>first page of the book
>he already abuses a famous musical piece as a metaphor, yet again
I'm reading Norwegian Wood now, my 4th Murakami book, and i'm trying to like this writer, but why must he make this so much harder to like?
>>8342808
Read something else, retard
>>8342808
>4h
>Still trying to like a writer
Pick up the Cossacks or Sevastopol Sketches by Tolstoy m80
>>8342808
Hahahah Just Put The Book Down Nigga
So, what do you guys have to say about this book?
>>8342799
I don't care at all
>>8342799
The forefather of beta White males picking up le Eastern asceticism meme
>>8342807
/thread
Is there any such reading list for economics or /lit/ doesn't concern itself with it?
Ugh I hate the fake sophistication of reading mostly original works of classics.
>>8342646
How progressive of you.
Everyone reading the same shit ain't good.
>>8342648
Neomania isn't good either tho.
Do you think Engels was ever jealous that he never got an -ism and Marx got all the credit?
Engels was the best bro an author could only dream about and he even took care of his family long after Marx' death. Genuinely a good friend. Also he was aware that Marx was the greater thinker and tried to support him as best as he could. Read their letters, they are pretty interesting and also hilariously funny every once in a while.
>>8342566
Do you think Engels would have been disappointed that this was the best thing he ever managed to produce?
>>8342598
capitalist piggie spotted
Are there any philosophers who talk about virtual reality?
>>8342570
please share
Chalmers Im p sure.
how many of the books that people read just to appear smart are actually good?
>>8342535
All of them.
>>8342544
Oh sure
>>8342604
Most of them, to be conservative.
>there are no objective moral truths
>except this one
>>8342477
Which one?
>>8342494
So are there objective moral truths or not?
>tfw no classical education
Great thread, thank you.
So what? Educate yourself.
>>8342450
Education was a mistake.
t. sage
What does /lit/ think of my tiny collection?
>>8342264
I asked what do you think of my collection, not what do you think of me. Can't you read?
I don't get these kind of threads. The books are okay but I have more books lying under my coffetable and I don't have the urge to show them off. In some bookshelf thread we came to the conclusion that a normal well read person has at least about 500 books at home and doesn't make a fuss about it. So why do people come here and post the 10 books they own? Makes you look a bit foolish.
>>8342289
/thread
like unless you wanted to show us a small selection of books and wanted us to give a recommendation then that would be neat, other wise >>8342264
is right and it looks like you just took 10 good books to be validated
lit confessions
I always judge the book by it's cover, the author and contextual information I have.
I want to read The Oresteia just because of the cover
>The Oresteia
which cover?
you definitely should read it, it's rad.
>>8342223
It's impossible not to. We're only human after all.
>>8342230
>read nonwhites
Hope you don't plan on reading or have read the Greeks, Romans or the Bible
Do you do it?
Do you believe it has merit?
What poems do you know?
Bonus points if you can write out the poem, from memory, in your post.
Pic related is the first poem I memorised (purely because I liked it and it's short - I was 6 years old). From "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".
>>8342137
For a long time now I've planned to memorize one poem per day. Bought a bunch of books and am basically ready to start but I'm just too lazy. Would be good training though...
>from memory
I can recall almost all of Tennyson's "Charge of the Light Brigade", but it has a few very similar stanzas and I think I'd mess it up. I can also do "I wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by Wordsworth and "If" by Kipling but I think everyone knows those.
So I'll do my favourite Auden poem.
>August 1968 by Auden.
The ogre does what ogres can
Things [far?] beyond the [reach?] of man
But one thing likes beyond his reach
The ogre cannot master speech
About a subjugated plain
Amongst its desperate and slain
The ogre struts with hands on hips
While drivel gushes from its lips
^ Pretty sure it's 95% correct.
Wirf dein Schweres in die Tiefe!
Mensch, vergiss! Mensch vergiss!
Göttlich ist des Vergessens Kunst!
Willst du fliegen,
willst du in höhen heimisch sein:
Wirf dein Schwerstes in das Meer!
Hier ist das Meer! Wirf dich ins Meer!
