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technē interests me
Instrumentalization
Heidegger
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Technik
Phronesis
>>7991272
kekked a bit desu
Do you think I could get away with putting this on a bookshelf filled with paperbacks without looking like a pedophile?
if someone thinks you're a pedophile for owning Lolita then you really shouldn't care what they think in the first place
Embrace your true self and put it on the bookshelf.
>it's a "/lit/ doesn't even read a good fantasy series" episode
>fantasy
>Fantasy
Why read fantasy when ancient mythology has done all of the same things in a much more profound, time tempered way?
>>7991219
Honestly, it's not that good. You need a whole bottle of vodka to stomach some of the more boring chapters. Sometimes it's really fun, though, and the short stories are generally nice.
*Before you guys proceed into the thread, just asnwear me if you know tips on how to organize plots in comedy plays and movies. For example, the comedies of Shakespeare have a lot of identity confusions, mistakes, convoluted and complex plots, and when I try to think on a comedy I never know how to organize the plot, how to model the scenes in such a complex way as, for example, the confusions of the couples in A Midsummer Night Dream. I can think on good ideas for comedies, but I don’t know how to make such complex structures as plots, and I wonder if there is a way to learn...
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>>7991210
bump
What are some good works about nature? Fiction and non-fiction.
So far I have the works of Linkola, Aldo Leopold, and Emerson
Also John Muir. I'm really looking for radical writers like Linkola, but anything that puts into words the beauty of nature works.
No one?
fuck my asshole
>pennis and also dicke and balls
Why do modern writers feel the need to do this?
benis and alzo dig und ball D:
I don't understand this shitty meme
Is it from reddit
Hey /lit/ r8 my Arabic version of Ego and it's own
>>7991126
I know a guy who wanted to translate it, wait I'll send it to him.
>>7991148
You Arab ?
>>7991157
No, I'm Stirnerian. My friend's from Jordan.
Hi. I watched the newest episode of Game of Thrones for the first time last night. It seemed interesting and found out they are based on books? So, I did some researching and found them. I think i'll give them a try. My question is, which one do I start with? Also, does anyone know which book the newest episode was based on? Thanks.
>>7991102
0/10
>>7991102
go away
Book nine is my favorite, OP. The new episode is based on the other one though.
REEEEEEEEE
I haven't read any book for over a week because I'm 100 pages in to Nicolas Nickleby and IT'S SO FUCKING CRUSHINGLY DULL AND LONG WINDED but I'm a UKer who hasn't read any Dickens books before and I don't want to be seen as a pleb due to this.
I'm also starting to abhor art in general. I hate that I have to read for cultural capital reasons. I don't even enjoy genre fiction but I still feel the pressure to read.
I just fucking hate this pretentious academia-publishing-media industrial complex induced spin...
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>REE
>Frogposting
Is this normal for /lit/ or is OP just a particularly cancerous faggot?
The fuck?
90% of people don't read. No-one's going to judge you if you don't.
Just read the sparknotes page like everyone else fucking does.
>I am imperfect
>I can conceptualize something that is perfect
>therefore God must exist because of the disparity between myself and my conception
>I am not a hippogryph
>I can conceptualize a hippogryph
>therefore hippogryphs must exist because of the disparity between myself and my conception
Flawless logic.
In this case you're imagining a hippogryph by assembling borrowed images, not conceptualizing it, whatever that word would mean for Descartes.
>>7991011
All things are related to perfection: in themselves, they are nearer or further away from perfection. However, in themselves, things are not nearer or further away for nearer from "hippogryph-hood".
Everything I see has some perfection or absence of perfection, yet, I conceptualise (think) perfection: this perfection must be inspired or in some way given by god.
>>7991050
The irony of Descartes argument is that perfection, or Godliness, is unknowable to the imperfect man. Therefore he cannot possibly point to a relation which he is unable to define.
He says in the fifth meditation that God's perfection would prevent him from deceiving. By what objective criteria is deception excluded from perfection? Did not God deceive Abraham when he commanded him to sacrifice Isaac?
Hi /lit/
Do people in your family (or people close to you) read? What do they read? Do you feel stupid around them because of that? Do you feel enlighted and shit around them because of that? Did people ever made fun of you for reading "too much" or something like that?
>>7990964
My Dad will dip into a sf/f novel once in a while.
My little brother's just getting into meme-/lit/ and he obviously doesn't quite understand them or literature in general. I'm kind of worried about it.
My Mom only reads self-help books. We have like a couple hundred of them she's read through. It's kind of depressing.
No making fun of others for reading too much in our family. Aside from me and my brother, we don't talk about books at all.
>>7990981
>My little brother's just getting into meme-/lit/ and he obviously doesn't quite understand them or literature in general. I'm kind of worried about it.
What the fuck is meme-/lit/? Anyway he's still young, it's great if he reads anyway.
>>7990981
starting with meme lit is a good thing anon. Its how people get into proper literature. the reason we meme stuff is so people will actually read them
Any good books about/from Tibet?
Mainly about history/religion.
I know about the "Tibetan book of the dead" but that isn't exactly beginner tier.
>>7990889
Basically Russians and Brits killing each other for 200 years in northern afghanistan, india, and tibet
tibet is a tourist trap with a flag
>>7990899
But it's pretty
/x/ /lit/ recommendations?
Preferably from a frustrated skeptics point of view or in a "non-fiction" format.
Darren Shan general
ive never seen a thread for a man i feel is entirely underrated.
>>7990847
I don't know who this is. Could you explain why he is good?
Which english translation of Les Mis does /lit/ recommend? Which are great? Which are hated? Does it matter at all?
>>7990740
The one in your picture is the best.
Julie rose should be avoided at all costs.
>>7990740
The wilbour translation or the modified wilbour translation (by McAfee I think).
Signet edition is the best.
