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>reading boring popular authors
>not reading boring unknown authors
All these years and you guys still don't know what makes a true patrician.
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Joke's on you, I read authors unknown to my friends but well-known to anyone with a semblance of literary knowledge.
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What's the greatest piece of literature written by a Woman ?
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Various grocery lists.
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Middlemarch
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the waves
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Does anyone have the edited version of this with the added circle?
Also, general rage thread I guess.
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>make what appears to be a Venn diagram
>don't assign any meaning to the overlapping area
Triggered
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>>8306075
It gets the point across, I suppose. The point is silly and the guy who made it probably just doesn't like literature an awful lot, but the point is gotten across.
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>ITT we critique each other's shitty poetry
the grief of the early riser
is bound to his company ,
who wars with the lonely phantoms of his dreams
who braves the hallows of his fears
which, by your mark
fades into the dusk
like a cloud imposed upon a gaze of stars.
Like the rainy blades of green
and the dewy mists of morning,
how they cloud my sight.
As is the fogginess of dawn.
on a morning so gracious
to bring our connection to mind.
Nudging at my shoulder, pointing to you
adorned
and on display.
Painted with a brush so new and fine.
And the wind carries the scent:
what a warm alarm it is to wake to
and be reminded
that I'm embraced and accompanied
day in and day out
for all its humours,
reacquaintance
has found us furnished at the heart,
burning behind the eyes.
On fire with the same force
that lights the sunrise.
Soothing
like the smell after rainfall
before the heat of the day
has a chance to meet my cheek
how warm it is to see
the thawing of the damp,
smoothening the coarseness
of the early hours
as they burn
torrid
with the same fever
that struck the embers
once glowing
shyly
by our toes
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>>8305360
Paris is so beautiful from afar. Shame the French government ruined it.
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>>8305396
>Paris is so beautiful from afar.
Nothing lasts forever, Anon.
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>>8305360
Your last stanza is completely unlike the preceding ones you twat. Restructure it.
Nobody told me patrician lit could be this funny.
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>>8305325
lol good book. read his others
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/lit/ write your own suicide note.
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life sucks
love, [my name]
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As per K.V. Sarma's critical edition of Lilavati based on Kriyakramakari, stanza 199 of Lilavati reads as follows (Harvard-Kyoto convention is used for the transcription of the Indian characters):
vyAse bha-nanda-agni-hate vibhakte kha-bANa-sUryais paridhis sas sUkSmas/
dvAviMzati-ghne vihRte atha zailais sthUlas atha-vA syAt vyavahAra-yogyas//
This could be translated as follows;
"Multiply the diameter by 3927 and divide the product by 1250; this gives the more precise circumference. Or, multiply the diameter by 22 and divide the product by 7; this gives the approximate circumference which answers for common operations."
Taking this verse as a starting point and commenting on it, Sanakara Variar in his Kriyakrakari explicated the full details of the contributions of Sangamagrama Madhava towards obtaining accurate values of π. Sankara Variar commented like this:
"The teacher Madhava also mentioned a value of the circumference closer [to the true value] than that: "Gods [thirty-three], eyes [two], elephants [eight], serpents [eight], fires [three], three, qualities [three], Vedas [four], naksatras [twentyseven], elephants [eight], arms [two] (2,827,433,388,233)—the wise said that this is the measure of the circumference when the diameter of a circle is nine nikharva [10^11]." Sankara Variar says here that Madhava’s value 2,827,433,388,233 / 900,000,000,000 is more accurate than "that", that is, more accurate than the traditional value for π."
Sankara Variar then cites a set of four verses by Madhava that prescribe a geometric method for computing the value of the circumference of a circle. This technique involves calculating the perimeters of successive regular circumscribed polygons, beginning with a square.
Sankara Variar then describes an easier method due to Madhava to compute the value of π.
"An easier way to get the circumference is mentioned by him (Madhava). That is to say:
Add or subtract alternately the diameter multiplied by four and divided in order by the odd numbers like three, five, etc., to or from the diameter multiplied by four and divided by one.
Assuming that division is completed by dividing by an odd number, whatever is the even number above [next to] that [odd number], half of that is the multiplier of the last [term].
The square of that [even number] increased by 1 is the divisor of the diameter multiplied by 4 as before. The result from these two (the multiplier and the divisor) is added when [the previous term is] negative, when positive subtracted.
The result is an accurate circumference. If division is repeated many times, it will become very accurate."
