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I'd love to help, but, my pockets are filled with appreciation as it is.

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>>7607659
Othello should be easy enough to write about. If you're really bad with the bard, you could read spark notes while you read it.

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Can anyone help me out here? I need to create a Shakespeare scene using lines from any Shakespeare play. It has to be either a retelling of a scene from Twelfth Night, AMSND, TotS or R&J or a new epilogue from any of them. Gotta be at least 20 lines. I encourage you to be as crude as possible since my prof actually loves that shit.

Avoid Kant and post-modernists and you'll be fine.

Descartes is probably the easiest to read.

Definitely find some secondary sources or a good annotated edition of the works. In the case of older philosophers, a lot of time you read them and think "Well that's obvious, of course that's true" but their significance is either a response to certain historical contexts we're not familiar with or perhaps a word being used in a way that you don't grasp the full significance of. So yes, by diving into the work without help it will go over your head, no question, but you don't need to have an instructor on hand to discuss it with either.

If you put the effort in you can understand most works quite well without classes, but of course you must still study.

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Pls.

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sorry i can't think of any good recs or else i'd actually contribute

>>7601110
No longer human
>>7601124
Cities of the Red Night

your question is just as broad and unanswerable as "what are the methods of literary analysis" or "how do you read"

you're gonna have to ask a better question to get a response...

Okay sorry.

As I understood it, comparative literature consists in comparing content of groups of texts or of some specific texts. It helps to identify figures or themes that can be found in separated literatures. If I'm right, comparative literature is rooted in "foreign literature."

I wonder how the comparatist's rigor, or the replicability of her/his method, is ascertained ?

>>7609722
Please type in full sentences on here

>>7609725
Tom Robbins looks sleazy. But his writing reads easy. What is /lit/'s opinion about Tom Robbins?

Are you now a happy fascist?

>>7609740
How can I be a happy Fascist with all the degeneracy going on? Your man is one of the contributors to the downfall of white society.

He needs to stop making promises he can't deliver on. Maybe make B&W3 or DK3 and not have them rushed to release. Fuck Fables and that stupid film making series. What was that about? Don't tell me, I don't want to know.

>>7609682
kek

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>>7609674
>molyneux's problem
idk.
But sometimes I like to play this game : see an unknown object far away in my room. Before, I used to think, "wtf is this?". Now, I play with it. I tell myself : this is surely an object that I know quite well, nothing mysterious. I'm just experiencing pure raw vision of that object under an unusual perspective.
I tell myself : in a few seconds, you'll guess what that object is, and then, not only will every angle make sense, you'll also have in your brain an idea of the hidden angles, and the function.
I try hard to remember what I'm seeing when I can't tell what I'm seeing, because I know that as soon I will identify it, it will be impossible to see it purely anymore, the concept (or percept) of it will be unforgettable.

Also, in such cases, I used to be annoyed quickly, and instantly get closer, or move my head left and right to get a better 3D view.
Now I don't move, and play a guessing game : what fabric? what purpose? what hidden angles? etc

Then suddenly the concept comes (like when you identify the duck or the rabbit) (duck_rabbit.jpg), and I laugh about all the weird theories I had made. How far I was from the answer.
Then I take some time to ponder about vision and objectivity, knowing that most things I see, I see the concept, not the thing in itself.
Quite like reading : when you read this, you don't see the letters. Only children do. You only see the forms. But you will see the letters of homunculus, or shsoggforgtace, because these are unusual words.

What is the answer to Molyneux's problem?
idk
I guess he'd have to learn to recognize a cube and a sphere.
Because when I see something, I don't know what it will smell.
But of course it would depend on a lot of things, like if you explain to him what a cube looks like, or not.

It's a bit prescriptivist and out of date. Fun though.

>>7609430
Will it help me improve my writing?

>>7609423

The general principle of being precise and clear in order to avoid misunderstanding is good. There are definitely times to ignore their particular guidelines though.

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2/5

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3/5

>>7609305
Dubliners and Sons and Lovers

>>7609282
I was surprised how good Hyperion was.
>pleb by /lit/ standards
They hardly understand that epic sci-fi/fantasy can't reach the quality of classics but it neither intends to.

>>7609282

For genre-fiction he is high-tier, being able to switch between fantasy/sci-fi/horror and usually get a good reception is pretty impressive tbhf.

out of the ones I've read
Hyperion - 8
The Terror 8.5
Song of Kali - 7
Black Hills - 5

Black hills is kinda of uninteresting but worth a read if you are a huge fan I guess, would rec. Song of Kali over it for sure.

>>7609310

Hyperion is one of my favourites. I enjoyed it much more the second time around. Fall of Hyperion not so much. The first half was pretty good but felt the Severn & the Core arc got a bit too complicated.

This was the funniest thing I've read today. Thanks.

>>7608387
y

bump

Principia Discordia

>>7607703
Manuscript Found in Saragossa

>>7607703
the god delusion

>>7607330
Sort of related to this: I bought the Penguin version online before reading here that Penguin translations are shitty. Am I missing out?

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/machiavelli/

https://www2.southeastern.edu/Academics/Faculty/jbell/strauss.pdf

http://www.mmisi.org/ma/31_3-4/schram.pdf

top tier satire :^)

>>7605920
Paradife loft

>>7605920
Milton wrote a poem about him IF I RECALL CORRECTLY. Lost Paradise or something

>>7605924
you;'re thinking of east of eden

>>7605636
I'd add diary of a young girl to this lisy

>>7605611
I really enjoyed Coetzee's Waiting for the Barbarians and am reading Disgrace next.

Hes sort of from two worlds tho