would you be interested in a V reading group?
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Was just about to read this anyway
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i'd be down. Bought it a month ago but have read a few other things since that were on the shelf.
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>>9693422
Up for a re-read. In.
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Have you ever come across a realization in philosophy that you would say has been actualy, unironically completely true, that has been incorporated fully into the way you view the world, and that hasn't been just another fun little concept to make the world seem more interesting for the time being? what was it? or have they all just been fun little concepts that you don't actually take all that seriously? "u cant know nuthin" doesn't count
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Schopenhauer's view on women
Hitler's view on Jews
McDonald's view on cultural marxism
Peterson's views on trannies
Weininger's view on sexuality
The Bell Curve on inherent superiority
All contributed to making me redpilled
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>>9688327
is this the new "my diary desu"?
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Being a free producer is the human Gattungswesen.
Human behaviour is largely determined by the production relations.
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Hello /lit/, am looking for a fiction account of a man who can't die, who lived during the age of George Washington through present day. Sort of like the Highlander, but he could not leave the Island of Manhattan.
Read this book years ago, and would like to re-visit and share the wealth, particularly if there's another book!
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Sounds like trash
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>>9707046
I'm very interested knowing, too.
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>>9707101
Once we figure out who wrote it, you can judge it for yourself
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Best books on narcissism? Fiction, non-fiction, psych, philosophy.
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Metamorphoses - Book III - V.
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Any History of the United States will do.
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The Culture of Narcissism - Christopher Lasch
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/fitlit/ here, what are some books I can read at the gym?
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Take your shitposting elsewhere man, this board is for patricians only. Plebs like you should just lurk instead of embarassing yourselves by creating those pathetic threads.
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>>9706421
a russian book on snatch and clean and jerk technique
this is an anti-powerlifting and bodybuilding board
/fitlit/ was speed+strength+literature
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJboE9NwLKw
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>>9706449
>/fitlit/
>pleb
says the pleb
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Hi /lit/ I was thinking about getting into reading about King Arthur since all I've ever known of the myth comes from movies. What is the best way to read up on King Arthur? Pic related was what I was thinking of getting
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Malory, other medieval romances for shits & giggles I suppose
T.H. Whites The Once and Future King
Marion Zimmer Bradleys The Mists of Avalon
Bonus stuff that draws on it:
Tim Powers The Drawing of the Dark
Robert Holdstocks Mythago Wood
Gene Wolfes Wizard Knight
All tv and film depictions of Arthur are utter shit as far as I have ever since, and it seems to be getting worse.
John Boormans Excalibur almost achieves depicting the mythical conception but has a lot of unintentional cheese
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>>9706419
Ah thanks man!
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>>9706387
Yeah, that's probably the most comprehensive and foundational thing you can read on Arthurian legend. Sadly, I found it to be incredibly dry and uninteresting for the most part. Don't mean to discourage you, just warning you that you may not like it. Also, it's very long, so it will be a pain to finish it if it isn't engaging you. Try it out, and if it's a struggle, just find a shorter secondary Arthurian legend primer or something.
Also, another book influenced by it that the above anon didn't mention: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Mark Twain.
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Has anyone ever managed to refute pic related?
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>>9705859
sounds Nagarjuna esque
i approve
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>>9705859
Here is a valid argument where one can deduce an ought from an is.
1. Everything John believes is true.
2. John believes that no one ought to murder the innocent.
3. Therefore, it is true that no one ought to murder the innocent.
Aristotle's deduction of the ethical good from the ontological good also derives an ought from an is.
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>>9705957
And by what logical machinations do you deduce 1.
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ITT post a picture of the books you have been working through recently. So far 2017 has been a productive year for me, lots of reading done.
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Woke af.
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>>9705684
Wow. This is deep.
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>>9705684
>working though
>lots of reading done
thats not how yer meant to read sir
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I have no idea why the story of Icarus resonates with me so much. Is it really true that it's our inherit desire to fly that causes this?
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i wouldnt take it so literally, but yeah
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>>9705636
Selfish desire is the cause of all human suffering op. No it is not surprising.
