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Anyone here actually read the sagas?
Just finished Njáls Saga (supposedly the best or one of the best) and I really liked it.
Actually surprised by how dramatic and really what an easy read it was. If the author didn't insist on introducing new characters every other page and naming half of them Þorkell and Þorgeir it reads similarly to a modern exciting novel although more dramatic and more literary than most with its prophecies and parallels, etc.
So if you've read any of them what did you think of it?
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also I'm not kidding, there are literally hundreds of named characters pic related
see here
https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listi_yfir_pers%C3%B3nur_%C3%AD_Nj%C3%A1lu
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>>8045448
Is it worth it to read in translation?
Challenge: Write me a existentialist story in the form of a childrens book.
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There once was child. Child acquires extended clip Glock 18 with fully automatic fire capacity. Child use gun to slaughter a great many people. There is much joy and celebration in our village that night. The will be a bountiful harvest at the end of this moon cycle.
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>>8045443
No need comrade, here you go
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Metal Gear Solid
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Why was Severian,when aboard Tzadkiel's ship, briefly presented with a looping hologram of himself?
I feel as if this was never explained.
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I thought it was a time-loop and not a hologram. The ship traveling through space-time/higher dimensions and all. I may have been mistaken.
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Fucking hell I need to get started on Wolfe someday
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>>8045028
I honestly don't remember, it's been two years and it's a small detail
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>featherless bipeds
>theory of Forms
>obsession with Socrates the cuck
Seriously, why do people still bother reading this hack?
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I also thought Plato's name sounded liek Play-Doh when I was a kid
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>>8045024
Probably because his works are essentially the foundation of all western civilization.
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>>8045034
this. he pretty much invented the idea.
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Any advices on Van Gogh biography? Preferably with as little artsy mumbo jumbo as possible and as many juicy details on his various escapades.
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>>8044831
how do you pronounce it
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>>8045752
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nl-Vincent_van_Gogh.ogg
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>>8044831
I enjoyed his letters to Theo, you get first hand details of his depression and struggles as an artist. The letters are pretty much heart - to - heart as one can get in the postal era.
https://www.amazon.ca/Dear-Theo-Autobiography-Vincent-Gogh/dp/0452275040
lgbt books?
In terms of published books, I've recently enjoyed Song of Achilles, Aristotle & Dante, and Captive Prince.
In self/non-published books, Foxhole Court and In the Company of Shadows were pretty good.
Any other recommendations?
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your biography
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>>8044704
>Foxhole Court
porn?
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>gay "literature"
laughing forever
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No Dalas thread? No problem
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>>8044699
I dunno, his early stuff on the youtube channel and Words Words Words was good but he seems to have run out of ideas by the time he did the live show "what".
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Reddit: the youtube channel
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>>8044699
Hey man chingaso nojoda bayase a la mierda
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Guys, I'm a big fan of porno. Can you recommend me any porno?
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Porno by Irvine Welsh.
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The Pornographer Diaries by Danny King.
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>>8044688
KEK. Top post
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Sup il/lit/erates,
I'm 53 pages into 2666 (clearly far enough into a 900 page door stopper to start making judgements [and more importantly threads on lit]), and already it's P comfy.
So, I'm wondering: is liz's annoying prattling masterful psychological prepping, for what I'm guessing will be a torrent of violence against women, later in the novel? If so robby bologny should definitely be in the next meme trilogy.
Aka:
>BM
>2666
>underworld
Meme trilogy 2: violence is deep edition.
IMO
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>underworld
not even that visceral or violent though
there's like 1 act of violence every 200 pages and one of the major themes is the 20th centuyr detatchment from the reality of violence
be better off rounding it out with dhalgren
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>>8044612
I'll put that on my list, thanks anon.
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>>8044581
The second meme trilogy was already decided, dummy.
