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Is jealousy a good motivator? has anyone written about this
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>>8766161
if it's something a general as that, then yes, someone has probably written about jealousy motivating you/the protagonist of their respective story.
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>>8766161
who is this deamonus seminis?
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How is this book?
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>>8766151
>How to make people smirk when they glance at your bookshelf
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>>8766151
It's been collecting dust on my shelf for four months. I read the first quarter of it and the content was really useful and made a lot of sense but then I got bored.
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>>8766151
Not too bad
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Any recs for babby's first poetry book?
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Stop listening to Joy Division, David
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>>8766147
ffs, just search baby's first poetry book on amazon, it's by jane yolen
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>>8766147
Eliot or Whitman. Failing that, Bukowski.
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Hi brothers,
I'm once again here to ask for a new recommendation in order to keep advancing and become one of you!
After starting with Atlas Shrugged, you guys said that I should try a little bit of fantasy and suggested Twilight. It is actually a pretty good book, even better than the first one! I think there is some kind of sequel, but would you suggest me to move to something different now? I've seen this thread about Julius Evola, but I don't know if my reading skills are there yet.
Please /lit/ give me some ideas! Thanks!
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try Hemingway
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>>8766222
Sounds good! Which one in particular?
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>To you, Honorable Judges, my sincere gratitude for having allowed me to express myself free from contemptible restrictions. I hold no bitterness towards you, I recognize that in certain aspects you have been humane, and I know that the Chief Judge of this Court, a man of impeccable private life, cannot disguise his repugnance at the current state of affairs that compels him to dictate unjust decisions. Still, a more serious problem remains for the Court of Appeals: the indictments arising from the murders of seventy men, that is to say, the greatest massacre we have ever known. The guilty continue at liberty and with weapons in their hands - weapons which continually threaten the lives of all citizens. If all the weight of the law does not fall upon the guilty because of cowardice or because of domination of the courts, and if then all the judges do not resign, I pity your honor. And I regret the unprecedented shame that will fall upon the Judicial Power.
>I know that imprisonment will be harder for me than it has ever been for anyone, filled with cowardly threats and hideous cruelty. But I do not fear prison, as I do not fear the fury of the miserable tyrant who took the lives of 70 of my comrades. Condemn me. It does not matter. History will absolve me.
Hasta siempre, compañero. Post about based Uncle Castro and pay respects.
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The boys are back together again
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>>8766065
>ywn be that smug
>>8766082
The comrades we needed and the comrades we deserved. Who will carry the torch?
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>entire argument based on policy
He sounds like a law school professor off his meds.
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what do you guys think of this book?
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The blank pages at the back really are ok for emergency rolling paper.
You just need to stick it with a blob of honey or maple syrup.
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NT>OT overall, though Ecclesiastes is the best individual book.
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>>8766059
literally too many cooks the book
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What are your favorite works of his?
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>>8766048
Top:
New Sun
Short Sun
Great:
Peace
Fifth Head of Cerberus
Long Sun
The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories and Other Stories
Pretty good:
The Wizard Knight
Pandora By Holly Hollander
Meh:
There Are Doors
Free Live Free
Home Fires
The Sorcerer's House
An Evil Guest
Bad:
Castleview
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>>8766048
Pringles
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>>8766064
I am reading soldier of the mist at the moment. Have you read it?
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whats a good book that i can read on this man?
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>>8766008
Who's that
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>>8766145
who are you?
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>>8766145
George Washington Carver
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Rate the beginning of the second diary in my life?
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12/57
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what language is this written in?
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>>8765950
>1+5=6, 2+7=9
>69
I think you mean something else with that pair of numbers sir.
I've been reading some Simone de Beauvoir, and I've noticed what seem to be rather large inconsistencies between her books.
There's a rather significant passage within the Ethics of Ambiguity in which Beauvoir describes children as the epitome of a subject. They have no control over anything in their lives and as such are not moral actors (as they lack freedom). She then contrasts this to women, who she states are free, moral actors, and either choose or consent to their present state (though in the past, she admits, women may have been subjects).
