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How do you read when you're tired? 2016-09-03 22:56:24 Post No.8469937
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How do you read when you're tired?
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>reading
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I generally don't because I know I won't be able to focus.
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I don't.
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So I read Hamlet in high school but literally everything that makes it great went completely over my head. I was way too stubborn to try and untangle the parts of the language which I found challenging. I've recently started reading a lot more and just picked up Hamlet and man did I miss so much from it. The poetry, the masterful expression of such complicated themes, everything about it brings me such joy, and that's what I'm wondering today.
What is it about literature like this that makes me feel so alive? What quality does it possess which differs it from something like a video game or an action movie? In the answer to this question i think is the answer to 'why study literature in the first place?' in which , though i have some reasons of my own i am certain of, i would love the insight of all of you. Bonus points if you can relate it to any specific philosophers/schools of thought. Since all of you read I'm sure you all have some sort of answer to offer so lets hear it.
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>>8469914
I shill this too much. But I genuinely think it's a masterpiece. It might be because my edition is in an old norwegian translation, but it just gives me a calm no other work has given me.
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Hamlet is such a bad play.
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>>8469934
Go away, Eliot.
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>he invents a swear word for people in his fantasy/sci-fi realm
>he expects his readers to take him seriously from that point forward
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>>8469883
>he invents a whole dialect/sub-language for a novella with less than 100 pages
>affected "fans" throw the words from the dialect at random when the work is mentioned
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>>8469883
>>he invents a swear word for people in his fantasy/sci-fi realm
Not bad if the swear word's evolution makes sense.
But old scifi books seem to have a tendency to be deliberately cheesy.
Ender's biggest enemy is the evil BUGGER menace, and in the second book it's the PIGGIES. Both books read like they expect to be taken seriously, which is funny.
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>>8469883
Invented words are always acceptable so long as their meaning is intuitive, which is the case here.
Does anyone on /lit/ have a pen pal?
Most famous writers have corresponded with letters that, at least academically, are just as important as their actual work: Keats, Hemingway,Joyce, the list goes on. So do YOU have a pen pal, /lit/?
Side note: I've really wanted to try signing up for interpals, but I have no idea what the community's like or if it's worth it.
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>>8469851
No, and interpals really isn't worth it.
Letters are old hat, now it's all about social media posts. People can't be legitimately introspective or private anymore.
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>>8469889
That's a pretty bleak outlook on things. Doesn't the prevalence of mass communication and societal whoring only heighten the impact of a letter?
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>>8469851
I have someone I semi-regularly correspond with in a letter-like format. It just sort of developed on its own due to shared interests. Signing up for a program to do something like that seems a bit forced to me.
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Historical Russian Lit? 2016-09-03 22:31:50 Post No.8469848
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hey, I have always been interested in the Russian Revolution, the CCCP, the Cold War, etc. Do you guys have any recommendations for actual history books, journalism, and/or literature on this topic? Basically Russia for the past like 150 years.
thanks.
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There's Gorky and Luxemburg's letters for Revo stuff, For the complete understanding of Soviets there is Mikhail Sholokhov and his epic And Quiet Flows the Don. Americans wrote much better about Cold War, but Solzhenitsyn is also good.
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>>8469916
tanks
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Victor Serge
- Memoirs of a Revolutionary
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Need help with finding a resource to learn Latin - if anybody who has tried / is / knows latin could point me to anything that could help get me started that would be great!
Thanks!
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Try the Wheelock's Latin books.
I used them in high school, and they're pretty decent. Good enough to get you off your feet with Latin.
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Shelmerdine or Wheelock for grammar, Lingua for reading. Have fun.
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>>8469951
I also recommend Wheelock, it gets you up and running quickly, even within one to three months if you're diligent. After that, you'll want to start reading and then the Perseus Project through Tufts will be useful in translating and figuring out what's going on in a passage.
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Just finished reading this
Jesus Christ just fucking hold me
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>>8469841
as a non white I resd this book and immediately contracted tuberculosis. for aesthetic reasons.
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This book touches upon so many subjects, it's incredible. If there ever was a roman of ideas.
