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Do you think you can guess a person intelligence with a simple look at him?
I can guess a person intelligence level by his language skill, dress code, body language, sleepy look among others.
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2/10, iqbaiting with bad grammer. Need fresh.
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>>8732226
>sleepy look
elaborate?
You can get a rough indicator. If I saw Zizek in his standard attire for the first time at a brothel I wouldn't think much of his intellect.
also this is a board for literature.
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>>8732235
Dumb people tend to have more sleepy looks in their eyes, and slower body movement.
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What the fuck was everyone's problem?
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growing up around all that corn nigga
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>>8732201
What's up with his glasses though? How do they stay on his face?
On another note, what do people think of his other books? I see this one posted all the time but never hear much, if anything, about his other works.
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life
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Why did Meursault never tell his lawyer the Arab pulled out his knife first? How did he even lose his case, he literally killed in self-defense.
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>>8732188
he just didn't give a shit
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>>8732195
But there was points he clearly did care like when he was annoyed they were making his case for him and when he was in his cell and got bored etc.
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What is your interpretation of the onr journalist staring at him. Also thesdy he met at a cafe once circling shit? Are they the only ones that understand Lo Straniero?
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Why is Smith rarely talked about lately? I know he had some pretty uninspiring,rushed stories but aside from that this collection I picked up has been well worth it
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>>8732163
He just isn't very well-known unfortunately; at this point even Chambers is a bigger deal
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>>8732163
Who?
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>>8732219
One of Lovecraft's students and a pretty dank Gothic poet.
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>professor keeps calling The Stranger an existentialist novel
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>>8732060
It is, you fuck.
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>>8732064
It literally isn't
Source: fucking Camus himself
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>>8732060
The Stranger is just a racist novel. That's it.
>Shoot Arab for no reason except that you're a colonial oppressor
>Don't even give him a name
>lulz
>Get arrested
>Oh yeah mom died
>Oh well I killed a dumb Arab xDDDDDDD
Literally /pol/ the novel
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Post your favorite book in
>elementary
>middle school
>high school
>now
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>>8732046
>>elementary
prbably animorphs
>>middle school
Lord of the Rings
>>high school
Catch her in the eye
>>now
The Crossing
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>Five Ancestors (YA kung-fu series)
>Ender's Shadow
>On the Road
>Dispatches
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>>8732046
>elementary
Harry Potter
>middle school
french children book serie called ''Ewilan''
>high school
L'écume des jours
>now
L'écume des jours
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What's the age demographic for /lit/?
http://www.strawpoll.me/11669418
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Who is the pathetic person that is 30+ on 4chan
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>>8731980
Your future.
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>>8731981
ok gramps
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What are the best arguments (and arguers) against positivism and the ability for science to find an absolute truth? I read a little Nietzsche, and it seems like he says that science isn't completely true (or at least not the only objective truth) because it is ultimately an interpretation of the world, and a representation of the will-to-truth, but this doesn't seem to be satisfying to me. I'm not saying that I think that STEM is better than philosophy, because they attempt to explore different things, but I'm wondering as to what makes people doubt the legitimacy of say, the existence of numbers, and their representation of the world.
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Read Immanuel Kant, scientism is reddit-tier and Kant blows it the fuck out.
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This video might give you some insight, some guy sharing his path to enlightenment, not new-age even though his channel looks like it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjCDdhTPC54
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>>8731943
Positivism and science as a arbiter of absolute truth are mutually incompatible notions. Positivism is a rejection not only of metaphysics but of scientific realism
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Whats behind this window, /lit/?
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The wall of my bedroom, idiot.
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>>8731856
Me jerkin it to some femboy porn
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No sé
What's /lit/'s favorite western?
God tier: Butcher's Crossing
Classic Western tier: Lonesome Dove
Meme tier: Blood Meridian
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>>8731777
blood meridian.
been meaning to pick up Butcher's Crossing. Saw it at a bookstore out of town, but of course I was a couple bucks short. NYRB cover was gorgeous
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>>8731777
true grit
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I thought Warlock was brilliant.
