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Best translation of Divine Comedy? 2017-07-23 10:12:38 Post No.9796869
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Best translation of Divine Comedy?
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I was thinking of picking up this one is there a better one /lit/
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Charles S. Singleton, nigga.
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>>9796869
Singleton is great, as is Durling. So is the Hollander. Binyon and Bickersteth did fine terza rima translations.
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The religious nature of Marxism
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2017-07-23 10:08:02
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why Christopher Hitchens left Marxism
I don't agree with everything Hitchens says, but this is a great speech, he highlights the sort of religious, dogmatic ideas of Marxist thought
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FcBeyEWgSM
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I am interested so I'm giving it a watch tomorrow
Though from a scientific standpoint there is no reason to think that religion and ideology are that much different, at least the way I see it, the exact same mental faciliaties are being used, so that even in a post-religious world we will have dogmatic ideas and so on and so on, because dogmatism arises from those mental faciliaties
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>>9796848
This isn't the kind of board where you post youtube videos of pseuds.
Go back to whatever shithole you came from
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Fucking sage. This board sucks today.
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Has anybody here read this?
Is it worth it?
Pls respond
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>>9796901
If a book is not very well known it's unlikely that someone just browsing the first 10 threads of /lit/ will be able to answer the question.
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>>9796915
It would be well known if people here actually read books. You must be new
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>>9796924
So why haven't you contributed you sad fuck?
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>Looking back now, I can of course see that what happened to me wasn’t right, even if I was literally asking for it. I was a victim of sexual abuse. However, I want to make this perfectly clear. The whole thing takes up less space in my head than the time David Bowie called me out on a shitty Louis Vuitton knockoff. I responded by throwing up in his sink, but I’ve never bought a knockoff bag again.
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Go to bed, Milo.
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>>9796699
Why was Milo at David Bowie's house?
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Why should anyone take this self-admitted troll seriously?
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>I actually thought Im good at philosophy because I watched School of Life and read some Nietzsche
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Everyone has to start somewhere, do your duty and inform these people that they should start with the greeks now that they're already taken an interest in philosophy.
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op ... easy on the tenses
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>>9796605
i dont necessarily think you can be "good" at philosophy.
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WITTGENSTEIN READING GROUP 2017-07-23 08:32:29 Post No.9796472
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WITTGENSTEIN READING GROUP
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2017-07-23 08:32:29
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In 1.5 hours we are going to start the first meeting of our Wittgenstein reading group. The reading assignment was the first 43 sections of Philosophical Investigations.
Join us if you can. Here is our discord channel : https://discord.gg/q8VkR4m
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>/lit/ discussion group on Wittgenstein
sounds painful. good luck with it
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ONLY THIRTY MINUTES
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Thanks
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Happening now!
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Plagiarism: How far is too far? Im writing a book and one of the elements of my story resembles that of another book. Its the same idea in different settings, like the difference between an apple pie and applesauce if that makes sense. I'm being cryptic solely to protect intellectual property because i have had ideas stolen and sold without credit to me.
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>>9796436
you can't write a book without putting in the influence of the books you've read. its like playing guitar, you will intuitively sound like the player you hear the most. however it depends on what is 'resembles' for oyur...but unless you copied a chunk of a work with different words or something you probably won't have any problems with plagiarism
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>>9796436
Take what works, and only what works from the story, and take some dice and invent the rest.
Stealing it all is plagiarism, stealing the good parts is still plagiarism, but people will think you made a good story.
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>>9796436
JK Rowling went and stole her entire setting from The Worst Witch, then went and filled it with stuff stolen from everywhere else. She's managed to get away with it.
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I'm looking for a book on mathematical logic and another in geometry. The catch is that I'm looking for ones that are good, so catch you on the tail end because I'm always a-heads.
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>>9796234
Wrong place to ask. Go to the science board. Those fuckers are doing math all day and they have a large set of favorites in that department.
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OP here, this is a serious question.
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>>9796244
I think they don't allow those threads whereas book recommendations are allowed here.
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>"I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious."
Passion, curiosity, HARDWORK.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk/2006/jan/01/arts.music
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Get to work, anon.
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I know it sounds too feelgood to be true, but I would probably never think of the concept of intelligence if I had never heard of it.
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>>9796072
>still butthurt over the thread last night
Einstein was clearly operating on talent alone. That and pilfering from the patent office.
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Why are American fantasy authors obsessed with Great Britain? Why aren't there fantasy novels about Pilgrims, Native Americans, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Great Depression, the World Wars, Vietnam, and the Civil Rights era?
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But there are. In fact I just read a fantasy book about the battle of Vienna by Tim Powers, an American author.
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>>9796019
Tolkien
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>>9796019
I imagine it has to do with social hierarchy. I'm not an expert on fantasy novels but when you're dealing with kings, queens and knaves, you've got an established way of creating a universe free of imagining a new type of society altogether. It's easy for the writer to imagine; it's even easier for the reader to understand.
Funnily, though, I'd say the best fantasy movies - Nausicaa, Princess Mononoke, Labyrinth, Pan's Labyrinth, Spirited Away, Time Bandits - avoid it pretty well. But I might just be biased in that respect as I've literally never read any fantasy novel that isn't Dune and the His Dark Material Trilogy.
What did Virginia Woolf mean by this?
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virginia... easy on the boobies
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>>9795862
I love the boobies best.
Which book, what scene?
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>>9795862
Pretty sure this is from To the Lighthouse and calling Paul a booby sets him apart from the hyper-intellectualism of her husband and Charles.
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Is gilles just a reincarnated heraclitus?
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>>9795832
no, heraclitus could think
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>>9795832
Heraclitus is fucking retarded and was effortlessly blown the fuck out by Aristotle
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Why are English intellectuals such cunts? Russell is a cunt. Ryle is a cunt. Moore is a cunt.
I'm reading some of their correspondence right now and they're all just such persnickety, one-upping, petty, stuffy, self-satisfied cunts. It's like they're all on the fucking rag 24/7. I'm a man and they're all men, and just by reading this shit I can feel our menstrual cycles synching up as they provoke one spontaneously in me.
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>>9795770
What did you expect from literal cuckolds?
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Whenever I see Russell I remember this on wikipedia and have a giggle.
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>>9795770
Boarding schools. Victorian stuffiness will return a certain sort of person.
Get over yourself, relax and you'll learn to accept people.
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Does this sound accelerationist enough?
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2017-07-23 04:56:57
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>Human biovores consume organic planetary life and lifeless resources into complex inorganic adaptive systems as entropy creates an endless stream of anthropogenic waste products polluting a planet undergoing rapid environmental change. The wired turns the neurospace of individual meatbags guided by genetic prepositions into new streams of thought as the boundaries between science, religion and ideology collapse. The upper classes get a taste of the lower classes as they drink beverages containing microplastics from plastic waste used by third world peasants, eroded by abiotic forces. As obese parents reproduce they gift their offspring with maladaptive gut flora and epigenetic changes. The soil and rare metals are being depleted as ever increasing technological advances require more and more input to keep the technological system running. Evolutionary instincts, folk wisdom and ancient political philosophy guide politicians into hierarchical positions and towards decisions that in an increasingly complex world result in unknown and unforeseen end-products.
>The earth is undergoing accelerating ecological and geological changes with an ever increasing chance of planetary and regional tipping points turning the world a stage of giant unknown unknowns
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No, that's actually really easy to read.
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>>9795689
I'll be clearer. You're not being actually obfuscating, you're just replacing most words with meme-ish synonyms.
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>turning the world a stage of giant unknown unknowns
Are you Donald Rumsfeld, OP?