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throwme a redpill on 1889
Things started tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down for Brazil after the first coup of many in its history.
P.S. I'm not of the opinion that the present impeachment procedure is a coup, more like just shoddy law interpretation mixed in with political opportunism, but not at all illegal.
Sorry to ask for advice here on /lit/ but I've got nowhere else to turn, so please hear out my desperate plea for advice. Should I major in English or Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature? I'm really not sure, both seem interesting. I think I'd like to go into publishing or be a librarian or something. Maybe an English teacher in some rural small town where the living is cheap and I can keep to myself.
My worries concerning the English major are that it won't delve deeply enough into the nature of literature and that a lot of the people in that major will be very uninteresting and will talk about the same things I talked about in high school (not trying to sound smart I just went to a very literature oriented high school). My concerns with Cultural Studies and Comparative Lit are that it won't focus enough on the literature itself and I'll be talking a lot about theory and culture while not doing as much actual literary studies. As with anyone who loves literature a small part of me wants to write as well but that's really a side note. They seem like very similar majors which is why it's somewhat hard for me to choose. Thanks for replying if anyone does. I don't know what I'm talking about I'm just a dumb kid (18 tho no ban pls).
P.S. I know many will say this is a waste of time majoring in something that won't really help me in life but I don't really care about lifestyle or money or anything like that, I just want to learn more about things I care about. I feel like I'll either be happy in life or I won't and that a decision like this won't change anything.
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well it depends on the school
but cultural studies and comp literature will almost guaranteed focus more on society/theory as opposed to english, which will focus more on literature.
if you're willing to say what school could maybe help you but as is no idea
>>7979907
University of Minnesota Twin Cities.
Not the best school in the world but it's what I can afford.
>>7979921
https://onestop2.umn.edu/pcas/viewCatalogProgram.do?programID=83
https://onestop2.umn.edu/pcas/viewCatalogProgram.do?programID=109
you can see the course lists
cultural studies looks like a blend of new media stuff and theory, without much of an emphasis on literature
English is more of the traditional stuff
pick what sounds more appealing to you. be warned the cultural studies major courses looks like it attracts SJWs and people who dont read but say they "read"
hegelian dialectics memes
>>7979797
What is between thesis and synthesis? That's what I wear.
>>7979797
empty
thanks Hegel
>Put thousands together
>Less bad,
>But the cage less gay.
what did he mean by this
>>7979747
I'm not sure of the context, but isn't it obvious?
Slaves.
He was well aware of the rolling disaster of the modern age was bringing.
>>7979747
>Following his earlier experiments with rats, in 1972 Calhoun would later create his "Mortality-Inhibiting Environment for Mice": a 101-inch square cage for mice with food and water replenished to support any increase in population,[9] which took his experimental approach to its limits. In his most famous experiment in the series, "Universe 25", population peaked at 2,200 mice and thereafter exhibited a variety of abnormal, often destructive behaviors. By the 600th day, the population was on its way to extinction.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink
>implying stendhal said this
What are some good books about serial killers? Fiction or non fiction.
Picture is unrelated, but enjoy my cat.
>>7979745
cute cat :3
American psycho.
>>7979745
The devil in the white city is pretty good.
Your thoughts?
Extremely dry book
>>7979742
Very patrician tier.
>>7979883
extremely dry post
I've never seen this book discussed here, anybody read it?
Seems really up /lit/'s alley. It's about a wealthy young man who thinks of himself as an aristocrat and mostly lounges and drinks and smokes all day. Then, of course, he gets thrust into the modern world and gets into hilarious jams and whatnot. And there's a weird incestuous subplot where he's subconsciously in love with his sister. The jacket describes the protagonist as "part Bertie Wooster, with a dash of Ignatius J. Reilly thrown in." Right up /lit/'s alley, right?
The quality of the writing is what really makes it such a blast, though. Not many books make me cackle while reading. A fairly random passage:
>"he does look like a burglar, Bel, you have to admit. I mean, look at him."
>We turned our attention to the figure on the floor. He wore a denim jacket, a grubby white shirt, and nondescript brown shoes. He was very large and, in some unplaceable way, lump. His head, however, was what really fascinated me. It resembled some novice potter's first attempt at a soup tureen, bulbous and pasty, with one beetling eyebrow, a stubbly jaw, and less than the full complement of teeth; to describe his ears as asymmetrical would be to do asymmetry a disservice.
Hey OP I've read this and I didn't enjoy it. The humour is just too tame and predictable. It's clever but in a way that gets boring. It's desperate to keep you entertained, which I find rather dull. Confederacy of Dunces is so funny because you can just tell that the author (Toole) is investing his own personality into this eccentric figure ("Rape her!") but Murray is just ticking all the boxes and making a 'wacky' story and trying to keep you reading from line to line. Also is that excerpt really funny? I don't know, maybe I've just been on 4chan but I find it rather dull. It's basically mocking a guy that looks weird in a style of writing that is humorously antiquated etc.
What did he mean by “things"?
DeLilo is a hack
He meant his dicks.
>>7979797
Get.
Got all these for $30 second hand. How I do senpai?
>>7979678
Very good anon. Patrician quality taste. you'll fit in very nicely.
Where do people even get books this cheap?
At the cheapest thrift stores in my city, I can only get books at a minimum 3 or 4 dollars each.
>>7979678
Great. Have you read any of those before?
hey /lit/, how do I into modern/postmodern philosophy? I want to read Spinoza, Hobbes, Hegel, Kierkegaard, ultimately Bataille, Lyotard, Deleuze. I keep pickip up these guys, fail miserably to understand shit and feel like shit afterwards.
>>7979677
>eel like shit afterwards.
You picked the wrong philosophers.
Read Epicurus, Strirner and Nietzsche. Best in my opinion.
>>7979694
OP here, I've read Epicurus, really neat stuff, however Stirner seems not so accessible. I've heard that he works strictly in Hegel's tradition, should I start with him?
>>7980015
That's who he studied under, as I understand it.
It all depends on how deep into philosophy you want to go. Me, not so much, so a cursory look is good enough for me. Stirner's ideas seem rather simple though.
Is there a /lit/ core image like this?
>>7979667
What's with the influx of /pol/ users on here recently?
>>7979667
Sticky
Is this a good book on irony? I'm ironically looking for irony books to improve my irony because I'm ironically bad at irony.
>>7979644
We live in an age of irony.
For one; why are those that are most "spiritual" the most ardent defenders of materialism?
>>7979663
>generalisations
Spiritual people are no more inherently materialistic than anyone else
Is there a recommended reading list that once completed will make a person intelligent?
>>7979600
yes
>>7979533
Thanks for the warning
>>7979533
This book only taught me how autists are so removed from normal human experience. They're barely real people.
>I was so fucked up while I was writing it [Gravity's Rainbow], that now I go back over some of those sequences and I can’t figure out what I could have meant.
Why does /lit/ worship this Emperor without clothes again?
>>7979478
>books need to mean something to be good
where da source on that quote bitch
>>7979478
He says, not knowing that that only contributes to the theme of the book.
