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Is T. Hobbes /lit/ approved?
who cares
>>8053887
this desu XD
>marxist board with little tolerance for anything near the right
wht u thnk opie?
>Keep a notepad filled with short story ideas
>Have a bunch of ideas floating around for longer stories
Should I even bother writing them? I'm not an English major and I'm scared I'll just get laughed at if someone reads my stuff.
I'm a pretty decent writer though, took AP lit in HS and aced both the writing and literature courses my college makes you take.
Any other wannabes that are afraid to apply themselves?
>I'm a pretty decent writer though
No you aren't.
>>8053906
You're probably right
Fuck it
>>8053907
Just do it if you want. Don't overestimate yourself or you're only going to stagnate.
Using a fake name, of course, which in reality, is part of my hebrew name.
I picked up my 20-somethingson, David,at themetroa few weeks ago. After he got into the car, heput out his hands towards me, and asked:
“Do you likethis color?Kind ofadeep purple. I get a lot of compliments on it.”
YES, DAVID WEARS NAIL POLISH; BRIGHT, GLOSSY, FREQUENTLY CHANGING COLORS, NAIL POLISH. AND IT DOESN’T BOTHER ME. IN FACT,I LIKE THE DEEP PURPLE SHADE.
When David first told us he was gay in his junior year in high school, my husband and I were somewhat surprisedbut when we thought about it, it began to make sense. At first I worriedabout the increased chances that he would develop AIDS and Iwas concerned about problems he would likely face being acceptedas a gay man in the less tolerant world we lived in a decade ago. But the gay part? We had an inkling. O.K., more than an inkling. (and what parent doesn’t?).
As an avid reader and news-watcher, I did havesome knowledge of the evolving gay community.I was aware of the AIDS crisis in the 1980’s, I remember when Barney Frank became the first U.S. congressman to come out as gay in 1987 and when in 1989 a New York Court ruled that it was legally possible for a same-sex couple to constitute a family.
But when our teenage son told us he was gay, my personal knowledgeof what it meant to be a gay man was, unfortunately,tainted by popularmedia stereotypes which told us that most gay men:
* dressed impeccably
* were extremely neat and well organized
* often chose interior design or hair styling as their professions
* had high pitched, effeminate voices
* liked to gossip
* had many women friends
From time to time, in my son’s late teen years, I honestly wondered if maybe he had been mistaken as to his sexual identity. After all, he was incredibly sloppy, his bed room was knee-deep in dirty clothing and he was completely disorganized.Heplanned to major in chemistryand disliked idle chatter.
But the years passed,as he grew into his 20’s,he stayed just as disorganized andmessy, with a fervent dislike for doing laundry–and he remained gay.
He is comfortable with his own identity. And because he is so comfortable, we are too. He has patiently explained that what I first thought I knew about gay men wasall wrong.
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>>8053808
And finally the media has caught upa bit. Wehear about gay football players and (sometimes) see gay men whodon’twear stylishclothing.
Unfortunately, it still makes the news when a gay man isthe first in his field or profession.
Earlier this year, when our synagogue, Temple Sinaiin Washington, DC, hired a new rabbi who happenedto be gay, it became a news story in the WashingtonPost.
“RABBI ADAM ROSENWASSER RECENTLY BECAME THE FIRST RABBI HIRED TO FILL A MAJOR PULPIT IN WASHINGTON WHO IS MARRIED TO SOMEONE OF HIS OWN GENDER. BUT HE DOESN’T LIKE TO FOCUS ON THAT. ‘I’M GAY, BUT I ALSO LIKE TO SCUBA DIVE AND PLAY GUITAR.’“(AUGUST 8, 2014)
Sonow we all know that some men who are football players, some whoare messy and some who are rabbis,can all be gay. And that the fact that they have sexual partners of the same gender is not what defines them.
And there are somemen who wear nail polish. And change colors frequently, and with great pleasure.
But I draw the line at mint green. Adays ago David showed me his latest color, his nails were mint green.Reminded me of medical scrubs, bad memories. Better to go back to the purple or maybe try a new shade, I suggested,how about deep pink?
David looked up at me as if I was crazy, “Mom, I am not that gay”.
O.K., so I don’t totally get the gay male thing yet. But I accept it, and I accept him, purple nail polish yes,mint green no, his color choices don’t define him either.
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thoughts?
Thoughts?
What's up with the grammar? Can't read that shit.
OP is a faggot (but not first in your field)
Your mom can't write for shit.
>he thinks there are logical arguments against suicide
On a familial or societal level there are.
>>8053792
ok.
