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Latin is easy to learn from an english or any romance background but greek is a clusterfuck for most people who aren't greek or aren't sadists.
Latin is useful with somethings but greek is harder to apply to life unless you are a scholar who wants to be pedantic and translate ancient Greek works.
T. Biologist

I finished the Latin sequence in high school and the first couple years of college. I use it/think about it every day. I can read it without stumbling too much.
I wish I'd picked up Greek, but the letters scare me. There's no excuse for anyone to not at least know etymology imho.

First year university Latin exam tomorrow morning. Learning Greek this summer at an intensive paid for by uni.

Wish me luck, lads.

Jesus fuck these threads are moving too fast.

Only 1-5% good content too, just kek my shit up.

Other thread is shit

>>8104248
It was some massive attack of the plebs

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I claim this thread in the name of the Unholy Consult

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>Posting literally the worst of jack Vance's work

What are you doing?

What's going on here isn't this the general?
>>8102868
>>8102868

>>8102668
because you're dumb and your ideas are shit

Reflection always uses a mirror.

>>8102675
I was asking you.

Already did papa P

>>8102388
BECOME MEGUCA

>>8102396
All of them?

Michael Arnold

>>8102014
cant wait for the old cunt to die.

If Harold Bloom was a janitor he would be Harold Broom.

>>8101781
I don't get it. I don't watch children cartoons.

I agree, that is probably reddit's top 5 books. I don't know, I've never been there.

Hitchhiker's Guide and 1984 are alright but they're not the greatest of all time.

yes, the

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>implying "greatest philosopher" isn't like saying "greatest Star Wars EU loremaster"

>>8101446
>Kant ended philosophy
>Hegel ended philosophy
>Heidegger ended philosophy
>Wittgeinstein ended philosophy

>>8101458
>>>/r9k/

Moby-Dick

vurt
city of god
the virgin suicides

No, and they never will.

Periods and cooking don't make good subjects for high literature.

The Waves

Of course and if you need to ask for examples, you are too dumb to be on /lit/. Mods need to start locking these threads or we are going to become a slightly better read /r9k/.

>>8100726

Harry Potter/GoT-tier.

>>8100726
I'm currently reading The Last Wish and am about 2/3rds into it. It's really good fun, Geralt is a fun protagonist and the world he inhabits is interesting. Some of the short stories within are of varying quality but on the whole I'd recommend reading them, especially if you're a fan of the games. I'm looking forward to cracking into Sword of Destiny.

Don't think this is on any higher philosophical level than most fantasy though, it's designed to be lost in and enjoyable first and foremost.

No, but ok entertainment I guess.

Machado de Assis.
Roberto Bolaño.
João Guimarães Rosa.

Juan Carlos Onetti
Felisberto Hernández
Juan José Arreola
Juan Filloy
Horacio Quiroga
Fernando Vallejo

Juan Rulfo
Arreola
Roa Bastos
>Cortázar
>falling on the meme boom

>>8097040
>Chinese
>literature

Honestly, I would recommend Japanese over Chinese. Chinese is significantly harder to get accustomed to, and you'll struggle with the tonal system and the uncommon phonology. The several spoken Chinese forms are another difficulty you would like to avoid, and its literary history has a hole, namely communist China. It means the written Chinese of the classics are already different than the one you will study and that the modern literature still offers little to compare with Japan. Thanks to its syllabary, Japanese is more friendly and a bilingual English/French speaker will have a homely feel when it comes to pronunciation. Japanese is very close to French and Italian, and has some sounds found in German. It also gives a “musical” accent, similar to French, which has little importance, unlike Chinese. A European can effortlessly read a Japanese sentence. On a literary note, Japan is younger than China but has demonstrated more consistence through the ages, and a positive incorporation of European influences. The contemporary and modern literatures are still highly active. Chinese is a perfect second language choice for Japanese speaker since early Japanese literature involves Chinese, and that Japanese characters are directly borrowed to China. Actually, I speak French, Japanese and Chinese so feel free to ask questions.

>>8097336
Thank you anon. How did you learn japanese? Do you have any tips for that or language-learning in general? I'm reading through /int/'s language guide and I've signed up for a french class in the fall for uni, but my school doesn't offer japanese that I know of.

ah, blood meridian, monsieur? that novel is the sark and chaparral of literature, the filament whereon rode the remuda of highbrow, corraled out of some destitute hacienda upon the arroya, quirting and splurting with main and with pyrolatrous coagulate of lobated grandiloquence. our eyes rode over the pages, monsieur, of that slatribed azotea like argonauts of suttee, juzgados of swole, bights and systoles of walleyed and tyrolean and carbolic and tectite and scurvid and querent and creosote and scapular malpais and shillelagh. we scalped, monsieur, the gantlet of its esker and led our naked bodies into the rebozos of its mennonite and siliceous fauna, wallowing in the jasper and the carnelian like archimandrites, teamsters, combers of cassinette scoria, centroids of holothurian chancre, with pizzles of enfiladed indigo panic grass in the saltbush of our vigas, true commodores of the written page, rebuses, monsieur, we were the mygale spiders too and the devonian and debouched pulque that settled on the frizzen studebakers, listening the wolves howling in the desert while we saw the judge rise out of a thicket of corbelled arches, whinstone, cairn, cholla, lemurs, femurs, leantos, moonblanched nacre, uncottered fistulas of groaning osnaburg and kelp, isomers of fluepipe and halms awap of griddle, guisado, pelancillo.

Yeah, I actually read the whole thing because I had to. I was entering a prestigious PhD program and focusing on Joyce because I loved Dubliners, Portrait, and Ulysses. To my shame, though, I'd never read the Wake. I'd never even tried, as hard as that was to admit. It was this huge blind spot and area of vulnerability for me. Whenever it'd come up with my colleagues I'd just smile and nod, smile and nod, hoping they wouldn't ask me anything specific about it. "The musicality of it," somebody would say, and I'd say, "Oh God, yes, it's like Beethoven." Finally, though, I had to dive into it, and let me tell you it was tough going. Joseph Campbell's guide helped a lot. Reading it out loud helped. I listened to other people read it, read online commentaries. Eventually it started to make some sort of sense. It was like I was learning to read for the first time again, and in a way this was enjoyable. I got better at reading the book. Soon I was reading entire paragraphs without trouble, getting the puns, laughing at the jokes. I could sort of follow the story, it was like a blurry picture resolving into clarity, or like I was drunk and I was sobering up, I could actually understand it. As I became more and more adept at reading the Wake, I began putting myself to the test, initiating conversations with my colleagues about it, but specific passages this time, specific parts of the book. You can probably guess what happened. After a number of these conversations it became blindingly obvious that I understood the book a lot better than they did, they who I thought were the experts. It eventually became sort of embarrassing for them and I stopped trying to talk about it. And at the end of the day I would pack my things, catch the bus home, and settle into my apartment to read the Wake. It had surpassed all of Joyce's other works in my estimation. Ulysses, the book months earlier I would've named as my favorite of all time, the best book ever written, was now #2 to the Wake. So majestic, so ambitious, so wide-ranging, erudite, glorious, incredible was it that I couldn't believe that it was the work of one man. Best of all, the heart of it isn't complicated at all. What did I get from the Wake, what are its lessons? First of all, be yourself. Second of all, put one foot in front of the other. And lastly, just do it for crying out loud, time's a wastin'!

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