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can i just jump right in with this guy? where should i jump in? anti oedipus from the get-go?
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>>9690956
Read Todd Mays introduction. Should help you find your bearings.
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You could, but it will make you bounce up and down a little bit more hahaha
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the SEP article says that difference and repetition is his 'magnum opus' - anyone read that?
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will check it out
also, these intro texts he wrote sound great - they sound like him playing word association with another philosopher's ideas - anyone read them shits? how did these french niggas write so much
as an aside: ive read freud, jung and lacan - but when these writers always talk about psychoanalysis/marxism, im a bit confused how theyre using the ideas. psychoanalysis explains the individual psyche within the social structure of marxism, but what main ideas are they taking from freud? that there is a hidden part of the psyche?
Hi /lit/ this is my nonfiction collection, what do you think of it? What else would you recommend I read to add to it?
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>>9690930
Less lefty/pol/ books!
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Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
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>>9690930
>tfw too stupid to know why this is a meme
There are some good books there imo
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why are painting and sculpture so stale compared to music, literature and film? do you even see a normal person get really emotionally connected to a painting? nferior arts desu
lucky of them some faggot in the 18th century decided to name them 'fine arts'. the most dependent artforms on theory and criticism too, give me a break.
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>>9690574
>do you even see a normal person get really emotionally connected to a painting?
all the time you pathetic retard
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>>9690574
>he's never read stendhal
we can't all get stendhal syndrome, but you could at least fucking read
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Art that functions by manipulating the viewer's emotions are inferior arts desu. It's dead art that can never grow
When does it get good?
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>>9690262
it don't. overhyped author, m'fraid.
he's appealing to a younger mind or someone like nabokov who likes his stories to be puzzles and not literature.
Borges wrote to occupy his mind, not to touch anyone.
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>>9690262
when you git good
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When you grow up.
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How does one learn a second language and where does one start from?
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Replace the words you already know with those of the language you want
Everything else will sort itself out
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immersion is easiest. go live somewhere for a couple of months and you will start to pick it up.
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>>>/int/76559675 could help, they have nice links.
My method is to self teach it traditionally, and it works well it enough.
Don't trust Duolingo no matter what though, that's the only good advice I can give. It doesn't teach grammar properly at all, and the robots are horrible for pronunciation.
>>9690277 is by far the best method though. My Japanese was rubbish for decades, but after visiting for a while it became much better.
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what is the best postmodern book
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ecce homo
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>>9690157
Ashbery's Self-Portrait
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The Pale King
Who is this?
What are your favorite Gods and Goddesses—regardless of whether you subscribe to the religion itself or not? Mine has to be Shiva just because of how badass he is.
>enters through a pillar to show up Vishnu and Brahma while they're bitching about which one of them is stronger
>only God powerful enough to be trusted to absorb the Halahala plaguing the ocean
>known as Lord of the Dance and came close to ending the universe by dancing
>stopped Kali from destroying everyone by letting her step on him
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shiva's cool
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>Pagan Gods
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none of that sounds cool or interesting at all. are all hindu gods shallow as this?
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>inb4 good literature reaches mankind where they stand.
Do you ever feel like you are torn between writing paperback fiction or a simple enthralling story written for its own sake vs. something... More?
I am not disillusioned to think I am the best or even a great writer, but what do you guys think? Should one publish a story that is decent and entertaining but fairly shallow or work and slave over something that could be a great work.
>its a meme but Pynchon won the faulkner award at 24. Should I just try to publish anything amd write anything, or should I follow art for arts sake?
t a bait thread and I'm not a pseud. Like I said I'm not cocky, I don't think I'm great, but I think I'm decent. I just want to know what I should seek.
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> "Literature" vs. A Good Story?
You'll never write anything of value as long as you convince yourself that these two categories are diametrically opposed.
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I think they are. I can enjoy dean koontz for the story in unto itself, but I don't think I'd call it literature, ya know? I think literature is an inherently good story, but I'm not highbrow enough to say that I don't like somethings just because its a good story.
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What am I in for /lit/?
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>>9689902
Sexist, white, cis gendered males and a Fem Queen (albeit cis) fag had about to take over
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>>9689902
fag hag**
>Trigger Warning: I mean this in a completely non offensive way, I'm sorry to all of the oppressed folks if this offends!
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>>9689902
statutory rape charges?
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>He considers himself """literary """
>Doesn't know more than one language
For what purpose
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non anglos have no idea how quaint being a polyglot in anglo countries is. we get it, you learnt english in school and now it makes you feel superior. i learnt french and german, difference is i havent had to speak either of those languages in over a decade and have forgotten most of it..
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>>9689628
Get a pen pal, it's a lot of fun! I ask my Russian pen pal about life over there all the time...she wants to meet me in person but I think that's a little too intense to be honest
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>French language knowledge is no longer a given for English literature students
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All memes aside, what is your real opinion of Atlas Shrugged?
I'm a /lit/ newfag, and unlike most of the people on this board I'm actually not trying to bait. I genuinely want to know what you think.
I myself haven't read the book because everyone's told me its a meme.
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>>9689611
Why don't you just read the book and come up with your own opinion instead of blindly forging one based on the opinions of others?
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>>9689611
Decent book, great philosophy
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>>9689726
Because I'm a sheep, baa, baa
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What is this /lit/? can it be anything else but a deliberate program of cultural marxist social engineering being pushed by big business, the mass media and the managerial state?
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What is "queer theory"?
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>In 2011, internet journalist Daniel Villarreal advocated queer acceptance by writing: "I and a lot of other people want to indoctrinate, recruit, teach, and expose children to queer sexuality AND THERE’S NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT." [26]
>Queer theorists analyze texts and challenge the cultural notions of "straight" ideology; that is, does "straight" imply heterosexuality as normal or is everyone potentially gay? As Ryan states: "It is only the laborious imprinting of heterosexual norms that cuts away those potentials and manufactures heterosexuality as the dominant sexual format."[39] For example, Hollywood pursues the "straight" theme as being the dominant theme to outline what masculine is. This is particularly noticeable in gangster films, action films and westerns, which never have "weak" (read: homosexual) men playing the heroes, with the recent exception of the film Brokeback Mountain. Queer theory looks at destabilizing and shifting the boundaries of these cultural constructions.
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wonder why everything has to be saturated with gay shit nowadays?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46h-LfNWPn8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6m53lNTdyPg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ3K_oS6ZmU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhNbGTnA53s
this is child abuse
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Okay, let's be honest here.
He was a pedophile.
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>>9689033
>warns little girl about bananafish
>kills self when she doesnt give it up for him
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>>9689033
Who the fuck has Boo Boo Tannenbaum as her name?
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I'm willing to hear you out but I'm gonna need more from you.
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Are Easton Press books meant for reading or for just sitting on your shelf and looking nice? I'm genuinely curious. Is it normal to take these out in public and read them like you would any other book?
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>>9689029
They look pretty bad in my opinion. To answer your question, I think they're mostly decorative.
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>>9689111
they are sexy
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>>9689240
They are tacky.
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Is Emil Cioran basically the character Kirillov from Demons IRL?
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>>9688675
This man is the fucking Antichrist. Whenever I start getting my shit together and feeling positive about life, I'll stumble across one of his aphorisms and sink into a black pit of bile and nihilism for the next several months. He's the prophet of nothingness, tedium and confusion, probably the most evil man to have ever lived
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>>9688732
he's just sad :(