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Who are the best poets? The lit poetry guide chart kinda sucks.
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me
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Probably me and you man. You want to reach down my pants and grab my sweaty cock and balls? These boxers are so tight against my cock and balls. Let's make poetry together.
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>>9698210
I want to give you a big meaty squeeze and baste you with my man essence
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So, I bought Kobo Aura H2O to replace my old Kindle 3, and frankly... I'm not entirely happy with it.
>native software frequently freezes when trying to browse large collections of books
>there is no progress bar at the bottom of page, you can only see percentage of the whole book, not for individual chapters
>books with multiple authors will only display the first author
>installed koreader to address these problems but its UI is very spartan and you cannot organize books into collections there
>apparently you can also use kepubs instead of epubs, which are supposed to offer some additional functionalities but I'm not sure I want to bother with them
Anybody experiencing similar problems and can offer advice? Are you using Koreader or the native software with all its flaws? I'm kinda glad I didn't buy the more expensive Aura One, since it probably has similar issues anyway.
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Why the fuck do you idiots by this shit? Just spend the 300 on a Tab A load it with books. Install Twilight to help with eye strain. Debloat it with package disabler or a root. I have a battery life of 3 weeks. I don't have eye strain issues. The thing is also a tablet that is 10 inches so if you are into comics or tabletop both of those pdfs and files look great on it.
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>>9698122
I'm not confined to my basement, so I need a screen that allows comfy reading under sunlight, plus I'm not 10 anymore so I couldn't give less of a shit about comics.
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>>9698134
I sit under very bright lights at work all night and can read fine. Twilight just removes blue it isn't anything that effects the ability to see in the sun.
Does anyone have the chart with this girl on it saying to stop playing video games and read instead? I want to see how many of them I actually finished.
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>>9698110
if you remember the name of the thread here is the /lit/ archive
https://i.warosu.org/lit/
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>>9698110
Is Read or Die good?
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>>9698302
Yeah the last few ep a bit crazy but its still good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7dO6dMzgTc&ab_channel=usermusic1
the ost is good also
Are there any modern books about your typical 4chan browser?
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>>9698089
Notes from the Underground
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Your diary, desu.
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Because I'm a born again skeptic, I do my best to avoid the obligatory respectful concessions towards mystical texts, especially ones that celebrate the 'wisdom of ancient China' on the cover. I arch an eyebrow at the thought that ancient peoples were in any way privy to profound revelations that have somehow escaped us modern folk, what with our freaky science and all. We do stand both technologically and philosophically on the shoulders of giants, but we must be so careful not to overdo it when trading in tenth-hand manuscripts from the demon haunted world.
The Tao Te Ching is a wonderful collection of ancient poetry, dealing with all manner of subjects from good government to personal happiness. The Way of Life or the Wise Man is one largely based around self denial and the loss of desire, concepts that find little practice in the West. The simplicity is charming, often profound, and its understandable why so many people would resonate with it.
As for myself, it depends which part we're talking about.
The world may be known
Without leaving the house;
The Way may be seen
Apart from the windows.
The further you go,
The less you will know.
Passages like these demonstrate some of the deepest truths about human existence, but of course there's no accounting for bronze-age tyranny.
The ancients who were skilled in the Way
Did not enlighten the people by their rule
But had them ever held in ignorance:
The more the folk know what is going on
The harder it becomes to govern them.
Reveling in something like that is an embrace of evil as profound as anything else you'll read. Still, the one or two exceptions doesn't rule out a collection which may have been written by several hands. I was stirred by many pieces and would not hesitate in recommending this particular mystic text.
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>>9698078
What makes you think it is reveling in it? It is simply a truth. Just like the truth that you have autism :^)
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>>9698078
Tao Te Ching is bad ass. It was recommended to me by a friend the other day, I'm glad I read it.
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i'm looking for futurist prose
any ideas?
(all futurists I know are poet, except for Mayakovski's plays I guess)
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>futurist prose
Doubt it existed at all
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>>9697983
The Polish Futurist movement a few novelists to my knowledge, although the only one I can recall having read is Bruno Jasieński.
I would highly recommend his novel I Burn Paris. It's a pretty fun read.
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Unable to enjoy books? 2017-06-30 06:57:52 Post No.9697867
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So I previously read Atlas Shrugged. I didn't like it very much. Incidentally, I read Anthem and Fountainhead after that. I'm now reflecting upon the books that I've just read, and I realize that I'm unable to enjoy books, as in I can't pick a favorite or anything near a favorite.
I am able to think critically and analyze the deeper meaning within a novel, however I have never particularly enjoyed a novel. I could pick out a few novels that I don't like particularly but it just seems that I am indifferent on a majority of the novels that I read, as in I neither despise nor adore them.
I do not believe that this is a result of a lack of reading, as Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged were about 730 and 1150, respectively.
This same concept applies to movies and artwork. I just notice that nothing connects to me. Do keep in mind that I do actively intend to read more.
I spend a majority of my days on the internet or playing games. I don't particularly enjoy such, but I end up doing it. It is as if there is nothing that I truly enjoy, save for a few discussions that are never a reality as a result of my horrid speaking skills.
I have recently took a personality test that gave me 91% thinking over feeling and 86% introvert, if that helps with anything.
Once again, the question is in regards to me being indifferent to books and not truly appreciating them. Can you connect?
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>>9697867
>reads overwrought bodice rippers
>a thinking man
read something else, like the sticky.
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>>9697879
what's this even mean
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Look into Anhedonia.
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Does anyone have epub/pdf of any of Arno Schmidt's books translated in english?
