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>>8517209
have you spent more reading it then posting images of it yet?

>>8517222
no but nice trips
i got it a week ago

>>8517209
I think the longest I've ever read was about 600-700 pages (?) But the longest i own is the seventh Harry Potter

Elementary school teachers explain it as a letter substitution.

'doesnot it' is a mouthful, 'does'nt it' is meaningless since 'nt' is meaningless.

>>8517196
"Doesn't it" was just a remark that it's actually grammatically ugly.
And I didn't learn english through school, maybe the basics.

So what you just said is hollow of meaning to me.
"letter substitution" doesn't show up on google nor is it self-explanatory.

The 'why' can't be cause some famous retarded wrote >n't instead of " >'nt. And then others followed suite, can it?

>>8517189
The o is getting erased

There is no letter between 'does' and 'not' that is getting erased

Therefore the ' replaces the o

Now I'm sure somebody is going to try to refute this because this is the Internet or whatever and there's nothing that fourteen-year-old fedora lords like to do better than forming arguments about shit they don't know anything about, but this is literally the answer

Thoroughly enjoyed it. I've watched through the first eight or so episodes of the first season, but that's it. The books were just so comfy and fun, I don't even want to bother with the TV series.

>>8517182

It was looking good, three books in. Now it is the biggest disaster in the history of fiction.

3 > 1 > 2 = 5 >> 4

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>>8517141
>reading gays

>>8517147
nothing wrong with being gay, faggot

I like walking past the shelf in the uni library where In Search of Lost Time is. The first volume is always checked out and the other ones never are.

>>8517109
On-line poetry generators.

THOSE WERE FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR SUNGLASSES, ASSHOLE

John Cage.

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>>8517102
>he thinks artificially restricting his own vocabulary makes him look less insecure

>And
>But
>For

>he doesn't tangibilitate his utilization of words

>>8517093
Kill yourself, anime pedo degenerate

JR by Gaddis

Karl ova. Duh

>>8517080
Nope. A Machiavellian revelation.

That's the point, you putz. It's like you're quoting others' arguments as a substitute for reading the book.

Machiavelli believes a republic is the highest form of governance, but knows that it can be prone to takeover. The Prince is a guide to how the guy who takes over should rule in the absence of a republic. It's not a treatise on autocracy and fear, it's a necessary text to provide guidelines to a tyrant who refuses to abdicate. He's trying to do the best with what he's given.

>>8517080
Machiavelli was perhaps John Adams biggest intellectual predecessor. In response to your question, no.

>inb4 the kids get in here and stink up the thread with their trendy extremism

>>8517044
Wow I think soldiers are heroes now!

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>>8517044
>The truth of combat?
Rich old men send poor young boys to suck and fuck each others in hot steamy shit puddles for erotic fun.

>>8517044
/k/ will give you better answers (sometimes). Some guys have seen some shit, many more will try to act like they've seen some shit, most will just tell you war (not necessarily combat) is boring or a big party, depending on when they were in the Middle East.

>>8517014
Only the Western canon counts, cuck

>>8517014

look in histories about battles and battlefields
tons of cannons
also look into naval battles

>>8517019
Thanks for the bump shitposter.

>>8516989
Why would you own two Kindles?

I've only seen one study that concluded e-books resulted in worse comprehension than paper, but they made no distinction in the device being used to display the e-book, lumping together proper e-ink readers and tablets with LCD screens.

Being rich is more impressive to most people than not being rich; also good quality paper feel better than plastic buttons. More news at 11.

Seriously: a text is a text, everything else is luxury.

>>8516971
>redpill me

Kill yourself

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvwhEIhv3N0

Here's Searle's take on it.

Tl;dr Just say 'no' to Continental philosophy.

>>8516971
>reading him seriously
don't. the guys crowning achievement is deconstructionism which basically concludes by saying 'all written text is nothing but words on a page and therefore are completely useless and meaningless. now let's post some frogs boys!'

the guy was a raving irrationalist. there is nothing to be gained from studying him other than to see just how he forms his claims, what his overall message is, and how he impacted thought.

>>8516954
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

>>8516967
Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are Born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are Born to sweet delight.
Some are Born to sweet delight,
Some are Born to Endless Night.

>>8516954
Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy!
Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain
To thy high requiem become a sod.

>>8516867
Nonwhites/women
I can get by with South American and Asian lit if those count

>>8516867
And you'll be there for the rest of your life btw. And there's food and all basic necessities available

>>8516874
What's the best Latin lit? Are they translated well?

>>8516846

>2016
>not using online file storage

if you're not smart enough to at least copy paste into a google doc you probably don't have the patience to write a novel
dude was going in for his child porn collection

>>8516869

>Not rare Danish pedosexual non-consensual bestiality.

Broad categories are pleb, find your niche.