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I actually never read Ann Frank's novella. Also why did she write it almost like a play in narration?
What ended up happening to her? Did she escape to America?
Also is she related to Charlemagne the Frank?
>>8147156
Oh I meant to ask how was her novella?
Is this bait?
Obviously she is not realted to Charlemagne you fucking retard.
If you want to know what happend to her google it.
Also the book is shit.
>>8147164
They have the same last name... it's a valid question anon.
Who knows Latin? What do you think about it? Do you think it's a waste of time? Give me your thought on it. I'm also thinking about learning Latin and was wondering what books would be good to check out.
>>8146168
Did Hercules even lift?
>>8146179
...And to answer your question, "Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata."
It's convertible into most Romance vocabulary if you know the sound changes, so it's indirectly useful.
>>8146186
Is that what you used? Not OP but I actually started that same text about 5 days ago and have been enjoying it. I've been reading each chapter 3 times before moving on. The vocabulary retention is surprisingly good, and even the grammar is coming along.
With that said I think the informal emphasis on conjugation and declension would make for a comparatively poor foundation for branching into modern Romance languages. Any thoughts on that?
Trippy edition. What's some good reality-bending or psychedelic SFF? Dick is the obvious one, of course, but there must be others.
Recommendations
>Fantasy
Selected: http://i.imgur.com/3v2oXAY.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/
Previously: >>8136890
>>8145786
>What's some good reality-bending or psychedelic SFF?
Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials
26 days until The Great Ordeal
>White Sand out on the 29th
>Zero Time Dilemma out on the 29th
OH GOD OH MAN OH GOD OH MAN
Post an image and get a book recommendation based on it.
>>8145636
never let me go
oh i like this idea
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How and why do you continue living if you realize nothing matters, /lit/? What is your answer to nihilism?
I don't believe in nihilism but if nothing matters why not live? Both death and live are equally meaningless choices so it's not as if I'm trying to make some grand argument for life, but there's no particular reason to want to either live or die in a real sense.
Because nothing matters
>>8144664
>why do you continue living
Why not?
Has anyone refuted Nietzsche?
I'm currently reading 'Human, all too Human' and it's hard to fault anything he says. Aphorism 107 in particular (Irresponsibility and Innocence), where he seems to most clearly set out his argument against the ideas of 'Good' and 'Evil', has given me particular food for thought; all of it challenging, and leading to conclusions I am trying to resist.
Then again, he himself calls it man's "bitterest pill", so I don't think he was under any illusions either.
Still, it's...
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If you're only on Human, you still have a long way to go
>>8144511
>I do find myself with the lingering impression that he misunderstood Schopenhauer on one point, however. Namely, "Man can do what he wills, but he cannot will what he wills."
How?
If anything, Schopenhauer misunderstood his own point. If man cannot will what he wills, then by definition he must do everything he ever does.
Ergo, in every sense, he does not have free will.
Yeah, Father Seraphim Rose
You can skip the preface, which isn't by the author, and just start with the introduction.
http://oodegr.co/english/filosofia/nihilism_root_modern_age.htm#I._
Father Seraphim Rose argued that Nietzsche's "cure" for nihilism in fact just formed a dialectic with nihilism, and came to be sublated by it.
/lit/ has an Infinite Jest summer reading book group, and it starts TODAY!
If you have an interest in this book -- whether you have read it or not -- please consider joining us!
We will be reading Infinite Jest from June 3rd (today) – August 11th with an average pace of 15 pages a day.
Discussions will take place right here on /lit/, hopefully we will keep a thread floating around most of the time, but should activity slow down new threads will be made Friday for discussion to avoid daily spamming of dying threads.
TODAY'S READING is pages 3 -...
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full schedule, Day 1 being, of course, June 3rd
Reposting last year's poll, rereaders weigh in
http://strawpoll.me/4625366
caught one of these on time, lets see if this meme is alright. first of all of course:
>I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.
what did he meme by this?
>>8117901
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
didn't you go to high school?
Oh you merry men and women, let's share some samples and share some feedback.
PLEASE leave feedback before or immediately after posting your work. Otherwise these threads turn to shit. Seriously.
