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In a last ditch effort, i thought i'd ask my family, my friends; you retards.
Are there any alternatives to calibre that'll let me store books inside folders, as not to clutter the fuck out of my vast, vast library of high quality stolen EPUB literature?
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>>8366809
get a fucking bookshelf.
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>>8366815
Im afraid my IQ exceeds that of 125, my slow witted chum.
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I came to this board just now (rather than the superior, holistic /his/) for a similar question.
Is there a way to make it so calibre actually manages even its own folders? When I delete a book on calibre it still remains within the calibre library folder.
The calibre library itself was a double of wherever you sourced books in the first place. Now I can't even make it my primarily library because it doesn't seem to have folder management over the very folder it creates!?
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Just finished this up.
Any books with a similar adventure vibe?
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>>8366771
Don Quixote, 3 Musketeers, Robert Luis Stevenson books are pretty good for a few adventures... Orlando Furioso.. It's hard to find adventures quite like Dumas, but there's a shitload of Dumas himself out there, so you might be able to enjoy more of him. 3 musketeers isn't quite as good, but it's still a great adventure story.
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>>8366774
>there's a shitload of Dumas himself out there
But isn't a lot of that actually written by others? An apprentices workshop or some shit. At least the Musketeer sequels aren't his.
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>>8366771
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester is like a Sci-Fi version of this.
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Is there any philosophy on private spaces for specific groups of people? Pic related, full article at http://www.dailycal.org/2016/08/04/black-student-union-reaches-agreement-campus-form-resource-center/.
>...previous locations considered included a room in the Student Union basement, which was ultimately considered an inadequate space because of its lack of privacy.
>Black students at UC Berkeley experience discrimination and exclusion on a daily basis.
>For Black students, the center will function as a place where they can host events, organize study sessions and foster relationships with other Black students and staff members.
Is this need for privacy a result of needing to escape from the White gaze? There's a Duke philosopher Alexander Weheliye (decent intro: http://www.its-her-factory.com/2014/11/notes-on-weheliyes-habeas-viscus-or-why-some-posthumanisms-are-better-than-others/), he talks about how oppressed populations (like black students) look like disembodied flesh at the surface due to their oppression, but underneath, their flesh is constantly moving and oscillating at frequencies most can't see. Will these spaces help reveal the habeas viscus (Weheliye's term) of black students?
Weheliye's term for oppressed populations is "exceptional populations," one attribute of which is that they're filtered out from a biopolitically healthy society. Don't these kinds of exclusive spaces contribute to this filtering out?
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I know Deleuze talks about it a bit, and I know Zizek talks about it a lot in one of his architecture lectures (p sure it's a bit over half way through the aesthetics and architecture one. I can't remember if he goes on about Children of God or if it's similar to some stuff he says about Children of God elsewhere).
An interesting bit of architecture to look at is probs the HSBC building in Hong Kong which has a public space as its ground floor around the escalators. This had certain implications recently with the Hong Kong riots going on.
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>>8366716
>82,000 to renovate and furnish a room
wew negroid
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>>8366716
You really hate black people, don't you?
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Never read any Star Wars novels, I have no clue about any lore besides the movies. Very much looking forward to getting into a series, can someone point me to an enjoyable storyline? Which ones should I read and why? In what order?
>inb4 pseud
>inb4 manchild
>inb4 ive made too many erroneous life choices now I'm reading Star Wars novels
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Heir to the Empire Trilogy.
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Is the bible real?
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You have to stop yourself from making these kind of threads.
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>>8366649
why I want to know... I heard there was an ancient civilization people thought the bible just made up but they were actually true.
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>>8366646
Of course anon, don't you believe in giants?
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I feel like I can't write fiction because I can never really remember anything with enough clarity to write about it.
Is there a way to fix this?
Also general writing advice thread.
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>>8366631
>Is there a way to fix this?
be talented
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Just write your ideas in a notebook or something mane
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Try to have a lot of 'Madeleine moments' like Proust. But to do this you have to start with ample self-reflection on everything you ever do.
Also diaries probably will help.
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I liked the Twilight movies, but I kind of feel like they ruined the word. I was daydreaming at work today and I came up with a simple story plot I wanted to play with a little. I'm really into the idea now, and the primary threat in the story comes from plant and animal life that has undergone some sort of metamorphosis. Affected organisms are shadowy and hostile and the whole setting is very dark. I wanted to call the dark creatures Twilight, but as I mentioned before, I feel like people will just think of the Twilight Saga whenever it's mentioned and I don't like that.
Do you think I'm being silly? Or should I come up with something else? Any ideas?
Pic related, it's similar to what I'm imagining for my world.
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Come to think of it, I think I want to call the event that caused the world to be the way it is now the Twilight, as well as affected organisms.
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crepuscular
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My Little Pony didn't help much either.
