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I want to learn a new language, but have no interest in actually using that language other than to read certain texts in their original language.
Which one should I learn? Latin strikes me as the one which would be most useful, as many important texts were written in Latin.
Second would be Ancient Greek, then French, German and then Italian.
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Japanese.
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>>8883376
Learn French or Italian, and afther that you can go for the other Romance languages, senpai.
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>>8883481
This desu.
Portuguese is my first language and I can read italian/french with a dictionary and spanish without one.
And don't learn latin, that's autistic.
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Best Christmas book?
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>>8883375
The Dead by James Joyce
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>>8883375
Nabokov, Christmas Story.
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Brian's Winter
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I got zero books from my list. Xmas is ruined.
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>>8883373
>Requesting presents from your parents
fuck you
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>Kerouac
>Hunter S Thompson
>Henry Miller
>Pynchon
Mother i am not a degenerate where is my Boethius REEEEEEEEEEEE
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>>8883373
Looks like your parents asked you about you sister and you took the bulk of the message talking about what you want.
Your parents just saved you from your own shit/meme tastes.
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Why didn't Schopenhauer kill himself or advocate suicide?
Was it because he believed in God and was afraid of an eventual afterlife?
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>>8883353
i've only read on women idk
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>>8883353
He said the natural urge to prevent self harm was too great in most people to overcome
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I doubt the Government would have tolerated it. 19th century German kingdoms were certainly not too tolerant. Being an Atheist was hard enough, going full Ligotti would have landed him on the Index.
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Interrogate me the way Socrates did. I want to discover what I believe in.
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Present your thighs.
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cant be done. requires a common experiential context.
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>>8883329
Can you see how this man is good looking, anon?
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JOYCE GIFT SUGGESTIONS 2016-12-25 11:00:17 Post No.8883308
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Ok, /lit/, it's your time to shine!
If you had to buy a gift for a Joyce lover who has read everything from him, what would you get?
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>>8883308
A therapist
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>>8883308
A life
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my diary desu
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>There was an old man from Peru
>who dreamed he was eating his shoe.
>When he woke in a fright
>in the dark of the night
>he found it was perfectly true
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>there once was a man from peru
>who fell asleep aboard a canoe
>while dreaming of venus
>he played with his penis
>and awoke to a handful of goo
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>er was een man uit Baghdad
>die droomde dat hij zijn schoen at
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le long namefig containing tons of retards on esfores that got deleted sorry guys
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>>8883232
Why are limericks so damn boring?
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Where do you guys go to discuss literature in real life? I'm wondering if there really is a place where people meet to have esoteric conversations on literature and philosophy. It seems that meeting someone who can elaborate on the subject is like finding a needle in a haystack. Sure they exist, you even have popular ones like Woody Allen, but I have yet to see a group congregating in a single succinct space.
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>>8883088
lol guess you havent ever been to my starbucks then
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in real life, i come here!
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>>8883094
>Last time I was in a Starbucks I found a bunch of old guys playing chess.
>I knew half of them.
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What books did you guys get for Christmas?
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>>8883039
seeing as its 1:00 AM on Christmas Day, I haven't got any gifts yet, u idiot
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>>8883039
it's still christmas eve you mong
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>americunts gift eachother on christmas morning
>not giftin on the 24th of December
Got these plus twelve bucks I can spend at the local chain store.
Quite happy with these since I have been thinking about picking up a Murakami book.
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This thread again, but a new OP
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/Lit/, I wanna be like you. I want to be well-read like I used to be. My favorite book at the moment is the Great Gatsby, but I used to love Eragon. My favorite Author is Robert Heinlein. Favorite series is Enders game. What's next? Any suggestions please. Any genre, except romance.
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>>8883029
Allow me to take you on a mystical journey, through mythical lands, untold!
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>>8883031
Thanks mate. I feel like that would be a bit dry though. What can I learn through Greek plays? I'll check it out
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What's your favorite book that reminds you of the giving and selfless nature of Jesus Christ?
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The heart is a lonely hunter
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>>8882985
I guess The Idiot is the obvious answer so I'll go with Siddhartha
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>>8882985
I have more love than Jesus was ever purported to have.
I write no diary though.
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I'm writing a love story about two extremely introverted characters who fall in love with each other. They are a boy and a girl with undetermined age (something between 20 and 15) who are complete virgins and are very socially awkward, something in the lines of hikikomori or social anxiety. But they find happiness in each other because as things take their course, they grow to be the only person the other one loves, trusts, is loved by, etc. My question is, how can they meet and start talking to each other and eventually start trusting each other, with the culimation of a mutual confession of love? I can't think of a context, a setting that would allow such story to unfold because, after all, they are both extremely reserved characters. There is the possibility that they are highschool/college/work mates but that seems a bit boring. I want to hear your ideas on this. Please,give me as many ideas as you can think of. Thank you.
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>>8882858
He finds a cellphone with her number on it.NATURE OF LOVE
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>>8882858
It depends where you set it and what the ages end up being.
High school aged kids will likely have to meet at some type of school function. Or during a summer vacation forced event by parents, something stupid like that.
Adult age would be easier. The sky is the limit even for social anxiety peoples. Therapist waiting room, library/book store, online video game/chat, forced out on date by friends.
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>>8882858
They meet at the site of a hit and run which left a old lady with her head burst open, guts out and blood like a boiled watermelon.
And its raining. And the guy comes out of his house and the girl is walking there and she says "Friend of yours?" And the guy smiles even though he's sick to stomach of the sight and because he hates blood. And the girl is nervous because death is novel and said the first thing in her mind to the first person in her sight.
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I'm interested in anthropology and was wondering where to start. I'm considering pic related any rec's /lit/?
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>>8882821
Myths to Live By, by Joseph Campbell
The Masks of God, by Joseph Campbell
Language and Species, by Derek Bickerton
The Psychology of Literacy, by Silvia Scribner & Mike Cole
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, by Julian Jaynes
The Interpretation of Cultures, by Clifford Geertz
New World, New Mind, by Robert Ornstein & Paul Erlich
Maps of the Mind, by Charles Hampton-Turner
Man and his Symbols, by Carl Jung
Modern Woman in Search of a Soul, by Carl Jung
Society of Mind, by Marvin Minksy
Archetypes, by Anthony Stevens
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>>8882821
It's a really wide open field to study. Follow your own instincts when picking authors/researchers.
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Who is your favorite philosopher? 2016-12-25 04:30:19 Post No.8882763
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Who is your favorite philosopher?
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I especially like Benjamin Franklin.
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What was his philosophy?
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>>8882772
His is a philosophy of efficient, happy living. For example, he is first person on record to have used a pro/con list, or, at the very least, to have documented it in detail.
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Pictured. He has a way of noticing things, seeing them for what they really are, that makes his insights incredible and disillusioning.
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Who are some writers you are planning on reading but haven't yet? Why them?
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Could probably list 100. Specifically, I've been meaning to read Celine, Kawabata, John Williams, John Hawkes, Pessoa, and Pushkin
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The Gass man.
I'm pretty new to literature and I've read excerpts here and there of his writing including an essay of his and his prose seemed incredibly alluring and powerful.
I'm looking forward to getting around to reading him.
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Gogol
Twain
Hesse