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ITT: Philosophers who practiced what they wrote
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>>8247913
>implying writing is not practice
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>>8247973
It's not
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>>8247913
Julius Evola.
Literally gave away all of his paintings and writings for free, and lived an incredibly modest life.
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What went wrong? Is Lacan alone enough to do this to a man?
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At least he grew some hair on that feminine face of his + also the chest, pretty sure he gets laid for every sniff he produces
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The fight against ideology is stressful on a man.
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Influence by yellow fever and video games
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Is there a good "first year literature textbook" type of thing you've ever read?
Something like pic related, which went through editing, sound, genre, angles, misenscene, form, content, but instead about prose.
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Burroway, Writing Fiction
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>>8247906
thanks
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Is that actually good?
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Medieval literature one must read and/or own. 2016-07-06 13:19:42 Post No.8247773
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Medieval literature one must read and/or own.
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I am looking to increase my library with more medieval literature - What are your suggestions on must-owns besides the ones I currently have:
Divina Commedia
Decamerone
The Norse Eddas
St Augustine's Confessions and City of God
Beowulf
Chanson de Roland
Nibelungenlied
Hit me with your best medieval lit!
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Chretien de Troyes' Arthurian Romances
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The Decameron
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St. Augustine isn't medieval you dip.
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Female characters by female authors 2016-07-06 13:08:30 Post No.8247741
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Female characters by female authors
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Recommend me some books whose perspective or main character is female age 24 to 56, preferably by a female author.
I'm writing a story about a lonely kindergarten teacher whose student dies. Need some more female perspective.
Already reading Alice Munro, Virginia Wolfe and Alice McDermott but need more.
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o shit my nigga Jane Eyre is exactly what u need
Jane is always younger than 24 in the novel but there's a section whereher friend dies at boarding (charity) school and there's a lot of shit about the relationship between that student and one of the teachers
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>>8247741
hack facebook acounts
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Do Hip-Hop lyrics possess any deeper meaning, or hold any literary values worthy of being analyzed by scholars? If so, how could this be done, or are there any examples of this being done before?
BONUS: Try to break down and analyze lyrics of your favorite Hip-Hop song, or let others do it for you.
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Not a single rap song is worth your time lyrically
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>Do Hip-Hop lyrics possess any deeper meaning
pretty fucking obvious if you just listen to some
>or hold any literary values worthy of being analyzed by scholars?
lol
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>>8247645
no
and i really wish you would stop making this thread
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>OMG anon, of course I am a positivist! I love feeling happy! :)
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[[internal autistic screaming]]
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>I love being an intelligent and rational person, like all those cool famous scientists! Mind you, that's why I'm a rationalist!
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{{I want to hate fuck you in the butt}}
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>local philosophy factory closed down
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what's a philosophy factory?
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Mine outsourced to India. Fuck.
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>>8247294
>can only afford cheap chinese buddhism
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I am just beginning my literature journey. Of course I "read" what was required of me in high school but I merely extracted what I needed for my assignments, in other words, I read the books but made no attempt to understand them.
I (in a rather dark place) decided that I may as well pick try to read something because I had enjoyed reading when I was a child (obviously YA books such as HP and Percy Jackson) and picked 1984 out of a stack of mostly unopened or neglected books from my families bookshelf.
I was captivated. It unlocked deep emotions within me I had thought dormant. I related and empathized deeply with these characters and their circumstances. Then it was over.
I feel almost depressed? Not because of the ending itself or that it ended at all even, just very melancholy. Is this normal?
I am thinking about jumping into my next book (Siddhartha) but I feel like it may be too soon, that I haven't given myself enough time to process and understand what Orwell had just given me.
So I guess my question is, should I take some time before starting something else? Should I just move on and maybe understanding will come to me in time?
I'm not looking for some clear cut answer, I just wanted to know what you thought or about your personal experiences with this feeling.
(Also general 1984 discussion thread)
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>>8247141
I think you can continue. Some works u just think about for the rest of ur life if they really ment something to you. If they did no new book will really take the message away and u have plenty of time to think about books u read afterr u read them.
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>>8247141
>I am thinking about jumping into my next book (Siddhartha)
You sure you're not still in HS, because these were both assigned for me freshman year. Thankfully I'd read 1984 in eighth grade on my own and was able to understand it rather well. Hell, I was talking about it a few months back with one of my friends and she never figured out that Winston dies at the end.
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>>8247220
9th: Lord of the Flies
10th: The Alchemist (among other options)
11th: A list of options I can't remember
12: Grapes of Wrath
I was even in AP.
Also I'm not particularly proud of this, but it isn't difficult to get an A on a paper about a book you didn't read. I was more preoccupied with Theatre and pussy at the time.
>unbeknownst
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>unirregardless
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>methinks
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Modern Library Classics> NYRB Classics> Oxford world classics> Penguin Classics. (sometimes Penguin is better than Oxford but more often than not, Oxford is better)
Agreed?
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>>8246425
>no norton critical
>no bedford case studies
>no vintage contemporaries
you didn't even try
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>>8246425
I've honestly never even heard of Modern Library.
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>>8246425
>one fairly ordinary publisher is better than another
is this really the sort of thing you spend time thinking about, anon?
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So is Dostoevsky's Underground Man essentially just a /r9k/ robot?
Pic related, an average /r9k/ robot.
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>>8246364
...yeah basically
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>>8246364
Has the egg finally cracked?
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>>8246397
A chick has hatched.
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Which one should I read first
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Cuckleberry Finn
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>>8246208
Isn't it already past your bedtime?
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>>8246213
Little bit
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what's the most avant garde literature that isn't pretentious self-indulgent wanky shite? pic related
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Wayside school
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mon mem(e)oir tbqh
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What do I need to know going into this book to get anything out of it? Someone suggested re-watching Hamlet which seems like a good idea but what else?
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>>8246072
half the book is annotations, if it was the first book you've ever read you wouldn't miss anything.
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>>8246072
society of the spectacle
simulation and simulacra
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>>8246072
it's based on 'the royal tenenbaums' movie - maybe you should watch that first