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>>8450111
nice trips

>>8450111
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>>8450111
Nah. It's mostly just painful.

>>8450040
Her translation of Don Quixote is shit.

Tobias Smollett is the best translator of Cervantes.

>>8450141
Well, Bloom thinks its unbelievable, but Marquez actually told her he enjoys reading his works in her English which seems to be high praise. Clearly she isnt just some darling to publishers like P&V

>>8450143
Marquez was referring to Rabassa's translation, and it was half-jokingly.

Bloom's introduction to Grossman's Don Quixote is probably the worst introduction I've ever read. I'm not exaggerating. He spent the entire introduction talking about Falstaff.

Bloom has nothing to say. He likes Andrew Hurley's translations of Borges too.

> or is she just a hired gun?

Yes, you need to re-translate in order to make those copyright gain$.

>>8450034
>Thoughts on that character?
Nothing of worth has been written in the last 800 years and Ignatius sheds light on that fact. That reason alone is enough to admire him.

>>8450034
HE'S LIKE /R9K/ IMPERSONATED LMAO!!!! TAKE THE REDPILL

HE'S LITERALLY /R9K/ JUST LIKE THE UNDERGROUND MAN, THEY ARE EXACTLY ALIKE

>>8450324
not funny btw

>>8449989
Two problems here: first, most people on here don't have degrees in English or Philosophy but rather just have an interest in them, and second, money isn't everything and if material wealth is your goal you will die a poor man.

Jokes on you, I'm probably going to leave with my masters in biochemistry because I don't like science anymore. Instead i spend time in the lab writing and working on my novels/stories.

>>8449989
>thinks obscene wealth matters

So long as we live comfortably -- which, if you're not a complete fucking moron, isn't all that hard -- then you'll be fine. If the pursuit of material gain is your only goal, then you've truly crippled yourself intellectually.

>>8449966
Reading is a exercise. Your exercising your brain and your eyes. So to do this well I just do a few preliminary things like I would with all exercises. I don't eat (too heavily) before I read. Eating too much leads to digestion distraction, using the bathroom, sugar imbalance etc. I do my reading away from outside distraction, this means loud music, away from my dog, etc. When I read it's almost always like meditation, if you lose focus just bring your brain back to where you were. Focus on the inner voice when reading pay attention to it. Visualize some of the stuff you read and do a quick recall once in a while to make sure you comprehend events you're reading. I hope this helps.

>>8449966
You should probably read things you enjoy and want to read, rather than things that will supposedly impress a bunch of hipsters on a cantonese life drawing post exchange.

>>8450000
I do choose stuff I want to read. If I was trying to impress people I'd read Moby Dick and Gravity's Rainbow, but I'm not. I've also really enjoyed every book I've read this year, it's just difficult is all. I want more than anything than to find an engrossing book that I find meaningful.

>>8449963
Because ideologies involve paradoxes, and you may not have considered all of them. Feminism, for instance, is supposed to involve personal freedom and autonomy for women over their own bodies. It may seem contradictory to then argue that women should be allowed to wear something we associate with oppression, but it doesn't take much reflection to realize that forcing a modest woman to wear a bikini "for their own good" is hardly giving them freedom, any more than forcing a nudist to cover up is.

>>8449963

Everyone loves their enemies. Conservative militia groups are based on communist and terrorist cell structures, and don't get me started on the migration of torture techniques.

>>8450108

>forcing a modest woman to wear a bikini "for their own good" is hardly giving them freedom

This doesn't happen.

Someone can choose not to wear a bikini without consequences.

It obviously doesn't go both ways.

>>8449927
hemmingway*

>>8449927
catherine was so next lvl, shame no girl like that can exists irl

>>8449952
She was literally retarded

>>8449876
I said to myself "How is this shit god tier? This reads like Lovecraft." Then I looked it up because sometimes these hunches or predictions of mine turn out to be embarrassingly untrue, and what do you know: it is Lovecraft and it is, if not shit, far from god tier. Ha! I have read a total of one story by HPL in my life, plus a few quotations here and there (mostly here) and already I can divine his work. And there's noone to boast this great achievement to except you, OP, who will pour your frustrated invectives upon me for scorning your idol. Such is the tragedy of genius.

>"From a little after two oclock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that — a dim hot airless room with the blinds all closed and fastened for forty-three summers because when she was a girl someone had believed that light and moving air carried heat and that dark was always cooler, and which (as the sun shone fuller and fuller on that side of the house) became latticed with yellow slashes full of dust motes which Quentin thought of as being flecks of the dead old dried paint itself blown inward from the scaling blinds as wind might have blown them."

Facundo's terrible shadow! I shall evoque you, so that, shaking off the bloodied dust that covers your ashes, you rise again to reveal us the secret life and internal convulsions that tear apart a noble people. You posses the secret: reveal it to us!

It's better in spanish.

