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What are some good books about colonialism from the white perspective?
OTHER than HoD
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Source in pic OP?
Also Mondaugen's chapter in V.
Robinson Crusoe is arguably about colonialism as well.
Oroonoko kinda is
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v.
lord jim
gravitys rainbow
mason and dixon
the sot weed factor
things fall apart
invisible man (ellison)
benito cereno
the invisible man (wells)
the last african
finnegans wake
Farcry 2: the novelization
l'esmiserables
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>>7658425
from tumblr
Thanks for the suggestions but I don't want to read white men
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Should I take any of them?
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If you want. I don't care. Kill yourself.
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>>7658279
I'd take the atomic submarine one. I'm always interested in that 50s propaganda that is targeted at children.
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take damage and put down another staggerford
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Rate my professors taste
We were given this list of "philosophers and thinkers" to help us find references for a paper in my natural resource controversies class.
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>>7658039
>kierkegaard
he's ok in my books. is this a philosophy prof?
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>Professor doesn't put Karl Marx right at the top
Is this the Twilight Zone? How did this guy get hired in Academia
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>no Augustine
dropped
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Hey /lit/, what's a good annotated copy of the Koran? I want something that's informative but doesn't try to shill bullshit like Islam is good or like any other religion.
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bampu
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I've been looking for the same answer for quite a while.
Finally settled on buying this today, as I've heard it's the best annotated version available for non-Muslims
http://www.amazon.com/Quran-Oxford-Worlds-Classics/dp/0199535957/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
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>>7658094
Thanks. Do you know of any annotated collections of hadiths, both sunni and shiit?
I will never understand whats wrong with translations.
For example
Love which moves sun and stars
Lamor che muove il sole e latre stelle
Which moves you more? Of course this one in language closer to you....
There are big amount of books, and those books are famous and really old, and some peoples are spending their lives for work at this one work of art. Many years of research and etc, and they cant even translate a book? Come on
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I guess you're just retarded then.
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>Translations
>Ever being done right
Languages are so different from each others that executing completely correct translations are factually impossible.
You simply cannot transcript a text in another language without sacrificing significant portions of the word play that was done by the author of the work.
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>>7657081
so what do
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Is Spinoza worth reading? Nietzsche seems to love him...
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>>7658134
yes. thats not to say he was right, but he's v influential.
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Deleuze loved him too... and rightly so.
"Nature has no goals for itself."
“I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.”
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>>7658134
Spinoza is my waifu
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>Critic Harold Bloom said this of Walt Whitman: "I would go so far as to nominate him as Abraham Lincoln's only rival for greatest American"
Is this guy fucking serious? Lincoln was a dictator, murderer and set a new low for the presidency. He deserved to be shot. Walt Whitman was a not very exceptional American poet.
Is this what qualifies as an intellectual these days? These two as the greatest Americans that ever lived? Can't wait til this guy dies and just becomes completely forgotten and marginal.
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If this is the only thing you know of him then sure why not.
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>>7658021
This bait is quite poor.
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>>7658021
Say whatever about Whitman, but if that's your opinion of Lincoln, you don't know what you're talking about. Or, maybe, you're just another clueless, radical hick
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let's judge your taste in Shakespeare
favourite work?
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>>7657594
You're*
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>>7657596
Nice bait
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Macbeth
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Hey /lit/ters, I need help in writing the introduction for some essay I have to do.
It says to write a hook with a build (and I don't know what to write about)
my thesis is
>When analyzing David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, the film breaks conventions of the typical romantic comedy, since there isn’t a typical love triangle and the dialogue isn’t mostly wit-like.
I'm not asking you to write the intro for me, I just want you guys to guide me in the right direction since you guys spend your lives wrting essays, thanks in advance
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>>7657720
Your thesis is terrible. Rewrite it immediately.
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Make sure to point out that you bow down to the Gods of Marxism and that you feel guilty for being white and male
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>>7657731
the prof said we can steal the formula for now.
I just use it to include the two criteria easily
although, I don't see how any other thesis would be different, they're all going to address that the movie goes or doesn't go by normal romantic film conventions
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What self help books will absolutely definitely improve someone's life? And I don't mean vague advice like "be yurself"
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The Magic Mountain
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How to Win Friends and Influence People
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Epictetus, Evola
What are some manly books? Something like Jack London or maybe Ernest Hemingway but preferably something more recent.
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tess of the d'ubervilles.
essentially, a mans purpose is to rape. another mans purpose is to care for a woman and raise her cuck babies. no judgement passed either way.
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This is aimed at your demographic.
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>>7656524
what constitutes a manly book? Does it spit and fart loudly?
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What's your favorite book title?
>Fear and Trembling
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Repetition
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>>7655310
The Vagina-Ass of Lucifer Niggerbastard
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My Twisted World
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Hi /lit/
I haven't written anything in years but I've been an avid reader most of my life. Anyway I'm going to post a short piece I wrote and just want feedback. Shit on it if you please, whatever. I just want any sort of feedback good or bad.
The Writing prompt was just: Corpses are seeds.
Forests are nature’s graveyards. Mother nature is our Sexton. One can’t help but take a stroll through the woods and wonder of the lives that were, that could have been. Our mothers are trees and our fathers flowers. We’re all the same. Some say when you die you get to choose what your body becomes, may it be a tulip or a great redwood tree. Others are more sceptic and believe whatever happens is random. A complete scientific rebalancing of the chemicals in our bodies with the nature around us. I find nothing more comforting than knowing that after a life of taking a reaping from the land in death I can finally repay my debt.
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>>7657778
start a religion/10
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>>7657863
I can't tell if that's a compliment so I shall take it as one, Thank you!
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>>7657778
It's very undeveloped and immature: your ideas, though numerous, aren't much to look at; your sentence structures are clunky and repetitive, without variation or anything else to make them interesting. I also recommend using proper grammar: you need a box to break out of, ehh? Advice: read authors with great prose--Gass, Hawkes, Joyce, Pynchon, and Proust are good picks--and analyze their style, think about what they are doing and why they do it, and maybe assimilate, synthesize, take pieces to form a whole; but always, because you are nothing otherwise, write yourself; don't write/attempt to write insincerely because it shows.
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Would being published in a college literary magazine look good on my resume or applying for MFA programs? I feel like being published even by some obscure magazine would be impressive than college press. I only ask because I'm looking to have a story of mine and maybe two poems published for the lit magazine at my school.
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your writing is probably too shit for even that so your question is moot.
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>>7655920
OR you could actually give a helpful response instead of making assumptions.
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if you have to ask your writing is too shit
fuck off
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Best novels on teenage angst?
Mad Toy by Arlt>>>>>>>>>The Catcher in the Rye desu
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a portrait of the artist as a young man
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>>7657374
Arlt is overrated and people only know him because of Based Bolano.
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>>7657559
>overrated
I don't think you really know what that word means desu. Nobady knows that nigga.
I knew about him before I had read any Bolaño tho.