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>Out of all the possible dumb material in the Universe you happen to occupy the small amount that are heavy atoms
>Out of all the vast amount of molecules in the universe you happen to occupy the miniscule amount that compose a living being
>out of all the microbial and single celled lifeforms you happen to be born as a conscious animal
>out of all the conscious animals throughout all the billion years of life in Earths history you happen to be born as the only one ever capable of reflecting on this fact
Can a non-religious writer explain this without falling back on just declaring it an unfathomable fluke?
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>>9935230
>you happen to
You happen to be a prat
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>>9935240
Hahahhahhaa! Boom Boom!
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>>9935230
This makes no sense. Some HAS to be you,and "someone"has to be that dog and that rock etc
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Sup, /lit/!
So I finally made it. I am a proud ESL student, who's ready to go through big texts and, in theory, enjoy the language as it is. I'm tired of reading opinion journalism and news articles. I'm gonna take a crack at reading English/American literature.
However, I have a very poor experience. In fact, I've read only one book (some bulshit novel "Outsiders"). So a little help could be useful. i browsed through your advicelist and it is a little bit irrelevant to my goals.
What I need is a good or excellent contemporary novel by a native English speaker. I want to kick off with easy‐to‐read language, though it's not a mandatory requirement. I prefer novels, stories. I'm not a fan of sci‐fi or fantasy.
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Anything by Steinbeck
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>>9928578
Thanks. Could anyone expand the list with another 2 or 3 authors?
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>>9928814
>other 2 or 3
fix
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>get literary revelation
>chuckle gloatingly to myself 'haha the pen is mightier than the sword indeed'
>grab pen and paper quickly to write it down before it fades from my reclusive disconnected dysfunctional creative brain
>pen empty
>confoundyouheisenberg.jpg
>always be outside on the move when inspiration strikes
>insistently remind self to write it down when I get home
>step through doors
>memory buffer erased, mind starts filling with chore and unproductive comfort impulses.
>try to write down what it was
>the second one steps through the door it's gone or it has lost its euphoric luster or it's imperfectly remembered and the whole thing in its perfect configuration is now out of reach and what you do remember no longer is but a puppet theater recreation of the perfect unity and charge it had when it struck.
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dude. do you not have a phone?
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>>9928569
>>always be outside on the move when inspiration strikes
>>insistently remind self to write it down when I get home
any reason you didn't start bringing a notebook with you the first time this happened?
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>>9928590
I do but even so it is impractical when biking long distances, especially when you get that euphoric cycling high tunnel vision but at the same time there is nothing better for literary inspiration than having the sun on the face while experiencing this cycling high.
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Never forget
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xryu0eX2TcLTafLcWo25wdNaUQ2zY_BMSGvEDvLZ4Ks/edit
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did yoy virus me
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some of these are genius
abony williams is the hero we need
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>TFW reading Spinoza's Ethics.
>Its literally gibberish.
Wtf. How do I understand this?
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>>9928470
Deleuze my friend
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Welcome to philosophy.
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smoke heroin
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Which living author do you think has jumped ship from publishing serious literature to posting anonymous memes?
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Me desu
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>>9928389
something doesnt seem right about this picture. overweight people are fucking disgusting.
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>>9928395
Old hags are yeah
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I've been learning Arabic for a while and want to start getting into some literature to become more confident with reading and writing in this language. Short stories, novels, classic tales, and important historical and cultural works all welcome. If you can give me beginners' and intermediate texts, I would appreciate it.
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google it n*rd
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Al Jazeera since it's all proper MSA is a good way to get material.
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>>9928392
I've been reading various news articles for too long and I can read them without difficulty. I want to get into some actual lit.
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Folks...
I need a book that will completely change me and grant me insane knowledge about the world.
Last (similar) books I read like this...
>Phenomenology of spirit
>Meditations
>The Prince
Go, go, go!
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Myst : The Book of Artrus
Thank me later
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The Bible
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>>9928275
start with the greeks
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A short gloss of Notes from Underground:
A man will be agonized in the simultaneous pursuit of two different lives with two different goals for living.
