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Are you ready for the greatest book of all time?

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books about/for/written by trans folk?

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Nietzsche's book is so easy to read that loli can read his book.

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Hey /lit/, I usually buy used books, but I just won a $125 gift card Barnes and Noble. What books should I get that I will never find used?

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What's some Reddit lit?

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Hi. Today is my 18th birthday and I wanted to use it to finally post on /lit/ without breaking the rules. I'm heading off to college in a few months. What would you recommend to a novice reader like me?

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>The uniqueness of a work of art is inseparable from its being imbedded in the fabric of tradition. This tradition itself is thoroughly alive and extremely changeable. An ancient statue of Venus, for example, stood in a different traditional context with the Greeks, who made it an object of veneration, than with the clerics of the Middle Ages, who viewed it as an ominous idol. Both of them, however, were equally confronted with its uniqueness, that is, its aura. Originally the contextual integration of art in tradition found its expression in the cult. We know that the earliest art works originated in the service of a ritual – first the magical, then the religious kind. It is significant that the existence of the work of art with reference to its aura is never entirely separated from its ritual function. In other words, the unique value of the “authentic” work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic basis, however remote, is still recognizable as secularized ritual even in the most profane forms of the cult of beauty. The secular cult of beauty, developed during the Renaissance and prevailing for three centuries, clearly showed that ritualistic basis in its decline and the first deep crisis which befell it. With the advent of the first truly revolutionary means of reproduction, photography, simultaneously with the rise of socialism, art sensed the approaching crisis which has become evident a century later. At the time, art reacted with the doctrine of l’art pour l’art, that is, with a theology of art. This gave rise to what might be called a negative theology in the form of the idea of “pure” art, which not only denied any social function of art but also any categorizing by subject matter. (In poetry, Mallarme was the first to take this position.)

>An analysis of art in the age of mechanical reproduction must do justice to these relationships, for they lead us to an all-important insight: for the first time in world history, mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. To an ever greater degree the work of art reproduced becomes the work of art designed for reproducibility. From a photographic negative, for example, one can make any number of prints; to ask for the “authentic” print makes no sense. But the instant the criterion of authenticity ceases to be applicable to artistic production, the total function of art is reversed. Instead of being based on ritual, it begins to be based on another practice – politics.

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>reading Lolita
>this prose is great
>he starts describing his Lo
>Nabokov writes in such a way that I begin empathising with Humbert

I mean it's a sign of good writing but still concerning

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How do I improve my grammar and vocabulary?

For my vocabulary, I was thinking of making flash cards of any words I come across that I don't know. But I feel like I might need more than that. Any other suggestions?

Improving my grammar is not as important to me as expanding my vocabulary, but I want to because I tend to talk like a Mong.

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Anyone know any good scifi that goes into blurring the fundamental nature of reality and space-time? Fantasy is cool too.
Pic related

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Are these chains /lit/ enough? Imma get me one when I win my first short story contest.
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DlCKENS IS SO BORING

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>His name ?.... Albert Einstein !

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>tfw no qt3.14 girl will ever pass me a note saying she loves me
;_;

any books better than this?

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>He worries about 'missing out on references' while reading