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Sandberg's German for Reading
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Some anon recommended Sandberg's German for Reading a while ago on /lit/, anyone know where I can get a pdf? There seems to be one link that has cropped up a few times searching, but it's expired, and it's not on Project Gutenberg.
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das bump
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>>8209195
http://bookzz.org/dl/1305760/d82299
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>>8209590
>http://bookzz.org/dl/1305760/d82299
<3
Why is reading real books so much more comfortable than reading e-books?
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Because you don't have a Kindle Paperwhite
>tfw snuggled up in bed, in the dark, with my kindle glowing
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>2016
>dead tree editions
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>>8209140
>in the dark, with my kindle glowing
This feels awful. I'd rather have my paper absorb light than emitting it.
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https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Punk.html?id=LPJGYgEACAAJ&redir_esc=y
>Punk: An Aesthetic
How do I read this now for my project that is due in a couple days?
>(pic unrelated)
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by saying that the punk aesthetic was manufactured by record labels to pander to the already dead punk scene that would become trendy.
and that the 'greatest punk bands' were actually just power pop bands and no-wave did punk better than any movement since.
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>>8209165
a bit reductionist but more or less: this
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>>8209165
Whether or not they were manufactured, Sex Pistols, Ramones, The Damned, et al. had some great fucking tunes.
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self publishing on amazon 2016-06-26 09:52:09 Post No.8209098
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Hey /lit/ I have a question. I've been writing a book for a while. Its partly based on true events. The books contains my account of the abuse I suffered as a child. Some of this is very sexual in nature. Some is downright vile.
Can I publish this story on amazon or will I get banned and v& for writing child porn? Under what circumstances is it allowed and how graphic can I get about the abuse? The story is mostly my biography, I slapped together a happy end (one which I hope for) but save for that and everything is directly from my diary.
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>>8209098
Also, can you write erotica containing children on amazon? I've seen a copy of lolita which could be argued to be exactly that.
I'm asking because I'm thinking of making money off of my misery by publishing my abuse story separately so that I can at least get some money from pedophiles.
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>>8209098
There's literally nothing wrong with child sex in literature.
The reason CP pictures/video is illegal is because it's evidence of a criminal act and encourages "production" which necessitates criminal acts.
Words on a page are not subject to the same laws.
>Also, can you write erotica containing children on amazon? I've seen a copy of lolita which could be argued to be exactly that.
Argued by whom?
Google "Old Joe's Collection" friendo.
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Anyone else here a PKD fan? I've read a few of his books and he's become one of my favorites very fast. Here's my rankings for what I've read so far. Feel free to share yours.
Martian Time Slip > A Scanner Darkly > Ubik > The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch > Now Wait for Last Year > Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? > The Man in the High Castle > VALIS
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you're fucked man, VALIS is his indisputable best
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>>8209088
didn't engage me the whole way through like the others
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Do Androids Dream > VALIS > Three Stigmata > Martian Time Slip > Man in the High Castle > Scanner Darkly > UBIK > Flow My Tears
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Is there any good literature on the topic of this, the most pressing problem of our time?
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>problem
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>not literature
Feel free to talk about non-fiction resources as well, I suppose, though that is more the remit of a board like /his/.
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Read Civil Disobedience, was bretty good.
Very eloquent and makes you think very hard about stuff--but I was a little disapointed that he didn't write about going inna woods to think about shit.
Anyway--his main message was "be a man, do what you know is right, disregard consequences--slavery is bad, and governments are bad because they can be used to make slaverly legal and enforceable--and good small town livin is da best: also, fuck all taxes except for the highway tax".
Cool guy.
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Go to bed, Chad.
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bump for righteousness
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Wow. Really makes you think.
Has anyone else here taken the Popper pill?
>enjoy the systematic dismantling of Plato, Hegel, Marx
>in turn given a nihilistic philosophy of liberalism and scientism
Why live, /lit/? No higher purpose. No higher truth. Just democratic checks on power, and the scientific method to rationalize away what Karl calls 'mysticism'. Pure nihilism.
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>people read Popper's political philosophy
any person who just has an axe to grind against other philosophers and doesn't have a full theoretical structure to support it is bound to come across as nihilism.
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>>8208708
Popper makes all of your theoretical structures look like.... Spooks, if you will. But popperian spooks. Since Popper is just replacing the big Other with the scientific method itself, even in political philosophy, but there's something about it that feels so... true.
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>>8208712
>Since Popper is just replacing the big Other with the scientific method itself, even in political philosophy, but there's something about it that feels so... true
buddy read Feyerabend and Kuhn. don't fall for "scientific method" justifying political philosophy when he doesn't even know what the fuck that is. Scientific method is a spook and applying it to politics in the way popper does is the spookiest of spooks.
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What are some decent dark fantasy novels? 2016-06-26 06:57:42 Post No.8208696
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What are some decent dark fantasy novels?
