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Let us all make a poem.
Throw a single line and when theres enough, anon joins em to make a single poem.
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On a cloudless river.
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Only one enemy remained; two, if you counted God.
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>>8778828
that runs and runs endlessly, maple leaves
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Aristotle claims that slavery is just based roughly on the notion that 'might makes right'
Plato uses Socrates as a mouthpiece to argue against that notion, which is proposed both by Thrasymachus in 'The Republic' and by Callicles in 'Gorgias'
Does Aristotle ever address these arguments? Or am I mistaken in thinking that there is a large discrepancy between the thought of Plato and Aristotle on this subject?
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pls respond
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Not doing your homework for you, retard.
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>>8778877
It's not college work senpai, I was genuinely just curious
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Does anyone here think that Nabokov is bordering purple prose?
How can one write like Nabokov, but not get called out for overly extrapolating prose?
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got gud
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>>8778694
We're not playing league here, m8; this is serious business.
I feel as if it's impossible to recreate what he's done in today's society.
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>>8778692
Because "overly extrapolating" is Hemingway-esque bullshit, and is only said by people who think stripped-down prose is the ideal. Plots are garbage: we read good authors for their prose.
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I have created a new word: writist.
Anyone who is a writer and an excellent prose stylist like me is a writist.
Use this word from now on to refer to people like Melville, Nabokov, Joyce, me, etcetera.
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>>8778537
define 'writer'
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>>8778544
Someone who has a passion for writing.
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I have created a new word: analrapist.
Anyone who is a psychoanalyst and an excellent therapist like me is an analrapist.
Use this word from now on to refer to people like Freud, Jung, Maslow, me, etcetera.
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ITT we remember that one video where the dude Everything and More by David Foster Wallace @ like Vegas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXvAd7COpJY
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DAVID FOSTERR WALLLLLLAACCCEEE for great justice
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>>8778499
this is still the funniest video to ever be posted on /lit/
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that thing goes DAVID FOSTERR WALLLLLLAACCCEEE for great justice happy thxgiving
What does /lit/ think of Bely? I like his novel Petersburg a lot, really amazing prose and pretty good too as a symbolism piece but something tells me he is incredibly underrated. I think anyone who liked Crime and Punishment or Dostoyevsky in general would enjoy his works, as Petersburg felt like an experimental version of C&P
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KAZAKHSTAN IS THE BEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
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>>8778467
focus dude
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>>8778469
>not getting the joke
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What's a good place to start with this guy? I was thinking of starting with either this or Melancholy of Resistance. Any recommendations?
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I just read The Last Wolf and Herman: The Last Game Warden and Death of a Craft. Really excellent short stories. I haven't read anything else by him. Was planning on reading Satantango or what you posted, OP, next
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I've heard good things about The Melancholy of Resistance from quite a few people.
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>>8778393
I'd usually start with an author's short stories, but since his have not yet appeared in translation and because I hear he's more famous for his long and vertiginous sentences I have no choice but to dive into a long work. I'll look out for this rec though, thanks.
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>Gaddis
>Gass
>Vollmann
>Shakespeare
>Faulkner
>Blake
Is William the littiest name?
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Thomas Mann
Thomas Paine
Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Wolfe
Thomas pretty good desu
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>>8778364
Paine sucks though
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>>8778352
Yep. The second best is Patrick, which literally means patrician.
Recs for literature about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? No bias please.
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you don't need to read a book, read a few articles online and you will understand the history and reasoning behind the whole thing. It is not complicated to understand why they're doing what they're doing, the only complicated (impossible) part is figuring out a solution
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>>8778319
I never did research beyond a wikipedia article (Israeli-Palestinian conflict). But as I understand it is so complicated I would like to know more, especially from people that actually go from a neutral standpoint and do a lot of research. From just browsing the internet I understand there are a lot of people that go through it with the "fuck zionism and the jewsss"-tinted glasses, or the other "Israel did nothing wrong throghout the conflict"-tinted ones.
Sorry if my english is bad, I'm a poor balkans resident.
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>>8778305
I found this super informative, and its written by the grandson of an original british aristocratic zionist who is a heartwarmingly self hating jew.
Does your bookshop have a cat?
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Yeah, my local favorite has at least three or four, possibly more.
Cats and bookstores are a winning combination, if ever I've seen one.
https://www.yelp.com/biz_photos/twice-sold-tales-seattle
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>>8778130
No.
I don't own a cat,or a bookstore.
If you mean "bookstores in the area where I live,that I also visit",then my anwser is still no.
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>>8778130
no but my cat has a bookshop
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/opinion/sunday/actually-lets-not-be-in-the-moment.html?_r=0
Do you agree that this whole mindfulness movement is just practiced neo-liberalism?
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>>8778129
>I’m at the kitchen sink, after a long day of work and kids and chores and the emotional exhaustion of a toxic election season,
Oh, the poor baby. I already dislike.. *checks name of author* her. Will keep reading though.
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>>8778140
>It’s a special circle of self-improvement hell, striving not just for a Pinterest-worthy home, but a Pinterest-worthy mind.
Okay, she's becoming likeable again. Will keep you updated.
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"Mindfulness" is a bastardized version of the transcendentalists
Mindfulness is to Transcendentalism what Zumba is to fitness
What does it mean if I can't write about a certain person?
I have a partner of 4 years now, and during some months of breakup last year, I met another person whom I became very close and intimate with. Ultimately, probably out of fear, I decided to return to my partner, though. Ever since then, however, I have felt so much attraction (not only physically but emotionally, as well) to the other person, while those things were lacking in the relationship to my partner. At the moment, I am torn between them, I have awful guilt pangs towards my partner, while longing so much for the other person. Still, there's something that keeps me with my partner.
Now, to sort out my thoughts and feelings and to maybe come to a decision, I started writing about my feelings. However, while writing about the other person flows easily, writing about my partner seems impossible. In my poems/stories I usually address the person directly, and it feels very intimate somehow to share my blunt feelings directly (even if I then don't actually show them the piece of writing)
And doing so towards the other person causes no problems, I share everything, every little thought and every piece of my soul.
But for my partner... it's hard to write like that for them! Maybe because, after 4 years, there's no fire burning anymore to spark my writing? But how sad is that?! I wish for a person who would spark my writing and life forever - or is that utopian?
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>>8777985
Sounds like what you would write truthfully about them is something that is hard for you to truthfully acknowledge.
Pro Tip: Write that shit anyways. Even if it fucks with your own dissonance.
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>>8777985
So this is what is like to have a vagina
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That some cool ass mothafuckin pasta but it got one major flaw: its relly hard to find a usage case for it my brother. Rewrite and get back at me mate.
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is /lit/ the true /r9k/?
more real robots here than there
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I'm a girl btw
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>>8777920
>is /lit/ the true /r9k/?
yes
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what is a robot? someone who just feels?
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Speed reading
Is there a method that works?
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please don't speed read. its not a race. would you listen to music or watch a movie at a quicker speed?
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>>8777905
read shorter books
audio books on fast forward
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>>8777905
Reading at your own pace works for me.
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>the author's name is larger than the title
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>Op makes a shit thread again
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>movie adaptation cover
>chapter 1 starts on page 36
>introduction is longer than the actual text
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>it's a fiction book with a table of contents