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What are the essential stoic books?
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>>8224357
start with the greeks
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>>8224362
and resume with the romans
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Is this a good read? Worth getting?
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>>8224356
Yes, it's a great book.
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>>8224356
good shit, op. peep it
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>>8224356
Really great book. Get it.
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Hey /lit/, I'm writing a post-apocalyptic tragedy. What cliches should I avoid?
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I'd advise not making it overtly grim. The character(s) should have something to strive towards, even if they only ever get fleeting glimpses of it over the course of the story.
It's possible to write unending grinding grimness, but generally you have to be Cormac McCarthy if you really want to pull it off.
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>>8224297
avoid explaining the fucking reason it went to shit
avoid making your character the center of the universe
does your character NEED a love interest?
avoid stupid technology as a way to fix a plot problem
avoid a "heh... nothin personal kid" person
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>>8224308
All good advice.
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is atheism intellectually shallow?
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Define atheism.
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Idunno.
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>>8224267
Fuck you.
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DUDE BOOKS LMAO
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>>8224236
Are your parents proud of you?
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>>8224236
He looks a bit like a shaved and showered Bukowski.
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>>8224236
DUDE INFINITE LABYRINTHS OF AN ETERNAL POEM COMPOSED BY ALL AND NO MEN WHO ARE MERELY INDIVIDUAL ORGANS PROJECTED BY THE DEITY TO PERCEIVE HIS CREATION LMAO
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Magnificently beautiful sentences, style and wittyness with deep thoughts that makes you wanna cry:
name me other writers who are capable of achieving this level of perfection of form and substance.
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Proust
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>>8224230
Vladimir Nabokov
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>>8224230
Peter Butfield
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I'm really not liking this book. I can't get into it at all. It made me feel overwhelmed yet bored at the same time. Is it just me?
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I'm 50 pages in but it keeps getting worse. It reminds me of the attic or closet of an elderly person close to death. Nothing inside is appealing or interesting and it all feels a little gross. The items inside weren't saved for any particular reason, they just ended up staying there.
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>>8224164
>1 unique IP
you started this thread just to samefag that shitty little comparison didn't you? you're such an affected poet anoooonnnnnnnnn, old peoplee are sooo saaad
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>>8224172
I just wanted to give a description of the feeling I felt when reading it. It seemed pretty clear it was a samefag but I'm
glad you care enough to check.
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What's the most problematic book you've read?
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your diary desu. anon your mother would like to have a talk with you.
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my dairy duse
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>>8224140
my mother would like to have a talk with you
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Wrote some untraditional free verse poems, just want to hear what people think.
First poem:
A hallowed death by a withering tree,
A falling of leaves that brings upon tranquility.
The soul made boundless from the shackles of mortality,
And carried aloft by wings of peace.
Only through death is there true life,
So please, do go gently into that good night.
Second poem:
A link made eternal will not sever,
As a mind tormented will always snap,
One at war with body and mind,
For a cause unsure,
But a link everlasting clutches to the broken pieces,
As a shattered soul endures it all
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If you're too stupid to find the crit thread then there's no point in even bothering to read your poems.
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>>8224073
>free verse
D R O P P E D
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Fuckin beautiful mate
american 'philosophy'
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>>8223946
goddammit everytime I see this picture I laugh. I swear it's been around more than 10 years. gets me every time.
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>anglo 'philosophy'
ft4u
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>greek 'philosophy'
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What philosophers should I read 2016-06-30 06:23:41 Post No.8223940
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What philosophers should I read
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2016-06-30 06:23:41
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I'm new to this. Fell in love with ann Rand right away. I feel she got a lot of things right but not everything. I'm inspired by Kierkegaard and am about to read fear and trembling, but what should I read next to continue my journey down this cosmic rabbit hole?
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>>8223940
Probably tylo be chillin
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>>8223943
16 bars is my time to shine
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>>8223940
Breed da breeks
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Looking for easy French lit suggestions
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to read in french, of course. I'm in the middle of L'Étranger but don't know what else is really around that level
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>>8223878
Voltaire and victor hugo
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>>8223878
If you liked L'Étranger you could go for other novel from Camus. The Plague is especially good imo.
Houellebecq is fun and very easy to read. Marguerite Duras is not overly complex and she is a god-tier writer (Un barrage contre le Pacifique).
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>>8224020
Hugo is a bad suggestion, he probably won't understand 1/12 of the words he's reading.
I would recommend Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Jules Verne and Alexandre Dumas.
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How do I force myself to stop being a skeptic and to start embracing God and Islam? Why Islam? Because I want community, I want to belong to something, to have people be excited to find out that I'm one of them; I want culture, because I don't have any, because I'm just one of many white Canadians that doesn't have anything to identify to; and most of all I want something that will drive me, to be as righteous as I can, to get a job and start a family, guiding principals to live by. Is it so wrong to force yourself into a religion for these reasons? Is there something else I can do? Some book that can help me?
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>>8223822
Embrace a form of Christianity that rejects Apostle Paul and you'll be the best person alive (except the tentmaker part)
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Submission of your mind, body and soul
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>>8223822
Why not be a Christian?
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>tfw you finally admit you read IJ
Did we break him, /lit/?
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>the ultimate pseud to end all pseuds doesn't like IJ
Now we know the likes of where the IJ shitposting comes from.
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Did Cliff actually read Underworld or is he just pretending?
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I hate this faggot so much
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what is that test that is taken in which you click true or false over beliefs, and when your beliefs contradict each other you fail?
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Life
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>>8223674
http://www.philosophyexperiments.com/health/
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>>8223976
Hahaha I literally laughed so hard I cried because it's so true.