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"The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniencies of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations."
What did he mean by this?
idk but this is the uni building named after him pretty shit right lol
>>8022348
>Brutalist building
I will never not hate these nor understand why they were ever put up and still have their defenders
A nation pays its workers to be able to live life with all the "necessaries and conveniences", and those necessaries and conveniences are either made or manufactured in that nation or imported.
And those things (Necessaries and conveniences) I assume are things like enforcement of law and bureaucratic tasks, all the way down to agriculture and manufacturing. All the things a government needs to function.
Just bought this on Amazon, what am I in for /lit/?
>wwi thread
Anyone read Albertini's 3 volume "Origins of the war of 1914"? I hear it's a must for wwi but if possible I'd like some input before spending $200+ on an out of print text.
slightly less comfy but infinitely less alarming than a storm of spiders
Think of the new Battlefield trailer except as a book.
How am I supposed to cope with not living the bohemian, promiscuous with 16 to 22 year old blonde girls, big city, literary lifestyle?
>>8022125
Hey, you, get back to pumping gas or shoveling chicken shit or whatever it is flyover proles do!
>>8022125
You're not. That's what suicide and modal realism is for
>tfw I fucked a 22 year old in a hallway in a big city three days ago and I'm a published poet
Is the comma the most beautiful symbol in the English language? Surely, it is.
It looks like a cat dong so i do say yes too
Better question: Is the colon the most beautiful symbol in the English language? Answer: yes, it is.
>>8022086
No it looks like a tadpole. How are you getting cat?
What's a good beginner's book for learning meter?
>>8021967
Poetry with poetic metre, like Shakespeare's sonnets.
>>8021967
I liked poetic designs by Stephan Adams
literally any book ever
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Daily reminder to learn a new language
Tutti i giorni finché ti piace
Should I take up Finnish, German or Russian? Not for reading literature so much as for reading news articles and talking to people
Ma...perché Dickinson?
>>8021968
i would go for german because of reasons
Is this Thomas Pynchon's cameo in Inherent Vice?
>00:49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHl6qQ3V1Mc
I'd say that's a pretty good guess.
Looks like an easy wig for sure.
holy fuck this movie looks terrible
>>8022111
well thats a deleted scenes reel
ITT: We Google translate the first paragraph of our favorite novel to Japanese, and Google translate it back to English.
I shall go first;
Ishmael Call me. How much most in my wallet, or no have the money precisely-, and not to anything mind particular in order to draw my interest to the coast ago- a few years, watery part navigation and of the world for me is a little I thought I would see. This is, spleen and drive in off the, it is how I have to adjust the circulation. Every time I myself find severe growth for the mouth. It is moistened with my soul, whenever...
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For your pleasure, Italian to Japanese to English.
And if any of the discourse has moved premise, from the unprovable assumption
indimostrando, the yolk of the egg yolk and the egg which was completed as of the embryo, both,
Now that you have a LUOMO as follows, of opening the axiom of prenatal
DISCENDITIVA of NATURE. I mean, with the chyle: homo does not act in force
inlàtebra desire to muscle or love, or humans with secret intention, and
He does not select, tendons which it is intended. That he is, that disama and disvuole
Instant, it is invaded,...
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>First two paragraphs, from English to Japanese to English to Japanese to English.
Young man towards the end of July beginning sultry afternoon, now somewhat irresolutely slowly in the direction of the Kamenny Bridge, which came out from his little room in the Stolyarny lane.
He was fortunate enough to escape the encounter with his landlady of stairs. In addition, his small room, such as the location of the twist to live cupboard, more has been hidden under the now of the roof of the high-five-story building. Dinner and service of...
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>>8021917
this is some phil text for sure
I HAVE READ ULYSSES AND FINNEGANS WAKE AND INFINITE JEST AND THE RECOGNITIONS AND THE TUNNEL AND GRAVITY'S RAINBOW AND BORGES AND KAFKA AND I LOVE HEIDEGGER AND SHAKESPEARE IS AMAHZING AND OVID AND I LIKE THE GREEKS HOMER IS GREAT AND FUCK JOHN GREEN HE SUCKS AND DANTE WOW AND DID I MENTION INFINITE JEST AND IM JUST SO SMART /LIT/ I AM ONE OF YOU AND I CAN TELL YOU 100% THAT I HAVE DEFINITELY READ ALL OF THOSE BOOKS AND ENJOYED THEM ALL
>>8021873
But, more importantly, have you read Milkbottle H?
>>8021873
>he hasn't read Dostoevsky
Fuckin plebs amirite
lit memes ranked
Pynchon > Kafka > Joyce > The Greeks > Gaddis > DeLillo > Gass > DFW
Any Latin experts out there? I want to know how to say "dead" in latin — just the one word, no other words for context. The word would relate to a person, however, as in "this person is dead". Specifically, I'm writing a story and I need someone to write next to a list of names if they're dead or not like:
James
Alex — dead
Brandon
whothefuckever — dead
like that. Fucking Latin and its context shit
>>8021790
MorsI think
>>8021800
that sounds about right.
is "memento mori" italian or latin?
>>8021800
That's what I thought, then I typed in this
http://mymemory.translated.net/en/English/Latin/this-person-is-dead
came up with mortus. is this site legit or dumb?
How to be an existentialist:
>Hi! I am a highschool pseudo-intellectual.
>"Today we will learn about Existentialism," says the teacher.
>I like this philosophy. It's kind of sad (not really true at all) and I like how they're all sad French guys who smoked and looked kind of sad. I'm sad and they were sad too and we're both sad so maybe I can be an exitenshallest and be sad and the whole world will know that I am sad and also smart.
>I...
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Please don't post on this site anymore.
I know both literary and philosophical periods don't really have concrete dates upon which everyone can agree, but did the rise of existentialism occur due to the abundance of tropological writing in Modernism, or was it because of the pessimistic writing in Modernism?
Nausea's good, people are wrong about it
Since Waterstones is bullshit (see >>8020389), let's recommend each other good bookshops from places we lived.
I'll start,
Topping and Company, Bath, UK
Huge selection, no celebrity shit, all customers offered complementary tea or coffee while browsing.
City Lights in San Fransisco is Godly
October Books, Southampton, UK
Small collectivist bookseller. Fiction section not great, but decent philosophy and criticism selection. Stocks a variety of leftist magazines.
Malvern Books in Austin, TX is really good. Small but with an excellent selection and helpful/knowledgeable staff.
What's some good/readable fiction about ninjas/assassins/thieves? I say readable because I've read the Night Angel trilogy and it wasn't particularly good, but it was entertaining.
I would say One Thousand and One Nights but unless you know Arabic and can read the original text you'd be
WASTING
YOUR
TIME
SON
*mic drop into double backflip through a ring of fire*
That Fighting Fantasy series with a ninja protagonist was pretty cool
>What mistakes do most beginners make when writing?
I want to skip past the embarrassing period of learning how to write.
>>8021636
Thinking they can write.
Not using the semicolon
ahhhh the frenchhhhh chhhhampagne
it is a californiaa champagne by pauulll masssssonnnnnn
You've finished every book you've started, right?
Every single one except a brave new world, literally fell asleep everytime I tried to read that shit.
No. I dropped Gravity's Rainbow at around 300 pages and I can't pick it up again because I honestly can't remember where I am.
something about african commandos and an underground train chase is the last thing I remember.
no, i dropped ij after the second sentence, sincerely.
