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How does one unironically start with the greeks?
Homer>Herodotus>Thucydides>Plato>Sophocles?
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>>8058486
you can't unironically start with the greeks.
it must be done ironically.
>>8058486
Sophocles comes before Plato. Also, Hesiod should be after HomerIt doesn't have to be any exact order. It's not like it's going to intellectually ruin you
Homer
Hesiod
Herodotus
Pindar
Thucydides
Xenophon
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
The Presocratics and the Sophists
Aristophanes
Plato
Aristotle
Epicurus
Speed reading, I have two nieces aged five and six.
What literature do I need to teach them both to speed read?
>>8058442
waaaaaaaaaay too early, they can barely read with subvocalization
around 12 would be best
>>8058442
foreign movies/series w/ subtitles tbqh
>>8058447
Alright, six and seven years to go then.
Since this thread is up anyway I'll ask here, I figure phonics and pronunciation are more age appropriate subjects to work on. Is there a proven system anyone on /lit/ can recommend, preferably something that expands vocabulary as well.
>>8058455
I'll try that, no anime though. Don't want a pair of naruto weebs on my hands.
Hey, /lit/? I have my first year English litterature finals tomorrow. Can you just remind me on everything I need to know?
>>8058411
It always goes that way....
Shame on you
Shame on me
>>8058423
I need no sympathy...
>>8058411
he did it cuz mom didn't love him.
(that's all you need to know for your literature finals)
Is a hyphen used in a modifier with an adverb?
“a barely-literate nu male””
Or
“a barely literate nu male”
the 2nd feels better
>>8058394
I'm sort of used to the first version since my native language uses hyphens quite often, but it always feels strange when used in English for some reason.
I could have told you a few weeks ago, we specifically went over it in my editing class.
As it stands, it's up to the predominant style of the editing/publishing house or even country as to which one is more right or acceptable.
How sleazy would it be for me to go out and order all of the physical copies of the books I've read before on my e-reader just to have a library?
t. rich person
>>8058386
0 Books is free
>>8058393
What?
>>8058386
https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/03/24/umberto-eco-antilibrary/
Article very relevant. Basically a library should be acquired that consists of books you havent read to give it value, otherwise it is just for vanity.
IE go to used book stores and yard sales and buy books you havent read.
I like how emotionally distant yet very observant and to a degree very curious the narrator is. Is it possible to become like that without drugs?
>>8058364
I used to think that and then started commuting in NYC on public transportation to a cubicle job.
Every person becomes an Island. The group he hangs out with values aesthetics and decadence so strongly that they have rejected regular human discourse.
I actually had an office manager that spent every weekend pretending she was a rich long island princess even though she made like 45000 a year (BMW, Gucci, the works) and I lent her this book as a veiled criticism. She didnt read it of course but her mom did and really opened up on her for living a life of shit.
>>8058376
T. Neckbeard in fedora and trenchcoat with a 26 inch letter opener
>>8058420
>neckbeard with katana working in an office space environment
Hey /lit/
I'm looking for a good quote for a person who feel like they are locked in a birdcage and longs to be set free.
Thanks.
>>8058244
"Man, it really feels like I'm locked in a birdcage. I want to be set free really bad."
>>8058244
"I feel like I am locked in a birdcage and long to be set free."
>>8058244
okay I'll see what I have in my diary tbqh
I can't help but think if an unpublished Kurt Vonnegut was posting some of his best passages in critique threads here, he'd probably get roundly shit on.
This board hates Vonnegut for some reason, so probably.
I post from Proust, Dosto and many others and get shit on all the time.
People don't critique to help usually. They critique cause they like the superior feeling.
>>8058228
So what, if you want your arsehole licked go to reddit and post your stuff there. Having somewhere to see your works get spit on is a good thing
Hey guys, just wondering what you thought of these. I've been trying to write a bit over the past year and wonder if anyone has any tips?
Also, struggles to get followers on instagram :/
Thanks in advance!!
I liked it. The subject matter isn't all that unique but the meter was surprisingly good.
I liked it today and I will forget it tomorrow.
Start posting them on Hello Poetry. Poems like these are sure to get thousands of hits, easily.
<<<< Check this book out.
Looks boring, right? Some old dusty tome from the bookshelf of your old pa? You think their might be some fancy silk bookmark to mark your place in this double-covered sleeping pill?
Wel,l guess what. It aint boring. This is Thomas Pynchon bitch. He writes about history.... but with a twist. There's talkin dogs, people with names like Cherrycoke, drugzZz, and all kinds of wicked shit.
This ain't your granddad's literature. NO YAWNING ALLOWED.
>mfw no one is interested in pynchonposting
>>8058170
>No one who's read Gravity's Rainbow and Mason and Dixon are left on this board.
>>8058135
Thomas Pinecone is one of my favorite authors The crying of lot 49 was amazing I loved every minute of it. What about that wacky zany psychiatrist?! Lmao!
Why has British Philosophy gone so downhill in the last century?
