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>I think it reveals a lot about the interests of professors

Sure, but you could also just, you know, ask them about their interests if you're curious.

>>8735812
This, OP. It's better to get a good conversation out of it. I used to ask mine often--though many of them brought it up if they were still actively conferencing about the topic.

Advanced Arabic prof wrote about the linguistic devices and properties of the rhetoric of radical islam, heavily focused on isil. Hot syrian woman, but that was perhaps a red flag

>>8735666
step 1 - stop reading right now
step 2 - kys

Have you ever read a full novel?

>not getting a free sample of your books from Amazon/Google Play/etc.

shiggy

It's likely that you don't like his writing style as opposed to the book itself being bad. I'd say give it a little more time, but you might be far enough in to call it quits.

fuck the cloud, just write it in .txt and email it to your self.

>>8735590
It does seem like should be a program somewhere doesn't it? Online storage with offline editing where you can upload the updates when you reconnect with the internet.

If something like it doesn't already exist for free, I might write it myself using google docs as a base. It doesn't seem like it would be that difficult.

>>8735590
Dropbox and any editor of choice. I prefer Vim. Sublime text is a bit easier to set up and very customisable.

And I don't even want to do anything about that. So great thread, have a nice day.

>>8735475
Same here. Sort of focused on the casual sexual relationships more than I would have preferred. I wanted more about the character's internal thoughts/feelings.

Congrats on your opinion OP. Is it the first you've ever had? Is that why you're here?

I have good days and bad days. Some days I fly through pages that look exactly like I want them to be. Some days I sit and fight and can't get focussed and barely get a page done. Even knowing that time, money, and youth are running out, I cannot force it. Sometimes inspiration is a firehose, threatening to drown everything, other times it is a trickle, barely enough to sustain, let alone quench, the thirst.

>>8735459
Been 4 days or so since I've written anything. This is the most time I've spent without working on a book since August, I think. Well, hopefully the next time I get an urge to write, get that motivation, I won't fuck it up.

>>8735474
>motivation
I have found that time is far more valuable than motivation. If you make the time, even if you are "wasting" it, you are making progress. If you wait until you "feel like it" you can lose it entirely.

What are you writing, anon?

>>8735355

Meh it was written in a time that this would be a popular consensus.

Plus Pessoa came from an aristocratic background and lived in South Africa if I recall correctly.

>>8735359
No, it wasn't.

Those are the opinions of a mature 20th century man.

>whole Continents of uneducated dark savages usable as a near unlimited form of cheap labor

>expect people to think kind things about them

No.

England was much kinder to the Indians then they ever were the Africans though. Introduced english and modern education to the whole society on top of technology.

Plato

Also he's the least demanding because his works are just a bunch of qt Greek boys hanging out, so you'all be entertained

Hegel.

Think of it this way. If you can understand Hegel, you can understand anyone.

>>8735347
Start with the greeks

Yes, me.
Being honest.
But how would you compare this to like libgen and Gutenberg and stuff?

>>8735211
>Torrent
>For literature

Anon, why do you want to use torrents to download 600kbs epubs

Yeah, because Gutenberg, libraries, IRC channels and trackers don't already exist.

>>8735184
wait a minute that's not Joseph Mcelroy

you can't talk about Sir David Attenborough that way! i challenge you to a dual, cunt!

Farty Bill

>>8735178
Dude go outside and fuck something before you croak.

>>8735195

ive fucked women before man this is about sublimination

>year left to live
>reads gay ass books
Nigga go rob a bank or something, rape somebody

Just read a lot

>>8735118
Bible unironically

My diary desu.

You mean latin, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOvVWiDsPWQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orzrnEzKbaE

tbqh greek sounds like homosex. Plus there's way more interesting literature to be found in latin.

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>>8735125

The best Latin poets are definitely equal to the best Greeks but Greek prose, especially philosophy, is much more logical to me. There's a reason so few people wrote Latin philosophy before the middle ages.

Latin is so goddamn clumsy, it's like a beat-up old truck. Greek is a rocket ship.

It's hard to explain exactly what I mean, though. The defectiveness of the Latin verb is definitely part of it but only part. I think Greek's broader vocabulary helps too. But there's still something else there that I can't articulate.

You can tell literary Latin is a language of farmer aristocrats. Greek is a language of heroes.

Greek is just clear as glass mang.

>>8735092
>>8735125

I study both, like anyone interested in literature must.

>>8735078
loll u must be fedora????

REAL men are religious

I find it interesting that our secular societies no longer teach the Bible, so we have cases like this where people have to educate themselves on the most famous stories ever written.

Is this a bad thing?

>>8735078
>Read the entire old testament maybe skipping parts of psalms and proverbs
>Read the gospels
>Read new testament history and parts of the letters
>Read revelation, but read it slowly and in a different way that you normally read

>>8735000
>>>/r9k/

>to

>>8735000
At least your honest

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>>8734968
Martin is a fat hack. He rode to fame on the backs of much greater men who came before him and the wave of popular culture.

I hope he dies of a very painful heart attack. It looks imminent. One can only hope.

What a fucking idiot. A woman of Eowyn's stature wouldn't start an affair because her legitimate husband who she loves has a small dick. How many royal women could have actually gotten away with three illegitimate children anyway? Cersei is a bullshit character. Has a moment ever passed in gurm's life when he wasn't thinking about pink masts and shitting?

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