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Anyone here feel as though thy have any sort of purpose/meaning/direction to their life?
If so, how's that? And what books to read for this?
A book likely won't give you that. I've found mine with age and experience. How old are you man?
>>7812480
23. A book won't give it I know but maybe a pointer or a new perspective to change the baseline feeling a bit
I thought I had found God last time I read VALIS, if that helps, but I had been up for a few days and altitude was involved.
>If Islam means submission to God,
We all live and die in Islam.
What did Goethe mean by this?
>>7812429
he meant that he didn't know what the fuck islam was
>>7812436
Islam is submission to God though
#NotAllMuslims
What do you call these words that sounds like something else when you say them
for example
"Knee gore" sounds like niggor
Any more examples?
homonym
niggard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_%22niggardly%22
i hate niggards.
>>7812394
how about
"high" sounds like hi
>>7812398
you fucking niggard..
Hey /lit/ I'm struggling with how I should answer this question, and was hoping to get some of your thoughts on what you think it's asking for. It's for a 5000 word essay.
'Was the American Revolution really a revolution? Discuss in relations to the theories of Arendt and ----'
I've started to plan the essay around the consequences of the revolution, and evaluating the impact of it. But I think I'm reading the question wrong.
Am I right in thinking it's more of a discussion of what constitutes a revolution and discussing...
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talk to your professor. if you meet with them most will practically write your paper for you.
>>7812399
Got about 3 days to write it
Of course I've left it to the last minute.
I've got most of it planned it's just how to structure it, first time writing an essay of this size.
And you're right, they more or less do
discuss it in relation to carl schmitt's theory of the exception
Reading: outdoors or indoors?
>>7812333
My hammock is ideal, but I do get vertigo sometimes.
>>7812333
>outdoors
Are you a dirty animal?
stupid weeb
I love reading outside in my parents back yard, except for one problem. There is a large swimming pool that attracts all sorts of biting, stinging, and buzzing insects. In the months when all those little fucks finally die it's too rainy and cold to read outside. Are there any hot /out/ tips for getting rid of wasps? I keep bugging my parents to get one of those electric traps but they just laugh and basically call me a pussy.
> ask my catholic friend how he feels about the pope declaring all dogs go to heaven
> " thats great! I'v had 4 dogs in my time. This is wonderful"
> "So, are they gunna rewrite the bible to introduce the new ruling on dogs?"
> " No the bible is the bible. They will never change it."
> " Fair enough. so how is everyone supposed to know about it the ruling"
>...
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>post-Vatican II """"""""""""Catholic"""""""""""" church
way too fuckin epic
>>7812158
I-Im sorry. What
This isn't Reddit, faggot.
I will be temporarily taking requests for books that you want me to grab off of Bibliotik. I won't grab any that have ridiculous file sizes though.
Bumpin
>>7812255
They don't have any David Milch books. Sorry, anon.
Hey /lit/!
I do not want definitly to be a flamer but i really can figure out why are u considering moby dick a masterpiece.
I consider myself a decent reder, i love fitzgerald dumas and marquez, but i can also appreciate lots of different authors, from burroughs to carver.
I may not fall in love whit every single book i've read, but i could at least find in them the reason of their popularity.
But not in Moby dick. I' m. Going to say that again, i'm not a flamer, i just want to understand why preatty much everyone here and in real life consider...
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>>7812074
Start by telling us why you don't think it is a masterpiece, "decent reader".
Ayyyyy lmao
>>7812074
You have to push through the first half. He's setting up the existential angst.
>pick a number between 1 and 15
>google a /lit/ figure
>the image corresponding to that number is their reaction when they see your penis
fuck off to /b/ you stupid cunt
Yum
>we penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness
I mean come on, really?
That's not from Heart of Darkness, it's from his letters, when he was talking about what he and the Bloomsbury Group did to your grandmother's asshole.
>>7811943
Haaaaaahahahahahah. Yeeee.
>tfw just finished reading this
>he says heart of darkness like 30x
>the entire thing is utterly mawkish and bereft of actual substance
How is this shit a classic in its own right?
Exercise in futility? Perhaps, but . . .
I'm starting a magazine (distributed for free, so no profit) and was wondering whether any of you /lit/tards has anything they'd like to contribute.
Could be anything - prose, verse, creative non-fiction essays, comic strips, w.e. - I'm doing an article called 'Interviews With Nobody: Conversations with Random People' where I literally just interview random people I meet.
This is for a class project but if it goes well why not keep it going.
>pic not related
>>7811932
Here OP:
En el largo dia de de marzo que nos acontece, encontre una plebita en la calle de esta polvosa ciudad.
Su cuerpo lujurioso pendrio en mis bajas pasiones, el culo se me puso duro como roca y la verga flaca como perro.
Eyacule mientras la veia pasar, manchando los pantalones que mi madre habia lavado hace poco.
why would an esteemed fucking writer like myself (i've written 2 existentialist short story collections, one postmodern novel, and my ongoing memoirs which is perhaps the greatest masterpiece of all) lower my standard to appear in your shitty highschool magazine. You are better off just copy pasting comments from lit into a magazine then filling it with your autistic interviews.
Thinking on it, aren't most literary geniuses recognized in their lifetimes?
It doesn't happen right away, true. It usually occurs when they're old men/women, and they had to toil decades in obscurity first. However, it seems to me that sooner or later the public does come to recognize and celebrate genuinely talented writers before they die. Even Kafka had a certain degree of fame in his lifetime.
The only genius I can think of who went totally unacknowledged in his life was Melville, and he's sort of the exception that proves the rule.
>exception that proves the rule.
pic related
Also
>Shakespeare
>Euripides
>Luis de Gongora
>Jean Racine
>>7811924
Virgil died before completing his masterpiece and ordered it to be burned
I feel like this is going to be a hard request. I'm looking for a book that explains or at least gives insight into the BDSM mindset, specifically from the perspective of the Dom without needing to get into the specifics. And I'm not looking for mommy-porn 50 Shades of Gray tier shit. What I'm looking for is a sort of Lolita perspective, but instead of kiddy diddling, it's BDSM.
>>7811855
I mean it's in the name. Dominance is what it's about. The pride of ownership. Making the nature of that relationship EXTREMELY clear
No books 4u soz
Movie recommendation for you: The Duke of Burgundy
>>7812541
Looks hot, but seems like it gives off more of a "Let's break traditional gender roles" vibe than it does explaining a dominating psychology.
I could be wrong. I'll check it out when I get home.
I started reading this today and I liked the bits about Bach and Escher, but I was a bit overwhelmed by the mathematics.
Is it worth it to go on?
It's a book that keeps building on itself. If you're lost at any point pushing forwards won't help, you need to go back and reground yourself, and try again with the mathematics.
Just read I Am A Strange Loop instead. It's basically the same core concept but explained in a more straight-forward manner.
>>7811893
Do this. It's the same fucking thing but clearer.
Are there Marlon Brando fans here?
I'm thinking of reading his memoirs 'Songs my mother thought me'
>>7811779
Big brando fan, but I've never read his memoirs. That picture still pisses me off. Kurtz NEEDED to be emaciated how could he have possibly been a fat fuck like brando.
>>7811799
Ah as someone who loves both Apocalypse Now and Heart of Darkness I think you have to just view them as very different works and not an adaption. More like how Ulysses and Odyssy relate
>>7811779
I gained immense respect for him after watching Listen to me Marlon.
Definitely one of the best actors of his time.
