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New Savannah poem regarding the events in Orlando.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co-YLGNlGhE
it's official; she's (he's?) doing hormone replacement therapy
Shit I was just writing a poem about the Orlando thing! Who is this bitch?
How difficult is this to read in Spanish?
Fairly difficult since it's not just in Spanish, it's also in OLD Spanish. Imagine if it was the opposite and you were a native Spanish speaker trying to read The Canterbury Tales. If you're good enough with Spanish that you can read a modern book, you'll probably be able to handle it.
>>8162879
It's even hard for native Spanish speakers to red Don Quixote
Try reading this
En un lugar de la Mancha2, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme3, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor4. Una olla de algo más vaca que carnero, salpicón las más noches5, duelos y quebrantos los sábados6, lantejas los viernes7, algún palomino de añadidura los domingos8, consumían las tres partes de su hacienda9. El resto della concluían sayo de velarte10, calzas de velludo para las fiestas, con sus pantuflos de lo mesmo11, y los días de entresemana se honraba con su vellorí...
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Is there a rebuttal to moral relativism that doesn't involve religion?
>>8162793
That making a moral decision on a case to case basis is impractical and prone to human error.
So ‚rule utilitarianism'
>>8162793
I want to sniff her asshole and lick it
>>8162813
>impractical
how? just make decisions when the need arises.
>prone to human error.
unlike setting strict rules for every action you take?
Where should I start with Unabomber #2?
my notebooks to be sincere brethren
>>8162674
That doesn't even work in this setting...
I started with 13 Stories and 13 Epigraphs. I'd start with Rainbow Stories, though. While the good stories in 13 Stories are fucking GOOD, there are some that aren't great and that could turn you off to him.
Is this Eco's best work and/or the best place to start with him?
>best work
debatable. you can make a strong case for it.
>best place to start
yes
>>8162008
>reading liberal trash
>>8162008
Best place to start yeah. Then read Foucault's Pendulum which is his best work.
What's the difference between Continental and Analytical philosophy?
I've always had the impression that the former is just feels/opinions and general grandiose statements, whereas the latter is basically 'philosophy' on mathematical steroids; formalized, obsessed with language/semantics, and on occasion wielding equations/etc.
More to the point, which is best?
>>8161836
You've pretty much nailed how they operate. Which is better depends on where your interests lie. Analytics focus more on specific philosophical problems and you tend to find them working on problems in metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of language, phil of science, and so on. Continentals tend to focus heavily on the humanistic side of philosophy, concerned with ethics, aesthetics, history, ideology, etc. There is certainly crossover and often you may find them working on the same problems in different...
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dude, A=A lmao so deep
>>8161836
Since I'm human and I have feelings as well as opinions and love the aesthetic grandeur of a grandiose statement, I'll go with continental philosophy.
More fulfilling.
I'll leave the autists with their silly approximations.
Faulkner hate thread
The Sound and the Fury is fucking unbearable with its pretentious vocabulary. Stream of consciousness be some retarded shit. Also the main character is literally retarded.
>>8161626
I just thought it was really boring and uneventful. it also wasn't hard. why do people say it's hard? I just wrote down characters names and there relations and it even goes into italics when the time changes. I wish it didn't. but yeah he's shit.
>>8161626
>Elder von Corncob
This guy needs to stick a corncob up his ass
Itt: books /lit/ underrates
>>8161157
Mein Kampf
Atlas Shrugged
Art of the Deal
Ride the Tiger
Turner Diaries
>>8161157
Sorry, you can't post that without dubs
Do you think that older textbooks were better written than modern textbooks? I think the style of older authors was more flowery than modern authors, who write in a very dull and straigthforward style.
>Obfuscation is good.
>Simplification is easy.
I like when textbooks didn't pull their punches. I always go for older textbooks when learning a subject, because the new ones are designed for spoiled homos who can't read more than 12 pages a day if it doesn't have pretty pictures.
>>8161040
Yes. Modern language education is directed towards average idiots who will never learn a language no matter what they do.
How can you tell whether or not a book is poorly written? People say pic related is written very well, and I can see how, but would not have been able to make that judgement on my own as I thought nothing of the writing as I was reading the book. People also say that A Song of Ice and Fire is poorly written, but again, unless I see a specific passage singled out to be bad, I wouldn't know if it was poorly written.
By paying attention and ignoring what people say. A lot of ASoIF is adequately, if unexceptionally, written; a lot of the Great Gatsby is poorly, however elaborately, written.
>>8160928
>The Great Gatsby is poorly written
Oh, come on
>>8160919
It's something you recognize immediately if you have any understanding of language. Someone will post that passage from one of the ASoIaF books about Dany shitting in the field. Look at that and you will understand what bad writing is.
Poor writing can also have to do with the plot, but that doesn't seem to be what you're talking about.
Do you rate this man lit? How much?
Rating art on a numerical scale is stupid.
But Kafka wrote some good stuff
He's slightly overrated IMO, but still very, very good.
Make sure you check out The Judgement.
You betcha I rate him!
I rate him apple out of vermin.
how do i make money writing?
>>8160416
applying for autismbux is about your best bet
blackmail notes.
>>8160416
kill yourself
are there any good books written by a black person?
a girl from my class called me out for not knowing a single one
>>8160294
yes
>>8160294
there's a chart somewhere.
I see it every once in a while when these threads come up
Black person as in black american? A person from africa? What about a latin american that happens to have dark skin? What the fuck did she even mean?
What are some examples of senseless death in tragic literature? I'm talking the on purpose killing of someone who turns the other cheek and loves their neighbor, has ren (humanitas), and perhaps most poignant of all, talent. From my understanding, most tragedy involves retribution, Richard III deserves it, etc. But reality has no shortage of senseless death.
From my limited understanding I can't really come up with any proper examples.
Ivan the Terrible killing his son for not beating his wife comes to mind. But it wasn't on purpose. Or was it?...
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>>8160291
Pretty much all of Titus Andronicus.
Literally all of fiction because it was needlessly created for your enjoyment.
>>8160314
That's not a reason. I doubt they were thinking of me at all
What's the worst novel you've ever read?
>inb4 IJ
>inb4 meme shit you had no business reading anyway
>>8159686
book of disquiet
>>8159686
maybe Huxley's The Island
Probably asoiaf desu.
Or maybe the first half of ride the tiger where he pretends he understands philosophy. He should have just said feels>reals and saved 140/240 pages
Or Fahrenheit 451 fuck that turd
