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I plan to read this guy to understand contemporary movements. What is his core book?
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>>7531635
The God Delusion
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Waking Up is pretty cool
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Define "contemporary movements." If you're referring to the campus fringe / tumblr variety, I doubt any of them have read anything by Sam Harris. They're probably too preoccupied with feminist authors.
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Lately I have become frighteningly aware of my own mortality. I've started to suffer from mild death anxiety.
What philosophers can help me cope with mortality and the transience of life? Are there any philosophers who have made credible arguments for an afterlife or benevolent God?
Thanks /lit/
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Have you considered the other side of approaching death, meaning embracing it exactly because it is an end to existence?
Maybe that's not appealing to you, but honestly after reading a lot of Roman history (pre-Christianity), the idea of a good death has really started getting under my skin. Immortality through being remembered and all that.
>“I call upon my own courage to find release from this hateful life.”
>"What will make you hold life cheap?"
(Both from Livy)
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'Death is nothing to us; for that which has been dissolved into its elements experiences no sensations, and that which has no sensation is nothing to us.' - Epicurus
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Afterlife might be the most cowardly human invention ever.
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What are some literary easter eggs? By easter eggs in this sense i just mean references to literary characters and works that caught you by surprise. Like Thoreau's Walden cabin in Fallout 4. Stuff like that
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Augustus in The Aeneid
Wtf
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>>7531433
Rousseau mentions something from Thucydides without mentioning his name in the confessions.
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...that's called an allusion.
Hey /lit/
Got a kindle for Christmas, and enough gift cards for a couple books.
Have read about many of Carl Jung's theories, and am captivated by them. Want to read all of his books. I understand his writing style makes for a pretty tough read, though, and the passages from his books that I've read so far seem to confirm that. Which ones should I start with?
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>Which ones should I start with?
the greeks
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>>7531326
His ideas are old and dumb
So
Before you do that read The Man Who Was Thursday b/c it's free on kindle
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>>7531326
I'm reading The Portable Jung right now because someone else recommended it to me. So really I'm just repeating someone else's recommendation.
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Pleb here, started reading in october and i have a few books in my backlog, what should i read first?
-One hundred years of solitude
-Karamazov Brothers
-Myth of sysiphus
-Infinite Jest
-Lord of the flies
Thank you
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I'd say Infinite Jest just because you need to be young or at least inexperienced in order to find it worthwhile.
If you save it to last, you won't find much merit in it in comparison to what you read prior.
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>Empecé a leer en octubre
>Leo El Meme Infinito o Los Hermanos Karamazov?
Cómo eres tan bravo. Yo te diría que empezases con los otros que pusiste, o, en todo caso, darle a algo más accesible de Dosto o DFW.
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>>7531240
>respondiendo en español sin ninguna razón
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Anyone here studying lit or finished their degree? Was it worth it?
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>paying 300k to read books
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>>7531086
>living in a country that charges for higher education
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i do comp lit and hermeneutics in a related field
i like it but you gotta dodge a lot of cuck shit m8
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Ezra Pound discussion.
Has anyone here read The Cantos of Ezra Pound?
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>>7530984
Parts. Maybe 30 out of the 120. Why?
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>>7530989
What did you think of it? Did you like it?
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>>7531005
I thought it was bad. A mess. There were good fantastic moments, but then there were hours of something very different.
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ITT /lit/ writes a short story one line at a time
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>>7536830
The end.
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>>7536924
helluva start, keep going.
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this is the story of a man named stanley
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Write something in the style of a well known writer and others will guess who you are mimicking.
I see a couple children, their path stained with berries squashed
Their cotton t-shirts wet by the sprinklers
Elder man fallen asleep by the Firs
By wooden decks no longer pressure washed
Oh! See this boulder too heavy to lift!
Brought here by glaciers ice
Across the street vendor changing his price
A brother brings you a package. A gift!
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what is that a photo of
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>>7530960
creative minds
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>>7530973
the girl is one the right in beautiful.
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What did you guys think of this?
Thinking of buying a copy
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>>7530914
Go for Hypersphere.
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>>7531042
t. hypershere author
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It's basically "/s4s/ The book"
This has been me for the last 3 months. I have a deadline of 12 months to write another novel and have it ready to send out to my publisher, but I'm completely out of ideas.
What do you guys do to help you get through writer's block?
I've always written for fun, now that it's a career I can't seem to get started
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>hike across united states for 11 months
>have one month left to finish novel
>???
>profit
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Neil Gaiman suggests writing a short story after each novel to refresh the palatte, so to speak.
Don't you have notebooks full of little ideas you've jotted down over the years? Go through that and find something fun to write about.
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>>7530873
This
Write a short story about anything and everything that strikes your fancy. You will have more short stories than you can turn to novels.
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This piece of shit book.... Never in my life have i felt such an urge to completely destroy a book. I fucking hate this book and i hate myself for buying it. All the russian name dropping, the short and choppy dialogue... This book needs to be banned from everywhere and people who read it need to be flogged publicly. How has it made me this fucking mad /lit/? I was only able to force myself to read about 130 pages. I stopped when i actually punched the book... I fucking punched the book /lit/
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>>7536712
Perhaps John Green would be more up your alley?
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>>7536715
tell me you enjoyed this overrated bullshit rambling. go ahead. tell me.
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>>7536712
Sorry to hear that anon. So, what exactly was it about the names that you disliked so much?
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New year Goodreads Thread!
Post how many books you want to read this year and find new friends!
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2408134-sebastian
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Guess who ;)
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i have a very positive feeling about this
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>>7530788
I am going to read Woman and Men soon and Zettels Traum later this year, but I have many shorter books lined up, too, like novellas by Stefan Zweig and many <200 pages books by Arno Schmidt before I read Zettel. I think I can make it.
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Is pic related a meme book?
The often quoted passage of "oh my enemy isn't as wise" seems to be a pretty classic case of inversion of morals/fedora tippers feeding their sense of superiority.
However, I'm not sure if it's all just senseless compliments to how powerful and superior you are and whether it contains actual advise.
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Meditations went right over your head, mate. Do you understand Stoicism at all?
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DESU I haven't read it, but checked out at a few pages a while back when I was in a bookstore.
It seems like a normie accessible stoic text that effectively if curtly conveys a spirit of Rome which is, I think, far more interestingly conveyed through Livy.
The difference being that Meditations is like 100 pages, and Livy's surviving 35 books span about 2000.
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>>7534584
Since fucking when has t .b h changed to desu
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Why is /lit/ so filled with shitposting these days?
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The /his/ split killed /lit/. Just admit it. Just compare both boards, find out /his/ is leagues better even with its own problems, and acknowledge that /lit/ is dead.
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>>7530712
/his/ is trash. It's just christ/fedoraposting, viking baiting, and /pol/baiting.
If you think it's better at all, then you can go back into the high road to Reddit.
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>>7530712
/his/ sucks LOL, and /lit/ is exactly the same as it's always been