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>Circe
Is it even possible to get this drunk? Seems more like they are on psychs imagining all this shit
Did Joyce use psychedelic drugs?
People used to think you could trip on absinthe. Turns out it's actually not the absinthe that did it, though, it's some of the stuff involved with traditional styles of drinking it.
>>8038543
All good authors and prophets used psychedelic drugs.
>>8038559
They were drinking beer though I think
ITT: we take books literally that are meant metaphorically.
So what did the aliens want with him in the end?
haha bible
>>8038537
what kind of metaphor were the aliens?
The whole "aliens were a metaphor for PTSD making him lose touch with reality" thing never sat well with me. I think it's pushed by high school english teachers who teach just Slaughterhouse Five, because if you read the rest of Vonnegut, his worlds are all filled with actual aliens interacting with humans. It's light sci-fi, not allegory. I think Vonnegut was just trying to use the aliens to explain his outlook on dealing with tragedy.
Also, the aliens clearly didn't want anything. They just noticed he came unstuck and explained it to him. They...
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How's the writing career coming, /lit/?
>>8038517
I literally and literarily cannot complete a story
>>8038635
I believe in you, senpai
>>8038517
12 pages of my life in a cult book completed so far. May need to rewrite them.
QTDDTOT Behold A Man Edition
For questions that don't deserve their own thread
I'm looking for a collection book of haiku or imagist poetry. Any recs?
If Plato had one or both of his legs amputated by Diogenes the Cynic, would he be considered castrated / no longer a man anymore by his own definition?
>>8038553
How does this definition fits with his theory of forms either way?
you can't amputate a leg of the form, baka
Remember this?
remember that lying faggot who said he would audiobook it all and didnt
>>8038491
I'll do it.
>>8038439
Yes. It was really fun even though my contribution got edited. Also, I helped with the cover.
Have you ever found yourself in the position where you had to teleologically suspend the ethical?
No, because God doesn't talk to me.
:( pls respond, God
Well seeing as how Kierkegaard thought the teleological suspension of the ethical made sense in the case of the Knight of Faith, then the only situation in which one would have to do so is if he were called upon to do it by God.
>>8038410
Won't happen unless you've made the movement of infinite resignation, which you haven't.
>dat German lit
>dat Norse mythology
>dat Greek mythology
>dat Christian mythology
>dat interaction of /lit/ and /phil/
>dat German Idealism
>dat existentialism
>dat natural science
>dat communism
>dat fascism
>dat criticism...
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>mfw Germans can't even beat an army of retarded commie Russians with no guns, let alone outdo their toothless gambling-addict authors
>>8038379
>Germans were outnumbered nearly 1:5 on the Eastern front, not accounting partisans
>Americans threw half their steel industry into the USSR, although some divisions couldn't afford weaponry for everyone the USSR was overall much more well equipped than the Germans
>The entire Western allied campaign probably amounted to 5% of the German defeat, while the USSR contributed to the remaining 95, yet all credit is due to fucking...
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>>8038405
All this mad but you forgot
>being dumb enough to start a two front against a country with a perfect winning streak
What do you think of Asimov's foundation series? Does it hold up?
>>8038365
Couldn't even get through the first book. Conceptually interesting, found the writing boring as fuck
>>8038365
Only read Foundation, (the first published one), and loved it. I'll be sure to read some of the others soon.
Pic unrelated.
>>8038365
Some of the later ones are pretty bad. Still better than most writers from the genre, but Asimov never attempted to transcend the genre, like Lem did and in some cases the Strugatzkijs did as well.
Decided to read the starter kit.
With the 21st chapter or without?
With, obviously. The author put it in for a reason.
Movie > book imo
Obviously with the 21st chapter. Why would you go against what the author intended? The whole work is meaningless without his intention.
>>8038378
Because there's a great number of people that still believe the book is meaningless WITH the final chapter.
But alright. I probably would've read it either way.
What book fan would read sci-fi this thick
What internet aficionado would post thread this thick
>>8038271
What 8x6 would satisfy a girl this thick
What breakfast eater would eat pancakes this thick
Is anyone up for an Infinite Jest reading group starting May?
>>8038265
DFW hung himself with a belt, pleb.
>>8038265
You'll probably get more out of it just reading it on your own at your own pace. Group readings are pretty plebeian and the only real benefit is forced "motivation", something which you should conjure up on your own or otherwise not even be reading at all.
>>8038265
no. read something good like mason and Dixon, the recognitions or life and fate
Recommended me spanish translations (or alternatives) for pic related--Homero, Platón, Aristóteles y demás.
Gracias.
Vous conaissez le Google? Alors.
>>8038112
Venga, chaval, que no se diga.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lubricante+anal
putain des mexicains
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Daily reminder to learn a new language
Tutti i giorni finché ti piace
>>8037930
αμÎ
>>8037930
Da vero non ai un altra orazzione? per favore
>not creating your own language
plebs
About a week ago, I went to a used bookstore. I found a copy of 'The Brothers Karamazov' for $4.50 CAD. I bought it only knowing a few things I had heard about the book in general.
The translation is by Andrew H. MacAndrew. Has anyone read this translation? Any thoughts about it? Will it ruin my first time with The Brothers Karamazov?
Pic related, except in Very Good condition.
Read it and see for yourself
>>8037809
Wow. What a smart and intelligent answer.
The book is nine hundred pages long. I don't want to get to page eight hundred, an find out that I'm reading a horrible translation that completely botched the entire message/idea behind the book.
>>8037819
m8 you re reading a translation, if you want to get 'the entire message/idea behind the book' read it in russian
fucking faggots
ITT: You post reading material for me that is just on webpages and doesnt require a download to read all of it. Also it must be free. I prefer things that autistic people enjoy.
>I prefer things that autistic people enjoy.
Well, well it's your lucky day:
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/li_hegel.htm
http://friesian.com/
>>8038347
The commentaries on Plato's Apology and Euthyphro are very nice here.
