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Daily reminder to learn a new language
Tutti i giorni finché ti piace
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Should I take up Finnish, German or Russian? Not for reading literature so much as for reading news articles and talking to people
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Ma...perché Dickinson?
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>>8021968
i would go for german because of reasons
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Is this Thomas Pynchon's cameo in Inherent Vice?
>00:49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHl6qQ3V1Mc
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I'd say that's a pretty good guess.
Looks like an easy wig for sure.
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holy fuck this movie looks terrible
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>>8022111
well thats a deleted scenes reel
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ITT: We Google translate the first paragraph of our favorite novel to Japanese, and Google translate it back to English.
I shall go first;
Ishmael Call me. How much most in my wallet, or no have the money precisely-, and not to anything mind particular in order to draw my interest to the coast ago- a few years, watery part navigation and of the world for me is a little I thought I would see. This is, spleen and drive in off the, it is how I have to adjust the circulation. Every time I myself find severe growth for the mouth. It is moistened with my soul, whenever a November drizzle, I paused in front of myself involuntarily coffin of the warehouse, each time finding raised the rear of all of the funeral that I meet. I hypos in order to prevent me from it step deliberately street, that there is a need for strong moral principles, to get me at the top of the hand, such as, a carefully then off of a person's hat every time you knock, in particular, I have it, immediately occupies the high time to get to sea as long as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. Philosophical prosperity and Cato throws himself upon his sword. I takes you to the quiet ship. Amazing in this is not nothing. They are, if you knew it, almost all of the men of the degree, some time or other, the same feelings to cherish towards the sea with me very close.
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For your pleasure, Italian to Japanese to English.
And if any of the discourse has moved premise, from the unprovable assumption
indimostrando, the yolk of the egg yolk and the egg which was completed as of the embryo, both,
Now that you have a LUOMO as follows, of opening the axiom of prenatal
DISCENDITIVA of NATURE. I mean, with the chyle: homo does not act in force
inlàtebra desire to muscle or love, or humans with secret intention, and
He does not select, tendons which it is intended. That he is, that disama and disvuole
Instant, it is invaded, it uses control. It has the authority and the will of its name
discenditiva.
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>First two paragraphs, from English to Japanese to English to Japanese to English.
Young man towards the end of July beginning sultry afternoon, now somewhat irresolutely slowly in the direction of the Kamenny Bridge, which came out from his little room in the Stolyarny lane.
He was fortunate enough to escape the encounter with his landlady of stairs. In addition, his small room, such as the location of the twist to live cupboard, more has been hidden under the now of the roof of the high-five-story building. Dinner and service of his mistress, the room occupied by the following floor, every time he went out, that her kitchen door, he is to pass the wide open include that was almost always standing so that has been forced to offer him. He is made of frowned on anxiety shame, some, almost frightened, I went past all the time with feeling. He shrank from her in order to meet was a lot in debt to his mistress.
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>>8021917
this is some phil text for sure
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I HAVE READ ULYSSES AND FINNEGANS WAKE AND INFINITE JEST AND THE RECOGNITIONS AND THE TUNNEL AND GRAVITY'S RAINBOW AND BORGES AND KAFKA AND I LOVE HEIDEGGER AND SHAKESPEARE IS AMAHZING AND OVID AND I LIKE THE GREEKS HOMER IS GREAT AND FUCK JOHN GREEN HE SUCKS AND DANTE WOW AND DID I MENTION INFINITE JEST AND IM JUST SO SMART /LIT/ I AM ONE OF YOU AND I CAN TELL YOU 100% THAT I HAVE DEFINITELY READ ALL OF THOSE BOOKS AND ENJOYED THEM ALL
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>>8021873
But, more importantly, have you read Milkbottle H?