>logical arguments when context contains human psyche
There are only persuasions
What a shitty ending
>>8053710
Hey bitch don't knock my favourite book
>>8053713was it death that touched his shoulder
>>8053718Most likely, the same "dark figure" appears in a lot of his work
G'day /lit/, ausfag law student here.
I'm a big fan of your reading guides and I was wondering if anyone here has studied or read jurisprudence before?
Whats a good starting point if you want to learn more about law, legal philosophy and legal history?
Obviously "lerl start with the Greeks" and then go on to Cicero, but what else?
rawls has the face of a intellectual
>>8053703
D'entreves - Natural Law
Hart - Fuller Debate
Hart - The Concept of the Law
Kelsen - A Pure Theory of Law
Oliver Wendell Holmes jr. - The Path of The Law
The Philosophy of Human Rights - Patrick Hayden (a collection of texts on human rights)
>>8053703
>ausfag law student here.
lmao where cunt
Any books on cultural revolution, or maoist books during or after '68 riot?
>>8053696
Literally hundreds. Frank Dikotter's just put out a new one as part of his continuing mission to show how awful the CCP was. The standard work is probably McFarquhar and Somebody I Can't Remember.
>>8053696
Alain Badiou has written a fair bit on Maoism.
>>8053696
Communists did nothing wrong. Take your counter-revolutionary shit back to /pol/.
400 buck-a-roonies to blow at Barnes and Noble. What do you reckon should I get, /lit/?
Amazon is cheaper tho
>>8053672
Alas, the money is on gift cards.
>>8053668
Hamburgers
In Hesiod's "Theogony", what is it mean by "night is poured in three rows around the neck", referring Tartaros?
>>8053652
>referring Tartaros?
I mean "referring to Tartaros?"
hello?
best translation?
Capolavoro della letteraturia italiana, lo avete letto ? che ne pensatE ?
porcodio
Mangia la merda
>>8053639
Also this
>>8053635
Ma si è capito alla fine di che cazzo parla?
So I downloaded the starter kit to my google drive
Got a copy of Mythology by Edith Hamilton
Read some Plato
Have read Illiad before (well bits and pieces)
And have been listening to a podcast series of pre-Socratic philosophers
But I dunno guys, its all very fascinating but should I really start with the Greeks?
Is it just a meme or will it ultimately serve some sort of purpose?
Can I skip to the enlightenment? I really want to read Kant.
>>8053634
you can start wherever you want lol "start with the greeks" is a meme.
>>8053634
You really can start wherever you want, but I still think that you should read them at some point.
You need to read Hume and Descartes to understand Kant, nothing else.
How do you teach yourself to be able to read classics and other difficult books? Is there like a reading list or something where the books progress in difficulty from a typical modern novel to the hardest classics? Would easing into them like that even work out?
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Start with short classics with short chapters and a small but decent vocabulary that are enjoyable on a very surface level, like The Stranger, The Immoralist or Of Love and Other Demons. I'll even throw Buk's Post-Office in there, or Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Gradually increase the length and difficulty at a pace that doesn't hinder the enjoyment of the book, and continue to choose books that constantly choose books that interest you.
I still kind of do this but at a much more frantic pace. After Moby-Dick, GR, and War and Peace each time I returned to a shorter work that took less effort sentence-to-sentence that I had always wanted to read, and then dove into something much longer that took a lot more work.
I also found Soumission by Houellebecq to be extremely funny and smart, while very easy. I don't know, research some basics.
>>8053561
You know the Greek meme?
it isn't half wrong.
A LOT of classics constantly make reference to various Greek mythos.
The same goes with the bible.
How can you tell if your own writing is any good?
Have other people read it
>>8053530
Said every YA author on goodreads ever.
>>8053519
submit your manuscripts to publishers, if they get back to you then it means you have at least an ounce of talent
Just finished this. What did /lit/ think of this garbage?
>>8053480
>getting so emotionally affected by a book that you burned it out of butthurt and anger
I guess Ray was doing something write
>>8053480
Lol love that pic. Its pretentious, lowbrow shiite. Animal Farm is beyond autistic as well.
>>8053480
>burning Fahrenheit 451
>burning a book about a dystopian world that burns books
A... Ahahaha
Let's tie this up once and for all.
What he gay?
No. He just admired their physiques and maybe enjoy a cheeky cock in his bum now and again, but this was all in a straight way of course.
>>8053467
It's possible to have gay aesthetic tastes but not be gay. In fact I think that gay aesthetic tastes are incredibly straight. It takes a man to appreciate another man, women and fags are too distracted by their craving for cock.
>>8053467
the gayest
