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doesn't make much sense in English to begin with, so you should be fine. if the translation is shit it will probably just accentuate DFW's intentions

Bump , should I read/translate at the same time?

>>8316495
Depends on the language. It's already been translated into a handful.

Because they are intelligent.

>>8316513
Ah beat me to it

>>8316513
DA BANTZ

I don't think it's all that odd to be more easily impressed with something you're not as familiar with.

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>>8316460
>It's a Frenchman thinking his countries works are innately better episode

>>8316454
lol @ ur dumbass thread

>>8316525
>>>/b/

>>8316454
The Art of the Deal

>>8316441
The novel of manners was in itself a conversational manual for the readers of the time.

>>8316441
Taught. At a young age it was expected of a certain class of people were taught from a young age to have proper manners. Something sorely lacking in today's culture.

>Best guess for this image: embroidery on silk shirts

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

you know what i want google

Have no fear, we've got stories for years

No. Did Westerns exist in Ancient Greece? New forms develop with the times, and new characters and situations and ideas to explore will arise within them.

>>8316352
We might run out of stories to write about but I don't think we'll run out of ways to tell and interpret the same story.

> I stated the insistence of the materialist skeptics that they were to argue that natural reality is greater than they concede

He said:
> the insistence of the materialist skeptics that they were to argue that natural reality is greater than they concede

The 'materialist skeptics' said:
> natural reality is greater than they concede

The 'materialist skeptics' said reality cannot be known.

>>8316328
PS. Sounds a lot like bullshit.

>>8316332
The "that they were to argue" part is throwing me off.

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the serial killer files notes

the illustrated police news of london (old jornal with illustrations of crimes)

how smart are serial killers?
there is a simple explanation for the fact that most serial killers are smart, generally speaking it requieres a
certain inteligence to get away with repeated acts of homicide without getting caught

according to the fbi a serial killer is an indiviudal who kills three or more people within a certain interval of time between each homicide
executioners don't count because that is their bussiness

arguably the sickest piece of literature made by a serial killer is killer fiction by Gerard John Schaefer
probably based on real occorrences

chimpanzes are genetically closer to us than with gorillas

history is but the biography of great man

Albert Fish
would put sowing needle up into is groin and leave them there , an x ray showed up to two dozen needles inside is pelvis


Albert Fish was aflicted with no fewer than 17 parafilias , something that was never recorded in anyone else

a traumatic upbringing can alter a persons brain , maybe causing a serial killer

the virtuous man is contenpt to dream what the wicked man really does

most primal human cultures had one primal rule
the exploitation of the weak by the strong , might makes right

serial killer central www.angelfire.com/o/yodaspage , doe snot work

what if - randall munroe

a cube of any of the highest numbered elements would decay in seconds releasing a treamendous amount of energy, the result would be a nuclear explosion

rhinovirus (common cold) could be eliminated with quarentine if it were not for weak people who carrie the disease in a dorment state.
every cold virus we get is a diferent one from the last time

a 1 ton craft needs 20 to 50 tons of fuel

>>8316279
Your post reminded me of this:
http://en.rocketnews24.com/2016/07/02/famous-manga-artist-avoids-drawing-one-everyday-item-in-his-comics-for-the-sake-of-future-readers/

>>8316279
Stay away from social media for one, there is nothing more plebeian. Instead of texting your mademoiselle, give her a fucking call. Instead of researching in Google, hit up the fucking library.
As for news, just add some funny ads, or roll with seeing shit on TV while passing one. Besides, people do still read newspapers.

To make it all more realistic, make the protagonist tech impaired.

Hey, Sagar. The proper way of phrasing things on 4chins.

"Newfag here. Fresh off plebbit. Any of you NEETs know about Fantasia by Assia Djebar? Where can I get it?"

>>8316223
Never could finish Catch-22. I'll see if I pick it up and try to read it again.

>>8316223
My 14 year old student read all of these other than catch 22 last year. At the moment she's on a Haruki Murakami kick.

She fills me with pride. Best student I could ask for.

Are you also a 14 year old Asian girl?

>>8316232
same
I understand why some people find it funny, but I didn't find it worthy of wasting my time when I could be reading something else.

I also dropped Atlas Shrugged. The length of the book is disproportionate to Rand's writing; to the point I read story could have been told in many less pages, and her prose isn't particularly engaging or beautiful.

Animal Farm was meh.

Loved Metamorphosis, but is my least favorite Kafka 'novel'. I found both The Trial and The Castle were better. I haven't read Amerika yet.

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It's [current year], why would you buy a book for something like recipes?

The web is really excels at this. There are sites that have videos alongside the recipe too.

Using a book for this is like using a physical atlas instead of a GPS.

There's too much food on that burger to eat it as a single meal.

>>8316194
I didn't mean just a recipe book, something that actually teaches you stuff.

Just like they do in romance languages.

>>8316161
>like Japanese
Like English, the language you're speaking.

There isn't one set of rules for Romance languages and one for ALL OTHER languages.

>>8316175
>>8316181
I'm trying to understand how the ones that changes a word spelling works with spelling.
there are clearly diferences, by example there's almost no ryme in japanese because it sounds bad.

Yis

Village of Stepanchikovo is criminally underrated, but you're probably just going to get anons who think The Idiot isn't a major work. gd/lk

The Idiot is his best novel

>>8316146
My inner voice tends to be rather playful or just plain nice so I usually go along with it.

>Visit the children's ward, bring them candy
>Go to the public bathroom just to tip the cleaner and wish her a good day

That sort of thing.

Of course when I was younger it was a bit darker, but kids will be kids and I followed it back then too.

Learned to control it

>>8316180

It's really hard, they come unexpected, it's like when you suddenly can't get a song out of your head, it's impossible and so distracting.
I am sleep now I'll check back in morning