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Only if someone promises to jerk off to it.

Sorry, horrible built-in laptop mic

>>8412240
>forgot link

http://vocaroo.com/i/s0reX9Te9AmZ

tell your teacher you torrented an epub for free, and that the cronies down at the bookshop will have to scam someone else out of tree fiddy.

>>8413372
>loch ness monster

>>8412135
All college books are a scam

>>8412135
You'll have to go looking for it first.

The Spirit Science series on youtube is the best for this.

>>8412132
Herodotus, Thucydides, The Spring and Autumn Annals, The Hittite Diplomatic Texts, Homer, the Mahabharata and Ramayana, Abraham through Judges and Kings in the Old Testament.

Gilgamesh, it's fuckin epic

some fags diary desu

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>>8412107

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>>8412107
Japan is literally still suffering from PTSD on a national scale. OPs pic is just a symptom. The drawing inward of the hikkimorri and salarymen, the catastrophic decline in "3d" sexuality and birthrates and its replacement by DS games and robots, its pathetic acceptance of the early 90s economic crash, its halfhearted attempts at rearmament... Japan is basically the gulf war 1 bartender at the VFW suffering from some terrible cancer he got from burning Iraqi munitions.

something in the style of Cormac McCarthy

>>8412088
You fucked up by using a comma.

>>8412106
Fine, geez, whatever.

Construct a sentence meant for the entire purpose said the man the purpose you see of writing in the style of the master of the dunes and the dirt and the blood he said and leaned along his horse and spat.

>>8412081
This isn't course material, right? It's just what you'll read in your leisure time?

>>8412081
It's only a single stack?

>>8412089
course material. 4th year literature major.
>>8412116
12 credit hours of undergrad.

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Now this is a story all about how my life got flip turned upside down...

There was once a girl who lived in the dark, and only saw by candles.

>>8412077
Once upon a time, there were three children: George, Peter and Sam. George was the oldest and the most cunning. Peter was the second oldest and the most intelligent. Sam was the youngest and the most stupid. They attended school regularly, and played together during breaks. However, one day they decided to not show up for class and hide.

"Oh, this is really a bad idea," said Sam worriedly. "Why can't we just go to class? I really don't want to be caught."

"What are you, a girl?" said George in disgust. "English class is boring, and the teacher is dumb. I hope she chokes on chalk!"

"Ha-ha," laughed Sam anxiously. "But I don't want her to punish me and tell my parents. Oh, God, it's going to be bad if she finds us. Very bad!"

"Don't worry, Sam, this is a safe place." said Peter to calm him down. "I bet the teacher doesn't even know this place exists!"

"B-But —

"Look at this ant right here!" screamed George. "This is you. Look at its antennas. It looks like your glasses. Haha. I'm going to step on it!"

George analysed the ant, and instead of stepping on the ant, he decided to mock it. He put his hands on his head to mimic its antennas, and looked at the sky as if the sky was him and he was the ant. "Oh, oh, you're so big, George. Oh, oh, I don't know what to do with my life. I guess I will just walk there, oh no, maybe there, I don't know, I'm dumb, I'm an ant."

Sam jumped off the ground and pushed George as hard as he could, but it had little effect on George. Sam, however, said angrily, "Stop being a prick. The ant did nothing wrong to you!"

George and Peter looked baffled for a second, and burst out laughing.

"How insane, you might as well kiss it!" George mocked Sam, and suddenly, George was holding the back of Sam's neck, forcing him to kiss the ant. Sam was trying to resist as hard as he could, but when his face got very close to the ant, he started crying. Peter jumped and urged George to stop, and George stopped.

Sam was on his back, sobbing, with the ant beside him, directing it's antennas towards him. His sobbing was beginning to get louder and more intense. George and Peter grew anxious that someone might hear him. Peter ran beside Sam and tried to comfort him and stop his loud sobbing, however, he failed to do that and the sobbing grew only louder.

George grew furious and shouted, “STOP THIS MADNESS!” He raised his right foot up and smashed the ant, putting an abrupt end to Sam’s shrieks and sobbing.

I gotta say, you're studying literature & linguistics (fantastic combo) and you chose something as boring as cultural appropriation?

Do some philology or something man.

Cultural Appropiation is just a meme. And in this context it wouldn't even help you very laid, no ladies care about whites stealing from whites.

>>8412015
Haven't chosen anything yet, actually the first year is pretty much dedicated to finding a topic to write a thesis about. Usually we only start writing properly towards the end of the first year/beginning of the second as the thesis is due after two years of research.
At the end of the first year we need to write a report on 3 articles in order to build towards the problematic of our 2nd year's thesis.

Anyway, philology sure sounds extremely interesting but I'm fearing it might be too ambitious for someone whose first language isn't English. I guess I have low self-confidence

I'm attempting it right now and while I can't point to any one thing I read, it became about 5x easier once everything that Kant is responding against finally clicked in my mind

So many passages were orders of magnitude more obtuse before I realised that the reason he seems to be harping on some aspect of his argumentation so repetitively is that it's completely contrary to Hume and Locke, or to contemporary assumptions. It was a tangible difference. Before, I felt like I was constantly groping, but not it's relatively easy, aside from the parts where he's notoriously obscure and even the commentaries are at a loss sometimes.

Like I said I can't point to any one thing. But definitely do your background reading. Not to the point of killing though either, because then it becomes too monolithic and you end up dropping it.

>>8411978
Sorry for the ironic incoherence of this post.

>not it's relatively easy = now it's relatively easy
>not to the point of killing though = not to the point of killing yourself though

The main thing really is that he's incredibly repetitive and often entire sections of the Critique will leave you wondering how they tie in. As long as you can always get your bearings, like "okay he's railing against the impossibility of concept-formation by mere association of perceptions AGAIN!", it goes a lot smoother.

Hume - you can read the treatise or the enquiry concerning human understanding
Descartes - Meditations

you can pretty much get by with just that; Kant defines all the special terms he uses so it's not an impossible task to follow him with not much precursors, you just want to get an idea of the sort of traditions of thought he's responding to.

>>8411910
thanks for the rare nietzsche, op

Why did he go crazy?

>>8411966
He liked horses.

lmao

kys

>>8411883
>ughhh this is so boring
bc your a pleb. honestly homer is one of the more enjoyable writers. And id rather read Plato than 99 percent of modern philosophy

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Camus is a hack

>>8411748
I knew he was a hack, he seems like one. Surprised he got a noble prize, honestly.

>>8411720
I feel extraordinarily bad for Sisyphus, because like you, I don't think he is happy :(

It's my number one weakness: I project "being" onto fictional/mythological characters, and sometimes inanimate objects, all the time, making me feel bad for all kinds of things.

That guitar that stands in the corner not played upon anymore? Poor guitar :(

Poor Sisyphus :(

>inb4 autism

>he fell for the Knausgaard meme

>>8411529
Pretty mediocre, Ferrante is better.

What turned me off wasnt the prose, but the overwhelming size of his ego.

>>8411529
>Mein Kampf by Sirius Black

Utilize
Utilize
Utilize

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House of Leaves
The Familiar volumes 1-27
The fifty year sword

All by Mark Z Danielewski
Lit considers such techniques to be gimmicks

>>8411545
I for one think he's a really nice guy dedicated to his craft

Also, his sister is a hot musician

L'etranger

>>8411515
Kaufmann translation of Geneology of Morals

>>8411519
Nice. Apparently there's a film adaption. Maybe I'll go watch it with my family.

>8411521
Thanks. Is the ecce Homo the one you're talking about?