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Has anyone here actually read it? If so, what'd you think?

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>Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of "world history," but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die. One might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature. There were eternities during which it did not exist. And when it is all over with the human intellect, nothing will have happened.

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"The theory of moral sentiments" is Adam smiths less known book and apparently takes a different tone than the "wealth of nations". I am in possession of the book and was wondering if any of you lads had read it and what you thought about it ?

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>postmodernism
>continentals try to remain relevant after getting BTFO by analytic philosophy

prove me wrong

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I mean something that makes you laugh

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What's the best book and why is it Book Ten?

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What dictionaries or style guides would you recommend and why?

>The occasion for this article is Oxford University Press's semi-recent release of Bryan A. Garner'sA Dictionary of Modern American Usage. The fact of the matter is that Garner's dictionary is extremely good, certainly the most comprehensive usage guide since E. W. Gilman'sWebster's Dictionary of English Usage, now a decade out of date.[1] Its format, like that of Gilman and the handful of other great American usage guides of the last century, includes entries on individual words and phrases and expostulative small-cap MINI-ESSAYS. on any issue broad enough to warrant more general discussion. But the really distinctive and ingenious features ofA Dictionary of Modern American Usageinvolve issues of rhetoric and ideology and style, and it is impossible to describe why these issues are important and why Garner's management of them borders on genius without talking about the historical contexts [2] in which ADMAU appears, and this context turns out to be a veritable hurricane of controversies involving everything from technical linguistics to public education to political ideology, and these controversies take a certain amount of time to unpack before their relation to what makes Garner's usage guide so eminently worth your hard-earned reference-book dollar can even be established; and in fact there's no way even to begin the whole harrowing polymeric discussion without taking a moment to establish and define the highly colloquial term SNOOT.
-- DFW

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stop watching dildobananas and giving her views. Watch actual good youtube channels about books like this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL3sMF9cVqg

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What books should I read to become well-read/memed?

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You guys ever cringe real hard and refuse to read your past papers and lit because it doesn't abide your standards?

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Is he worth reading?

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What are some individuals you would recommend to read about that achieved the greateness of and had the level of accomplishment, intrigue and excitement in their lives as the likes of Lord Byron, Sir Richard Burton and Cesare Borgia?

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Recently on a critique thread someone wrote some absurd nonsensical passage with one part being a 'reverse great gatsby affirmation'. IT received a bit of attention

Anyone got it and if on the off chance the person who wrote it is here, is there more?

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I've heard people on this board making fun of people who think that literary analysis = "a hunt and peck search for symbolism." Does anyone know of any resources, preferably somewhat compact, where myself and other anons could start getting our heads around basic literary analysis? with the goal being a greater appreciation of everything we read.

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Which edition of Ulysses should I read?