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I am halfway through pic related and I am having trouble understanding it and enjoying it. I figure that beneath the humour there is a story of incompetent soldiers being tired of the war but what more is there? Is the humour supposed to be funny?
why do you make this thread every day. Is there humor in this for you? Is this supposed to be funny?
>>8209936
first time making this thread, I can only assume that I am not the only one too stupid to figure it out
>>8209930
>Is the humor supposed to be funny
The Iliad is Metal af. What other books contain such graphic descriptions of battke and death (ancient or modern)?
Also a side note: the way Homer mentions some unrelated quotidian fact about the dying makes they're deaths all the more powerful and vivid; especially considering that we only hear of most of these people mentioned once or twice during the story. It's kind of brutal to read.
>>8209890
their*
>>8209890
bump
>>8209890
read Blood Meridian
Any good vaporwave novels yet, or am I going to have to write it?
>vaporwave
>good
>>8209897
Pretty much this.
cyberpunk t b h
When will the world recognize the genius of Alex Kierkegaard?
>>8209824
You aren't a genius.
Is this guy dead or not?
>>8209824
You mean Anthony Zyrmpas? Not as long as he keeps his genius behind a paywall.
This thread probably belongs in /x/, but what does /lit/ think of the Mandela Effect? Clearly it's a real phenomenon, but does it go as far as being a computer simulation? Are they glitches in the Matrix?
Pertains to /lit/ in the way of philosophy, I think, if not pseudo-philosophy.
9/11 – Did it happen on 9/11, as most people remember, or on 9/10, as some recall?
>>8209782
Remember on September 11th, how you felt when you saw that footage of the first plane hitting the tower?No, because you didn't see that footage until the next day
>>8209787
Also there are 52 states in the United states because of Alaska and Hawaii.
Hey, /lit/. Can you tell me which of these if any you've read? Any recommendations?
>>8209730
I recommend you to fuck off and read.
Fuck off, NYRB shill.
celine, williams, pessoa, cioran, mcelroy and gaddis are good
mecken is kinda reddit but also good.
bely is supposed to be good but finnegans wake tier in comprehensibility
I'm about to read this, /lit/. What should I expect?
Horrible writing, special snowflake philosophy, B-list actor author who never read a boo-FUCKING KILL YOURSELF.
Read it. People bash it and Rand for stupid things but politics and philosophy aside the novel itself is pretty good and unique. You could do a lot worse and some of the meme books that get suggested here often are in fact worse than Atlas Shrugged.
It's a decent book, really long though.
Any good literature where the protagonist treats women and non whites like utter shit, ie rapes abuses and murders them in horrific fashion?
It has to be detailed. I've jerked it too much too Sade already
Blood Meridian
A Clockwork Orange
American Psycho
An honest poster!
I am looking for an honest poster!
Are there no honest posters on this board?
Sup
>>8209618
Fuck off, you filthy beggar.
The search continues...
Intellectual Yet Idiot: semi-erudite bureaucrat who thinks he is an erudite; pathologizes others for doing things he doesn't understand not realizing it is his understanding that may be limited; imparts normative ideas to others: thinks people should act according to their best interests *and* he knows their interests, particularly if they are uneducated "red necks" or English non-crisp-vowel class.
More socially: subscribes to the New Yorker; never curses on twitter; speaks of "equality of races" and "economic equality" but never went out drinking with a minority cab driver; has considered voting for Tony Blair; has attended more than 1 TEDx talks and watched more than 2 TED talks; will vote for Hillary Monsanto-Malmaison because she seems electable; has The Black Swan on his shelves but mistakes absence of evidence for evidence of absence; is member of a club to get traveling privileges; if social scientist uses statistics without knowing how they are derived; when in the UK goes to literary festivals; drinks red wine with steak (never white); used to believe that fat was harmful and has now completely reversed; takes statins because his doctor told him so; fails to understand ergodicity and when explained forgets about it soon later; doesn't use Yiddish words; studies grammar before speaking a language; has a cousin who worked with someone who knows the Queen; has never read Frederic Dard, Michael Oakeshot, John Gray, or Joseph De Maistre; has never gotten drunk with Russians and went breaking glasses; doesn't know the difference between Hecate and Hecuba; doesn't know that there is no difference between "pseudointellectual" and "intellectual"; has mentioned quantum mechanics at least twice in the past 5 years; knows at any point in time what his words or actions are doing to his reputation.
