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>narrator doesn't treet women solely as instruments to his own immediate self-gratification and doesn't objectify and reduce them to indistinguishable masturbatory props; a blank slate for him to project his fantasies upon
fuck off shitty frogposter
Fuck me I thought I clicked on /int/ and this was the first thing I saw.
>the frog poster is a salty woman
Hello /Lit/
I will be a freshman in a month at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. I would like to expand my mind in order to BE better than my peers. I have started reading many Philosophical / Enlightenment / Revolutionary authors.
I have read:
Candide / Voltaire
The Misanthrope / Moliere
Social Contract / Rousseau
The Republic / Plato
Nicomachean Ethics / Aristotle
Treatises on Government / Locke
Any suggestions on where I should look to next?
The National Enquirer
>>8240562
If you approach the acquisition of knowledge as a means to an end, you are on the wrong path.
That being said, I would maybe approach the rationalist / empiricist dichotomy in epistemology. Read Descartes' Meditations and Locke+Hume's essays concerning human understanding. The logical step from here is Kant.
If you are interested in pol. phil. and maybe particularly the social contract idea (from reading Rousseau), maybe go back and look at Hobbes' Leviathan.
Revolutionary authors? Proudhon, maybe.
What are the best translations of Rainer Maria Rilke poems?
>>8240558
>translated poetry
dude come on now
>>8240605
Please use a tripcode so that I can filter your posts
>>8240605
kill the meme
Are the Wizard of Oz novels worth reading? Do they have the same literary influence as Alice in Wonderland? Or is any influence isolated to the movie alone?
They're picture books.
You don't read pictures. You look at them.
Read The Neverending Story instead. First half is the film then it's a mindfuck then it turns into the Simarillion.
>>8240561
Alice in Wonderland has pictures.
The collection of Oz books I'm looking at doesn't include any illustrations.
I've read most of the stuff on this starter kit list but I'm new to this board, any other recommendations to add to my cart while I'm finishing it?
I like dystopian art such as BNW and 1984, and literature that messes with psychology and morals, religion, etc.
Do Androids Dream, Dante's Inferno, and Brave New World are a few of my favorites. I'm going to pick up the General Zapped An Angel as well, because I'm a big fan of neon genesis evangelion.
Any recs like these that aren't on the list would be much appreciated!
My diary desu
>>8240539
Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars
Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe
Teatro Grotesco by Thomas Ligotti
Some works that probably fit your description (especially the morals and religion parts) are The Age of Innocence by Wharton, The Reader by Schlink, The End of the Affair by Greene, The Brief History of the Dead by Brockmeier, and A Doll's House by Ibsen. A work that I think should be on the starter kit but that I don't recall being on it is Wuthering Heights by E. Brontë.
Are writers narcissists?
Everyone's a narcissist but people who make art have to be more actively self-involved
I don't know what other board to put this, but I want to discuss the following, since I'm sure it's a topic that literature has deal with it.
after spending time browsing diferent boards, I've started to watch diferent stuff, by example wildberger in math, the art renewal center for art, fedoras and feminism, the decay of morals, the fact that poethry not longer uses metric, modern art.
It seems after watching people who claims for a return to classical values, that there is some kind of conspiracy, a sort of attack on the ideals that western culture hold for millenia.
It seems that the values that western culture that were based on order, justice, beauty, logic, has been replaced by uglyness, decay, inmorality, feelings.
It's conspiracy thinking to think there's a common effort by diferent people (not wanting to mean jews or cultural marxists) to attack what is naturally normal (beauty, justice, morals, order)?
Am I a conservative, or can someone more read than me explain this feeling.
You suffer from edgy faggot-fedora syndrome.
Try going outside more, it's been known to cure a few of your sort.
How do i know is my poetry good?
honestly, yours is always going to be bad
>>8240260
how do you know that?
Just pulled these off my family's old bookshelf and need to know which are good which are bad and if there are any god tier or shit tier present and if so which ones
Thank
>>8240254
all shit
>>8240254
Throw out The Citadel, Island of the Blue Dolphins, The Reader, and Love and its Place in Nature.
May as well keep the rest
>>8240254
Tolstoy, Shakes, Camus, Kafka, and Descartes are varying levels of patrician works.
Of mice and men is a nice cozy read if you like crippling depression.
Not bad for a come-up
Without looking at a picture draw DFW from memory or any other authors.
>>8240234
holy shit son you have LITERAL no discernible talent
Plasma Universe and Stellar Consciousness
https://youtu.be/nUmwhMgpV0M
Keep each other company ?
Like we're made of Star Light ?
https://youtu.be/njwKjmrDV4w
No fault in the stars,
The only shaking was the crowd
To the music in their hearts
It was a start
Without a finish
But still shined
>>8240177
Dubs found their way
>>>/tv/71618199
>had had
>that that
>>8240025
>avoir eu
>que ça
>>8240025
These are the most autistic threads on the board.
>>8240025
>oli olemas
>seda, mida
>I don't care about smelly stupid workers I just want muh high culture
what did he mean by this
Nice misreading.
>>8240036
>reading
>>8240016
Well I mean socialism is about doing away with the concept of classes and under communism everybody would be allowed a taste of the high life.
has anyone read this? what did you think?
>>8240012
No, not yet, but if it's worth anything, I've seen a good amount of people here praise it.
Does /lit/ scribble and underline in their books?
I don't see why people treat it like a mortal sin. It's a great way to remind yourself of great quotes, and it always makes for an interesting re-read. Bonus if it's a second hand bought book and you get to read someone elses scribbles - it's so intimate.
i do it but only ever in pencil. god forbid i lay ink onto a work that isnt mine
I use sticky notes as to not deface the book.
>>8239948
I just use post it notes.
