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>>7397561
ok
ok
ok
>Also I'm working 6 days next week because rent.
Oh shit

Well anon... Time to add some bonus redbull in your coffee

me too OP. i work tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, but i'm miraculously keeping up on my homework although i'm dead inside and can't focus on reading what i want to read or writing anything creative

hurrah

>>7397561
UPDATE I finished first 3000 words in 5 hours I'm an absolute madman!

Read Hume, you lazy motherfucker.

Jesus christ.

his statement on god being self evident and perception is thoroughly flawed, google it or some shit

meditation 3 is garbage

>SPANISH (1/2):

Con diez cañones por banda,
viento en popa, a toda vela,
no corta el mar, sino vuela,
un velero bergantín.
Bajel pirata que llaman,
por su bravura, El Temido,
en todo mar conocido,
del uno al otro confín.

La luna en el mar riela,
en la lona gime el viento,
y alza en blando movimiento
olas de plata y azul;
y ve el capitán pirata,
cantando alegre en la popa,
Asia a un lado, al otro Europa,
y allá a su frente Estambul:

«Navega, velero mío,
sin temor,
que ni enemigo navío
ni tormenta, ni bonanza
tu rumbo a torcer alcanza,
ni a sujetar tu valor.

Veinte presas
hemos hecho
a despecho
del inglés,
y han rendido
sus pendones
cien naciones
a mis pies.»

Que es mi barco mi tesoro,
que es mi dios la libertad,
mi ley, la fuerza y el viento,
mi única patria, la mar.

«Allá muevan feroz guerra,
ciegos reyes
por un palmo más de tierra;
que yo aquí tengo por mío
cuanto abarca el mar bravío,
a quien nadie impuso leyes.

Y no hay playa,
sea cualquiera,
ni bandera
de esplendor,
que no sienta
mi derecho
y dé pecho
a mi valor.»

Que es mi barco mi tesoro,
que es mi dios la libertad,
mi ley, la fuerza y el viento,
mi única patria, la mar.

>SPANISH (2/2):

A la voz de «¡barco viene!»
es de ver
como vira y se previene,
a todo trapo a escapar;
que yo soy el rey del mar,
y mi furia es de temer.

En las presas
yo divido
lo cogido
por igual;
sólo quiero
por riqueza
la belleza
sin rival.

Que es mi barco mi tesoro,
que es mi dios la libertad,
mi ley, la fuerza y el viento,
mi única patria, la mar.

¡Sentenciado estoy a muerte!
Yo me río;
no me abandone la suerte,
y al mismo que me condena,
colgaré de alguna entena,
quizá en su propio navío.

Y si caigo,
¿qué es la vida?
Por perdida
ya la di,
cuando el yugo
del esclavo,
como un bravo,
sacudí.

Que es mi barco mi tesoro,
que es mi dios la libertad,
mi ley, la fuerza y el viento,
mi única patria, la mar.

Son mi música mejor
aquilones,
el estrépito y temblor
de los cables sacudidos,
del negro mar los bramidos
y el rugir de mis cañones.

Y del trueno
al son violento,
y del viento
al rebramar,
yo me duermo
sosegado,
arrullado
por la mar.

Que es mi barco mi tesoro,
que es mi dios la libertad,
mi ley, la fuerza y el viento,
mi única patria, la mar.

>ENGLISH (1/2):

The breeze fair aft, all sails on high,
Ten guns on each side mounted seen,
She does not cut the sea, but fly,
A swiftly sailing brigantine;
A pirate bark, the "Dreaded" name,
For her surpassing boldness famed,
On every sea well-known and shore,
From side to side their boundaries o'er.

The moon in streaks the waves illumes
Hoarse groans the wind the rigging through;
In gentle motion raised assumes
The sea a silvery shade with blue;
Whilst singing gaily on the poop
The pirate Captain, in a group,
Sees Europe here, there Asia lies,
And Stamboul in the front arise.

"Sail on, my swift one! nothing fear;
Nor calm, nor storm, nor foeman's force,
Shall make thee yield in thy career
Or turn thee from thy course.

Despite the English cruisers fleet
We have full twenty prizes made;
And see their flags beneath my feet
A hundred nations laid.

My treasure is my gallant bark,
My only God is liberty;
My law is might, the wind my mark,
My country is the sea.

"There blindly kings fierce wars maintain,
For palms of land, when here I hold
As mine, whose power no laws restrain,
Whate'er the seas infold.

Nor is there shore around whate'er,
Or banner proud, but of my might
Is taught the valorous proofs to bear,
And made to feel my right.

