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“Films are for everyone, collective, generous, with children cheering when the cavalry arrives. And they're even better on TV: two can watch and comment. But your books are selfish. Solitary...A person who's interested only in books doesn't need other people, and that frightens me.”
What did he mean by this?
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>>7821559
>>What did he mean by this?
>Literature is too much of a chore but I don't want to part with my elitism so I've convinced myself that I'm above it and it "frightens" me.
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You can enjoy a film alone just as much as you can enjoy reading with other people.
Sounds like he's butthurt some girl likes reading more than him.
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Cinema sucks,TV is for proles. If you want to be propagandized to just listen to NPR and read sociological journals.
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is Literature a way to express unexpressed-because-repressed feelings and situations?
is it that why times of Historical and social crisis and transition give the best works?
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>>7821479
Language as a whole is an attempt to come as close as possible to expressing the inexpressible.
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>>7821531
says who? language is just a a tool for social life. its implications are irrelevant in practice.
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>>7823123
pleb
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>"The nigger Jew is in the process of toppling over the Aryan in communism and robot art to achieve the objectivist mentality of perfect slavery for Jews (the Jew is a nigger, the semite race does not exist, it is an invention of the freemasons, the Jew is only the product of a cross between niggers and asiatic barbarians)." (Bagatelles p.171)
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>>7821401
He means that Jews are bad.
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>>7821595
nice oversimplification
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>>7822181
edgy
what am i supposed to feel?
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dat introduction
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socialism
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>>7821313
pearl-clutching victorian moralism
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Is the Anonymous 19th-century translation of CoMC
Revised by Peter Washington any good? If no, please rec. better version.
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>>7821294
Penguin one is better.
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>>7821516
Penguin which?
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what are some lit af books /lit/?
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infinite jest
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harry potter
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>>7821200
This joke has been made at least 20 times by at least 20 retards who don't read books and shouldn't be posting on this board
how are you supposed to pronounce it? the way they do in the show bothers me for some reason.
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>>7821196
Loo-si-fer
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[ˈlu.sJ.fɹ] (LOO-si-fir, dactylic) or any allophones of the same. Now go back to /tv/.
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>>7821211
For whatever reason, the near-close, near-front unrounded vowel gets autocorrected to a capital-J. Think of the "i" in "bin".
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>The Anarchist Library
>Mikhail Bakunin
>God and The State
>source: marxists.org
Can I really trust this edition? I don't think so.
Marxists would do sabotage on anarchist texts!
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Yeah you have to be really careful, Marxists are always hiding IEDs in Anarchist literature.
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>>7821141
So, this means I can't trust this edition, right?
Where should I get a proper edition?
Wikisource? https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/God_and_the_State
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>>7821145
No, that one will literally give you HIV through your computer screen. Those tricksy marxists!
>If pleasure is connected with the mere apprehension of the form of an object of intuition without a relation of this to a concept for a determinate cognition, then the representation is thereby related not to the object, but solely to the subject, and the pleasure can express nothing but its suitability to the cognitive faculties that are in play in the reflecting power of judgment, insofar as they are in play, and thus merely a subjective formal purposiveness of the object. For that apprehension of forms in the imagination can never take place without the reflecting power of judgment, even if unintentionally, at least comparing them to its faculty for relating intuitions to concepts.
>Now if in this comparison the imagination (as the faculty of a priori intuitions) is unintentionally brought into accord with the understanding, as the faculty of concepts, through a given representation and a feeling of pleasure is thereby aroused, then the object must be regarded as purposive for the reflecting power of judgment.
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Nice novel there OP.
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What do you mean by "mean" OP?
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>>7820864
First off, that's not a picture of Kant - it's Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi.
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Bob Woodward and Narrative Nonfiction
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Has /lit/ read Bob Woodward?
What are your thoughts on his books, his "narrative nonfiction" writing style, and what are some similar works by other authors.
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I loved the Brethren, great inside look at the Supreme Court in the 70s. I am also a huge law nerd tho, so your mileage may vary
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>>7820792
narrative nonfiction is a massively varied area, what are your interests? because you have everything from roman history to modern sports to global politics and everything inbetween
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>>7820796
I'm reading "The Choice" right now. I'm probably going to read "The Agenda" next, then tackle "The Brethren."
>>7820801
Probably election oriented, or just generally political. Honestly, I wish there was a "narrative nonfiction" book for every American presidential election of modern times. Unfortunately, I can't find many other than "The Choice" about 1996, and the John Heilemann and Mark Halperin "Game Change" books just seem too gossipy and flashy.
Although non-US political narrative nonfiction would probably also be interesting to read.
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Hey /lit/!
What new word did you learn today, or word/phrase you are most fond of recently?
My new word is this:
>frutation
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Cygote for me
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Tentative. Means unsure
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Yonside
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Do you get the same benefits from listening to an audiobook instead of reading. I have been listening to To Kill a Mocking Bird while I follow with my book, I noticed I'm more alert when I listen than reading it. However, will this improve my vocabulary or nah?
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>or nah
Its not working.
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>>7820397
Why would I want to be formal on 4chan? Even when I'm asking such a simple question. I guess my transition from formal to informal within a sentence wasn't appropriate for you. Typical newfag.
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>>7820408
>why would i write in a decent manner in the literature board?
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>if ambition is a shadow of a shadow, then kings and heroes are the shadows of beggars
What did he mean by this?
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>>7820032
Read it in context and it will make sense.
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>>7820059
HAMLET: Denmark's a prison.
ROSENCRANTZ: Then is the world one.
HAMLET: A goodly one; in which there are many confines, wards and dungeons, Denmark being one o' the worst.
ROSENCRANTZ: We think not so, my lord.
HAMLET: Why, then, 'tis none to you; for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to me it is a prison.
ROSENCRANTZ: Why then, your ambition makes it one; 'tis too narrow for your mind.
HAMLET: O God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.
GUILDENSTERN: Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.
HAMLET:A dream itself is but a shadow.
ROSENCRANTZ:Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.
HAMLET:Then are our beggars bodies, and our monarchs and outstretched heroes the beggars' shadows. Shall we to the court? for, by my fay, I cannot reason.
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>>7820032
>What did he mean by this?
This should be an instaban phrase.
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i no longer see the light, brothers.
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Why not?
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arianna grande is average as hell tho
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>>7820300
agreed
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I just started reading this book and I'll be honest I'm a little confused by what's going on. Is this normal or am I just a little slow?
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>>7819905
lel
fucking stupid-ass.
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Story is largely episodic and takes place out of chronological order. Give it a couple hundred pages to figure out what Heller's doing and you should be fine. For now just laugh.
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>>7819934
Makes sense. Thanks anon.