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>>9881325

Why, it's so hillbilly my friend out the Appalachians liked it and he's as averse to reading as the next good ol' boy. Stop taking Vice and Pitchfork seriously you fucking retard.

>>9881367
Mean
>tfw you live in the Appalchians

>>9881376

>have internet in the holler yet still can't spell worth a lick

It shows brother.

>>9880761
Butthurt liberal atheist detected.

kys op

>>9880775
>>9880850
skaterboys out

>>9880702
Yes. Experience is overrated. The one who reads more on a subject is often times more competent than the one who relies on experience.

>>9880702
I learn a shit ton from other people's mistakes. Just avoiding common mistakes puts you way ahead of the average pleb.

>>9880702
Yes, but the experience is good too.

Conservatives are free to learn how to write.

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Read good leftist propaganda next time

I didn't notice anything unusual. What sort of things are you talking about?

>>9880420
Because math is gay and for nerds Xddddd

No but seriously I agree.

>>9880420

Hello OP. I'm a math major with a big interest in the history of math, so this is right up my street.

If you get an edition of Heath's (Euclid's) Elements, then the historical scholarship will namedrop most of the figures. This is cheaply available either via Dover or even in a B&N omnibus which is literally the same thing and in a single volume, so no one has any business sticking their nose up at it, IMO (unless it's missing content from the Dover print-I haven't checked that closely). At any rate, Heath is the English language standard for Euclid.

Then, there's "the rest". Since we only have fragments, you can get the ideas which have survived into modernity through a presocratics reader (Waterfield seems to serve).

The other actual content I'm vaguely aware of are Apollonius' conics and Pappus' material, whatever it is. A local university library has Springer editions of Apollonius' conics IIRC.

In general, the arguments are pretty easy to understand, you just have to be willing to put in the work. I recently read a Euclid prop from Heath where the language confused me, but then I was able to re-phrase the idea into different, modern terms so that the prop made sense (though I'm still queasy about the ancient understanding of same, which seems more clunky). A footnote compared this particular babby-tier algebraic idea with a line in Aristotle, which I had handy, and it was gratifying to be able to draw connections among the various authors and texts, even if in only a glancing way.

Other than something like spcompass and straightedge constructions, is there any Greek math not covered by high school geometry?

Maupassant?
desu I haven't read either except for one chekhov play

this should help
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Chekhov#Legacy

Carver if you want Chekhov styled stuff in contemporary America.

Sozlheinitsyn if you want more slice of life stories but like the Russian settings.

William Carlos Williams if you want more stories about human life through the eyes of a doc.

>>9880325
Forgot to add, check out A Night In the Cemetary by Chekhov if you haven't read it already. It's billed as pulpy detective and horror stories from his early days when he was just paying the bills but there were actually very few 'genre' tales in there, most were just classic Chekhov stuff but shorter. I loved it.

totally.

fascinating scenario too

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>>9880145
nah the LA beast does it all the time and he's real.

I loved this book.

>>9880025
ggood opportunity to reduce prostate cancer

>>9880025
Best chapters in the book. Especially if you Identify with what they're going through. I found it especially entertaining on the second read.

>>9880025
>tfw you love Hal's sections
>most of the first hundred pages are Hal
>"I can read IJ if it's all like this!
>rest of the book is 80 percent Ennet House.
>slug through 1100 pages of mostly Gately talking about drugs and AA/NA retards
>Gately is actually the main-est character that magically ties the book together.

Just nuke me from orbit, f a m.

literally

maybe you

>>9879730

has bin

>>9879265
i can't expect Clive to tone down the gayness, but yeah, they're pretty good.

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I think Ramsey Campbell is better.

Is there a lot of queerness?

>>9879134
In this day and age where welfare is easy as hell to live on?
Nah wagecucking is retarded

>not earning your place in Society

>wanting the state to be your god and caregiver

>giving in to the desire to be lazy

NEETs are almost always mentally handicapped in some way and I'm willing to bet overall less satisfied with life than the "wagecucks" they make fun of.

>>9879221
Go to bed wagie, you have to be up early to earn that tax money for me

>>9878986
Y-You can be my friend.

>>9878986
I know one person that used a CW degree to get a nice programming job, since she showed the similarities between poetry and coding. Editors often have a lit degree. Technical writers can use it to their advantage too.

Gravedigger
Dishwasher
Ditchdigger
Crossing guard
Ticket collector
Bus driver

Try Mark Witton and Darren Naish.

>>9878914
I kinda assumed he meant fiction, based on the image he posted. If that's correct:

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton
Raptor Red by Robert Bakker
Dinosaur Summer by Greg Bear
Dinosaur Planet by Anne McCaffrey

are the ones I've read that spring to mind.

Crichton also has a book called Dragon's Teeth about the 'Bone Wars' between fossil hunters in the Old West. I think it may have been published post-humously.

There are a couple in my calibre library that I haven't read called The Dinosaur Four and Dragon Dawn. They sound trashy from the summaries, but maybe they're fun, I have no idea.

Is Michael Crichton worth reading generally? There are several movies based on his work, but you never hear much about the novels themselves.

>>9878870
Brand is the worst imho, or maybe Sansa
Dany is tolerable in the books without that awful bitch from the show playing her

is this the girl who got diarrhea after getting fucked in the ass by some nigger?

>It's a GRRM chapter

Bumping to keep it in the catalogue

Does no one on Lit know this book? Disgraceful

>>9878737
It's just that Nozick and MacIntyre did the job for us.