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>Dostoievskii.
>Dostoevski.
>Tolstoi.
>Tolstoj.
Why do people purposely butcher the names of great Russian authors?
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For a good solid year I went around saying Mitt Romskj. No one bothered to correct me
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Seems silly.
Anyone know why?
Guess not...
Everyone cares.
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>>8721575
All attempts at romanization of Russian/Cyrillic have been unsatisfying.
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>read the introduction on the jacket
>New FBI agent pursuing new 2016 murder in twin peaks
>All this new evidence
>All these old characters
>All my erect penis
I'm so hype
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>>8721530
based onthe coverthe secret isthere's a whole other peak
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>>8721554
the peak is my dick
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>>8721554
And another one is upside down! Holy.....
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Drinking and Reading Thread
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So, I have a glass of my favorite Dornfelder Red Wine. Very sweet, and smooth. Plus I'm reading Mark Russinovich's "Zero Day" book...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9763010-zero-day
Gotta say for myself... while the theme and story is very compelling and scary, the execution reads like a buzzword filled book to show off that he's passed his "Certified Ethical Hacker" exam. Lots of explanations of terms and techno babble. While it actually does make sense, it comes off as way too preachy.. I'm about 70% done, but honestly, not sure if I"ll read the sequels... The dialogue and characters are just so cliche and stiff, it's hard to read without chuckling for the wrong reasons..
Anyone else read this or similar techno "cyber" thrillers?
What are you all reading/drinking on this chilly Sunday night?
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bump for not being drunk yet.
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>>8721523
Noice unicomp, real schway.
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Just finished reading No Longer Human, was drinking water and coffee
It's monday afternoon here though
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What's the idiom you use when you want to describe someone that isn't regarded highly but negatively?
I remember the word has the same meaning as regarded(consider) but it is only used for someone who is viewed negatively based on something bad.
Help Non-English speaker.
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Someone who is regarded but for something negative?
Infamous?
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>>8721522
Hmm no it's not for the public figure.
But it is the same concept like famous-infamous.
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Scrutinised?
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Is it good? And are this authors other books good? I like the sound of grippy conspiracy theory books but it looks like Reddit-tier autistic scifi.
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>trippy*
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>>8721510
I consider it quite formative.
Start with The Illuminatus Trilogy. It is certainly trippy, and laid a foundation for a lot of conspiracy stuff that came later. There are a lot of Robert Anton Wilson lectures available online. Listen to what he has to say, if it resonates with you, you will like his writing.
>Reddit-tier
I wouldn't know, I've never been.
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>>8721510
this one was weaker than Masks of the Illuminati and Illuminatus
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Who are some writers from the 20th century that were associated with the Modernist movement, but weren't really categorised as Modernists?
I can think of Wallace Stevens, Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald
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>>8721480
How was Wallace Stevens not a modernist? Especially his later poems concerned so much with epistomology. His poesy was cultured by a love of everything oriental as well, and was almost as much of a japanophobe as Pound. He was one of the poster children for "make it new".
Hemingway and Fitzgerald I can see, but there are different brands of "modernism" which are distinct from the Woolf and Proust legacy.
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Modernism is a very loose concept. A good /lit/ thread could be made out of attempts to define modernism, actually.
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>>8721583
I think you meant to say "japanophile".
Also, Beckett and Nabokov.
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Does /lit/ subscribe to or read any quarterly/yearly lit publications? I've been searching for a while for these - to discover new authors and read interesting things and keep up with contemporary literature/"the scene", which I tend to ignore - but I have no clue what's well respected or generally good.
Just today I found that my local BnN carries a few (Raritan, TLR, The Paris Review, Popshot).
So which (not necessarily from the above list) literature publications does /lit/ follow?
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The White Review is p rad but for a subscription in America it costs like twice as much as Paris Review so i just snipe random issues off ebay.
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London Review of Books
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I use to subscribe to Monthly Review back in the Bush era, it's great for Marxist stuff, not really literature so much, but since everyone around here is a fucking commie might as well mention it, not to mention a year subscription of 12 issues is like $20
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How does one become a /lit/ NEET?
