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Anons of /lit/, I want to get into the Cthulhu Mythos, I was going to say Lovecraft but I know there are tales of the mythos written by other authors like The King in Yellow. Is there a compilation book with all of the stories independent of the authors? If not, where can I find a list of these works not written by Lovecraft himself?
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shameless bump, I want to get into mythos but Idk where to start
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Start with Lovecraft.
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So /lit/ help me out here.
Next year I'll be starting a master's degree in Linguistics with a mention in English acquisition as a second language.
So my question is, what authors or books should I start reading in order to introduce myself to the world of linguistics? I know next to nothing about linguistics, since I had a very lousy teacher at university and that was a thousand years ago.
Thanks in advance!
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Why would you start a master's degree in linguistics if you know next to nothing about it?
Just how frivolous are you?
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>>9793568
Because I want to learn about it, isn't that the point of studying and/or learning something?
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>>9793551
>starting a masters in a subject you know nothing about and have to beg 4chan for reading on the subject
Jesus fucking christ, the higher education system is truly broken.
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What's a good word for a person that comes off as a genial, kind, good person but is completely inauthentic and disgusting to the core? Not just wearing a mask or a con artist, I need a good word for it.
I was trying to think of one because I thought of the Pope and his penchant for talking about corpophilia, but I want to use it for some other things. Thanks bros.
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ironically sincere aka bugs aka cuck
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Dad.
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>>9793517
Machiavellian?
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Is this the new meme? Declaring dead writers transgender? 2017-07-23 03:00:12 Post No.9793499
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Is this the new meme? Declaring dead writers transgender?
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“It’s male writers who have a problem with Joyce; they’re all “in the long shadow of Joyce, and who can step into his shoes?” I don’t want any shoes, thank you very much. Joyce made everything possible; he opened all the doors and windows. Also, I have a very strong theory that he was actually a woman. He wrote endlessly introspective and domestic things, which is the accusation made about women writers – there’s no action and nothing happens. Then you look at “Ulysses” and say, well, he was a girl, that was his secret.” -Anne Enright
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https://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/01/what-maya-angelou-means-when-she-says-shakespeare-must-be-a-black-girl/272667/
Not really.
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>>9793499
>Anne Enright
Joyce was, first and foremost, an Irish writer. If anything, she's in his long shadow, and white American males like Faulkner and Pynchon are the ones who capitalized on the doors he opened.
Anyways, this meme of attributing introspection and family concerns to women, assuming men can't write on these matters just as well, is stupid. It shows that the woman (in this case, Anne Enright) is insecure, excessively comparing herself against the gender that can not only snap her arm in half with their bare hands, but also create enduring, thoughtful masterpieces.
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>>9793617
Btfo'd and well said
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Have you even read Boethius yet? You insipid degenerates
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Will I, as a loser, fat, virgin, degenerate, talentless, humourless, retarded failure of a man enjoy confederacy of dunces?
Specifically will I be able to connect and see myself with the protagonist?
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>>9793497
Confederacy of Dunces is essentially just the first ever autist greentext.
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>>9793515
And it's masterful. All the plebs in my Southern Lit class hated it because he was "too gross." They were too wrapped up in Ignatius himself to see the brilliant satire of every major American value and institution.
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What's the word that describes the feeling of being sad and miserable when everyone around you is happy and laughing?
It usually happens as a result of celebrations like weddings, birthdays, graduations, etcetera.
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autism
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>>9793487
Very cool pic
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Envy or bitterness?
I am the same way and I also have a superiority complex which you might have as well.
>“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.”
Do you agree, /lit/?
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>>9793448
I genuinely can't enjoy "feel good" or happy books any more, they just feel so hollow and delusional. I'm not even a depressed or sad person at all, I just find literature delving into painful/tortured perspectives actually leaves me something to think about after I'm done reading. For example if the Underground manended up taking care of/living with Lizainstead of how the ending plays out, I wouldn't have given it another thought. I still have trouble with the epilogue of Crime and Punishment for this reason.
