What are some novels about eating disorders? I want to develop one.
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>>8592138
Literally middle school girl tier.
All the literate girls have self-diagnosed spectrum disorders.
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>>8592138
Just start doing speed! It's fun and cool! Not meth though: meth makes you bad.
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>>8592149
Speed? Why?
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Are these collections worth buying? I am thinking of getting the Austen and Dickens sets. Has anyone bought them?
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just buy used paperbacks, you fag.
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>>8592087
quality is pretty good, the foil inlay flakes a little bit but I think it's made to do that for a worn aesthetic.
they're like a notch under Everyman's Editions in terms of hardcover quality, which is good
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>>8592094
It won't look good on the shelf though.
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What does /lit/ think if pic related? Father of English literature? A shameless imitator? The greatest poet ever lived?
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>This Absolon gan wype his mouth ful drie.
>Derk was the nyght as pich, or as the cole,
>And at the wyndow out she putte hir hole,
>And Absolon, hym fil no bet ne wers,
>But with his mouth he kiste hir naked ers
>Ful savourly, er he were war of this.
>Abak he stirte, and thoughte it was amys,
>For wel he wiste a womman hath no berd.
wtf i love hairy pussy now!
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>>8592096
>A berd! A berd!
kills me every time, desu. chaucer was fucking hilarious
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>>8592120
Chaucer's greatest mistake is not finishing the Cook's Tale tbhfam. 3 farces in a row would be glorious.
Is mysticism the answer?
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>>8592080
"no"
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>>8592080
"yes"
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Answer for what?
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Just started reading the Ramayana. Any good secondary /lit/ for it? Or other hindu myths i should read?
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The Upanisads and the Mahabaratta (or at least the Bhagavad Gita).
Not exactly myths, but certainly fundamental texts of Hinduism.
But why would you post a pic of Buddah in an Hindu thread?
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>>8592048
this is the sate of western buddhism. Women pollute buddhism and then they claim that they can be enlightened while all they mix is just their everlasting quest for more pleasure, less accountability with a bit a meditation to get rest.
2016-10-04 Inside the Great Heart 44:00
Erin Treat
Mindfulness and compassionate action as it relates to our theme, "Reclaiming the Wisdom of the Mother of All Buddhas".
Spirit Rock Meditation Center : Reclaiming the Wisdom of the Mother of All Buddhas: A Women's Retreat
http://dharmaseed.org/talks/
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>>8592115
Don't have pictures of Rama
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Why are there so many old black women as English teachers? And why do they make pretty good English teachers?
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I have not had this experience and I don't trust you
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>>8592010
I've never had a black English teacher but I did have a middle aged, going on older black woman for my philosophy 101 course. She was pretty good. The sex was great.
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>>8592010
I can truthfully say I've never had a black teacher or professor. I've had two Indian professors and two Chinese, but otherwise they've all been white.
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Where should I start with Ratzinger/Benedict? I want to go ahead and read a future Doctor of the Church.
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>>8591987
Why would you want to read anything from the man who fucked up the Nicene Creed?
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>>8592262
He is one of the greatest theologians alive.
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>>8591987
Introduction to Christianity
Jesus of Nazareth trilogy
Spirit of Liturgy
His encyclicals
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What does /lit/ think of spritz?
I've been using it recently, but I don't use it to read at higher speed. Instead, I set it to my normal reading speed. I discovered that, using this method, I can even read a whole book ( with less than 200 page ) without stoping, and I definitly wouldn't be able to do this reading a PDF or a normal book.
Is there anything wrong with it ?
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gonna try reading a chapter of some book with it, sounds like a great idea OP
i predict it will help with reducing times when you lose attention
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>>8591938
Bump for curiosity. Is there an easy way to stop/rewind? Like if I hear a noise and look away I'm pretty fucked otherwise, right? I was always curious about that part of their UX but never checked it out.
Also, does staring at the screen hurt your eyes? My eyes get tired using the computer after a while, but they aren't trained to the same screen position so I wonder how that'd be different.
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>>8591938
>Is there anything wrong with it?
Yes, little to no reading comprehension. You'll forget most of the book in a week, and you won't get anything meaningful from it. Honestly, if you're reading for pleasure, why would you do this? Even if you're not doing it to read at a higher speed, that's what you're still doing with this method. Just take baby steps if your attention span is that low.
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Hey /lit/
I'm picking up a reading habit again and have a question. I'm about to start reading a classic I've been meaning to get to for some time. I want to read it to enjoy it for itself but I can't help thinking, fantasing, about how impressive it will look that I've read it. I want to separate myself from this completly and enjoy art for its own sake not something as base as how people see me for it. Obviously it has something to do with insecurity that's no secret to me. I'm curious if others here have had serious issues. Do you guys find it hard to seperste yourself from this idea? It looks so impressive because no one reads, and the people that do don't go near authors like this. I place myself in a minority once the book is done and I fear that's all I care about, having another book on my personal shelf and if that's the sake how can I really say I experienced the piece as its meant to be experienced?
Thoughts?
