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The Vietnamese word "ớn" is a negative feeling of fullness or having too much of something but there is another meaning to this word and it is an emotion. What is this emotion in English?
As a side note I've asked my Vietnamese born parents and friends about this but they could not come up with an English word. HELP!
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>>9681535
ớn is actually a verb, not an adjective.
It's just that the vietnamese verb structure is kinda confusing and many things that work as adjectives in English noun phrases actually need to be verb phrases in Vietnamese
So the verb actually means "to be sick of"
For example:
tôi ớn món xôi rổi
I am getting sick of sticky rice
t. learning Vietnamese
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>>9681535
Excess
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Engorged
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Is there a book from Nietzsche that you would consider a must read ?
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just read your stupid little book and live your stupid little life, god
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Nietzsche's books generally express similar ideas, but in different ways. The Geneology of Morals is very historical, very critical of conventional morality, and can be disturbing at points. Beyond Good and Evil is more abstract and is a lot more about free thinking than Neitzsche's conclusions. Thus Spake Zarathustra is written in an almost Biblical narrative style, and reflects Neitzsche's hopes for the future of mankind. I can honestly say that any of his books are life-changing.
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>>9681853
>can be disturbing at points
oh come on now, we're on 4chan you don't have to pretend to be "disturbed" by nietzsche,
Pass ing its acr behind it. Falls and slides wet shining paint on wood. In mid light on couch television. Now glistening rays blocked by sapling purchased in whole. Leaning post holds well. Center, for now. Balanced on this pivot, spokewheel of racing minds, from time experienced through developments not provided a caretaker of their own. Still isolation. Wrestling humans shouting in the sub-rural lot. Soft light on vertical frames on a door of my friend. Newly purchased. Glad to have you here it has been awhile, friend. Where have you been how are you why so long are you not responding anymore we. Finish it not? It was for you, it was special, and you dilly dally in front of us all while you tremble and gulp, trying not to choke, pondering if any of us know how to dislodge food from a choking man's throat, or if we would even bother, or if I would do the same for them. Not responding. What? Not responding to anything what is ok now are you able no yesterday it was when he got here. He acted like nothing was different, didn't even apologize or ask how I was. I didn't ask how he was or what was new.
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Dark yard fire circle of friends I know not well offered a cigar by him, this is familiar, we had Jamison whiskey and cigars years ago on his deck in the soft darkness of summer. The first connection occurred not counting passing chance in the morning before he went to work. It was abandoned along with other things and left to drift along with me. Now an artificial state is here, and is what I will be working with for the rest of me life. Smearing time slides and leaves wet paint on my widow while I am in place without care.
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aaaaaahhh
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The orange flood lights illuminate the reed like grass sprouted on the sides of the path as I sway in drunken thoughtlessness, he walks calmly in his red shirt, bobbing out of my view. Brandy and sport drink in a glass as the fan blows in. I told him to remember this and he did.
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So I heard this guy was banished from society and spent many years in extreme isolation. What should I read if I want to look into his state of being at the time? All I'm seeing is novels.
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>>9681256
Notes from the underground.
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>>9681256
House of the Dead
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>The sex play of children has always gone on. Everyone, I guess, who is not abnormal has foregathered with little girls in some dim leafy place, in the bottom of a manger, under a willow, in a culvert under a road—or at least has dreamed of doing so. Nearly all parents are faced with the problem sooner or later, and then the child is lucky if the parent remembers his own childhood.
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>>9681252
>sex play of children
This is a normal thing that kids do with each other. I have a couple of pretty vivid memories of stuff I did with my neighbor when I was about five and she six, maybe a little older
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You didnt finger the neighbor girl when you were 4 years old?
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I've never touched another female besides my mother and grandmother.
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Best translations for Goethe?
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>>9681234
See the other Goethe thread that's up for best Faust translation.
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>>9681234
David Luke is currently the most commonly used and quoted by academics, in modern English universities. Go with that.
Harold Bloom recommends the Atkins translation, but to be honest, this is as florid and ornate as Pope's Homer. It's a work unto itself, and more than a translation.
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Auden translates the Italian Journey, available in Penguin. Nice work.
>tfw you start Plato's complete works
>read for two hours
>page 53/2855
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suicide thouself
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>>9681138
It's going to take you at least a year
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>>9681138
Why would any one do this to himself? Are you studying (or planning to study) philosophy?
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What book had the most beautiful prose you've ever read?
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>>9681101
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
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>>9681101
The Waves to be honest
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Mason & Dixon or Dubliners
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Does anyone want to do a group reading of Phenomenology of Mind?*
Do these even work out? We can try the Pinkard translation.
*I would say 'spirit' = mind
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>>9681097
Not unless everyone involved has started with the Greeks first
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>>9681146
I've never read the greeks.
How about this. I read the first chapter, a poster that's read the greeks reads the first chapter, and we write a post about what we got out of it.
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>>9681097
>I've never read the greeks.
Here we go again
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Was it autism?
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i don't know, but it is on my wish list.
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>>9681067
Mostly, yes.
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>>9681067
The growth of soil is one of my favorite books.
Should I check this one out?
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Am I alone in thinking that this is boring as shit? I admire the flow of the narrative and the ingenuity of the retelling of greek myths but it's so dull to me. I already know most of the myths and the smaller ones are nothing more than anecdotes or stories to bridge the gap in the chronology.
Maybe I'm reading it at the wrong time in my life or maybe I expected something totally different, but I can't "get into" the book when I read it and it feels like a chore.
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Try Amores and Are Amatoria my friend.
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Well fuck you OP, I read it a week ago and thought it was fantastic
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>>9681074
Can you describe what you liked about it? I was really looking forward to it when I started but just kinda lost steam.
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Just finished these books, and now sightly annoyed that there is no timeline on when book 3 is out.
It's a pretty comfy story so far. I really enjoy his writing style. What are your thoughts on this series so far? Any recommendations for other books to tide me over until book 3 comes out?
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The Slow Regard of Silent Things it focus on Auri. Read it.
This faggot probably never gonna realease the final part
Also
>>>/fantasy
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I love summer.
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What is the Neon Genesis Evangelion of literature?
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unironically Infinite Jest
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>>9681030
Murakami (the shit gook)
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Ender's Game reminded me of NGE in a few ways. Both are sort of deconstructions of their genre as well, but I wouldn't consider either of them to be high literature or art of course
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Anyone know if this is good?
I bought it for £2 on eBay and I can't seem to find anyone talking about it online.
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>>9681014
cute
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>>9681025
What?
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>>9681187
buying cheap obscure self-help books online called 'get the life you want!' hoping for a better future.
it's endearing.
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What are some good right-of-center authors who aren't Ayn Rand?
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>>9680957
Hitler
Nietzsche
Evola
Schopenhauer (On Women is a masterpiece of philosophy and psychology)
Brevik's Manifesto
Elliot Rodger
Weininger
Gulag Archipelago
Everything Jordan Peterson
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Culture of Critique Series by McDonald
The Bell Curve
Try the redpill of hatred and ressentiment
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>>9680966
Isn't Peterson's work entirely about curbing resentment? He calls it the most destructive emotion man is capable of experiencing.
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>>9681008
What's that got to do with politics faggot