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What is the difference between justice and revenge?
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justice is blind :^)
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dispassion
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justice is something you do for others, revenge - for yourself
/lit/, what if poetry in Dark Age Greece was the equivalent of green text
what if Homer was literally just shitposting the entire time
what if the foundation of the Western Canon is based on the works of a NEET?
is there hope for us, /lit/?
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But Plato was a shit poster, he just used a different medium.
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>>7534922
fuck do i hate plato don't even get me started
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>>7535035
Get back to fucking gaia if you can't hack Plato
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>"One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one".
What does that even mean?
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it's an anagram for "and there's something terribly sad and banal about that"
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>>7534853
Damn ...
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Is there a direction of theme among young writers in North America right now?
A movement? A mantra? A place to see their work?
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>>7534733
im eliciting neo-modernism, give me a few years
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Yes, they call themselves "Chippers"
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>>7534733
>A movement?
Yes indeed, there is one specific movement
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please recommend books that will help me overcome my misogyny
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Reading Virginia Woolfe’s "To the Lightouse" right now and I feel that it does give a very fair insight into the minds of women.
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>>7534731
Jude the Obscure.
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As every newfag, I didn't know I could use 4chan to find good productive stuff like /lit/. I honestly thought that YA literature was somethig smart and insightful before I got to this board.
Need some good books/authors recommendations on where to start. I recently started reading some of Nietzsche's works and really liked the Übermensch concept.
I've been thinking about reading some of Proust's works as well, but those are the must read ones that everyone knows.
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>>7534697
Start with the Greeks.
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>>7534714
This. Don't listen to any other answer.
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>>7534745
And why is that?
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What pens do you like to use?
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>>7534545
Whatever one is closest and has ink.
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Ones that have been in my ass
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>>7534545
Thick biro, I once had a really nice pen that always worked well but it was thin, I like to write in bed and the angle never works with gravity pens, so for a while I did pencil.
Mostly do word processor now. Thoughts do however get expanded on much more extensively and energetically with the pen, you can have an awesome array of symbols and arrows and mind maps and the rest of the page doesn't move out of view, I would hesitate to say my notes are of any worth to anyone else though.
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I read The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings in middle school / high school. But that was back when Peter Jackson was making his films. My comprehension of Middle Earth and its Ages never really extended past the One Ring. I didn't understand or care about the Mythos that Tolkien created. But in the last few months I discovered it.. Eru Ilúvatar, Eä and the Ainur, the Valar and Maiar... Arda and its peoples...
I always had respect for J.R.R. and knew that his tales were the birth of the entire modern fantasy genre, but I never truly understood just how deep the lore was. And the more I've come to understand, the sadder I am that he passed before fully fleshing his imagination. Thank God for his son, who has given us a glimpse into what was, and could have been.
That being said, I find the First Age far more fascinating and resounding than the Third Age. Elves battling Angels and Dargons, Trees of Light that existed before the Sun or Moon, Metaphysical beings that sang creation into existence...
Let's have a Silmarillion thread, ( or a Middle Earth Mythos thread at the least ).
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> Thank God for his son, who has given us a glimpse into what was, and could have been.
Yeah, only too bad he allowed the making of Jackson's films. They had some cool parts yes, and Howard Shore's score is incredible, but overall they turned it into a shitty fantasy action movie, thinking that if they put some dialogs in Sindarin, it's loyal to books. Not even starting on The Hobbit.
But anyway, Tolkien's world is so vast and magical and dear to me to whine about the films. I'm waiting for a time in my life when I'll feel less cynical and frustrated, and enough peaceful to reread his books without ruining the unbreakable wonderful image they have in my mind.
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>>7534540
why is this so awesome?
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>>7534645
You gotta' let go of some of that hate, brother. The Hobbit movies were shit, this is undeniable. And Jackson's LoTR might of had it's flaws, but fuck me if he didn't try his best to be as loyal and faithful to the cannon with big Hollywood breathing down his neck. I don't think anyone could ever truly translate Tolkien's work, unmolested, into film, but Peter loved the mythos and did the best he could.
