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Does anyone know of a good compilation of Petrarch?
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dude you have a twig on your head lol
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>>7805248
Thats Putin for you. Dude is such a party animal
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Seriously? Anyone?
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Does anyone have any memoirs to recommend? Looking to read some.
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Bumping this thread. What are some of your favorite memoirs?
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Goodbye to all That, by Robert Graves
dude who wrote I, Claudius
survived the first world war
also survived the british private school system without turning gay, which takes some doing.
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My Twisted World: The Story of Elliot Rodger by Elliot Rodger
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List some other books that focus on the topic of overpopulation and how it would be dealt with / affect the world.
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Harrison's Make Room! Make Room!
was the basis for Soylent Green
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>>7805158
man that tower looks chill as fuck. i would be right there at the very top
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>>7805158
Stand on Zanzibar
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Is it possible to post something here that isn't ideology? I think some of the more clever posters here can do it, but I guess we'll see.
Give it your best shot. Here is my attempt:
"I get very bored at work stocking the shelves"
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>>7805054
My glass of water is less than half full, so should I get more water? And then I thought to myself, shall I be waiting long? Was it worth the effort? If I can distract myself long enough perhaps I can rely on my thirst rather than torture myself over waiting to fill up a cup that is less than half full. Sometimes when I drink water my stomachs aches something severe. I think I will wait till I can no longer stand the thought of this and then make my move. My thoughts move to the cup once more and with a sudden realization I am aware of the triviality of this situation. Perhaps I will be thirsty soon.
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ideology is unreal into real
it is not possible
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>>7805267
This.
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How do you write a sob story /lit/? Post your example.
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>Baby shoes.
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>>7804950
>for sail
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>get high paying job
>make family
>have it all
>become addicted to alcohol, heroin, and crack
>lose it all
>become depressed
>write novel with horrible life choices as inspiration
>it fails
"at least i followed my dream"
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What is the Spongebob of literature?
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Kafka
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>>7804917
https://youtu.be/g3lo90ElO9Q
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idk like manga
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Hi! I recently read Plato and i wonder if there is some guide for reading most famous philosophers in order to understand references? Thanks in advance!
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>>7804891
honestly just go chronologically
greeks > scholastics > enlightenment > modern >20th century
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annoyingly subtle sarcastic and totally unhelpful remark
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>>7804902
reply calling you a nasty name
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>I was only 9 years old
>I loved Borges so much, I had read all the poetry and short stories
>I pray to Borges every night before bed, thanking him for the life I've been given
>"Borges is love" I say; "Borges is life"
>My dad hears me and calls me a faggot
>I know he was just jealous of my devotion for Borges
>I called him a cunt
>He slaps me and sends me to go to sleep
>I'm crying now, and my face hurts
>I lay in bed and it's really cold
>Suddenly, a warmth is moving towards me
>It's Borges
>I am so happy
He whispers into my ear "so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion."
>He grabs me with his powerful Argentinian hands and puts me down onto my hands and knees
>I'm ready
>I spread my ass-cheeks for Borges
>He penetrates my butt-hole with a massive tome of Anglo-saxon grammar
>It hurts so much but I do it for Borges
>I can feel my butt tearing as my eyes start to water
>I push against his force
>I want to please Borges
>He roars in a mighty roar as he fills my butt with rhetorics
>My dad walks in
>Borges looks him straight in the eyes and says "vi el Aleph, desde todos los puntos, vi en el Aleph la tierra, y en la tierra otra vez el Aleph y en el Aleph la tierra, vi mi cara y mis vÃsceras, vi tu cara, y sentà vértigo y lloré, porque mis ojos habÃan visto ese objeto secreto y conjetural, cuyo nombre usurpan los hombres, pero que ningún hombre ha mirado: el inconcebible universo."
>Borges leaves through my window
>Borges is love. Borges is life.
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>>7804863
This man in my country, he is everything.
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>>7804872
90% of the people that talks about Borges in Argentina didn't read him.
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>>7805213
yeah well the same could be said of /lit/izens and their 'favourite' authors
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Anybody got through the canon?
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If you have, who do you see carrying the torch today?
Who are the great writers of today?
(Writers: of novels, novellas, short-stories, and poems)
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Before you ask, I don't know where the pic is from.
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>>7804803
That's too bad because I really wanted to tell you to fuck off to wherever it came from
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>>7804797
"""the""" canon
wewdielew laddie
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How does one live the literary lifestyle?
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make threads on 4chan with simpsons gifs as the starter image
oh shit!!! it looks like youve already maanged this!!!! wowwwwwwww!!
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>>7804741
A few years ago it used to be flaneurism, absinthe, hashish and opiates, women, decadence and such but now the cool kids have moved on to exploring mysticism, asceticism, simplicity, celibacy and so on.
We're literally Huysmans, the board.
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read
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How much slogging will I have to do if I plan to read the whole wheel of time series in one run? High/epic fantasy generally isn't known for it's brevity, but Jordan's books seem to have a bit of notoriety for it.
Is it worth it? Is it something I should read just by way of being a fan of fantasy?
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>Is it worth it?
"no"
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I read through a few of them in high school. The books get longer and longer but less happens in each installment. I hope you like descriptions of tapestries.
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You shouldn't have to "slog" at all with a past-time like literature. Wheel of Time sucks. There are better books to read. Being a fan of a genre doesn't mean you have to read shit (unless you take a perverse pleasure in subjecting yourself to schlock, in which case go for it).
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I've read most of the Greeks but I've never had complete copies; law-related stuff because I'm thinking of law school. The coverless one is Montesquieu's Rousseau.
Excited for my first Joyce and I haven't read Melville in ages.
This was all ~$50 from a local used book place.
Anything new from you guys?
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Nice Melville edition.
Here's mine. God bless Amazon Market and its dirt-cheap used copies.
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Pretty happy with my ultra rare Cornell University edition of a ND book. Cost about 20 something altogether but whatevs
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>>7804601
>Dershowitz
A known plagiarist and alleged kid toucher.
Oh vey OP.
What's a word for the stage in which transformation is occurring but yet to be complete. I'm trying to say in an essay that the 1950's was an anxious time because conservatism was still prominent but there was a gradual shift towards liberalism/progressivism that would later arise in the 60's. The sentence would be something along the lines of
"In the 50's, society was in a state of _____" or
Basically I need a way to say that the transformation from conservatism to liberalism created anxiety.
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flux?
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>>7804600
I don't think that quite works in the context of what I'm trying to say.
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>>7804593
You just say "Society was in the middle of a transformation"
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Which should I start with?
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that's a nice collection
literally just read the back of all of them and read whichever sounds most appealing to you
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>>7804358
I picked up all of them (aside from c22 and slaughterhouse V) for 10 bucks. I've read Candide and Walden
which Hemingway should I start with?
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>>7804369
the sun also rises is his first novel
it makes sense to read it before a farewell to arms
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Is Lord of the Flies worth reading, /lit/?
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>>7804317
But of course.
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>>7804317
wow i thought practically everyone in the world read it at school when they are about 12
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Yes it is, as is much of Golding's work. I also recommend The Spire