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Is Gnosticism legit or is it just a meme?
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>>8882693
Hm, well, I can't answer you, but I'm certain you'll find out the meaning of life and the objective meaning of reality and how and why it was all created and profound mystical truths by asking here. On /lit/. Where we all know this stuff. In the boatloads. Yes.
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>>8882699
What is it with redditors and their self-deprecating humor? If you hate /lit/ so much just leave.
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I laughed when anon posted we would all be getting this for Christmas. Welp here it is. Wtf do I do with this thing?
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>>8882663
I'd say put it on your bookshelf but it takes up the shelfspace of like six books.
That edition is twice as big as it needs to be.
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>>8882663
Reading it took me a month while reading four other books on the side(not simultaneously). Its great worth the effort imho
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>>8882694
I've heard a lot of good reviews for it. Would not be upset receiving it as a present.
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A christmas carol is total bullshit
>disrespect the man who employs you
>mock and belittle him behind his back
>happy ending = give those low ungrateful workers a raise.
Why is this bullshit a classic again? Do they really think the working class will appreciate them more if you give them more money? We know how they think already, give an inch, take a mile.
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>>8882553
This is some spicy b8
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I think you need to read it again OP. Your pleb mind has completely misunderstood it.
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>>8882553
It's super anti-capitalist.
And now that he's raised Cratchet's wage, there will be effects. He may have to lay off other workers.
And nobody else would hire Cratchet. Scrooge was already generous by giving the man employment. He paid his worker what his labor was worth. But with the raised wage and no raised labor, the Scrooge business may go under, causing Cratchet to lose his job, and because nobody else would hire this low skill worker, he won't be able to make ends meet. Tiny Tim will surely die.
Who's the real selfish one in this story?
Scrooge should've told those commie ghosts to fuck off.
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How do I into visual art? What books do I need to read to truly get an understanding of it?
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>Wanting a normie excuse to look at wieners and boobs
You're a coward.
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>>8882541
Simon Schama maybe
>inb4 da jews
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>>8882541
/ic/
We will teach you.
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Guys, wtf was I thinking? I'm approaching the end of the first draft of my first novel and the ending isn't coming together at all. What sounded like a good idea just doesn't make sense, my readers would throw the book down in a fit of frustration. And my original idea for an ending would just be a cheap trick.
What was I thinking? Why did I think I could ever do this?
What do I do? Talk me off the ledge, bros.
Merry Christmas.
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just back away from it for a while and return to it later>>8882497
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>>8882501
this.
SPAAAAAAACE GHOOOOOOOOOOST
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Write it and your second draft shoulder allow you are fix it
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I want to lose myself in a hedonistic lifestyle with drugs and sex, but i was raised religiously and get anxiety when doing anything sinful
What would you recommend besides bataille and baudelaire? I would love anything roman/greek but really anything to help me change my mindset
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>>8882447
>I want to read books on how to party when I could just party
It's biology, not philosophy, you dweeb. Take a drug, drug stimulates pleasure center of brain, now you're addicted, congratulations. You think Cletus smokes meth in the trailer park because of Baudelaire? Read Bukowski if you want to live vicariously through a degenerate loser, or just buy a six pack.
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how do i chill out?
should i study rock stars' biographies?
what philosopher's system can help me to chill out?
is there a math equation i can memorize?
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>>8882485
Smoke weed
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Jealous :^)?
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I guess so.
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>>8882424what is this?
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How'd I do, /lit/?
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Nobody likes you enough to buy you those, you bought them yourself, didn't you?
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>>8882376
cringe worthy. have you never read a book before? why do plebs come here.
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117 IQ high school kid thinks he might be a genius core
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Did CS Lewis change the name of his book??? 2016-12-25 02:07:19 Post No.8882366
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Did CS Lewis change the name of his book???
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I clearly remember this book being called "The Magician's Apprentice" instead of "The Magician's Nephew"
Does anyone else remember this book being called The Magician's Apprentice?
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You're conflating it with the Fantasia segment.
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>>8882366
Wtf... I remember it as that as well.
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>>8882385
No I remember distinctly seeing in a bookshop a version with Aslan on the cover and thinking "huh, the lion is being taught by a wizard? Weird"
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Did you take an AP Literature class in high school? If so, did you like it? How did you do on the exam?
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>>8882324
pretty fucking easy for me. tho i text like a retard online because I grew up playing MMO's where u need 2 type fast af while doing raids n shit
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what's AP?
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yeah, got a 5 and it was a melting pot of pseud lit and liberalism smuggled into my shitty teacher's course. Holy fuck, fuck that teacher.
>read the stranger as an assignment
>already read it, but that's fine, i'll go in with new perspective
>time comes to discuss book
>teacher finishes explaining existentialism to the class, then goes on a rage saying how it was misogynistic by having his mom die and how philosophy is ruined by white straight men
FUCK. YOU. MRS. W.
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I want to read Dante's inferno what's the best translation
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Hollander...?
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Inferno - Dan Brown
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>>8883021
Couldn't agree more. Pretty much a street map of Florence too.
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How fucked am I?
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Thats pretty subjective. However, i enjoyed it.
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best book
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I'm looking forward to it. Just long and I have to read it over Christmas break
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>Deadpan, Bloom opines that Smith’s putative eighty-four “marriages” in the three years before his murder testify to the “high seriousness” of Smith’s quest. Serious, indeed! According to Bloom, polygamy was essential to Smith’s prophetic nature.
What did he mean by this?
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Another thread about this fat old jew.
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>>8882207
He's poking fun at the absurdity and convenience that Smith's marriages and sexual escapades were somehow essential to his position as a prophet.
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>>8882214
That is clearly not the case if you go back to the original text. There is no chicanery in his endorsement of polygamy.
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How do we make the western canon more diverse? It's so stale, pale, and male.
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>>8882137
Shut up fag
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Everytime someone uses white or male as a denigrating term I die a little inside, especially since it's often white males doing it. Please stop
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HAaaahhaha 3 literary agents asked for reads and 1 wants the full manuscript!! I'm about to make it from the slush pile suckers! See you on the other side! HAHAHAHA
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>>8882114
The Fountain is a really, really bad movie. It's so... obscene and vulgar.
Anyway I'm happy for you anon. What is it about?
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>>8882120
it's about a man who likes to eat women's shit
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>>8882131
It's about a woman's shit who likes to eat men.