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Melancholy After Finishing Book 2016-10-19 18:58:22 Post No.8636586
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Melancholy After Finishing Book
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2016-10-19 18:58:22
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Is it normal to feel very sad after finishing a book? I just finished M&D and I liked it so much that I'm having a hard time finding the motivation to read anything else.
How do you overcome this, if it happens to you?
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i just never finish anything
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>>8636590
I seriously considered that as i began the final chapter but decided against it.
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Was Algernon Swinburne the best nineteenth-century poet in English?
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Yeats, Whitman and Hardy I think have better claim to that.
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>>8636521
how many of them fucked and ate a monkey?
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English as in from England? Or wrote in English?
Browning
Coleridge
Keats
Shelley
Tennyson
Frost
Yeats
Whitman
All better. That isn't to say that swinburne isn't a great poet.
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I remember reading about this poet who once woke up from a dream and wrote like 60 verses of a poem, which he said was never able to complete again, or recall where they came from.
Warning this may be in a fictional (Borges?) but for some reason I remember it wasn't. Maybe it's more like a legend.
Who was the author? I can't remember...
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>>8636439
yeah yeah, eat some mushrooms, write best story ever seen.
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43991
Probably this, I think he was on opium/shrooms. The only reason I remember this was my english teacher in high school went on about Kubla Khan and how cool it was and the guy who did it was on drugs.
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Kublai Kahn by Coleridge? I know Borges wrote about it
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Are the DFW and David Lipsky full tapes available anywhere?
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I couldn't find them. Have you seen the end of the tour?
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>>8636357
Bummer.
I will if it turns out that there's no access to them publicly or semi-publicly.
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>>8636357
What did you think of the movie, by the way?
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Are you ready for the book of the century?
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I hope the plastic condomy cover is as durable as my semen needs it to be
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am i the only one who tries to avoid using the book's actual title when i search for it online?
julian assange is watching
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My penis is ready
What are some great and inspiring biographies?
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Stalin by Henri Barbusse
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>>8636321
Why? Is he portrayed as anything other than a monster?
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my diary desu
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Can someone recommend a translation of The Epic of Gilgamesh? I've heard something about a new tablet being bought and translated or some such recently from my history professor.
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>>8636273
My professor's given us Stephanie Dalley in the Oxford World's Classics' Myths from Mesopotamia. That wouldn't contain the new lines though.
I myself have a Penguin copy. I forget who the translator is, but it's thicker than their other Gilgamesh option, and has a Babylonian dragon as the cover art. This version features all the Gilgamesh texts- not only the Standard Version, but also the Old Babylonian and Hittite fragments, as well as the Sumerian poems. I'd get that one honestly. It wouldn't have the new lines though of course.
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>>8636286
https://www.amazon.com/Epic-Gilgamesh-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140449191/
This is the one.
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>>8636273
>translation
Someone must say it.
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>finally find that ebook I've been searching for for at least twenty minutes
>it's a pdf
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>>8636182
want an epub?
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>>8636190
If you can find a good epub or mobi of Wilson's Prometheus Rising I will be eternally grateful.
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What's so bad about pdfs?
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I just got 1/40 in my English Exam, What did i do wrong? (Picture is not related towards the current matter, i just had to add a photo.)
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>>8635927
Is that Serbian or Russian uniform?
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u just lazy
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>>8635942
I'm quite certain it's a USSR Uniform.
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>Shakespeare's weakness lies in his complete deficiency in that highest sphere of thought, in which poetry embraces religion, philosophy, morality (...) his characters have no religion, no politics, no conscience, no hope, no convictions of any sort (...) there is no leading thought or inspiration for which any man could conceivably risk the spoiling of his hat in a shower, much less his life.
Talentless hack Shakespeare BTFO
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>>8635902
omg guys, see this quote I disagree with xD
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george bernard shaw quote, hm
awfully dumb thing to say, its so obviously wrong, anyone who's read even one play by shakespeare could refute all of it. sage.
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>>8635902
He includes all of these topics, just not blunt and clearly visible. Fags like you who can't read between the lines to find hidden meanings will never see it. Go back to reading Magic Tree House.
BTFO.
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Will their books be as influential in the future as someone like Karl Marx?
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>>8635888
They don't have an original thought between them
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>>8635888
that blue quote is completely reliant on a presupposed image of religion that sounds more like a new age cult than anything found in real life.
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>>8635888
Why is Ben Stiller considered a scholar now?
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so what was this all about?
I feel like I'm missing something obvious.
at least I learned that balls kinda look like eyes, I guess.
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>>8635766
You -did- toss off, right Anon?
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>>8635766
https://uglywords.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/roland-barthes-the-metaphor-of-the-eye/
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/tv/ doesn´t respond
>>The spectator must need no thoughts of his own: the product prescribes each reaction, not through any actual coherence-which collapses once exposed to thought-but through signals. Any logical connection presupposing mental capacity is scrupulously avoided. Developments are to emerge from the directly preceding situation, not from the idea of the whole. There is no plot which could withstand the screenwriters' eagerness to extract the maximum effect from the individual scene. Finally, even the schematic formula seems dangerous, since it provides some coherence of meaning, however meager, when only meaninglessness is aaceptable. Often the plot is willfully denied the development called for by characters and theme under the old schema. Instead, the next step is determined by what the writers take to be their most effective idea. Obtusely ingenious surprises disrupt the plot. The product's tendency to fall back perniciously on the pure nonsense which, as buffoonery and clowning, was a legitimate parr of popular art up to Chaplin and the Marx brothers, emerges moststrikingly in the less sophisticated genres. Whereas the films of Greer Garson and Bette Davis can still derive someclaim to a coherent plot from the unity of the socio-psychological case represented, the tendency to subvert meaning has taken over completely in the text of novelty songs, suspense films, and canoons. The idea itself, like objects in comic and horror films, is massacred and mutilated
What do you think about (t)his argumentation and culture industry in general?
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>>8635740
Heh I'm redpilled, kid.
Want to know what the redpill thinks about Frankfurt school??? You can't handle it it shows how globalism is Hillary loving and whiteness disappear
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i'm too le dumb to understand desu
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>>8635751
damn...
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Is the 2007 anniversary edition of The Hobbit much different from the original?
I'm looking to get into Tolkien and I thought I'd start here
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>>8635719
it has the same words more or less
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>>8635754
except for the weird decision to translate chapter 8 into mandarin chinese
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>>8635786
>weird
It's completely natural and conveys Tolkien's intention as good if not better as the original version. It's really not much different for it.
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There's no good reason to not include this in the meme trilogy. 2016-10-19 12:36:01 Post No.8635681
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There's no good reason to not include this in the meme trilogy.
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>Long.
>Difficult.
>Pomo.
>Pynchon.
>Has yet to be read and discussed by anyone.
>Not many people have read it.
>No one who replies to this thread will have read it.
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I have read it
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but then it wouldnt be a trilogy
it would be a tetralogy
and pynchon already has a book in it
and this was published like 9 years after infinite jest
the meme trilogy books were written decades apart
have you no sense of balance???
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I've read about 200 pages of it, it's really good from what I've read I just couldn't finish it after only just finishing M&D a few weeks prior.