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What do you think of Tao Te Ching?
Is there something valuable to learn from it?
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>>8477504
Yes.
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>>8477504
One of my favorite pieces. It's a syncretic apex of all the good points of every major philosophy and religion.
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It's fine advice if you're a 6th C. chink.
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Who are your favorite poets? What collections should I be reading?
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>>8477497
Ezra Pound's Cantos
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>>8477497
Huidobro's Altazor is THE god-tier spanish poetry.
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I love me some Wordsworth. Therefore try the Lyrical Ballads.
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What is the soulseek/what.cd of ebooks? 2016-09-06 00:23:18 Post No.8477485
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What is the soulseek/what.cd of ebooks?
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I'm new to e-books and the only consistent source ive found is bookzz which is still missing a lot and just googling the book title and "epub" is annoying as fuck.
i realize this probably gets asked a lot so feel free to tell me to delete the thread and kms
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bibliotik or however they spell it.
Once had access, forgot to log in. Regardless, what.cd has most books that bib have. Bib is also fucking awful to build upload on from what I remember.
Also check /lit/'s wiki. Pretty sure they still have all the collections. Gutenberg also has old books.
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>>8477485
BookZZ is very complete. IRC and bibliotik cover slightly different areas. But bookzz et al is p much the largest.
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Is there a similar resource for audiobooks???
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have you ever tried to contact your favorite author by email or even postal services?
What happened
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In the fourth grade I sent a postcard to some poet, I forget who. I got a postcard back a few weeks later, and I was so happy.
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yes joseph mcelroy multiple times. even more on twitter. faggot just ignores me. I've written him multiple times telling h8m how much I love him and I'm too poor to afford a copy of women and men and if he could send me one that would be nice. fucking cunt.
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>>8477322
I've written to a few smaller authors praising their story. They always respond and give me writing tips.
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How do marxists/communists respond to 2016-09-05 23:33:45 Post No.8477311
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How do marxists/communists respond to
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the economic calculation problem
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem
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"Math is bourgeois white male hegemony"
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communists are autistic when it comes to mathematics
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>>8477311
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism#Self-managed_economy
literally at the bottom of the page
there are also more advanced criticisms
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What was his endgame/fucking problem?
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>>8477283
He is a representation of fate/providence.
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>>8477283
To have fun
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how about you kys nigger L O L LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLxLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLspeakres
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Why do you hate Kindle /lit/? I just started university and have no money to buy books for myself. Would Kindle be an economic choice for me on long run?
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E-readers in general are not very good for PDFs, though the Kindle is probably the best of the bunch for them.
Just get a cheap tablet or laptop if you need something to look at textbooks on.
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>>8477266
I don't.
It's great.
I use a tablet to read some books. I can't get them where I live, and shipping overseas is crazy expensive.
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>>8477266
>why do you hate Kindle
Because if you get one then Amazon knows what you read, and that's none of their fucking business. Also muh DRM, forced updates and sometimes they remotely delete your books (google Kindle and 1984) You should be able to get a quality product without sacrificing your freedom.
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Without meme answers..is this book 2016-09-05 23:03:45 Post No.8477195
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Without meme answers..is this book
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really more challenging to read than Ulysses as some on ehre said
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Nah
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Hello samefag. Literally nobody except you cares about this shitty novel enough to make a thread about it.
Your kneecaps will make an excellent addition to my collection.
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>>8477195
Nope, but a lot shittier.
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I'm looking for sources that can teach me how to do the kind of sentence analysis going on in pic related but with subordinated phrases or clauses or whatever they're called (I'm really lost here, /lit/).
Any help?
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>>8477190
Phrase structure is the same for subordinate clauses though. I'm not really sure what it is you're asking?
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I'm trying to analyse some complex sentences (i. e. "Johnny was around the corner trying to find a cab") and don't know how to do it. What is a word like "around" called, for example? If I look up "phrase structure" online, will I find useful resources for that kind of thing?
Thanks for the quick response by the way
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>>8477200
Johnny = proper noun, the subject
was around the corner trying to find a cab = the predicate
was = verb, past tense of 'to be'
around the corner = prepositional phrase
around = preposition
the = definite article
corner = noun
trying to find a cab = subordinate participle phrase
trying = present participle of 'to try'
a = indefinite article
cab = noun
Just learn Latin, that's how I learnt all of this shit.
