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Do you pronounce it "litter-a-tour" or "litch-ra-chur?"
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>>9632315
The former.
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>>9632315
litteracher
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dee leh-mon
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Just bought a big collection of Yeats poems and I got to say /lit/ that i'm pretty disappointed. I have a background in the french symbolists. Can you guys recommend some Yeats poems or enlighten me on his poetry?
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Big fan of Mussolini, W.B. Yeats. I just feel like we don't talk about that enough.
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>>9632098
Wtf, I hate national narratives now
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>>9631965
How can you read The Second Coming and Byzantium and not think that's the tightest shit?
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>he doesn't use Grammarly Pro™ or Hemingway App™ to edit his novels
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>>9631936
God, that Hemingway App is awful...
>muh long sentences
>muh brain cant cope with more than two clauses
>muh cut it down to an expressionless stump
>much bettuur
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>>9631971
Imagine if it was connected to a breathalyzer.
>muh you're too sober to write
>muh you're too drunk to edit
Goddamn authoritarian piece of shit.
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>>9632182
I agree. Hemingway is shit!
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>/lit/ tells me I have to read the greeks, the bible, basically the entire western canon before I can read the fun books of the last 2 centuries
>/g/ tells me I'm retarded if I continue to use windows 10 and google botnetto
>/fit/ tells me running and bodyweight exercises at home will only stimulate my "girly muscles"
>/int/ and /lit/ tell me english is a shit, nonsensical language and I am automatically less intelligent for being monolingual
>/biz/ tells me I am a dumb """"millennial"""" if I invest in cryptocurrency instead of finding "real investment advice"
>/lit/ tells me I am a silly child for wanting to read translations of non-poetic works
>/ic/ tells me I have to draw for at least 8 hours a day (16 hours being ideal) or else I will never make it
>/tv/ tells me I must enjoy most critically acclaimed films before the 1970s or else I am a pIeb faggot nigger
>/mu/ tells me I have shit ears
Give me one reason why I shouldn't just read enjoyable masterpieces of postmodernist literature like The Recognitions, War & Peace, Mason & Dixon etc while reading through sparknotes and summaries of works to understand the references/allusions, while also watching TNG, shitposting, self inserting as the girl while I masturbate, listening to insomnium, the music from Sharpe, using asmr for female intimacy and to help me fall asleep, while ALSO saving hundreds if not thousands of hours I would've spent on mastering a second language.
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>/biz/ tells me I am a dumb """"millennial"""" if I invest in cryptocurrency instead of finding "real investment advice"
This is an absolute lie.
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>>9631852
By reading 'basically the entire western canon' you get a far better _depth_ of understanding when you read the 'fun books'. If you don't care about depth, and just want the internet-tier breakdown, then you should do that... But your experience won't be as delightful. :)
Okay.
[I think you should be excited at the idea of learning about the timeline of works leading up to the current, classic novels. Or give up reading, kid!]
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Enjoy your >>9631852
and /g/ is right. why would you use windows 10
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stop being lazy /lit/
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no
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make me
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>>9631674
>>9631685
ABSOLUTELY DECADENT
Why do assassins have such a hard-on for this book?
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What confuses you about it?
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>>9631593
civic disenfranchisement, alienation, solipsism, abuse
how is this surprising?
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is this a good book, /lit/?
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>people are unironically proud not to have a read a book in a long time
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One time I nearly jumped over a table and punched a guy who was not only PROUD to have never read a book, but he said he was never going to read a book ever. He was so fucking smug about it too. To be fair, I was pretty unstable at the time, and I didn't actually do it, but there was a lot of screaming involved, and if I know myself at all, then there was at least one knee on the table. Absolutely unfathomable.
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>>9631501
they are effectively saying they are proud of being dumb. indeed it is unfathomable
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>>9631501
autism
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>In his problem, Taylor presents us with a situation and an argument. Suppose that I am an admiral. Suppose that, in the context of the totality of circumstances obtaining, if I issue a certain kind of naval order, a sea-battle will inevitably occur tomorrow. The giving of such an order we designate O, the state of affairs in which a battle occurs tomorrow we designate B, and the relation in which O is sufficient for B we designate (O → B). Suppose further that, if I issue any other kind of naval order, here including no order at all, this will ensure that no sea-battle takes place tomorrow. We designate the any-other-kind-of-order O′, the state of affairs in which there is no battle tomorrow B′, and the sufficiency-relation between the two we designate (O′ → B′). By presupposition 4, since O is sufficient for B, and O′ is sufficient for B′, then B is necessary for O—this means that (~B → ~O)—and B′ is necessary for O′— meaning (~B′ → ~O′). And presupposition 1 allows us to import LEM/PB to say that either it is true that there will be a battle tomorrow, B, or, if not, then it is true that there will not be a battle tomorrow, B′; that is, that either B is true or B′ is true: (B ∨ B′). We note that this is an exclusive disjunction, that if B is true then B′ will be false (since B′ is the same as not-B), and vice-versa. We also remind ourselves of Taylor’s presupposition 5, that no agent can perform a given act if there is lacking some condition necessary for that act, which certainly looks reasonable, and then as I stand on the deck of my destroyer we ask ourselves whether it is now in my power to do O if I choose and also now within my power to do O′ (instead) if I choose. Taylor’s answer is no:
>I-1) If B is true, then it is not in my power to do O′ (since if B is true then there is, or will be, lacking a condition necessary for my doing O′, namely the condition of there not being a battle tomorrow).
