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If nothing of a man survives after death but his understanding and the abstract ideas that only his understanding can grasp, what would the "afterlife" be like? No sensation, no imagination to shape the pure understanding, and no real experience. Would it even be possible to call this life? Is the plane of Forms really comparable to heaven at all?
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Bumpolis.
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>>9797660
What are you babbling about, anon?
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>>9797660
Nothing of a man survives after death but that which he has left behind. If death is the cessation of consciousness, how can any afterlife be experienced or any forms/ideas be sensed?
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Hi /lit/, I am new to this board.
I am in the middle of reading Nausea by Sartre and am enjoying it. I was wondering if anyone could rec me a book that is similar in style, but maybe takes place closer to the present? I'm not sure where to go from here. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
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Nausea is a great book!
In a similar vein, you've heard of The Stranger by Camus, right?
If not, go get it and read it. You will probably enjoy it.
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>>9797466
Ah, I read that a while ago, but now that you mention it, I will definitely pick it up again. It's been about 6 years. I'm sure it will move me differently. Thanks for the rec!
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>>9797466
I refute Nausea being a great book. It is a failed philosophical novel. It has interesting insights but its execution is flawed because Sartre was not the greatest of writers. That does not mean you should discontinue reading it, but don't hold it up on a pedestal. The Stranger by Camus is better written as a philosophical novel. You may also want to try Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Have fun. The board can be terrible sometimes, but generally the threads are relevant to literature.
Da ich schon seit einigerZeit keinen deutschen Thread mehr auf /lit/ gesehen habe, starte ich jetzt diesen.
Was lest ihr zurzeit?
Wie bewertet ihr die heutige Situation des deutschen Buchmarktes und der deutschsprachigen Literatur?
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SEBASTIAN FITZEK IST DER GEILSTE!
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>>9855853
>Was lest ihr zurzeit?
Lehrgespräche Epiktets
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Habe vor einigen Tagen Altes Land von Dörte Hansen gelesen. Fands eher schwach. Bis auf, dass es den norddeutschen Leser mit einigen eingestreuten plattdeutschen Sätzen etwas anheimelt (daher für mich ganz comfy war)und allen anderen Lesern ein wenig Flucht aus dem hektischen Stadtleben aufs Land ermöglicht (genau das, worüber es sich eigentlich beschwert) macht es eigentlich nicht viel. Kaum Handlung, keine Entwicklung der Protagonisten. Auch sprachlich sehr durchschnittlich, wie so vieles anderes auch so geschrieben, dass es vor allem jüngere Intellektuelle anspricht.
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Has anyone else read this? I'm about to read this, anything I should know before starting?
Also what were your overall thoughts?
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>>9854643
this website is a fucking joke, those are my overall thoughts.
Enjoy your Extremely Smooth Brain.
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>>9854643
Why do you self help brainlets think that we give a fuck about it? cant you read the name of the boards your double digit iq homos? LITERATURE
fuck off with your airport trash
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>>9854643
this is what happens when a white supremacist catalogues their introjection.
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Was it real?
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no dumbass, hasn't it been proven like 200 different ways it was totally made up pigshit?
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>>9854524
Its a fun read, and the film version is absolutely bonkers. Here is a still from the end, when Strieber/Walken is an art museum, talking about the wonders of knowing that we aren't alone in the universe.
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>>9854524
I read this book when I was like 13 and it scared the shit out of me I could barely even sleep. I still have trouble looking at that cover.
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When I first took an interest in philosophy, I read a short book on the Pre-Socratics and immediately started reading Plato and Aristotle. I read their fundamental works several times over a couple of years and I just started reading more modern philosophy. I've read Descartes and Hume so far and it really just seems like they're writing their personal interpretations of Plato and Aristotle; for example, Descartes' mind-body duality and rationalist view of knowledge is perfectly covered in Plato's Theaetetus, and Hume's sense-perception is covered generally by Aristotle.
Is it really worth moving on to more contemporary philosophy or am I better off rereading and meditating on the originals and sticking with quality literature?
