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Not a /lit/ regular -
Fear and Trembling
Either/Or
The Sickness unto Death
What other Soren should I grab while I am at it? The three discourses? Any anthologies which include majority if not all his works? Any anthology for Soren I can find only has fragments.
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>>8843651
On Seduction my nigga
kidding. you have your essentials covered. Maybe some of his diaries, they're pretty extensive but it's good to have insight to a writer's work
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>>8843672
Cheers.
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>>8843651
read 'the sickness unto death' first.
you should try to only read the hong translations. (it isn't a big drama if you currently have different ones though)
grab 'works of love' as well. seems underrated.
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Who is the Archie Bunker of literature?
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>>8843641
Charles Bukowski
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>>8843663
Don't think so, famalamaly. Archie was no degenerate.
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>>8843669
>smoking cigars
>living a 100% healthy and degeneracy free lifestyle
mutually exclusive.
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Best novels where technology/the internet plays a strong role?
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Ready player one
Armada
By Ernest Cline
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>>8843554
The Odyssey by Homer
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The Epic of Gilgamesh.
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There are never technique and theory threads. Metre, form,...and exercises, things like that. Why?
The trained and skilled among you should be making those threads. Instead, you use the board as a means of escaping literature in a way that is "still about literature." Like a Chef at a McDonalds.
The tendency now is to have discussion involve as much personal experience as possible. The word autistic gains relevance in its etymological sense, deriving from αὐτός, (autos, "self"). But what can one, that isn't you, do with your personal experience?
It is a paradoxical consequence of this probing of the self that we become utterly without identity. Because we get used to treating the personal and subjective as an art form, we share, and host, experience to a highly mimetic degree.
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>>8843551
You were great up until you started psuedo-philosophizing about memes
/lit/ posters don't post about technique and theory because they fell for the vers libre meme hard
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>>8843551
judging by the critique threads around here very few /lit/izens actually have an ear for metre. I gave up sharing anything on here a while ago because very few know how to provide genuinely useful critique. When I would share something ambitious in its metrical and formal nuances, people would dismiss it as pretentious garbage. When I wrote in the most basic iambic modes, people would claim I'm too good to be posting here. It simply isn't worth the time.
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>>8843584
How do you get critique of your own work then?
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Questions that don't need their own thread
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Merciful intellectuals of /lit/, I beg your help! I've forgotten the title and author of a short story I read years ago.
Plot went something like this:
>Be a boring man
>Live a boring life
>Be content
>Meet a women
>The woman turns out to be nice
>She starts to have feelings
>You say fuck feelings, because assburgers and safe life
>She leaves
>Realize how dull and boring your life actually is
>Try to get her back
>She is gone for ever
>SAD!
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>>8843547
My story.
I survived a year without her and somehow I became even more boring and even more side tracked into intellectual pursuits.
P-play your strengths, r-right?
I miss her.
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>>8843585
Right but that's unfortunately not the story I was looking for.
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>>8843547
Joyce- A Painful Case
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>read The Ego and It's Own
>it's shit
Did I fall for the meme? Stirner's a hack, how did he become so influential? Why did Marcel Duchamp like him? Is Marcel Duchamp a hack too? What am I even supposed to believe in anymore? Are all German philosophers this shit?
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>stirner influential outside of /lit/
>dumb frogposting
>stupid 'question' that is clearly just to rustle people who like german philosophers
stop posting and kill yourself anytime
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>>8843523
Holy
Shit
Pepe is visibly disturbed in that pic
Here is another Pepe you could've used. This Pepe means 'did I get memed?' and refers to your situation.
Pepe is so cool
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>>8843523
Of course it's shit. Didn't you see the title?
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/lit/ cringe ? This one made me ache
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>>8843447
So that's Pynchon's youtuber name...
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>>8843447
Everyone's a snowflake
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>>8843447
The must cringe thing is your motivation to make this thread
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Do you identify more with Bloom or Stephen?
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>>8843386
the one that's into sucking farts out of girls' fannies
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I identify with the cuckoo clock
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I identify way more with Stephen
Bloom is a better person though
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Anything good here? I'm a Prime member, thought I'd see if they have any classics, but it's mostly modern stuff I've never heard of.
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If all it gets you access to is their Kindle Unlimited books, then no.
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>>8843371
>ever paying for media ever
Dogshit
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>>8843387
If no one ever paid for it, you'd never have it so shut your cheap ass up.
Where do I start with Waugh?
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>>8843336
wait - what is this guys name?
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>>8843336
scoop.
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is it pronounce "woff" or "whoa?"
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How does Lattimore's translation of The New Testament compare to "official" translations (KJV, NSRV, etc.)? My personal impression (without having read his translation) is that Lattimore would have an advantage translating the New Testament better than the average theologian (possessing bias towards his own respective branch of Christianity). Lattimore is also very well versed in the Greek language and has proved himself by producing one of the best translations of the Iliad and Odyssey.
What do you think, /lit/? I'm asking in terms of accuracy of translation to the original.
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>>8843242
As stated on the copy, it is very similar to NSRV. Lattimore's translation is the most accurate to the original Greek, but the NSRV wasn't very far off by any means, they are almost identical.
The notable differences of lattimore's are that there are no verse numbers, the text is written as it would have been originally, like a normal book. And also the Gospels are in chronological order, Mark Matthew, Luke, John; biblical canon tends to put Matthew before Mark.
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>>8843264
Not an expert on Christianity, but what is the reasoning behind the biblical canon's order of Gospels?
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If it's not authorized by the One True Holy Apostolic Catholic Church then it's fedora-tipping trash.
Is reading Hegel worth the effort?
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>>8843188
>hegel takes effort for him
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>>8843188
Yeah, Hegel himself says so
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>>8843188
Unfalsifiable nonsense cuck continental muh feels faggotry
Try the redpill instead
Reals > feels
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So what's the deal with poetry?
What's the difference between someone "creating poetry" and someone just writing random words down and people thinking it's so deep?
When it comes to novels, it takes a lot of objective talent to come up with good plots, conversations, descriptions, etc and make everything in the novel come together. But with poetry, I've never read anything that felt objectively amazing. Here, I'll write some garbage right now:
the snow was rising
her smile, her smile
the leaves have never seen such beauty
But I bet some turds would think that's true art if I published it in a book.
Someone want to help me out here and learn to appreciate poetry? Thanks.
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>considering yourself literate without an appreciation for poetics (not the same thing as poetry)
kys get off my board
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>>8843180
I'm asking you to help me understand and appreciate it
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>>8843169
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_poetry
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dump em
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>>8843130
>pushing a dead meme
Stirner is lame and reddit tier now
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>>8843171
>dead meme
>reddit tier
>tier
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Guys i'm scared
Is he gonna come fuck me in the ass too?
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Stop this meme. He doesn't fuck the kid in the ass. Somebody here posted a great article written by a Dartmouth professor who argued persuasively that The Judge breaks down and cries in front of the Kid and apologizes for all the wrong he's done in his life and begs forgiveness. Let me try to find the link.
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>>8843123
reading the wiki, and it says this is a minor character:
Speyer: an arms dealer described as a Prussian Jew
when the fuck was that from?