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Good books for people who have given up on life and only enjoy nature and music?
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the bible
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>>8261334
nature, music, literature
that isn't giving up on life m8 that is a warm embrace
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Is Max Payne /lit/approved ?
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>>8261315
I liked it
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It's the fourth best video game of all time.
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From a strictly aesthetic and creative standpoint what are some great books of philosophy, religion, or history?
I don't care if it is intellectually irrelevant, willfully eccentric, contains ridiculous theories, etc.
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>>8261310
The Nichomachean Ethics. I've had this thought that it is basically the best start to philosophy because of Aristotle's experience in Western and Eastern worlds. As such, his works incorporate (or should, I havent read any books discussing this idea) both eastern and western thought, which at the time were at a sort of crux where minds like Plato and Laozi emerged and left their own imprints.
Basically, philosophy as a whole converges at Aristotle and diverges after. I've never had a chance to discuss and argue this, so it would be nice for some criticism on this.
Not sure if this is exactly in line with your question, but I figure the model example of philosophy would be aesthetic and creative.
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The first part of Either-Or by Kierkegaard is pure aesthetics.
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Heraclitus, Empedocles, Plato, Lucretius, Augustine, Montaigne, Pascal, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein
>But to return back to the Moors, where I left off; they are an instance of that cruelty of disposition which was anciently in their nature, and how in a country abandoned
of the true Christian religion, after it has been first planted and professed among them, the return of heathenism or Mahometanism has brought back with it all the barbarisms of a nation void of religion and good nature.
>I saw enough of these dreadful people to think them at this time the worst of all the nations of the world; a nation where no such thing as a generous spirit, or a temper with any compassion mixed with it, is to be found; among whom Nature appeal’s stripped of all the additional glories which it derives from religion, and yet whereon a Christian flourishing church had stood several hundred
years.
This is from Daniel Defoe, a writer whose work is still taught today in English countries around the world. Tell me again why we still listen to these writers who were canonized by our grandpas? It's time we decolonize our curricula and get these racist as FUCK writers out of the classroom.
Is /lit/ on board?
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>>8261211
>can't even greentext properly
bad show OP.
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>>8261215
I assume it's copypasta that wasn't copied/pasted properly
Bad show OP.
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I'm about to read these and then the sequel The Golden Cat.
Does lit know of many other books like this? I've read Watership Down and Tailchasers Song but most other books with this style are aimed at young adults or children such as Guardian Cats: The Lost Books of Alexandria and the Warrior Cats series.
I have also read The Sight, Fell, Fire Bringer, and even Julie's Wolves.
I greatly enjoy the grand storytelling adventure style and enjoy the strange but oddly familiar feeling of it being told by an animals perspective. Especially with cats since I an very much a crazy cat lady in training.
So, any more hidden gems out there that you know of?
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>>8261340
Thank you
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>only confident in english
>dislike most of the anglo-american tradition
>reading in translation is a cop-out
w-what do?
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>live on earth
>dislike the earth tradition
>not reading is a cop-out
what do?read English literature you fucking moron
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Shut up and read Moby Dick
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>>8261041
Really? Why?
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Should I bother reading this after seeing the movie?
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No. Read Beds in the East or The End of the World News then Earthly Powers.
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yes, the experience is different because you have to absorb the narrative through the heavy slang
also different ending
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Yes. The slang is much more prominent in the book and makes for an overall more memorable experience and lasting story. Also they cut the final chapter of the book from the movie so even if you decide not to read the whole thing, at least read that chapter.
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What are the best or most overlooked french realist/naturalism books.
I've covered most of the russian realists, and just bought a collection of stories by maupassant, I think it's my favorite literature movement, i'd appreciate more.
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Bumpity
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>>8261029
who are the others besides Roarin' Leo?
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Zola, Stendhal, Kleist's Michael Kohlhaas (kinda transcends that movement though)
Recommendations?
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>>8260976
Welles? Welles.
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>>8261804
How boring :(
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>>8260976
Under Milk Wood
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what is the Salacious B. Crumb of literature?
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>>8260878
Michel Houellebecq
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>tfw painting thread was deleted but this one won't be
fuck the mods
Poetry Rating thread. Post your poems, score others on a scale of 1 to 5 (where 5 is best original poem you've seen posted on /lit/) and 1 to 10 (where 10 is your favorite poem).
For example:
"There once was a boy named Chase
Who had the world's ugliest face..."
> 2/5, 0/10
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The folds of our clothing
Damp with mouths warm, animal air
Heart beaten heat making many breaths stale
Low fog in the stitches, and hanging on strings
Soon mildew garments in abandoned house backyard
Become yellowed rags, dew-dotted
Where rusted clothes pin spring soon snaps
and spoiled wood crumbles
or at last line breaks
And someday soil chews the fibers gently
Making mud of memories before baking
Come summer a clear dirt clot bursts
with dust under unknown shoe, then
Cold coming all green things lay down brown
And sink into unknown earth
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Take from my heart's deepest well
its reddest blood
Each long draw subtle scraping
with bucket clanging, scooping out
Let my voice creak and rust
a high and shaking pulley
So your little thin-rope
to greater depths may go
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>>8260857
not bad
Why is fantasy frowned upon here?
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/lit/ only reads to impress and you can't impress people with fantasy
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It is?
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>>8260737
What about reading for fun?
I'm about to start reading Paradise Lost for an english course and I wanted to ask: is there any background reading/guides to reading that i should use?
The ~600 pages of dense poetry is fairly daunting, and I'm worried that I won't 'get' it or something.
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>>8260703
Assuming your course is good, no. All extra readings should be provided by the teacher. Hopefully they'll touch on his other works, which is all you need to really -get- Paradise Lost.
That said, actually reading the poem is only really daunting at first. Once you get used to the language and his rhythm it's a breeze and highly rewarding.
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I'd read some of his other poetry and prose first.
In my course we read Comus, Lycidas, On The Church Doctrine of Reason, Aeropagitica, Various Sonnets (When I Consider how my light is spent).
Good luck senpai.
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I suppose you're talking about Paradife Loft, right?
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Will reading Aurelius make me a better person?
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No. Read Evola, Guenon, and Spengler.
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The Art of Worldly Wisdom
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>>8260693
It will make you more well-read on Aurelius, and possibly Stoicism if you haven't read much about it previously.
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Suggestions for a poignant suicide note?
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>I wasn't good enough for myself and I only think this because I have a high opinion of what I think because I'm always right. Look what you did, world, you made a genius kill himself.
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>kiss my ass, cocksuckers
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>>8260704
how can they kiss your ass if they're sucking cock?