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>>9854420
They stop being footnotes to the greeks at Nietzsche
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>he fell for the Socrates/Plato/Aristotle meme trilogy
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>>9854463
Excellent insight, my friend
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Does /lit/ like this book?
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2spoopy4me, why read a scary book when life is nice and cozy and good?
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No, it's shit. Read The Haunting of Hill House or Mann's Buddenbrooks for decent haunted house stories.
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>>9854414
I feel like the writing is meh, but the format is the main novelty.
But I'm into that kind of stuff.
I've been eyeing the Angell's Box by HP Lovecraft Historical Society. It's an amazingly detailed recreation of the documents used in Call of Cthulhu. Sadly, it's insanely expensive.
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>every book that ever has been written, and every book that ever could be
>every play, every song, every scientific paper, every legal decision, every constitution, every piece of scripture
Does this give anyone else a bit of an anxiety attack?
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>>9854332
>every galaxy in the universe
no
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>>9854338
Every galaxy in the universe isnt literally at your fingertips now is it?
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>>9854332
It'll all be gone soon anyways
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how do I read faster while still understanding the text?
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>>9854108
fuckin practice.
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>>9854108
skip unnecessary parts of the text
for example, all of the text except the conclusion
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skim descriptive sections, they're almost always fluff
Favorite Harry Potter book?
4 and 7 were top tier books. if I had to pick one it'd be 4.
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1-4 (any order) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>5-7
Probably 4>1>2>3>6>7>5
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>>9854127
I dont know why but 4 really left an impression on me as best book just because of the emotional impact it had on me at the end.
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>dropped this doorstopper
>picked up Dracula instead
>already 10x better in the first few chapters
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>>9853827
You've fallen for the meme.
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why does shitting on this novel tickle y'all's special snow snowflake neurosis so much
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they both suck
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Serious question: I don't know how to use punctuation marks properly, etc. My grammar is seriously fucked from bad schooling.
Is there a course I can take which will teach me the very basics?
For example, I don't know when I can use:
>-- (the dash)
>; (rarely use this because I don't know if I should)
>"" (I don't know when to use quotation marks, and how they should correspond to a new line, or whether I put the period . after or before the second " mark)
>' ' (I don't know what the fuck these are even for)
>: (I know a little, but not confident enough to use it knowing it's 100 percent correct)
>- (hyphen, I have no idea whether or not I'm using it correctly)
>, (I often put commas all over the place because that's how I speak, with spaces etc, not sure if it's correct usage)
>() (not sure what the fuck brackets are for either.)
>' (apostrophe's and single quotation marks (') I don't have a clue)
Is there a course I can take? How do I into grammar? I'm fucking retarded, I think. I need a basic run through of when and where to use each, and whether or not I should comma the end of a quotation, etc.
HELP ME
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Yeah, its called the second grade.
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>>9853669
Not where I'm from it isn't, faggot. Nevertheless, help me the fuck out, man.
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>>9853661
Have you tried downloading Grammarly? It's basically a chrome extension that goes full nazi on you, but doesn't actually tell you how to use the marks themselves. There are other sites out there, something about a gorilla I seem to remember...
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I love the Harry Potter books
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What are you going to do about it, /lit/?
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Nothing, have fun and enjoy your life my dude.
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Nothing provided you read the Greeks first
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you've fulfilled all the requirements to suck my dick.
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Anyone know of good books for learning Latin? I need to become proficient by the end of the year. I have some Loeb Cicero books on the way, but I need some textbook type resources to get past the beginning phase.
Also, general Latin language thread.
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>Catiline Orations
>De re publica
>De finibus bonorum et malorum
>Livy
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>Metamorphoses Ovid
>Meditations
>Caesar's de bello gallico
>gesta Romanorum
>Anything st Thomas Aquinas
When will it be released unto the world?
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>>9852928
I don't think it ever will. Sorry Anon.
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>>9852930
please don't say that
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>>9852928
Probably next year anon. As for Dream for Spring...never