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Anyone gain any insights from reading Lacan?
Why does Zizek like him so much?
Where does one start with Lacan?
>>7739658
>Where does one start with Lacan?
With Freud, de Sausseur, and Levi-Strauss
>>7739658
Someone on /lit/ once recommended that I start here. It was decent so I'm passing it on.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/96126745/Bruce-Fink-a-Clinical-Introduction-to-Lacanian-P-BookFi-org
>>7739667
I was just about to say this.
Has /lit/ read any holy book?
Really want to start with the Torah and move onto Bible, Quran and then Bhagavad Gita
Any tips or suggestions? Dont know which version of Bible to read or Tipitaka
I know /lit/ would disagree but I don't consider holy books to be a good read, they are maybe useful to understand other works but that's pretty much it
>>7739622
The Bhagavad Gita is an easy, satisfying read. I prefer it to the others you've mentioned. Start there.
Also, if have lots of time and you're into that kind of thing, then you should check out the Bhagavata Purana.
Atlas Shrugged
>Everybody don't have to have a reason to be someplace.
>That's so, said the judge. They do not have to have a reason. But order is not set aside because of their indifference. Let me put it this way, if it is so that they themselves have no reason and yet are indeed here must they not be here by reason of some other? And if this is so can you guess who that other might be?
>No. Can you?
>I know him well.
>This is...
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When will posting these shitty 'what did he mean by this'-threads be a bankable offense?
>>7739632
I have lurked /lit/ and determined that, not unlike the rest of the boards, memes are the most effective mode of communication, especially in the OP.
What are your thoughts on the dance, anon?
>>7739641
Kill yourself
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So I was talking to the guy who was my English teacher when I was in high school and he said he loves Ayn Rand's books. How does this make you feel?
To be fair he also said she wasn't very good at writing a narrative, but that if you want a good story you can just read something on the NY times best sellers list.
Sounds like an idiot. And then there's you.
>>7739580
>gov get out reeee ):<
>if you want a good story you can just read something on the NY times best sellers list
Cucking memes aside, Bertrand Russel made a pretty good case in Marriage and Morals as to why monogamy is an evil and destructive invention: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Marriage_and_Morals
I'll remind you that NO ONE has actually give a decent rebuttal to Marriage and Morals. Betrand Russell himself was raised in a progressive household: his father allowed his wife, Russell's mother, to sleep with Rusell's tutors. Yet Betrand Russell turned out a genius, and grew up to the win the Nobel Prize in literature.
Who are some other thinks who held this...
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>>7739540
If you want to swing, find a partner who also wants to swing.
If you want monogamy, find a partner who wants monogamy.
What benefit is there to telling either group of people they are wrong for wanting what they want given that everything is consensual and nobody is harmed?
>>7739540
Why are people on 4chan (mainly /r9k/ and /pol/) so obsessed with whom other people fuck?
>>7739540
His father was a cuck. He was a cuck. Anyone like him will be a cuck. Don't be like him.
The reason why nobody gives a rebuttal is because the rebuttal is self-evident.
Has anyone read The Clouds? I'm trying to figure out the satire in the argument between the superior and inferior arguments.
Pic related. It's the author
>>7739516
Have you read Plato?
I don't remember much of clouds, but i read it last year for school. here are my lecture notes--not sure how much is good note-taking, and i hated the clouds so i don't want to re-read the notes. i'll just dump them for you.
>>7741810
1/3
What kind of notes or annotations do you write when reading philosophy?
>>7739420
I keep a journal, write quotes or paraphrases containing the main ideas, write them in my own words and then write my own personal stance regarding the idea. It helps keep a firm grasp of what I'm reading and it's fun to look back and see how my stances have changed.
Little notes to clarify or summarize confusing sentences of paragraphs. I draw a lot of doodles, this one explains the formula of humanity in The Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals.
Can someone post the 11 philosophy charts?
ITT: Genre fiction that is as good as normal literature
I'll start: The Dying Earth by Jack Vance
pic unrelated
Also, anything by Gene Wolfe
No one?
Opinions on this book?
I've heard its a good collection of stories, havent actually read it myself
His prose is almost unbelievably plain, and his stories are very straightforward. It worked for me, but some might not like that sort of thing.
>>7739442
Your selling him short; he's terse but through what he holds back - and if you read closely you'll realise there are so many points at which he's chosen to supply less than concrete meaning, when such would have presented itself as the natural choice - he manages, in some of his stories, to communicate the world his characters really well: they themselves often lack the will or the ability to perceive the roots of their problems, they are anxious without quite knowing why, they scrabble around those...
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Are there any other books with notable alternate titles? I'm sure you all know of And Then There Were None originally being titled Ten Little Niggers as well as Ten Little Indians.
war and peace was originally titled 'war, what is it good for'
Moby Dick seems like the obvious example
Dubliners was riginally going to be "Ulysses in Dublin".
I'm going traveling and I don't want to carry my bookshelf. Which one should I buy?
>>7739295
I have the newest touch screen kindle and love it. I downloaded a torrent of hundreds of .mobis before I went travelling Europe and read a ton
Kobo GloHD or Kobo Aura H2O if you want to read underwater.
>>7739295
Kindle Paperwhite
Same shitty question every day, use Google.
I'm writing an essay for my college writing class about my bad habit of drinking Sprite every time I am thirsty. I don't like putting boring book titles so I was thinking if I can put a rhetorical title like "Dirty Sprite" lol would it be cool?
>>7739257
Why do you say book title when you are writing an essay? "Dirty Sprite" is fine? I guess? Am I being meme'd again you guys?
Sorry I forgot to mention that we are writing this because of a boom we read in class titled, "The Power of Habit" by Charle's Duhigg
Charles* Book*
How do I achieve a pseudointellectual's level of superficial understanding of the following subjects in order to pass a humanities credit-by-examination test in 4 days?
Literature: prose, poetry, fiction, nonfiction
Architecture
Music
Theatre
Film
Dance
painting/sculpture
Wikipedia
just read fight club and listen to death grips and you're good to go
Lurk more
Is there anyone more overrated? He's literally just the most pretentious parts of Robert W. Chambers with some gleepgloop aliens thrown in on occasion. Every word he writes hinges on the reader hungrily buying into the hamfisted mystique of his blasé esotericism and lazy pseudo-occultism. Anyone with a brain who looks for more in literature than the cheap thrill of nihilism has absolutely no reason to read or appreciate this garbage.
>>7739151
No. To me he is the embodiment of lacklustre American literature.
WHEN, LONG AGO, THE GODS CREATED EARTH
>>7739164
Only good thing he ever wrote.
Hey, I'm trying to translate something from Spanish to English and I'm struggling with a paragraph, could you please help me?
Paragraph:
As lovers of the printed word, we pay special attention to the forms and presentation of the texts and in several ocassions, works that once revised do not fulfil some minimal rules that every written publication should have have been detected.
My concern with this one is the double have at the final, although one is a noun and the other one an auxiliar.
Here it's in Spanish if that might help:
Como...
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>>7739133
No cumplen con algunas de las normas mÃnimas que toda publicación escrita deberÃa presentar.
El verbo presentar noe convence, quizá haya uno mejor. Agrega una coma después de ocasiones y quita la que esta después de revisados. Fuera de eso, esta bien.
