So if a much of the fantasy stuff exist on Discworld because the people believe in it, does that mean if they didn't believe their planet is a disc on top of four elephants and a turtle, it would just be a spheare like the earth?
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You're putting more thought into this than Pratchett probably did.
Discworld is on the high end of the improbability curve, and we're probably meant to leave it at that
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>>7629967
IIRC that's a property of the Gods and a specific bunch of dragons, not everything else.
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>>7629967
I go to India and come back to see all this Reddit bullshit.
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What is metamodernism?
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Some made up bullshit
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Postmodernism done ironically. Like a satire of deconstructionism.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu7n0XzqtfA
Can we all agree that the school of life has its moments?
In any case, who expects to really learn about the topics they cover through five minute videos.
If you watch their videos for leisure, without assuming that they can possibly act as a replacement for real studying, they're pretty good.
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>>7626398
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldj0RX3CqXA
I like this one because of the qt and her accent.
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I don't fucking get the channel's obsession with sex. They've released like seven videos about it. Nothing they say about the topic is useful or original. They should just stick to philosophy/literature.
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>>7626412
Hey what's this song?
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Favorite book covers thread, pic related.
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ITT: prototypical /lit/ comments
>wallace was a talentless cuck
>greeks or gtfo
>"the more she drank the more she shat"
>Stephen King = nice meme
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>>7631152
back2reddit
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OP is a redditor trying to figure out how to fit in, please ignore and sage and move on, ty.
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>>7631152
Congrats, you've figured us out. Guess we'll pack up and call it a day
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Politically Incorrect Travelogues
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I just finished Aldous Huxley's short travelogue In a Tunisian Oasis.
>It is a curious and characteristic fact that, whenever in Tunisia one sees a particularly oriental piece of architecture, it is sure to have been built by the French, since 1881. The cathedral of Carthage, the law courts and schools of Tunis — these are more Moorish than the Alhambra, Moorish as only oriental tearooms in Paris or London can be Moorish. In thirty years the French have produced buildings more typically and intensely Arabian than the Arabs themselves contrived to do in the course of thirteen centuries."
I find this haughty 19th/early 20th century imperial attitude to make for quite an interesting read, because while often exaggerated and fanciful, these novelists' observations were politically correct truisms based on their own worldly experience which many people today do not have. It's very informative into the worldview of this era, especially in that of the Anglo (or French) world.
Another example of this would be Evelyn Waugh's Black Mischief, which is fictional but is based on his travels to Ethiopia. He described what he observed as dysfunctional black nature (not owing to Western meddling in affairs).
Lovecraft also had some interesting travelogues. Does /lit/ have any other suggestions on famous novelists' travelogues? Extra points if non-Anglo.
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>>7631065
I haven't read it OP, so I can't recommend it truly, but I know there is a Mayakovsky travelouge regarding America.
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>>7631065
Why don't you come out and say you want racist travelogues? That's essentially what you're requesting.
Yeah I bet Lovecraft had some interesting ones top kek
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>>7631088
Not quite what I meant. As adversed to European authors disparaging other races in the vain of, "The inferior swarthy races," I meant honest, in depth observations based on their travels.
For example Huxley was both charitable and critical of the nations he visited. And he was pretty self-aware for that time of Britain's faults.
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A girl should be a chloroformed thing, amirite guys?
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Anyways, is pic related any good?
I'm looking for women author recs.
>tfw everything you've read is by a dead white dude save for a celebrity autobiography
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A local hipster magazine was raving about how it was the bravest novel of the past decade, and how it had such a shocking plot that "our" publishers didn't dare publish it for fear of backlash. A translation came out two months later, though.
I tried to read it (in English), but I gave up about halfway through. It resembled Ulysses a bit (including the sexy bits), but I didn't feel the same drive to read sentences again and again and again until I understood what they meant.
Mind you, that's two years ago or so, so form your own opinion. Preferably after reading/trying to read it.
>mfw the only non-English Wiki page on this novel is in Farsi
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>>7631045
Why is there a sticky? Why didn't you fund warosu?
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Self Improvement General
Those of you who have actually read more than 2 or 3 self improvement books, which ones are actually worth reading and have insight beyond basic logic??
I know most people read only one of the most popular ones and thus only recommend it regardless of it is actually good, like Dale Carnegie's, Napoleon Hill's, Tony Robbins etc.
I'm not saying the popular ones are bad but I was hoping /lit/ would have something amazing to suggest, it can be any topic: self discipline, money, dating, friends and relationships, etc etc.
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Self-improvement through books especially for self-improvement is an exercise in futility.
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If you want a more spiritual/esoteric bent to your self-improvement:
Evola's Ride the Tiger
Evola's Doctrine of Awakening (pussies need not apply, shit is hardcore even for me)
Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling/Sickness unto Death
Epictetus/Seneca/Aurelius
Illiad (Yup, if you know how to read it for that purpose)
All the blog posts on Gornahoor
What the Buddha Taught
Schumacher's a Guide for the Perplexed
Primordial Meditations by Frithjof Schuon
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Would Marcus's Meditations be considered basic logic? I suppose it's not along the pragmatic lines you're looking at.
Maybe I should suggest Thinking fast and slow.
Friends poem about creepy guys made me spit my coffee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVB8knKO5eg
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Kill yourself, then kill your friend.
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>men
>hitting on that
Shill all you want but please don't lie like that.
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>>7630999
Imagine being so lonely you had to write fake poems about men sexually harassing you
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hey /lit/ what do you think of what my college is making me study:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173720
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/247816
http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/havisham
http://www.poetry-archive.com/r/cousin_kate.html
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Havisham is shit. I had to write an essay on it for GCSE English. They made us study shit books and poems like "Women in Black".
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>>7630992
Eh, I think that Havisham's all right compared to shit like Mid-Term Break
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>>7630985
I used to make some drinking money on the side by doing a drag caricature of Miss Havisham, so I'll never be able to take that poem or Great Expectations seriously ever again.
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Just got Gravity's Rainbow, what can I expect from it? What should I do in preparation for it?
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have you read any other Pynchon?
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Your trash day schedule
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>>7630664
What?
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Why haven't you read Menxenus, Plato's best dialogue yet?
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should someone read Pericles speech before going to the dialogue?
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>>7630621
It helps, yeah, to set the context. But it's not really necessary.
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How do you break out of the kiddie genre: fiction
What's the best non-fiction, non-autism book?
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>>7630395
>anime
kill yourself
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>he fell for the non fiction meme
kekeke
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>>7630395
You don't need to pretend fiction is a kiddie genre to justify your interest in nonfic, OP. We don't care about what you think that much. If you want to read it, read it.
To answer your question: I've enjoyed Mary Roach's books, especially Spook.
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Dear /lit/izens: I recently finished "The Ode Less Traveled" and am looking for a follow-up text on prosody. You know, whatever's one or two notches up from this.
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>>7630276
Bump for interest. Do you have an epub or similar of the book?
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notes on prosody, nabokov
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There's a list of suggested reading at the back. Check it out.
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Do you find the way of the aloof to be logical? Are NEETs genius or delusional? Is it dependent on the person's individual ways of learning, or is there an absolute answer?
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>>7630254
>Do you find the way of the aloof to be logical?
No.
>Are NEETs genius or delusional?
Pathetic is what they are.
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>>7630259
What if there was someone with an extremely fucked up past, so the torment of what happened lead to them not having the courage to do what they want, ergo becoming NEET?
Is that pathetic or is that taking into account the externalities and innate randomness of life which may attack you?
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>>7630270
then you're still fucking pathetic