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>tfw don't understand the difference between former and latter
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first and last
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>>7768582
former is former and latter is latter
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Are you literally brain dead?
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Which great thinkers were most likely autistic?
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Not you.
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>>7767232
>the ramblings of a proto-neckbeard
>great
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>>7767232
Me, though I haven't gotten checked *giggles arrogantly*
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I'm thinking about buying:
The Canterbury Tales
The Faerie Queene
The Decameron
One Thousand and One Nights
Which editions and (where applicable) translations do you guys have or prefer?
What are some other great, lesser known (i.e. not Homer, Virgil, Milton, or Dante) books, epic poems, and story collections?
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Get Canterbury tales in the original English
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>>7766971
This, it's not even difficult once you get used to it and learn a few of the most frequently recurring archaisms.
Also, 1001 Nights is long as fug. Like, really, really long. Just want to make sure you're aware of what you're getting into.
If you're going to read the Decameron, you might as well read it before the Canterbury Tales, since it was Chaucer's most direct source anyway.
Faerie Queene is one of the most delightful things ever written in this language and I wish you all the very best with it.
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>>7766966
Consider reading Orlando Furioso.
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What was the greatest book of the 1960s?
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>>7766888
DEFINE "OF THE 1960S"
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V.
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>"Why do you spend your money buying physical books when you can just download them for free, anon?"
>"Even buying an e-reader is cheaper!"
How do you respond to this?
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"These are valid arguments, I bid you adieu"
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>>7766805
I like the convinience of just opening a book and flipping through the pages.
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They look good on my shelf.
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Anyone got recommendations for lit {or movies or whatever} that is intentionally bad, and not in a 'ho, ho we're so funny' pseudo-ironic kind of bad for idiots who think the the room is of note, but I mean barely tolerable, something you really have to work through, not becomes it's complex or elitist but because its so shit.
Thanks <3
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>lit that is intentionally bad
Le Cheerios Man
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pynchon
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C E N T E R J E N N Y
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Looking for some criticism for a work I wrote a while back. Don’t worry, the work is free; I’m not trying to profit off anybody. I’d like to have some literate people review the work and see what they like and dislike about it. You can download the epub or the pdf by following the link below. Much obliged.
https://books.google.com/books?id=5pgXAgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
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>>7766360
I feel like this may have been relevant approximately 104 years ago. The point of Marcel Duchamp was that he was genuinely brave in his absurdity, forward-thinking, truly avante-garde in the real meaning of the term. To rehash this kind of stuff over a century later isn't necessarily bad or good, but just... irrelevant. No one wants to read absurdity when our entire culture is more absurd than your writing can possibly comprehend.
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>>7766389
But your post only came 9 minutes after OP posted. You couldn't have read the work in that short amount of time. Or are you judging the book by it's title and cover?
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>>7766389
>No one wants to read absurdity
Speak for yourself. This guy is literally giving his work out for free, and absurdism is still a greatly relevant genre (see the continued cultural significance of Kafka).
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So I'm writing a book, the contents of which is not really important.
What I need is a good title. A really good title. One as well made as "The Sound and the Fury". It should sound like a classic novel.
Oh, and I'll credit the person who comes up with the best one, if you like.
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>>7766016
Come up with your own fucking title, you hack.
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>>7766016
"What Up Dudez"
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>>7766021
chill, I just wanted /lit/'s opinion.
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You get to pick any writer to write your biography.
Who do you choose?
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Kafka. I'm sure he's gonna milk it on some way.
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I think Pinecone would capture the tone of my life pretty well.
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John Green. He has shown the world that anything could be made into a book.
I wanna read Infinite Jest at some point soon, does anyone have any recs for less complex stuff to ease me into that kind of literature?
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ij is shit just skip it.
start with the greeks
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>>7765348
Infinite Jest isn't difficult.
But read Homer's Iliad and Odyssey.
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>>7765348
Shouldn't most threads on /lit/ be in QTDDTOT?
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How can he remember so many details of his infancy? What he did, what he ate and what he was wearing in a particular day thirty years before. Could you, anon?
He has to be making up most of the book.
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>>7764820
>Could you, anon?
Of course.
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>>7764820
>How can he remember so many details of his infancy?
If you had read Proust and understood his distinction between voluntary and involuntary memory you'd know the answer to this.
Read more.
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>>7764840
I have read it, I'd just forgotten.
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What are the most beautiful sounding words, in any language? I like "Madrugada." It's Portuguese, referring to the time when the sky is blue just before sunrise.
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C'est la d'or.
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Familjegrav
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Kurwa mać
Ja pierdole
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Recommend some westerns.
I've read butcher's crossing and blood meridian so far.
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True Grit
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>>7764742
Books not movies please
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is the sisters brothers considered a meme here?
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Should I study law?
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>>7764678
nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
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>>7764678
I am, and I'm very concerned about the state of my life right now. Do you have a clear idea of where you'd go if you did?
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>>7764691
probably something like copyright law or soliciting.
Being a barrister would be awesome but desu it's probably dreaming too much.
So did aliens actually abduct him and is that why he's unstuck in time?
Or is he imagining it all in his head and basing what he believes off things he takes subconciously from his real life?
Because I think both arguments can be made.
or does it not matter.
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>>7764301
reddit general?
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>>7764309
lol. this book really was shite
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