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/lit/, what's the point in exploring our history and ourselves, when we are but a grain of sand in a beach with a billion trillion others?
Historical and philosophical texts have bettered my life, but math and science seem to make it all irrelevant. Our existence, and our perception of the world is a single line in a lineage of infinite possibilities. Even our senses, the very things that make us human, might not even be able to perceive other beings. Our brains were made to hunt and survive, not to comprehend other dimensions. Image being able to see inside a 3rd dimension solid, imagine being able to fathom a 4th dimension object.
Stop reading this right now, and look up. Above you is more distance than we can observe. In every direction from you exists more stars than you have cells in your body. How can we talk about political theories and psychology, when our universal understanding breaks down at the moment of our atomic conception. How can we sit and study ourselves when our universe has so much to discover?
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>/lit/, what's the point in exploring our history and ourselves, when we are but a grain of sand in a beach with a billion trillion others?
There isn't one unless you decide you want to. now please kys
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>>8072867
This extremely autistic meme needs to end.
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>>8072859
>How can we talk about political theories and psychology, when our universal understanding breaks down at the moment of our atomic conception. How can we sit and study ourselves when our universe has so much to discover?
Because it's a lot more easy to pretend you understand politics and psychology than physics. Next thread.
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Is reading this book worth it? Has it enriched your literary experience?
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how can you get anything from it if you dont know how to read a book before reading it?
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>How to Read a Book
Pretty sure you should have learned that crap in kindergarten
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>>8072824
It helps you a lot if you begin to read serious non-fiction work. I suggest you read it regardless, it has the kind of basic knowledge that no one would get unless being taught about.
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How do I learn how to write good prose? I've only written shitty poetry, also I know next to nothing about structure and such. Should I just start writing my shitty stuff (which I've already done at some degree) and hope it will get better with time? Or should I learn some 'basics' and so on?
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>how do I learn to be creative?
sorry bud, you're just not cut for it.
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If you don't have an IQ above 140, you will never write what you're hoping to write.
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>>8072616
just b urself
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what position does /lit/ read in? 2016-05-23 01:31:28 Post No.8072588
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what position does /lit/ read in?
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im trying to get back into reading seriously again and im wondering how does this board choose to read?
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Hunched over on the edge of my mattress, basically the only way I can get decent lighting and not feel uncomfortable.
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>>8072588
Missionary for the sole purpose of recreation.
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I'm constantly changing positions. The comfortable reading position is a myth.
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Why do you like this pedo /lit/?
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>>8072536
>Why do you like this pedo /lit/?
i wish i were a little girl so lewis carroll could make love to me :^)
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no
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If you want an actual pedophile, try John Ruskin. There is nothing in Lewis Carroll life or writings to suggest he liked kids in any way that was sexual.
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Hey /lit/,
I was just discussing romance novels with a friend and we reached the subject of romance novels focusing on homosexual love, specifically lesbian love.
The world drowns in romance novels starring lesbians, but I can't really think of any that I would consider good. In recent decades there have been quite a few wonderful films focusing on lesbianism, often highly regarded, but the written word seems mostly left out.
So, are there good novels about lesbian love? Any recommended reading, classical or more recent?
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>>8072493
mrs dalloway
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price of salt
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Carol was a damn nice film, and Highsmith is a good writer.
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Why is this so underrated, among the rest of Thompson's work?
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>>8072462
DUDE
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Because it sucks, oddly enough.
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>>8072490
I'm sorry about your shit taste, buddy.
What's the matter, not enough wacky acid trips and unrealistic hallucination descriptions for you?
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Tengo una duda: ¿Los dos muchachos que hablan con Amadeo Salvatierra son Ulises Lima y Arturo Belano?
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¿Qué importa?
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>>8072421
Sí, ya, yo llegué a esa misma conclusión primeramente, pero ahpra me está comiendo los adentros la intriga.
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el Sombrero que tacos Los fritas con picante frijoles Los si senor que chickitas coolo
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what were your favorite parts.
mine was when mason and his son went to visit dixon close to the end of the book.
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>>8072375
none
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>>8072508
dat sucks mate
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Continuing with the Greeks 2016-05-23 00:15:34 Post No.8072347
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Continuing with the Greeks
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I want to read Ulysses, because I need to get an idea of how a great author uses a piece of literature and creates something new from it, a reimagining. I tried reading it when I was way younger but it was too hard for me. I'm familiar with some of the Greeks, but not the Odyssey. What translation should I read? Fagles, Fitzgerald, Johnston, Lattimore, Lombardo, Merrill, Palmer, Rieu
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>>8072347
Easy to reads are Fagles and Lombardo
Just look up comparisons like this one.
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Fitzgerald is the best poetically.
>>8072356
Retard.
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>>8072358
The story isn't that kind of poem though.
Have you tried Pope too?
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>educated in poetry and literature seminary school, learned Goethe and Shakespeare in translation, could recite Whitman by heart
>was a published poet and author before joining the Bolsheviks
>debated the finer points of Georgian literature and poetry with university professors for fun, even in his later years
>his poems continue to be taught in Georgian schools and many of them are considered minor classics, independently of his name
>used his network of admirers built by his poetry at least once to gain information for a bank robbery
>could read over 500 pages per day
>had a library of over 10,000 books
>wrote lengthy political philosophy tracts
>well versed in Plato, censored the media in accordance with many of Plato's principles in order to shape a new kind of man
>also an accomplished billiards player
Was there ever a more literary patrician world leader in history?
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>>8072346
That's just an actor, anon.
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>>8072346
>Believing claims about Stalin originating from a country he controlled.
Top kek OP.
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>>8072359
No shit, Stalin was a talented leader who knew that image was everything, he worked to create a new myth for his people.
>>8072362
It was noted by contemporaries even outside of the USSR that Stalin had been a voracious reader and most of his poems were anonymized during destalinization and continue to be minor classics. He's no Whitman, most of his works are derivative but they take advantage of the Georgian language and play lots of word games.
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Are the Robert Service biographies of Stalin + Lenin + Trotsky good historical works?
They seem to have a lot of negative reviews. Is this because it makes lots of criticisms against the leaders which offends the Communist sympathisers likely to read such works? Or are they simply bad biographies?
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>>8072286
One-sided neocon stuff apparently
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>>8072292
I get the feeling the neocon accusation comes from commie sympathisers.
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>>8072334
"Commie sympathizers" didn't like Bush and Cheney either. You reading their bios next?
They were authoritarians, and I don't approve of them in the least, but I'll be damned if I'm going to read some Foxnewz talking head's books on the topic. Maybe the negative reviews are right.
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who else fell in love with esme?
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>he actually took the time to read a 1000 page meme book
wew lad
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>>8072186
Do you mean there's a character with the name "Esme"?
You need to type it as a real name, anon. Hell, look at that. It even says "Anonymous" in your name field.
Why are so many of you so unable to spell? I honestly didn't know what you where saying there for a while.
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>>8072242
yes that's her name.
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"This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel — a solution of whyDemocrituslaughed andHeraclitus wept."
Do you laugh at the world, or weep for it, /lit/?
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I masturbate till 5:00 PM then I go to Starbucks and read
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>>8072184
How do you make money?
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I observe it.
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Is space horror a thing and what are some good space horror novels, happening on stations, planets, preferably with guns like Doom 3 and System Shock 2?
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>>8072187
it seems you are trying to create an echo chamber
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