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What are some legitimate criticisms of Moby Dick?
I haven't read the book, but I act like I have and i'd like to shove some talking points down the throat of a pretentious English major.
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>>9897295
Fuck off faggot. Moby-Dick is probably the closest thing to a perfect novel in existence.
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>>9897295
>criticizing great books
Some resentful people just can't help seeing the bad in everything
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>>9897295
There are none. The English major is superior to you in every way
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ITT: post what you're reading and get roasted
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Every single thing he wrote
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"The Bible explained"
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seems like not a lot to go on to roast someone
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write what is on your mind 2017-08-14 12:35:39 Post No.9888962
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write what is on your mind
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No such thread up. Of course this is different from the critique threads. Here we seek to transfer what is in our minds to the page, or screen in this case.
Critique welcome but not necessary. Production is the goal.
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>>9888962
I have nothing to add.
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Please talk to me, I want to know if you are doing it fine.
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>>9888962
Over the past week, what with the Premier League, a Red Sox-Yankees series, and the IAAF World Championships all happening; I've felt a bit lost amidst consuming so much analysis and hot takes et cetera. Combining this with my usual browsing of letsrun, /lit/, /sp/, /r/peloton, and fangraphs and I am lost. Occasionally I run into up against this wall where it is inarguable that I am consuming more content than I am creating. Noticing this, I spend several days moaning about this fact before returning to normal. Since switching fields of study to math and computer science from art I have not written much.
Now, after graduating and landing a job that pays well and all, I am more lost than usual at this point.
And so I want to return to writing. A few days ago I thought to contact a mentor from severa, years ago about how to 'get back into' writing again.
But I know the answer.
There is no substitute for actual writing, pen to the page, blood, sweat, and tears, etc. A truth I want to ignore but obviously cannot. This is day one. Ideally I will be able to apply my discipline from other parts of my life to the pursuit of writing.
More than likely by next Monday I will have forgotten this goal.
At this point it may be rather obvious that I have nothing new to say. To this I want to add "Well, who does?" And of course the answer is 'some people.'
Even in my most productive periods I never knew what to say in prose writings. So I will withhold poetry until I've written so many useless words and sentences. And so this thread.
Kurt Vonegut
What is /lit's opinion on Kurt Vonnegut? 2017-08-18 06:34:37 Post No.9910650
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What is /lit's opinion on Kurt Vonnegut?
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He is one of my favorite authors. His books are easy fun reads, but I still feel like I get a lot out of them. What are your guy's favorite Vonnegut novels?
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>>9910650
Breakfast of Champions is great.
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>>9910657
I'm reading that one now
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He's considered Reddit garbage here, I've liked the two books I've read by him (Slaughter House 5, Cat's Cradle).
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Is there a non-fiction version?
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>is there a pleb version
No.
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>>9909990
>muh bed time stories in fantasy made up land is totes patrician my mummy says so
Fuck off
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Are you familiar with Culture of Critique?
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>tfw too dumb to understand zizek
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Zizek is too dumb to understand anything but Hegelianism. He finds mysticism and "structure" where there is none. The guy is basically doing the deconstruction equivalent of finding meaning in random dates and numbers.
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>>9909947
It's one of the easiest passages of him. Reading Puppet and a Dwarf right now. There are some impossible to understand shit here.
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>>9909958
no structure is also a structure
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Which brother are you /lit/?
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>>9909922
Smerdyakov you nigger
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>>9909922
Alyosha unfortunately.
I even had a friend who used to call me Alyosha.
I wish Dostoevsky had lived to write the sequel, I really needed a roadmap for being Alyosha in America.
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Alyosha tbvh.
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Best textbook on Greek mythology? 2017-08-18 02:29:41 Post No.9909656
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Best textbook on Greek mythology?
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Name the most comprehensive textbook on Greek Mythology, the gods, the legends and the culture.
Also could anyone give a complete list of the major works from that time that refer to their own myths?
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theoi.com
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https://www.amazon.com/Brills-New-Pauly-Vols-Encyclopedia/dp/9004122591/
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https://pastebin.com/17BuEyuq
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Rate my Greek poem /lit/ 2017-08-18 01:09:07 Post No.9909409
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Ήταν ένα συνηθισμένο, αποπνιkτιkό Αυγουστιάτιkο μεσημέρι. Τα τζιτζίkια τραγουδούσαν, στην kαθημερινή τους συναυλία πάνω στα λουσμένα από τον kαυτό, εkτυφλωτιkό ήλιο, δέντρα. Μετά από το εkkωφαντιkό, αkατάπαυστο σατανιασμένο ήχο του ψυγείου όλα άλλαξαν. Αναkάλυψα ένα σkοτεινό kαι απαίσια ολέθριο εφιάλτη που kατοιkούσε kρυμμένος στα βάθη του απέραντου ωkεανού που είναι το μυαλό μου. Όλα έμοιαζαν να συνδέονται. Τα σkούρα γkρίζα σύννεφα άρχισαν να διαλύονται kαι έγινε εμφανές kαι ξεkάθαρος ο λόγος ο οποίος υποφέρω το τελευταίο διάστημα. Είμαι αλλεργιkός στον ηλεkτρομαγνητισμό. Είμαι αλλεργιkός στο συντριπτιkό ποσοστό των αντιkειμένων kαι πραγμάτων που υπάρχουν στην ζωή αυτή. Αποδέχομαι τον kατάkοπο kαι τετραπληγιkό, θλιβερό εαυτό μου. Δεν θα ξαναγευτώ, ξαναδώ, να ξαναkούσω, να ξαναοσφριστώ, να ξανανιώσω τις χαρές αυτής της ψεύτιkης kαι απατηλής ζωής. Από εδώ kαι πέρα θα μεταφερθώ σε ένα σkοτεινό, άγευστο, άοσμο, νεkρό kαι kενό kόσμο. Τον διkό μου kόσμο. Γιατί αυτός μου ανήkει kαι μου αξίζει.
