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what did he mean by this?

>>9787312
When you guys re-read The Bros K do you read through the court scene over again?

>>9787321
Jesus Christ, this is simply dialectical autism.

And this man is considered to be the smartest person to have ever lived....

>>9787312

What's a good OpenCourseWare school where I can take enough literature/creative writing courses to essentially have a lit/creative writing degree? How is MIT OCW? Any others you'd suggest?

Is there any website where I have a bigger selection of books to download than bookzz.org?

>>9787321
There is nothing fewer than one, which is a few(least)
>1 = few (least)
>2 = fewest x 2 (many)

If 2 = many, 1 must = plurality (least, but still multiple)
So there is no singular, just a "nothing fewer" variable, of which double(2) would equal many.

>>9787371
Few can't be a singular, right? So if two is already a many (an excess of singulars) then one is less than that but still a plurality of singulars?

Is no one going to comment on that chocolate godess? What a qt3.14

>>9787421
I am sick and tired of this. Every day I come to /lit/, and every day there is at least one thread up with an OP image of an attractive woman dressed scantily and posing seductively. It's probably the same one or two people who do it honestly. Let me tell you something, you faggot pieces of shit who are doing this: you are the poster child for everything that is wrong in literature, art, and society as a whole today. You are incapable of coming up with anything creative, thought provoking, or of substance, and you lack even the smallest modicum of intelligence, so you use "style" and "flash" and pizazz in place of it and to draw attention to yourself, because that's the only way your SHIT "creation" and ideas would ever get seen by anyone. And before you say anything, this has NOTHING to do with the fact that I don't have a girlfriend. Anyway, I will be petitioning the owner of this website to ban your asses, so enjoy being able to post here while it lasts, because it's not going to last long, just like you that one time you convinced an obese girl to let you fuck her.

>>9787457
yea whatever manlet

>>9787396
No. Numbers don't exist, they are a concept that must be applied to something. But you can't apply a singular concept to something inherently plural, like water or fire or other fluids and materials.
"Two" means twice as much as "one".
So if "two" is many, that means "one" is few, but there's nothing smaller than that measure of "few". You can't have one water or one fire, but you can have twice as much as your smallest measure of water or fire. He's just refitting numbers to accommodate plurality by erasing the singular concept, so 1 = few(least), 2 = many(twice as much as the least).

Like if you have one 2"x4"x10' piece of wood, that's "one" but that's actually kind of a lot of wood, but your measuring in increments of 10 feet so it's technically"one". So "two" is a shitload of wood, but we call it "two" because we're measuring a plurality; you can't have "one wood", you have to redefine "one" as "the smallest measure" rather than "singular", and go from there- "two" is twice as many as the smallest measure, "three" is triple the smallest measure, etc.

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>>9787457
kekd

>It's probably the same one or two people who do it honestly.
This is my first time starting a thread on this board desu. I thought I would post a qt so that I could get more attention desu.

>>9787514
Talk about cherry picking, most black girls don't look like anything near that.

>>9787477
That's a pretty neat clarification, thank you.

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>>9787538
Well yeah... Most women don't look like 9s or 10s...

Also, is it just me, or are black girls more attractive in real life than in porn? It seems that way to me. It's such a strange phenomenon.

>>9787538

Depends where you're from. Here in Atlanta, Georgia the pretty light skin mulatto is a dime a dozen.

>>9787538
lol visit SoCal sometime

>>9787477
Idk how I got on this thread. I don't even read this board, but I want to thank you for that. I was confused at first but now I am understand. Are you a teacher?

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>>9787618
probably some european who only has pure subsaharan and Sudanese immigrants. give a few decades for the blanda upping to commence

>>9787618
>>9787559
I guess Brazil just has uglier people in general then.

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>>9787559
Softcore is always more attractive than hardcore.

>>9787559
>Also, is it just me, or are black girls more attractive in real life than in porn?
Yes! Finally somebody said it.

>>9787624
Nah I'm just a guy watching cartoons and eating some chicken.
Some people just understand certain things better intuitively; plus I'm a manufacturing major so I'm accustomed to thinking in those terms

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>>9787636
I'm not sure that's always true...

