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Has anyone here ever taught literature?
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Was a guest lecturer for a course on Paul Celan and Hölderlin once
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Yeah, I love it. It's my job.
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>>7636530
I tutored some foreign high school students in 9th grade English.
best book for ego-death?
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>>7636513
Don't stop there, find the death of ego-death
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As many as you can.
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>>7636513
The Book: On the Taboo of Knowing Who You Are, by Alan Watts. His lecture recordings too.
>tfw not born timely/smart/focused/confident enough to study directly under notable continentals like Marleau-Ponty, Lefebvre, Adorno, Habermas, Latour, Lacan, Agamben, and so on, and write important theory.
>tfw you might try really really hard and become a technical writer or editor or journalist
why even live?
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>tfw I was instead born stoic and wise and can accept the shortcomings and randomness of life with utter serenity
Damn it feels good to only need the bare necessities and my own virtue to find completion in life.
Damn it feels good to be a gangsta.
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>>7636210
Nobody's just born with all those traits fully formed. There are dyslexics with C-titles at Fortune 500 companies right now, so get your shit together and gun for the much less competitive world of academia if that's your dream.
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>>7636210
absolutely disgusting
ITT: We judge people based off the books they read in 2016:
>White Fang
>Stoner
>Currently Reading: The Beautiful and The Damned
>Next: The Road by Jack London
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>Count of Monte Cristo
>The Stranger
>Notes from the Underground
>The Plague
>The Iliad
>Storm of Steel
Currently reading Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, I'll probably finish it tomorrow. I think I'll get to the Odyssey after this.
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>>7628781
How Does Storm of Steel compare to All Quiet on the Western Front?
Read up to Ithaca at Last in The Odyssey. The rest is pointless.
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The Nigger of the Narcisus
Ficciones
A Tale of Two Cities
Now reading Blood Meridian
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Just finished The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour Hersh.
Is there any other book who can redpill me on JFK as much as this one?
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>>7636829
>redpill me
Kill yourself
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>>7636829
>redpill
Please refrain from using ephemeral pop-culture cliches. You'll be dead soon. Use your time and words carefully.
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>>7636944
>tells me to use my time carefully
>shitposts on /lit/
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>he's an aristotelian
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> he thinks posting memes is funny
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>he is
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>he
scumlords itt
So, I'm just wondering, what do you guys think about the books on pic related? I want to know your opinions about them.
If you so happen to live under a rock, these were created by a Philippine National Hero named Jose Rizal, an eye doctor. He used these books to reveal the abuse and crime of the Spanish.
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Bump i guess
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Maybe last bump for the night.
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Maybe a last bump.
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>Probability Trance me this:
I've been a fan of Bakker's work for a long time and while eagerly awaiting for the Great Ordeal to be released later this year, I decided to freshen up my memory on the first trilogy; while covering some bits of backstory on the most loved and most hated characters of the series, the Dunyain, a small revelation struck me.
The Dunyain were living in a self-imposed isolation for some 2000 years in Ishual during their "conditioning experiment", separated and severed from the rest of the world entierly, until Moenghus and sometime after him Kellhus were exiled (in a way), interrupting the said isolation, right? Considering their sect had no contact with the Three Seas for all that time, a region quite remote from their secrete fortress, how come both Moenghus and Kellhus didn't instantly succumb to some illness alien to their culture, practically the moment they came into contact with the rest of humanity? Like the Aztecs and the Mayans did after Spanish arrived or Martians to humans in "War of the Worlds"? I know their program of selective breeding altered their genetics to the extent of them having difficulties breeding with baseline humanity, but that shouldn't make them automatically immune to every possible disease. At the very best they would be different from us (regular humans) as any other species from the Homo genus was. And there is no contingency for that. Especially taking into account the medieval post-apocalyptical tech level of the civilizations of Earwa. Not even the Dunyain could attain the required medical knowledge, precisely because of their isolation - no matter how intelligent they were, they simply can't invent or make remedies for the ailments they know nothing about...
Is this covered anywhere or explained? Or we are just expected to jump over this plothole and ignore it? Bear in mind that I'm not trying to break the story, I'm just curios and thinking that this is an interesting omission on Bakkers side, considering how much effort did he put into his work to make it believable and interesting.
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Because it's not important
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Anyone read this book? If so what's your opinion of it?
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>>7636702
It's not written by a white, so I won't read it because it'll be inferior.
Take the redpill, sheep
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>>7636708
go back to /pol/ please instead of littering this place
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I want to read something new and you guys have good taste, so I was wondering what /lit/s favorites were.
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Published in the last 5?
Excluding non-fic?
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What the FUCK is this?
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Either a book, novel, volume, or litérature
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>>7636611
Nice shit thread, faggot
Hi. I'm not sure why this thread got deleted by a mod, but I really want a serious discussion
Is everything that is important already been said? How can a writer write something nontrivial?
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the internet is still fresh.
the world is changing.
literature is changing.
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>>7635778
>Is everything that is important already been said?
Yes. Now on to the next thread
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>>7635803
thats too easy to say. i want specifics
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I need a less than 400 page novel that will help me to reaffirm that life is worth living. What do you got for me?
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>>7635588
Read (or watch) The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell
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>>7635582
The picture of Dorian Grey
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"That's an interesting character"
Blank Space
https://youtu.be/p1Zt47V3pPw
...an approach to fashion design that seeks to create ''fashion without clothing,''...
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>>7635523
>Nice 23
Out of the Woods
https://youtu.be/JLf9q36UsBk
The phrase "23 skidoo" was popular in the 1920s; it means "it's time to get out while the getting is good."
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In movies and video games you sometimes see sword throws, and while it may seem silly at first glance, it's not a new idea. However, the medieval Italian fencing master Fiore dei Liberi in the early 15th century mentions this tactic, although he himself does not seem to favor it.
How many books have you completed this year?
What is your target? Do you think you'll hit it?
So far I'm 12/50, which I think i might increase to at least 75..
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I've only read No Country for Old Men and The Edible Woman this year.
I don't know, I feel like if you've read 12 books in 28 days... with literature you get out what you put in, I think.
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>>7635455
Keep in mind 3 of those are graphic novels, 1 is poetry and 5 are under 220 pages...
I work a dead quiet office job, and spend 90% of the day reading. What can I say?
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>>7635426
Im at 4/25 thinking about increasing to 30 or 35.