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>>9705654
That's true I suppose but Icarus seemed rather innocent as well. Also there are a lot of feelings that I can't really describe that makes Icarus stand out among all the other stories
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I honestly don't understand why he is considered so great. Could someone explain it to me, I'm open minded, but I just don't get it. I've been reading through Dubliners and nearly every story is pure torture. His writing style is hard to understand and everything happening in the stories is so boring. I'm pushing through because The Dead is supposed to be so excellent, but I'm getting nothing from his writing. So could someone explain why people love him? Do Portrait and Ulysses make it better?
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>>9705575
What literature do you like, OP?
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>>9705575
His style gets progressively less and less like Dubliners. The end of The Dead is the best part of Dubliners.
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>one livid final flame
How many authors could make a phrase like that?
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It seems like that is a quite big problem today in readers and I would really want to stop having it.
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I don't think you understand what that term means, anon.
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>>9705550
What does it mean then, anon?
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>>9705553
How can I put it in a way that you can understand...?
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my friend killed himself sunday morning. this was the last book he suggested I read. What does it mean? What does it say about him? (he was a writer himself)
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>>9705510
It means your friends is a plebian fool. Go read some infinite Jest. It'll open your eyes, kiddo.
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>>9705510
>What does it mean? What does it say about him?
Nothing that will explain anything. Other people are a mystery, and even more so when they stop existing.
emma bovary cannot love charles because he is "dull and boring." she cannot intellectually connect with him. so she goes and elopea with three other romantic men who are all poetic and espouse philosophy but qho end up using her and leaving her, and if you have read it, you know how it ends. but emma ignores the fact that charlea does all the nice little thongs for her. he buya her roses, he comes home from work just to tell her he loves her. and he does love her.
i am in a relationship with a girl who is smart, but not booksmart, has no knowlesge of philo or lit or anyrhing academic, and has bad taste in movies and music. but she loves me. i had surgery and she came to the hospital and waited for hours until i was done.
i do love her as well. but some of the things she says, the new age bs she believes in without any examination that makes me roll my eyes, makes it difficult for me to be in a relationship with her and consider her a life partner.
am i making the same mistake as emma? if i cant share an intellectual or artistic life with her i fear i will regret my decision if the relationship does last down the road. no ones perfect, but that seems to imply that everyone is the same. just a different flavor, which doesnt ring true with me.
what do you think lit? should i stick it out?
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you should try and mold her. You have a nice girl, dont let her go
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sorry for the typos, on iphone
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Have you ever fallen in love with someone who is in every regard out of your league?
Books for this feel. Also, what does /lit/ think of Emily's Wuthering Heights?
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I guess,
The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway
i didnt enjoy it desu
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>>9705394
If you think whether or not someone is out of your league, it probably means that you just want to fuck him.
If you think whether or not someone loves you, then it means that you've fallen in love with him.
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Might as well ask, what does /lit/ think of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë? Is it worth reading?
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I know this is talked about a lot, but I just finished it and liked it quite a bit. Any general discussion is welcome.
I sort of slagged on it in the middle, after the first third of the book it sort of pulls away from the kid and focusses more on chronicling the Glanton Gang, and imo most of the development of the judge and Tobin and even the kid happen in the last third. So for a while I wasn't sure if it was going to live up to the hype for me, but around the time I started to recognize the gradual escalation of butchery of the gang it got a lot more compelling. Sometime around Jesus Maria. But anyways, the last third revealed so much about the characters that it made the rest of the entire book much more interesting. I'm going to read some Delillo next, but I do plan on rereading it because it feels like the kind of book you get more out of every time you read it. Anybody else have the same experience?
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>>9705347
Also, if a movie was made, I'd cast Jeff Bridges as the judge probably, but maybe doctor it so he was larger and had a slightly deeper, more booming voice.
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>>9705347
Well I'm going to bump this one more time but I'll still offer another discussion point.
Has anybody ever read Perelandra? It's the second book in a sci-fi trilogy by C.S. Lewis. The books are only loosely related from what I remember, you can basically read them independent of one another. But Perelandra actually has a very similar thing going for it, the main character arrives at a planet that's essentially in it's own garden of eden stage, and there no sin or evil. But a second character arrives who starts exhibiting vast intelligence, and also creepy demonic brutality. Honestly the antagonist is a lot like the judge. Highly recommend the book if my memory can be trusted, I loved it when I read it but it was like a decade ago. My point being that it's kind of similar in a couple ways to Blood Meridian.
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>>9705347
Go away Mr Humphreys