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His history of revolution is based

>>9618670
The text is pretty easy to understand. You might want to get a basic understanding of Kierkegaard first, but to understand Kierkegaard you would need to know about Hegel, and to understand Hegel.. well, you probably catch my drift.

>>9618670
Plotinus

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Ignorance might be bliss for you but the rest of us would prefer that you know what the fuck you're doing. Being surrounded by ignorant happiness-maximizers isn't exactly great all of the time.

>>9618574
Ecclesiastes talks about that. The wise and the ignorant follow the same path, but one sees the rocks and obstacles while the other trips over them. But both have the same destiny .

>>9618400
huckleberry finn is the kino of books

>>9618420
Legit comfycore, brother

Some people think of civilizations as hive-minds and individuals as drones in those minds. These people want to be administrators in the imaginary networks that distribute culture to drones. You know, like in Paradox games and StarCraft.
There are other people who develop an interest in the canon naturally and recommend it on the basis of the merits that they find in it. There are good books in there. Fuck you if you disagree, you're literally not worthy of the gift of literacy if you can't appreciate a single work in the Western canon.

>>9618272
de Joinville's Life of Saint Louis.
Get an old Everyman off ABE.
Villehardouin's Memoirs of the Crusades, also good, is the volume's companion piece.

Good thread

>tfw about to take wustl full ride over t14
your idea would prob work fine, esp given the prevalence of critical legal theory since the 1970s which seems like a leftist equivalent

>>9617726
Ivy League architecture historian here. I've moved on to a work on a PhD in archaeology so I can be your classics guru if you need one. Not much for contemporary law though if the group is more of a superfriends thing, I'm your huckleberry

>>9617726
I'm a dean at Yale law. This seems like a good idea--would you mind sending your name and contact info so I can run this idea past our diversity committee?

>>9617697
Wait a few years for her suicide note. That should be pretty good.

>>9617697
White Teeth

>>9617697
NW. I haven't checked the new one though

>>9617466
When i was a younger lad, I once translated a short story to portuguese so i could plagiarise it as my own and get a good grade.

It worked.

>>9617466
Translation is a good exercise, but by no means it is a good way to learn a language by itself, it should complementary. Try reading and comprehending increasingly more complex texts before going into translation.

>>9617109
Because it's darkly romantic. It is relentless and unsympathetic to its characters. The narrative is caustic in its treatment of the love triangle, neither siding with one, nor giving preference to the other, rather letting it fall on Catherine to decide which is more desirable. Because Catherine does have a choice: I don't mean an actual choice, but a moral choice to either live with the hand fate has dealt her, or rebel against it, in her heart. Because we know from the beginning Heathcliff is doomed and he struggles on, against the current, like Satan and Ahab. Brontë's vision is uncompromising in its beauty and cruelty, and she makes us believe, like her characters, that their lives are anything but uncontrollable.

>>9617109
The girl on that cover is hot.

I have to say the book itself is quite a subversion of romantic literature from the same time. Elizabeth Gaskell comes to mind often with her near-perfect characters. And when I read this in school all the women in class seemed to hate it so I automatically took a liking to it

I doubt a great many people on /lit/ have even heard of Broch but you should definitely at least have read The Aeneid and know its themes. As a result, as the Aeneid tells of the Trojan War, you should first read the Iliad. As a result, you should be familiar with Greek mythology beforehand. I'm telling you, starting with the Greeks is not a myth. HOWEVER, the Death of Virgil tells about the fate of the poem itself, so while you should still read all I've mentioned, don't do any research into the history of Virgil and his writings themselves if you're into the dramatic importance of the work

lube up anglo

>>9617209
OP here. I've slowly read most of Virgil's works over the past few months (been studying Latin), so his actual life and work is relatively familiar to me. I've read Homer, as well as Ovid, Boccaccio and Graves.

It just sounds pretty interesting. Plus, I remember reading The Sleepwalkers and The Missing Quantity years ago.

Personally I did not enjoy it because it felt fragmented for the sake of being fragment, did not grip me through theme, character, or plot.

Libra is king.