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this is the literary board. maybe you all could help me develop a sentence in 32 characters. I want to say that religion is a cult and god is a concept for mind control. Thanks.
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>>7640913
>at this moment i am euphoric
23, not 32, but gets the point across
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>>7640921
It doesn't have to be 32, it just has to be under 32. sorry I didn't make that clearer.
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Just paste the best line from the anime villain monologue you got it from
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I'm new to /lit/ haven't read much throughout my life, want to start now, where should I start with for Philosophy and Fiction?
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Either the Greeks or read >>7628174
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>>7640700
>where should I start with
The Greeks
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Here's a quick little starter kit for all those who want to get into Literature and Philosophy:
The Story of Philosophy - Bryan Maggee
Defence of Socrates, Euthyphro, and Crito - Plato
The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy (Maudes Translation)
About Love & Other Stories - Anton Chekhov
The Iliad & Odyssey - Homer (Personally, I'd go with Fitzgerald)
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>vividly imagine every personal confrontation turning violent
>mentally prepare myself for a worst-case situation every day
>suspicious of the motives and true feelings of others, from colleagues to close friends
>obsess over small things said/done as being indicative of a greater attitude
I've once considered a comprehensive plan to potentially set my best friend's lawn on fire. Control and communication have always won out so far.
Given that, which books have similarly anxious and paranoid characters?
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>>7640609
i do the exact same thing OP
i'm 6'4 but whenever someone confronts me my body starts pumping out massive amounts of adrenaline and my eyes start watering and my body starts shaking uncontrollably, i also can't speak properly while it's happening
there have been brief moments where i've genuinely been able to enjoy something without this sort of anxiety and i can say they've been the best moments of my life
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A Scanner Darkly
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>>7640609
You know me so well OP
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Why is he never discussed here? He's pretty good, senpai.
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Too English, probably. History of the World in 10.5 Chapters was pretty great.
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>>7640094
It was. Flaubert's Parrot, too.
His new book is coming out, so I was surprised no one mentioned it.
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>>7640080
Because he's a shitty phrasemonger, this is why he's so liked by all the plebs. Go read some real literature.
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What are your favourite poems, /lit/? And why?
Image is my favourite poem.
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>>7639489
teen love
needy texts
empty sex
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>>7639489
>And why?
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The Raven because it's the most perfectly constructed poem in the English language
>read novel
>it's about a struggling, nonconformist artist who has numerous sexual flings, frequently does drugs, and lives a bohemian lifestyle
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so stop reading jewishly acclaimed shit and read something good
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>>7639275
dude weed lmao
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I'm sick and tired of all the Mira bullying on this board
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I can't find a single bad review of this, anywhere
Is it really that good?
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Where are you looking for reviews, friend?
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That's funny, I've never seen a good review about it here.
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>>7635198
Googling, I don't know any book review websites
I only ask because someone posted a page of the book, and it looked like, with zero hyperbole, the worst page of fiction I'd ever seen in my life, and I'm baffled as to how any human could even bear to read a whole book of it
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/lit/ what are some good books to help with my argumental debate skills? Or just books in general to help me get my points across more clearly. I like to consider myself well-read (somewhat) and I do read a lot but I would like to strengthen my speaking skills since I've noticed I'm not very good when trying to discuss certain topics.
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Aristotle's Organon
>that story where the guy ends up raising the kid his wife had with her prior black husband
Could someone explain what the point of this was besides Sherlock Holmes saying it made him warm and fuzzy at the end? Seemed like it was just about pushing a political agenda.
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Exactly. Pro-cuckold propaganda has always been in vogue with the elites who pull the strings.
Currently studying love through the ages, these are the suggested texts for us to read for the course, which of these are the better ones? Also, if anyone can suggest any other books that could link into the topic, that would be useful
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>>7641458
>that font
I'M GONNA YAK ALL OVER MY SNEAKERS!
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The Symposium - Plato
Troilus and Criseyde - Geoffery Chaucer
The Cossacks - Leo Tolstoy
White Nights - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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>>7641486
Alright, I'll check some of these out, thanks man
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itt books that describe you
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Opinions on Robert Louis Stevenson?
Is he the greatest writer of his era?
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Looks like a more modern Poe.
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>>7640937
>reading genre fiction
How about you came back once you grow up?
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>>7640937
fantastic writer for kids. A bit childish for adults but he wrote well and his works can be read by adults without them suffering through cliches of children's writing.
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Please recommend me american modernist novels. (at least the modernist era, not necessarily stylistically modernist)
My List:
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Nightwood
Manhattan Transfer
Passing
I have a random urge to write stories in an idealized noir sort of urban 1920s. I need information to input.
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>>7636460
These ones are from the 30s. Doubt they'd be considered modernist in style, but the settings fit with what you're after.
Appointment in Samarra - John O'Hara
Ask the Dust - John Fante
Turn, Magic Wheel - Dawn Powell
The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler
Fast One - Paul Cain
The Maltese Falcon - Dashiell Hammett
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>>7636460
One character will be a german immigrant who excelled in math in his gymnasium and left germany during wwI and when to america. He translates books for a living and works as a janitor in a newspaper. Named Conrad. Skinny guy
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>>7636539
thanks
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Is suffering meaningless?
I mean, do you reach a certain point where it becomes clear that all of your suffering was for nothing? Despite all that they told you about suffering making you stronger and giving you a sort of insight into certain things... Is it all pointless? I suppose in a way it relates to integrity too but do people who have suffered a great deal in their lives still "lose" so to speak?
Do those celebrities and rich kids and all those who seemingly live comfortably... Do they win, in the end?
I mean, I've near enough read everything that Nietzsche and related folks have written when it comes to suffering and they speak of it as if its a gift but aren't they just justifying their suffering when doing this? After all, he went mad, didn't he?
Could it be that he realised too late that all of his suffering was for nothing? That no matter how much you will not bend and keep your integrity intact, you WILL eventually break?
Is there nothing redeeming or worthwhile in suffering ultimately?
I'd really like to know /lit/
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>all suffering is the same
It depends, fuckwit.
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>However, one thing that grave illness does is to make you examine familiar principles and seemingly reliable sayings. And there's one that I find I am not saying with quite the same conviction as I once used to: In particular, I have slightly stopped issuing the announcement that "whatever doesn't kill me makes me stronger."
>I love the imagery of struggle. I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. Allow me to inform you, though, that when you sit in a room with a set of other finalists, and kindly people bring a huge transparent bag of poison and plug it into your arm, and you either read or don't read a book while the venom sack gradually empties itself into your system, the image of the ardent solider is the very last one that will occur to you. You feel swamped with passivity and impotence: dissolving in powerlessness like a sugar lump in water.
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>>7639534
>doesn't contribute anything to the thread
>the meme author
Didn't see that one coming
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The reason David Foster Wallace committed suicide
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>>7639156
You're not going to be a meme no matter how hard you try. We don't award memes for effort
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>>7639156
>that pic
>autism shoes
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>>7639180
I think they were ok in that age