Creak, went the door with the broken lock, as Henry Sliverich swung it open. A haunting, soul-crippling creak seemed to call out in rusty groans to a faceless world, which operated its hustle and bustle around it as if it did not exist. Creak, went the unpolished floorboards as he went to step over the threshold in his Italian leather shoes. Creak, creak, creeeeeeeeak. He paused with his fingertips fluttering hesitantly on the door handle, which had clearly once been shining and brass under the light from the absent chandelier in the eerie hallway. Creak, this fine, haunted...
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>>8107002
reads like YA. especially the creeeeaak.
I know you can't italicize here, but onomatopoeia should be in italics.
not bad, but there's not much going on beyond a dude in an old house. Just reads like YA.
Also, at some point emotion or sensation should be introduced to give is a sense of the setting and empathize with the character
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What I have so far of my short novel/novella. I don't expect anyone to read all of it so just skim or read a part.
Hey lit, its my dream to go to Harvard Law, as a current student at a top 40-50 uni and the first person in my family to attend college. I took the LSAT last week and scored much lower than what I was practicing. Probably no better than a 166. This is because I had multiple anxiety attacks toward the end of the exam. Also a pretty anxious person in general, particularly in social situations and anything performance based (exams, athletics, stage fright, etc.) I tried therapy in the past and it didn't help, is there anything to read that can help me out with this?
This isn't Reddit
and you have no chance at that
>>8153271
Fuck you faggot
>>8153279
Don't get mad at me, I'm the only one that is going to tell you the truth
Is it true that ignorance is bliss? I think it just might be
I don't think knowledge ever really leads to happiness
It all depends on what one does with knowledge.
You're supposed to craft it into your own wisdom.
I agree that happiness is the ultimate goal you want to arrive at, but trying to remain ignorant isn't always such a good idea either.
>>8152821
Ignorance is bliss up until you need to pay the bills, figure out taxes, and make a fire to keep yourself from dying from frostbite.
>>8152821
Depends on your strength of character. Strong individuals take advantage of their knowledge and take pleasure in their mastery of it. People who can't often find that not having it makes life easier.
What recent (>1980) literary works do you think will be taught to children in school 50 years from now?
That John Green book with Starts in its name.
>>8152634
None. the novel will be recognized as the historical, temporary art form it is, and the kids will read the same ten or twenty we did
>>8152634
Beloved.
Is love a spook? Is it possible for a voluntary egoist to have genuine affection for another person?
>>8152535
Shut up, you weren't here for the genesis of stirner memes and I'm tired of seeing crossies post his ugly fucking nerd face.
>>8152535
deferring to the opinions of whoever happens to be browsing this board at the time you post your thread is a spook
>Is love a spook?
If, for example, you're obsessed with the idea of love and fuck up your live to see two people get together and life a movie happily ever after, then love became a spook for you.
>Is it possible for a voluntary egoist to have genuine affection for another person?
I'd say the question is to what extent the notion of voluntary egoist can be realized.
Assuming yes, why wouldn't it be possible? If you fall in love with someone, why would that interfere with being an egoist....
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What's the most mystical experience inducing book you've read that didn't necessarily have anything to do with mysticism as a topic?
>>8152519
The God Delusion, I'm not even joking.
>>8152519
Valis
>dick = diamonds
While reading Lolita
I wanna know if any of our fellow people at /it/ actually managed to write and publish something, and how successful it was
Pic semi-related
Only short stories so far but I'm hoping I get somewhere based on that.
>>8152513
I've been published 100+ timesm between one newspaper and 2 magazines. Art journalism/criticism, mostly 500-1200 word stuff. I get 100 to 250 an article, depending on the length and publisher. Been doing this for 3 years now. Still have a side job delivering sushi.
>>8153050
Hello, please tell us how you got into doing this and whether you earn anything noteworthy through it.
t. person who is doing his doctorate in a meme degree and expects to be unemployable
Anyone have this hardcover edition of Ulysses. How are the printing and supplements? Pictures are appreciated.
>pictures are appreciated
you're clearly not ready for Ulysses.
>even Ulysses isn't safe from editions that look like YA
fuck sakes
>>8152383
I bet you tried to suck your own dick once
