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Who >LibreWriter masterrace here?
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Abiword.
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>>8338229
why is this good
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction & Fantasy General 2016-07-30 11:02:58 Post No.8338132
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/sffg/ "Ring of Light' quintet edition.
Full story here: http://pastebin.com/raw/nV9iPMNS
Recommendations:
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
Previous thread >>8326566
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Any other recommendations for fantasy with a girl protagonist besides Mistborn and Dragon's Daughter?
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>>8338251
Orphans of Chaos
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>>8338251
Un Lun Dun
Are there any books that encourage living and enjoying life rather than being lost in thoughts and constantly analyzing the world?
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>>8337762
on the contrary, what are some book I can read to inspire a sort of constant thought and analyzation of the world?
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The Immoralist by Andre Gide is exactly what you're looking for
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On The Road
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ITT: Women from literature who embody perfect femininity.
I'll go with Ophelia. It's tempting to say that there aren't many women like her anymore, but then I remember that every good woman has a touch of that character in her—and too often we go looking for the pretty Opheliae, and forget to notice the same sweet character behind a plainer face.
One cannot blame her that she went mad in the evil circumstances of that play, I think, nor do I doubt that she would have made for a strong and dignified woman in her old age if she had lived to see it. She was the sweetness and the beauty senselessly crushed midst the agitations of mighty forces, and the greatest loss in that tragedy.
Any man less noble than Hamlet the Dane has no right to ask for an Ophelia, still less any right to expect one. Her sweet yielding nature, her perfect sympathy with the men she loves, her answers of gentle chiding or generous gratitude—"I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, as watchman to my heart"—or observe the durability of her affections when Hamlet has been savagely unfair to her: "O heavenly powers, restore him!"
She is the perfection of the feminine conscience, the feminine affections, the feminine graces, all the beauty of the feminine mind. Schopenhauer, with his weak mind, could not imagine such a woman as Ophelia.
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Get this romanticized delusion out of my face
There is no such thing as perfection or any tenable concept of femininity besides having a lot of estrogen and making babies.
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but did she have a feminine bepis?
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>>8337534
almost every realistic society on earth recognizes the inevitability and desirability of a strong difference between the sexes
this is so in Europe until the romantic notion of equality appears in the age of romanticism
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Buddhaṃ saraṇaṃ gacchāmi 2016-07-30 04:39:19 Post No.8337418
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The last Buddhism thread entered parinibbāna the moment I was about to reply to some secular Buddhist. You know who you are. Response in next post.
General Buddhism thread. Eternalists, nihilists, and Jains not welcome.
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If nothing other than suffering arises, then how do wholesome states arise?
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>>8335517
>Siderits' Buddhism as Philosophy. It removes all the religious elements, sets down the core ethical and metaphysical beliefs, and shows the logical connection between ideas.
Then you're simply not studying Buddhism. You're studying some modern system of thought tangentially related to Buddhism.
"And what is wrong view? 'There is nothing given, nothing offered, nothing sacrificed. There is no fruit or result of good or bad actions (karma). There is no this world, no next world (i.e. rebirth), no mother, no father, no spontaneously reborn beings (opapātika, i.e. divine and infernal beings); no brahmans or contemplatives who, faring rightly & practicing rightly, proclaim this world & the next after having directly known & realized it for themselves.' This is wrong view."
Majjhima Nikaya, Sutta 117
>a religion of inquiry
In your post I get the sense that you're trying to present a very rational face of Buddhism. Sure, there's the kalamas sutta but if you were an actual monk you had to accept the teachings. Doubt is one of the five hindrances. And causing a schism in the sangha is one of the ānantarika kamma that will send you to the Avīci hell for eons and eons.
Siddhartha "Foremost of the Bipeds" Gautama knew he had already perfected the Dhamma.
>I actually wouldn't recommend a primary source.
I'd say start with the primary sources (maybe in anthologies) and use commentaries to fill in the gaps. So much has been translated, and outside of stuff like the abhidhamma it's not very hard to digest either.
