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I can read Middle English, French, Middle French and German. Am I good to go to read this hands-free or are Italian and Irish necessary?
Learn to read modern English too.
>>8216529
There are 64 languages in the Wake: you'll never be "ready," so don't worry about it. If you've read Dubliners, Portrait, and Ulysses, and listened to a few old recordings of Joyce reading a few parts of the Wake to get the feel of the word flow and lilting accents, you're good to go. If you get stuck, I recommend Joseph Campbell's A Skeleton Key to Finnegans Wake.
>>8217014
>64 languages
Surely not 64 main ones, but I guess it's a consolation still that Joyce himself didn't speak them all.
>old recordings
Sadly I never can manage to like his voice (meaning his vocal, mouth, throat, sound? voice, not writing voice) and intonation, and other recordings don't seem to hit the right brogue...
>idiots try to argue that the universe isn't deterministic and materialistic
you fucker, you're made of atoms, everything is made of atoms, everything that exists as matter is governed by the laws of physics, the laws of physics are predictable, everything is determined by the laws of physics since the beginning of time. To say that the universe isn't materialistic is just showing a lack of concern for science. If you have no concern with understanding the universe you have no place to talk about it, so shut the fuck up. Get beat the fuck down you retarded pseuds. It takes no unique talent or special effort to destroy religion, it just gives you frustration over the idiocy around you.
>>8216461
>quantum mechanics
yeah man definitely there is no indeterminacy not even at the sub-atomic level
>>8216461
Nice try Jesus, but if you aren't superstitious, then you're stuck in Plato's cave!
>itt op rages against the topic nobody cares about
Don't worry op I'm just determined to believe in free will; just like you were determined to be an autistic cuck.
Have fun believing in science-themed destiny/fate.
What should I read so I can understand the math used in analytical philosophy?
>>8216232
math textbooks
>>8216232
*study
>>8216232
A textbook on set theory
>Wake up
>Free will still nonexistent
>wake up
>tell myself that this is my final day of eating junk food and being lazy before I work hard tomorrow
>didn't wake up because i never fell asleep
>feeling slightly more insane each passing day
>>8216081
>wake_me_up_inside_cant_wake_up.jpg
Hello /lit/,
I know this gets asked quite a lot, but there's always the chance of seeing some neat advice, and hearing from people who've managed the transition.
I have an absolute fuck ton of books, mostly ancient and medieval history - academic and popular. I am doing a masters at a prestigious university in late antique history.
But between my BA and my masters, I have just lost the will to live. I can't get excited by reading about something I love.
Now I hardly read, fap too much, and don't do enough work. I spend most of the time in a spiral of lethargy and subsequent self-hatred.
How do I get back on the reading bandwagon, start reading a shit tonne and stop fapping so much and coming here?
How do I rediscover the passion I had only a year ago? Has anyone else experienced this and got through it?
I hate it.
>>8215960
been there. the trick is to make a simple goal and fucking stick to it no matter what. it doesn't even have to be related to your work/life goals, just think of something productive to do and do it every. single. goddamn. day.
take a walk through your neighborhood. cook a new meal. do 20 pushups. write a shitty poem. literally anything.
buy a wall calendar, put that shit right by your desk, and mark down days you do your thing and days you don't.
just the brute ritual of performing a task every day will help you re-acclimate to your major goals.
good luck OP. it sucks to be where you are but it's not permanent.
>>8215960
I am you. Just I stopped fapping as well largely. Most crippling is the realization that my degrees are worthless and I'll have to study Engineering after I'm done with the MA. By then I'll be rather old for a guy applying for an entry level job.
I wish I just would stop to wake up.
>>8215981
I just wanted to know others have been here and made it through.
Thanks man, brings a tear to my eye. I'm sorry you had to go through it too. I'm glad you're out.
Alright, I have to ask because this is bugging the hell out of me. Would this be considered a good story from a literary standpoint?
http://exhentai.org/g/895845/5ef9233845/
http://exhentai.org/g/943053/5b57f10595/
>asian cartoons
no
>>8215826
Well ya gotta read it. It should evoke some emotion from you.
>>8215824
no, it's just edgy.
but i jerked off to it
One of these threads, please
template
>>8215378
Candle in the Dark was surprisingly good at checkmating atheists on shit they believed that was goofy, instead of just wanking to the choir that god wasn't real for 200 pages.
I have a challenge for you.
Can you figure out the meaning of this EE Cummings poem?
When I first read it I was confused, but the language enticed me. I kept reading and suddenly I cracked the code. I was amazed.
it's about fran
>>8215242
not quite...
Poems aren't ABOUT anything.
Serious question, is Lolita worth your time if you have no interest in little girls?
I'm about 2 chapters in and the writing is fantastic but I'm not sure if I can stick with the subject matter for the whole book.
>>8215062
Stop being a little bitch and read the fucking book
>>8215062
bruv its just a book, no one thinks your a pedo for reading it, its a fanstastic book, if you cant handle a little unorthadox content you should stick to reading comic books or news paper articles, if you like it read it
>>8215062
yes
And what does /lit/ think of my collection? Post yours
Are these all the books you own, little man?
>>8214985
All mine.
>"little man"
18, not little: small.
Mine looks like a bookshelf. Are those seriously the only books you own? You must be a tedious person to talk to.
What books would have this effect on me
a book that dramatically improved photographic technology in the span of a few years? idk go ask canon
>>8214776
The Recognitions
Women and Men
The Public Burning
Milkbottle H
The Tunnel
>>8214776
Why don't people look like this anymore?
Did they get fatter or what?
Really weird face structure.
When did it become so cool to hate on Ayn Rand? No memes, please.
since her very birth
now go away
>>8214576
It's been cool to hate on Ayn Rand since you turned about 18 or so.
About a year ago when Tumblr got into her.
It waxes and wanes though.
Shattered Planes edition.
Recommendations
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Sci-Fi
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ / http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
Previous: >>8206127
>Book 5
>we should really move against Sammael, man I'm sick of this guy he needs to fucking die already
>Book 7
>Sammael is not only still alive but very much a thorn in Rand's side with his constant scheming and shit
Why the fuck is he even still alive, I mean COME ON RAND
>>8213031
Real question is, does your autism run so deep you can't spare yourself of that crap by simply picking up something good for a change?
>>8212924
Why is shallan such a shitter?
What books should I read if I wanna acquire a cute gf?
the ego and its own
my diary desu
I did it with Spinoza, Nietzsche and Kierkegaard.
Have video games finally surpassed literature?
>>8212724
yep. now leave us to our inferiority.
I am going to make video games that will be studied for generations; either by critics, or psychologists.
is this bait?
how could video games (an industry plagued with rushed production and an emphasis on sales not content)
surpass literature?
I feel stupid for taking the bait....
