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Tell me bout dem rabbits again George, will ya?
>>8253774
it is pretty incredible how much mileage cartoons have gotten out of lon chaney's delivery of that line.
I especially enjoyed the South Park episode where all the retarded kids were based on famous implied-retard cartoon characters of the past.
>>8253806
I hated Krippled Summer at first but it slowly grew on me and I loved all the Looney Tunes esque antics they got up too, especially Nathan's plans backfiring on him in hilarious fashion.
So would you say all of Of Mice and Men was an allegory for the Garden of Eden and how women destroy man's perfect idealized paradise?
>>8253806
having ground up on looney tunes, my whole experience of watching old hollywood movies has been, o fuck that's where that's from. Like the first time I watched an edward g robinson movie, or james cagney.
How does one become more articulate?
You must wish it to happen.
>>8253767
Slow down iddiot.
>>8253803
idiot*
sorry
Is it worth getting the Wordsworth version of Descartes' Mediations, considering it's cheap? Or is it better to get the Oxford or Cambridge version of Mediations, with regards to translation quality?
Get Hackett, famalam.
>wordsworth philosophy
>mfw
What does the cover look like?
>wordsworth
>anything of value
don't do it anon.
it sounds pretty logic to me.
Vulgar economism is basically a Marxian cult that died with Second International thought
"Scientific" historicism is a relic of the 19th century
So is historical teleology
Most non-Marxist materialist historiography has dealt with the relationship between base and superstructure to the point that simplistic formulations are no longer tenable
Even within the Marxian milieu the same thing has happened (Gramsci, structuralism, poststructuralism)
>>8253730
how are you so certain that it is wrong?
because of 20th century marxism-leninism?
>>8253730
read this
http://sociology.fas.nyu.edu/docs/IO/225/What_is_living_and_what_is_dead_in_the_marxist_theory_of_history.pdf
>books women will never understand
>>8253703
>>8253703
Or anything Greek,
or anything difficult really
Simone Weil wrote a great essay on the Iliad
Where did Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop go?
In my mind he sort of just splintered into a couple of feebler versions of himself that then sort of evaporated.
I think i had a decent idea for it but i've forgotten it now, Maybe without the war and the system to fight against the Slothrop of the book ceased to exist
>>8253699
He became a legend. Everybody remembered what he did, but not him doing it or that it was him that did it. He is the unknown soldier.
ver did racketenmensch go?
>as the spring rains fall soaking in them on the roof is a child's rag ball
what did he mean by this
>>8253609
k the man in dick castle high phil a classic america novel
>>8253617
could you explain better
>>8253630
Dick, the castle man Philip. K?
Broke fuck here. I recently finished a book but am burnt out and can't be bothered to edit it and fix the formatting, I just can't. What are some good budget-friendly avenues to find an editor?
>>8253600
take a week off and then stop being lazy
you have to do editing yourself.
then an agent will also help you edit if you find an agent that likes your work.
then if the agent gets you a book deal with a publisher, the publisher will also have an editor.
none of this should cost you money, as your agent and publisher make money on the sale of your book. if an agent is asking you for money up front you probably shouldn't trust them.
basically stop being lazy, editing is part of writing.
>>8253600
I wouldn't trust the average freelance editor as far as I could throw them. Your best bet is to just wait a couple of months till you're less burnt out on the fucker and get back at it.
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Are there any legitimately good books that focus on Tolkeinesque dwarves? There doesn't seem to be a lot out there. I tried reading a series from a German author and it was horrible.
>>8253548
>tolkienesque
>posts dwarves from the hobbit movie
>>8254152
You could always try The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, OP. They're probably the only "good" ones, in fact.
What's your opinion on the wheel of time series? any good?
after the lackluster first half of the first book, I'm starting to dig it.
>>8253542
Haven't read it, but I once met someone with that image tattooed on his arm and I told him it reminds me of Lacan's borromean knot. So have a free bump I guess.
>>8253542
bump
>>8253542
>tugs braid
>smooths skirts
salright
Mediterranean fantasy, / lit /.
So, today I finished William Tenn's A Lamp for Medusa and Kutter's The Mask of Circe. Very very nice.
So, at this time my jam is the Greek mythology so I would read a few themed novel. I want to read the prose version of Odyssey. Do you know some another good books?
I would also like to start, sooner or later, the saga of Percy Jackson ... ... Is it worth?
Lombardo
Ilium by Dan Simmons
The digital age has made the writer less valued than ever before.
Why are our literary skills so worthless and ignored in the current age?
>>8253520
because its easier to find someone better than you nowadays
>>8253520
>Picture of Shakespeare
>Why are our literary skills so worthless and ignored in the current age?
>Why are our literary skills worthless and ignored
>Why are our literary skills
>Our literary skills
>Our
Please, anon. Stop. Let it burn.
>>8253537
>Please, anon. Stop. Let it burn.
What's wrong, pleb?
Too incomodious for you?
>The Otto killed himself meme.
>>8253486
If you interpret DFW as an IRL incarnation of Otto then it's not a lie in that sense. Though really Otto was Gaddis's caricature of himself.
Who cares? Ot-to deserved to die.
>>8253486
What? He didn't die, or kill himself. He was picking bananas at the banana plantation and then got robbed of his fake money and that was all
How can you refute skepticism?
skepticism of the external world is a logically incoherent position because in doubting the existence of a world, you doubt the world as you experience it, which assumes there is a world that you experience. so it's a circular question in the same way there's circular logic to believing there is an external world.
>>8253541
not really. That argument gives a dream the same credence as reality.
Are there any ongoing book series worth reading right now? Kinda feeling like getting myself into something like that since I just finished reading the last part of Asimov series.
Sam Harris is building quite the philosophical tour de force. His books aren't a series, per se, but one may consider them each as parts of a greater work--- la fine della filosofia, one might say.
Ciao!
>>8253495
I was thinking something more like remaining universe, characters, plot, etc...
>>8253508
Ah, but you see, Harris has crafted a universe wherein the characters are gods, ghosts, history, and the roiling mass of humanity. And the plot is ever so intricate. One joins Harris as a prime actor in this universe, tearing down the false gods of Christianity, Islam, and free will.
Along the way you will meet mystics, learn to meditate and let go of the self. All of this begins with a simple letter to a Christian nation.