In particular a minor civil servant who seeks neither promotion nor pay raise visits a whore house despite his saintly aspirations, and in the process experiences immense pain and the faint glow of a quickly self-sabotaged hope over and over again.
It is thus a portrayal of self-loathing, popular on account of the ubiquity of this experience, but meaningful on account of this particular cause: the simultaneous pursuit of two lives which are, ultimately, mutually exclusive.
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>>9928264
Literally me
I'm looking for books that involve the sea. Stuff with ships(modern or old), pirates, adventures at sea, really anything to do with it. Stuff I've gone through that I can think of right now are:
Moby Dick
Robinson Crusoe
Castaway
Treasure Island
Gulliver's Travels
The Sea
Old Man and the Sea
The Sea is my Brother
Probably a few others I forgot to mention. I have my eye on those Master and Commander books, also The Republic of Pirates by Woodard.
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Life of Pi? Haven't read it myself and have no idea if it's well regarded on here, but it fits the description.
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Robin Hobb's Liveship trader books are bloody amazing. My personal favourite "sea adventures" novels out of everything (including the classics).
Ships that are themselves alive, characters in their own right and surprisingly complex at that. Lots of trading, pirates and so on.
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Ulysses.
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I'm new to reading, and i want to read some good books. My two favorite books are 11/22/63 by Stephen King and 1984 by George Orwell. Could i please get some recs?
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you seem to like numbers in the title so i'd recommend 2666 by roberto bolano
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I recommend you fard on my dick
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start with the greeks
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>Plato is better than Aristotle.
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>>9928220
He is you analytic faggot
Go jerkoff to the the organon and suck the meaning out if life you dull fuck
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>>9928220
And what is the point of this thread?
Are you trying to start a meme-off?
Are you trying to contribute to this boared's culture?
Doubtful.
Buddy, whether Plato or Aristotle were better doesn't matter. It doesn't need a thread. This board does not need you. Fact of life. Heh, maybe if you had lurked more you woulda known that. But look, you're trying to meme and I get that, I was a big memer myself in the day, but your technique is all wrong. The minimalism is impressive, but reflects the limitations of your own intelligence too glaringly to pass beyond anything more than being "Humorous" (I use the word loosely).
Listen kid, your life is probably shit compared to mine and your intelligence is probably far belong my own, so it's unlikely you'll understand, but just try. Your thread is shit. It proves that you are shit. You like logic? well there's a logical phormula. itproves YOU ARE SHIT. Yeah, that's right, welcome to the water. What were you thinking while making this thread? OoohoooOhooh, this will be clever?? Did you really think that? Well it itsn't, and you aren't, and that's no surprise to anyone.
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They're both awful.
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thinking of reading One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, what are your guys opinions?
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Sometimes a Great Notion is a much better book by Kesey
I think the film eclipses the novel for cuckoo desu
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I actually just recently read both One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and Sometimes A Great Notion. I thought Cuckoo's Nest was a very good book. Some people (like >>9928227) will tell you that Notion is better. But I personally found Cuckoo's Nest to be more enjoyable. Notion takes bigger risks stylistically and it demands more of the reader I'd say. Some people might enjoy that more. It just didn't seem to resonate with me as much as Cuckoo's Nest did.
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>>9928216
That life is short and you should only read classics of western canon and spend the rest of your time advancing in the work place and trying to have sex with young women
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People believing in god in 2017.....
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>Here was God’s plenty, all right, he thought bitterly as he stared — liver, lungs, kidneys, ribs, stomach and bits of the stewed tomatoes Snowden had eaten that day for lunch.
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>>9928157
that whole passage was fucking killer
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>>9928157
It's a reference to the stewed tomatoes: they were divine.
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<considers himself a reader
<hasn't read Joseph Mcelroy yet
fucking kill yourself
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A wax sculpture
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>>9928139
Jesus Christ this woman is hideous.
wouldnotkillmyselffor/10
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>>9928139
I don't read anyone who was born after the 19th century.