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have you even applied anywhere?

Jerusalem. That should keep you busy.

>>9641063
Applied to some insurance company, got an interview, saw the place and how soul crushing working there would be, started doubting why the fuck I even got my degree, etc. Now I got no desire to apply anywhere.

Jerusalem by alan moore?

>>9641083
actuarial math?

idk insurance is important. I'd love to do that if I could

Is the Feuerstein really the good scholarly edition that is said it is?

>>9641147

Yes, Feuerstein did a great job. Not a smooth or easy read, but there's a wealth of content.

I read the Norton Critical Edition and thought it was good. Can't compare it with other translations though.

haha wow what are those? books?

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consider the importance of a good translation, especially in a long work such as the brothers karamazov. constance garnett—for all the good she did—had terribly dry prose and sucked all the sensuality out of dostoyevsky. i thought her C&P and "fathers and sons" were serviceable, if not good. the popular translators for russians today are, of course, pevear and volokhonsky. i cribbed this blog to highlight the differences between them.
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/the-pevearvolokhonsky-hype-machine-and-how-it-could-have-been-stopped-or-at-least-slowed-down

>I forgot to mention the bawdy song the innkeeper’s girls sing just before Dmitry’s arrest. It’s a good test for any translation, because one of the rhymes is left unfinished—the narrator breaks off halfway through the second line and simply says, “There followed a most unprintable rhyme.” Even P & V realize that a literal translation won’t do in this case. The English version has to imply how the verse would have ended , leaving the translator no choice but to decide what he thinks the missing text is, using context clues and his own intuition (mostly the latter).

>The song is about a series of men who come courting the singers, and their reasons for accepting or rejecting their advances. The gypsy, for example, is a no-go because “He’ll turn out to be a thief / And that, I’m sure, will bring me grief.” The businessman does better: “To the wealthy merchant I’ll be wed / And a queen I’ll lie, all day in bed.”

>The unfinished couplet is about a soldier. The original Russian doesn’t give a translator much to go on: Google Translate renders it “Soldiers will pack carry / And I for him . . . ”

>P & V make a decent attempt, managing to work in a mild profanity:

The soldier boy will pack his kit
And drag me with him through . . .

>But we must concede the superiority of the Avsey version, which, unlike P & V’s, makes me laugh:

The soldier will march to seek his luck
And leave me dying for a . . .

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for those anons deathly insecure over their lack of knowledge, a more in-depth guide to starting with the greeks.

>>9640980
sho nuff

Hindu don't proselytize.

Greco-Buddhist influence of Christianity is the more interesting topic, but the evidence is severly lacking, particularly when it comes to monotheistic Galilean Jews who would need to be open to pagan ideas.

>>9640853
0%

Aside from one or two yogis who visited the eastern Roman provinces, there was no Hindu influence in the Roman empire, and absolutely none in Judea which remained strictly jewish. Jesus was firmly rooted in the apocalyptic vein of second temple judaism.

I was thinking of this today: basically how do we know that the scripture which has been assized and augmented by the Church numerous times is valid? Where is the proof that they did not simply take the words of Christ which are a wonderful philosophy and then ascribe all kinds of justifications for their cult hundreds of years later. I honestly would like to know that. In answer to OP probably only tangentially via Platonism and Stoicism if those schools were at all influenced by Hindus I couldn't say.

>>9640821
When I was younger and gung ho i read about 40 of these in the sake of bringing all knowledge unto myself. Now I would much rather search out new and lesser known literary experiences, including contemporary literature that might one day be well regarded.

>>9640821
Am perpetually bored

I can't go through life without ever bothering to read what the greatest minds wrote.

>>9640722
Nietzsche is technically a nihilist. Nihilism is the belief that things have no inherent value. Nietzsche agreed, he just held value-creating at a higher esteem.

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>>9640722

>>9640722

You overcompensating things. Most people think of Nietzsche as "that dude who said 'God is dead.' " and half of them think he's a nazi for some reason.

I'm starting abstractionism. It is the entropy of post-modernism and I will take responsibility for the stages of modernist death.

The whole point of aesthetics is things falling perfectly into place and the point of literature is building the most complex situations that flawlessly settle.

>>9640661
interesting. Feel free to elaborate anon.

I am actually interested and wanted to start this thread to see what everyone thought. It would be interesting (though unlikely) if we could come to some sort of a consensus. I just want to see progress and hope that when I am done with my graduate studies I get to help develop the new movement :)

>>9640631
hard work

characters

You write (which mean you may have to stop thinking).

>Banking establishment
>Green pilled
>Posts anti-semitic propaganda screenshot

I sink further into elitism every day that I see this shit regurgitated from mouth to mouth by pseudo-intellectuals who can't recognize the taste and smell of disinformation.

>>9640622
>Defending the federal reserve
Moron.

>>9640601
>He deems religion unhealthy

>>9640601
Scuse me what do the numbers and being lower or higher mean?

>>9640601
pls explain more

objectively speaking, who cares?

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>>9640587
>Threads aren't water.

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>Goes to grocery store
Water
>Stuck in traffic
Water
>Doing taxes
Water
>Playing tennis
Water
>Going on cruises
And but so Water
>Going to work every day
Capital W Water
>Being generally unhappy
Water w/r/t Water

>>9640528
All of Laszlo Krasznahorkai's works.

>>9640528
memes

>>9640535
Is there an ideal starting point?

>>9640503
Reminder that OP injects mental imagery of cocks in his mouth, consistently does this, and is incapable of existing in a state whereas this ceases.

What I really love is reading books.

>>9640531
Post your feet bitch

>>9640449
Those look like console commands, if I had to guess. So you don't type them in any postbox if that's what you're wondering. Perhaps in the ctrl F command box. Been too long since I've been able to use a computer.

>>9640500
Np my frienderino. I have overcome my limitations and have now almost figured it out.
This whole stuff revolves around IRC.

just download an irc client

Does Kanye's "I Love Kanye" freestyle count as postmodern verse? Serious question

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>>9640441
>muh racism is a spiritual problem
guy is a neolib faggot. This is good but not necessarily "woke."

>>9640441
#altwoke manifesto? They'd probably hate the idea that I'm posting this on 4chan, but w/e

http://tripleampersand.org/alt-woke-manifesto/