Göttlich ist des Vergessens Kunst!
I tend to repeat the shorter ones that I like in my head anyway, and eventually I learn them off by heart.
How do you organise your notebooks? I recently copped one of pic related and since it's beautiful I want to keep it neat and tidy, on subject matter and actually finish the damn thing.
So before you start a new notebook how do you plan ahead? How do you stay persistent? Or do you just doodle memes?
i don't think eastern philosophy is cool
>>8342170
my one doesn't have that design, it's just the only pic i could find of that style of book
>>8342134
Work and daily life => Back to front
Writing => Front to back
Stop buying leatherbound journals you massive faggot.
http://www.dickblick.com/items/11855-8342/#photos
Finely ruled, high quality paper, fairly inexpensive with pages that average somewhere around 500 words a page for easy word count estimation.
Can you guys help me understand what shes getting at? Especially the last part about the eye glimmering lol...This is in response to my statement that 'there is no human nature but breathing, blinking, etc.'
"What about art? Art has been deficient in our grade schools sections and as an American thinker, I think that Gewashcen(ambigous shapes y subtetil(subtility), the rule of nature that states, "There are so lines in nature,. There is only shade and the gradian of shade." is what is missing in art, especially since modern art of starchitecture(CAD program) is in fact less rectangular, and so less masculine. The rule of no lines in nature is especially true perhaps not in an average college classroom, but because when one sketeches and looks at the reference, the drawing arm, presumptively the right hand, is going to only sketch the calculated portion the eye mentions glimmering on the reference, but with yet no more exxageration than no change in percentile change in size stretching of the actual drawing rendered on the side NOT looked at mainly while drawing."
Your "friend" is just bombarding you with out of context nonsense.
This entire paragraph makes little to no sense.
>>8342125
you both sound like gay nerds
>>8342132
shes always like this, every time she speaks or types lol. Another example...she posted this as a "caption" to her coverphoto
"The role of the pacifist is to not feel anger if someone accuses you of a bad act or a sin of which you actually did not commit. Because you know that you didn't do it, your consciousness is clear and indignation if futile communication with the poor in mind. It seems that now is the objective time of the witches in mysticism revival unfortunately, so that I can relate to a stereotyped victim that while I rode my bike, screamed at me, "I am not a gangster." And so I think their their is an omniscient perhaps spell of the victims in mass value even that has value for social redemption. Perhaps this social redemption is of the kind where, because I know that when entering into discourse, one may face a neurosis that dispossesses, delusions, and turns one's head into a weak cat head, then I know that I can also get my IQ amplified from glory of the moral saint. If I know that my teacher showed us how marijuana in evil for brain development, and I consciously did not drink or smoke marijuana for all of my high school term, nor did I have straight sex in high school, then I also know that because someone who had visual prejudice against my style when I was at the beginning of college, can redeem my IQ to higher it momentarily in performance, because my philosophy classes are more rigorous than his fashion courses, and so he thought I smoked marijuana, which I let go as untrue at the time. But now that I can juxtapose my friend, a female who did smoke marijuana in her high school term, who told me that it made her memory messed up, I can congratulate myself for my good deed of taking care of my brain, so that belief in the brain performance is higher in value than conduct now, which will stay moderate of course, even if this means that the person who stereotyped me was tricked by me is used be me as a mnemonic device."
> ITT: We summarize the plot of a book with the formula "wtf i hate x now"
wtf i hate atheism now
wtf i hate op now
wtf i hate collectivism now!
wtf i hate whales now!
This thread is so anthropocentric, so up its own arse with pretentious, edgy philosophy.
What that said, I made a thread about why /lit/ enjoys reading and I mentioned that I was more of a natural history sort of person.Let's talk about nature, environmental science, essays, etc. Tldr, there's more to life than angst. Humans are just one species.
What has /lit/ been reading?
No extreme left hippy stuff please. Just science, travel writing and essays.
>>8342024
Woops. This board is so anthropocentric*
I need to proof read.
Is /lit/ really not interested in anything outside the human sphere? Ecology? Geology? Biology?
>>8342269
>Ecology? Geology? Biology?