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You'll never get my photo, tee hee!
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BATMAN: Pynchon's at it again. He's terrorizing Gotham by denying them knowledge of what he looks like today. I have to say, even I want to know. Does he have a beard? A moustache? What do his eyes say today that those old fifties photos don't?
ALFRED: This is exactly what he wants, sir. You're playing right into his hands.
BATMAN: I know. He's diabolical. Alfred, is it true he smokes weed, still, at his age? Does he stay lifted morning to night?
ALFRED: It's been said...
BATMAN: It's over. I'm too weak for this. I have to know what he looks like. I have to smoke a joint with him. I'm sorry, I'm leaving, and I'm not coming back until I've gotten blazed with Pynchon.
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Anyone into the NYRB Classics collection? Anyone have any good recommendations from it?
Going to be reading these next:
Tun-Huang - Inoue
Fatale - Manchette
The Sun King - Mitford
The Siege of Krishnapur - Farrell
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner - Hogg
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the english translation of tun huang is unfortunately quite bland and uninspiring. really belies the quality of the book
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>>7842788
Pick the white heterosexual males from that list and disregard the rest
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Literature is so fucking boring.
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Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
we ourselves flash and yearn,
and moreover my mother told me as a boy
(repeatingly) ‘Ever to confess you’re bored
means you have no
Inner Resources.’ I conclude now I have no
inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
Peoples bore me,
literature bores me, especially great literature,
Henry bores me, with his plights & gripes
as bad as achilles,
who loves people and valiant art, which bores me.
And the tranquil hills, & gin, look like a drag
and somehow a dog
has taken itself & its tail considerably away
into mountains or sea or sky, leaving
behind: me, wag.
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>>7842654
Read some contemporary literature or some adventure stories by Jules Verne or Robert Louis Stevenson. Search the NYRB Classics site for the word "violent". If I read nothing but Middlemarch and Pynchon all day because some faggot on a Tibetan Frog Drawing site told me too I would kill myself.
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>>7842654
Are you the /pol/ster who's been here for the past three days or is this babby's first defecationpost
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/lit/izens, did you ever read a lightnovel?
Do you wanna talk about them in general? Lightnovels are just anime bullshit, fixed into a book, or there is something more?
In my opinion, if there are good anime, there must be good lightnovels.
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>>7842653
You want to talk about them without having read any?
Like with everything else, there's a few good ones, and a lot of garbage.
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>In my opinion, if there are good anime, there must be good lightnovels.
The logic holds, yet there aren't good light novels. What does that tell you?
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/pol/ here
Japshit is for cucks
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Would reading the entire bible help me digest more information from Thus Spoke Zarathrusa? Or just the old or just the new testaments? If not, other than the greeks and Nietzsche's other books, what would help?
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Why is Thus Spoke Zarathustra so fetishized by young men? Is it because they all want to basically go Super Saiyan?
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>>7842633
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I know that I have no chance of becoming anything like the Ubermensch, but the concepts and ideas explored in it are intriguing and I wanna make the most out of that
What are some essential alchemical texts? Better yet, what's a good list/bibliography of alchemical texts? Preferably just the essentials.
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>>7842528
Hermes Trismegistos
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Infinite Jest
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>>7842528
http://hermetic.com/texts/
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Searching for a novel. The excerpt was in one of my textbooks, and every now and again it'll come to my mind and bug me.
I've no exact details. It was next to Sorrows of Young Werther, and also by theme it's probably romanticism or at least early realism. Probably buldungsroman, German or French. English less likely.
I'm almost certain it was written in first person. It was about a very shy older boy. He's acting too young for his age, a bit spoiled and very attached to his mother. He gets send to his room while his parents entertain some visitors and he cries passionately for his mother to come and give him his good night kiss. Mother never comes and he falls to sleep in tears. I believe he blames his father for all this, but that part is less detailed in my memory. The majority of the excerpt was about him pitying himself.
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Sorrows of Old Werther, obviously.
