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i forgot to mention but the blue people are people born without souls.

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>>7728581
Read some data for once

The phenomenon that caused European population to decrease will happen to other populations once they industrialise.

Realistically we just need to improve technology to accommodate the new demanding markets efficiently, so we don't suffer from worse things such as climate change.

Eventually we might actually have the problem of a worldwide decreasing population, and I don't see a solution to that

>>7728581
>>7728597
on a side note please post more book cover memes

the two prevailing themes in science-fiction are interstellar colonisation or maintaining a fixed population, IE one born for every one that dies.

Every ebook is free, dumbass.

Sage

>>7728394
Type or style? Like sometimes i find sorta descriptive writers like updike and similar let their words get in the way of the story.

>>7728430
Anything, really. Just any class of writing that bothers you. Let it all out.

Proofs, corollaries, and scholia. Axiomatic stuff just makes my brain shut down.

would have done good in the Iliad

So how often does shit like this get posted? It has a certain insanity to it, yet its that insanity that is just out of reach. Attainable my a night of missed of sleep, not completeyly off the deep end.

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>>7728274
porn when?

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>>7728231
hate

Their Eyes is such a peculiar book. It's like 2 separate ones, diametrically opposed. I don't know why it's rated so highly but it is curious.

ok

Do your own research. It'll be good for you. I promise, little bird.

>>7728162
the blue hardcover one

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>>7728162

this book

we reddit now

>>7728146
Cum for Mitty? This is a blue board mind you.

>>7728146
I recommend reading The Brave New World now and then going for some Hannah Arendt, for thoughts in generally related directions and enjoyable reading.

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>>7728104
Of course!

>>7728104
Yes. The second greatest poet of antiquity (after Homer).

Metamorphoses also has claim to be the most influential work of fiction in the history of western literature.

no, he was geared towards teenagers

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>highlighting

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>>7727988
>writing in margins

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>reading

You.

>>7727978
Him.

>>7727977
hey reddit

>>7727954
What's happening is part of a phenomenon I wrote about a couple of years ago when I was asked to comment on Rowling. I went to the Yale University bookstore and bought and read a copy of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." I suffered a great deal in the process. The writing was dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs." I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing.

But when I wrote that in a newspaper, I was denounced. I was told that children would now read only J.K. Rowling, and I was asked whether that wasn't, after all, better than reading nothing at all? If Rowling was what it took to make them pick up a book, wasn't that a good thing?

It is not. "Harry Potter" will not lead our children on to Kipling's "Just So Stories" or his "Jungle Book." It will not lead them to Thurber's "Thirteen Clocks" or Kenneth Grahame's "Wind in the Willows" or Lewis Carroll's "Alice."

Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

Our society and our literature and our culture are being dumbed down, and the causes are very complex. I'm 73 years old. In a lifetime of teaching English, I've seen the study of literature debased. There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whitman was a racist. This isn't even good nonsense. It's insufferable.

There are plenty of Harry Potter threads here bitch, just use the catalogue and it will be self-evident family.

copypasta from Harold Bloom, 2003
hope that old fart is dead now because his opinion is shit

>>7727943
Start with the Greeks.

>>7727943
Read pushkin or something ruskaia svinya

Idi nahui shtob rasiya zdohla

Hope that makes sense. Can't be fucked to use a cyrillic keyboard

I'm russian too. Try pushkin, my mom will literally never stop talking about his shit.