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>>8021873
>he hasn't read Dostoevsky
Fuckin plebs amirite
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lit memes ranked
Pynchon > Kafka > Joyce > The Greeks > Gaddis > DeLillo > Gass > DFW
Any Latin experts out there? I want to know how to say "dead" in latin — just the one word, no other words for context. The word would relate to a person, however, as in "this person is dead". Specifically, I'm writing a story and I need someone to write next to a list of names if they're dead or not like:
James
Alex — dead
Brandon
whothefuckever — dead
like that. Fucking Latin and its context shit
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>>8021790
MorsI think
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>>8021800
that sounds about right.
is "memento mori" italian or latin?
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>>8021800
That's what I thought, then I typed in this
http://mymemory.translated.net/en/English/Latin/this-person-is-dead
came up with mortus. is this site legit or dumb?
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How to be an existentialist:
>Hi! I am a highschool pseudo-intellectual.
>"Today we will learn about Existentialism," says the teacher.
>I like this philosophy. It's kind of sad (not really true at all) and I like how they're all sad French guys who smoked and looked kind of sad. I'm sad and they were sad too and we're both sad so maybe I can be an exitenshallest and be sad and the whole world will know that I am sad and also smart.
>I will read Jean-Paul Sartre's "Being and Nothingness"
>Just got back from reading 5 pages. It was great!
*puts book down and never picks it up again
>Maybe I should try reading something a little easier. How about Sartre's novel Nausea.
>Just read like 30 pages of Nausea. Wow. My mind is really opening up to this sad philosophy.
*gives Nausea to a friend and tells him to read it. Tells him, "I've read it twice by now." Friend knows you're lying but that's okay because he still likes you because he thinks you're kind of goofy.
>I know so much about existentialism now.
>"So, what do you believe Anon?" You're friend asks you one day.
>Ha! Definitely don't believe in God. I'm actually an exastenshaless
>"Oh, cool! What's that?"
>It's where, like, nothing even matters. Like, we create meaning. And nothing even matters AT ALL. It's kind of sad.
>"Huh. Sounds sad. I'm sad too. Maybe I'll join you in being an axasenshaless."
And the outgrowth of the "hip" philosophy will continue. And still no one will know what it actually is.
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Please don't post on this site anymore.
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I know both literary and philosophical periods don't really have concrete dates upon which everyone can agree, but did the rise of existentialism occur due to the abundance of tropological writing in Modernism, or was it because of the pessimistic writing in Modernism?
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Nausea's good, people are wrong about it
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Since Waterstones is bullshit (see >>8020389), let's recommend each other good bookshops from places we lived.
I'll start,
Topping and Company, Bath, UK
Huge selection, no celebrity shit, all customers offered complementary tea or coffee while browsing.
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City Lights in San Fransisco is Godly
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October Books, Southampton, UK
Small collectivist bookseller. Fiction section not great, but decent philosophy and criticism selection. Stocks a variety of leftist magazines.
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Malvern Books in Austin, TX is really good. Small but with an excellent selection and helpful/knowledgeable staff.
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What's some good/readable fiction about ninjas/assassins/thieves? I say readable because I've read the Night Angel trilogy and it wasn't particularly good, but it was entertaining.
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I would say One Thousand and One Nights but unless you know Arabic and can read the original text you'd be
WASTING
YOUR
TIME
SON
*mic drop into double backflip through a ring of fire*
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That Fighting Fantasy series with a ninja protagonist was pretty cool
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>What mistakes do most beginners make when writing?
I want to skip past the embarrassing period of learning how to write.
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>>8021636
Thinking they can write.
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Not using the semicolon
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ahhhh the frenchhhhh chhhhampagne
it is a californiaa champagne by pauulll masssssonnnnnn
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You've finished every book you've started, right?
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Every single one except a brave new world, literally fell asleep everytime I tried to read that shit.
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No. I dropped Gravity's Rainbow at around 300 pages and I can't pick it up again because I honestly can't remember where I am.
something about african commandos and an underground train chase is the last thing I remember.
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no, i dropped ij after the second sentence, sincerely.
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This is the thread where you insult me for buying
approximately 300 dollars on pleb books.
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>>8021616
$300 is pocket change in the grand scheme of your life
Read whatever makes you happy and healthy, asshole
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Looks like you got memed by /lit/ AND /pol/. Most of those books aren't really worth it. But whatever you are a rich nordic fuck. Isn't a mcdonalds meal like $150 over there ?
