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Hello would you like to help me with something big and hard? I'm creating a universe and I can't do it alone. There will be plenty of spelling errors and really shit grammar! If you would like to help me just let me know.
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Sure, dude. Whaddyou got so far?
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>>7515660
A three sentence manifesto about the futility of reality television.
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>>7515665
And you want to construct a universe around that?

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If I cherish you because I hold you dear, because in you my heart finds nourishment, my need satisfaction, then it is not done for the sake of a higher essence, whose hallowed body you are, not on account of my beholding in you a ghost, i.e. an appearing spirit, but from egoistic pleasure; you yourself with your essence are valuable to me, for your essence is not a higher one, is not higher and more general than you, is unique like you yourself, because it is you.
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>>7515409
would be less convoluted to just say 'you make me happy'
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ok
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>>7515409
when you see it...

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Anybody else love Kafka on the Shore?
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yuh-huh-i do

do you like othello
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>not even the best Murakami

How well conceived is the Barnes and Noble Classics edition of the Iliad? What kind of reader is it tailored for?
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Start with the Greeks
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>>7514997
I already have.
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I did
thebean plays
apology
illiad

it this dumb?

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Is it correct to start a statement with "when"?

Example:
When I arrived at the house he didn't even say hello to me.
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>>7514889
>When I arrived at the house, he didn't even say hello to me.
that'll be 5 btc thank you in advance
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No, it should be "What I arrived at the house he didn't even say hello to me." Since house is an object, you use "what" instead of when. If you had used a time like this, "When I arrived at 10:30," then it would be appropriate, but with your sentence you must use "what."
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>>7514915
I know I shouldn't take the bait, but....

His sentence is fine. 'When' is an adverb adjunted to the clause 'I arrived at the house'. It's NOT modifying 'house'.

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I start this today, now im in the chapter two and i have question: ¿Is recomendable to read something before continue reading or i can enjoy the book without read any information before?
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just remember it is an epic and a story of self-discovery for oedipal maas.
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>>7514719
just keep reading bruv.
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>>7514719
Which parts make you think that you need prior reading?

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Recently finished this and loved it. Can /lit/ recommend any other western novels that aren't trashy romance pulp?
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>>7514638
Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
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>>7514669
I just looked this one up and it's exactly what I was hoping to find. Thank you.
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sorry you just read the best one. Its all downhill from here.

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how should i describe the blackness of a moorhen?
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Like a moor.
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With words
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Like the advancing sable fringe of cascading ether reciprocal to the setting crimson sun.

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Awful.
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Why pleb? Cut your fingers?
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>>7512414
His arms were too weak to hold the book up to read it, so he gave it up after the first 10 pages and came here to complain about it.
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>>7512422
Kid probably couldn't even pronounce QueeQueg when he subvocalized

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>tfw you finally make it to a Levin chapter
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>It's a chapter about agriculture and the industrialization of Russia after the 1861 empancipation
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>>7510665
>it's another discussion of the Slavic question
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the Oblonsky chapters were always the most fun

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Destroy my beliefs, /lit/

There is no caring god. We are alone in this planet, and our morals are purely human-made. This means evil is just something people agree must be avoided, but at the same time, while it is subjective, it has value by itself.

Since evil its subjective, if a guy steals all his life there is objetively no reason for which he is wrong. But at the same time then, since he is free, the rest are free to put him on jail or execute him.

So, human freedom creates order. As long as two humans, or maybe even one exist, order will be created from chaos. But Order and Chaos are always interchangeable: the universe is mindless, yet it has some laws -like Gravity- to encompass it, and we Humans try to do good yet we still have the seed of evil in our hearts. One should try to accept that evil and do whatever he feels its right.

There is nothing after death. This life and only this is all we have, so we must try to enjoy it. Suicide is the worst act, since you are destroying a reality itself: yours. Thus, suicide should be kept only for when existence becames unbearable.

Since we are gonna dissapear, some people might point that there is no reason for which being good and following the rules. This is true. But there is also no real reason for which to be evil. However, one could be evil just to get an advantage and makes his life easier if he can get away with that.