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>>9697800
I had one but I deleted it yesterday. It sounded like gibberish, to be desu. I even forgot it's name. It wasn't Zettel's; it was shorter and a kind of play, I guess. Anyway, it's out there somewhere and you can find it if I could, since I'm not very savvy when it comes to finding obscure stuff on the internet.
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>>9698028
Do you remember what the book was about?
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>>9698479
All right, I remembered: it was called Evening Edged in Gold (Abend mit Goldrand). Wikipedia says it's a novel but i remember it being structured like a play, with credited dialogue. It was too finneganswake-ey for me. I don't remember where I got it from. It was a scanned pdf of some typescripted sheets. It looked quite the oddity. Now i wish I hadn't deleted it, at least someone out there might have enjoyed it.
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How does /lit/ read books? 2017-06-30 05:38:58 Post No.9697748
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How does /lit/ read books?
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My kindle broke, dont have money for a new one, and my library sucks. My options are to either buy books, or read them on the computer.
Do you guys read books on the computer? How many of you guys consistently read entire novels and shit on your pc?
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>>9697748
My kindle is four years old and I'm praying it will last me at least another year since I'm too much of a east-europoor to replace it.
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Buy books. I have an e-reader too but i mostly prefer books made of paper.Reading on pc is really uncomfortable and having pyschial touch with the material has also a postive effect for reading, therefore buy books.
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"Being smart isn't hard when you've got a library card(or some shit like this)"
-That weird Canadian TV show with the bratty girl and that strange I think Australian animal called "Arthur" (not the King Arthur)
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what race are the savages in Robin Crusoe
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>>9697658
Indigenous
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nigger
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>>9697658
The human race
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>all creativity appears after being awake 16 or more hours
>all ability to actually produce something disappears after being awake 13 hours
what do?
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>>9697555
Record your thoughts in creative bouts, then work on refining those ideas when you're most productive.
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>>9697555
Read Cioran on insomnia. He address this precisely.
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Bumping this. You write down your ideas on paper, and keep them in your mind. Always write things down on scrap paper or a notepad if you have one. I take sticky notes and write things I like at the time or ideas that pop up in my head and keep them in my wallet or pocket.
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Where should I start with Land?
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>>9697528
the trash bin
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>>9697563
We always already begin within the trash bin. The question is not where we begin but rather how we were thrown away.
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amphetamines, high-powered hydroponic dutch skunk, 90's jungle and deleuze and guattari
https://youtu.be/rXK9qhHn-eY
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Why haven't you learned the only worthwhile language besides English yet? It's a billion times easier than Japanese if that persuades any of the weebs here.
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>It's a billion times easier than Japanese
Actually, it's the other way around. You can use only hiragana and katakana if you want to write in Japanese, which is 200 letters. And in Chinese you must write only in Kanji, which is 80000 letters.
Congrats, you are not even on the level of a weeb.
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>>9697468
>You can use only hiragana and katakana
you don't have a clue what you're talking about. kanji (which is the word for chinese characters in JAPANESE, not chinese) is an iron clad necessity considering the amount of homophones in Japanese AND it makes reading way easier you stupid fucking weeb. and grammatically speaking chinese is a million times easier than japanese, you don't need to worry about particle placement or conjugation and there isn't all that much to mess up on.
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>>9697489
Why don't you go study Chinese then instead of arguing with stupid fucking weeb?
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so I guess I got memed? 2017-06-30 03:44:06 Post No.9697422
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Is selling books on amazon supposed to be a complete joke or am I doing something wrong?
>200 offerings for every book at $0.01 per book
>$3.99 shipping, meaning your starting profit is $4
>subtract $1 for a shipping envelope.
>$3
>subtract $2.50-$3 for shipping depending on how heavy the book is (let's be generous and say $2
>$1 profit
but wait goyin, there's more
>"per item fee", $0.99
>"variable closing fee" $1.80
>"amazon referral fee" (just made up depending on how much your product is worth, higher your product is the more this will be) at minimum $1
>final profit = -3/4 dollars
So I'm supposed to lose like 3 dollars for every book I sell on AMAZON DOT COM.
Great deal!
Into the trash the books go!
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>>9697422
I mean, assuming you can create a profit for a penny book is retarded, but as to your shipping problems, if you had actual volume you can cut your shipping costs via contract.
source: i used to work for a vanity publisher, we used Pitney Bowes
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>>9697473
I'm not looking to be a permanent vendor I'm just an individual looking to get rid of some books. I only have around 60 books to sell. It's not so much profit I was looking for, I just want to get rid of the books, but I was hoping to sell them for something more than literally negative dollars.
And I'm assuming most of them will stay on the product page for quite a while before being purchased since there are so many sellers.
What your basically saying is amazon doesn't want sellers like me. The fees they are assessing on my products are prohibitive.
That's fine but they've also destroyed all the retail stores which 10 years ago I would have taken these books to. So when I throw them all in the garbage tomorrow I don't want to hear shit from anyone about how bad it is to throw away books, complain to amazon not me.
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>>9697488
>So when I throw them all in the garbage tomorrow
Is there a Salvation Army or other thrift store that would take them? It'd be better than trashing them, yeah?
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>Get told to 'start with the Greeks'
>Start reading The Iliad
>Too much of a brainlet to read much of it
Should I just give up? Reading is for squares anyways
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If you can't even read the FAGles translation you are too stupid to read.
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>>9697400
How is The Iliad difficult?
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>>9697400
Why would you start with Iliad? You need to start with an understanding of the mythological and historic references in it.