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Right in the kokoro, Tolstoy.
Right in the fucking kokoro.
I bet you a rare Stirner meme that 4chan users could express the same thought in less than 10 words
>>7596151
>tfw they hate you for having that feel
>>7596151
Thanks for contributing, I and many others value your post.
My dear anons, did you know that Josh Tillman, aka Father John Misty, has written a novel. Well, a novella really, as it appears to be quite short. Let us read it together and meet back here when we're done. See you on the other side
Link to book (it's posted by chapters in his blog):
http://mostlyhypotheticalmountains.blogspot.com/2010/11/1-introduction-if-only-by-virtue-of.html
I'll read this later tonight when I get the time, but I'm sincerely interested. Ever since I heard his song "I'm writing a novel", I've been interested knowing how well off a writer he is.
>>7595817
I'm not crazy about his music, I don't know why this guy is so popular right now
Would you call Don Quixote a tragedy?
Plot spoilers ahead.
Don Quixote tries to impose his chivalric morality on a society totally incompatible with chivalry. Beyond being a criticism of Cervantes' own society, I believe Don Quixote's motive for picking chivalry is unclear. Does he pick chivalry because he thinks society is actually chivalrous, and got it wrong? Or, does Don Quixote pick chivalry BECAUSE society is so incompatible with it, and thus needs it all the more?
In either case, we see his project fail, he tilts at windmills, his princess...
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it's a tragicomedy, don't overthink it.
It's Kafkaesque
>>7595736
Don Quixote is an idealist, he believes the world needs change in order to progress. What he does is attempt to disperse his humanist world view among the rural population (he does travel to Madrid and Salamanca, but the city is too multifaceted, too unwieldy to be brayed by his figure). Too many people use the word "impose," or something similar, when discussing Quixote: "he imposes his world-view, he forces himself on the world." Not enough people see the forest for the trees. Instead, when you...
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Which is better?
>translations
>>7595579
w2c the prank in original russian?
>>7595579
>not translation
What are some good books about the limits of the scientific knowledge?
pic related
>look! some functions are recursive!
>the universe, that is to say EVERYTHING, must too be recursive!
>therefore it IS recursive!
computational complexity is literally one of those overrated meme fields, along with artificial intelligence.
Hume's Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Nietzsche's On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense, Lichtenberg's Waste Books.
>>7595553
Anything by Feyerabend.
Kuhn's scientific revolutions, also his copernicus book.
literally why
So that the people at the printing place stop calling
>>7595291
>the page is no longer blank
you had one job
>>7595291
The process of bookbinding (as in, the making a physical book) involves working several units of paper together into a book. Those units of paper usually come in standard quantities (quirts or reams or whatever). So if you're working with units of 32 pages, and you want to make a book that's 63 pages long, you need to use two blocks of 32 pages. Now, you can choose to cut off one page, so you actually end up with 63 printed pages. But that cutting off of the last page involves an additional expense in the...
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Hey guys I'm about to start reading this. Should I expect to be able to understand it on a first read?
Is it worth reading?
>>7594974
It'sfun. Not really hard to read nor complex, just some gimmicks here and there and a lot of quotes. Nice edition though.
Totally enjoyed it
Go for it op
I want to tell you to read something else instead, but, due to its recent surge in popularity people will just tell me to "stop memeing".
So /lit/ the real question is this:
Which is the best version of Shakespeare's Complete works or First Folio?
Personally I don't want or need a "fancy" Norton copy that costs $100 but after that I don't know.
Norton costs like 20 quid you nonce
>>7598436
Hardback third edition is priced at $100
#bookz or Bookzz has it for free.
I'm writing an essay on Wittgenstein's book On Certainty and realizing that there is not such a wealth of secondary material on this book, though it is a fascinating and important work of philosophy. Does anyone here have comments or suggestions on where to look?
As a possible starting point, here's one of my favorite lines from the book: "Where two principles really do meet which cannot be reconciled with one another, then each man declares the other a fool and a heretic."
Also, Wittgenstein general thread.
>>7598288
La Force de la règle : Wittgenstein et l'invention de la nécessité, Éditions de Minuit, 1987
Le Pays des possible : Wittgenstein, les mathématiques et le monde réel, Éditions de Minuit, 1988
Philosophie, mythologie et pseudo-science. Wittgenstein lecteur de Freud, Éditions de l'Éclat, 196 p., 1991 ISBN 2-905372-46-X
Herméneutique et linguistique, suivi de Wittgenstein et la philosophie du langage, Éditions de l'Éclat, 1991
Wittgenstein, in Michel Meyer, La philosophie...
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Libgen alone has:
>Readings of Wittgenstein's On Certainty
>Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and On Certainty
>Understanding Wittgenstein's On Certainty
>Wittgenstein's On Certainty: There - Like Our Life
All of those will have bibliography/references/notes for more in-depth material.
So I'm thinking of writers that are primarily known for their short stories so I can casually read 3 or 4 of their works a week while reading longer works at the same time. So far I've thought of Chekhov, Poe, Maupassant, and Carver, and I already have some Kafka on my Kindle. Anyone else I should look into?
Flannery O'Connor, Roberto Arlt, Cortázar, Borges
>>7598213
Oh, I forgot to mention I have Borges too already. Already read Ficciones and loved it.
>>7598205
E.T.A. Hoffmann
This book must gain worldwide recognition. It's one of the best children's picture books in history because it's got the most realistic illustrations.
sage desu
Post quotes you like.
>We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
War and Peace
>>7598077
>socratic paradox
>>7598079
shouldn't you be on twitter?
In this moment, I am euphoric. Not because of any phony god’s blessing. But because, I am enlightened by my intelligence.
the brothers karamazov
ulysses
>>7597912
why do you not say a kids book
I've read prominent novellas by this sexy, sexy man and they are by far some of my favourite works. Where to begin with his novels? What do you rank his novels from best to worst?
1. Pierre
2. Moby-Dick
3. The Confidence Man
I also liked Mardi, though it's kind of a prototype Moby-Dick. Planning to read his epic poem soon, should I be hyped lads?
The "consensus" is that Moby-Dick is his best, but most academics are plebs who haven't read the others so you'll Have to either read them all or look into criticism by patricians.
What is the best edition of Alice in wonderland to get?
Read the scans of the original hand written transcript. They are the best, and keep the edgy lolita like instances.
>>7597606
The one without a gook on the cover
>>7597606
the full text