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>searching
Here you go OP. The part you're talking about comes from the famous Overture (Combray I) at the beginning of Swann's Way, where the narrator talks about his struggle with his parents to receive a goodnight kiss.
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That's it. My memory was a bit distorted, but I had a vague recollection that it's from extensive work.
What do you read when you're feeling sad, /lit/? Because right now I'm miserable and the only thing that makes me happy is reading.
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>>7842404
tbqh I don't read when I'm sad, I just mope about
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>>7842404
>the only thing that makes me happy is reading.
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>>7842406
This. When I'm in a low mood I can't read.
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Hey guys, I'm writing a story and really want to slap a tilde in there. When's the best time to get my ~ on and what are the best uses you've seen for the tilde to compare?
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>>7842399
The best uses for the tilde are as inflective during homosexual anime internet roleplay
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>>7842402
this
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3-D~
>can't choose between virtue ethics, deontology and teleology
what do?
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>>7842371
Do whatever the whims of your fickle emotions desire and justify your actions later, if at all
But seriously
>current year
>not utilitarian
literally inexcusable
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Choose error theory.
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>>7842396
>not incorporating aspects of all three
>Lrn2ethics senpai
poorfag here. anybody have a torrent or direct download of this?
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So Sad Today: Personal Essays Paperback – March 15, 2016
Just came out, no ebook on amazon, this one may take a while.
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>>7842342
yeah i figured :/
thanks for answering though.
do you know of a good torrent site for books?
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>>7842345
Bibliotek is good but invite-only (I have none), most stuff is findeable on http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ or mobilism.org
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Avoidable grammar mistakes
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Dumb germanfag here. Pls correct this text. Every advice welcome.
"Nowadays, personal pictures are presented on Facebook. The imaged persons are linked so other people know who they are. If one is not a member of the network, he will get an email or no message at all on the upload of his picture. Individuals who are not interested in participating in social networks still want to know what is happening on the Internet. Just if all contacts would have the same reserved adjustment regarding internet activity, privacy would be maintained. But it is a fact that personal information is the basis of social networks and is spread without restraint because this is what most users are interested in. After all valuable ratings and descriptions of diverse experiences are shared too. On the other side private images could evoke complications, if the chief of the staff department sees them."
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Homework board is here:
>>>/hm/
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thank you very much
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This doesn't seem like literature to me but I could be mistaken
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is this the right use of a semicolon?
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where would you put the semicolon?
Last approach is to purchase textbooks; established around improving grammar and academic writing, which can be used for clarification.
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>>7842266
I think that first clause is a fragment. there should be a "the" there I think
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>>7842275
No, it's not.
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Is anyone else here a luddite?
I've never read e-books, always bought physical books since I could read
I've also been buying vinyl for quite some time and no longer download musid
I'm thinking of getting rid of my computer entirely, and just using my phones to check emails/other assorted things, rather than wasting as much as two hours a day on the computer
Am I alone in this sentiment?
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Who is this vested vestal?
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>>7842215
>being a luddite
>using a computer/phone to shitpost on vietnamese knitting forum
pick one and only one
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Who is this polaroid princess?
Who is this keyboard broad?
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Non-fiction thread.
Can we discuss some non-fiction here?
I've been reading this book, the C Programming language, and it's changed my life.
Say what you will about about technical literature, but at least you can learn real world skills from it.
The book is also extremely well written, both throrough and succinct, with arguably not a superfluous word to be found in the entire text.
To quote a review:
> It has often been cited as a model for technical writing, due to the book's clear presentation and concise treatment. In just 228 pages (272 pages in the second edition), the book covers C comprehensively. Examples generally consist of complete programs of the type one is likely to encounter in daily usage of the language, with an emphasis on system programming.
So, /lit/, what are your views on Ritchie?
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>>7842094
the holy bible
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>>7842094
>not naming it simply "C"
For a book that takes pride in its conciseness the title is too god damned long.