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I think the general consensus is that Davis is better than Moncrieff for Swann's Way, but since she only translated the first volume you probably want to read Moncrieff if you're going to tackle all of Proust to avoid switching translators.

>>7973097
I have both, and I gotta say: I like the Montcrieff translation a lot better.

>>7973135
Same goes for me. I'd say the Davis translation is a bit easier to read and has helpful footnotes. But the Moncrieff version has more character and nostalgic flair to it.

Anti-natalism is objective truth. The only certainties in life are that you will die and that reproducing is a sin.

>against nihilism
The Holy Bible.

Grendel

teleology vs. nihilism

>>7973052
It's an essay in moral philosophy - viz., on the limitations of utilitarianism.

I don't know where you got 'edgy', 'grimdark' or 'realistic'. Try reading it again after taking a class in introductory ethics.

>>7973104
>I don't know where you got 'edgy', 'grimdark' or 'realistic'.

She says that modern audiences consider happiness 'archaic' and indicative of simple-mindedness. She hammers home repeatedly that despite their happiness, they aren't 'simple folk'. She then suggests that it is difficult for the reader to actually accept this, and then presents the scapegoat child, with the assurance that this will make the Omelasians far easier to picture, and to accept as both happy and complex, with rich inner lives etc.

As I said, I'm aware of its inspiration by William James (it's late) and his remarks on utilitarianism. But if this interpretation is correct then I fail to see it as interesting. It doesn't in any sense actually explore or consider the implied utilitarian system - it's just The Ones Who Didn't Subscribe To Specific Variants Of Utilitarianism. So what? Whereas it seems at least to be somewhat provocative, or suggestive of an actual thesis, if it's read as a critique of trends in fiction.

And don't bother replying until you've taken an introductory course in not being a cunt.

Do a comparison between Aristotles De Poetica and formal elements of Macbeth: discovery, peripeteia, suffering etc. Should be very simple and mildly interesting to your teacher

>>7972984
Man, I miss how easy high school was. I just breezed through bullshit assignments like this without asking a Zimbabwean Feces Sculpting board for help.

>>7972984
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iU9JF-DXds

listen to this. its fucking perfect.

basically all the reviews on Goodreads are people saying he made some interesting claims, but backed literally none of them up.... doesnt explain why it's banned though

>>7973040
thanks. i'll go to goodreads now to check that out.

>>7972868
Instead of getting this, just get Zinn's People's History

>>7972865
Joaquin is my husbando, delete this

Book has much more stoner comedy. More psychedelic too.
>without thinking about Joaquin Phoenix
No.

Have you read any Pynchon?
Its a pretty ok book. Really groovy

MS Paint

Okay, but in order to prepare yourself for it you first have to drink lots of bleach.

>>7972874
will do that as soon as I figured out how to do that
>>7972866
already tried that tho

>>7972862
t. De Beauvoir

I never understood this. Everyone says he was so good looking, I just can't see it. Maybe there's another picture that looks better.

>>7973717
Good looking as writers go at least.

I haven't been allowed.

>>7972829
b-but i did
(and i also saw the orson welles' movie with that intro)

>>7974576
Goddamn that movie was good. One of Welles best.

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>He doesn't understand Salinger

>be op
>read the first chapter of a well regarded book
>fail to understand it
>use hyperbole to bait /lit/ into explaining it for you

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>>7972820

cyberpunk/10
Liked brave new world, hated Do Androids.

fuck off you stupid attentionwhore

not even remotely funny

>>7972663
Hi SU93RM4N! Meine Nama its Jake, but plz call me by my username ShadowdarkBatman. My fav book is the Marvel civil war and I listen to Slim, Yesus, Chef Keef, and of course classical music like orchestras and rock and roll. It bugs the fuck out of me that people are too dumb to enjoy clssic music, but you seem pret smart. What u listen to my man?

>>7972667
Rofl this game looks so weir. I dont even know what the HECK it is about am i right? W/e though count me in. Check my numbers!

>>7972645

>pic
>Socrates

I'm triggered.

start with max stirner

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pic related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ_hUxuumk0&index=1&list=PL6676C3E8A487FEE6

i always thought it meant strangely impenetrable and impossibly complex like the bureaucratic system in "The trial"

I don't know what people mean when they say it because most people who say it don't know what it means

Just a term people use to appear cultured.

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Purple Prose

SUNSET

>>7973187
it's not tho

it's fairly spartan in terms of descriptors (nothing esoteric about them), it's just low brow