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Are there any books which treat ghosts or the afterlife with a kind of subtle ambiguity? I don't mean like full on jump scare, ooo-and-boo, Casper camp but more like a light nod or mood/tone from the author that says, "maybe it was, maybe it wasn't."
The first example that comes readily to mind is Nabokov. "The Vane Sisters," Pale Fire, Ada and "Details of a Sunset" all feature one or more of the characteristics I listed above. Hell, The Eye and Look at the Harlequins are narrated by characters who are recently deceased.
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Not entirely sure I'm grasping what you're trying to say, but Beloved (Morrison) is a well-known example of a work with a character who's maybe a ghost, maybe not.
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I think turn of the screw can be interpreted that way. This ghosts just being the underlying psychological trauma.
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>>9889925
Lots of DFW
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Why do people refer to hegelian dialectic as a triad when he never explicitly mentions the supposed third stage (synthesis)?
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>>9889818
Because not even his closest students understood shit of what he said, and he's probably the only one who will ever truly know what his own thoughts were. Can't Zeit the Geist bro
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Because it's implicitly woven into the idea of progress which is found throughout his work
Pure antagonism would not even allow us to reach the more developed parts of our own consciousness, let alone enact historical movements
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>>9889818
Because retards read his Wikipedia page and think Hegel proposed the Fichtean T-A-S triad instead of negation / negation of negation.
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/lit/, what is a good book to start with for linguistics? Textbook or otherwise, and especially if I can find it online
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>>9889466
Ten years ago I would've written Baker's The Atoms of Language. The scape has changed considerably since then, however.
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>>9889466
Saussure, keeping in mind that the model is considered out of date now
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>>9889650
saussure is long and outdated
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>IT WAS JUST A PRANK BRO!!
Why would the writer depict G-d like this?
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>>9888906
To display the Judaic radical separation between man and God, between the very possibility of sacrifice itself. Between the total arbitrariness of the relation between God and man, man and his son, the law and the spirit.
To suggest towards the coming of the Messiah who would reconcile these divides through the completion of the sacrifice which the Jew could never render
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>>9888906
It shows God wanted Abraham to pass the ultimate test of faith by demonstrating he would destroy what he held most dear if God asked him to, and it also shows God is good because he stops him from actually killing his son after seeing that he had the will to do it.
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In Semitic religions there was a practice of offering children in holocaust to gods. But instead of asking for his child, He allows Abraham to offer a ram instead. If you read into the Bible it is a common feature to warn against offering a child in such a way, but when strife comes people choose to anyways, usually making it worse for them.
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Hello /lit/, this is my first time ever posting here so please bear with me.
I've recently become very interested in Neoplatonism. I ordered pic related on amazon only to realize that I cannot understand what the hell this book is saying. Are there any guides out there to help tards like myself understand Plotinus's writing style? I'd really like to get into this book.
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Start with..Plato!
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Read this thread from the archive
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Read Plato and Stanford's wiki's pages desu.
What is the best translation of the Tao te Ching?
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>>9887826
Ames and Hall, accept no substitutes
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>translation
is this the /brainlet/ general thread?
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>>9887826
Better question:
What's the best German translation?
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>tfw want to read but don't like reading
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learn to make an effort anon
it's an important life skill
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Audiobooks are perfectly valid alternative.
Now watch /lit/ tear me to shreds.
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What are the teachings in this book?
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neo-daoists > daoists
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just b yourself
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>>9887068
and there is a picture of a bee
>your favourite philosopher
>your favourite musician
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>>9882424
Hildegard von Bingen
Thomas Aquinas
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>and musician
well, that's a retarded premise, i listen to nothing but fabric mixes
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>>9882424
FH Bradley
Mozart
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was good /lit/. youll niggas know what book this is and if its any good?
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heres a slightly better pic of the book
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>>9905601
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo?
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No idea bud. Maybe you can read that yourself
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>proof requires an axiom
>therefore invisible man in the sky
Bravo Peterson.
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>>9904470
Squiggly winking man!
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>The Black Witch centers on a girl named Elloren who has been raised in a stratified society where other races (including selkies, fae, wolfmen, etc.) are considered inferior at best and enemies at worst. But when she goes off to college, she begins to question her beliefs, an ideological transformation she’s still working on when she joins with the rebellion in the last of the novel’s 600 pages. (It’s the first of a series; one hopes that Elloren will be more woke in book two.)
>It was this premise that led Sinyard to slam The Black Witch as “racist, ableist, homophobic, and … written with no marginalized people in mind,” in a review that consisted largely of pull quotes featuring the book’s racist characters saying or doing racist things.
https://archive.fo/1VYaB
LOL.
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>>9904212
so... what?
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>>9904216
>write a book that panders to social justice
>get slammed by an SJW
It's pretty amusing.
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>>9904228
so what
I've read C&P and Notes this year. Both have had a big effect on the way I think and view the world. Should I read Demons or super karamazov bros next?
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>>9903751
brothers first
how have they had a big effect on the way you think?
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made me realize how I make myself miserable through my own misanthropic and anxious mindset. on a grander scale I guess I see the same characteristics in the rest of the world.
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>>9903767
also helped me develop a conceptualization of what God is.
Where do I start with the bible? Just got mine today
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The beginning
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The Gospels, beginning with Mark as he is easiest to understand. John should always be last. From there you will learn what is necessary to live your life. Then Genesis, and the historical books describing the prologue to salvation.
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Genesis and exodux
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Whats the weirdest style of writing you ever read?
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>>9903219
this is a deviant art autist that I lurk on. It's some of the weirdest fucking shit I've ever come across. There are hundreds of these stories, all wish bizarre kidnapping/child abuse narratives.
A friend shared it, I assumed this dude was some huge meme, but apparently he's avoided public scrutiny, which is probably lucky for him. He could easily be the next Chris-chan.
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my diary desu
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>>9903241
/thread