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>>9793786
I sort of agree. Reading ""serious"" literature has crushed sentimentality for me. I cringe at the average Hollywood flick nowadays whereas before I could be immersed completely in the feeling.
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ITT: 1 person who knows who this is
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Gertrude... easy on the brownies.
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Lena Dunham
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That's Alice B Toklas. I recognize her from the back of the book
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>Ginsberg was a supporter and member of North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA) which is a pedophile and pederasty advocacy organization in the United States that works to abolish age of consent laws and legalize sexual relations between adults and children,[95] saying that "Attacks on NAMBLA stink of politics, witchhunting for profit, humorlessness, vanity, anger and ignorance… I'm a member of NAMBLA because I love boys too—everybody does, who has a little humanity."[96] In "Thoughts on NAMBLA", a 1994 essay published in the collection Deliberate Prose, Ginsberg stated, "NAMBLA's a forum for reform of those laws on youthful sexuality which members deem oppressive, a discussion society not a sex club. I joined NAMBLA in defense of free speech."
wew
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What's wrong with looking like Marlon Brando?
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>>9793585
a lot
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>>9793398
He's burning in Hell now.
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/pabst/ Post a book superthread. 2017-07-23 02:09:46 Post No.9793342
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/pabst/ Post a book superthread.
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Post a book. No dupes allowed. No charts allowed.
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My Twisted World
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High Life is far superior to PBR and cheaper too.
Is High Life the /lit/ beer of choice?
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H E I N E K I N ! ! ! ? ? ! !
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Post the writings of people you know
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(You)
>Post the writings of people you know
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>>9793248
uhhhhhhhh thaaaattss perfect
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>>9793226
Omg that's just so fucking embarrassing in so many levels it's like UF! I can't I think it, the instagram legos, the likes, the chick bare assed trying to touch the sun with her (wrist?) I have nightmares that, unbeknownst to me (Yet!) there are demons that are so cringey, that when they fuck up they end up accidentally blessing you instead of cursing, and God and all the angels and demons and Me (Satan) watch as a worthless no good doer, by intention that was not planned, blesses the person now and curses their memory later. Oh demon!
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I just finished the Iliad. Should I move on directly to the Odyssey, or would I benefit from reading something else in between, like critical works, or anything like that?
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I read a few paragraphs on themes within the iliad but then just moved onto the odyssey.
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>>9793035
if you have a genuine interest in it, read pic related for some more knowledge. if you're not, as long as you have a grasp of the general themes, you should be able to understand its impact/significance &c.
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>>9793073
>(((simone weil)))
yes, it's important you get the 'correct' interpretation
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what does this word mean?
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nothing
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>>9792909
Whatever whoever's using it wants it to mean.
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>>9792916
source?
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Can we have a /lit/ film discussion thread?
I just saw Troy after I've been reading the Greeks for a while and fondly remember how one of my ancient history professors recommended this movie. What did /lit/ think of it?
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in college i went to see that 3 hour long alexander movie with my schools history club, and they said they were going to pay for our tickets but they didn't and i was broke as fuck but i was at some theater out in the suburbs and i'm not going to sit in the parking lot for 3 hours so i was like ok fine, still pissed, movie sucked too, alexander deserved better, was troy actually good?
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>tfw they are adapting Iliad into a series
>tfw Achilles and Zeus will be played by niggers
Also, are you baiting? I didn't see Troy but it looks like garbage that no serious reader of the Greeks could enjoy it.
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I'm sure i've watched it, but i can't remember shit.
All i can say is: the movie starts with a sex scene, that's all i have.
Also, there's a big battle in the desert.
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What are some good examples of a true intellectual, seeing as /lit/ likes to call internationally renowned tenured philosophy professors pseuds?
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>>9792769
peterson for his views on trannies and leftism/postmodernism/cultural marxism
changed my life. I will not call you 'she', degenerate loser. I'm white and masculine, and you can't attack that, honey. Read Schopenhauer's on Women if you want to know why your inferior
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>>9792769
Fito Paez
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>>9792782
who?