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2016-03-17 15:04:17 Post No.7821923
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Anonymous 2016-03-17 15:04:17 Post No. 7821923 [Report] [View this topic]

Is Russian literature part of the Western Canon, i.e Dostoevsky? Because politically Russia isn't a part of the West, is it?

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Anonymous 2016-03-17 15:12:36 Post No.7821939
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Anonymous 2016-03-17 15:12:36 Post No.7821939 [Report]

:^)
don't tell anybody, it's a secrit illogical fallacy amongst literature experts worldwide lol

Anonymous 2016-03-17 15:17:16 Post No.7821955
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Anonymous 2016-03-17 15:17:16 Post No.7821955 [Report]

>>7821923
>politically
wew laddie

Anonymous 2016-03-17 15:19:42 Post No.7821966
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>>7821955
Thanks for answering m8

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Translation meme Anonymous 2016-03-17 03:32:32 Post No. 7820659 [Report] [View this topic]

I am comparing the French and English translation together and they almost read like a different text.

Is this common? How much does a translated text differs from its source altogether?

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Anonymous 2016-03-17 03:35:01 Post No.7820669
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Anonymous 2016-03-17 03:35:01 Post No.7820669 [Report]

Seeing as English to Japanese is fucked almost inherently, I imagine it's p bad.
Some languages translate better into others obviously.

Anonymous 2016-03-17 03:35:24 Post No.7820670
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>>7820659
it depends on if its prose or verse. verse is going to be translated a lot more loosely.

French and English have very different syntax. Don't get memed into thinking the value of a translation lies in its accuracy word to word, what matters is if it maintains the spirit of the text.

Anonymous 2016-03-17 04:29:52 Post No.7820805
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>>7820669
I like the vocabulary and clarity more in the English version though. I want to read more French but this book isn't very enjoyable in that language (or at least, in my translation).

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2016-03-16 02:13:13 Post No.7816903
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Anonymous 2016-03-16 02:13:13 Post No. 7816903 [Report] [View this topic]

Other the Fascist Manifesto by Mussolini what other texts from the 1900s provide a view into radical right-wing philosophy?

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Anonymous 2016-03-16 02:15:34 Post No.7816911
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Anonymous 2016-03-16 02:15:34 Post No.7816911 [Report]

Manifesto against pasta

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what is that ax made of sticks and why do u say it's fascist? considering it was on US coins before the jew take over, also notice the patrish greek god on the front, later replaced by crypto-socialist roosevelt

Anonymous 2016-03-16 02:25:21 Post No.7816933
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>>7816903
The Cantos

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2016-03-15 21:20:18 Post No.7815958
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Anonymous 2016-03-15 21:20:18 Post No. 7815958 [Report] [View this topic]

I am a Book Thief.
I steal books.
My favorite author is Fyodor Dostoevsky
ama

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Anonymous 2016-03-15 21:20:38 Post No.7815961
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Anonymous 2016-03-15 21:20:38 Post No.7815961 [Report]

how long is your dick?

Anonymous 2016-03-15 21:22:14 Post No.7815969
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Anonymous 2016-03-15 21:22:14 Post No.7815969 [Report]

>>7815961
7.1 inches long. Mixed here so have black in me.

Anonymous 2016-03-15 21:23:45 Post No.7815976
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>>7815969
I'm not surprised.

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2016-03-15 17:22:02 Post No.7815148
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Anonymous 2016-03-15 17:22:02 Post No. 7815148 [Report] [View this topic]

Who here actually makes money from writing?

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Anonymous 2016-03-15 17:58:40 Post No.7815283
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Anonymous 2016-03-15 17:58:40 Post No.7815283 [Report]

a long time ago i sold a short story to a small press publisher in Boston. i got $30 for it.

that's about it.

Anonymous 2016-03-15 19:16:40 Post No.7815581
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>>7815283
How long was the story?

Anonymous 2016-03-15 19:17:28 Post No.7815583
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Anonymous 2016-03-15 19:17:28 Post No.7815583 [Report]

>>7815581
as long as my cock dude :)
(my cock is 126 pages long btw) ....

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2016-03-17 09:07:59 Post No.7821282
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Anonymous 2016-03-17 09:07:59 Post No. 7821282 [Report] [View this topic]

Can we have a /lit/ humour thread?

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>>7821286

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2016-03-17 00:12:56 Post No.7820004
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Anonymous 2016-03-17 00:12:56 Post No. 7820004 [Report] [View this topic]

What would have Baudrillard said about this?

Is this an example of a fourth order simulacrum? Or to be more precise of a fractal object?

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Anonymous 2016-03-17 00:23:14 Post No.7820040
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>>7820004
How is this a simulacrum? Trump exists

Anonymous 2016-03-17 00:25:48 Post No.7820052
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Anonymous 2016-03-17 00:25:48 Post No.7820052 [Report]

>>7820040

He a media generated personality, he doesn't "exist" in the normal sense of the word. "Trump" the persona is a simulacrum.

Anonymous 2016-03-17 00:31:31 Post No.7820071
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Anonymous 2016-03-17 00:31:31 Post No.7820071 [Report]

>>7820052
Yes but Trump exists
If anything he's a 3rd order simulation

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Anonymous 2016-03-16 22:59:17 Post No. 7819738 [Report] [View this topic]

too smart to relate to the people I know, too stupid to talk with people on /lit/.

should I try to get smarter or return to being average?

inb4 someone says I should go to reddit. honestly I'm probably better suited for that shit than you guys.

pic unrelated

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Anonymous 2016-03-16 23:01:24 Post No.7819740
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>>7819738
How is this even a question? We all aspire to be smarter not dumber.