But even if we ignore all the complex themes, there's still that slice of life aspect which is present throughout the whole book. I already can guess how much hurt the nostalgia for this book will give me in the future.
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do you need to read will as repr for it?
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Who else /fuckedupandwritingbullshitthatwillnevergetpublished/
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Everyone with a creative writing degree
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>>8469886
Is that even a thing?
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>>8469815
I mean can't you just self publishing an ebook.
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Is this still the GOAT sci fi book 2016-09-03 22:13:36 Post No.8469796
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Is this still the GOAT sci fi book
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or has it been surpassed?
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Dune is not really sci-fi.
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Dune is quite good and should be credited for its achievements, but New Sun is the finer, more poetic, and more playful masterpiece.
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>>8469814
shouldn't Dhalgren be up there with New Sun?
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Who is the best British writer of all time?
No Irish allowed.
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>>8469716
I like Chaucer, Milton, Woolf, and Eliot.To the frog people: sorry for including girls
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me
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What are the most fun books to read?
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>WHO ATE ALL THE GABAGOUL??
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>>8469677
>tfw no gabagool
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>>8469702
Answer the fuckin' question.
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Quick!
My plane leaves in 90 minutes, I need a good space opera novel/series similar to The Hyperion Cantos to download.
Recommendations please.
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ulysses
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book of the new sun
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>>8469618
Golden Age Trilogy by John C. Wright (fun space libretarians).
Book of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe (more serious and significantly better than both Hyperion and Golden Age, but much more toned down).
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Who else /literarygenius/ here? Alas, the world was not made for our kind. The pinnacle of human consciousness is a glorious but treacherous place to be.
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Donald Trump is going to make America great again.
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>>8469627
This
Women are inferior
Nonwhites are inferior
Anime is great
Deus fucking Vult
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>>8469633
Was with you until anime. But yes, we should kill all of the lesser races/genders.
Plato:
>Anyone who leaves behind him anything in writing and likewise anyone who takes it over from him supposing that such writing will provide something reliable and permanent would be a fool.
Isaac Newton:
>If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Why are philosophers such elitists compared to real scientists?
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STEM
>rationality
>logic
>science
>evidence
>masculinity
>men
>intellect
>right-wing
>dominant
>hierarchy
>tradition
>Trump
>race realism
>whiteness
HUMANITIES
>feels
>illogical
>dialectics
>continental
>women
>emotion
>histrionics
>into being cucked
>submissive
>numale
>femininity
>emasculation
>subversive
>"equality"
>communism
>"progress"
>liberals
>obama
>SJW
>feminism
>nonwhite
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>>8469548
/thread
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>>8469548
the fucking madman, how will /lit/ recover?
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Why is it fairly easy for some of us to dismiss the merits of an idea due to the author's personal life? The chief cause of this question is the experience I'm having with Schopenhauer - specifically the infamous chapter "On Women". I have the impression that most people dismiss "On Women" only because Schopenhauer had a rough time with women, but if that is true - and I believe it is - then they certainly should dismiss Pessimism and every other idea that has its roots on suffering! But that's not what happens! The same happens in Nietzsche's Nihilism - the wretches love the idealism of the perfect man, of the blood and sweat that one must spill on this soil to make oneself be great, but once they reach anything related to women suddenly there are a bunch problems that are easily explained by Nietzsche's mental illness, being rejected and being denied a threesome by the love of life in Switzerland. I'm sure that I'm being completely understood up to this point, therefore let me make myself clear. Why is it acceptable to dismiss an idea that its origin is on being sexually rejected, but not acceptable to reject an idea that has its cause on the misfortunes of the author?
Thanks for reading.
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>>8469468
they aren't that simple, man. though the whole women rejection thing has some impact, of course, why not, it's part of their perception... but it's way more deep than just that.
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>>8469485
I didn't understand your point. Would you do me the favor of elaborating on what you typed?
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>>8469468
But it's not easy nor acceptable among people who seriously deal with truth. It's completely irrelevant how they lived their lives, what flaws they had, if what they say is true, is true.