>>9787638
Wew, now I know I'm not just crazy.

What book/poem/myth contains the story where Ra reveals that his secret name is Amen?

My 3rd grade teacher read this myth, and some other Egyptian myths because we were studying Exodus that year.

>>9787677
>Ra
>Amen
>Ra -> Amen
>Ramen
time for some instant noodles

>>9787666
I haven't masturbated in 3 days Satan, please stop.

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>>9787702
>3 days
Weak-willed.
I went 3 months once. I had 2 or 3 wet dreams though.

>please stop.
No. If it were easy to go long periods without fapping, then it wouldn't be something worth doing.

>>9787732
>fapping
>to that
lmao, anon's gonna be alright

>>9787561
Awesome.
I was thinking about getting a job in Atlanta after college. Is it a good place? Do they have good book stores and movie theaters?

>>9787766
That's just you, I'm diamonds right now.

>>9787312
Why do the mods constantly delete any threads questioning why they can't deal with the shit-posting? Isn't it better to discuss the reasons behind this than burying your head in the sand?

>>9787790
I feel like shit after doing it, like I'm guilty of just wasting my seed away instead of, you know, find a girl.

>tfw no black goddess gf
Life is suffering

>>9787796
>being this spooked

>>9787804
Can't help it.

u know how they say once u go black u never go back, well just a word of warning that shit applies to dudes too, for the rest of your days at parties you'll be scanning the room for the one woman of color while some boring white girls talks to you about something friendzony that u don't give a shit about

>>9787813
I get this, but for Mediterranean girls.
I don't know what it is but I just can't get myself to give a shit about conventional white girls. Aryans or whatever. Probably because I'm so saturated with beach girls here, I'm just not attracted to them anymore. Latina/Mediterranean/mulatto(mulatta?) Is God-tier because there's more substance to their character. White girls have to subscribe to some style of interest like hipsters or punks or whatever to piggyback interesting character traits

>>9787813
>u know how they say once u go black u never go back
I thought this was about herpes. The statistics from the CDC certainly seem to suggest as much.

>>9787813
Conversations I had yesterday
>white girl,, hipster look, English major
>Any guy i date better be ok with all my friends being guys because I'm just like a guy. me, me, me, me blah blah blah
>go to dinner with white girl
>beautiful light skinned black waitress
>looks like zoe saldana
>infectious smile
>really optimistic about everything
>asks me about my life
>I say it's all pretty boring
>responds to my almost disinterest response with enthusiasm
>says she boring too, is called a "mom" by all her friends because she enjoys cooking, cleaning, doing chores
>catches me off guard, actually taken with her now
>ask her how long she's been a waitress
>realize how cringe-y that is
>says it's just temporary, that she's actually in culinary school and wants to own her own business.
>dinner partner completely quiet
>waitress asks if I want anything else
>say no, thank you and she leaves.
>in hindsight should have said "yea you're number"

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>>9787844
I know your sufferings. Brown girls are 10/10 from the Spanish/Portuguese iberian to more Semitic Lebanese, Iranian. Armenian -- there's something about that specific look that is so godly. A lot of songs and art have been written about it. It's usually called oriental/gypsy/bohemian. The only criticism is that these people are quite hairy, but even that I find kind of alluring.

>>9787813
Ghetto black chicks are amazing because they actually like to fuck. For example, if you tell a qt ghetto black gf that you like to eat pussy, she'll have a whole fun genuine reaction to it and sexually engage you and be sassy and everything. If you tell a white girl you like to eat pussy, half the time, they'll just respond like
>ummm OK u can do that if u want i guess . when r u going to add me on snap? :S

Fucking hell white women are such awful hags most of the time. At least East Asian women are frigid enough that it loops around and becomes fun again, because they're SO frigid, so unused to physical intimacy, that they have no way of quarantining and harmlessly integrating your aggressive sexual advances and weird kinks. If you tell your chinky gf that you want to eat her nonexistent ass with gusto, she'll be so terrified by it that she'll have to authentically interact with it, and then she'll genuinely learn to enjoy it.