What the fuck? This is shit
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GASSBOMBED
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>>8477127
Tunnel
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>>8477116
>This is shit
You're too young
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I'm interested in many subjects, literally just about anything and everything. The problem is that I'm running out of new subjects or topics. So does /lit/ know of any obscure subjects, topics, etc.? Preferably non-fiction, but any obscure or not well-known fiction would be interesting.
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OP here. I'll start off with some lesser-known topics, some early literature on Artificial Intelligence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_Concepts_and_Creative_Analogies
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Fuck y'all then.
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>>8477198
Conduct your own research?
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What is your favourite and least favourite Shakespeare play and why? i'll start. My favourite play is Othello because I think it captures what a tragedy is and should be perfectly. It also has Iago, who I think is one of the most evil characters in literature. My least favourite play was A Midsummer Night's Dream because it bored the living shit out of me and in general I just think it's kinda crappy.
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Favorite is Coriolanus because it portrays an extremely classical, ancient protagonist, but uses him to explore modernist politics and philosophy.
Least favorite is a The Winter's Tale, because it's incongruous. Having the first half a complete tragedy and the second half a total comedy, is jarring. If it were one or the other it probably would have been a great play, but as it is, it's a train wreck.
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>>8477025
That's respectable
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Favorite: Romeo and Juliet
Least favorite: Hamlel
Do I really need to read Aristotle's works to understand people like Descartes, Hume, Kant, etc?
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>>8476954
You need to read Aristotle in order to understand the Middle Ages, which you need to understand in order to understand the Reformation, which you need to understand in order to understand the Enlightenment, so yes.
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>>8476966
Why?
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>>8476977
Because every philosopher is responding to another. You get what you put into it. If you fucking skip over everyone and read Zarathustra you're not going to get shit
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Pessimism as the meaning of life. 2016-09-05 21:51:40 Post No.8476918
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Pessimism as the meaning of life.
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What are some books that are extremely pessimistic about life, but also portray it as beautiful (with the pessimism perhaps even part of the aesthetic)? That is, works that almost see life gaining meaning from pessimism, pessimism as the source of life. This seems not unusual among Russian writers, and after reading Laurus (which is written by a Medieval historian and very religious), I'm beginning to think it has something to do with their religious outlook.
But I'm sure it's not unique to that. Nietzsche seems to have seen the Greeks as taking a life-affirming, yet tragic worldview. I wouldn't really say Shakespeare's tragedies are both pessimistic and beautiful in their pessimism: his darkest, most pessimistic works, like Titus Andronicus, King Lear and Macbeth, portray life as horrifyingly meaningless--he doesn't derive meaning from the pessimism, the pessimism stems from the lack of meaning.
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Noir.
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That's a good one, but I wouldn't say that applies equally across the genre. Some noir is more like Shakespeare's mindset: artistic portrayal of abject pessimism, but not really garnering a source of life from this. I think this is Polanski's mindset (who is clearly a moral nihilist); his Chinatown is the same worldview as his Macbeth.
Noir writings are, to me, in the vein of Lovecraft and Ligeti, which is more the King Lear pessimism than the Ecclesiastes pessimism.
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>>8476938
You're bandying around terms that don't mean anything to anyone other than yourself. No one knows what you mean when you distinguish "King Lear pessimism" from "Ecclesiastes pessimism."
Lovecraft is not noir. Not even close.
Cutting away all the self-serving bullshit in your post, I'm only looking at your first sentence, in which you ask what are books pessimistic about life but also aesthetically portray it as beautiful. That's noir.
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>I have set my cause on nothing
>That is why I feel so well in this world
Can someone help me here? Where does his joy come from if he has truly set his cause on nothing?
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No obligations, no reason to worry. The world is shit, so if you don't care then you be happier.
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>>8476775
the union of egoists
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But specifically what? Perhaps I didn't put it clearly. How do you overcome Nihilism without setting your cause upon something?
This is something that I didn't get about the Tao Te Ching either. If living life to it's natural end is the goal, then I agree in many points. But why is that the goal?