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by Yasushi Inoue

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>>8752665

>>8752739
>>8752757
Awesome. Thank you.

How's high school treating you? Pretty bad huh?

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>>8752659
tfw junior in University with a double major in Computer Science and German.

Thanks though. I guess it's shit, eh? Well I was crying the whole time and it's spoken word.

Thanks for reading though.

>>8752659
I like how you equate shit writing with being in high school. I wrote some of my best stuff in high school and it won me a lot of awards.

I don't.

librivox, but I generally don't

Myanonamouse

Why even read if the reading process isn't joyful to you?
Just scan the sparknotes ot something

>>8752557
I enjoy reading but as I've gotten older my reading speed is slowing down. It has nothing to do with coursework. This is pleasure reading for the most part.

>>8752546

Speed reading is literally just skimming for important material. It's only helpful if you're reading for straight up information.

Where do people get this idea that it's just plain reading faster? A lot of speed reading guides I've seen tell you to entirely skip "unimportant" passages. If you do this with with literature, you're doing yourself a huge disfavor by not slowing down. It's not just about "oh you have to savor the language for it's beauty" or whatever (although you certainly should do that), it's about thinking about what you're reading. Reading deeply is useless without contemplation and you need time for that.

Yes Harold Bloom can read a thousand page novel in an hour, but he's a freak who's read constantly nearly all his life. Regardless, he still reads slowly with his favorite authors and encourages others to go at their own pace. It's not a race.

>>8752545
welcome, reddit friend

>>8752583
>welcome, reddit friend
Damn that took you guys long to figure out I came from reddit.

>>8752545
I'm not certain you're interpreting him correctly there.

>>8752592
>not using the reddit checker extension

>>8752465
Hegel is p much fundamentally incompatible with analytic philosophy (tho there is stuff like analytic marxism). There are some interesting analytic interpretations of Heidegger, but one of the top US guys killed himself a few years back I think.

>>8752465

the language that the schools of thought use differ because of the problems that they are trying to solve. dialectic reasoning is something that most analytic thinkers would not avail themselves to.

its also hard to argue against. academic analytic philosophy, which really does get a good share of the publishing, needs anonymous judges to make sure that journal articles are not simply talking past each other in different systems. they generally argue against the most minute of differences because of the compartmentalization of the fields. epistemologists will write 30+ pages arguing for slight differences in theories of justification, for example.

its both symptomatic and a result of the publishing culture, in one way. but also, its an inherent difference in the style of analysis.

thats like asking why scientists avoid using music theory

>>8752417
The myth of Sisyphus is regarded as a companion piece to the stranger
Sartre is another major player there, you could try Nausea or Being and Nothingness, as his best know stuff

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>Aujourd'hui, maman est morte.

>>8752417
In addition to Sartre's books Crime and Punishment and East of Eden dealt with existentialism within a fictional story. Kafka is another good one and in one of the essays that is usually packaged with Myth of Sisyphus (maybe it was Myth of Sisyphus) Camus mentions Kafka's works as a great example of absurdism, particularly The Castle. Camus also mentions some characters from Dostoevsky's Demons (or Devils) as absurdist.

This post leaves me puzzled. It's not a rage-inducing bait, where the OP is so bad you want to punch the anon who wrote it in the face. It's not a particularly well-timed bait, since the amount of HP threads right now is no higher than usual. It isn't a clever bait, something really witty and barely recognizable. It's very short and crude, with a (?) Dutch cover hidden by a spoiler tag and a name Harry typed in...
What did he mean by this?

>>8752395
maybe he isn't a smug elitist pseud like you

>>8752395

basically I was asking what your thoughts on the book are... Like I wrote above. Is that weird?

Cos Stoics are worldless people and Christians are other-worldly.

Jews.

This isn't the answer to your questions since I've never read the scholarship on Marcus Aurelius, but JSM does discuss this in one of the examples which illustrate his argument that to censure a dissenting opinion in the interest of the public good is to commit the often-grave error of assuming that the opinion is wrong.
He basically says it was unfortunate because, unbeknownst to Aurelius, he and Christianity had many affinities.

I forgot to start

Hamlet
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
V

>>8752295
War and Peace
Game of Thrones
Starship Troopers

>>8752299

Mason & Dixon

If it's any good it will attract attention

If you're doing it for the attention it is never going to be good

>>8752252
>If you're doing it for the attention it is never going to be good

I have been writing for more than 14 years now. I do it because it is the only thing that really makes me feel I am doing something worthy with my life. When I lay down in bed at night and start to think about who I am it is a refreshing thought to remember that I am trying to create some form of artificial-beauty to make the world a little better.

I don’t want attention simply for the sake of attention. What I want are readers, and especially their opinions. I want to know what people think of my work. Right now I feel that I am sculpting marble statues on a desert island and that no eye will ever contemplate them: is as if they still exist only inside my brain, and not on the physical world.

>>8752252
>If it's any good it will attract attention

I wish I were so optimistic about the rewards of truly significant art.

>>8752314
If it's amazing, you'll probably get noticed eventually.

However, if your writing is still clumsy and you want advice, try contacting publishers. If they see potential, they might help you, if not you'll probably still get advice. Other than that, you'd be surprised how college teachers or writers can be helpful. Try getting in touch with one or two.

Also, if you want, you can share a few paragraphs of your writing; I have a good sense when it comes to judge the potential or lack thereof in young writers.

joined

>>8752224
what's discord?

the admin banned me for trying to bring the topic back to literature. fuck that

>>8751970
Is that the guy who played Richard on Lost?

Why wouldn't you just read him AND see the play afterward?

Watching it rather than reading it is better, but you can enjoy reading Shakespeare, obviously.

>>8751970
Depends on your imagination I suppose. I'm not a native English speaker myself, and found that having it acted - even purely dramatization/voice acting - helps quite a lot. I read it at the same time as I listen to it.

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>got my bitch pregnant
>she lost it the same day
>mfw

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>>8751860
How does one loose a book?

It seems to me that when books aren't at home, they ought to be in either your hand or your bag.

How did you make such a grievous error?

>>8751902
have you never before lost something? it just happens

>>8751683
noam chomsky understanding power

>>8751687
haha no.

>>8751683
Process of Government - Arthur F. Bentley

Keep in mind it's over 100 years old but it is relevant. It details how constituents and lobbyists influence how the government runs.