My treasure is my gallant bark,
My only God is liberty;
My law is might, the wind my mark,
My country is the sea.

>>7397379
Please, please, I beg you do not send me to that shithole which is /his/; this is for a really important interview

>>7397379
>Thoughts on personal identity?

it's a pointless subject to consider

>>7397390
Would you have any justifications behind that? I'm of mind to agree, but just so exhausted from wasting my time on a retarded pseduo-philosophical article that I really can't verbalize it.

Any good Budhist literature on the subject?

lolno

>>7397337

Absolutely not.

And where the fuck are his lips?

>>7397337
joyce was a weirdo and his works are of invariable unimportance
but muh hipster so unique meme will try to prove me wrong

>>7397277
>How often do you write by hand, /lit/?

p much every day

>What do you write with?

a pen. or a mechanical pencil.

>Do you know cursive?

it's what they taught in school.

> Is your handwriting dog shit?

i don't know. it's legible to me. i don't read other people's.

>>7397277
>How often do you write by hand, /lit/?
erryday
>What do you write with?
mechanical pencil
>Do you know cursive?
yes
>Is your handwriting dog shit?
Very. I've stopped lifting my pencil from the paper entirely when I print.

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beautiful cursive coming thru

Which is the best narrative poem about a ship crew, The Rime of The Ancient Mariner or The Hunting of the Snark?

>>7397203
Carroll was a pedo, ergo... Carroll.

Honestly? I don't know. Just enjoy both.

>My garments all were dank

>>7397165
lmao I'm french and have never heard of this word either.
gr8 post desu

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>be me
>creative writing
>halfway through semester
>first short story assignment
>write story
>A+
>don't have to read it aloud b/c it's too sexual
>word gets around
>people start asking for it
>all the girls want to read it
>this is sexy wow anon
>blow off all the other class assignments
>get an A for the class
>story was about phone sex and late term abortions
>mfw catholic hs
>mfw lit lifestyle
>mfw 10 years later shitposting all over /lit/

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>sign up for beckett class
>this will be fun
>first half of the course is about Weimar Germany and theatre
>ok weird but whatever
>professor tells us the rest of the course will be about Mann ist Mann and Lebes Des Galilei
>ask when we're getting to beckett
>she looks confused
>tells me this is the brecht class
>i tell her i thought this was the beckett class
>"How Brechtian, anon"
>her fw

>>7397146
"best" is a spook

me

James Wood?

Who /memegang/ here?

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/49266078-schokolade

All you guys did was circlejerk and there's nothing to say in these threads except "look at how many books I've read"

Sebastian, I think it's because the mods are jealous of your voracious reading appetite and tell it like it is ratings.

It is standard recieved pronounciation, if such a thing can be described. Upper class accents (e.g. Jacob Rees-Mogg) tend towards longer vowels and even less Rs. Being RADA actors these two tend to enunciate all their letters, but without some of the pregnancy that RP can have.

>>7396834
>Jacob Rees-Mogg
Damn, this guy have no soul when he speaks.

>>7396886
He just has no soul
At least he has conviction, even if it is largely in the wrong direction

>>7396630

I have the nelson doubleday 2 volume set, it's complete and has minimal to no commentary, just the texts themselves. I use Folger library paperbacks for annotation.

Norton Critical Editions dont seem to have an edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works - any good alternatives?

>>7396630
>What is THE definitive version of Shakespeare's complete works?
the plays performed under his direction by the King's Men, of course. everything else is just a faded image

reading a lot of (good) books. p much the only way.

>>7396349
yeah, but reading books won't teach you the rules that will allow a deeper understanding.

>>7396355
yes, it will. there's no 'rules'. if you want to understand characterization, or mood, or style, you have to feel it out of the works of other people. there's no textbook for it, you have to understand it by yourself.

unless i misunderstood and you don't want to write prose or poetry, in which case you should read the chicago manual of style.

>>7396273
>not a single kafka or camus book
This is not litcore enough.

>>7396273
Someone please tell me the saddest one. I want to cry over the weekend.

>>7396375
The only story that ever made me tear up was The Overcoat by Gogol

>>7396214
sorry, im tired
threw off the horse* usually on top of my grammar and spelling. should proof read, i know.

>>7396214
I really liked Moby-Dick but it's quite slow for a non-reader. Have you checked out Cormac McCarthy?

>>7396218
im basically just trying to start reading again.
somebody said i may like h.p lovecraft, but being an older author im assuming hes slow too.