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>Emma Watson Has Taken to Hiding Free Books on Public Transit.
>http://time.com/4554660/emma-watson-instagram-book-club/?xid=time_socialflow_facebook
>"If you’re traveling by London tube, you might come across some hidden free book gems along the way: Emma Watson has been craftily placing 100 paperback copies of beloved writer Maya Angelou’s Mom & Me & Mom around the busy stations.
>The Beauty and the Beast actor and U.N. Goodwill Ambassador heads up an open, feminist book club, called “My Shared Shelf”—and the Angelou autobiography is November’s read. To make it happen, Watson partnered with Books on the Underground, a “community project” that regular drops free books in unexpected spots around London’s tube network."
Why do celebrities feel the need to push their ideologies in the public sphere?
Do you approve or disapprove of Watson's actions and/or choice of literature to distribute freely to the underprivileged plebs of London?
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>>8685845
If I ever become a millionaire, I'll be distributing copies of Mein Kampf for free.
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>>8685845
Toilet paper for bums (pun intended)
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>>8685853
Someone needs to do this or drop them from a cargo plane over a heavily populated area. Not even for people to read just for the act of carpet bombing using Mein Kamp
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What is Ralph Waldo Emerson's best essay?
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>>8685781
Nature 2bh.
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>>8685781
History and Self Reliance are my favorites, but I could just be gay.
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Found him extremely challenging, tried to read Nature but gave up halfway through it (and its less than 100 pages).
For some reason I remember thinking I had to read Plato and then Coleridge and Wordsworth to get him.
What are some novels or stories that have a profound connection between a human and animal? With themes such as mutual suffering, empathy, mercy etc.
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call of the wild
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a passion in the desert is pretty good
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Nietzsche's "why I have sex with horses" is a seminal classic of the genre
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Are there any great writers who never actually read much? Every writer seems to have started early and even though i read a lot, it makes me feel hopeless because i just started to really get into reading in my early 20s.
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I wonder what Homer read?
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>>8685737
probably dabbled with an oral-fable group.
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>>8685737
interracial cuckolding erotica
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I just got my first Publishing Proposal and have no idea what to do
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I'm nervous, /lit/. I just got a publishing proposal for the first time in my life.
>I was happy until
I read they want me to buy 200 copies of my own novel that "I will later sell in events for the recommended retail price (a few bucks higher than what I'll pay)".
Is this standard procedure or am I being scammed? The publishing house is not indie.
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What the fuck publishing house are you with? Literally every sales scheme that makes you buy into it is a scam, no exceptions.
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>>8685683
sounds like horseshit.
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>>8685683
seems so incredibly legit, only a fool would not do it!
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When it comes to choosing what to read, I suffer from compulsive indecisiveness. I want to use my autistic powers to read and study the entire body of work of one of the following men:
>Ludwig Wittgenstein
>D. H. Lawrence
>Vladimir Nabokov
>George Orwell
>Aristotle
>Lord Byron
Please help me decide. I have already tried rolling dice and flipping coins but it has gotten to the point where it is no longer random. I will answer any questions to help narrow the list.
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Wittgenstein
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>>8685580
Aristotle is the best one of that list, but I'd have to say Nabokov
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>>8685592
There are a lot of collections of unpublished material.
>"I have finally become the Übermensch"
Jesus Christ, really?
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Not with that hairline, Fred
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>>8685459
>"Gods not real, but if he was, I'd beat him up."
Damn
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>Nah, come on, man. Some straight like you, giant stick up his ass all a sudden at age, what, 60, he's just gonna A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?
Threw the book down
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Philosophy of Aesthetics
Just bought Hegel's lectures on aesthetics and Aristotle's poetics.
What am I in for /lit/?
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>>8685458
Lectures on aesthetics and Aristotle's poetics, probably.
Here's a thought: why don't you read what you've bought and start a discussion afterwards?
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A bunch of theories that you will find irreverent after reading the book.
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>>8685499
fpbp btfo retard op haha
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How come so many latin proverbs still permeate around the globe, while supposedly superior, 1000 times folded ancient greek not at all? Is latin simply a more beautiful language?
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Latin is the core of the romance language, and was also widely spoken in Europe for centuries.
Most Greek stuff was translated into Latin.
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>>8685449
latin is so concise and pretty
uguu~~
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>>8685498
heh
reminds me of the time that guy posted form the Vatican on /pol/
I started browsing /lit/ when I was 16. I am 18 now. Is it too late for me to become /lit/?
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>>8685355
No, all you have to do is stop browsing lit
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>>8685371
I've been reading books in the meantime, though.
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>>8685374
Good, stop browsing lit. The boatd is filled with idiots
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Does anyone here take a few minutes to just smell their books before they start reading them? It really gets me in the mood to read for a long time after taking a nice big whiff of my book.
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I like the smell of my own shit.
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>>8684942
I like the smell of your shit.
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>>8684935
Yes.
Old books are the best
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don't feel like we finished the thread before it was deleted.
i'm a writer on a kids show. the show is about a cow living on a farm away from the city.
ask me anything.
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>>8684826
Stop thinking you're important
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>>8684826
I'll bump your thread just because I think you're a nice person.
How are the cow's city adventures going?
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>>8684826
How do you come up with ideas for a plot?
Seems really abstract, but it is a children's show
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Did you know that Jack Kerouac was practically a NEET his entire life?
>"In 1950 he [at the age of 28] moved with his mother to 94-21 134th Street in Richmond Hill, Queens. The upstairs apartment they moved into is not far from the Ozone Park apartment. They would live there for about five years"
Who are some other famous literary NEETs?
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Borges
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He obviously wasn't a NEET?
Living with your mother doesn't axiomatically mean you're a NEET. He obviously was writing, and for all intents and purposes was pretty good at it too.
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>>8684688
He barely worked throughout his life, only picking up part-time jobs when he had to. His elderly widow mother went to work full-time in a shoe factory while he stayed at home LARPing for millenials.
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Brothers I've read 2 parts of Crime and Punishment so far and I've heard it's highly philosophical but I really don't see much philosophical writing rather than Dostoevsky just writing about the events that occur and furthering the plot, with a few instances of self reflection thrown in. Does it get deeper as the story goes on?
I'm not saying I'm not enjoying it, I am.
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>>8684621
Is this a troll chart?
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>>8684649
I sure hope so, the whole chart is total pleb baby crap.
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>>8684655
It's in the sticky. I guess it's out dated
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Who writes the best French prose?
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James Joyce
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>>8684520
My project for next year is the huge Emile Zola series.
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in all seriousness Camus
having simple and concise sentences is only the façade to the infinite beauty of the prose