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containment thread: >>8206127
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>tfw the "Dark Fantasy" section in my local bookstore is larger than the "History" section
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the Kane series
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Can anyone please help me out. When i was twelve or so i read this book that i really liked. the book had really heavy sexual and criminal themes which blew my cringey faggot tier mind at the time. Problem is i dont remember the title so i was hoping one of you might know it.
>book centers around woman who randomly finds a letter in a library.
>letter contains 50 dollars and says that every letter after this one will contain double the reward of the last.
>50 to 100 to 200 to 400 you get the idea.
>basically the premise is that as the reward gets larger the letters become harder and more dangerous to acquire.
>at one point she has to fight off vicious dogs in a graveyard.
>she breaks into a mansion at one point and finds a bunch of missing teenagers who are now sex slaves for the owners of the mansion.
>I'm pretty sure she gets a boyfriend at one point and he gets his finger chopped of but I'm not sure.
Was just hoping one of you might know the title to this book cause i want to re-read it for nostalgia value. Thanks heaps
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>>8208687
That sounds dope.
Bumping for interest.
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>>8208688
Yeah like i said. At the time is was really great and sparked my interest in adult fiction.
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My diary desu ;)
Is reading speed important?
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first post, correct post
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>>8208676
>Is reading speed important?
Yes. For one, you must be able to get to the end of the idea before the start of the idea leaves your short term memory.
>Is reading-aloud speed important
Also yes. A listener will struggle if you're less than 2wps and above 4 wps.
>What benefit is there to reading quickly
If you're both reading _and_ understanding (rather than just skimming like a pleb) then quicker allows you to process what you've read and put it into use, and then move onto the next thing, more quickly than a slower reader.
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>>8208698
nice false dichotomy, faggot
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How do I write long-form things? 2016-06-26 06:40:10 Post No.8208665
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How do I write long-form things?
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I'm "one of those" amateur writers who can write interesting/good/engaging short vignettes, and can pack a lot of information or action into the vignettes, but can't seem to make any one scene last for more than a page or two, tops. Trying to deliberately spread out a vignette that I write feels very forced. How do I write something longer (i.e. in the ballpark of 10-20-page chapters for a novel) that feels like it's actually meant to be that long?
Looking for specific tips or mindset shifts that have worked for you or other writers.
Also, writing advice general thread.
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>>8208665
come up with an idea that needs it
also: post vignettes
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>>8208665
>interesting/good/engaging
Yeah, buddy, how 'bout you post some of them vignettes and let us be judge of your bold claims.
And by "us" I mean probably just me, if I don't lose interest by then.
And by "judge" I mean I will insult and belittle, not just your writing, but you as a person and your (already dubious) worth as a human being.
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Tip that fedora 2: the euphorias return
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Chapter 105: Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?— Will He Perish? 2016-06-26 06:27:52 Post No.8208642
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Chapter 105: Does the Whale's Magnitude Diminish?— Will He Perish?
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Why is Ishmael so fucking autistic?
>But will any whaleman believe these stories? No. The whale of today is as big as his ancestors in Pliny's time. And if ever I go where Pliny is, I, a whaleman (more than he was), will make bold to tell him so. Because I cannot understand how it is, that while the Egyptian mummies that were buried thousands of years before even Pliny was born, do not measure so much in their coffins as a modern Kentuckian in his socks; and while the cattle and other animals sculptured on the oldest Egyptian and Nineveh tablets, by the relative proportions in which they are drawn, just as plainly prove that the high-bred, stall-fed, prize cattle of Smithfield, not only equal, but far exceed in magnitude the fattest of Pharaoh's fat kine; in the face of all this, I will not admit that of all animals the whale alone should have degenerated.
Why does he care so much that his whales are bigger than those of some ancient scholar from 2000 years ago?
This is the chapter that convinced for certain me Ishmael is an autist. Only an autist would get so butthurt about this.
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Why do you have such a stick up your ass about it?
Nerd rage over autism smells like autism to me, you mook.
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Remember earlier in the book when Ishmael was talking to himself about how depictions of whales by artists and scholars are always hilariously wrong? This is that thing again.
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>Books for 12 year old girls are like this
What a great time to be alive.
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This is not for 12-year-olds. You are fooling us.
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Is this like the chick version of puberty? Instead on materbating nonstop they write sexual fanfic especially gay fanfic?
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>>8208669
Well they also masturbate with it. I mean hell, I could masturbate over that excerpt
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Any patricians in /lit/ actually comprehend an ancient language?
Recommended resources etc.
Accurate Power Ranking?:
Classical Greek > Latin > Classical Arabic > Sanskrit = Syriac = Ancient Egyptian > Other
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/lit/ is full of pseuds... you might get a proper response, but its mostly reddit tier fags who want you to spoonfeed them
Take this to /his/ or the other board, you'll probably get some smarter people there.
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>>8208638
Thanks, friendo.
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>>8208598
I know classical arabic very well, a little bit latin, and I can write in runic alphabet (turkish one) if you count.
But what I say is I would prefer existing languages to the ancient ones. On the other hand you can say, classical arabic, latin and sanskrit are still useful today. But not as much as any existing language.