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Hello anons,
I want to get my aging grandfather, who has been a history buff his whole life, a nice book for fathers day. He's into the wild west and U.S. presidential history; really loves Native American history/lore.
I would love any recommendations that you guys have. Even if it doesn't have anything directly to do with the subjects that he is into.
If he's a buff he's probably already read it, but Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee. You could also get him the Ken Burns wide west documentary series
1491 is a great book. He has def read wounded knee.
Conquest of the Incas by Henning is a classic and fucking great.
Batavias Graveyard was fun
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon is pretty good pop history
Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations by Schama
Raiders and Rebels: A History of the Golden Age of Piracy
The Many Headed Hydra (a little pinko)
The Black Jacobins
He might have read it but Black Elk Speaks
Does anybody on /lit/ write just for fun? Has anyone here ever completed a whole novel, not caring if it sucked or not, not doing it to be a writer, but because they genuinely enjoyed doing it?
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>>8163383
that's what i'm doing now, although i'm going to do my damnedest to make some kind of chump change (even if a few cents) with KDP.
deep down, the reason is because i just enjoy immersing myself in these other worlds. it's a lot of fun.
>>8163383
>Does anybody on /lit/ write just for fun?
does shitposting count?
Who's that manga man? He intrigues me.
Anyway, sorta. I write lots of things just cause I like to. Getting published seems like a pain. And what would it do for me? Bring in money? Get my stuff looked at? Who cares? I don't write for that.
>What is morality? It is not the following of enjoined rules of conduct. It is not a question of standing above temptations, or of conquering hate, anger, greed, lust and violence. Questioning your actions before and after creates the moral problem. What is responsible for this situation is the faculty of distinguishing between right and wrong and influencing your actions accordingly.
>Life is action. Unquestioned action is morality. Questioning your actions is destroying the expression of life. A person who lets life...
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>Up and down his torso, neck and head, at those points which Indian holy men call chakras, his friends observed swellings of various shapes and colors, which came and went at intervals. On his lower abdomen the swellings were horizontal, cigar-shaped bands. Above the navel was a hard, almond-shaped swelling. A hard, blue swelling, like a large medallion, in the middle of his chest was surmounted by another smaller, brownish-red, medallion-shaped swelling at the base of his throat. These two 'medallions' were as though suspended from a varicolored,...
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>True ubermensch or weirdo contrarian edgemaster?
The first would imply he achieved or conquered something, the second that he opposed or was against something, both would imply there was anything particular about him, and he, would deny all of the former.
>What do you guys think?
I've been listening to his conversations while walking to and from uni for about half a month now. It's produced this sort of calming effect on me, in which ı can stop thinking awarely and not be affected by the general...
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Is Asian Watts a hack or legit?
>Discover a new author
>First book you read by them is life-altering, easily makes your top ten list
>Next thing you read from them is insufferable garbage
What's his/her name, /lit/?
Denis Johnson
1st Book read - Jesus' Son
2nd book - Fiskadoro -wtf Johnson
though I did later like Angels
Train Dreams
and The Name of the World
The Laughing Monsters was meh but Fiskadoro really fucking irked me
Dostoievsky. First read Crime and Punishment and i loved it.
Then i read Demons and, save for Kirilov's parts, it was meh.
Then i got The Idiot and it was also meh, altough a litle better.
Then Memories from the House of the Dead. Wich was great.
And at last i read Brothers Karamazov and absolutely loved it. Even shed tears over it.
So what the fuck is a positive negativist anyway?
Positive nega.. positive n.. positive neganna work here anymore, anyway.
damn right I like the life I live
>>8163282
just some bullshit pseud hipster term. some made up shit. like the other made up words in the book. it's a very chicatois thing to say
Whats the funniest story you've heard /lit/ and where did you hear it?
>>8163254
not really a story but:
my grandfather once gave my nephew a penny for christmas. he then said 'don't spend it all in one place' before bursting into laughter.
>I've never laughed so hard in my life
>>8163395
that's gold m8
>>8163254
A joke about Speedy Gonzales I've read here.
>Two black guys are sitting with them at the table. Both sport faded jeans, T-shirts, and leather jackets. One has reflector sunglasses on, the other has a shaved head. Both are glaring at me. I stick out my hand at a crooked angle, trying to mimic a rapper. "Hey," I say. "I'm fresh. The freshest, y'know… like, uh, def… the deffest." I take a sip of champagne. "You know… def ." To prove this I spot a black guy with dreadlocks and I walk up to him and exclaim "Rasta Man!" and hold out my hand, anticipating a high-five. But the nigger just stands there. "I mean" – I cough – " Mon ," and then, with less enthusiasm, "We be, uh, jamming.."
Haha holy shit, he's fucking autistic
Damn ... makes me want to read that.