Here's a great place to read up on the Pali Canon:
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/
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>>8337420
Suffering only arises from craving of something or aversion of something. Break these two habits and you'll start to feel fucking splendid for no reason at all.
Post and share rare dfws
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i still don't have dfw o god
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How can one man be so based? I've been a Nietzschefag for a while and he completely BTFO of him in such a clear and concise manner my jaw is on the floor.
"Nietzsche had some natural talent for sarcasm: he could sneer, though he could not laugh; but there is always something bodiless and without weight in his satire, simply because it has not any mass of common morality behind it. He is himself more preposterous than anything he denounces. But, indeed, Nietzsche will stand very well as the type of the whole of this failure of abstract violence. The softening of the brain which ultimately overtook him was not a physical accident. If Nietzsche had not ended in imbecility, Nietzscheism would end in imbecility. Thinking in isolation and with pride ends in being an idiot. Every man who will not have softening of the heart must at last have softening of the brain."
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>>Lol Nietzsche sucks because no morals yadayada went crazy because of his thought etc.
Dostoevsky and Kierkegaard overlapped heavily with Neechee and they didn't go nuts.
Scheler's Ressentiment is the greatest "critique" on Nietzsche.
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nice ad hom chesterton now try again
oh wait you're dead you fucking faggot lmao
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>>8333869
Chesterton is fun, but aphorisms and the similar aren't something I will ever take as anything more than stylized fun.
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Bookshelves of /lit/ thread?
>Mine
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>>8331769
>toy car
if you have kids you shouldn't be on this board
also why did I find this.
embarassing. leave this website forever
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>>8331797
what a fucking faggot lmao
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>>8331797
The Toy car is for my future SO's son.
And yes I sometimes visit Reddit, nothing wrong with that.
New critique thread. Post what you've written, are writing, have published, and critique the work of others.
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1/2
Here's something I finally got accepted into a local magazine, after twelve or so rejection letters.
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Here's a poem I wrote:
Oh, help me in my weakness
I heard the drifter say
As they carried him from the courtroom
And were taking him away
My trip hasn't been a pleasant one
And my time it isn't long
And I still do not know
What it was that I've done wrong
Well, the judge, he cast his robe aside
A tear came to his eye
You fail to understand, he said
Why must you even try
Outside, the crowd was stirring
You could hear it from the door
Inside, the judge was stepping down
While the jury cried for more
Oh, stop that cursed jury
Cried the attendant and the nurse
The trial was bad enough
But this is ten times worse
Just then a bolt of lightning
Struck the courthouse out of shape
And while everybody knelt to pray
The drifter did escape
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ITT: We critique our poetry.
the foul, maddening buzz
weighing on his head
Such a furious welcome home,
unfit for the Sovereign
who tends to his skull-sized
lonely domain
and the crass, miserly
pleasures of his palate
still entranced by
the simple joys of summertime
the bloodred lust,
the rich, luxuriant warmth of
a june morning
Oh the benevolent promise of boyhood:
the many fleeting victories encased
in glass
and sweet, ornamental jewels
taunting
flashing her crystalline charms
flirting with the want
straining on your bones,
nestled in the marrow
like the clay of the sculptor,
like the grief of the drunk;
prodding at those
delusional spirits
tending
to the garden of your greed
sowing
the olivine and green
-- exultant
of the most high,
fortunes of stature
fortunes eternal
fortunes everlasting!
these familiar, sour temptations
they still buzz
purring in their sleep
cold, subdued, squandered
sunken
in the rust
of that old abundant Kingdom
throned by conceit,
and devoured
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I may be new to poetry but this seems mighty juvenile
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>>8314210
the single word -ing lines are not as effective as you think they are
>Oh the benevolent promise of boyhood
this is a weird line, i don't think you need benevolent. lots of cool lines here though
>>8314210
r8 my blank verse
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>>8314223
Eh, it might be. I'm also new to poetry. I wrote a piece yesterday in a similar modern-esque style and it was well received so I thought I'd try again today.