It's laughable dogshit for teenagers.
If anyone doesn't believe me, Google a few quotes.

>>8449870
Pretty bad, even for genre fiction.

Barely above Sanderson tier.

Well maybe I'm simple then, but I found it unique with so much philosophy twisted in it.

If you like fantasy at least give it a try.

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Rate, cranked it out in an evening, would rather be doing other things but hey.
>>8449838
>Or was it?
I would avoid this line like the plague if I were you, but I'm not, so I don't have any idea what you're going for.
Or do I?
No, not really.

>>8449838
>like only post if you actively right stuff and it doesn't matter what it is

Finally someone who understands. My friends claim they're sick of me fixing their shit, but I know I'm not the bad guy here.

I am responsible for a number of the copypastas here, so I consider myself a content creator.

I think it'd probably be seen as pseud or cocky.
Get famous for a good philosophical novel then do it.

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>>8449800
Charles III is in iambic pentameter.

>Shakespeare's Macbeth
Blow, wind!
Come, wrack!
At least we'll die with harness on our back.

>No Fear Shakespeare Macbeth
Blow wind!
Come ruin!
At least we're die with our armor on.


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>>8449770
Interesting enough. I'll bump.

>>8450819
yea seems interesting have another bump

>>8449744
Was she a child-bride?
Probably. Hesiod recommends us to marry a 15 year old girl when we arrive to our success at 30.
>Why doesn't Penelope just tell her suitors to leave?
Women's opinions ain't shit. Ulysses' is a headless home, its owner being supposedly died and his son being too young to take power over it.
>Why does Penelope, understanding that Odysseus is near, decide to suddenly hold a contest with herself as the prize?
The gods did it mane. Also it serves as a premonition of umexpected Odysseus BTFO of dem gallants

>>8449744
Who is this Grace of Cytherea?
1. It doesn't matter. They all have divine blood and these are days of old.
2. Because they're the ones with the weapons on the island.
3. >woman
Just try working out how old Achilles and Paris must be, seeing as Achilles was born of the marriage the golden apple was thrown at. Even factoring in the ten years after Helen's abduction before the war proper started. It's a mess.

>>8449744
>Why does Penelope, understanding that Odysseus is near, decide to suddenly hold a contest with herself as the prize?
No suitor was able to win the contest and she knew it.

>>8449741
>Why was this novel so quickly dismissed?
overextension

>>8449813
On professional reviewers, probably (my hunch is that was kind of a private joke...) but for casual readers (and by "casual" I basically mean average Pynchon readers, so...) it's incredibly enjoyable.

>>8449741
Everything that isn't GR is quickly dismissed because Pynchon doesn't do exactly what people expect, and, let's face it, most critics of Pynchon don't know how to think about him.

>>8449732
you see the problem of the positivist, or even the rationalist in science,:
doubt is permitted only when the doubt is judged acceptable by the scientist [what is acceptable is what makes you have faith in what the scientist claims]:

-if you doubt too little from the statements of people talking to you, the scientist will call you a religious, a sheep, a guy spending his time on metaphysical theses which are disconnected form the reality [the reality that the scientist posits]
-if you doubt too much from the statements of the scientist, the scientist will wave then the card of nominalism, anti-realism, relativism/nihilism/solipsism and terrorize you, since the scientists have no other means, than terrorism, to validate their position

the fact that you have faith in mathematical models to tell you about ''the world'' (which is an inductive concept, like all concepts) is already a philosophical stance. but scientists cannot justify this stance and they become very upset as soon as they are recalled that they fail at justifying their claims that their inductions and deductions are more than conventions inside some formal language.
So they even say explicitly that they are not paid to justify their faith and that this justification does not matter anyway (because they choose to claim that ''science works, look it gives us computers and cars :DDDD'' which is nothing but feeding our hedonism and the statement itself remains very dubious)
religion is a coping mechanism once you face your failure of your life, just like other contrived fantasizes, your faith in the scientific method included.


Religions are meant to leave material-bodily hedonism, travels, concerts, foods, sex and so on, for a spiritual hedonism, through prayers for theists and mediation for atheists.
Plenty of material hedonist love to think of themselves as less hedonistic than they are, since it improves their hedonism in thinking that they are not animals...most people who claim to be religious are not all, it is just the way they are.
In buddhism, you even leave this spiritual hedonism, after you have gained it, which is called jhanas, since you understand that this bliss from prayers, which is just a great, but not perfect concentration-stilness, are not personal nor permanent and that you are still prone to avidity and aversion.

>>8449732
I'm convinced that most traditions evolved from psychological necessity, and often times the people who attempt to get rid of them in the name of progress just end up making things worse.

>Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Greek Orthodox Christian from Lebanon; the Levant. In the course of his book Antifragile, he promotes skepticism, theism, tradition, the writings of the stoics and seeks to restrict the claims of theory and "naïve rationalism."