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What languages do you know? People say it's hard to understand even to native spaniards but that's bullshit, if you have notes (because you'll need them anyway if you want to understand the puns), a translation to check when necessary, and aren't afraid of spending much more time than you would reading something in english, it's easy enough to understand

>>9794083
>What languages do you know?
Russian and English.

I'm confused and don't know which rendition to settle on, Ormsby's or Grossman's?

>implying you can leave

I am a sad, sad man with an empty life who uses literature, intellectuality and snobbery as a crutch to feel good about my pathetic life.
I am a manchild dilettante contrarian psuedo intellectual loser.
Hi what's up?

>>9793712
you seem to have high expectations. What exactly were you hoping for out of a message board?

This one is at least convient and without much site drama. Reddit is a shit hole people trying to win karma points. Facebook is a hell hole of targetted advertising.

Consider what a hassle every other message board/social media platform is. Consider how easy to use 4chan is.

Consider whether you even need a social media platform to use. I post on 4chan very little. I find this convenient too.

>>9793635
dali.. easy on the carrots

Unironically seeing my old friends from high school who sneer and laugh at me and call me a pathetic loser.
I have become very nervous about being near where we used to hang out since my dreams have made me terrified of them.

I didn't know they coudl stack shit that high.

I recommend you stop being such a follower and a suck up to /lit/. You're not impressing or fooling anyone.

>>9793185
>recommendations
Trade ur Inferno translation for the verse one by Pinksy published by FSG.

& forget ayn rand, she was packing extra chromosomes. Replace her with hannah arendt and that's all we can do for you today

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Got held up two weeks waiting for the Aquinas commentary to arrive (wanted to read it first of the three), got it yesterday and am finally getting rolling again.

>one of my very first ones

Even though I never got to know you
And despite the fact that we never interacted
My heart still skips a beat when your name is mentioned
And my brain struggles for quite a time to forget it

I wonder what would happen if I knew you well and that we were talking

>>9792220
pretty gay. sounds like you haven't read anything ever. are you illiterate?

The worst heartaches are from the ones you care most about
The ones you felt like you can tell anything and they won't judge you
The ones you thought would help you in everything you do
The ones you thought would never get mad at you
The ones you can sacrifice your sleep for
The ones for which you would do anything in your reach without asking any questions
The ones to whom it is hardest to deny
And this one does not always needs to be your fucking so called girlfriend\boyfriend.. It can be your friend, or any other person.
And you know what is the most ironic thing about these aches is?? The person hurting does not even know most of the times.

I don't have enough money to live a decent life there

can confirm it's pretty /lit/, but i think it's becoming less so

people don't read good as much as they used to, just riding on the subway nowadays, you don't see as many books. Only phones and facebook

New York is a fucking degenerate third world hive city that is only "exciting" if you find smelly dirty street hot dog vendors exciting

It's too big to be a real city, so it's just a garbage heap of ugly people shoving each other around. Totally pointless to live there.

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what did he mean by this?

>>9787312
When you guys re-read The Bros K do you read through the court scene over again?

>>9787321
Jesus Christ, this is simply dialectical autism.

And this man is considered to be the smartest person to have ever lived....

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Cognitive biases don't exist

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If I could get everyone to read one book it would be this one. It illustrates where and how pretty much everyone gets science wrong, and how you, as an individual, are affected by this.

It will turn you into such a sceptic you'll never be able to read a newspaper or go to a doctor again without feeling dubious.

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This had a big effect on me when I was younger.

Why?

>>9784443
Data mining

>>9784433
INTJ-A

Bannon and other anti-enlightenment folk are mere stepping stones to the accelerationist force of nature. Time can't turn backwards.

>>9784189
bugs... easy on the carrots

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>>9784224
Time can end, though, and will. Not that there's anything Bannon or anyone else can do to affect that.

>>9783992
>Early 30s
>I enjoy writing articles that consist of edgy claims buried in pseudo-philosophical jargon
>Reading David Irving's "Hitler's War"

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>20
>Kissless handholdless virgin
>Reading Kim Stanley Robinson's "Blue Mars", Sean Carroll's "The Big Picture", and Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People"

>31
>google scholar says I have an h-factor of 3
>The Red ad the Black

The Idiot

>>9802321
it's really up to you, i loved The Idiot but i much prefered Demons.

>>9802321
the adolescent

White Noise

moby dick

It's definitely Moby-Dick. Huck Finn is a great novel but it lacks the expansiveness needed to be a Great American Novel, in my opinion.

>>9801979
no one cares, faggot

Damn, 4chan is just too predictable...

You should have at least put them on mega to share before you deleted them.

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A dog gone good time

the purpose of a dog

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a dogs porpoise