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Lake had the worst end desu

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tfw look exactly like pynchy

>>9689733
You lucky dog

Here's simply put:
2+2=4
2^2=4
2*2=4

they all equal the same -- 4
but when you think about raw appearance -- the equation's left sides are different

>>9688229
Heretic!

>>9688231
God is manifested as the Holy Spirit, the Son, and the Father.
The Father is the creator, He is, he is time before time etc.
The Son is the product of the Father's forgiveness, sent to down to take the burden of sin of of Man.
The Holy Spirit is God's imbuing into the Apostles and each baptized man to spread the word of Good.

>>9688096
For secondhand sources, check out theoi dot com. Absolutely amazing work.

Though not strictly Greek, I can also recommend Metamorphoses by Ovid (Mandelbaum) and Genealogy of the Pagan Gods by Boccaccio.

>>9688135
wil go after Ovid. The pagan gods one doesnt interest me atm

edith hamilton

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>>9687865
I would make a bookstore that's also like a library. It would also have a nice cafe with some small snacks and coffee. Basically the way it works is you need a (free) membership to buy stuff, or else there's a 15% markup. But you're also able to borrow books, like it were a library. If you want to buy a book, you present one of the display books, and they bring you a sealed copy from the back of the store. It would also serve more of a socializing purpose, and would allow /lit/ people to talk to each other; unlike the silence requirements of libraries. I think a lot of people are secretly turned off by reading at a bookstore like they would at a library, so this is a good way to give them a sense of entitlement.

Also we'd have a fully stocked classics, philosophy, history, and science section. There would still be some of those trashy books for teenage girls and middle-age women, but it wouldn't encompass the entire store like at your typical Barnes and Noble.

We would also have recommended reading lists linked to your membership. So one could have a good order to read philosophy and science in, instead of jumping in and flopping around like a fish out of water. -- I think the cafe area will be separated from the bulk of the store, though. Here's a quick drawing of the floorplan.

I shouldn't get too excited about the idea, since no one would be interested in going to such a place.

>>9687865
>visit chain bookstore
>employee hands me a complimentary latte
>hear that the string quartet is playing my favourite Beethoven piece
>get in roller coaster and ride to the poetry section
>see the poet of the day is William Blake
>Blake impersonator is really entertaining
>audience is enraptured and really into it
>everyone gets free copies of his collected work
>get into roller coaster and ride to exit
>notice there's a literary trivia contest going on
>use my experience on /lit/ to win a complete set of William T. Vollmann books
>man walks up to me, says he was really impressed and that he would like to publish some of my work
>ask him who he works for
>"Penguin Classics"
>>9687917
dont ever try to start a busniess

>>9687920
Tfw plan to open an accountancy firm

>>9687717
Books are boring

Anything published after the year 2000 is shit.

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>>9687717
1. David Foster Wallace was a genius and Infinite Jest will be universally acknowledged as part of the Western canon within 100 years.

2. George R.R. Martin is a scat fanfiction writer masquerading as a fantasy novelist and GoT is an abomination. He is also probably literally autistic as well.

3. "Slam poetry" inflames the same part of the brain as "The Turner Diaries" but gets a free pass because black people are now a priestly caste in American society.

>>9687713
You should post one first OP

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Wordsworth ftw

>>9687085
Ancient edition of les rois maudits with cover like i the divine comedy in your pic, with medieval illustrations in here

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>>9687085

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>>9687085
Pic related. Leather binding is exactly the same as when I was a child. Gold leaf. The silk bookmark might have faded a little, but the wisdom hasn't. One of the few things my dad left me, I'll probably be buried with it.

I have a few

Try to detach yourself from the Internet. You will have nothing else to do if you don't have access to the Internet.

Start with books that interest you and are easy to read and finish, then move to harder ones

incrementalism. if you haven't read in years, you shouldn't immediately try to read the western canon in order. Pick the book that inspired you to want to read, and read it, taking as much time as you need

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>>9687056

Start with small books, and always carry one around with you everywhere. Eventually when you're bored at a bus stop or something, you can pull it out and read a few pages, and once you start you'll be inclined to keep going.

If you're at home, you'll default to accessing your computer and internet over reading, so you won't read. Make sure you have access to your books away from home, during your commute or during lunch break and such.

The Odyssey, by Homer.
Greek Myths, by Graves.

>>9687038
is it the edition w/ the comics on the cover?

> The Last Man, Cousin de Grainville, 1859 ed

Reading it in the language it was written in: French

Cormac McCarthy is good, no matter what corncob memers say otherwise. Blood Meridian and Suttree should be considered as american classics.

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>taking my break at work
>I work at a supermarket
>manager is a young female qt, only like 27 years old, I am 27 as well
>she is in the break room reading a book
>take a look to see what the book is
>it is some fucking Twilight book or something
>want to make a conversation with her about the book
>I am not a good conversationalist
>ask her what she is reading she tells me the book is Twilight
>actually manage to have a nice discussion with her, make a joke about Twilight basically being an erotic novel and she laughs
>get really excited that we may have a connection now
>decide it would be funny to make a joke
>if I buy an actual erotic novel and read it at the same time as her, she will see and find it funny
>buy an erotic novel about Werewolves
>take it to work
>wait until she is having her break and reading
>go and get the erotic novel I bought from my locker and sit next to her
>when I sit down and start reading she looks over and pulls a face like 'wtf is that'
>she looks disgusted
>start to realise maybe this wasn't funny
>try to joke my way out of it
>'haha, howwllllllllll I want wolf dick'
>she tells me to please take my break somewhere else
>I go and sit in the toilet cubicle reading the book for some reason
>tfw she has treated me very badly ever since I did this shit

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Desires-Wolfman-Complete-Werewolf-Collection/dp/1624930409/

This was the book btw

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>>9686967
I like yuri fanfiction desu

>>9686936
>reading for the plot

>>9686945
Oh come on now

>>9686936
If you're interested in writing and literary theories then yes.

>Why does this book not do exactly what I want it to do waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
fuck off

>>9686795
Jeez, I'm sorry then!

Just stating my opinion

>What the fuck? Does it stop!?

It doesn't, but there's also plenty more stuff about films, drug addicts and Steeply. (Imho Steeply parts are the most boring ones but hey.)

Anyhow the occasional "cringiness" is inherent to DFW's work I believe, because this kind of reaction towards certain "deep stuff" (that might or might not actually be deep) is his fundamental topic.

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>>9683891
>not the perfect queen we originally expected her to be
>perfect queen
>expected
>her to be
>Daenerys

>>>/tv/

>>9683897
Daenerys is the best leader oyt of everyone else.

>>9683186
Aquinas you fucking brainlet

>>9683186
st.augustine of hippo
william lane craig
plato

>>9683186
Hegel.
>inb4 Hegel is shit
Off yourself.

Notes from the Underground
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Monday June 26
Chapters I and II

did you have to start a new thread for this?

>>9683120
I won't be starting a new thread for each day, but I updated the schedule so to prevent confusion I started a new thread for today