>I-2) And if B′ is true, then it is not in my power to do O (for an obviously similar reason).
>I-3) But either B is true, or B′ is true (since presupposition 1 licenses the application of LEM/PB to future contingents).
>I-4) So either it is not in my power to do O, or it is not in my power to do O′.
>tfw this is water
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Any math undergrad could write this shit, dont be so scared of new symbols
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God its fucking atrociously written too, extremely redundant.
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>But there is a further distinction to be drawn, that between two at least potentially different types of physical modality. There seems to be a difference between what is just physically possible in general and what is physically possible for a given agent to do in a given set of circumstances. The former might be termed physical possibility simpliciter. It concerns what is and is not consistent with the laws of nature per se. (It is physically impossible simpliciter to travel faster than the speed of light. It is physically necessary simpliciter that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.) The latter type of modality, on the other hand, might be termed situational physical modality. It concerns the modal character of events, actions, and states of affairs, taking into account not only general and unchanging physical laws, but also the situations and circumstances that can affect what is possible and necessary at certain places at certain times. For instance, exactly three weeks ago it was situationally physically possible for me, at 3:50pm, to lay both hands on the front wall of Amherst College’s Johnson Chapel. Today it is not now possible for me to lay both hands on the Chapel at 3:50, because it is now 3:49.30, and I am not even in Massachusetts. It is, of course, physically possible simpliciter for a human being to lay hands on our Chapel, and this fact never changes, so long as there are hands and a Johnson Chapel. Any constraints on the physical possibility of touching the chapel would have to be situational constraints. These sorts of considerations might lead one to argue that there is really no such thing as a physical modality simpliciter, divorced from the context of a time-and-situation. This may or may not be true, but it is not very important for my purposes here; my aim has been to introduce and characterize the notion of situational physical possibility. I would ask the reader merely to recognize the intuitive difference in modal character and modal force between: “It is not possible for me to be both a human being and a quartz crystal”; “It is not possible for me to travel faster than the speed of light”; and “It is not possible for me, now in Champaign, Illinois, to be touching a building in Massachusetts thirty seconds from now.”
damn....... really boiled my lobster
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What happens when you finish reading the canon?
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Start with the Greeks
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>>9631013
Read 50's sci fi
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Run off to join the Kurds and die of sepsis like Byron.
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Do you have a favorite literature-related comic, /lit/?
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>>9630604
It always amazes me how Calvin's opinions were played for laughs but somewhere along the way people started taking them seriously.
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>>9630623
its the jews m8 try a redpill
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>>9630623
that's fucking good anon
Are they worth doing? Is there anything to gain from them, /lit/?
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Salvia is the patricians choice. I don't think you should base your worldview around them, but it's a cool experience nonetheless.
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I finally understood joyce after a few hits of jenkum
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yes but respect them, don't be an indulgent
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recent purchases. dollar bin edition.
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Where do you live to find anything above prolefeed in dollar or less bins?
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I have that Browning book, the lower one. He's good. Do you like Hopkins?
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robert browning will get you some serious 80+ poontang anon
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How do you start writing a novel for the first time, /lit/?
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>>9630056
You don't
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>>9630056
Unless your using a formula, no one can tell you OP. Writing processes vary so wildly, that the scary part is that you have to learn yourself.
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>>9630060
What a terrible first post. What is to be gained from this? Nothing, except a window into the defeatism of the pessimist.
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I've really enjoyed novels like Invisible Man and Native Son but what are some good books from black authors that don't deal with race as the main issue? Any genre.
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Their Eyes were Watching God by Zora Neal Hurston
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>>9629706
Many African authors write about problems within their own country, although they also tend to be heavily political which is probably not what you are looking for.
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Asked a bookish lad of mine if War and Peace and Heart of Darkness were any good. He said HoD was fine but War and Peace was a meme
Is it a meme?
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It's really not. Anyone who says it is hasn't read it.
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Your friend is dumb and you should feel dumb for even considering believing him.
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He called a book a meme, so his opinion can obviously be disregarded.