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>>7994476
MOOPS IN SPAIN
>>7994481
What do you mean by this?
>>7994476
>SMOORS IN PAIN
what happened to them?
Couldn't find "Stages on Life's Way" by Soren Kierkegaard on Project Gutenberg; is there a place online to get books like this to be aware of?
gen lib rus ec
(dot dot dot)
>>7994485
I think it worked. Thanks so much!
> that feel when a smell reminds you of that time when you were reading Proust.
>that feel when you think you're into smelling girls assholes but you try it and it's gross and just smells dirty but then you don't jerk off for a month and all you want to do is smell dirty assholes
>try rimming a girl once because it looks really hot in porn videos
>end up getting violently ill
Hey lit figured this was the best place to ask, I've been googling to no avail, I'm looking for the name of the ethical theory most concerned with the motives or intents behind actions.
The closest I've found is motive utilitarianism but it isn't quite what I'm looking for. I'm embarrassed myself I havnt been able to remember what I'm referring to I consider myself a fan of ethics but even with the internet what I'm precisely thinking of eludes me.
And yes this is for a final paper for university.
And for those interested I am tracing Dickens ethical values within our mutual friend focusing on the melodramatic tropes used and how they reveal Dickens moral theory.
Paper is due in 5 hours dear Lord save me Lit I read the book I just need your infinite philosophical knowledge!
Currently grappling with virtue ethics as the closest thing to what I'm looking for
trying to get my buddy to read JR with me. then he says this. how would you respond?
Tell him that Churchill said it
sorry, more specifically how would you respond to his suffering for enlightenment remark?
OP you have downs
Are you ready for the greatest book of all time?
What does that title mean?
>>7994427
It's his story.
>>7994448
Well I hope it's a good one
books about/for/written by trans folk?
>>7994398
Orlando
>>7994398
DSM-IV-TR
Nietzsche's book is so easy to read that loli can read his book.
>>7994382
yes, so why you cant?
Quality shitpost, my friend.
Hey /lit/, I usually buy used books, but I just won a $125 gift card Barnes and Noble. What books should I get that I will never find used?
>>7994358
Is she reading the book upside-down?
>>7994371
yup
>>7994371
some languages are read right to left you racist
What's some Reddit lit?
dfw
mccarthy
vonnegut
>>7994315
Kurt Vonnegut
Neil Gaiman
Hunter Thompson
George R. R. Martin
Stephen King
Douglass Adams
Hi. Today is my 18th birthday and I wanted to use it to finally post on /lit/ without breaking the rules. I'm heading off to college in a few months. What would you recommend to a novice reader like me?
>>7994288
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/edit
>>7994288
Have you checked the /lit/ wiki in the sticky yet? It's full of /lit/ starter kit recommendations and easily accessible classics.
Also happy birthday, anon.
I'll briefly recommend some books that helped me get more involved in reading - they're accessible and fairly easy to read, but they're also of classic status and well-renowned:
George Orwell's 1984 (you probably know of this one - if you like it, also try out Huxley's Brave New World and Zamyatin's We)
John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy Of Dunces
Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Double (probably one of his most accessible works, but Notes From Underground is great too if you're new to his work)
Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho
Also if you already own a few books (which you probably do), I'd recommend reading those if you haven't already, just so you get yourself more used to reading frequently and to help build your reading speed. If those books are crap, I guess that's what charity shops are for.
Try some philosophy!
Maybe some Plato
www.amazon.com/dp/0872206335
Or some Descartes (meditations, objections and replies, and maybe the discourse on method)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0521358124/
Followed by Hume
www.amazon.com/dp/0872202291
>The uniqueness of a work of art is inseparable from its being imbedded in the fabric of tradition. This tradition itself is thoroughly alive and extremely changeable. An ancient statue of Venus, for example, stood in a different traditional context with the Greeks, who made it an object of veneration, than with the clerics of the Middle Ages, who viewed it as an ominous idol. Both of them, however, were equally confronted with its uniqueness, that is, its aura. Originally the contextual integration of art in tradition found its expression in the cult. We know that the earliest art works originated in the service of a ritual – first the magical, then the religious kind. It is significant that the existence of the work of art with reference to its aura is never entirely separated from its ritual function. In other words, the unique value of the “authentic” work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic basis, however remote, is still recognizable as secularized ritual even in the most profane forms of the cult of beauty. The secular cult of beauty, developed during the Renaissance and prevailing for three centuries, clearly showed that ritualistic basis in its decline and the first deep crisis which befell it. With the advent of the first truly revolutionary means of reproduction, photography, simultaneously with the rise of socialism, art sensed the approaching crisis which has become evident a century later. At the time, art reacted with the doctrine of l’art pour l’art, that is, with a theology of art. This gave rise to what might be called a negative theology in the form of the idea of “pure” art, which not only denied any social function of art but also any categorizing by subject matter. (In poetry, Mallarme was the first to take this position.)
>An analysis of art in the age of mechanical reproduction must do justice to these relationships, for they lead us to an all-important insight: for the first time in world history, mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of art from its parasitical dependence on ritual. To an ever greater degree the work of art reproduced becomes the work of art designed for reproducibility. From a photographic negative, for example, one can make any number of prints; to ask for the “authentic” print makes no sense. But the instant the criterion of authenticity ceases to be applicable to artistic production, the total function of art is reversed. Instead of being based on ritual, it begins to be based on another practice – politics.
that girl got a nice asshole
>>7994307
Wow, she really does.
>>7994287
>porn stars are now dressing like memes
What a time to be alive.
>reading Lolita
>this prose is great
>he starts describing his Lo
>Nabokov writes in such a way that I begin empathising with Humbert
I mean it's a sign of good writing but still concerning
That's le point
>>7994277
It's a real change from The Pale King I'll tell you what
>le relateable characters
stick to YA or just continue reading Nabakov
How do I improve my grammar and vocabulary?
For my vocabulary, I was thinking of making flash cards of any words I come across that I don't know. But I feel like I might need more than that. Any other suggestions?
Improving my grammar is not as important to me as expanding my vocabulary, but I want to because I tend to talk like a Mong.
>>7994195
Read?
>>7994197
I do that, but then there are words that I don't know the meaning of and have to look it up in order to understand the sentence. This bothers me.
>>7994195
You can expand your lexicon by peering at a goddamn dictionary.
Anyone know any good scifi that goes into blurring the fundamental nature of reality and space-time? Fantasy is cool too.
Pic related
dickb4 Dick
>pic related
Have you read Through the Gates of the Silver Key or the Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath yet?