This doesn't apply to twinkies of course. They're the worst of all. Asian women raised in Western countries are just white women. Even worse, because they have the soulless status-obsessed materialism of their Asian parents, with none of the traditional propriety that goes with it. They're thoughtless skanks, like most white women, but they're also as maternal and nurturing as a scorpion. Men are literally just wallets. The only thing that matters in life is getting your Microbiology BSc and living in a sterile fucking suburban prison with a piano.

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Why was this voted to be the banner? It's shit.

>>9787950
this >>9774669 should be a banner tbqhfam

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>>9787950
We didn't know the banner thing was going on at the time by which I mean we collectively ignored it and collectively complained about it after missing the deadline.
pic related is what we wanted in hindsight

>>9787939
America sounds like an awful country to date in.

>>9788019
Americans invented dating. It's the most boringly capitalist way to find a partner.

>>9788050
what would be the socialist way to find a partner? openly presenting your asshole to the alpha-feminist and beg to have you cock cage removed?

>>9787859
most black girls you meet are devout church going christians, this idea that black chicks are all promiscuous thots is bullshit propaganda by (((someone))) who wants to see christians divided instead of united

>>9787939
oh god it's the pussy eating beta guy again, will you just shut the fuck up with that shit, you're making everyone cringe

>>9788105
their promiscuity in the bed and openness about sex isn't just a stereotype, well it is but some are just true. Black people usually don't have any weird hangups about sex. And yea, most are christian and have traditional values, sadly they don't practice them and that's how we end up with a majority of black mothers being single.

>>9788105
Idk where you're from, but in my experience most black girls are church going christians that are also promiscuous thots.

Can anyone recommend me a reading guide on Kafka? I've read The metamorphosis, and I am currently reading the letter he wrote to his father. What should I read next?

Also, it may be a stupid question, but are his "unfinished" works noticeably unfinished?

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>>9788135
I pulled this chart from http://imgur.com/gallery/U4OHY
It has a ton of litcharts.

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where do I start with this sexy guy?

>>9788135
read in chronological order, bro

>Also, it may be a stupid question, but are his "unfinished" works noticeably unfinished?
yeah, especially The Castle

>>9788154
Civilization and Its Discontents

What kind of "figure of speech" or whatever is the writing of a text that has no meaning? Something like, but not exactaly : Have you ever been to decided to go as far that even more than ever ( or whatever the original is). I remember it as scatology, but I searched it and I was wrong.

Which sentence is grammatically correct?

a) Jonathan refers to the stuff as "guac".

b) Jonathan refers to the stuff as "guac."

>>9788162
>Civilization and Its Discontents
Seconded. Great place to start.

>>9788264
a

>>9788264
b

>>9788264
If I remember right: Both, the period inside the quotation marks is the same as the one outside. Just don't do double periods like
>Jonathan refers to the stuff as "guac.".

>>9788377
>>9788437
>>9788455
Jesus Christ...

>>9788264
I prefer a but b is also correct and is preferred in America.

>>9788154
>>9788162
>>9788280
"Thoughts for the Times on War and Death" is a similar, helpful, and shorter work that is good if you want to get your feet wet before diving into a book-length text.

Keep in mind that these are some of Freud more overtly political texts and should be read with that understanding. C&D is best for an overview of Freud's world view, but not for the understanding of Freudian psychoanalysis as such. That said, if you find yourself reading C&D and nodding along, wanting to know more, than you'll know you'll want to read more about psychoanalysis.

For my part, I recommend getting a copy (any edition is fine) of Peter Gay's "The Freud Reader." Breaks down the Freud cannon to its most digestible without editorialisation beyond the selection of the choicest passages from each work.

Anyone able to recommend books for learning Latin or Ancient Greek?

>>9787363
libgen, archive.org

>>9788538
When in doubt, and pragmatism makes no difference, go with aesthetics. Doesn't b look so much nicer?

>>9788538
not an argument

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What are the top 10 must read books for a 23 year old male with:
>a large of amount of potential that is actively being wasted
>low self worth
>a seemingly inescapable existential crisis

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>>9790427
this is number one.

make sure you read the "noose" chapter very carefully.