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Opa! *smashes plates*
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>>9909409
Υπέροχο
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Σε ευχαριστώ άνον.
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hey lads, i took about a 4 year hiatus from reading due to a lot of reasons but today i said fuck it and went to the library, picking out some books from the guide here.
did i get memeshit or are these really worth reading? i know infinite jest is a meme but i plan on getting it soon anyways.
The bell jar, the epic of Gilgamesh, the metamorphosis, the trial, of crime and punishment, the Iliad, the Odyssey, don quixote, atlas shrugged, the brothers kamazarov, and Tender is the night.
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>>9909210
>The bell jar
Drop this. Written by a women
>the metamorphosis, the trial
Drop these. Written by a Jew
>Atlas Shrugged
Even though by a women, it's ok to learn the truth of capitalism is good
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>>9909210
Get off 4chan and start reading you fucking miserable pleb.
Please internet strangers, validate my decisions! I have no sense of self worth and need shitposters on a racist memeboard to tell me I did good.
Grow up you fucking pussy. You're pathetic.
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>>9909225
Your the pussy. Racism is awesome. Fuck off to reddit if you can't handle the redpill
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Why was he so anti-Semitic?
I don't get it. Did he have a mental illness or something?
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>>9909175
Anti semitism is as old as the religion itself..
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>>9909175
Just a lot of experiences with Jews I'd guess.
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>>9909175
the french sam hyde
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>For who all deny the struggle, the triumphant overcomes
What did he mean by this?
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>>9908968
>Harsh winds flay your flesh to bone
>In splintered skeleton you roam
>Wasteland with naught to call your own
>But the path you walk alone
>The hunger burns within your gut
>As your bones turn into dust
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What author is the Death Grips of literature?
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>>9909592
Confucius
>Responsibility's cool, but there's more things in life.
>Like getting yourdick.
>Rode all fucking night.
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philosophy is for failed artists or scientists. no one would choose to be a philosopher over a genius composer or a genius scientist, because it is always a last resort profession, for failures and frauds
>Nietzsche - wanted to be a composer and failed
>Wittgenstein - wanted to be an engineer, failed, wanted to be a mathematician, failed, wanted to be a musician, failed
>Heidegger - wished he was a poet/artist, failed
>Schopenhaur - wished he was a musician so that wouldn't have to live his boring philosopher life, failed
>Russell - wanted to be a great mathematician, wasn't as smart as other mathematicians and so opted for philosophy
>every single modern anglo philosopher - wished they were mathematicians, but failed, so they try pathetically to use mathematical symbols and logic in their philosophy so that they can at least get the aesthetic of it
Philosophers are also all sad manlets trying to compensate for low self esteem
>Heidegger was like 5 feet
>Wittgenstein - 5'6"
>Nietzsche 5'8"
>Camus - 5'7"
>Kant - 5'0" LMAO
>Sartre - 5'0" LMFAO
>Derrida - 5'5"
>Zizek - 5'8"
etc. etc. etc..
Philosophers wish they could make an impact on the world, they wish they could create beautiful works of art, they wish they could be good looking Chads, but they always fail, so they try to argue their way out of it, reason their way our of it: "I may not be able to get that cute girl, but, uh, it's because I'm the Ubermensch, hehehe, right guys!?" Every philosophical theory has been overturned, and philosophy has NEVER come up with a definitive answer. It is a failed field, and no one takes it seriously. Philosophers are all sad, pathetic, delusional people.
>inb4 philosopher manlets try to refute this with "hurr durr spooks!" "muh muh philosophy was before science so therefore uh, uh, it's superior" or "surprise you've been doing philosophy ur whole l-life, haha gotcha!" or literal philosophical reasoning, proving my point exactly
LMFAO
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>>9908867
by your own philosophy, it sounds like you should definitely become a philosopher then, OP
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>>9908867
there are no definitive answers only objective truths OP :)
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>>9908885
*subjective truths
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I don't know where else to ask this. I visit 4chan just because of /lit/. All other boards are complete useless underage mongoloids. There are /pol/ crossposters on /lit/, but you can just ignore them. I asked /g/ and only got useless obscenity.
So here's the question: How can I get reply notifications when I post on 4chan. That accompasses replies to a started thread and replies to a reply,
Some third party script or anything. Provide detailed instructions, or at least a link to detailed instructions.
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try killing yourself. in heaven, notifications to your shitty, uneducated opinions that you've contrived into a useless internet post on an anonymous ethiopian tire refitting forum are delivered right to your inbox. faggot.
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There's that generic crossposter. Every other will be ignored by me from now on so good luck.
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If you tick [[_] Auto] on the bottom left, the thread will be auto-refreshed and if you get a (You), there’ll be a read exclamation mark on the tab symbol. Is that not sufficient?
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I've read the major works of Plato and Aristotle, what philosophy should I read next?
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Ayn Rand of course
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>>9908741
what universities do next: early modern philosophy
what /lit/ do next: the romans
what you should do next: the chinese
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>>9908741
Resume with the Romans, Epicureanism and Stoicism were the major philosophical schools at the time.