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>>7819738
swtg

Anonymous 2016-03-16 23:13:12 Post No.7819780
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Anonymous 2016-03-16 23:13:12 Post No.7819780 [Report]

>>7819740
Not me. I went too smart a couple yers ago and I've been trying to find my way back since then. Not easy, especially when you've gotta go as a far as me just to bring it back down to average, but the intellectual titan life isn't all it's cracked up to be

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Anonymous 2016-03-16 21:48:01 Post No. 7819516 [Report] [View this topic]

Hi /lit/, I'm looking for some books about two or more highly intelligent, sophisticated dudes (or ladies) who face off in some kind of protracted battle of wits.

The higher the stakes, the better. They should both be, shall I say, "pretty cool". Also, the book should be good, please.

thanks

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Anonymous 2016-03-16 22:27:25 Post No.7819612
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Anonymous 2016-03-16 22:27:25 Post No.7819612 [Report]

How little should their shoes be?

Anonymous 2016-03-16 22:33:51 Post No.7819642
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Anonymous 2016-03-16 22:33:51 Post No.7819642 [Report]

>>7819516
The Sunset Limited, though that's a play.

Anonymous 2016-03-17 00:06:23 Post No.7819974
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Anonymous 2016-03-17 00:06:23 Post No.7819974 [Report]

>>7819516
bump

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2016-03-15 10:18:54 Post No.7814238
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Anonymous 2016-03-15 10:18:54 Post No. 7814238 [Report] [View this topic]

Where do I start on Dugin?

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Anonymous 2016-03-15 12:28:04 Post No.7814445
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Anonymous 2016-03-15 12:28:04 Post No.7814445 [Report]

dr seuss

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>>7814238
It's funny how America's ruling classes are boring ass neurotic white people, while Russia's leadership is entirely composed of OGs and would-be wacky James Bond supervillians.

Anonymous 2016-03-15 19:27:47 Post No.7815633
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>>7814238
4PT, obviously

If you can read Russian, read Foundations of Geopolitics

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Anonymous 2016-03-17 14:48:44 Post No. 7821884 [Report] [View this topic]

Anyone else get memed into reading this guy's take on ethics? My cousin is a huge fanboy and bought it for me since I'm the most educated in the family and he figured I'd love it. I knew Molyneaux was a cult leader but holy shit do you have to be deluded to take him seriously.

he tries to 'solve' ethics with UPB in 150 pages, just lol. that isn't even getting into his arguments which are abysmal, and that even if he had good arguments he just makes a shitty copy of Kant's approach that is vulnerable to the same criticism.

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Anonymous 2016-03-17 14:52:29 Post No.7821893
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>>7821884
He's regarded by the majority of people as a joke at best and a cult-leader at worst, just ignore him and move on.

Apparently he won't even try to defend UPB now on his call-in show because there's just too many holes in it and it's really shitty in general.

He has some really fucking retarded views as well so probably worth trying to get your cousin away from such societally caustic people.

Anonymous 2016-03-17 14:59:56 Post No.7821912
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Anonymous 2016-03-17 14:59:56 Post No.7821912 [Report]

try to get your cousin to read some more intelligent right-wing libertarians and ween him off the likes of molyneux and (i assume) austrian economics

Anonymous 2016-03-17 15:04:34 Post No.7821925
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>>7821912
The kid doesn't read, he listens to summaries of books on youtube and tries to talk about them. He's like 16.

The only people in the family who actually read shit other than genre fic, romance, pop science and self help are my grandfather and I, and he's 89 and in the grips of senility at this point.

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Author travels to Scotland to beat up a teen who posted a negative review of his book 2016-03-17 03:12:04 Post No.7820580
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Author travels to Scotland to beat up a teen who posted a negative review of his book Anonymous 2016-03-17 03:12:04 Post No. 7820580 [Report] [View this topic]

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/teenager-bottled-ex-countdown-champion-6802185

Be careful next time you give a book a bad review, /lit/

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W H E N
T H E
B A N T E R
B E C O M E S
R E A L

Anonymous 2016-03-17 03:14:07 Post No.7820590
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Anonymous 2016-03-17 03:14:07 Post No.7820590 [Report]

I'm not sure how well Robinson Crusoe holds up.

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http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00NIX0UPG
>89 one-star reviews

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Anonymous 2016-03-16 22:34:13 Post No. 7819643 [Report] [View this topic]

This was good, boys.

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Anonymous 2016-03-16 22:38:42 Post No.7819661
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>>7819643
Is it as self-pitying as Stoner? I liked Stoner but I don't think I would want to read another novel like it.

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>This was good, boys.
time to get drunk n stoned boys

Anonymous 2016-03-16 22:41:19 Post No.7819672
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>>7819661
do people really find stoner depressing?
normies, man.

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Anonymous 2016-03-15 16:45:08 Post No. 7815035 [Report] [View this topic]

Hi lit. I photograph books for a living. Yup, I actually do that. Rare books and manuscripts mostly. While I'm working I sometimes have to wait for an image to process or transfer or whatever, and that's when I come over to browse /lit/. Sometimes I make a thread and post some of the stuff I've shot, and that's what I'm doing now. Title pages, covers, illustrations, etc.

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Anonymous 2016-03-15 16:51:18 Post No.7815052
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>>7815035
How do I get a """"""job"""""" like yours?

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Anonymous 2016-03-15 16:51:50 Post No.7815055 [Report]

Always wondered how that's done. What resolution do you work in?

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>>7815052
be a photographer then go to a library and offer your services
>>7815055
different resolutions for different material. also depending on the size of the object. we usually do 600 for manuscripts and 400 for printed material, but it varies. FADGI level 4 at least.