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ITT: allude to your biggest demon in fifteen words or less. /lit/ guesses.
No, I will not participate.
Bears.
>>7968148
I don't feel like it. Maybe I'll do it tomorrow.
Hedgehog.
Did he just not like Arabs?
:^)
>>7968091
I honestly hate pakis
is it correct to call algerians arabs? Aren't they berbers or some shit?
>>7968103
I was making a reference to The Stranger.
His "protagonist" if you can call it that shoots an Arab on a whim. For a scene with so little detail, it's very memorable. Probably for that very reason.
Yo faggots what do you think Shakespeare suggests through all of the deaths in Hamlet? Does it actually serve a higher purpose or was it his times version of violence porn
It was his time's suspense and excitement. It's not like he could show robots smashing into each other for 90 minutes.
>>7968032
>do the deaths in a political / family drama signify anything
>>7968068
you wanna elaborate
Daily remember that all you need to write is:
Composition book ($0.88)
Shitty pens ($1.00 per box)
Public Library Card (free)
The only thing stopping you from writing is your shitty work ethic and self-consciousness
You forgot time, time is money.
>>7967939
I did write but nobody wanted it
>>7968095
Write more until somebody wants it.
I love reading and usually assume someone is a pleb if they don't read.
But I don't like listening to music. To me that's just taste but I'm sure /mu/ would think I was a pleb.
Do you not feel anything when you inadvertently hear some music? You just don't seek it out?
I think one can theoretically not be a pleb and not read fiction. I think that would be comparable. Maybe you only read philosophy. I'd think you're weird and autistic but not a pleb.
>>7967873
>that pic
That's why you don't buy Penguin, folks!
>>7967873
>I don't like music
You have not discovered the wonderful world psychedelic substances
Does anyone else think that The Golden Rule or Kants Categorical Imperative, which is basically a bourgeois version of the Golden rule, is completely sociopathic?
Only treat others well because you wanted to be treated well? Sounds incredibly selfish and self-centred and not genuine
why do you say that?
>>7966543
are you a conservative?
>>7966543
Only if you're already a fucking sociopath, you mongoloid.
Is pic related an accurate representation of Atlas Shrugged?
>>7966390
yes
>>7966628
Then I most definitely need to read it. Is it as great as /lit/ says it is?
>>7966651
It's like cumming while going Super Saiyan XXV and then Freiza's back with a dick punch somehow strong enough to burst your dragon balls.
Hello /lit/.
I was just wondering, what books did you enjoy reading when you were younger?
Was there anyone else that read Deltora Quest on this board?
>>7965712
Bunnicula and Gregor series
>>7965712
This series was the shit.
I read just about everything by Paul Jennings and Morris Gleitzman and have no regrets. Based kids' authors.
I remember reading Deltora Quest and listening to blink 182 on a walkman when the series came out and listening to Led Zeppelin on an iPod by the time the original series concluded
Post only the best
>>7965628
Also
>you first
>>7965628
Is this book worth reading? I went out to dinner on saturday with friends, and one of them started to praise how amazing this book is, and all of the other ones agreed with her. I am hesistant because when the conversation changed to american literature, i told them that i thought that no other american has had anything interesting to write since faulkner died (just to see what kind of reaction i would get) and they proceeded to shut my down and name john green, and fucking dan brown as rebuttals. Relevant to note...
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>"This sublation in a double sense of its otherness in a double sense is at the same time a return in a double sense into its self. For, firstly, through sublation, it gets back itself, because it becomes one with itself again through the cancelling of its otherness; but secondly, it likewise gives otherness back again to the other self-consciousness, for it was aware of being in the other, it cancels this its own being in the other and thus lets the other again go free."
how the fuck do you people read this incoherent shit
>>7965423
they don't. they just pretend to understand, because who can tell the difference anyway?
You know, most people who read Hegel only understand him in portions. The people who read him, understand him completely, integrate his understanding into their own, and then create new knowledge based on that understanding--those people are called geniuses.
'Everyone else' is you, me, most scholars or academics, and certainly everyone currently on this board.
>Consciousness finds that it immediately is and is not another consciousness, as also that this other is for itself only when it cancels itself as existing for itself , and has self-existence only in the self-existence of the other. Each is the mediating term to the other, through which each mediates and unites itself with itself; and each is to itself and to the other an immediate self existing reality, which, at the same time, exists thus for itself only through this mediation. They recognize themselves as mutually recognizing one another.
WHAT...
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What are your opinions on this?
>>7964604
>Ginsberg
>>7964604
ill just preempt this so we can get it out of the way
jew faggot pedo
(I think its fucking brilliant btw)
>>7964628
>fucking brilliant
I bet you're British and have either been pegged or have fantasised over it
![the-holy-bible[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/A3yUpvl.jpg "the-holy-bible[1].jpg")
What is the best way to read the Bible?
>inb4 just read it
Even if you have "read" the Bible unaided, you will have zoned out during the genealogy, imbibed useless passages and failed to take note of more important ones.
That is because theological texts are not insular. Besides some portions of the King James version, the Bible is not an interesting text in itself unless you are willing to suspend your disbelief in order to read it literally.
Besides joining a parish, what are the best tools for reading the Bible?
>reading the bible
Tips fedora
>doesn't know how to read the bible
>condescends people who just read the bible
>>7964438
for the OT watch these:
http://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-145#sessions and read the course materials, also get the Jewish Study Bible
What will be studied in 2416 /lit/?
John Green
>>7964118
I highly doubt.
We still have 400 years.
I expect a lot.Even though I won't be here.I wonder if there is a library in Heaven.Or Hell.
>>7964115
probably /lit/
what did the greeks start with?
The summerians
>"They know what is happening"
Maybe, but I don't have a fucking clue what's going on in that picture.
uhh, source on the picture? It's for a friend
Shakespeare didn't read the classics. He watched his contemporary playwrights and read the same pop-tier poets as all other English people of his time. He has also known some bible passages from the psalms they sung at that time in the church and had evidently consulted the book of prayer for burial and marriage. The claim that he was reading Ovid, Pliny or Aesop relies on ideas and similies that were so common he might have picked up pretty much anywhere. For his history plays he relied on Holinshed who was used in his school. And every time he drops a Latin phrase it's...
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Shut up pleb faggot
poor b8
but in case any one isnt aware shakespeare was very well read in english histories and roman texts. the greeks weren't his forte, but shakespeare was very well read.
>>7963707
He read Plutarch you cuck, and that is sufficient.
