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Hegel BTFO

Can we stop pretending to like him now?

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Recommendations for sexual Socratic fan fiction? Gang bangs where this Socrates cunt gets fucked in the ass are my preference, bit I'll read anything that features Socrates really. Does such a genre exist or do I have to go invent it? I mean, after reading this smarmy bastard's sophistic bullcrap in the Republic/Crito/Euthyphro all I want to read at the moment is a gay erotic fan fiction with Socrates getting his ass filled with cum or something similar. Alcibiades' speech in the Symposium gets pretty hot I'll admit, but I need something more explicit

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I can't remember the name of this book I read a long time ago.

It was about these black kids in the 'hood.

Notably, it was told from lots of different perspectives, many characters describe the events in the book.

It was a shorter book.

Any ideas?

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What do you think of Tarr by Wyndham Lewis?

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Why are all the other boards for storytelling so shitty? eg. /a/, /v/, /co/ etc.

Do they just have younger posters?

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Hi, I'm writing a story, and I was wondering if I could have critique on this beginning? Here it is:


Whenever I looked into the mirror, I saw my father’s eyes.

I'm unsure of when I first made the connection between my eyes and his, but I once couldn't pass a mirror without discovering that part of him staring back at me.

I always admired my father, so one could imagine the empowerment that overtook me each time I caught a glimpse of my reflection. One also might be able to imagine the devastation I felt on the night he died.

I shouldn't have been awake when the police came to our door. It was the exhilaration of late-night horror movies that kept me rooted in the living room way past my bedtime, sat comfortably in dad’s leather armchair, eyes on the television with the sort of fixation a predator might reserve for prey.

A knock on the door sounded at the exact same time a jumpscare played on television, and it took everything I had to swallow a shriek that would undoubtedly wake my mother.

Scrambling to my feet, I grabbed the TV remote and shut the program off. The living room submerged in complete darkness.

The doorbell rang now. Multiple knocks followed. Footsteps echoed in the hallway, and I mentally cursed myself for not going to bed earlier.

In the darkness, my mother kicked over a potted plant on her way to the door and cursed loudly. I could see her silhouette bend down to put it back in its place, then abandon it after the doorbell rang once more.

My mother pulled open the door, wearing just her pink robe, and blue and red flashing lights illuminated the entire room. Two police men stood in the doorway.

Meanwhile, I slid off of dad’s armchair and onto the floor. Silently as I could, I began army crawling towards the stairs.

“I'm sorry to disturb you at such late hours, ma'am, but we have unfortunate news regarding Robert Amory,” one of the officers said in a low voice. I froze. Although I was only nine years old, I suppose it didn't take a genius to realize something was wrong.

“My husband? What happened?” It was clear in her voice that she was worried, and understandably so.

“He was hit by a drunk driver on the highway,” the other police officer continued. My mother gasped. “To our knowledge, killed on impact. I'm very sorry.”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQzxF56YMrM

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Are any books better as audiobooks?
I have always been hesitant to try them because I have a habit of forgetting anything I am told verbally and need to read things to fully understand and remember them.

That said audible gives a free book and I am looking for something to listen to during my commute.

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What are the /lit/ approved book critique/review youtube channels?

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Should I continue the trilogy? The first one was decent but I felt like the suspense was few and far in between.

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Is there any good philosophy on bettering one's practical self and communicating better with others? I feel like I've spent so long cultivating engaging but ultimately esoteric and impractical knowledge, and that it's finally time to get into any possible works for going about the day and impacting the world around you.

I'm thinking of starting with the Meditations, are there any recommended prereqs for it? Also how inseparable is it from stoic philosophy?

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>Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.

>Jorge Luis Borges

Share readings, critiques thereof, remain civil. Following is my rendition of a portion of Eliot's "The Dry Salvages" from his Four Quartets to start the thread.

https://clyp.it/jwaqpkn1

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What are the differences between "to free", and "to liberate"?

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>Grushenka.

Who the fuck thought it would be a good idea to invent this name? I don't think I have come across a more appropriate name for a roastie in my life.

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Books about sex and how to improve one's sex life?

I always had a mediocre sex life but now I'm getting fit (fitlit is life) and my sex encounters are getting more frequent, I know a trick or two bot overall I'm not a good lover. Books for this?