>>9787538
Attractive people are rare to witness

>>9787795
Yes, that would be better, but at the same time a public shame for them. And we have to suffer for that.

>>9788097
The state would provide you a partner that fits your education/monetary income/attractiveness.

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>>9790427
We have a chart for that

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>>9787813
>>9787939

>tfw you realize you can punch well above your weight with black chicks.

>tfw when fucking 9/10 black girls who are happy to be with you instead of 6/10 white girls who think they can do better

>>9791091
I-Is this true

>>9791179
Within reason. If you're a chubby loser in your moms basement then no.
However, if you have a proper job (not a shitty Mcjob), don't dress too bad, aren't a social retard, i.e. if you have your shit together enough that some women would date you, then you can get much hotter black chicks than you would be able to get white chicks.
Like it or not white privilege is kind of a thing; you have a status and a cache that a black guy on the same level doesn't have. A white guy is more of a 'catch' to a black girl. Think of it as if you were earning an extra $25,000 annually.

Was George Orwell a misogynist?

>>9791392
I reckon so. He was one of those autistic public schoolboys who never really got to know women. Displays little ability to understand women in his fiction.
He probably was like most anons who dislike women for not sharing their picayune interests. You can imagine him getting annoyed at a chick for finding socialist theory boring.

Julia in 1984 is like a r9k fantasy of a sexy girl who makes the first move and loves casual sex.

>>9791408
why are women so obsessed with saying that anyone who has a negative opinion of women's psychology just HASN'T MET THE RIGHT WOMEN or PROBABLY IS A LAME-O WHO BUILT MODEL SHIPS AS A BOY

why does everything refer back to social stuff

>>9791442
Because women, as men, are not unidimensional creatures. With so many women in the world, you know that whoever talks shit about them, outside of the family, has no contact at all with women

>>9788264
Stay unpredictable and use both

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Why is Canadian literature so trash?
The standard of writing in my country is so incredibly low that I could wipe my ass with a sheet of lined paper and be mentioned among the "best".

Pic related, it's our wanna-be Dylan.

>>9791442
It's called female in-group preference/ bias. Women romanticize each others behavior as a social defense mechanism. Basically women have strong in group & out group tribalism.

Why does Dickinson bring up birds so much in her poems?

>>9787795
LMAO they just deleted the pussy licking thread

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I haven't read a book since junior year of high school. Never read anything on philosophy. Will I be screwed if I try to read Brothers Karamazov? Is it a book that you need to read after being exposed to other various types of literature?

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Is there any classic literature that does not have controversial themes?

>>9787312
are there any books that talk about the idea of language being a lossy format for meaning? like if i were to describe the tree that grew up behind my house there would still be some disconnet because every story is cobbled together from the readers experiences which are fundamentally different than my own + slightly different misunderstandings of what words mean, and different expectations of what each party wants out of the conversation

also is there anything about the relationship between a representation of something and an original and whether or not there's a meaningful difference but also that there's, like, a separation in categories? like is a water gun a gun if it doesn't shoot bullets? i don't know if that example makes sense or not.

i don't know dick about philosophy so please help me out here

What is the purpose of penis?

>>9787312
fuck those hips and thighs

>>9787336
Yes but it is my favourite part so I might be subjective

I'm reading Gravity's Rainbow right now (just read the chapter with Blicero and the Dodoes) and I just don't get it, like I don't understand what the fuck the text is saying (I'm understanding the narrative events). I know it's supposed to be "difficult to read" but so was infinite Jest and I didn't find that difficult, am I just too fucking stupid and should give up or should I just keep reading?

>>9793236
Woolf's To the Lighthouse for your first rec. It's fiction but i think it fits

>>9790427
The complete works of Robert Anton Wilson.

>>9793236
Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is exactly what you're looking for. Especially Addie's chapter. It's also just a goddamn good book, I just did a paper with that exact subject matter on the book.
Also Woolf, like the other anon said.
As for philosophy, watch some vids on Wittgenstein. He's pretty unforgiving for people not into philosophy but there are good vids that cover his philosophy well

>>9793236
Wittgenstein, language games, family resemblances

Korzybski's general semantics

Lots of stuff on metaphor

>>9793322
Reproduction, urination.