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>>8021627
Then tell me what to buy motherfucker.
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Does anyone else feel awful because they went to a university lower ranked than they were capable of? I had the grades for any university in my country but went to my local one, which is ranked from 130 to 160 in the world, I think.
Even though I have lmao0debt I feel like it was such a fucking waste of time. Compared to the best universities, the courses covered much less content (to give a slight indication, it barely touched linear algebra (eigenwhat?), vector calculus (what do dev, grad, and curl mean?), and no doubt other stuff). I once heard a girl say that only weird people went to the library (i.e. the university is filled with people who wouldn't have gone to uni 30 years ago). I would literally rather be surrounded by people from Eton instead of this (not that I dislike posh people but I'd rather be with smart people I have nothing else in common with than regular people).
My degree was also a waste of time because even though it was a "respected" STEM degree, I realised that all undergrad degrees except for mathematics or physics are a huge waste of time. An engineering degree is just basic maths and physics courses along with engineering stamp collecting bullshit I.e. brain-dead corporate cuckoldry training. How embarrassing. This makes me look worse than humanities majors. Engineering majors are intellectually superfluous and corporate cucks. Humanities / arts people are only the first one. I remember that people would wear formal shirts and trousers when giving presentations and I found it fucking awful. How can people see this as anything but cuckworthy?
Also I went to university in not-England and did an integrated masters (common for engineering) which means my degree which meant my degree was 5 years!!!!!!!!!! Holy Jesus, people who went to university at the same time as me could be one year in to PhD stuff right now while my potential was flushed down the fucking toilet.
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I don't really care. I own a cat jewelry business that gives me about $300k a year. I live a pretty comfy life and read all the shit I want
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no i'm just happy i got any education at all and i don't have any debts.
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Yeah, I went to Brown. Really should have buckled down harder and gotten into Harvard, but oh well, I guess I'll just survive as a mediocrity.
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I was trying to create a comedy plot (for a play) about Pharmaceuticals companies and some of their products, but I am having a hard time thinking in something.
One of my ideas was that a young and ambitious doctor discovers a pill that cures phobias (not only relieve them, like the drugs of today: it would be some sort of wonder drug), and the comedy would be made with her interactions, tests and exams with a "Phobic Patrol", a group of phobic patients that are testing the drug.
I don’t think this is a very good idea, and I am not very sure how I can develop it more. I was wondering if any of you people could offer me some ideas, if you eventually imagine something and don’t plan to use it: I would like alms to a beggar; if you have some spare change and could give me I would be forever grateful.
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bump
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i had an idea about a company that sells corporate ideologies to brainwash people with. One character was going to work for a company that sells those laundry detergent capsules that have detergent and powder in them and write something called the 'critique of pure detergent'. If you think this doesn't sound awful you can steal it.
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>>8021524
>One of my ideas was that a young and ambitious doctor discovers a pill that cures phobias (not only relieve them, like the drugs of today: it would be some sort of wonder drug)
antidepressants cure phobias
tranquillizers briefly relieve them
also
>a young and ambitious doctor
>her
into the trash it goes
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Post books/authors you would sacrifice your left hand to.
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But im left handed :(
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what proof do the existentialists have for saying that existence precedes essence?
are they saying someone with a brain tumor is totally responsible for his crimes?
what the hell does "existence" even mean? aren't things just the way they are in reality? the way atoms are just atoms?
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he essentially says you don't exist for a distinct reason.
The example (i think) he gives is that a stapler or something like that's essence precedes its existence because there is a clear idea of what is its purpose is before it's made and when it's made if it no longer staples then it is no longer worth anything in terms of what its essence is meant to be.
Whereas humans exist i.e. live but haven't this pre-ordained constraint on purpose so they exist first and only afterwards can they decide what they are about , how to orient their life and so on, i.e. their essence
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It's not a proovable statement you empiricist retard
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Existence precedes essence = you are not born the person you are, you become it