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>>8591919
*the same issues≠serious issues
Typo
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>>8591919
all pseuds read to look smart
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>>8591919
find religion
imagine that you are pleasing God every time you forego an opportunity to aggrandize yourself
It works
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How do I woo a literary jewess?
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>>8591874
>Stefan Zweig
>Austerlitz
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>>8591874
In my experience, Vonnegut and contemporary liberal ideals.
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Be the best available option
You got a nice car?
How's your father look?
Any genetic illnesses?
You'd better have a white collar job
Say goodbye to your foreskin
Don't mention The Shoah.
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I have no time for pretentious premium-cable dramas written by failed Great American Novelists who throw in allusions to books they were assigned in college so they can feel like they've involved with something high-brow. These shows are pseudoserious counterfeits that buy cheap seriousness with allusions to The Bible and great literature and throw Christian imagery on the screen so you feel like there's something grave happening, when really nothing is happening. When I want art, I go to good art, and when I want trash, I go to good trash. I don't have time for what aspires to one or the other and falls short.
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That's me, I wrote that, and I stand by it.
If you think it's snooty, then you're on the wrong board.
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>>8591859
Ait, i'll keep that in mind.
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Daddy used to rain on me and he wouldn't stop
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Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.
Just compare heart, beard, and heard,
Dies and diet, lord and word,
Sword and sward, retain and Britain.
(Mind the latter, how it’s written.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak;
Cloven, oven, how and low,
Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.
Hear me say, devoid of trickery,
Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,
Exiles, similes, and reviles;
Scholar, vicar, and cigar,
Solar, mica, war and far;
One, anemone, Balmoral,
Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel;
Gertrude, German, wind and mind,
Scene, Melpomene, mankind.
Billet does not rhyme with ballet,
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.
Blood and flood are not like food,
Nor is mould like should and would.
Viscous, viscount, load and broad,
Toward, to forward, to reward.
And your pronunciation’s OK
When you correctly say croquet,
Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,
Friend and fiend, alive and live.
Ivy, privy, famous; clamour
And enamour rhyme with hammer.
River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,
Doll and roll and some and home.
Stranger does not rhyme with anger,
Neither does devour with clangour.
Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,
Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant,
Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,
And then singer, ginger, linger,
Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge,
Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.
Query does not rhyme with very,
Nor does fury sound like bury.
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth.
Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath.
Though the differences seem little,
We say actual but victual.
Refer does not rhyme with deafer.
Fe0ffer does, and zephyr, heifer.
Mint, pint, senate and sedate;
Dull, bull, and George ate late.
Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,
Science, conscience, scientific.
Liberty, library, heave and heaven,
Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.
We say hallowed, but allowed,
People, leopard, towed, but vowed.
Mark the differences, moreover,
Between mover, cover, clover;
Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,
Chalice, but police and lice;
Camel, constable, unstable,
Principle, disciple, label.
Petal, panel, and canal,
Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.
Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,
Senator, spectator, mayor.
Tour, but our and succour, four.
Gas, alas, and Arkansas.
Sea, idea, Korea, area,
Psalm, Maria, but malaria.
Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean.
Doctrine, turpentine, marine.
Compare alien with Italian,
Dandelion and battalion.
Sally with ally, yea, ye,
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.
Say aver, but ever, fever,
Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver.
Heron, granary, canary.
Crevice and device and aerie.
Face, but preface, not efface.
Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass.
Cont.
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>>8591831
gay.
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fuck me, OP. fuck me like a semiquaver does to a whole note
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Large, but target, gin, give, verging,
Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging.
Ear, but earn and wear and tear
Do not rhyme with here but ere.
Seven is right, but so is even,
Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,
Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,
Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.
Pronunciation (think of Psyche!)
Is a paling stout and spikey?
Won’t it make you lose your wits,
Writing groats and saying grits?
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel:
Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale,
Islington and Isle of Wight,
Housewife, verdict and indict.
Finally, which rhymes with enough,
Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough?
Hiccough has the sound of cup.
My advice is to give up!!!
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>Expect an epic struggle of man vs nature, themes of revenge, battles against sea monsters at sea etc.
>it's just a 1000 page account of whaling strategies, boating and bunch of other boring nautical facts
what the fug
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>>8591801
>being such a pleb not to enjoy the try-works and a squeeze of the hand
you have to go back.
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>>8591801
It's a meme
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>reading for plot
It's the prose, man.
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>a confederacy of dunces
more like, a hegemony of dumbasses LMAO
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>>8591790
aha... thanks dave. always a pleasure.
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>>8591790
a coalition of dimwits?
a bevy of brainless?
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A United States of America?
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Feeling like sharing this with you guys, currently there's Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, Kant & Schopenhauer and a bunch of Oxford related Handbooks in it, but I just started uploading 2 hours ago.
Going to bump a lot of philosophy related articles/PDFs in this mega folder.
https://mega.nz/#F!MQBRHBJA!L_on3h-XUrtbc719UaMygw
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>>8591673
Thank you for this. We really do need a comprehensive e-library for most important philosophers' oeuvres.
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>>8591673
Who is Key Logger?
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>>8591709
wat?