At the end, strenght its all that matters in human society. Could be intelectual strenght, physical strenght, etc: the winners are the strongest ones, and they live in dominance. Love, morals, reasons, are all pointless towards a destructing force. Furthermore, only the strong ones are allowed to put themselves under the reglaments of morals or honor codes, since they have the strenght to back it.

Love is...

Ok actually i know shit about love.

Since there is no purpose, we are actually free, devoid of all reasons or meaning. We should try to make this world a garden on which to enjoy ourselves the most. Yet, some may try to give significance to their lives by becoming heroes, or dying for an ideal. Both things are good. There is no real answer so we can do whatever we can.

Life is actually pretty enjoyable just on the virtue of being alive itself.

Mint ice cream is the best icecream.

Humanity will never perish by itself. At most, there could be a catasthrophe and it could be reduced by millions, but the world would end up healing itself eventually and humans would dominate again after centuries. The only way humanity could be erradicated is by an outsider agent, like a meteor.

Life is...

Yeah, no idea there. But life expands, so i think there is meaning on that. The problem is that we are single agents of life. Humanity as an entire thing and a single human are very different things; perhaps humanity itself does has a purpose after all. But that doesnt mean im obliged to follow it, since im free.

Ok, i think im done. Rekt me.
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You sound like you're 13, 15 tops
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>>7521433
sleep tight porker

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>book you're currently reading
>opinions on it so far
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>>7521515

> Notes from Underground
> Introduction/10
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>>7521517
Neat. Hope it convinces you to read more books.

>book you're currently reading
2666
>opinions on it so far
It's garbage.
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>>7521515
>book I'm reading
Kamasutra
>opinion
A decent look into human sexual psychology but I don't agree with the philosophy. (Ex. It's okay to cuck people)

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>2016
>not having a vanity press
>not making money out of books delusional faggots write

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanity_press

whats your excuse?

Also where i live there is no copyright.Give me ideas on how to make mad cash with my publishing house. Any recommendations on publishing business models are also appreciated.
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>>7517498
I worked for one for 7 years. At one point I was sending out 2 million emails a week, mostly to college professors and students, as well as people in professional organizations. We had servers in hungary and costa rica controlling slave servers in the US (spam services catch non-us IPs)

We would target people with humanities degrees, and publish a book a year, and then send them a PDF of their book unless they upgraded. Book costs were 200-400 a copy and guaranteed submitted to the library of congress. I ran their IT and marketing department, and actually created their books with microsoft word and acrobat portable (pirated). Made 50-60k a year before I quit, since I had a kid and they had moved towards targeting linkedin profiles.

Taking questions.
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>>7517509

Why did you quit? How do i learn spamming? I tired many forums but details were kept in shadows everywhere i went.

>Book costs were 200-400 a copy

I'm doing it in minimum 1000 copies. Should i reduce the numbers and go into digital printing instead of offset printing?

I do the layouts in Indesign.
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>>7517498
>>7517509

I'd be interested in a conversation about starting a publishing house with a goal of being respected and reputable in the industry, but not really interested in starting a vanity press.

Although, I admit, a lot of the authors of the 19th and early 20th century paid to publish their work. And it's not as morally or ethically wrong as many immediately think.

Prove to me you can write a good sex scene, /lit/.
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Eliza and Ezra rolled together into the one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation, screaming and shouting as they playfully bit and pulled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation with Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.
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Rob and Rebecca fukt and it was hot.
The end.
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titty

> On his 60th birthday, Mussolini received a gift from Hitler of a complete twenty-four volume set of the works of Nietzsche.[170]

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini#Atheism_and_anti-clericalism

/lit/ will defend this "philosopher"
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Hitler=badass
Mussolini=badass
Nietzsche=badassx2
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>>7520730
>/lit/ will defend this "philosopher"

Hello, you must be from Reddit. As a warning to you as you may be easily triggered, we here on /lit/ are pro-National Socialism, if you would like to return to your Bernie Sanders safe haven then please go to: https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/
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Nazis are respectable to the extent that they adopted Nietzsche's philosophy. At the same time they are base for attempting to distort it and censor the genius.

This is all I feel it is worth saying about this.

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