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any books on coping with severe obesity like pic related. I'm so fat and my mommy says she will kick me out if i dont get a job soon i really dont wanna im hoping I can find a book that helps me lose weight so i dont need to gte job please?
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>>8297211
The /fit/ sticky
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starting strength
>asking a random little girl if she wants hot chocolate
What the fuck is wrong with him?
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>>8297180
Kindness, apparently
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>>8297192
Dude, you wouldn't let a stranger do that to your own child.
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>>8297218
I would
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What's the best or most scholarly publisher/imprint in your native language?
I've got
English: Norton Critical Editions, Oxford World Classics, Dalkey, NYRB, New Directions, Everyman's Library, Library of America
Spanish: Catedra
Ancient Greek/Latin: Loeb
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Brazil: Autêntica, Ateliê, Cosac Naify (RIP), Editora 34, Azul and Perspectiva
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>>8297141
My native language is not at all "scholarly". We laugh heartily at such weak Western notions.
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French : Pléiade (leatherbound classics), Droz (Middle-Ages/Renaissance texts), Honoré Champion, Slatkine (facsimile)
Bilingual :
Greek/Latin : Belles Lettres (even if the Budé is badly print, it contains a lot of nice things)
Chinese : Belles Lettres
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>DUDE TANTRIC SEX LOL
what a fukin wirdo
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>>8297133
did this guy really not even believe in science? wtf was wrong with him?
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>>8297133
he's absolutely based, BTFO bluepilled SJW roasties
hehe
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>>8297133
>evola
more like
>EBOLA
lol
what should I read next lit? The Odyssey, a shakespheare tragedy, ulysses, gravity's rainbow, lolita, or the tunnel by william gass? Or vote here. http://www.strawpoll.me/10783988
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I voted Gravity's Rainbow because I just finished it today
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>>8297121
Nice
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>>8297121
Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it.
Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling.
The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card.
"Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???"
Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.
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what's the antonym for percussive/percussion?
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>>8297115
melodic if we're talking about music
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>>8297118
that implies that percussion is associated with dissonance or atonality
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Annebolin
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Is this the best Lovecraft story collection?
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>>8297102
Its the one most people i know have, not sure if its the best though.
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>>8297109
Do you know is there any Omnibus books that has all the stories?
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>>8297120
HUGE selection of stories in nice cover for only $25:
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Fiction-Lovecraft-Knickerbocker-Classics/dp/1631060015/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468936138&sr=8-1&keywords=knickerbockers+lovecraft
That's the one I have. I don't think it has every single story though.
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What does /lit/ think about Lang Leav?
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Who?
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>>8297061
A contemporary writer. Somehow popular in Southeast-Asian countries right now.
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>>8297057
I'd put it in.
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How do we free ourselves from the enslaving caused by 24/7 capitalism? Crary left me hanging.
>tfw this thread just shows the dominance of the 24/7 upon me
>tfw we can't escape the spectacle
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>>8297038
>brainwashed idiot detected
There is no Western country that is not controlled by socialist leftists
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>>8297038
>24/7 Capitalism
My wife and I work 36 hour weeks, and I go grocery/necessity shopping maybe 4 hours a week. We both sleep around 8. So I'd say consuming and working take up very little of my life.
On top of that:
>believing that in a communist society you will work less for greater benefit
That has not been shown true historically.
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>>8297050
Post yfw you're just another bluepilled victim of neoliberalism
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I fell for the meme. Which one should I read first?
>they're not the same height
That really triggered my autism.
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Ha. I will sit here and imagine the mental pain you will have sorting the novels out.
Just take scissors, cut some off the top and some off the bottom of the recogs and you probably won't lose any of the text and then they'll be the same height.
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>dat taskbar
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>>8297021
The Recognitions, obviously.
Though really if you wanted a quick Gaddis book to feel the guy out with before jumping into a doorstop, you should've gotten Carpenter's Gothic.
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Is reading and education really just deliberate self-delusion?
We are all naturally racist, sexist, and a market economy (i.e. capitalism) is in line with human nature as well.
Proof = people without education in the middle of nowhere, away from big cities etc. all agree that these things are unnatural
Is it fair to say that the redpill represents what is just human nature, and the bluepill (liberalism, socialism, feminism etc) is willfull self-delusion disregarding the factual reality of human nature? Is this a mental illness?
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Each red pill is another blue pill.
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>>8297020
>implying reading or being educated has anything to do with being a liberal
What the fuck are you even talking about?
Surely you're jesting
Also
>muh bluepill/redpill dichotomy
Kys
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This is the quintessential frogpost.
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Okay but like what's with all the lolis?
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welcome to pinecone
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There's a great loli scene in GR
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>>8297029
Read it pretty recently, it was pretty damn hot.
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life is too fucking long. any lit on this subject
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>>8296967
nausea by sartre specifically that part about the cunt from england he used to fuck talking about ourliving herself
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>>8296983
outliving*
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>>8296967
On the Shortness of Life - Seneca
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What do you expect in a historical novel? 2016-07-19 12:24:37 Post No.8296951
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What do you expect in a historical novel?
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What do you expect to read about? Any tropes and such? Level of nudity, level of gore, etc...
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>>8296951
A time before political correctness
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I would just want it to be well researched so that it could somewhat accurately represent the times, but not so well researched that the author feels the need to put in enormous amounts of obscure shit to show off.
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>>8296956
Yeah, there's a fine line between so little it's bland and so much it reads like an annoying history lesson.
Bernard Cromwell is somewhat guilty of the latter, from the little I've read of the Saxon books.
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Is beauty a virtue?
From medieval romances, it's the sort of impression one might get (though there exists also some weird conflation between beauty and other virtues, where "the most beautiful" can be decided through knights jousting, and so on).
But in today's society, with today's common morals, perhaps with christian morals, it seems a strange concept. Certainly it's something you might think about twice before saying. A "virtuous" person is someone who is perhaps hard working, or kind, who devotes his life to god, to charity, to humanity, etc.
With beauty there is also the issue that it cannot be attained by all, and that the greatest part of it is in fact entirely out of our hands. This doesn't seem to be compatible with the leftist, perhaps even with the Christian message.
And still, without openly admitting it, we revere the beautiful. It is no conspiracy that good looking people are more successful in general, and that's just one part. If you go to boards like /hr/, you will find women who are absolutely idolized, for no action or "virtue" of their own, if we are to exclude beauty from being a virtue.
How can a young person in our society get famous? For one, they could create something special, they could do something extremely charitable, or they could simply be beautiful (instagram model generation and so on).
There is evidently something missing then, with this world view. It cannot explain this phenomenon.
But another question then is, if we agree that beauty is indeed a virtue, how do we deal with the ugly? Am I, as an ugly person, simply damned by life? Unvirtuous by birth? How can such a world view be reconciled with those who it shuns from the moment they are born?
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Beauty cannot be escaped.
It is beyond virtuous.
There are things higher than virtue, and beautiful things should terrify you.
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>>8296928
Can the lack of beauty then be compensated by virtue?
I guess it's really a question of whether or not I can convince myself of that.
Or really, a question how to deal with being an ugly jealous fag.
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>>8296943
It cannot compensate, for beauty cannot be beaten.
Virtue is an entirely different story, so virtue may or may not have beauty associated with it.
How to deal: Sense of humor or die.