Enjoyed Butcher's Crossing and Lonesome Dove too.
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What the hell is going on in the trial scene of kafka's the trial? 2016-11-17 01:20:24 Post No.8731686
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What the hell is going on in the trial scene of kafka's the trial?
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Okay, so you know that part of the book where he gets to the fifth story of the building, and he starts talking to the "fat little man" on the bench, and he says he's here out of compassion, he picks up the inspector's book and handles it saying it disgusts him, there's the two crowds one of which he feels he speaks what they're thinking (the silent side), there's the women who walks through the door who was just washing diapers when he walked in and she locked the door behind him? I'm just sitting here thinking, okay, this is the weirdest fucking thing I've ever read, and I need someone to explain this to me. It's just so absurd and dream like, I have a hard time going forward and just leaving these incredibly bizarre loose ends untied. Maybe he'll clear up what all of this means? No spoilers please, I'm only on page 46.
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>>8731686
call me pleb, but i just couldn't finish it, it was unbearable
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>>8731686
You just have to imagine it with an Eraserhead type of atmosphere.
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>>8731686
That's Kafka's signature style, it's uneasy and paranoid, shit will only get weirder in the rest of the novel. I do think that you really can't translate Kafka without compromising his command over the language.
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Does /lit/ use reading stands to maximize comfiness and keep that neck in an upright position? Do you have any preferred stands? I'm trying to find one that can hold thinner books in place, because my old piece of shit can't fasten the pages appropriately.
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I can't believe I'm the only one who uses this stuff.
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>>8731728
I guess so, but that stand did remind me of that gadget that the chick made in the movie Real Genius, so that's cool.
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>>8731736
Damn pity, I want to find a new stand and thought /lit/ would be able to recommend me some stuff. Oh well, back to Amazon reviews.
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ITT: /mu/sic /lit/erature 2016-11-17 01:12:53 Post No.8731665
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Hey what's some /lit/ approved music literature?
pic related
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>>8731665
The Arcana books.. though I have only read the first volume and have never seen it mentioned here. Its incredible resource on the ideas of people like Fred Frith, Pauline Oliveros and Jim O,Rourke who are often very literate themselves
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>>8731665
Post-punk is the most /lit/ genre by far.
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>>8731665
Alex Ross's The Rest of Noise is a well written and informative account of 20th century classical.
Ted Gioia's A History of Jazz served me well as a great introduction to the genre.
I think Tom Moon's 1000 Recordings to Hear Before you Die is great because it covers lots of different genres (world, folk, jazz, classical...) as opposed to other books of its type which just talk about the same rock albums everyone else does (although things like Pet Sounds and Sgt. Pepper are in there of course), and he's plain good at writing about music.
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Hey /lit/ I want to read about utilitarianism, but I am basically philisophically illiterate. Should I just jump right into Bentham? Is there something before that i should read or should I just start with the greeks and if so how thoroughly? Thanks girls.
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FUCK utilitarianism, it's a completely arbitrary value system in disguise. Skip it 4 Stirner.
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>>8731677
Look at stirner. Look at him.
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Don't worry, utilitarianism is the perfect philosophy for the illiterate. They're the only ones that could buy it.
Utilitarianism
>woah... what if we took hedonism which even during its time was criticized for being very vague in what is pleasurable and what isn't, and then apply that to ALL PEOPLE AND TRY TO DETERMINE WHAT IS THE BEST FOR ALL PEOPLE? HAHJAHAHA GENIUS THIS ISN'T TERRIBLE AND MORE EASILY ABUSED THAN HARD MARXISM AT ALL
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Why is this such a good closing line? 2016-11-17 00:52:15 Post No.8731622
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Why is this such a good closing line?
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>The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
Reading that at the very end just gives you that satisfying "done" feeling and it hits you with its finality. What makes for a good closing line to a story?
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>>8731622
>What makes for a good closing line to a story?
Some sense of satisfaction and finality, it looks like
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Supreme mediocrity
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>>8731622
Explicitly summarizing the overall message of the text.