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How do I become a more discerning reader?
>>8252907
read more.
>>8252927
Anything in particular?
>>8252933
Books
if you like wicked, dirty, funny, and surprisingly poignant novels then get ready to laugh your ass off with this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mTd2fyomww
>>8252921
>>8252921
but anon, every thread in this board is a woman hate thread.
>>8253054
Well touché, my fellow sexist.
What a huge diappointment. It took about 60 pages of extreme tedium of slogging through archaic 19th century vernacular and the entire book so far has just been a conversation and dialog between two guys. I mean, I have nothing against dialog, but it's just tedious and frustrating to read. It has some interesting facts, but there's hardly anything truly informative or eye opening about it. So some people held a satanic mass and killed some children, this is what I slogged through 60 pages to get to?
>>8252873
I think visual media has killed these kinds of works.
>>8252873
>60 pages
>an hour's worth of reading
>tedious
>>8253029
I get tired easily and it is not 1 hour of reading, it's taken me days. An easier book may take a matter of hours.
How do I /plot/? I fucking can't think of a story myself.
Start with a literary/existential problem that interests you and write the solution
>>8252843
plots do not happen in real life
>>8252843
This. Seek inspiration through experience.
This thread is to ask for the best translation for foreign texts.
I'd like to ask what is the best translation for Politics by Aristotle.
>>8252793
Lol
What are the best translations for ANY Spanish work? Any suggestions appreciated, preferably anything by Juan Rulfo.
>>8252863
For Borges, it's Norman Thomas di Giovanni. He worked with Borges personally, who was conversant in English enough to evaluate the translation work. Unfortunately there is an issue with the estate (that largely amounts to a personal conflict with widow Maria Kodama), so the work is hard to come by. It was only briefly in print if ever, but it's available online with some resourcefulness. Barring that, the original translations (by Anthony Kerrigan, James Irby, and so on) are also quite good. The work...
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Why do normals pretend that 500 pages is a 'long' book?
Literally one evening of reading.
>>8252534
You can finish that in three days, two if you push it at 200-300 on the first evening
>>8252534
Literally bait (which I just literally bit).
The thing is there are few 500+ pages books worth reading
What are some good horror tragedy books? Something psychological and sad
the haunting of hill house is exactly what you're looking for
>>8252266
Story of O by Anne Desclos maybe? Not exactly horror but it definitely gives you strange feels.
Holy FUCK! I read 3 and a half pagss of the preface, and I feel I sufficiantly understand the concepts (in their vagueness and abstraction), but I just feel so overwhelmed by the thought of diving into this enormous book. It arrived in the mail today and I felt it's weight in my hands and it's thickness, I spent some time just getting through each paragraph, where I was constantly stopping and re-reading sentences because I felt I hadn't caught the meaning (ironic I'm talking about meaning, right? Ho ho ho ho ho ho). Lit...
honestly i tried to keep up with the maths in the first couple of chapters and eventually ending up just skimming it and reading the dialogues which were super well done as a classicalfag familiar with all the shit bach does in a musical offering
>>8252253
It's an obfuscation of undergraduate automata theory with some cool references posing as a theory of consciousness.
I read it and liked it enough
But i wondered how any of it was useful
Post tip-top-tier literature from your country
I'll start:
Uuni, by Antti Hyry, Finland
Canada
Leacock - Sunshine Sketches of a Small Town
Carson - Autobiography of Red
That's it.
China:
None.
Does any notable thinker actually promote nationalism?
For me, it seems like one of the biggest spook that is growing, festering on the sheeples for populism and increasing the conformaty. When will man finally evolve into the self-actualized wonder we have the capacity to become?
Do we really need a nation? The nation is just a glorification of the state, a pride in something/someone other than yourself, which in my opinion is one of the biggest illusions one can have.
What does /lit/ think?
>>8251949
>The nation is just a glorification of the state
It can be, but in many cases it is a glorification of culture.
Besides, you only know what you've lost when it's gone forever, so be careful what you wish for.
I think internationalism makes political sense as a form of co-operation, but I don't think that nation states should be destroyed, because national sovereignity keeps supra-national institutions from becoming too powerful if you ask me.
Nationalism or any idea that one culture is better than another is pure horseshit that only completely ignorant adults and mentally inept edgy teens on 4chan subscribe to
>>8251977
Culture should be cheerished, but it should not be associated as a political power like it is today. Culture and power should have nothing to do with each others.
Wether the state should exists or not is a different topic. Globalism isn't something i promote either though.
What writer comes to mind when you see this painting?
>>8251927
Kierkegaard or Nietzsche because of this website.
>>8251927
Strindberg.
whoever wrote casper the friendly ghost
JR is back in print!
>>8251499
fuck off. seriously?
>>8251527
oh shit.
he's not lying.
>>8251499
Two words:meme magic
So what's this board about?
Not sure
It's about proving how much better you are than everyone with your obscure tastes. I am the only person to read the naughty poem jesus wrote on his sandals.
text based waifus, the purest kind of waifu
Which one should I read first?
>>8250630
Catch 22 then Moby Dick, Catch 22 is a lot easier to get into. Don't bother reading Brave New World.
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Why the fuck are you posting this again?
Does free will exist, or is it merely an illusion that arises from brain phenomena?
http://www.strawpoll.me/10685773
>>8250619
I've seen a wild rabbit napping in the sun
>>8250619
Why can't free will be a product of brain phenomena? I can't help but think the whole debate is just a game of semantics.
>>8250637
You are overlooking the illusion part.
