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Was Socrates a Sophist?
I think it's pretty clear he wasn't.
Fictional people can't be anything, Anon.
Socrates was a Platonic construct.
I prefer reading on my kindle because of the inbuilt dictionary.
am I a pleb?
you're a pleb for worrying if you are a pleb
>>8189440
You're a pleb for not reading Hegel directly from original manuscripts.
You're a pleb for not building a time machine and listening to socrates firsthand.
How often do you think Nabokov had to stop while writing this to wank it?
>>8189394
Never. He had Lo hiding in his basement.
you're not supposed to wank, guy
he probably wanked his little wrinkly russian peepee regardless
What is the meaning of this supposed to be? Or is it just and insane fetishist's fanfiction?
It's a book for charlatans to discuss while they listen to Girlpool and do coke off of Lego Magazine ironically.
>>8189392
it's just 20th-century Sade
he's being as depraved as possible for depravity's sake
>>8189422
>he's being as depraved as possible for depravity's sake
t. someone who has barely read him
Recommend me some true patrician literature. I'm sick of only reading entry-level shit like Vonnegut and Faulkner.
>>8189317
fuck OFF /mu/ how about you find some shit on your own developing your own taste for once
>>8189317
Green Eggs and Ham.
>>8189317
Step one: Go outside. That's it. You clearly need to go outside.
>Music has Beethoven's 9th Symphony
>Painting has Da Vinci's Mona Lisa
>Sculpture has Michelangelo's David
>Film has Welles's Citizen Kane
>Anime has Kakifly's K-On!
>Architecture has Eiffel's Eiffel Tower
What does Literature have?
The Fault in Our Stars
Oh besides the Odyssey, the Bible, Dante's inferno, Hamlet, paradise lost?
Do you want a strait up novel? Poetry? Plays?
Something better than Citizen Kane
Hi /lit/, i´m currently reading this and loving it, what books with the same tone would you recommend
>>8189095
The Manuscript Found in Zaragoza by Jan Potocki.
>>8189095
The Castle of Otranto
>>8189095
Melmoth the Wanderer
What does /lit/ think of this guy? I have a few of his books on my shelf, only read L'Assommoir
>>8188929
Can you read in French, OP? I myself are really into him, but unfortunately I can read his works only in English or Russian.
>>8188929
Haha his name is Emily haha
>>8191100
his gey loooool
>Writing by hand, mouthing by mouth: in each case you get a very strong physical sense of the emergence of language—squeezed out like a well-formed stool—what satisfaction! what bliss! That’s another reason why I like the metaphor, in Willie Masters, of cunt and concept. As an artist you are dealing with a very abstract thing when you are dealing with language (and if you don’t realize that, you miss everything), yet suddenly it is there in your mouth with great particularity—drawl, lisp, spit. When the word passes out into the world, that particularity...
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>>8188678
Sassy ass gass amasses sassafras. Sassafras assaults sassy asses. Ass assessments assist ass assumptions. Assyrian ass gass assails sassy asses.
I write a lot but hand and type out up later.
Especially things like dialogue or other difficult passages. I don't think you need to write everything, it's probably more a case of different methods working for different people
I keep a pocket journal for exactly this reason. I need to feel attached to the page. Typing feels disconnected. Like my words are passing through a third party before hitting the screen.
Man but it's just a preferential thing I think. Physical writing can be a lot more physically demanding on your wrists and I get tired of writing faster. Plus I'm sure once you become a sufficient enough typist that feeling of being disconnected would probably go away.
Its writing man. Like any art you need to find your own way to express yourself.
What is the Dekalog of literature?
between the backseat and my dick
Decameron/Canterbury Tales
>>8188606
That was a brutal movie, I really can't handle seeing normal people kill others, bloods fine when you're old enough but it's the thought that normal people just like you somewhere along the line faltered and ended up becoming psychopaths or whatever word you want to use.
Does anyone have any charts or recommended texts for getting into
>Marxism
>Anarchism
>Postmodern theory about genders, binaries, identities, etc
>>8188484
I dunno, did you check the sticky? Or how about the archive for one of the recent shart threads?
>>8188484
>postmodern theory about genders binaries, identities
How does it feel, knowing all the "feelings" and values your books talk about are nothing but hot, abstracted nonsense? Meaningless, unquantifiable baby babble?
It makes me feel pretty good, heh.
>>8188423
I hate smbc so much.
Is the black person supposed to be hobbes?
>>8189752
same
tell me anon, why do you read?
I don't "read". I "awaken myself" to the truths of this pathetic reality by taking in words.
Primarily for enjoyment. Why do people always ask why I read. Nobody asks why I watch movies.
>>8188269
I read with the hope that some author may help me out of this everlasting depression. It still hasn't happened. I fear that the depression may eventually win.
Where do i start with japanese mythology? Any good collection?
Not op, but if anyone has suggestions for east Asian literature, mythology, or pretty much anything, I'm all ears.
My twisted world by Elliot Rodger.
This book has all the answers.
Dragon Ball
Why are so many Italians anarchists?
Moor blood
fascism and rampant corruption have made a lot of people mistrustful of any kind of government
>>8188235
Australia has the highest percentage of people who mistrust the government, yet there are way more Italian anarchists.
