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What books from Sanderson should I start with?

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Admission Criteria

The Library is open to:

researchers and scholars with appropriate qualifications and/or relevant scientific publications;
teachers and researchers at Universities and other institutes of Higher Education;
graduate students (laureati) who are pursuing research for a doctoral dissertation;
in exceptional cases, undergraduate students who can demonstrate that they need to consult material which is available only at the Vatican Library.
it is not open to High School students, nor, as a rule, to undergraduate University students.

Required Documents

All readers applying for their first reader’s pass must produce the following:

a valid identification document, which will be left at the Police Office at the Sant’Anna entrance to the Vatican City State;
a reference letter or a valid document proving appropriate academic qualifications;
for students, a Letter of Surety, printed on institutional letterhead and signed by their dissertation supervisor.

The Reader’s Ticket

The reader’s pass allows access to the Library.
The annual pass is valid from the day it is issued until the following annual closing of the Library. The short-term pass is valid for a fixed number of days, as determined by the Admissions Office.
The reader’s pass allows consultation of printed books only; specific authorization is needed for the consultation of manuscripts. The pass is strictly personal and non-transferable; it replaces the reader’s identification document while he or she is in the Library.
By accepting the reader’s pass and signing the form indicating their personal details in the Admissions Office, readers agree to observe the Library’s Rules and Regulations.
In case of loss or theft, readers are required to advise the Library’s Admissions Office as soon as possible, and to present a copy of the report filed with the competent authorities.

>tfw when you can't consider yourself patrician enough if you don't have access to the Vatican Library

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Thoughts on this?

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ART-MAKING IS A SACRED ACT

But lovers hold on to everything,
And lovers hold on to anything

The Art Matters
youtu.be/p0QlTS61IgM

Mattering and storytelling are in an intra-active relationship

Creatively giving shape and form to the underlying energies which animate our species in a “container” that can hold the experience allows for a shamanic, holy, and whole-making ritual to be made real in time. The act of participating in the creation of art is a magical, ceremonial rite, a sacred liturgy, a higher-dimensional form of communion, a kind of “performance art"

Often called The Art, it has many branches

Art should be what civilization is

Become connected to something more than yourself

Magical humanity can build forward

...it's a co-partnership deal...

Nature provides a platform

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Explain why these are the most comfiest places ever?

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What do I read if I want to engage in sexual swordplay with an elf?

Only the good stuff /lit/.

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It's been almost a decade since I read the last installment in this series, and I'm trying to remember if this guy had any character.

Like, was he a real person ?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKTfXp7Wp0k

StarWars books and comics are are Fan Fic

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any good essay collections that aren't by joan didion?

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Is there a western thinker that, after finding out that everything is forms created by the mind, didnt solve it with further mind creations such as moral or religious or intellectual systems? Or are we still in the quest for a true way to manage that?

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Well /lit/, what's the answer?

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Was Kafka any good or is he just one of those obscure hard to read for the sake of being difficult turn of the century antiquity writers socially conditioned by their time?

err crap I don't know
>greentext test

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What am I missing?

I just finished this for the first time and its by far one of the slowest novels I've ever experienced (probably because of the constant hopping around.)

I feel like I 'got' most of the themes floating around - questioning of authorship, authenticity, breakdown of moral codes in the Cold War etc. I understand the whole hypertext/paratext thing was revolutionary at the time, and I understand the humour behind Nabokov's megalomaniac narrator, but I feel like I'm not getting something because I can't say I enjoyed it that much on the whole.

This is pretty surprising to me because Ada or Ardor is one of my favourite novels ever. So - any tips on trying to interpret this novel?

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How do start writing a story /lit/? Do you usually lay out the plot, characters and details before and then start writing or do you think of a general idea for a story and start writing, making up the details and plot along the way? Which way do you think usually creates a better story in the end?

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I am a rather elderly man. I am a spiteful man. I think my liver has woken up from uneasy dreams and found itself transformed to a giant insect. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know. And in short, I was afraid.