memes or not?
>>7990641
I would change the N to an S on Socrates and the T to an F on both.
Socrates was more of a senser than an intuitive. Nietzsche was more of a feeler than a thinker. I would even consider changing Socrates from a T to an F.
I actually had a neuropsychologist tell me meyers-briggs tests are corporate-oriented bullshit just a couple days ago. He said something along the lines of "you can't call someone an asshole in the corporate world so you call them a 'judger' and not a thinker"
>>7990667
I repeated myself on that last sentence. Please ignore.
When it comes to foreign novels from an author do you like to stick with one particular translator or do you jump around to different ones?
>>7990640
Whichever I run into first. If I didn't like the book I may give another translator a shot if I find another copy.
There's a quote from this book that said something like "things that no one remember never existed". Anyone knows where this quote is located?
>>7990629
I dunno read the book
>>7990629
Translate it and look it up on Google, Gutenberg has the full original novel on site
The other crit thread hasn't yet hit its bump limit but i know that once a crit thread reaches over 200 posts there rises this anxiety in us that no one will read our posts and will only check out the ones closer to the top or the posts with the most replies. This is true for me at-least.
Heres mine anyway. Its called Raping Her Heinrich.Edgy i know.
If your gonna crit, ignore the spelling, grammar and punctual errors because the application i use is traysh and it doesnt gimme the old red/green squiggeld line under wrong words or phrases
http://pastebin.com/VbzJkX8k
>>7990598
Note also that the paragraphs haven't been finalized and its a mile from being complete. i just want to show off i suppose
I suppose I'll repost this here.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mQjaWKcEC6s6Ewv5hKekcSLD1EqJ8HufhmpB-DDYlHM/edit?usp=sharing
Very early draft for the prologue of the novel I'm currently working on. It's fantasy genre fiction shite, and it's almost 6000 words, just a fair warning for those that wouldn't want to read something like that. let me know of any errors regarding spelling/grammar/awkward sentences/tense/syntax/whatever else. General impression will also be appreciated
>>7990598
> Out of the frosted windows of that cold broken hotel, On the streets of stomping rubber and squeaking leather.
Incomplete sentence, I know you said ignore grammar but autism kicked in.
I'm enjoying the general imagery though, does a good job of putting me there.
>Well he slips on the ice and cracks his neck and spine off the floor, almost knocked his self unconscious but nevertheless he sat up on his hunkers, sobbed, tryed to push the pain that was radiating from his crown and his backbone back inside his skull and back and when there was no avail he just lay there and stared up in despair.
Sounds kind of awkward, maybe it's just me though.
Post you top 3 Fantasy books \ series of all time.
>>7990597
wew how did i missed it
>>7990597
YOU KNOW WHAT NO FUCK YOU
WHY DOES SCI FI ALWAYS HAVE TO BE WITH FANTASY!
I HATE SCI FI
FUCK YOU
FUUUUUCKKKKK YOUUUUUUU
ok i'm done
What are the tomes of stoicism? Meditations and what else?
>>7990534
Why did someone photoshop these two pictures?
>>7990537
couldn't find the book, i've searched google and amazon and everything. maybe you have the book title wrong?
>>7990534
epictetus's manual is the only other text we have from stoicists so after you have read this and meditations you're pretty much set with stoicism
What does /lit/ think of Anne Carson?
I've been thinking about brushing up on the classics (I didn't #swtg) and thought she'd be a nice bridge between the classical and contemporary eras.
I thought that was mira Sanchez
>>7990546
Wha
Reading Autobiography of Red for the second time now, it's great, definately read it if you can - you can breeze through it in like five hours if you really want, but you'd be better off giving it time to grow on you, a few chapters a day.
Also if you're in the mood for something similar-but-not-really check out Thomas Meyer's translation of Beowulf, you can get the pdf for free on the publishing house (Punctum books) site.
What is the difference between "spook" and "pure ideology"?
one's a littler crispier
You wouldn't appreciate the difference because you don't read shit. Your brain is unthreaded like a nail and your asking for two different kinds of nuts.
>>7990480
What's the difference between "fuck" and "cunt"?
Both swears, yes, but of totally different meanings
why ask this bullshit? congratulations on noticing a very basic similarity, but you've managed to twist it into a stupid stupid question
What do you listen to while you read /lit/ ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pn2ZFm2Jwc
Listening to shit while you read.
Disgusting.
Having said that I like videos of rain.
>>7990476
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_dzHKGAnxs&
I second rain too, that shit's relaxing.
>>7990470
Most of the time,nothing.
Sometimes I listen to some works of Liszt or Mozart.But that is rare.
How important is it to a philosopher that he read Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius?
I feel like it will only tell me things that i have already thought myself.
I think application is more important than whether you have "thought" of it or not.
I'd drop the presumption too desu
>>7990392
it is laced with gold that book. I don't even read philosophy that much but I believe it is the perfect guide to how to lead your life
Importance zero.
How dark is the novel compared to the Disney movie?
>>7990345
Darker but still not very dark.
Expect lots of architecture talk.
>>7990345
Really just the last 10% is functionally different, and like all of Hugo's work, much of the book is not related to the plot but to tangents that you have no emotional connection to.
Dark childrens books made into dark movies thread? I hate that disney puts a positive spin on everything, and I dread the inevitable call of the wild move.
>>7990345
>Quasimodo brutally kills Frollo's brother
>Clopin dies during a gypsy riot
>Esmeralda finds her mom only to have her mom killed.
>Frollo gives her the choice to be captured or be her sex slave. She refuse.
>Esmeralda is hanged
>Frollo is watching, encouraging it
>Quasimodo throws off Frollo off the balcony as Frollo bounces off the roofs
>Quasimodo cradles Esmeralda's corpse in a tomb. and dies
>Phoebus lives a happy life
>Pierre Gringoire does nothing
Name one thing wrong with this book
>you can't
>watered down prose
>predictable
>nothing super bad about it but nothing super profound either
How accessible is the Divine Comedy? Which translation should I read? Is it necessary to read any other works before reading this?
>>7990287
Do you happen to know how accessible it is?
>>7990333
Albeit that I haven't read it, it seems to be it is quite accessible, even though if you are not wary you might miss out on some symbolism and such. I might be completely off though.
How the fuck did postmodernism get entire forests of literature written about it? It was literally a bunch of mediocre intellectuals who discovering “WHOAH MAN THE SIGN IS NOT THE SIGNIFIED,” which is a pretty simple concept that’s been established for a long time in semiotics and general philosophy. Was it really just a bunch of boring leftists with nothing interesting to say jerking off?
>>7990252
Academic publishing, much like modern art is a jewish money laundering scam.
>>7990252
It heavily triggered conservatives which got it more attention. They forgot you need to ignore trolls or else they win.
>>7990258
It's also just so a bunch of jews could keep themselves and their friends on the syllabus for all infinity to make shekels.
Is this book any good or just a meme?
It's good for people incapable of love who need to manipulate in order to get 'friends'. I.e. everyone here. So yeh
>>7990206
This book made me afraid of Americans
This book says the same thing over and over. It can be summed up in just one sentence. Be nice to people.
No shit Dale.