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Has anyone read The Clouds? I'm trying to figure out the satire in the argument between the superior and inferior arguments.
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>>7739516
Have you read Plato?
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I don't remember much of clouds, but i read it last year for school. here are my lecture notes--not sure how much is good note-taking, and i hated the clouds so i don't want to re-read the notes. i'll just dump them for you.
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1/3
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What kind of notes or annotations do you write when reading philosophy?
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I keep a journal, write quotes or paraphrases containing the main ideas, write them in my own words and then write my own personal stance regarding the idea. It helps keep a firm grasp of what I'm reading and it's fun to look back and see how my stances have changed.
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Little notes to clarify or summarize confusing sentences of paragraphs. I draw a lot of doodles, this one explains the formula of humanity in The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.
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Can someone post the 11 philosophy charts?
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ITT: Genre fiction that is as good as normal literature
I'll start: The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
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Also, anything by Gene Wolfe
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No one?
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Opinions on this book?
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I've heard its a good collection of stories, havent actually read it myself
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His prose is almost unbelievably plain, and his stories are very straightforward. It worked for me, but some might not like that sort of thing.
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Your selling him short; he's terse but through what he holds back - and if you read closely you'll realise there are so many points at which he's chosen to supply less than concrete meaning, when such would have presented itself as the natural choice - he manages, in some of his stories, to communicate the world his characters really well: they themselves often lack the will or the ability to perceive the roots of their problems, they are anxious without quite knowing why, they scrabble around those plain, dimly lit passages, looking for something Carver will often only choose to share with the reader.
Some of his stories are just shit though, Popular Mechanics is awful
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Are there any other books with notable alternate titles? I'm sure you all know of And Then There Were None originally being titled Ten Little Niggers as well as Ten Little Indians.
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war and peace was originally titled 'war, what is it good for'
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Moby Dick seems like the obvious example
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Dubliners was riginally going to be "Ulysses in Dublin".
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I'm going traveling and I don't want to carry my bookshelf. Which one should I buy?
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>>7739295
I have the newest touch screen kindle and love it. I downloaded a torrent of hundreds of .mobis before I went travelling Europe and read a ton
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Kobo GloHD or Kobo Aura H2O if you want to read underwater.
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>>7739295
Kindle Paperwhite
Same shitty question every day, use Google.
I'm writing an essay for my college writing class about my bad habit of drinking Sprite every time I am thirsty. I don't like putting boring book titles so I was thinking if I can put a rhetorical title like "Dirty Sprite" lol would it be cool?
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>>7739257
Why do you say book title when you are writing an essay? "Dirty Sprite" is fine? I guess? Am I being meme'd again you guys?
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Sorry I forgot to mention that we are writing this because of a boom we read in class titled, "The Power of Habit" by Charle's Duhigg
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Charles* Book*
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How do I achieve a pseudointellectual's level of superficial understanding of the following subjects in order to pass a humanities credit-by-examination test in 4 days?
Literature: prose, poetry, fiction, nonfiction
Architecture
Music
Theatre
Film
Dance
painting/sculpture
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Wikipedia
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just read fight club and listen to death grips and you're good to go
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Lurk more
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Is there anyone more overrated? He's literally just the most pretentious parts of Robert W. Chambers with some gleepgloop aliens thrown in on occasion. Every word he writes hinges on the reader hungrily buying into the hamfisted mystique of his blasé esotericism and lazy pseudo-occultism. Anyone with a brain who looks for more in literature than the cheap thrill of nihilism has absolutely no reason to read or appreciate this garbage.
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>>7739151
No. To me he is the embodiment of lacklustre American literature.
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WHEN, LONG AGO, THE GODS CREATED EARTH
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>>7739164
Only good thing he ever wrote.
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Hey, I'm trying to translate something from Spanish to English and I'm struggling with a paragraph, could you please help me?
Paragraph:
As lovers of the printed word, we pay special attention to the forms and presentation of the texts and in several ocassions, works that once revised do not fulfil some minimal rules that every written publication should have have been detected.
My concern with this one is the double have at the final, although one is a noun and the other one an auxiliar.
Here it's in Spanish if that might help:
Como amantes de la palabra impresa, prestamos especial cuidado a las formas y presentación de los textos y, en varias ocasiones se han detectado trabajos que una vez revisados, no cumplen algunas normas mínimas que toda publicación escrita debería presentar.
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>>7739133
No cumplen con algunas de las normas mínimas que toda publicación escrita debería presentar.
El verbo presentar noe convence, quizá haya uno mejor. Agrega una coma después de ocasiones y quita la que esta después de revisados. Fuera de eso, esta bien.
Hey /lit I need your advice.
A few months ago I sent a bunch of emails to editorials and publishers, and I recently was contacted by one.
They asked me for a few "Microcuentos" (Microfictions, short short fictions, short stories and the sort) to see my style, so I sent them some, after that they answered me that they were interested and they sent me a copy of the contract.
BUT when I googles the editorial I found some bad reviews and complaints about it, that they never pay and that the editor is a theft.
And now I dont know what to do, because I don't want them to steal my work and make profit out of it withouth giving me the 10% they say they would on the contract, but on the other hand, I am a no-one and this would, at least, help me start to build a name and have some solid background as a writer with a book published.
Pic is the image of my blog, they are interested in publishing a compilation. I write in spanish.
tl;dr should I publish with a questionable publisher?
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>>7739098
que editorial wey
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>>7739127
Una editorial española que se llama Corona Boralis
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>>7739098
Date un balazo.
Si ni siquiera puedes discernir por ti mismo si es buena o mala idea darle tu manuscrito a una editorial de mala.muerte, no entiendo como puedes articular microficcion. Autismo, seguramente.
charles dickens is a bad writer
if you like dickens fuck you
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Sweet.
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dumb drake poster
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>>7739094
tale of two shitties is more like it
dense dreck
dickens can rot in hell
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Currently on page 154 of struggling to understand why is pic related a thing. The prose is horribly melodramatic, the characters are monochrome as fuck, the ideology behind the book is literally being skull-fucked into you every reading moment...I'm oscilating between finding the piece so bad its funny and/or being bored out of my mind. Should I just let this one go, /lit/bros?
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PS: As a psychology undergrad, I am becoming more and more convinced that Rand actually did have ASD.
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never read AS as your first rand, I wish everyone knew this fact
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>>7739061
I find it hard to imagine that a subjective quality of this book would change for me in any way, have I read any of her other stuff before. It just seems to be so hillariously bad to me. I should declare that I have an ideological bias though - objectivism is basically a complete inverse of what I 'believe' in. That's why I'm reading it. Still, judging the book on purely technical merits, it's still seems really bad. Harry Potter is written more eloquently.
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Does any one like this book?
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>MUH FEELINGS
>NIHILISM
>MUH DESTINY
>THE HUMANS ARE BAD
>MUH ZODIAC METAPHORS
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That movie was horrible Spike Jonze is a little queer.
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I like that book but I unfortunately lent it to an old lover and she never returned it.
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Loved it, I guess you didn't op?
The part when he talks to the Dragon is great. Also that guy who was keeps trying to get Grendel to kill him was funny as fuck.
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Guys I'm looking for a 5 page essay on Elvin Hayes and the NAACP. (Pic related)
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I need help please!!
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Post a picture of your very own meme trilogy and I'll help you
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