I mean I can barely name a single British Philosophy of worth in the last 40 years other than Simon Critchley who is rather dull
252
These Englishmen are no race of philosophers. Bacon signifies an attack on the spirit of philosophy in general; Hobbes, Hume, and Locke have been a debasement and a devaluing of the idea of a "philosopher" for more than a century. Kant raised himself and rose up in reaction against Hume. It was Locke of whom Schelling was entitled to say, "Je méprise Locke" [I despise Locke]. In the struggle with the English mechanistic dumbing down of the world, Hegel and Schopenhauer (along with Goethe) were unanimous - both of these hostile fraternal geniuses in philosophy, who moved away from each other towards opposite poles of the German spirit and in the process wronged each other, as only brothers can.13 What's lacking in England, and what has always been missing, that's something that semi-actor and rhetorician Carlyle understood well enough, the tasteless muddle-headed Carlyle, who tried to conceal under his passionate grimaces what he understood about himself, that is, what was lacking in Carlyle - a real power of spirituality, a real profundity of spiritual insight, in short, philosophy.14 It is characteristic of such an unphilosophical race that it clings strongly to Christianity. They need its discipline to develop their "moralizing" and humanizing. The Englishman is more gloomy, more sensual, stronger willed, and more brutal than the German - he is also for that very reason, as the more vulgar of the two, more pious than the German. He is even more in need of Christianity. For more refined nostrils this same English Christianity has still a lingering and truly English smell of spleen and alcoholic dissipation, against which it is used for good reasons as a medicinal remedy - that is, the more delicate poison against the coarser one. Among crude people, a subtler poisoning is, in fact, already progress, a step towards spiritualization. The crudity and peasant seriousness of the English are still most tolerably disguised or, stated more precisely, interpreted and given new meaning, by the language of Christian gestures and by prayers and singing psalms. And for those drunken and dissolute cattle who in earlier times learned to make moral grunts under the influence of Methodism and more recently once again as the "Salvation Army," a twitch of repentance may really be, relatively speaking, the highest achievement of "humanity" to which they can be raised: that much we can, in all fairness, concede. But what is still offensive even in the most humane Englishman is his lack of music, speaking metaphorically (and not metaphorically -). He has in the movements of his soul and his body no rhythm and dance - in fact, not even the desire for rhythm and dance, for "music." Listen to him speak, or watch the most beautiful English woman walk - in no country of the earth are there lovelier doves and swans - and finally, listen to them sing! But I'm demanding too much . . .
>>8058236
Its beautiful to see put into exact words what we all intuitively know as true
What type of litterature is /fa/ ?
Philosophy and foreign fiction novels are /fa/. Graphic novels and fantasy aren't
>>8058095
Animorphs.
Goosebumps
Should i go for these translations?
Especially the Fear and trembling one(Alastair Hannay) ,i heard hong is the best but it's hard to get hold of one here.And it also costs a fortune (at least for a student) here.
Help a nigga out.
>$230 for a paperback
wow just get dover thrift editions
what the fuck. why would you want to do this? the authors of these books aren't even alive. just pirate them.
>>8058072
it's actually 230 rupees(~3.5 USD)
You know that house you pass when you get lost on a back road?
Every back road in Pennsylvania has one.
The house the forest has been lazily trying to reclaim since the day it was built, tucked neatly between somewhere and nowhere?
You know the one I mean.
It’s just a house, of course. You tell yourself that it’s just a house, anyhow. You’re a rational person, and it’s just a regular house. There’s a suburb like a mile back, for Christ’s sake. You’re not exactly stranded. Just lost. It’s late, and you need to turn around.
The porch is a heap of deer skulls and axes and water-logged indoor furniture, and you try to slow your breathing. Plenty of people hunt. Plenty of people chop firewood. Plenty of people survive turning around in someone’s driveway, so why are you being such a baby? What are you afraid of?
And surely it’s a safer place to reset your GPS than the… Well, what must have been a farm, once… up the road. With its single, emaciated horse and its howling, feral cats and its tetanus-trap of vine-choked, scrap-ravaged cars.
Surely this is safer, you think.
And you’d be right, most nights.
I mean, there’s an even chance you’ll be pulling chunks of deer out of the grille of your car if you panic and drive away too fast, but that’s not the house’s fault. That’s just Pennsylvania for ya’.
Most nights, everything is perfectly fine, and you’ll laugh it off as sleep-deprived paranoia and arrive at your destination unscathed and unchanged.
But every so often… If the sky is clear and the air is crisp, and you listen very carefully, you’ll hear me…
I’m there, you know…
Perched on the roof, just outside of your view, just fuckin’ shreddin’ on this toy accordion I got on Craigslist for ten bucks. Just, like, reallllly goin’ at it like you would not believe, whispering, “Hell yeah,” every few measures.
I’m getting pretty good, actually.
Yawn
what is this a folk-punk song
HOUSE should be in blue, but solid effort anyway.
Did you know that "literally" is the only word in English that cannot be used figuratively?
>>8057999
Except it literally is used figuratively all the time
>>8058003
And every time some spazz spergs out about it.
>>8058003
check le dictionary my main man