One of the next books she writes, then, is the Second Sex, in which she seems to backtrack on this significantly, and considers women to be an oppressed class (or second sex, as it were).
Then she writes Lolita Syndrome, in which she describes (at least some) children as free, moral, agents, who in fact are able to manipulate grown men into sleeping with them against their will. Backtracking again are her original sentiment.
Ethics of Ambiguity was one of her earlier works, so it's possible her position just evolved between books, but it seems like such a large shift in opinion that I'm not sure how to explain it.
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>>8765846
>a person changes his or her mind
really makes you shit out of ass
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You might want to trace the evolution of her views in the books alongside her intellectual and political biography. She was extremely dominant in contemporary French political activism and the development of her existentialist philosophy is tied very closely to Sartre's, and I know Sartre (with her in tow, often literally as in their trip to the Soviet Union I think) underwent major revolutions in his thought as he variously approached Marxism and tried to couple it to existentialism etc.
Can't say anything specific, but if you're reading her in that much depth (which is pretty cool) you would definitely enjoy reading a brief bio of her. If you have access to a university library, she probably has an Oxford Bibliography page that will tell you what the best biographies are.
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>>8765855
She also calls for the slaughter of your oppressors, and even their children (she's weirdly specific about this), in Ethics of Ambiguity, and then doesn't even mention killing all men in the Second Sex. She actually seems to advocate more or less working together (though I'm still working on that book, maybe the slaughter is coming).
Is it even possible to change your opinion that much in two years?
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Anyone here a philosophy major? Thinking about changing need some thoughts opinions.
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To what? Remember that despite what STEM fags want you to believe there needs to be some people on earth who are not STEMfags and not doing STEM related things.
If you're in a soft major just get out there and network, etc.
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Sounds like a horrible idea. Does nothing to help your job prospects and everything could be learned on your own for free
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I am, getting PhD in it (partly).
Depends on your long-term interests and your scholarly interests.
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>>8765745
>8765745▶
no, it's a book
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me/me'd
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lol dude I read infinite jest core
>dfw thinks the mean value theorum is complex math
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>>8765589
Great thread
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tss whys it mean does it have a bad tempa or somethin
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the mean value theorem would be nothing without roll #notmytheorem
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What's the most interesting thing you've learned?
For me, the most surprising results when I first learned them were the Dold-Kan correspondence (connective chain complexes in an Abelian category are equivalent to simplicial abelian groups there), Tannaka duality (the automorphisms of the forgetful functor from a category of modules over some algebra arrange themselves into that algebra), Pontrjagin duality (discrete abelian groups are dual to topological abelian groups), the geometric Langlands correspondence (number fields behave a lot like function fields, geometrically), arithmetic topology (links in the 3-sphere behave much like ideals in Q), and the Goodwillie calculus (pointed homotopy types behave quite similarly to formal power series).
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>>8765515
This is a board to discuss literature
Your prose has all the convolution of Joyce without any of the charm
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>>8765527
Are you trying to tell me you've never learned an interesting thing from all the literature you've read?
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So you came here to humblebrag about some inane shit ? grow up son
Why is everyone on this board such a meany pants?!?!
I just want to read fun books like Looking for Alaska and Maximum Ride and Percy Jackson and all these meany weenies keep telling me that they aren't good?! Who gives them the right! And they think boring old white guys like Shakespeare is good?? I mean, I get it, Shakespeare has good prose and stuff, but after all, all art is always subjective am I right guys?
Everyone should all get along, because after all, reading is just for fun, and we should all be friends >:(((((
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>>8765496
Horrific bait
Reddir tier bait
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90% of /lit/ is insecure youth just getting the cliff-notes edge of titles and authors so they know what one-liners to say to look smart in front of their friends.
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>>8765496
back to /pol/, retard