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what are the principles for sublime writing
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>>8764868
I will tell you, but you need to give me a million dollars
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the letters s u b l i m and e
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>>8764880
I wouldn't waste my time with literature if I had the millions
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"No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
Do you agree with this?
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he grew crazy
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>>8764768
Would you rather handle a chainsaw naively or carefully?
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>>8764768
as you get older you get more conservative.
as you grow older you learn more and become more mature.
as young you don't know much and are not very mature
Conclusion:
leftism is for retards
right-wing is for intellectuals
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What does /lit/ think of transcendentalism? I'm reading leaves of grass and I don't really get it. I mean sure the language is flowery and all but I don't sympathize with the movement's obsession with nature.
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>>8764556
Trees are like, really pretty and thinking is like, really hard and it's the 1800s and having gay sex on some moss is like the most sublime thing imaginable
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>>8764564
Is that all there is to it? I'm not just dumb?
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I haven't came across anything incredibly profound in Whitman. He has common thoughts and ideas and expresses them in what many consider to be a lovely way.
In short, it's poetry before philosophy.
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Why didn't Sauron just make 1 billion rings and call it a day.
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he didnt have that much magic juice
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>>8764515
If he doesn't want to shatter his soul to a billion pieces, why not 1 billion ring wraiths instead?
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>>8764528
Ring wraiths were only royal blood.
Honestly as evil as the guy was made out to be, he didnt seem more evil than your average asshole conqueror. The only times he genocided/sacked was when it was useful.
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Who else knows nothing?
But there are two meanings.
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A good friend of mine knew that he hnew nothing. Then he killed himself.
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>>8764413
I know nothing. i know so little i dont even know the second meaning to that statement
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1) The author suggests that he himself knows nothing, hence the "else."
2) Similarly, the author suggests that he is not aware of anyone else who knows nothing. It may be taken as a sign of loneliness (in wanting to find someone who's reached his conclusions) or arrogance (in believing no one could reach his conclusion).
Hey /lit/, of the big 3 of Sci-Fi, who is your favourite? Favourite books and recommendations by each?
I'd say my favourite of the 3 would be Heinlein, just because of how much I loved Stranger in a Strange Land
Asimov - Foundation Trilogy
Clarke - Childhood's End, The City and the Stars
Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Puppet Masters
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>>8764396
scifi's all shit
Try Gravity's fucking Rainbow
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naruto shippuden ultiment ninja storm III
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>>8764405
I've read it. I'm about to start reading Vineland tomorrow. Just because I enjoy that style doesn't mean I can't enjoy another style?
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I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said:—Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
Is this the greatest poem of all time?
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>>8764366
No, it's reddit tier
REAL men don't like reddit-tier things
Try some of Schopenhauer's poetry (he hated women)
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I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: [...] "My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!" [...]
[Shelley, 1818]
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>>8764366
I wouldn't know. Unfortunately whenever i hear "look up my works, ye mighty, and despair!"
>I see
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what cause should I support in order to write an essay about?
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ontological apathy
this existence isn't mine and so on
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>>8764359
how inferior women are to me
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Denouncing all propaganda.
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Which is better to start with Dostoevsky, The Idiot or Crime and Punishment?
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>>8764317
Crime and Punishment, then Notes, then The Idiot, then some short stories, then Bros K, then Demons
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>>8764317
White Nights. And then Notes from the Underground.
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just start with what you want, doesn't matter
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Just finished this and feel kinda confused. What is Hesse trying to say in the novel other than the bourgeoisie lifestyle is stupid, people are inevitably at odds with themselves, and that ridding the ego (through drugs in this case) makes you better in life?
Didn't really understand the mozart stuff at the end of the book either
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>>8764215
No idea haven't read it but it sounds like you have a valid thesis. Have more confidence in your deductive abilities.
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>>8764223
Thanks for the complement, but I think anyone would get that from reading it. I feel like I'm missing more of his message
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>>8764215
I don't think he was suggesting drug use. I don't really understand the book either, but I thought the Mozart, Goethe, "Greats", etc were the main characters idea of people who were really in touch with something real and were able to express it.
The entire time he desperately seeks their approval and I think to achieve their status. He fails in it, or at least believes he is failing at it, maybe by believing there is a way to fail it showed up as hisexecutionin this strange world that is these representations of his mind.
I dunno, my two cents. Was a strange book, I liked it.
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
So did he regret it or not?
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HEY FROSTY
YOU WANT SOME SNOW
MAN
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>>8764204
Yes, no matter what you do you will regret what you didn't do.
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I've finally come to the part where I want to read more than I can afford and I can't wait until I'm financilly independent to buy a physical copy of every book I want to read so I'm giving in. Which is the best e-reader and why?
I know nothing about it, the closest thing I've had was a tablet which I only used to read comics and a few novels but became unbearable for me so any suggestion is appreciated, maybe a certain type of e-reader is best for something while another one is best for another thing? Please /lit/ guide me into the digital heaven.
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>>8764198
Maybe /g/ is a better place for this but I am feeling helpful today. I have own a Kobo Glo HD, I don't know if it's the best one but it's good enough. It can take SD cards, can read pretty much any format you'll come across, and it has backlight (which is very useful, one of the main reasons I choose to update). Those are some of the things you should look out for. I am sure you can find a website where you can compare different e-readers.
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>>8764198
Kindle Paperwhite.
Nothing else.
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>>8764267
Kindle doesn't even support ePub. Also, Amazon dicks you over with DRM.
>Nothing else.
>25 cents have been deposited in your PayPal account
Be sure to ignore Kindle shills, OP. Find out what exact e-reader you want by yourself.
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Whats the best compete edition of the Tolkien trilogy?
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>>8764161
folio society maybe
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>>8764161
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>>8764227
i fucking hate the muh secret club board police on here
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Wallace and Gromit: The Novel 2016-11-25 20:30:26 Post No.8764143
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Wallace and Gromit: The Novel
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Searching for mundane, comfy fiction.
Preferably relatively contemporary in setting.
Think Wallace and Gromit in novel form.
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>>8764143
did he fuck the dog
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>>8764150
What the fuck? No. No. Of course not, no. Wallace was a bottom.
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>>8764154
he looks gross and like someone who doesn't wipe his ass properly after taking a shit
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Cheapest way to buy books online? 2016-11-25 20:15:49 Post No.8764102
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Cheapest way to buy books online?
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>>8764102
thrift books
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>>8764102
I despise that lizard prick
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If it exists as an ebook then a way to download it for free also exists mate.