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That pagan dude who Dante sticks in purgatory despite that he was a suicide and fought against Caesar

>>7422646
Dante is shit

>>7422646

I'm not in the mood to post anything long, but perhaps you could examine the influence of the Troubadours (particularly Arnaut Daniel) or Cavalcanti on his verse style? Assuming you're working in the original. Not a very hard paper

The beach or my uni library usually

>>7422647
Nice, what coast / country? Winter hit the beach yet?

Gee, this thread looks familiar.

Oh, wait...>>7418914

you really should read Lautreamont, "les chants du Maldoror", let me search it for you

>>7422639
Thank you, it looks incredibly interesting

Sylvia Plath, "Daddy". Listen to the audio recording of her reading it on youtube for the full effect.

anything by Camus

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>>7422584
None, git gud.

>>7422584
Entry-level lit. Read the sticky.

>"Hello everyone, my name is David Foster Wahallace and I'm here to read you an excerpt from my new essay, 'This is Wahater' "

what did he mean by this?

>>7422461

I am a whitekek and let me paraphrase an ancient zen koan to appear profound. My favorite word is banal.

Someone recontructed the accent spoken around the time of the King James Bible, and every "wh" word was pronounced with the "h" in front. So "white" was "hwite." Maybe the reason that silent "h" exists in our orthography is because it used to be uttered.

so it goes.

>>7422394
poopy tweet :D

I browse Reddit every single day. I also am more educated than you and have better taste.

>>7422209
i'm halfway through and im bored as shit.

>>7422209
It's like The Road, only edgier and with more archaic language

>>7422209
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>>7422228
Modern /lit/, everyone.

>>7422196
Violence in Islamic Thought from the Qur'an to the Mongols by Robert Gleave

>>7422199
i cant an ebook anywhere, link plz?

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>>7422227
is islamophobia lie so deeply rooted that all objective anti muslim books are banned?

>>7422194
>translations

sure is reddit in here

i prefer constance garnett. i've compared a lot of translators, and from a purely english speaking opinion, none of them flow as elegantly as garnett for me. volokhonsky and pevear seem so chunky and clunky. i know the literal translation argument, but we're already quite far away from the original russian, so why not let a bit of aesthetics into the equation if only to make the reading a more pleasurable experience? you're really not going to miss out on anything either way except minute subtleties that pretty much require knowledge of russian idiosyncracies and a pretty general understanding of the language and culture.

How new are you?

who got audiobook of ego and his own thats not a shitty librivix version

>>7422188
lectures are great, but I always listen to the lecture AFTER I actually read the text. Just to make sure I got everything/If my interpretation matches or not.

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>>7422967
I haven't seen any ok audiobooks of Ego around. I'm not sure who would read it, anyways. You'd probably need some comedian who is equally smarmy and pompous to read it, just to get Stirner's general tone across.

They'll probably have this guy do it.

>>7422053
I wrote washing-machine advertisments online. Job's limited to students. Made about 100€, was not worth it.

I'm an intern at a publishing house in nyc. I work for free.

>>7422053
Dzanc Books does remote editing and marketing internships.

I'm not sure who's in charge of interns now, but it was pretty darn fun when I did it. Initially it was helping around with the website through the backend, but later it was more on the editing side, reviewing manuscript submissions, mostly.

I already had a BA when I applied to it. You don't get paid, but I had thought you got free books (honestly that's the reason I applied, but it was still fun regardless).

I proofread for one small publisher and do developmental editing for another, both very occasional because of the infrequency with which they put out books. I think I got in with both of them because I really adore the field they both put out books in. So I gushed a bit, sincerely, and mentioned the books of theirs I liked (and I messaged one about a blog entry specifically, which probably earned me points, since I imagine anyone is happy to know the publisher blog is actually read).

I got both of those after the editing internship, and one year into my MA with a focus on rhetoric and composition.

I would suggest looking for any opening with publishers you're already interested in, especially the small ones. Maybe even when they're not advertising an opening. Be friendly, genuine and show that you care about literature. But don't always count on it paying. You'll always get free books at the very least (and that's where a lot of my money goes anyway).

I make my living grading standardized tests now; I wasn't going to count on freelance editing. Most tests call for teaching experience, but a graduate degree was apparently a suitable alternative qualification. You can do it for ETS and Pearson, there may be others.

>muh language

>Namessake of work is the first work of a Pantheistic Monist
>Subject matter is to prove logic is discretely divisible
Its kind of insulting really

Most of the useful material I derived from Witty was in his notes, the Blue Book and Brown Book.

>>7422000
it got me through many nights of imprisonment without committing suicide, it gave me insight into a world of those who were dead long before me but had experienced everything i had. it prepared me for nothing, yet made me aware of everything. it breathed life into me unlike any other art form in existence. all in all, eh.

it's made me infinitely more empathetic

Helped me realize how beautiful life can be

Hey /lit/, when you masturbate to pics of Camus, do you do it violently or gently?

>>7421983
The Plague is great

>>7421987
I do not masturbate to dear Albert violently, the motion would be too much for my fragile penis; but I do not strangle the snake gently either - such a movement is too little in terms of excitement.

What I am left with is a paradox. Blasting a cumrock seems to the face of the father of Absurdism seems to lack all kind of clear didactic notions on how one "ought" to jack it - yet I am possessed always by the desire and fervent urge to plug my python. This paradox needs not be the end, however, of our jerk off. Rather we can rebel against such a grim prognosis on the arbitrary nature of me cumming to torrented pictures of dead philosophers; for in the eternal rolling of a wrist, I can imagine Camus happy. And I suppose that's enough for me to really blow my load, to truly make a mess out of my pants.

>>7421915
Mildly amusing. Have a (you).

>>7421931
I didn't make this up.

youtube.com/watch?v=cFXWKEc84ew

>>7421915
The fuck was that one sentence