>>8163222
>mon
based Bateman
>>8163222
is this real because it is cringe as fuck
Rate this.
It's being able to fill a page with a long composite sentence a demonstration of writing skill?
I was trying to acomplish that.
Aprende a usar puntos. Practica unos años y luego vuelve. 2/10
>>8163246
Los puntos no indican que la frase termina?
>>8163207
Omnibus militibus, qui ab urbe tam ardenter amata, illo, quo Romulus conditor inclytus imperii omnem mundum regentis septem colles optimos in orbe terrarum creaverat, loco ab imperatore notissimo, ter consul creato, quinque bellis duellatore, patricio nobillimae generis, C. Metello Rufo, X ac XII legionum imperatore ac ceterum ob mortem alterius consulis IV ac VII imperanti, longissime propter bella a barbaris ac Romanis qui contra rem publicam arma tulere incepta ductis, principes, a gentibus peregrinis ad loca summa...
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Just got these today. What am I in store for, senpai?
>>8163038
Oh shit! My brother took The Road with him when he moved!
Anyone got a solid place for getting book pdf for android?
>>8163050
read the sticky you filthy pleb
>>8163038
Not familiar with the Lewis title, read that first, let me know hehe
What do you have subscriptions to /lit/?
>NYRB
>Paris Review
>Daedalus
>Lapham's Quarterly
>>8162953
Prozac
nothing, I spend my time reading books, not worthless cultural commentary
>>8163031
this is pretty much true. I used to have a subscription to the paris review because I wanted to keep up on new literature. then i realized that I could dedicate my entire life to reading all the important works from any 10 year period after 1600 and I'd still never read them all
Next year i'm majoring English Literature in uni, what are some basic literate publications I should start with
Ignore Shakespeare because i won't read that
Nice post, friend
>>8162801
how can a publication be illiterate?
>>8162801
also, since when did Shakespeare write papers on literary criticism
I just finished the Inferno and before I move on to the rest of the Comedy I have a question. How do the ancient Greek and Roman gods work in Dante's worldview? There are clearly mythological figures in hell (Charon, the Titans, various heroes), and I recall Jove and his lightning specifically being mentioned. Did Dante believe these gods existed but were "lesser" than his god? Did he think they were the ancients' misunderstanding of the true god? Were they real figures like the Titans, sent to Purgatory or Paradise (or perhaps to Hell but just not mentioned)?
Dante's...
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The Comedy is a work of fiction.
The Greek and Roman gods exist as characters in the book, not reality.
lmao you didnt even read it in ancient latin pleb
pretty much like in milton's paradise lost, it's a typical medieval tradition when the ancient gods were considered devils if understood literally or simply metaphors / fiction characters if understood non literally; christianity is a non-tolerant bitch
p.s. you should consider that the divine comedy is itself deeply affected by aeneid (hence virgil is his companion), that part of it which describes the descending of aenes into the netherworld (that part is clearly affected by homer's odyssey but afaik dante didn't know greek and so didn't read...
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I'm so tired of being sad
I'm in my mid-20s and since I was a very young teen in middle school I have been depressed. Not a week has gone by in the past decade where I haven't thought about suicide. Been to a thousand doctors and tried different medicines. Made a few attempts and fucked up my kidneys permanently from too many sleeping pills.
Just grinding through life missing out on things. I hardly even react to my own sadness anymore, every time I cross a bridge I visualize jumping to my death and the thought doesn't even phase me anymore it's...
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If you want to kill yourself, why don't you want to kill yourself?
Now's your chance!
I, who greatly love both death and life,
Would kill myself too, if I dared kill myself...
If you dare, then be daring!
What good to you is the changing picture of outer images
We call the world?
What good is this cinema of hours played out
By actors with stock roles and gestures,
This colorful circus of our never-ending drive to keep going?
What good is your inner world which you don't know?
Kill yourself, and maybe you'll finally know...
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I unironically read and enjoy Clickhole articles. Am I a bad person, or just a pleb (or a true patrician)? Should I or should I not kill myself?
http://www.clickhole.com/article/okay-which-one-you-guy-fawkes-motherfuckers-switch-4448
>>8162640
kys
>>8162640
Is clickhole yet another computer generated pos?
I really hope they're trying to be ironic with that one but by the standards of these kind of webshits I suspect they are not.
Why does so much contemporary philosophy say things like "language is the root of all understanding" or "all thought is language?"
I understand that language is important, maybe even fundamental to consciousness, but aren't there many kinds of thought that AREN'T linguistic? How does visualising a triangle involve language unless I try to express what I "believe" or "feel" about it?
>>8162579
you can visualize a triangle but where is that going to get you? if thinking is the basis of philosophy, you need a language to express it.
telepathic philosophy when
>>8162579
Read Jerry Fodor's "Language of Thought". That's where the case is made (whether or not you end up buying it).
