my fave soseki novels. also he recently re-release the miner.
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>>8891039
oh...I should mention that jay rubin has translated murakamu haruki.
another translator that does solid work is john Nathan who semi recently translated a new version of light and darkness which blows away the old version. Nathan also translated for Oe and Mishima as well.
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Sanshiro-Jay Rubin
The Gate-idk the one published by NYRB
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How is he not more famous? His books are beautiful. He writes with great style. What do you guys think of Joseph Mcelroy and his writing style? I find his unique hybrid of postmodernism and stream of consciousness very refreshing. This book in particular reminded me of getting into the heads of Joyce's characters. Why haven't you read him yet anon. also go read Gaddis.
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>>8890962
>hybrid of postmodernism and stream of consciousness
what did he mean by this?
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>>8891250
Nothing, in this context OP is throwing around buzzwords. "Postmodernism" is not something that can be "read" out of a text in the way "stream of consciousness" can. Something can be considered "postmodern" when the work is looked at as a whole, as something complete. It is not simply gleaned from a passage, like stream of consciousness.
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>>8891278
I dunno mate. crack open a mcelroy book and you can usually tell from tune first page that bad boy is postmodern
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genre: neosurrealism
World's anonymous when she is dancing a waltz. Jack candle! I got it. Remember. Pass. And running through the flowers, you're going to make, but I miss the words unchecked, they come after a thousand nights, bright, breaking words into the empty pores: Good. Although well. Give more. Again, exercise, go to forget, and you will know the outline of faceless masks ... ice cream.
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>>8890952
Shit
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Stream of consciousness isn't new or interesting, faggot.
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I'm like 300 pages into pic related and it's really starting to test my patience. Like George is in desperate need of a better editor, each page I find myself often finding sizable passages that could have just been erased without the story loosing anything, which in a 900 page book that moves at a glacial speed is kind of a big problem. At this point the repetitive nature if his prose bas become noticeable as well. Is it worth powering through? Some people have told me that this is the wost of the bunch, while others tell me it's the best or second best. It also doesn't help that imho, the first season of the show was better then the first book.
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>>8890847
>passages that could have just been erased without the story loosing anything
More like characters.
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>>8890853
This too
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>>8890847
wait until late you read a dance and feast.
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Does anybody else here didn't give a fuck about literature when they were teenagers? I thought it was just boring and irrelevant.
I guess that a lot of teenagers shun literature because it's not as appealing as video games or social media. How to solve the problem of not reading?
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>>8890810
Suicide
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>Does anybody else here didn't give a fuck about literature when they were teenagers?
Nope, I read a ton back in the day as well, illustrated books on the mythologies got me hooked.
>How to solve the problem of not reading?
>that pic
Kill it with fire.
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>>8890810
lmao how can someone be so fucking stupid. that's a seal not a word bank lmao
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who is his literary equivalent?
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Infinite Jest
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>>8890705
>listening to MF Doom
Embarrassing
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>Listening to any nigger
Pathetic
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I'm writing a mini-dissertation for what is called an Access to HE Diploma (adult education thing to get into university). As the thread title suggests, I'm going to write it on free will in literature. So far, I am settled on 1000 words analysing The Odyssey with a focus on fate vs free will and 1000 words on Blood Meridian regarding determinism vs free will. However I would like to add a third book - one that, as it were, privileges human agency, volition, free will, whatever. If you have any suggestions for a book(s) that may be suitable, please say.
Other things:
- If you're from the UK, considering an Access diploma, and would like to discuss my experience of it, any advice I might have, anything else, I'd be more than happy to
- If you have any worthwhile secondary sources regarding free will I'd love to know
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Macbeth had elements of determinism and free-will.
Also oedipus.
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OP, do the right thing and go with the Iliad.
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What is the main counter-argument to the Consequence Argument?
Why is Compatibilism true? False?
What do Frankfurt cases highlight in the discussion of free will?
What the hell are agent-causal accounts of Free Will?
What role does God play in Free Will?
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Serious question: How do you know what medium is best for your story? Why does studio ghilibi choose anime to tell their story instead of books (I know they often base it off novels but why do they think they bother?). I know the strengths of film is visuals and sound but books have the limitations of the readers imagination. While films have the limitations of reality. Animation has much more freedom but still bound by the animators imagination.
How do I know if my story is best suited for a videogame? I want to make a videogame but I don't know how to write a story for it? If I just use cutscenes and break it up with gameplay. I might as well make a movie.
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Animation: Visual oriented & movement beyond imagination.
Books: Psychologycal oriented, the language is a important factor. Abstract oriented.
Videogames: Self insertion oriented?
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>>8890655
>Videogames: Self insertion oriented?
Like an RPG? Like a choose your own adventure?
But then why does Last of us succeed?
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>>8890643
anime give money