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Am I considered a published author if I got picked for third place in the New Yorker Caption Contest? Pic related but not me- don't want to be doxed
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If you mention it ironically, yes.
Thoughts on University of Toronto Philosophy program? Reports say it's a top 15 uni for Philosophy programs.
What type of philosophy is the most exciting to study?
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If you come here, I'll show you the best places to shit on campus.
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>>7634829
hello my Indian friend
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What a fucking waste
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Why doesn't /lit/ talk about Hungarian literature? It's honestly pretty good.
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Please describe the basic outline of Hungarian literature from the 19th century onward and name and describe some major figures so that I can go read some Hungarian literature then you Hungarian fuckface
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Because Hungarian anons don't shill enough for it
I shill Borges every chance I have
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>>7634373
http://theculturetrip.com/europe/hungary/articles/the-outsider-within-the-ten-best-hungarian-writers/
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for some odd reason, it's required I read this behemoth for one of my courses. I'm overall not familiar with Dickens and or his work. Any thoughts on this boulder of a book?
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>>7633708
I think that's the one with the great opening sentence featuring a dinosaur. Never read it, but the TV show starring Scully was good.
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>>7633708
Are you a post-grad? Is this a course on Dickens? Is this related to your dissertation?
Reading such a huge book for an undergrad course is fucking stupid, and there is so much chance for something to go wrong in your analysis, especially since like all of Dicken's work it is subject to serial bloat. Would probably drop course desu senpai, unless it was a 100 level where I would probably read supplementary works and watch the tv show.
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>>7633712
It's for my undergrad. The class is major movement in 19th century British literature. Fortunately and unfortunately, it's a 3000 level course.
Right now I'm sitting in bed with my macbook. I spend pretty much every night like this yet i'm flanked by a piles of books. I tell myself "tonight is the night, I'm going to read this book" but I can never bring myself to. I'll take some books off the shelf or fossick through the piles and flick through, but I can't seem to start and finish one.
Have any of you been in this situation? How did you get yourself to fucking get your respective act together and exercise some discipline and self-restraint?
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Cancel your internet subscription. Cancel internet on your phone. I did that and now I just read and listen to music and clean when I'm at home. Works wonders on your sleeping habits as well.
Still use internet at uni though, so you're not completely detached from social shit.
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>>7633558
Is there any other way to circumvent the internet without resorting to giving it the flick entirely?
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>>7633617
Unless you have the willpower you admittedly don't have, no. Its really not that bad though, I live 6 months out of the year with no cell or internet service, I just do all that stuff when I go into town at the library once or twice a week. It makes me much more productive desu.
>Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Dislike him. A cheap sensationalist, clumsy and vulgar. A prophet, a claptrap journalist and a slapdash comedian. Some of his scenes are extraordinarily amusing. Nobody takes his reactionary journalism seriously.
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Can't believe John Green said that! I HATE him!
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Nabokov said this kind of shit about everybody, dude was so full of himself he couldn't give anyone else credit. Nobody takes his criticism too seriously
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>>7630825
>implying nabokov took it seriously
idiot detected
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>...Oates demonstrates, more powerfully than ever before, that even if our libraries ceased to exist future historians would be able to reconstruct the minutiae and meaning of our life and times from her expansive body of work." —Pulitzer Prize Jury
Damn, that's some high praise.
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>>7630064
>that quote
lad...
what is the essential JCO?
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>>7630064
My goodness, who is this and where do I start?
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>>7630064
>that seaweed grabbin dem titties
Best book of stoic philosophy? don't feel like buying 10 diff books.
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Get a library card you gawm
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>>7634582
tough. You obviously haven't started or you would know that your bullshit is meaningless.
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>>7634582
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45109
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give me your best non-fiction books
extra points for being original and metioning something not in the wikia/sticky/charts
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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
Consider the Lobster
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>>7634526
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962
by Alistair Horne
The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century, Revised Edition, with a New Preface
by Ross E. Dunn
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
by Svetlana Alexievich
To the Bitter End: Paraguay and the War of the Triple Alliance
by Chris Leuchars
The Conquest of the Incas
by John Hemming
Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon
by John Hemming
My last 6 since october.
Incas and Bitter End were the best, Chernobyl was full of feels tho.
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What is the best edition of Marcus Aurelius's book "meditations" to read? including footnotes and a good introduction and all that stuff.
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>>7634345
eh, really, any edition will suffice. there's no complex concepts to grasp, so it's not TOO translation senseitive...it's like a bunch of "notes to self"
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Everyman
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I'm just discovering my love for really interesting and out-of-the-box sci-fi-lit.
What does /lit think about pic related?
Is it worth reading?
Should I've read "Half Past Human" first?
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>>7633789
go ahead, tell me more.
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Even though he is now considered as a juvenile hack by the masses of /lit/ as of late, just thought I would mention that I read chapter eleven of V last night entitled: "Confessions of Fausto Maijstral" and it was such a stunning example of how beautiful of a writer Pynchon can be when he wishes. Diary entries of a man living on a southern Italian island constantly being bombed, yet there was such a melancholy wonder to the prose. I read it late at night in bed and god damn if it wasn't some fucking comfy, rain-on-a-tin-roof-during-summer style writing.
Although people seem to love him for his absurd wackiness and tangled structure, I don't seem to see enough people discussing how wonderful of a writer in the classical sense he can be when he wishes. If he ever stepped away from his usual writing style and wrote poetry or more straight-forward prose in some harrowing tale of love and loss, I'm sure he would blow people away and write some magnificent pieces.
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>when he wishes
Then why wouldn't he just wish all the time? Are you saying he's a lazy writer?
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>>7632264
better than pynchon
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hi! can someone help me remember the name of a novel? I read it a few years ago in one of my english lit classes which focuses on american literature between 1920 and 1950
Anyway, all I really remember from the book is that it's somewhat surreal and kind of falls in the modernist movement.
The only part of the story that I remember is that at one point a character's dog was standing/walking on its hind legs and as the book went on it became more and more dream-like (like they'd go outside and be in a completely different area from where their house was)
If anyone can help me out I'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
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>>7631831
god that is a gorgeous gif
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>>7631879
Yeah I really like this one. I have a few more on my laptop that I can post later to keep the thread bumped. I really want to remember the name of this book but can't for the life of me remember it
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>>7632145
The gif is from the wizard of oz.
Critique my writing /lit/.
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It's bad.
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Please clean up the dialogue. You don't need to say he said after every fucking instance of speech.
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part two :)
Are you even trying?
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>the redditor is getting rich off retards like OP
kek
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>>7634481
Lulu is probably getting rich, tripfag might get like $300 tops
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>>7634448
>pic related
It's a good thing Bottles is still hosting his version online.