Does anybody else like having massive, 1000+ page book anthologies/collections?
Any recommendations?
I've got the norton shakespeare, complete chaucer, complete holmes, and the two volume norton english literature anthology right now.

>>9787312
Why didn't Anne Frank write her own book?

>>9793778
Complete works of Plato

>>9791566
General blandness of character

>>9793628
What people mean when they say Infinite Jest is difficult is that it's long (and sometimes boring). Gravity's Rainbow can be confusing due to the writing alone. Since you say you understand what's going on already I don't know what else to add. It makes a lot more sense on a second reading

>>9793789
Because she couldn't keep herself from writing smut

>>9793809
it was actually her dad Otto that wrote it

>>9787321
Could this just be a really clumsy translation?

>>9793778
The Critical Tradition edited by Richter e is a good anthology of literary theory, although it's kind of lite on medieval crap so if you're into that shit get the Norton one instead, whatever it's called..but it's 2075 pages, and they're big ass pages probably equal to like 3 little paperback novel pages

>>9793236
yes, there's tons of literary theory that talks about this, i remember reading an essay by Sartre on it, but there's many more I'm sure, probably Saussure and Derrida

>>9791179
>>9791207

that's some of it, but part of the reason you "outperform" with women of color is because you are "defamiliarized" so whatever shitty patterns you fell into with the white chicks you grow up with, you brain sort of gets a reset and you can have a new approach with your added life experience instead of just the same dumb patterns from high school or college repeating, it's all spooky ideology stuff that is subconscious but it's definitely a factor

>>9793899
I've always wanted to get into literary theory but I gave up after trying derrida during my psuedo intellectual phase.
Will these essays be interesting for a layman, e.g not a phd student?

How do I learn to appreciate good prose?

>>9793931
derrida is like the shittiest guy to read, you can just slowly work your way through from the beginning since it literally starts with the greeks, so you have everything you need to build up your knowledge of aesthetics and literary theory to get to the most recent pomo shit, or you can pick and choose what you like since it's also split in sections like "formalism", "marxism", "structuralism" etc. but that's only the last third "modern and contemporary theory" section, the first 2/3rds is just old shit from across the centuries, and the difficulty varies from very accessible to practically impossible. it's actually the textbook for this class so you can always follow along with the lectures:

http://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-300#sessions

>>9793960
Do you personally have the text?
I want to learn about feminist/queer/racially diverse perspectives, does the book contain essays on those as well?
>derrida is like the shittiest guy to read
For beginners or just overall?

I do not understand why Being & Time is groundbreaking.

Are you telling me that for 2000 years philosophers didn't stop and separate being and beings?

>>9793981
it has all of that shit, you can see the table of contents here:

http://people.qc.cuny.edu/Faculty/david.Richter/Documents/crittrad.pdf

derrida is a bitch to read overall, he's just one of those hegel type dudes who has to write in an obscure way

>>9794004
Thanks anon, i'll have to get the book then.

>>9794014
just make sure you get the full version, there is a "shorter edition" which is like 10 bucks and 1000 pages less, rip off

>>9787312
Oof I'd get in her with my womb serpent.

I have a complete works of Plato I've been meaning to read, but in the annotations of my current book it oft mentions Plato's critiques, if not outright lambasting of the Greek gods.

So: should I perhaps read the Iliad to give myself frame of reference instead of going "???" every time Plato draws a reference, for a clearer understanding of his material?

Or maybe the emphasis on his comments on the gods are not actually so elaborated upon in his dualogues? I don't know. Help!

i ahve a tiny pecker

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Which should be read first, the Prose Edda or the Poetic Edda?

>>9793173
Better start with the gambler.

Do philosphers [try to] write complex and incomprehensible prose on purpose?

>>9795803
>Do mathematicians [try to] write complex and incomprehensible prose on purpose?
I think i answered your question.

>>9795803
You're just dumb.

>>9795814
Mathematicians don't write prose.