To translate these verses into modern mathematical notations, let C be the circumference and D the diameter of a circle. Then Madhava's easier method to find C reduces to the following expression for C:
C = 4D/1 - 4D/3 + 4D/5 - 4D/7 + ...
This is essentially the series known as the Gregory-Leibniz series for π.
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>>8305189
stately, i killed myself
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>fedora on the first page
dropped
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kys op
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Any fans of Flashman here? What's the best book in the series and does it ever really go to shit?. I'm reading the third right now and it's enjoyable.
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>>8305115
Recommended by a friend (a massive toff bell-end incidentally) however I was never a British toff in a boarding school so I didn't really make it past the first few pages familam.
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>>8305129
It get's better when he actually leaves England, which I'll admit takes a pretty long time.
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"If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest."
>be Ludwig Wittgenstein
>hand falls asleep
>get struck with inspiration
>write long series of notes devoted to certainty in epistemology
>predicate entire series on this one opening proposition
>yfw Wittgenstein actually based his entire view of certainty on the psycho-physical fact that sensations produced by one's own hand can effect changes in one's mental state
>yfw Wittgenstein was just talking about masturbation all along
And those contemporary analytic pseuds thought he was arguing for the certainty of self-knowledge in an appeal to proprioception.
You can't pinch the Pynchmeister, you can't tolerate the Tolstoevsky, and you can't outwit the Wittgenstein.
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mind = blown
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Someone give me an analysis of this NOW so I can decide if this man is the new Joyce or Green?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N84YPapgsGU [Embed]
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>>8304681
he sounds like Butters
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>>8304681
Are there bots on this board that take users' posts and make entirely new unnecessary threads of them?
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>>8304694
Someone give me an analysis of this NOW so I can decide if this man is the new Joyce or Green?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N84YPapgsGU [Embed]
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>read a book for the first time, love it
>reread it once or twice
>all the little details now seem forced and unnecessary
This is just in my head, right? If I didn't already know the characters beforehand, I wouldn't be thinking the little details are hamfisted? Mentally I'm like "we already know this character is a vapid shithead, we don't need this information", but that's just my bias as someone who already knows, right?
This can become a concern to me in my own writing, in that I'm automatically biased to knowing my characters, but the reader doesn't. I suppose finding the good level of detail is where the magic is, though.
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>>8304610
I literally won't be rereading books until I've exhausted the Western canon.
Too many good books, too little time.
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>>8304613
I reread books I read when I was younger (e.g. a child or a teen) or just for that comfy feel.
Some books are just worth reading again. Reading isn't like collecting pokemon. Or maybe it is in the sense that some books are Jolteons, and others are Weedles.
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Sauce, OP?
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>just fuck my shit up bruh
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>>8304570
Stop shitting up this board.
Do you want to discuss Steinbeck? Then present some sort of argument or opinion or fuck off to /s4s/
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I'm reading Madame Bovary.
Just finished part one, it strikes me as having quite a similar premise to Eyes Wide Shut. doctor husband, wife who has trouble with bourgeois marriage, the ball scene. Similar themes too. Does anyone else find that? Do you think Kubrick was rewriting Madame Bovary for the 21st century?
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>>8304440
cuckoldry is a bourgeois fantasy, this is why the middle class strives for it
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You're probably trolling but Eyes Wide Shut is based on Schnitzler's Traumnovelle. I don't know how much influence Flaubert's work exerted on Schnitzler's writing. He might have adapted some elements of Madame Bovary, but I can't say how accurate this theory is.
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>>8304457
Wasn't aware of this. ty
>im never going to write a great american novel
i cant deal
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Why is a sense of humor so difficult?
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It's a tough reality to face, I agree desu.
All I ever wanted was to be Steinbeck or McCarthy.
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>>8304390
Not if you don't sit down and write. Not every author had fully realized their style and voice in their first piece. Get to that notebook, moleskin, or laptop and get to writing.
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Alright, I want to give Finnegans Wake a stab before I die. What books should I read (other than Joyce's other stuff), what history should I know, and what languages should I learn before I go at it?
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>>8304362
I don't think any of that is going to help. The book is so packed with references that you will inevitably not have enough background information to "get it" simply from a read-through. You're gonna have to consult the resources of all the work that's been put in by experts over the last 75 years. From what I hear, one of the best is "Annotations to Finnegans Wake" by Rolan McHugh, and fweet.org (which apparently is kind of complicated to use).
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the gregs
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>>8304362
>What other books should i read
That presumes you ought to read Finnegans Wake, which is a fatuous premise