Anyway, let's talk about the Silmarillion and literature instead of movies.
Am I a meme now?
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>>7534475
an immensely inadequate writer on a sentence-by-sentence, paragraph-by-paragraph, book-by-book basis.
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You'll never be a meme, Mr. King <3
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>>7534475
I actually like him.
Fuck you /lit/tle faggots
Who is the literary equivalent of Lana Del Rey?
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>>7534291
Probably some attractive female blogger who got a book deal.
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>>7534386
I need names
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>>7534400
I'll check my own dubs so you don't have to
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How do I escape the moral nihilism trap?
After reading Ego and Its Own, I cant help but agree with him, and I dont want to.
I tried reading Dostoevsky, although I always like the cool Christian characters more I can't really say that the foils he sets up really are wrong.
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>>7534166
Spooky.
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>>7534166
It's not a trap. Epicureans and others have addressed this by pointing out that being a huge piece of shit (as perceived by your society) probably isn't a good plan for anyone who values his spiritual and mental self.
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Moral Realism: A Defence by Russ Shafer Landau
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Thoughts on the Voynich Manuscript?
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>>7534108
spoopy
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>>7534103
ancient memes from a civilization of comedic geniuses
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>A well written book of a boring premise is better than a poorly written book of an interesting premise.
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>>7534075
Agreed. Let's go to reddit shall we?
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>>7534075
Of course this is an ambiguous situation you've described. How can a well written book be boring if you have any interest in the subject matter? It seems to me that a "well written book with a boring premise" is a book that surprises you with how many interesting things there are to observe about something you had previously thought was mundane.
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>>7534075
You obviously haven't read the martian.
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Post your backlog broskies.
Mine:
>The Lord of the Rings (again)
>The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch
>Martian Time-slip
>Junky
>The Wasp Factory
>The Illuminatus! Trilogy
>The Silmarillion
>Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72
>The Doors of Perception
>Island
>Infinite Jest
>Dune
>Don Quixote
>Motherless Brooklyn
>Gravity's Rainbow
>The Crying of Lot 49
>Inherent Vice
>A Confederacy of Dunces
>Midnight's Children
>The Divine Comedy
>The Familiar
>My Struggle
>Lords of Chaos
>Lolita
>Crime & Punishment
>The Brothers Karamazov
>Crash
>The Drowned World
>Neuromancer
>Ham on Rye
>The Sailor Who Fell Out of Grace with the Sea
Not nearly it but that's all I can remember right now. Anybody know which I should read first? Also, post yours.
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>>7533990
>Mason & Dixon
>Three Books of Occult Philosophy
>Being and Time
>History of Madness
>2666
>Suttree
>Cloud Atlas
>The Magus
>Against the Day
>The Pale King
>The Beetle Leg
>Cow country
>Cannonball
>JR
I'm going to die before I finish this.
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>>7533990
I'd say go for dune first. And lord of chaos the black metal book? If so then that one next, so it will get you craving lord of the rings/silmarillion.
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>>7533990
The Divine Comedy first. It'll help with some of the rest.
My main backlog shelf is
Underworld
Voices from Chernobyl
Ulysses
Against the Day
Mason & Dixon
Infinite Jest
The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra
Kafka on the Shore
Never Let Me Go
Lolita
The Patrick Melrose Novels
Look Homeward, Angel
Geek Love
Kiergkegaard's Spiritual Writings
Anna Karenina
If on a winter's night a traveler
Suite Française
Ubik
Any ideas on what I should start with?I've already read a bunch of Pynchon so those two aren't urgent.
So I just bought mein kamph and I was wondering if it's interesting or if it's all a bunch of angry rambling? I'm reading it because it's historically siginificant, not because I believe in it.
>inb4 it's public domain
I don't want to read it online.
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Bumping for interest - I've been toying with the idea for a while myself. Odds are it's just a nutter saying nutty things, but I think it's important to read 'dangerous' or 'forbidden' books, and MK kind of epitomizes that.
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>>7533967
That's exactly how I feel about it, humanity can learn from mistakes if we don't study them.
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>>7534004
Can't*