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>>8721432
can someone do this for me plz
plz
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>>8721432
Step 1 - Don't be employed
Step 2 - Don't be pursuing education
Step 3 - Don't be training to be employed
Step 4 - Shitpost on /lit/ but i see u got that covered
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>>8721432
download literature instead of anime, and then read the literature. yes, any is fine
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Is anyone else bothered by Nietzsche's lack of proof? I think that he is right about a lot of things, and I know that Nietzsche himself scorned the whole scientific, objective idea of truth as being the best type of truth, because he believed that we are never motivated by a thing-in-itself (and thus will not find knowledge-in-itself) but always a type of will.. but I often wish that he had more evidence to back up his claims. I'm a sort of philosophy noob, having only read the Greeks, some Kant and Nietzsche, but does philosophy for the most part come straight out of self-reflection like Nietzsche's philosophy? Is there not more logical proof for it? Whenever I read philosophy, it seems like the philosophers are asserting things straight out of their own minds, without going through a more logical way of building up their philosophy from the ground up (i.e. starting with an undoubtable truth and then building logically up from their). There seem to be so many presuppositions that I can't help but feel skeptical. Pls no hate, I'm not trying to disregard Nietzsche: I'm just assuming that my philosophical inexperience is making me blind to something.
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>>8721423
you haven't read Kant, why lie?
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Nietzsche isn't a "philosopher" he was a classical philologist.
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>>8721430
Well I've only read the SEP thing in prep for Nietzsche, so I apologize for lying.
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Name some of your favorite literary film adaptions.
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>>8721416
Bela Tarr's Satantango
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Diary of a Country Priest, The Secret Garden, the 2005 Pride and Prejudice, The Makioka Sisters
I'm not really a movie person t b h
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Philip K Dick adaptations tend to make good films. Minority Report, Blade Runner, A Scanner Darkly...
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Where is art going?
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Stop reifying me!
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>>8721357
nowhere, art has been arriven
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the art of New Populism is literarily memes, with pepe "the nazi frog" now destined for the art history textbooks, i say this is pretty fuckin' rad thbqh wit u famalam
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I realize it's popular to shit on reddit royalty, but is anyone else particularly bothered by the pale blue dot speech by Sagan? It's just plain old nihilism / will-negation, no?
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>>8721352
It is written from the perspective of the vastness of space, which can make humanity seem trivial by comparison. It is certainly psychedelic.
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>>8721352
>It's just plain old nihilism / will-negation
Whatever you feel as a consequence of that perspective, you can't deny that perspective is reality.
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>>8721379
My point was along the lines of he's saying nothing new and something that's been wrestled with for centuries, but people make it seem like it's salient. We didn't need an actual picture of Earth to get the impression of a meaningless universe. There's been better answers than "let's just avoid all suffering since nothing matters".
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What is the best edition of Ulysses?
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>>8721295
One that is burning. Joyce (inveterate alcoholic and failed doctor) shall entice you to sin. Find a bible, son. You need it.
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>>8721318
this
also, Vintage Classics or Penguin Modern Classics
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Is the Penguin annotated student edition good?
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Bout to read this, what y'all bout to read.
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I'm in between books while the fucking mail takes its sweet ass time
Currently anxiously awaiting Zama by Antonio di Benedetto
Super excited to read it
Supposed to arrive Tuesday but the order tracking says it's already in my city so hopefully it gets here tomorrow
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>>8721303
http://www.nyrb.com/collections/classics/products/zama
Looks good I might check it out.
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>>8721347
Yea the translation just came out at the end of august and I meant to get it earlier but completely forgot
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Why do so many young people seem to antibook or antireading?
I constantly hear things like;
>I'm not a book person
>I'm just not into reading
>I can't get into the stories
Like, are these people just intellectually fucked? I know plenty of seemingly intellectual people who are non-readers, is their intellect all a ruse?
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>>8721281
they aren't socialized to read on their own time but they still feel guilty about it and need to come up with hand-wavy reasons for why they dont because theyre miserable wrecks tormented by inconsistent and conflicting ideals on all sides
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>>8721293
Sides? Yeah, I'll have Italian Wedding soup, please.
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>>8721293
Haha hell yeah, I was young, I felt this once.