>>8314229
You're right on both counts. This does seem to have a clunky pacing after giving it another read over. Thanks.
I enjoyed your poem. Which is saying a lot considering it's written in a style that I'm not particularly fond of. The second segment was far more enjoyable for me, and had much more of the portrait quality that the title refers to. I don't know what you meant by the word 'moses', though. I also got caught up on the word Slinky. I was thrown off. Maybe something like 'coil' would be more palatable to a general audience.
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What would you add to this list, /lit/?
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Weak ass bait.
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>>8342782
He those pesky braindead normies
>Mein Kampf
>Schopenhauer's 'On Women'
Should just about make there heads explode
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>>8342782
A lit match.
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Are philosophers no more than pseudointellectuals?
Philosophers are too stupid for mathematics and science, that's why they opt to babble about whatever that's popular and play with words to gain attention. They are only intellectual frauds who contribute nothing to humanity.
If you call yourself a philosopher, I'll mock you.
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>Are philosophers no more than pseudointellectuals?
Take a look at r/philosophy, you know it to be true
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>Are philosophers no more than pseudointellectuals?
No
>Philosophers are too stupid for mathematics and science, that's why they opt to babble about whatever that's popular and play with words to gain attention. They are only intellectual frauds who contribute nothing to humanity.
These assertions are untrue and without merit.
They also fail both the evidence and reasoning tests for a valuable argument.
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>>8342721
You can't think
Here you go, though:
>(You)
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I know its fairly easy to do based on their bastardization of the English language, but I'd love it if /lit/ had country flags so I can disregard south american posts
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/lit/ is a cultural melting pot, just as the Columbian exchange enriched the world's cuisine, so will the south Americans enrich /lit/ and English language.
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>>8342639
it would still be cool to see where posts are coming from
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What's the best edition of this in the original French?
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>>8342605
you're not interesting
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>>8342622
thx for the helpful answer, reminds me of why i come 2 this great site
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>>8342630
/lit/ really sucks. When some idiot doesn't have an answer to something, instead of just moving on like a man they for whatever reason feel the need to contribute some totally useless shitpost.
You'll probably have much better luck on reddit, sad to say. Try /r/french
Undergrad fag here,
I need help narrowing down to a topic for my Honors Thesis. Thus far, I have a few ideas brainstormed, but they're far in between and equally dense, each easily requiring a semesters worth of work to determine if it would be feasible and fruitful to continue studying toward the greater goal of formulating my thesis. So, which of these ideas is practicality implausible for an undergad to see to the end (I already have a full course load, a tutoring position, and plenty of campus involvement on my plate), or just plain bad to pursue? Is there any way I can fuse these ideas together so I can research across disciplines and not narrow myself into the standard academic approach I'm taking? Is there any one of these focuses that immediately sticks out as golden? Are their any tips or points of concern my fellow /lit/izens would like to extend or pose to me? Any and all help will be appreciated.
Here's what I got so far (or, rather, what I'm most interested in):
- A long-form study of Ulysses
- Humanism in Rabelais's Gargantuan and Pantagruel
- The Development of Surrealism in Abstract Writing (basically tracing the French symbolists up through Dada, Breton, and to Barthelme, maybe even Saunders, to see how Surrealism effects contemporary fiction)
- Squaring the Moderns: Interplays between Hegel's Phenomenology of the Spirit and Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
- The Philosophy of Foucault
- The Philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari
- Adorno's Aesthetics: How do we define art?
- Is Ulysses a Meme? (I'd explore Ulysses canonization, it's reputation as "that" book, and what it means ro be a meme)
- Proust's Project (where I'll do a sort of New Criticism exploration of In Search of Lost Time)
Again, thanks anons.
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Do the Kantegel one and get wrecked
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>>8342563
Idk OP these all sound pretty intensive, as a thesis should. I'd go for one of the single text focused ones. That way your reading list won't be massive.
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>>8342601
OP here,
Yeah I'm kind of worried I'll bite off a bit more than I can chew with the philosopher focused ones, the Rabelais, or the Surrealism one.