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All is welcome.
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>>9920284
Daily Bread
Shoulda heard what the devil said to me
Showed me how every friend is an enemy
Pressure is my pedigree
And every night is Gethsemane
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>>9920288
Id fuck you on the fiftieth date
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>>9920288
Not too bad.
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>Frenchfags consider this aspie with a fourth grader's french level and constant recycling of ideas a good contemporary author.
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>it's that guy who always posts images he saved from duckduck go in his inane threads
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literally whomst
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>>9918957
Bernard Werber
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Any advice on reading this guy?
Pick one of his books randomly doesn't seems a proper way to get into his philosophy
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>games of thrones
>philosophy
wow
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Read Niebla, yo.
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>>9918925
>Unamuno
>games of thrones
I really need an explanation there m8
How good are the writers that win genre fiction contests?
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>>9918875
Pretty good.
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Reading the Odyssey and Illiad within two weeks
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Hey guys, I need to read the Odyssey and Illiad before this Honors English class opens up and I have procrastinated thus far.
I've just been extremely busy with work and other shit(Moreso trying to come up with the $50k tuition) and haven't gotten aorund to reading them.
Is there any condensed version of these books, or a way to speed read them?
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>>9918874
You'd be done with time to spare if you'd get the fuck off the computer and spend all the time you spend on /lit/ reading instead. It shouldn't take anyone more than a week to read either of those.
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>>9918879
This. Get the fuck off /lit/ and start reading OP.
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I read The Iliad in about 3 days when I was a 6th grader.
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Where can I get free audio bookz
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You could start by not posting pics like that around here. Then maybe people would look more kindly on your pleas.
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>>9918820
librivox
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>>9918833
bump
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>The Sun ain't yellow, it's chicken.
NOBEL
PRIZE
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>>9918763
Yeah, if they wanted an overrated American to win they should have just picked DeLillo.
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>>9918763
This exact shitpost again? Can't mods permaban this faggot?
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you didn't even quote it right
>the sun's not yellow, it's chicken
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Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet.What do you think about these works?.
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Hamlet is really good, even to this day. The Kenneth Branagh movie is one of my favorite movies in general
Romeo and Juliet is pretty good too, but it's become kinda cliche. Every romance is a take on Romeo and Juliet
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>>9918724
romeo and juliet is probably the most beautiful thing i've ever read but i'd never say this in public because it's such a generic choice people would think it's the only shakespeare i've read and that i read it in high school.
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Hey /lit/,
I'm not in humanities but this year I took a subject called "theories of ideology" out of vanity and now I'm running out of time to get through all the required texts, relying on classmate's notes to get the grasp.
One of the authors we deal with is Adorno and his critique of positivism. First there's his interpretation of Marx's theory of value (not labor, but the one that deals in fetishism). Adorno calls this process of valuation "real abstraction" (translation) and it seems fairly straightforward. Then he accusses the positivists of being unable to comprehend this critical insight into capitalist society due to relying only on facts. But then, there's this claim that in the same way that fetishization of goods occurs (eg. people think there's something inherent in value of things, when in reality their value only exists in relation to all other goods on the market), so is positivism (eg. focus on empirical facts) as an ideological standpoint necessarily present in the capitalist mode of production. Why is positivism capitalist or rather what is the relation between the two?
Can someone familiar with these works explain?
I could put together some bullshit myself, but would rather know the real argumentation behind it. If I get good answers I got more questions about Bourdieu, Flusser and Galloway. Tnx in advance friendos.
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> If you want to discuss history, religion, or the humanities, go to /his/.
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>>9918741
If I wanted to have a conversation about "jewish cultural Marxism" I most definitely would.
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Bump cause Marxism and the Frankfurt school are the best things to happen to the west.
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Who was in the wrong here?
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god for being a dumb cunt.
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no matter
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The first-born animal represent the choice picks of the flock, i.e., those that are suitable as divine offerings. Abel thus offers his best to God as a sacrificial act of faith. Cain, however, appears to offer something less--at least no indication is given that his sacrifice was made from the "firstfruits" of his harvest. Insofar as the external act of worship is a reflection of the interior disposition of the worshiper, it is no surprise that God looked with favor on Abel's offering but not on Cains.
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Is it as good as the film?
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>>9918645
Don't know, never seen the film.
But it's pretty good.
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Can someone point me in the direction of some Pagan or Norse related books? Not any of that new age stuff, that's all I can seem to find. Thanks!
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The poetic edda? Beowulf?
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Prose Edda, Poetic Edda, the Sagas.
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Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe.
Seconding the Eddas, Sagas, and Beowulf.
When writing near future science fiction, what are some techniques that can be used to avoid sounding like an idiot?
What I'm talking about is either one of two things:
1. When writers invent things that don't exist yet or try to explain how they work, and are either proven wrong in a matter of years or laughed at because such technology can never exist or won't for a very long time (overshooting)
>flying cars by 2015, supercomputers who gain sentience and create giant bird monsters that cause hurricanes sometime around the cold war, etc.
2. Completely omitting something that everyone should see coming (undershooting)
>pic related
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>>9918566
Don't include anything that is not necessary for your story just to show off.
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>>9918566
Who cares if you're proven wrong 20 years after the fact? That's not really the point of scifi. Just make it self-consistent and interesting.
Also change society itself, don't just add some fancy gadgets.
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>>9918566
Depends who is your audience. If it's the general population, don't bother gathering too much info, the idea is already floating in the zeitgest (ex: rogues IA, cyberpunk AKA the end of the state etc.). If you're writing for specialists (hard sci-fi, Ted Chiang, Liu Cixin), do some research and ask some experts.
I find it easier to browse specialists forums. Then again, the I can take some liberties with what I gather over there.
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Can anyone impart any particularly detailed knowledge about this edition of LotR?
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I'm scared as fuck of writing a novel about fantasy negroes doing fantasy stuff, I always think I need to read more and I always think I need to get gud, but I'm afraid I'll never be good enough.
Worse part is that there's literal garbage being published in fantasy genre fiction.
I need motivation, pls help me.
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>>9918548
You are not perfect, youre not even that good, so swallow your pride and write it.
Think like someone with no self-awareness. Just write what you think and then write better next time
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I hate niggers