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Mathematics for Plato is what you learn in elementary school.

>>8481610

Of course. If you don't at a bare minimum understand multivariate calculus you aren't really something I would consider human.

>>8481616
mathematics for Plato was everything that was available at the moment in mathematics

also, mathematics for Plato also included physics

>>8481425
>no grammatical cases
>no rules about word order

How is it possible for both of these to be true?

>>8481425
You need to learn OE then you'll understand what happened through the ME period into early modern English

>>8481425
There was a hard word order rule, dufus, it's just changed since then. The word order in Old English (Anglo-Saxon) was SOV (subject-object-verb).

>>8481414

america

>>8481417
Elaborate

>>8481414
Who is this semen demon

>>8481367
I doubt anyone here has read it. I haven't even read it; it's been collecting dust right next to me for months. If you're interested in philosophy, then go for it

>>8481393
I've read it. I had to read it for a poli sci class back in college.

My take on Leviathan is that I'm not buying Hobbes' overall take on "natural man." To me it seems like his model of natural man is just taking civil man and dropping him in the woods with no clothes on.

I'm more convinced by Rousseau's idea of natural man, which is that of a more peaceful, flighty and noble being.

>>8481405
>tfw i could have lived naked innawoods if it werent for mans unsocial sociability

end me, senpai

>>8481182
At the Mountains of Madness is genuinely good, everything else I've started to read by him was kind of boring attempts at horror. But that book is brilliant

>>8481182
If there isn't a flowchart, one should be made. He is discussed here often enough for that.

The chart should present distinctly his macabre/gothic tales, his dream cycle, and his Cthulhu mythos.

His macabre stories, from the earlier-mid period, hold up well and are usually an easily read ten pages. The Hound, Pickman's Model, The Outsider, Erich Zann. They're all good starting points.

His Dream Cycle is heavily inspired by Lord Dunsany, and is an acquired taste, too ethereal and esoteric for many. There is some quality here with a broader appeal: Doom That Came To Sarnath, The Other Gods. I am fond of The Quest Of Iranon. If you like Lord Dunsany and the King James Bible vernacular, you will enjoy the dream cycle. But these are among his most dense and forbidding works, e.g. Unknown Kadath. They are for the already converted.

The Cthulhu mythos cycle/cosmic horror can be read in any order. The Call Of Cthulhu, Dunwich Horror, and The Shadow Out Of Time are good and representative pieces of this niche.

>>8481231
a flowchart will only encourage the plebs, do not grow the number of pseuds here.

i thought my cat's tail, who I didn't realize was beneath my desk, was some monstrous insect gliding or crawling up in my peripheries

>>8481187
lol kawaii

just do acid instead

>>8481095
Spanish will probably end up being more useful. It really just boils down to how much you like French literature.

I speak Spanish to God, Italian to Women, French to Men, and German to my Horse. - attributed to Charles V - Holy Roman Emperor

>>8481100
>Spanish will probably end up being more useful.
If you live in America

>>8481088
David Foster WALLLLLLLLLACE

>>8481088
Depends. I love DFW as much as the next guy, but only read halfway through. The early parts on the history of infinity were pretty interesting, but when it gets into modern mathematics you need to be into that scene to really get it.

Sure

>>8480944
I'm glad it explicitly says that that's whiskey there.

>>8480959
They looks like spanking paddles or big fucked up ice cream

For sale: 1x Durex "ribbed for her pleasure", unopened, near mint condition.

>>8480892
Tommy Python

L'eclisse is fucing incredsible

>>8480921
not sincere enough.

>>8480818
English is the easiest language on the planet.

Read literally anything that you think you might like, it doesn't matter.

>>8480818
Sure you will, dude

Some books that I started my dad off with when he wanted to get into reading english (he has been living he for 20 odd years and is fluent and everything but just doesn't get the same feeling out of reading) were:

>Stoner
>invisible Cities
>Master And Margarita
>Blood Meridian

he enjoyed all of those and they're all pretty simple so you might as well. Start off with short works, otherwise you might lose morale

>>8480823
I tried reading the raven by Poe and I couldn't understand a thing.

>>8480783
it helps if the subject does matter to you

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>>8480783
kys

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great idea op

make sure you read bradbury and other famous short story writers for inspiration

keep us posted, we want to see how thick solid and literary you can get

>American
>philosopher

I would say CS Piercedeserves that title more so than James to be honest

CS Pierce

>>8480720
if the trojan war gets you hard, then sure. it really doesnt compare to homer though

>>8480739
This.

It's definitely worth a read though. In Latin.

>>8480757
I'm not learning latin.

Write a good book that's not terrible and garbage

>>8480726
because no one ever got rejected before when submitting a great book, right?

Have friends or family in the publishing industry. This usually helps.