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>precipice
>precipitate
I want to ____ the rabbit.
>>8057127
>ones a sheer cliff
>ones differing forms of water vapor falling from the sky
What's so hard to understand? You one'o'dem Frenchmen who dun come here for the beavers?
>anime
How do idealists explain the origin/the coming into being of the intellect/the subject?
>>8057113
Well if Berkely is your example God did it (or does it rather)
Roughly: they don't. They may allude here and then to the historicity of any particular human soul, but then make it clear their concerns are elsewhere. Consider Kant:
>There is no doubt whatever that all our cognition begins with experience as far as time is concerned. No cognition in us precedes experience, and with experience every cognition begins.
>The human being is obviously in one part phenomenon, but in another part, namely in regard to certain faculties, he is a merely intelligible object, because...
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>>8057190
>Does that make sense?
nope
As someone new to /lit/ that wants to read more quality literature, what would you consider essential titles or authors?
Check the wiki.
>>8057110
Here's a list to start with. Come back when you've finished them all, and not one second earlier.
>>8057110
How the fuck do you guys even read all these postmodernists, classics and a whole shitload of novels on top of that?
I'm still ploughing through a set number of thinkers, yet you dorks seem to have carefully managed all the greats.
>>8057107
It's not really that hard, it's just consistency. I read a minimum of 25 pages a day. Most days i probably read about 25~30. Some days i'll read up to 100, but that's rare. Philosophy i might only read 10 whilst taking notes.
I set aside 2 hours of reading time each day. usually get 50 pages done in that span. before you know it its been two weeks and you're done with a massive tome
>be me
>convert to islam
>decide to only read one book
>memorize the entire quran
>claim to be a moderate muslim
>get a free pass for making inaccurate claims and historical inaccuracies
>still considered an interesting bloke with important insights by the leftist intelligentsia
It's that simple.
How do you guys cope with the sensation of intellectual inadequacy that comes (to varying degrees and frequencies) with reading?
Started reading Life A User's Manual by Perec today and can't help but feel dumb and mentally inadequate.
I get this feeling too. Bumpin.
>>8057057
Some people were just meant to work in coal mines and do menial shit all day. Sucks to be you.
No, because reading like that is the dumbest thing you can do. You don't put the pussy on a pedestal because you won't be able to put it in the pussy, not because it isn't worth the place on the shelf.
Opening this thread with a random question but will be bumping with the best fucking books that depict WW2, from both a subjective (first-person-touchy-feely type shit) and objective (historically accurate, Eva-Braun-fucking-Hitler's-Dog type shit.
Saw some motherfucker that must have been 45 years old unironically reading the Diary of Jew Frank today at my local sniper sp- I mean book depository.
Is there anything to be gained from reading it besides mild entertainment and laughing at some 13 year old talking about her cunt and stuff? Is The Endless Steppe...
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First one's gotta go to Band of Brothers, cuz I'm a sucker for the TV show and get a hard-on reading the books.
Images and text descriptions (minus my dumbass drunk rambling and opinions) are straight from google, but I'm only posting the books I've read and know, except for the Diary of Jew Frank, cuz like that's kind of why I started the thread
(tl;dr: someone be my friend for the next four hours to talk about books while I drink away my sorrows and wish I was born in 1920)
"As good a rifle company as any in the world, Easy...
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Gonna space the next few posts out unless someone tells me they're lurking or posts, I don't want to be raping the front page.
This next one is another classic but holy fuck is it a chore to get through, even though it will rip away most of the myths (and bullshit legends and accomplishments) that popular culture has implanted into the mind of our oh-so-impregnable youth.
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany is a non-fiction book by William L. Shirer chronicling the rise and fall of Nazi Germany from the birth of Adolf Hitler...
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>>8057074
Fucking forgot the damn photo. Whatever. Here.
who is the greatest american author of the 19th century and why is it henry james?
James was a Europhile that wrote boring garbage. I'll take the thrill of Melville over his teatime schlock any day.
Samuel Clemons followed by Melville.
>>8057034
James was a brilliant author by 19th century standards.
Melville is the greatest American author of all time and easily in the top ten of the entire english language.
Both are outshone by Walt Whitman though.
>ctrl+f
>no clone chronicles thread
let's fix this
>>8057019
>this is your /lit/ on summer
>>8057042
if you can't tell that this is bait then you're the summer
>>8057071
Sounds to me like someone can't handle the bantz.
Is fate real? Are we in control of how our lives turn out, are we in control of how we perceive how our lives turn out? Do we control our fate with our actions, or does it fall into our hands?
Has you ever had a moment of realization that you were meant to do something?
>>8057014
No because no matter which explanation makes you feel better, the future will happen just the same.
no one is meant to do anything. everything that has happened and will happen has already happened. human beings just have a natural inkling that time moves forward & that they can affect it, when, in reality, all of time is already there, like an imprint in stone. i'm grilling and i'm fucking at the same time. i'm grilling and i'm fucking at the same time. i'm grilling and i'm fucking at the same time. i'm grilling and i'm fucking at the same time. i'm grilling and i'm fucking at the same time.
>>8057014
>Is fate real?
depends on your definition
>Are we in control of how our lives turn out
sometimes
>are we in control of how we perceive how our lives turn out?
obviously
>Do we control our fate with our actions, or does it fall into our hands?
mostly actions. i guess there are cases of finding a bunch of money in a bag down some alley but for the most part fate is controlled by...
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What does /lit/ think?
>>8056956
monogatari tier
>>8056956
Pleb shit
>>8056956
Didn't like it.
Didn't finish it.
Maybe you will. It's not long, just give it a shot.
Kafka on the Shore was good imo
post lit get hit
you know the drill. Prose and essays accepted but we won't do your homework for you.
there should be a literary version of the critic
I'll take the dive. This 1/2 of my 8000 word short story that I'm editing.
the last time i posted in one of these my lit was so bad the thread died instantly
What does /lit/ think of Houellebecq?
>>8056847
One of my favorite authors because his writing accurately captures the social and economic alienation that everyone faces today. Additionally, he is one of the few authors to comprehend the reason why only a few men get laid like there's no tomorrow while most struggle for scraps, and only a few men become obscenely wealthy while most live paycheck-to-paycheck.
Unfortunately, the translations to English are a little drab. I'm learning French now for work, hope I become fluent enough to read his untranslated...
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>>8057088
I see the Bukowski, yet he's universally hated on this board. I like both writers a lot and H. is probably my favorite writer alive.
>>8057207
>I see the Bukowski, yet he's universally hated on this board.
he has a blue bird in his heart
they recently made me have an x-ray and there was no blue bird there
if bukowski has one he's an alien
give me your spiciest memes brotendo
template
Behead All Satans
you sound like you frequent /v/ and discovered /lit/ a few days ago
>falling for the e-fedora meme
>falling for the books have that special feeling on them meme
>buying books
>wasting gas money on going to the library
it's like you want to exhaust your resources.
>>8056811
>being so much of a fat fuck that you cant walk to the library
Are any of Burroughs' books other than naked lunch good?
>>8056762
that books not good
>>8056766
>he doesn't get naked lunch, therefore its bad
ah love this meme
I thought the Western Lands was alright. Really scatter brained though.
