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>Start reading pic related
>Finish it
>Close cover
>Scalia dies
What should I do with my new power /lit/? What should I read next? Which author is next? Any ideas?
Inb4 my diary desu
>>7704074
>>7704080
Please fix America OP
>>7704074
If you reread it, DFW could have divine discussions on English language usage with the coauthor.
Is this an accurate tier list for /lit/?
>>7704070
>Atlas Shrugged
>god tier
>>7704070
No. It's a joke.
It might be for somebody. I think its a shit list of random popular books in random tiers
/lit/
I come to you with more of a /book/ request.
I need books on different periods of art, definitive guides and explanations or historiographies or histories of artistic movements. Generally, western art movements, but I'd love some insight on the east as well.
Thanks. <3
>>7704055
I peeked into this just yesterday and saw that norton's "history of western art" is supposed to be like the bible of art history.
Besides that I can't help, but I'm also interested in this and hope someone else will know more.
gombrich - story of art
>>7704152
is good
Jansen 's history of art is also good
What are /lit/'s thoughts on Atlas Shrugged?
>>7704000
One of the greatest books of all-time and must read for any libertarian. The rights of the individual should take precedent above all else.
>inb4 statist socialist collectivist shills
>>7704000
Enjoyable, but incompetent philosophically and economically.
Do memes shrug?
What is fundamental /kantcore/?
Who's his best translator?
prolegomena and anything by Cambridge
Learn german, you will always miss out on smth when reading translations.
>>7704091
This is your best bet if you're an English friend, ideally you'll take a course with a dedicated Kant scholar teaching
>>7704104
This is your best bet for a full, comprehensive, solo study. The philosophical systems of those rooted in German (i.e. Kant, Hegel, Heidegger) owe a great debt to the malleability of their language and to really appreciate it you need to at least reach for a similar understanding.
Where does instinct stop and high level cognition and self awareness begin? What makes deliberate thought inherently different from instinct?
>books and journals for these questions
>>7703918
Awareness of our own existence and self-reflection is something necessary, but not sufficient I think to move from instinct toward self-awareness.
Humans are one of the few species that are able to recognize themselves in a mirror
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_stage
and sometimes they don't. I've met some truly mentally disabled kills that are unable to recognize themselves in mirrors.
I think Hegel gives in the Phenomenology (or was...
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>But the medical gentleman seems to have said that any number of the serious characters were mad. Macbeth was mad; Hamlet was mad; Ophelia was congenitally mad; and so on. If Hamlet was really mad, there does not seem much point in his pretending to be mad. If Ophelia was always mad, there does not seem much point in her going mad. But anyhow, I think a saner criticism will always maintain that Hamlet was sane. He must be sane even in order to be sad; for when we get into a world of complete unreality, even tragedy is unreal. No lunatic ever had so good...
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>>7703917
Is that Orson Wells?
>>7704929
The Orson Welles Macbeth is a must watch.
>>7704945
I've heard people shit on it a lot.
What is the worst word in the English language and why is it "actually"?
well, no, actually, it's not...
>>7703890
The worst word is actually metrosexual.
>>7703890
It's actually, "really".
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/533688-william-gass-s-fifty-literary-pillars
Is he patrician?
>>7703864
stop smaipping this BITCH!!!!!!
>>7703875
>smaipping
I-I don't understand.
what a fat ugly bitch
Are there any unironic anti-natalists on /lit/ over the age of 21?
Who else here has decided not to "have kids"?
What do you think of Zappfe's essay on the matter?
As if we had a choice
>>7703860
I'm in my 30's and married and have no kids. I had a vasectomy when I was 24 though.
I'm not anti-natalist though as I don't think anybody should have kids though I do think it's largely a bad idea for those individuals.
>>7704698
OK, looking it up I probably am but I don't believe in burdening other people with it.
Just finished this. It wasn't bad, but "the greatest sci-fi epic ever?" Really? It read like a YA novel in a lot of parts.
It's overrated by sci-fi nerds because you're supposed to be awed by the amazing detailed world-buildings but normal readers don't give a shit about that and see it as a generic buy becomes hero fantasy novel.
very few hardcore sci fi readers (emphasis readers - not generic "i like all things sci/fi fantasy aka i watch game of thrones) would consider dune the end all be all sci fi epic. it ranks highly for many people, and sure some consider it a favorite, but "the greatest sci-fi epic ever" is a title that gets slapped on every single book cover possible by publishers
>>7703800
It was written in 1965 back then almost none good sci fi existed
Hi /lit/ thought on George Orwell?
just got done reading The Clergyman's Daughter
>>7703799
His essays are miles better than his novels, and it's a shame that schools force kids to read 1984 instead.
>>7703839
1984 is his master work. Stop being a contrarian.
>>7704472
Indeed.
Do you think your environment and tools you use makes the writing quality better? Surely it can nurture the mind more. When you sit at your plastic keyboard without even having a cabinet of formadelhyde specimens behind you you can't expect to write manly words.
Why are "manly" words "better"? If I'm sat at my plastic keyboard with nothing behind me then I'm a step closer to writing things that everyone who does the same will empathise with.
>>7703807
Writers don't write for writers
>>7703793
Definitely. I can't write or draw/paint well in my apartment when it's cluttered or trashed.
Me and a friend are planning to write a satire based on a gay, maybe pedophile, communist, fedora, prep, fat friend of us. The satire will take the form of a greek comedy, so we will fulfill our heads with thegreeks.pdf for the next 30 days.
How autist/10 is this?
>>7703772
>me and a friend
get the fuck outta /lit/ and study grammar, then write satires.
>>7703777
Relax m8, it won't be written in english
>>7703780
Okay.
In that case: 4/10 autism points, becauseat least you decided to make it greek instead of simple contemporary crap
Is their a more patrician writing system?
>>7703749
Yeah, the use of correct grammar.
Yes
26 standard roman characters = billions of possible combinations; a huge number of actual words
n stupid heiroglyph things = n possible words at most
>>7703782
n hieroglyphs
+ x phonetic and semi-phonetic characters with multiple arrangements on the whole letter
that glyph above has three parts which make up the entire word, the only character which is itself an entire word is the hand with a pen on the top, the leftmost and bottom most parts are syllables
