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>>8602855
yes. You should be reading books that bring you metaphysical truths, not theological truths.

>>8602855
>>8602895
You both think in terms of "truths" rather than ideas or viewpoints

>>8602898
That's the only way to think, friend

Ah, the Penguin is Bad memester.

>>8602846
Stop spouting this shitty meme

>>8602846
>not a stupid Penguin edition
wew lad

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That was lame.

>>8602845

t. Polish scum

>>8602859
Shut up.

>>8602752
There is literally nothing you could read about this book to prepare you. This book wasn't meant to be interpreted, but experienced.

>>8602752
the correct answer is "everything joyce read" because he basically drew on everything he had. outside of, maybe, vico, there's no single one thing that's meaningfully more important than anythign else. everything that you do read aids a smidgen with understanding more of fw, but there's really no one text (besides, as mentioned, vico) that will give you a big boost.

>>8602758
>>8602764
Cool, thanks for the hot Vico tip. FW is sort of an asymptotic goal of mine since I only started reading seriously about a year ago. So good to know that I wasn't far off in terms of not interpreting/"getting" everything.

I think that's basically right.

>>8602748
'Intuition' can mean a faculty of the mind, or the representations received via that faculty. As a faculty it roughly corresponds to perception: it's passive, and receives impressions. These impressions, the sensory manifold, are then molded via the forms of intuition, space and time. Pure intuition then perceives the form of space and time alone, absent any 'matter' from impressions, and allows us to do math. The representations received, either in pure intuition or from organized sensory impressions, are also called intuitions.

>>8602823
Listen to this guy

Also, intuition is a notoriously peculiar choice of term by Norman Kemp Smith, and many have argued with it, but it's still in use because generations of Kant readers came up with it and it's hard to change such a central term now

Just be careful that you aren't confusing the distinction between intuition/cognition as "raw sense data" which somehow enters the mind. Like the guy above says, intuition is structured.

A lot less homoerotic than expected.

>>8602755

Why would you expect homoeroticism?

>>8603072
Fuck you

Tolkien SUCKS
Seamus or bust

>>8602715
To his defence, he never meant for it to be published.

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>>8602703
They're all worth reading. I can read the original, but I still enjoy finding new versions of that poem. Here's my Beowulf-related stack.

>>8602693
I've heard dos passos mentioned a few times but never cared enough to check him out. What's his writing style like? Which current meme would you compare him to?

>>8602817
In USA at least, there are chapter openings of spliced headlines and popular songs and things (it sort of invented the "press montage" thing that movies do all the time), there are occasional short vignettes which I think are what he's best at, and then the main meat of the novel are large chunks of plain and standard American prose which follow a bunch of characters in mosaic form, which intersect and separate. And overall it follows the progression of the general social and political mood of America. The characters are cartoony caricatures or plain realist portrayals, there's not a lot of middleground. General atmosphere is folksy-quaint and folksy-cynical.

>>8602817
>I've heard dos passos mentioned a few times but never cared enough to check him out. What's his writing style like? Which current meme would you compare him to?

Manhattan Transfer is very much the American equivalent to Alexander Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz. Never seen it mentioned here, which is a shame

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>>8602599
The OED is divided up into separate books. V 5 is H words: How through Hug.

Never doubt Norm.

>>8602599
>>8602607
[from] "how" to "hug"
I kekked

>>8602607
Thanks, my feeble brain couldn't piece that one together.

they're stronger than a comma but lighter than a period

Semicolons are great.

That sounds stupid but seriously, I'm a big fan of them.

>>8602484
read the first page of Mrs. Dalloway.

>>8602446

Agoraphobia can be caused by an expansive space that creates anxiety and a feeling of danger within a person. Doesn't mean specifically claustrophobia, but does include the same type of phobic anxiety.

>>8602452
Agoraphobia means a fear of public spaces or people however, which isn't what I want.

Diffused?
I dunno man, smoke some weed.

Planning on read Saint Ignatius next.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1FzSC8DBs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a6-u_6dZ8M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ9xzi0HebI

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Here we go, friendos.

>>8602391
this man, in my country he is nothing.
people in the street laugh at him
he is read by people of old only

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>>8602391
Worst murakami, bar none. You're in for a promising story that disappoints and feels unfinished.
Pic related.

>>8602427
I agree. I think Murakami really needed an editor for this. It's way too long and I don't think the dual narrative stuff is really all that necessary

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Pic related, New American Library Edition.

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It's the "stock version" I suppose, but I genuinely like Longfellow's best

>>8602380
Son of a bitch, my phone's never rotated the pic before like that, dunno why it's doing it now or how to fix it. Sorry.

Comics.

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>>8602355

>>8602355
Twilight
Hunger games