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What's Your Story ?
https://youtu.be/_MW6eGykrKI?list=PLvQV7gqXryR1O9_y14JihlaVGdTwWjd0U
The gift of storytelling may be one of life's most powerful...
...skills
'Quantum storytelling' is defined here as an intra-activity and intra-penetration of materiality and storytelling...
Our spiraling-antenarrative through the vast "outer space" with all its "sidereal distances" is not as vast as the depths of the inner and invisible -space
Spiral-antenarrative is a pattern of manifesting interlocking paths, each a series of episodic encounters between individual self-efficacy and collective-efficacy with once-occurrent-Being
‘living stories’ have a materiality of ‘transmotion’
Where were Medieval and Renaissance readers so sympathetic to the Trojans in their reflections on the Trojan War?
Is it all down to them being more familiar with the Aeneid than the Iliad?
yeah
and being more familiar with/interested in latin texts than greek in general
>>8271592
>Not feeling sympathy for the Trojans.
Even the Greeks who listened to the Iliad were sympathetic to the Trojans, I think.
Anyone here use typewriters? Or have on in a dusty box somewhere?
I really enjoy writing on my manual. It certainly lacks many conveniences found in computers, but at the end of the day I enjoy writing on my typewriter more so I get more done.
An aside: if you go to any office store and ask for ribbon ink you can get typewriter spools super cheap. No need to buy online.
pic is my most desired typewriter but I'm not going to spend what is being asked.
My model is very similar to the picture in this post. It's not a looker but it's built like a tank and all the tab/indent tools work like a charm. Someday I might want a typewriter where I don't have to press quite so hard, but at least this model lets you adjust how difficult it is to press the keys. There are a lot of little options like that.
last time i had to buy spools i got two for three bucks online, and i think shipping was about that. most office supply places around here don't carry them.
i normally only use mine if i need a printed letter.
>tfw dicks use typewriters for personal letters not knowing how rude it is
>>8271524
Are you the same faggot who makes a typewriter thread every other week?
What are the classics, the obligatory reading, of the history and philosophy of science?
>>8271424
That's the best one tbqh OP. The others are pretty boring and pedantic. Feyerabend is kinda fun. Foucault is good too but he goes way beyond just science, so isn't usually classified as a philosopher of science.
herbert butterfield - the origins of modern science
But the claim of irrationality in the transition between paradigms has been heavily criticized.
So, anyone know any good eastern literature? There is manga of course, which has some great ones (Lone Wolf and Cub is probably my favorite, though I've read to read more Tezuka). What are some good novels from the east, not just Japan as well? Musashi, The Book of Five Rings, Art of War and Haruki Murakami are the only ones I've heard of really.
Obligatory No Longer Human and Confessions of a Mask.
>>8271385
>No Longer Human
Damn forgot that, I remember someone read the manga and told me it was good. Which reminds me I've heard good things about Another.
>>8271385
This.
Mishima is a top don, OP.
I'm going to Paris to visit my wife I'llbe there for a month. While I am there I would like to learn some art history. I'd like to read a chapter or two on a specific style or era in the evening and then spend the next day looking at examples in a museum. Do you have recommendations for an art history book formatted in a style conducive to this?
Yes.
Gardner's Art through the Ages.
Gombrich is the best "quick" option there is, but his book is still a good 600 pages long.
I'd also recommend you Likeness and Presence, by Hans Belting and Theories of Modern Art by Herschel B. Chipp.
>>8271318
This is ok but lackluster, it's better to tackle a more difficult text, but if you feel you won't be able to, go for this.
After you've read all of this, read Panofsky and Warburg and move to Confronting Images to find out why we're wrong.
Why not ask your wife? I mean, do you really expect to understand an artistic sensibility as complex and vast as the French just by reading a book a couple of evenings? Don't bother, just go to the Louvre and pretend.
Is speed reading a hoax?
>>8271248
anyone can speed read if you're not looking to gain any depth of knowledge but you're not getting the full experience of the text
>>8271248
you can try it anytime. There are plenty browser-addons out there.
>>8271248
I've found it works for non-fiction, especially non-fiction by journalists or scientists with absolutely no sense of aesthetic prose.
Speed reading good prose is equal to speed eating a great meal or speed fucking someone you love, or speed walking through the Louvre.
At what point does life-apologetics enter into his philosophy? What is so distasteful about suicide that causes philosophers to go full retard and come up with ad-hoc rationalizations for why its wrong?
>>8271231
The Plague
>>8271231
The problem here is that you a) assume that there is nothing wrong with suicide and that b) all arguments as proposed by philosophers are just rationalisations.
Unless you are some sort of super genius, or that everyone else who has every done philosophy is amazingly stupid and for some reason no one smart ever decided to do it, you should maybe consider the option that there might, just might be some well reasoned idea as to why one shouldn't kill oneself.
I'm looking for really funny books.
The Third Policeman
>>8271227
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>>8271227
your diary
Just finished this. Didn't you tell me women couldn't write?
just read this last week, it's great senpai.
cather is amazing writer
>yfw she was a lesbian
>yfw she was redpilled as fuck about female authors:
>While Cather enjoyed the novels of George Eliot, the Brontës, and Jane Austen, she regarded most women writers with disdain, judging them overly sentimental and mawkish.[2]:110 Cather's biographer James Woodress notes that Cather "so completely . . . embraced masculine values that when she wrote about women writers,...
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>>8271176
>Didn't you tell me women couldn't write?
some can, like george eliot, the brontes, and austen, but a lot of them are overly sentimental and mawkish
IS THERE A BOOK WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS?
>>8271133
There's the Rei website.
>>8271134
WHAT?
>>8271133
my diary tbth
Is being a highschool teacher worth it in any way?
nope
>>8271081
I'm talking 9th grade english here, hopefully AP
>>8271090
bye friend
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Would Edgar Allan Poe be a Pepe poster? If so, why?
>>8270997
Well, he did write the Imp of the Perverse... The man clearly had issues with gratuitously doing the wrong thing.
I read on some Poe biography that he would in fact run to the market every sunday morning and place frogs under various boxes of vegetables and other containers all the while screaming "OH THE PAYPAY, IT BEATS IN MY NIGHTMARES! ALL PRAISE HIM"
EAG would still find Jack Nicholson memes from The Shining funny.
Post backlogs. I obviously have a lot of catching up to do.
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9/10ths of my book collection
i've nearly 50gb.
Is Edgar Allen Poe a hack fraud? If so, why?
what about you give us your goddamn opinion before starting the thread OP?
>>8270965
I like his prose tbqh. he's a terrible poet, though (except Israfel.)
>>8270969
he asked the begged-est question I've ever seen, so he basically did.
