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Is this worth reading? My class read a chapter of it in the 11th grade and it seemed intriguing.
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it's shit.
Read Moments in Peking
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>>7599042
>*looks at authors name*
>*see it's a woman writer*
INTO THE TRASH IT GOES
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>>7599088
Edith Wharton
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Why does Hume's "problem with induction" only seem to only apply to social sciences
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It doesn't
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>>7598993
what do you mean
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Because people don't care if something is truly 'proven' if it can consistently produce tangible results
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Not quite /lit/ but you guys are good at English.
Why does "years" in the following have an apostrophe?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years'_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years'_War
Does the war belong to the thirty years? It certainly isn't a contraction of "year is".
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>>7598933
I really don't know but maybe the og construction is "the war of 100 years"
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>War of a hundred years -> Hundred years' War
is how it would've happened IMO
but it's a convention more than anything else
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On the creation of niggers by H.P. Lovecraft 2016-01-18 13:32:33 Post No.7598735
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On the creation of niggers by H.P. Lovecraft
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When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove's fair image Man was shaped at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next designed;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to Man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Filled it with vice, and called the thing a Nigger.
I like this poem.
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My favorite Lovecraft story is the one wherein HP himself, vehement antisemite, married a Jewish woman.
The absolute fucking madman.
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>>7598735
Is this legit?
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>>7598765
He wrote it, never tried to get it published. It's basically an edgy joke. I don't remember if it was in a letter or if someone just found it in his notes.
>>7598743
Everybody hates Congress, but as long as people don't hate their Congressman, Congress stays in business. Jewesses work the same way.
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Are there any post apocalyptic novels or short stories having to do with the earths oceans drying up and people surviving in tribe like societies? I'm currently looking an inspiration for writing in this type of setting.
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>>7598347
why the fuck would they dry up?
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>>7598347
Mad Max
Literally what you described there.
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Book of the New Sun
How does one become more articulate?
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Read philosophy, read theory, read essays
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>>7597989
>Read philosophy
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>>7597995
>greentext
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>cogito ergo sum
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>>7597838
well why not why do you disagree with it
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im a femenest femanon here what seems 2 be the problem if its not 2 problematic 2 ask?
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>>7597838
what the fuck is thinking, and how does thinking, a purely abstract process, allow you to conclude youre being is a concrete entity.
descarte, socrates wasnt fucking around when he said human wisdom is inherently worthless. you cant even know you exist. you can only know you know nothing at all!
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It's the Constance Garnett translation, I'm 100 pages in and it's boring as fuck, should I find another translation ?
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>>7597619
Garnett isn't the best translation choice, but regardless of that if you're getting bored 100 pages in you're a pleb.
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>>7597622
Whicj translation should I try ?
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inb4 P&V meme
http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
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mild heh
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>If one examines Lacanist obscurity, one is faced with a choice: either reject capitalist Marxism or conclude that sexuality, surprisingly, has significance.
I'm going to go masturbate furiously now. Thanks.
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>>7596829
That's my favorite kind of Marxism.
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more novels like peace 2016-01-17 21:00:37 Post No.7596532
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I need a similar fix.
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>>7596532
blow yourself
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Right in the kokoro, Tolstoy.
Right in the fucking kokoro.
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I bet you a rare Stirner meme that 4chan users could express the same thought in less than 10 words
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>>7596151
>tfw they hate you for having that feel
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>>7596151
Thanks for contributing, I and many others value your post.
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My dear anons, did you know that Josh Tillman, aka Father John Misty, has written a novel. Well, a novella really, as it appears to be quite short. Let us read it together and meet back here when we're done. See you on the other side
Link to book (it's posted by chapters in his blog):
http://mostlyhypotheticalmountains.blogspot.com/2010/11/1-introduction-if-only-by-virtue-of.html
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I'll read this later tonight when I get the time, but I'm sincerely interested. Ever since I heard his song "I'm writing a novel", I've been interested knowing how well off a writer he is.
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>>7595817
I'm not crazy about his music, I don't know why this guy is so popular right now
Would you call Don Quixote a tragedy?
Plot spoilers ahead.
Don Quixote tries to impose his chivalric morality on a society totally incompatible with chivalry. Beyond being a criticism of Cervantes' own society, I believe Don Quixote's motive for picking chivalry is unclear. Does he pick chivalry because he thinks society is actually chivalrous, and got it wrong? Or, does Don Quixote pick chivalry BECAUSE society is so incompatible with it, and thus needs it all the more?
In either case, we see his project fail, he tilts at windmills, his princess isn't a princess and the actual princess is cruel, he beats up innocent strangers and causes suffering.
But doesn't the futility of Don Quixote's actions make him a perfect parody of Oedipus? He resists fate, and in his old age, renounces it all as foolishness and dies, finally recognizing the truth in it's full weight as when Oedipus stabs his eyes out.
Do you agree?
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it's a tragicomedy, don't overthink it.
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It's Kafkaesque
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>>7595736
Don Quixote is an idealist, he believes the world needs change in order to progress. What he does is attempt to disperse his humanist world view among the rural population (he does travel to Madrid and Salamanca, but the city is too multifaceted, too unwieldy to be brayed by his figure). Too many people use the word "impose," or something similar, when discussing Quixote: "he imposes his world-view, he forces himself on the world." Not enough people see the forest for the trees. Instead, when you step back and see his works, you'll see that he promotes a humanist, idealist, anarchic, pseudo/proto-feminist interpretation of the world. In many cases, his actions backfire (like with the poor servant boy or the one runaway girl who appears twice in the first volume), and frequently he ends up badly hurt, with Sancho in tow.
I think Cervantes was genius in making it a comedy, making his sly, sardonic, ironic jabs underline the sincerity and iconoclastic drive of his protagonist. Dulcinea serves no further purpose than to justify his façade as a chivalrous knight: she is Beatrice to his Dante, Helen to his Achilles. >>7595826 and >>7595832 have it kind of right: Don Quixote is, and possibly will forever be, contemporaneous to our condition, as long as there is civilization and society.
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Which is better?
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>translations
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>>7595579
w2c the prank in original russian?
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>>7595579
>not translation
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What are some good books about the limits of the scientific knowledge?
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>look! some functions are recursive!
>the universe, that is to say EVERYTHING, must too be recursive!
>therefore it IS recursive!
computational complexity is literally one of those overrated meme fields, along with artificial intelligence.
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Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Nietzsche's On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense, Lichtenberg's Waste Books.
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>>7595553
Anything by Feyerabend.
Kuhn's scientific revolutions, also his copernicus book.