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>one of the most dangerous men in recent history
>PhD in Religious Studies
STEMfags BTFO. Try to be enemy number one with a physics degree, nerds.
Near Eastern /lit/ General. How do I start reading Averroes?
>>7360194
>PhD in Religious Studies
Ha. His teacher used to mock him for his lack of intellect.
>enemy number one with a physics degree
Da'ish's current deputy leader is a former physics teacher. :^)
>Start reading Ibn Rushd
Start with the Greeks (seriously). Also read al-Ghazali, most importantly his Incoherence of the Philosophers and the various responses to it including Ibn Rushd's response to it...
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>>7360225
>Incoherence of the Incoherence.
srsly thought this book was made up by Borges as some sort of arcane joke
>>7360194
>CIA puppet
>dangerous in himself
kek
Are there any works of literature, preferably in Latin or Ancient Greek (or French if I'm feeling particularly vulgar and unsophisticated), about the modern female's disgust at males without alpha / Chad characteristics?
yeah there's lots of stuff in Latin and Ancient Greek about modern females
>>7360153
i dislike that young woman
her facial expression annoys me
please delete it
>>7360157
name some of them
Felling miserable since my f2f broke up with me. Give me a good read for my soul plz. I'm in a San Francisco bookstore looking around so if I buy something I'll post it
*gf* fucking auto correct
The sorrows of young werther
Post your worst book summaries.
>>7359979
What's that book called?
Sounds pretty great, to be honest.
Sounds like solid satire. Would read.
Language, clothing, and perception of others...
Are you aware of and keep consistent the typical attributes of social classes in your characters.
>>7359945
describing clothing is autistic and amateur.
I don't like to write because everything that I write that isn't about is just false. How can I write about a businessman struggle if I don't even know how it feels to work for 5 years on a cubicle. How can I try to describe a traffic jam on a big city if I never lived on a town with more than 100k hab?
I don't really know how you guys can write fiction without feeling disgusting...
>>7359996
Live an interesting life then write about it.
>sucks to be a shy autistic faggot
One main issue I have with this speech is the notion of monopoly Wallace paints higher education with. It seems as though he thinks that university is the only place that could teach you "what to think about". Note, I am not in contention with the statement that I need to learn what to think about. My issue stems from the fact that this can and does occur outside of schooling. Therefore, I don't see the point of claiming that university can teach you what to think about when it is not unique in this way.
It's been awhile since I've listened to/read this, but I don't think he ever makes that contention. He certainly focuses on the higher education liberal arts thing because it's an address at a liberal arts college.
>>7359932
However, in a general sense, I do enjoy and agree with this speech.
I don't think he's saying that it's the only place you can learn it, just that that's the reason you should go.
It would be like saying the reason to go to a grocery store is to buy groceries. There are other things you can do there, but the most efficient use of your time in the grocery store is to buy groceries. If you don't want groceries your time would be better spent elsewhere.
> "This is another paradox, that many of the most important impressions and thoughts in a person’s life are ones that flash through your head so fast that fast isn’t even the right word, they seem totally different from or outside of the regular sequential clock time we all live by, and they have so little relation to the sort of linear, one-word-after-another-word English we all communicate with each other with that it could easily take a whole lifetime just to spell out the contents of one split-second’s flash of thoughts and connections,...
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It seems like Hemingway addresses this criticism by suggesting that if we portray characters doing things rather than trying to describe how they feel, the reader will be able to understand how they feel through sheer empathetic brain-power rather than through the conveyance of words.
>>7359854
i guess maybe if we see an author trying to describe the state of another human being's mind as sincerely and accurately as he can, as doomed an attempt as it is, the same principle would apply?
Show, don't tell, in a nutshell.
How much time did it take you to read the divine comedy?
Why? What's it to you?
>>7359813
I haven't read it anon
>>7359820
OP here, probably around 20~25 days, but I am brazilian and my book is english so took a bit more. Also, pretent to come back at it in the future to actually study all the references and all.
>tfw you read Hamlet and it makes you really want to enact it
>tfw you don't have any friends, let alone friends who share this desire
Can /lit/ clear something up for me, my English teacher told me Shakespeare plagiarized everything he 'wrote'.
>>7359807
Your English teacher is retarded.
>tfw screaming "What a piece of work is a man!" monologue alone out the window into a storm
What is the most pretentious "red pilled" book ever published?
>>7359723
infinite jest
>>7359728
>IJ
>redpill
It's like some people post IJ in every thread no matter the theme.
Incase you're being serious:
IJ isn't even reactionary. It isn't even political.
It's a social commentary.
>>7359723
pic related. So redpilled even Hitler couldn't handle it.
I know what happens to Jon snow
Are you Gorm?
What's a form? Ha
Gorm
Let there be the english poetry thread. We all should know that the best english poet of the last 200 years is Edgar Poe. But who's the second best? I think Rudyard Kipling.
>>7359573
>edgar poe
OH MY GOD
>>7359573
>We all should know that the best english poet of the last 200 years is Edgar Poe. But who's the second best? I think Rudyard Kipling.
I appreciate what you are doing OP. The people on this board only appreciate poetry which they can post with a picture of an androgynous girl attached. I do not like Poe so much, but Kipling is great. Anybody who wants to be a writer can learn a lot from him, if you want to just get a gf through reading (most of /lit/) then don't bother.
I would put forward Hopkins as the best poet of the last 200 years. His voice is unique and the music of his poetry is perfectly matched to everything he describes.
>tfw first discovered The Leaden...
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Iranman here. do you remember me /lit/?
How'd you like the book? Was it worth the daily threads?
Yes. I bought a copy of that book you were after when we finally found it.
Have you finished your translation?
Post your best arguments about the benefits of reading and the reflection, enlightenment, etc. it can bring and why people should read the classics.
i like it, you might like it. maybe not idk idc
Girls find it attractive
>>7359491
>i like to read
>what do you like to do in your free time?
these are actual things i say to actual people. if they also like reading i will ask about the last book they read, favorite books and go from there. if they don't read i don't push it on them
>look ma i did it again xd
>>7359361
I don't know about comedy, but this post is definitely a joke.
your diary, to be honest family