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Can you convince me that it is an ethical thing to do to study continental philosophy? When there is so much suffering in the world, couldn't you be doing something that would have more of a positive effect on the world? What kind of an effect on the world do you think continental philosophy has? Do you think that, despite being basically irrelevant today, it will become relevant in the future? If you see continental philosophy as not irrelevant, could you explain how you think it affects the world?
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poststructuralism is good and has roots in continental philosophy
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If the worlds suffering moves you, then what do you intend to do about it?
Personally, I'm with Callicles when he says that young men should be men of the polis and not spend too much time on philosophy and immaterial metaphysics.
BUT if your goal really is a just world for all then yes, do continental and skip analytic. If analytic philosophy moves you more then just skip it and get a science degree. It's the same thing basically.
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>>8044288
>Can you convince me that it is an ethical thing to do to study continental philosophy? When there is so much suffering in the world, couldn't you be doing something that would have more of a positive effect on the world?
says the guy starting threads on 4chan
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Any technical book on investigating, crime detection, detective shit and the like?
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Sherlock HolmesCrime and Punishment :^)
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>>8044272
wtf is it, 20 y.o. sherlock holmes?
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>>8044272
Do you mean the Anarchist's Cookbook of detective work, or fiction? Elmore Leonard and Raymond Chandler are top-tier crime fiction and although character driver are very intricate.
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Just read this and loved it. Thoughts? Is the rest of Welsh's work worth reading?
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Porno is so-so, Skagboys is awesome, as is Filth. Sex Lives Of Siamese Twins is good.
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>>8044917
>Porno
How did that even work, by the way? It didn't seem like "Trainspotting" is the sort of book that lends itself to a sequel, and it ended pretty solidly. Hell, all the main characters would probably die in the time between the publication dates.
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marabou stork nightmares is great.
Hey, c/lit/s. I am by no means a Marxist, but I'm trudging through Capital because I'm extremely interested in Marxism and this book in particular based on what I've read on Wikipedia lol. I haven't read any later Marxist works and I haven't progressed past the part about commodities, but I was wondering if there were any Marxists on /lit/ who'd be interested in chatting.
One thing that's struck me so far is that Marx's initial definition of a commodity is "an object outside us, a thing that satisfies human wants of some sort another." I know what Marx actually means (i.e a good or service that is bought and sold in the capitalist market), but this definition is problematic. By this definition, aren't intangible things like love commodities? Also, would Marx consider things like unpaid work (i.e. raising children/homemaking, which many feminist economists think ought to be calculated for in GDP) commodities? If you put labor into raising a child, you "crystallize labor" and value in that individual. Is a laborer/person a commodity? A person can certainly "[satisfiy] human wants of some sort or another." Thoughts?
Also, Marxism general. I will be a liberal until the day I die but Marx's vision of the world fascinates me.
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When we say object, we mean a physical thing which exists in material form. Love isn't an object.
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>domestic work
I think Marx would include that as something which goes towards the reproduction of labour power, and not valued as labour power itself, since one doesn't turn the product of domestic labour (clean dishes, e.g.) into something which is sold on the market.
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>Ivan karamazov is an atheist ethicist who ends up having a mental collapse
>Freidrich Nietzsche is an atheist ethicist who ends up having a mental collapse
>Dostoyevsky's writing was an influence on Nietzsche
Does life imitate art?
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As Zarathustra would say What does it matter?'
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>>8043428
Nietzsche also channels Thrasymachus imo
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>>8043483
that justice is the will of the stronger? no he doesnt. your reading of these texts must have been extremely superficial.
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Alright /lit/
I don't frequent here, and I'm not even sure this is the right place to post, but it is literature related so you guys are my best shot.
Does anyone know where I can find the most direct English to German translation of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf?
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>>8043054
There was a sad pitiful boy who felt entitled to special treatment in life, and when he didn't get as much of it as he wanted, he murdered a number of people. He's mentioned on this board quite often, provocatively so. His victim manifesto fits your request (assuming you meant German-to-English).
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>>8043054
The Manheim translation.