>>9787351
>metaphysics
>dialectical autism
Zeno would make your head explode in that case.

>>9787312
>regular iphone
>looks the size of a tablet

how tiny is this womb mobile?

>>9787844
Mediterranean girls are the patricians choice my friend. Those beautiful round brown eyes and dark hair with European features. Irresistible.

Looking to get into some Roman philosophy, particularly Marcus Aurelius. Planning to pick up Mary Beard's "SPQR", anything else I should grab before "Meditations"

>>9795803
A layman wouldn't expect to be able to decipher an academic maths or physics paper. Why then do they expect to have a complete understanding of a philosophy text?

My translation of the Iliad is E. V. Rieu is that good or what

>>9796121
Not particularly, I think he's the guy who ran the Penguin Classics series and the Iliad was the flagship edition or something. He's pretty good. A lot of people naturally had him as their first read. But /lit/ would probably recommend you read Fitzgerald.

I always feel bad for Rieu because he's seen as the PLEB DEFAULT PENGUIN EDITION for no reason. He's OK.

>>9793706
How do you know?

should I REALLY start with the greeks

>>9797382
Yes

>>9796121
Fitzgerald, Fagles and Lattimore get common recs here. Fitzgerald is the best for a new reader, prose preserves the structure and lexical style of the poem the best. Verse translations are better if you like prettier writing, but as the meme man says, "It isn't Homer".

Whatever translation you read, also read their Odyssey and Aeneid unless you just can't stand it

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>>9793236
It's called philosophy of language.

>>9793998
For the last time: the ontological difference is the starting point of Sein und Zeit, not the conclusion. The beginning, not the end. And yes, for millennia philosophers did believe in God.

>>9794436
>So: should I perhaps read the Iliad to give myself frame of reference instead of going "???" every time Plato draws a reference, for a clearer understanding of his material?
Congratulations, you have just found out the reason Start with the Greeks charts do not start with bloody Plato. And don't skip on the Presocratics either.

>>9795803
Textbooks of every field are incomprehensible to the uninitiated and filled with technical jargon, philosophy is no exception.

>>9796002
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/stoicism/

>>9796233
Consider the effects.

>>9797382
Yes.

What are essential leftist theory reads?

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There's this Dinosaur Jr. song called "The Lung" that's only 2 lines of lyrics and I have no idea what it's trying to convey because I'm a surface reader prole. Any ideas?

>Nowhere to collapse the lung
>Breathes a doubt in everyone

>>9798775
http://www.critical-theory.com/87-critical-theorist-books/
There are twelve pages including continental philosophy stuff that isn't lefty but is required nonetheless.

>>9787312
Fwoargh get on my knob fwoargh

Guys what is the most /lit/ thing you've ever done?
I personally have an entire resume of them but my most recent one was this

>be me
>enroll in uni at 23 declare for STEM
>get within 2 semesters of my EE degree
>take a high level language course
>BTFO the actual language major kiddies
>start getting special attention from teacher
>she's a harvard qt
>check her published books out of the library and read them in my spare time
>go to office hours to discuss them with her
>starts falling in love with me
>get her to write scholarship letters for me promising that i will keep visiting her
>get lots of opportunities
>drop out b/c it gets too boring

>>9787732
>actually being this spooked

>>9793923
nice anon you brought the thread back to being /lit/ and made some pretty good points too

>>9798798
Wouldn't read too much into it anon. Lot of those lo-fi noodly bands like Guided by Voices and Pavement love to use nonsense word-salad lyrics. Probably the same case here

>>9799488
I'm well aware, it's just that for some reason, these two lines kinda resonate with me and I was wondering what a /lit/-dweller would think. Also their other lyrics are usually quite straight forward.

Could anyone hook me up with Pound's literary essays, with a preface by T.S. Elliot?

>>9787538
Well he isn't going to post an ugly one is he? You stupid fucking bellsniff

>>9787884
Nah, you would've looked less than appealing if you would have done that. A smart thing to do would have left her tip in a napkin with your number on it.(A decently sized tip at that)

>>9788264
In this context a looks and sounds better.