But a much easier marker: doesn't deadlift.
One of my fundamental realizations in life is that popular media in the 20th and 21st century is no better at conveying information than the “yellow journalism” of the Robber Baron era. A corollary to this is that most popular science “experts” are clowns. I realized this almost immediately in physics, as I had the good fortune to meet a couple of the charlatans I admired as a youth. It would be incredibly solipsistic of me to assume that this was only true in physics, but that is in fact what I assumed. Until I gained enough expertise in other fields to see through...
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>>8209600
Taleb: “…homeowners and others have been recklessly amassing debt. Such non-linearity makes the mathematics used by economists rather useless. Our research shows that economic papers that rely on mathematics are not scientifically valid. Not only do they underestimate the possibility of “black swans” but they are unaware that we do not have any ability to deal with the mathematics of extreme events..”
Um, where did the nonlinearity come from? I’m assuming from a bad editing job. The larger issue...
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I'm laughing at 4 plates reading Ulysses so no worries baby
ITT: Soundtracks to books.
> Gravity's Rainbow.
Early 1960's radio was one helluva drug.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlYkpskehmE
That choice of music would fit more with Crying of Lot 49.
GR usually stays in the 30s to 40s except for like two parts.
>>8209569
KICK OUT THE JAMS MOTHERFUCKER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uo35O1AJOfg
I GOTTA RAISE A FUSS I GOTTA RAISE A HOLLER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU5uDozoSSM
How do I get into reading and not lose my concetration
I want to start reading more books how do I develop a good reading habit? Some folk out there read like 4 hours a day. I want something along those lines 2-4 hours.
How do you not lose the concentration?
succ
Don't bother it's not worth it. Watch netflix instead. Same content, but better delivery.
>Watching movies and TV is for plebs; it rots your brain
>Reading novels is for patricians; it's gentlemanly and learned
Is there any truth to this meme? (And if so, then what of audiobooks?)
Is the distaste for "merely watching TV/Movies" simply a modern development; a reaction of the disgust reflex against the media addiction that goes hand-in-hand with (and arguably supports)...
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>>8209534
>reading fiction
>muster up all my courage to put ignore the fear of being seen as a posing faux intellectual in order to go outside and read while laying on the grass on the sunniest and hottest day of the year
>all going well
>Tender is the night is enjoyable
>hear some noise
>see young giggling nubile short skirted girls walk past
>mfw all the expected thoughts concurrently pass through my mind
>>8209522
>reading outside
>posting this on /lit/
>desu and basically you are fucking stupid
Are you seeming to be something you're not?
In your heart of hearts, are you?
I can tell you, when I walk up the road with a can of lager in one hand and a copy of Megahex in the other I'm perfectly at ease with myself even as I run into the swarm of children walking back from school and they inevitably start yelling to me and asking what I'm reading.
This is because I am not thinking about anything but what I'm doing - because I enjoy it to the extent that the judgement of others is an irrelevant speck.
However, some people find...
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>>8209721
>>>/Reddit/
FML I have to write a personal statement for med school
This is so fucking hard. Do you guys have any advice? I don't want to make it generic and boring but I don't want to make it too off topic, either.
I'm thinking about following this pattern:
Stasis
Trigger
The quest
Surprise
Critical choice
Climax
Reversal
Resolution
but my life is honestly not interesting enough to fit all that stuff in. DAMN I hate this
>Stasis
>Trigger
>The quest
>Surprise
>Critical choice
>Climax
>Reversal
>Resolution
This is the tracklist to my new album
>>8209518
How much is it worth to you, to get into medical school?
A hundred thousand in fees, and a future career in medicine?
Surely that's enough to splash out a few hundred bucks on a professional personal statement writer.
Google is your friend.
>>8209518
If you can't write a convincing personal letter you don't belong in med school. The fact that your have to write one implies your marks were barely enough for them to even consider you.
More like cioran and pessoa please.
>>8209497
celine
>>8209513
>celine
does he have more segmented autobiographical or philosophical stuff like pessoa and cioran, or does he just have stories like journey to the end of the night?
>>8209497
albert caraco
