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/fit/ here, been reading the Karamazov Brothers recently. Why is Dmitri so fucking beta? He agrees to fulfill every Grushenka's wish, can he even more faggy?
>>8215921
it is natural for men like you to crave the validation of their existence and get depressed if they fail to feel relevant, responsible.
The best way for a man to cater his need for approval is to serve some woman (and some of her children) through emotional&financial support.
Men are pleased to contribute to someone else life, to support their family.
Why women are a good way to feel relevant? Because women love to be provided for and each woman will always find a man ready to please her.
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>>8215924
You seem to be a beta desu, sorry.
>>8215924
yeah nah.
What is your attitude towards narration infested with rare, obscure and outdated words that no one in their right mind uses in real life?
Depends why it's done. Usually it's just showing off and that's stupid. Writing is to communicate.
Dislike it, but not as much as I despise those who find it necessary to complain about it.
I agree with your picture but not with your post. Then again, I'm not a native Anglophone and I've learned the language through media rather than conversation.
Just yesterday I had to google "ignominy", which was pretty annoying since I'm lazy and would rather not put my book down to do such things, but it was simply the most accurate expression for the scene in question. And it's not like learning is bad.
What's the best translation of Anna Karenina & War and Peace?
>>8215892
Maude
>>8215900
Just finished this one and was satisfied with it. Plus Tolstoy endorsed it.
>>8215892
russian
reminder that if you unironically and immediately ridicule or think less of a person because of how they pronounce an author's name, you're a phony pseud
i will say prowst instead of proost until the day i die
i know french, i don't care, it's still wrong
>>8215866
mad monoglot american detected
>>8215866
>buttblasted american detected
Did someone snicker at your 'Camoo' references? Or was it Showpenhauer, Ni-Chii, Haygel or Flawbert?
Finally finished reading this book. Tbh I liked it, even though I think it could have been shorter. How does history view Ayn Rand and her philosophy? What is wrong with following your dreams and pursuing your freedom? I can say, at least for myself, that I'm not a tool of the government and that I will fight for my future to realize my,and Ayn Rand's, dream of freedom.
I think that it's a perfect "what if" scenario if the Soviets won the Cold War. So, /his/, why does this book get so much shit?
>>8215789
>How does history view Ayn Rand and her philosophy?
"Literally who?"
>>8215789
>So, /his/, why does this book get so much shit?
at least make the effort if you're gonna randpost every day.
what the fuck happened to the 'there is to be no discussion on ayn rand' rule? fucking chinese moot
>/his/
know your audience, ya jackass. jk, reading it right now, enjoying the ride so far despite some slow parts and sappy romance. Like the anon above me, i dont think history has really considered Rand that extensively to give an opinion. But it's certainly true that she gets knocked around in intellectual circles
Have any of you learned a new language for the primary reason of being able to appreciate literature native to that language? I would love to understand French for this reason, especially for poetry that gets lost in translation.
Also, would reading two of the same book side by side, one in english the other in french, be a good way to get thrown into the deep end, so to speak
>>8215766
>Have any of you learned a new language for the primary reason of being able to appreciate literature native to that language?
yes, ancient greek. and given how often i actually speak french, also french.
>would reading two of the same book side by side, one in english the other in french, be a good way to get thrown into the deep end, so to speak
no, translation is a little bit more complicated than that, and you would fail to understand...
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I've been learning German for about 5 years and I have read things in that language, but only recently I have begun to read my actual first novel in German, Er ist wieder da.
is he the definition of a hack?
>>8215763
He could count the fingers on his hands, and add to ten, but he could tell you why that was so.
>>8215775
*couldn't
Going away from cupcake characters and romantic tropes, I want to write a very intelligent but realistic characters.
I was wondering: What are the motivations for these characters. Really, I'm lead to the question what the "return value" of being alive and successful really is. For example, I can't help but think eveb rich successful business men have it sometimes worse than me. Marries with kids, only stress with those, and vacation is literally just to off time from work. That's hoe it seems.
I'm impressed by Nicolas Winding Refn type...