>>9787312
Poetic
>Tfw never get to raid Africa to bring back a Nubian war bride whose sole purpose is to please me, act as nanny to my real children, and care over our illegitimate children
Why live?

>>9799370
Did you at least screw her?

>>9787312
Will I get the 9's?

>>9799999
yes

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>>9800008
Feels good... I like numbers.

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>>9799999
Checked.
Should I read The Sun Tzu?

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>>9800019
I did. It was a bit hard to understand at times what with being like 2500 years old or some crazy shit like that, but I think it was interesting and worth the read. Lots of notable Generals of history and other individuals of differing Military rank read it. I also suggest pic related. It's my latest book. Yes it is shilling, and no I don't care. I am the based shillster.

>>9787636
zizek in the full metal jacket bathroom?

>>9800046
Yes, watch the Pervert's Guide to Ideology.

>>9800046
Looks like it, anon. WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR IDEOLOGICAL MALFUNCTION NUMB-NUTS?! QUICK PICKING AT YOUR SHIRT AND YOUR NOSE LIKE A COKE HEAD'S JUST SPILT HIS STASH!

>>9800062
QUIT*
Fug...

"There's an entire internet out there full of essays and articles about almost any literary work you can name."

Where do you find these essays, and they actually good?

>>9800133
Plagiarism is bad.

Hey guys I don't know how to read or write and it really impacts my shitposting on 4chan.org

Most of the time I just guess really well, any tips on learning to read and write?

>>9800133
University and Library archive websites

>>9787312
The ajants, or whatever their name in English is, is the combination of both Ajaxes or Ajax the Great and Teucer?

Are there any other websites where I can discuss literature and philosophy as easily as here?

Best companions to aristotle?

>>9800513
Bump?

Do you think it would be beneficial to learn the 100 most used words for bunch of languages even if you're not going to learn more than that

>>9799461
Is this post to have double meaning? One referring to Stirner and another racist?

>>9787457
tits are clicks, don't hate the player, hate the attention economy that is the internet.

Does anyone get headaches from certain books? I have the hardcover version of the Didache Bible but it's completely unreadable. After just a few minutes I can feel a headache coming on and I don't know why. It's the only book that has ever done this to me. The paper, font, and formatting aren't all that different from other books so it's a mystery.

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I've read all of John Williams' novels and now I feel lost and don't know what to read next.

>>9802280
Read someone else's novels?

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>>9802297
Yeah but whose? I'm basically asking for writers who are similar to Williams. Piercing, dry, and incredibly human.

>>9802280
>>9802302
Well the only book I've ever read by Williams is "Butcher's Crossing" which I only read as it was part of the /lit/ western meme trilogy. After I finished it I then read the 2nd part of the trilogy "Warlock" by Oakley Hall which I thought was fantastic.

So read Warlock.

>>9802318
I really recommend Stoner m8. August is also beautiful, though a bit longer than it needed to be imo.

I'll finally check out Warlock though. It's been on my shelf for awhile, and I know that Pynchon loved it

is Marcus Aurelius's Meditations supposed to be sad? I know he explains alot of his problems and how he stoically deals with them but damn even for an emperor it sounds pretty shitty.

>>9802339
Yeah, they're a bummer.

>>9790682
It's an anonymous board. They should be able to deal with that shame.

Could somebody explain why my uni's library has nearly 400 books on henry james?
I've tried reading portrait but I didn't think much of it and he doesn't seem popular at all online.
Did he fall out of fashion 20 years ago or do academics find his work very interesting?

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someone please help me! I have a test tomorrow on this.
does anybody know any piece of literature (or other media like film for art) that deals with discovery?
~the main char. needs to make a discovery early on
~the rest of the work should be about dealing with the discovery, exploring how the discovery has changed things
quadruple bonus points if it also deals with themes of isolation and a desire to connect, I have to pair it with Robert Frost poetry like mending wall and tuft of flowers.
danke

>>9803721
the movie Big

>>9787312
Any books similar to the mentality of a reader of the following books:

Milk And Honey
The Alchemist
The Pilgrimage
A Thousand Splendid Suns
1984
The Catcher in The Rye