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Why do people pay attention to this nonsense? It's unreadable, it's just a bunch of gibberish.
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it sounds nice.
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we get it OP, you read for plot
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>>8268193
http://phys.org/news/2016-01-world-greatest-literature-reveals-multifractals.html
Supposedly there's more to than meets the eye. I'm too dumb to know if that's true though
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Bought Dune and now I'm halfway through with it.
Do I pick up the sequels or do I avoid them like an AIDS-infested tire fire?
Pic unrelated.
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>>8268192
Book 1 and 2 are great, i havent read 3 yet but I heard that if you read 3 then you must read 4. I heard it starts getting shitty from there, and that if you read 5 you must read 6. But none of the son novels no no.
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>>8268192
The rest of the series sucks
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I was at a festival a few weeks ago and some guys had build a "festival" library pretty close to my camp. The library was filled with shitty thrift shop books that they had picked up for free, because they knew they were gonna get stolen anyway. But among the thrash I managed to find the first three Dune books collected in a single book.
It was pretty neat chilling in my tent and reading the book after a long day :)
A book like this picture?
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>>8268130
Songs of a dead dreamer
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>>8268130
Roadside Picnic
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most everything by Solzhenitsyn
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Kafka and Germany's Current Migrant Situation 2016-07-12 02:05:22 Post No.8268114
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Kafka and Germany's Current Migrant Situation
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I read the following Kafka short story and I couldn't help but relate it to a modern day version of the current refugee/migrant situation. When the Emperor looks out the window, I can't help but think "that's fucking Merkel!"
https://livelongday.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/an-old-manuscript.pdf
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>>8268114
Pretty much.
Though one must assume that there is something insidious in Merkel's actions. She could simply deport them all if she wanted too; the most debatable question is as to why they are kept around.
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>>8268114
I doubt you understand Deutsch current affairs, you unbearable pleb. If you really do, then you'll prove it.
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>>8268114
Just seems that you don't understand the migrant Situation and the short story. Its too late for you, sorry.
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What is the purpose of Homeric repetition? What does it add to the literature?
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pic also related
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Oral tradition.
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Emphasis
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just wanted to share this again because I'm proud of it
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>aging
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If I'm not reading any of the unread books on this gigantic bookshelf to my right, I'm definitely, definitely not reading that.
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>>8268133
It took me like 20 minutes to write in one sitting.
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What are some essential books for someone considering libertarianism?
I don't need to be recommended the basic dystopian novels (1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World).
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>>8268048
Democracy the God that Failed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Then read Scruton and stop being a libertarian
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>>8268048
Not strictly "libertarian" books, but I feel that these will be worthwhile to you:
Anarchy, State, and Utopia
Free to Choose
The Constitution of Liberty
Law, Legislation, and Liberty 1-3
The Law
Economics In One Lesson
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>>8268048
Anything by the classical economists. Adam Smith and David Ricardo are musts. As is Milton Friedman
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I always identified a lot with Princess Marya from Tolstoy's War and Peace. Perhaps simply because she's one of the few female characters in literature that seems to truly have any depth at all.
What female characters does /lit/ consider the most well-written? (N.B. Well-written that is, not who's your literary manic pixie dream girl waifu)
Where does one go after War and Peace?
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>>8268021
Shakespeare's Rosalind, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina
I'm reading Balzac atm and he writes his women with a lot of sympathy and nuance, so hes worth a shot too I reckon
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Pilar from For Whom the Bell Tolls.
Technically Estraven from The Left Hand of Darkness if you think about it
The protagonist from The Lover by Duras. The one who has the affair very young and then grows up. The mother from that story was good as well.
Honestly I can't really see the difference between male characters and female characters. I think people really overthink it. I don't think women are any better at writing women, but everyone just assumes they are. It's like how people thought that guy's poetry was better when he used a Chinese woman's name.
>not who's your literary manic pixie dream girl waifu
Agia from Gene "The Meme" Wolfe's catholic torture epics. She sounds like a handful.
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>>8268515
Why exactly was Tolstoy so good at female characters?
I agree with you entirely about Anna Karenina too.
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>tfw all the happiness I currently have is derived from the comments on my unfinished erotica story
>tfw I haven't made any progress on the story for an entire month
>tfw my audience have been asking about my progress
>tfw I'm actually afraid of disappointing those people
anyone else know this feel?
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>having an audience
>anybody else know this feel?
not on /lit/
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>>8268016
how do you write that shit? not interested, not trolling, just curious. do you watch lots of fuck films?
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>>8268016
So your audience is exclusively masturbators -- kind of like posting comments on /b/, eh
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Thoughts on Will Durant? I've seen his name countless times for famous series on history and philosophy. I saw Life of Greece in a store recently and picked it up. I plan on starting it when I finish my current book, but I want to know /lit/s opinion on the guy.
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>>8268014
yeah don't do that shit homey. Billy is dildos.
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>>8268039
Why?
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Story of Philosophy was dope.
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Great job guys. When's the next one?
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>>8267980
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we're doing a prologue for totalitarianism in a tundra that also acts as a bridge between LoTiaT and Hypersphere. First we synthesize, then we contextualize using present /lit/ as our catalyst for progressing the narrative.
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>>8267980
not great job. it sucks
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You are my sister, we were born
So innocent, so full of need
There were times we were friends but times I was so cruel
Each night I'd ask for you to watch me as I sleep
I was so afraid of the night
You seemed to move through the places that I feared
You lived inside my world so softly
Protected only by the kindness of your nature
You are my sister
And I love you
May all of your dreams come true
We felt so differently then
So similar over the years
The way we laugh the way we experience pain
So many memories
But theres nothing left to gain from remembering
Faces and worlds that no one else will ever know
You are my sister
And I love you
May all of your dreams come true
I want this for you
They're gonna come true (gonna come true)
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>>8267961
Shit lyrics, but August Ames used to be hot af, senpai.
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>>8268136
the best jiggle in porn
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>>8268136
every. august ames. thread.
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Who wrote that short story about carving up an ape for dinner? I'm only asking here because I'm all out of options, pretty much just Googling "[name of American short story author] + ape" at this point
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Are you talking about the cuck story?
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>>8268109
Maybe, which one is that?
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>>8268109
Lmao
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Leftist text suggestions for a hardcore right-winger? (No Marx) 2016-07-12 00:24:08 Post No.8267872
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Leftist text suggestions for a hardcore right-winger? (No Marx)
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As a pretty hardcore right-winger, I want to open myself up to left-wing texts because I don't like living in an echo-chamber.
I have picked up Madness and Civilisation by Michel Foucault, and I am enjoying it so far even though I'm not very far into it, and it's a bit complex and hard to follow since I'm very new to Philosophy.
So, is it worth it to continue on buying Foucault's books and exposing myself to Leftist theories that way or what? Does he provide solid arguments?
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Foucault is as left wing as nietzsche is
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>>8267883
Foucault was basically an Anarcho-Communist, which is about as hard Left as you can get.
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if you're Christian right-wing you might try Belloc
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Which version is best version?
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>>8267829
Leaves of ASS heheh amirite?
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>>8267829
i've been wondering too
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>>8267829
I don't understand why this is such a common question. Why wouldn't it be the deathbed version?
He spent his life writing and rewriting these poems, why wouldn't you get the complete and final version?