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DFW btfo
how can sincerity ever recover?
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>>8366602
lol we had a thread about this a few months ago.
I hope everyone who reads this part starts a thread about it.
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Oh man, this is your famous Gaddis? Really? That could pass for YA.
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>>8366674
No wonder Green actually likes this.
>Supposedly written by the creator of the universe
>Claims to be universal
>Its philosophy can only be applied to a small time and place
>Moral philosophy contained within is intuitively immoral
>Every other line is an injunction against not believing the philosophy
Have we outgrown the need for religious philosophy (i.e. religious texts)?
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>>8366569
*tips fedora*
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>>8366569
>knows little to nothing about religious texts
>starts a thread refuting religious texts as a whole
This is literal reddit, boyo
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> intuitively immoral
Really? If you want to mock sacred texts (which is fine, I was in high school once too), you have to try just a little.
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Thoughts on Suttree? Picked it up after reading Child of God.
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Suttree is a deeply moving novel and McCarthy is excellent at describing highly mundane or more approriately grotesque scenes with real beauty. It is my favourite novel of his and considering my own upbringing the story of a man living in poverty who manages to maintain his dignity really resonates with me.
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>>8366554
I just started it too buddy. Are you planning to read Cormac's whole body or work in publishing order?
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>>8366554
Pa. Why are eggs breakfast?
What.
You can put bacon on lunch.
Ye.
But if you put eggs on stuff it becomes breakfast?
The man spat and said the eggs are not for this world or from this world they come from the chicken but the chicken knows it not.
"I know you, I know you. You're the only serious person in the room, aren't you, the only one who understands, and you can prove it by the fact that you've never finished a single thing in your life. You're the only well-educated person, because you never went to college, and you resent education, you resent social ease, you resent good manners, you resent success, you resent any kind of success, you resent God, you resent Christ, you resent thousand-dollar bills, you resent Christmas, by God, you resent happiness, you resent happiness itself, because none of that's real. What is real, then? Nothing's real to you that isn't part of your own past, real life, a swamp of failures, of social, sexual, financial, personal...spiritual failure. Real life. You poor bastard. You don't know what real life is, you've never been near it. All you have is a thousand intellectualized ideas about life. But life? Have you ever measured yourself against anything but your own lousy past? Have you ever faced anything outside yourself? Life! You poor bastard."
But seriously, what did he mean?
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Are you implying I'm smarter than you?
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fuck that kind of hurts to read
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>>8366532
Lol it's ok cos nothing is real
So with all the bad things in the world people do to each other like the factories in China, negliect of the environment, world wars. Would humanity be better off under a "perfect" godlike race? Or should we always strive to be #1 no matter how we affect the universe around us?
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>>8366419
Just do what you know is right
T. Kierkagaard
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>>8366419
hey don't be so harsh, we're still growing. it's a learning curve, all children go through it.
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>>8366430
we are?
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>making post-modernism before modernism
How can one person be such an absolute madman?
Is this the kind of shit that going to jail does to someone's brain?
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he wasn't post-modern, you just don't understand him yet
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>>8366370
History repeats itself. Be ready for when romanticism kicks in again.
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>>8366379
cant wait bruh
is that based Sancho in the pic?
Do you write or highlight things in your books? Why/Why not?
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I see no point
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did you know the pages of books, back in the days of manual papermaking, were printed with deliberately large margins to allow plenty of space for marginalia?
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It's too hard to clean off my screen.
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What's the meaning behind the robotic lady and the young reporter? Are they just people like Meursault, or is there anything else about them that i should have noticed? Why did the robotic lady attended his trial?
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>>8366283
I believe almost every person that encounters Meursault highlights how people react to the absurd differently. Meursault represents 'the absurd man' and to many people in the novel, facing this absurd thing is often off putting.
Marie who finds him attractive for his peculiarity, the magistrate who is appalled by him, and the priest who sticks with his faith.
The robotic woman is just another one of those reactions to the absurd. Notice how in the book she's always described to always be on track, not faltering. Robotic as you said. This could hint that some people show little reaction when faced with the absurd, they go on with their goals and what ends they must reach.
I could be completely wrong though, I'm no expert in literature by far and I haven't read any commentary mentioning the old woman.
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>>8366351
Thanks for your input. As you said, the fact that she shows little reaction when faced with the absurd made me think that she was somewhat the closest we have to Meursault 'the absurd man'. I've read some commentarys on this and they follow the same opinion as yours, that this lady is not 'absurd' because she seems to have objectives, not like Meursault who seems to go with the flow. I intend to read more Camus so i can finally understand the complete concept of the Absurd.
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>>8366372
I'm currently reading some of his essays, I recommend picking up "The Myth of Sisyphus and other Essays" by him as well as "Existentialism is a Humanism" by Jean Paul Sartre. Pretty good supplementary readings for Camus' work