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> I want to write a very intelligent but realistic characters
Aubrey–Maturin series has this (If you can handle the naval autism).
>>8215761
Tolstoy wrote good intelligent and rich characters in War and Peace.
Does anybody know any good Survival books or guides? Preferably mainly focused on forests or such, shelter and hunting (duh).
They're all decent, just look into as many as you can.
>>8215740
I currently found http://www.doomguide.com/sas/ and it seems decent or worth reading.
>>8215731
Ask on /out. They are good mate
I have recently begun reading books in PDF/EPUB form and I am wondering if you can somehow mark all the words that you do not know so that later you can export them to a separate document in order to learn them.
I know I can copy and paste but that would ruin the immersive aspect of reading more than simply highlighting it and exporting all the words at once at the end.
Anyone know how I can do this?
>>8215715
I enjoy this feature in my Amazon Kindle Paperwhite™
If I'm unsure of a word, I simply press it with my fingertip and the Oxford English Dictionary™ entry is brought up, and that word is immediately added to my learning list.
When I want to look over the words I have looked up, I access this feature. It's similar to flash cards, and once I'm comfortable with a word, I can remove it from the list.
>>8215732
Mm. I do not own a Kindle however :(
I use my computer. Thanks either way.
>>8215833
Have you thought about purchasing the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite™?
It's simply the best reading device when you're at home, at work, or out on the go.
The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite™ even features a child-friendly mode so that you can control what the little ones' see when they're using your Amazon Kindle Paperwhite™.
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Is there a single woman who understands this book?
every single woman understands that book and avoids you for identifying with it
>>8215621
holy SHIT op on suicide watch
No, women cannot understand it.
There are some that like to identify with it on a superficial level but only a man can truly understand Caulfield.
Besides the works of Bret Easton Ellis and Tao Lin, could /lit/ offer me some works that deal with millennials?
I ask this as a millennial who can see the vapidity and high-order narcissism of his peers, but can also see in them positive traits such as diligence and idealism (despite the onslaught of ironic content the internet has churned out). Thus, I would like some sort of assurance (or counter-argument) that all generations have been equally "me, me, me." If nothing in points such a direction, then why is that?
>>8215434
try Marxism, specifically Jameson
>>8215434
>works that deal with millennials
Nu School Know-Brow YA
>>8215290
>a literature of New Media
>Avant Garde way beyond post modern
.. mattering and storytelling are in an intra-active relationship...
...Storytelling is not just a sensemaking or linguistic account, it is also about mattering...
... Storytelling...
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>>8215434
>I ask this as a millennial
...look deeper....
..There are some recent researches which put the emphasis on the youth, the future of the society who is at the forefront of new media environment...
...According to the media ecology theory, analyzing today's generational identity through the lens of media technologies themselves can be more productive than focusing on media content....
Yeah, I read the Diving Comedy.
So What?
Does that make me a better man? Does that make me wiser for having read it?
I read it in a fever dream of mass hysteria, guilt, and confusion in which I wrestled with god in cacoon of my own self-righteous, twisted ego because I was not who I thought I was, and that fact had finally been revealed to me.
I was not a hero in my own play, but just a passerby in a much larger work.
But so what? So it humbled me, so it made me think, these are things we should all do, all the time.
Do I claim to have...
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>The Diving Comedy
I am inclined to agree.
>>8215324
well whatever the fuck its called, I read it. Its sitting up on my shelve with my favorite passages highlighted in yellow market.
>2016
>15 years since 9/11
>Global Islamic Jihad is killing people on the streets of Europe and America
>Still no good fiction talking about it
War is a hugely popular context for literature. Real wars are the setting for countless classics of war fiction over the years.
How long until ISIS, Al Qaeda and the Global War on Terror™ is a "setting" for literature? (i.e. fiction - plot and narrative-driven story)
Do we have...
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>posting the same thread everyday
fucking autists
There's plenty of good literature about it.
What do you make of this work
I prefer his metaphysics
Essential reading
everything he wrote is trash but still have to wash it down for the sake of understanding pretty much everyone
