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Hi, guys.
I really need to get a book "The discovery of subatomic particles" by S. Weinberg in English. But I live in Russia and don't know, how to buy a book from your Amazon etc.
So, could you recommend me torrents web-site, where I can find a book and download it with out registration and paying money?
Thank you in advance.
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hey guys what do you think of this theory i came up with
ok so
the earth is part of the solar system
inside the galaxy
inside galaxy cluster
etcetcetc
we
and everything else
is made up of molecules
then some other stuff
inside each other
in layers
like an onion
we are
no where
there is not telling what part of the layers we are on
from our viewpoint we see ourselves as small but still bigger than small stuff
so lower end of the middle
on the smallness scale
but really
we could be no where in a pile of layers that go on forever
right now the smallest thing weve ever discovered
has to be made of something else
and that something else
is made of other stuff
etc
we are unique
as humans
we are able to peer into the other layers
and identify that they exist
humans may not be big
but they are very significant
they are created from a very special combination of everything around them and every other layer behind and ahead of them coming together imperfectly to be able to create a living organism
this organism was able to reproduce
probably asexually
and it kept growing
and eventually it split up
and that split up
etcetc
some found a way of surviving
they were plants
they used photosynthesis
harnessing their surroundings
using wood as their shield and leafs as their collectors
animals grew into something that uses blood and air and such to survive
they use energy from foods
foods are simply things that have the ability to give u energy
that u can use
by breaking it down and picking out the parts u want
and excreting the waste you dont need
everything
every animal plant etc
anything living
was from one single mutation
and they all grew their own unique ways to live
which nothing else that we know of has found a way to do it the same as we do
maybe our laws like gravity and such
laws we cannot break
only exist within our cluster of layers
maybe past our layers there are whole new roules
rules we cannot understand ever
maybe the layers go in an infinite loop
maybe the layer after atoms is another galaxt cluster
etc
eyesight is just a function that we have evolved to see the way we do
we have grown our eyes so that they recieve light waves around us and process it through our brain
WAIT DUDE
i thought of sonething less existential
ok so
you know how there those spinny things powered by a battery right
that if u power them they rotate
like on a planes propellor or some shit
bumpppp
I feel sorry for both of you. I feel sorry for all of us.
ITT: pages you read today or yesterday and what it was.
70, near the end. Broom of the System by DFW.
Got slightly rustled by thecheatingaspect, which is annoying considering how prevalent it is in every form of media."The time last night when [hot wife] cried in front of [bull] was the first time she had ever cried in front of anybody else, at all.
[Cuck] has cried in front of lots of people."
Rick Vigorous has cried in front of lots of people.
0, i dont read
About 50, I think.
>>8254791
Twenty-two, then I dropped the kindle on my face and swiftly fell into death-like sleep. I woke up as if in a different world. The kindle was placed neatly next to my bed and aligned with it, face up. It showed the main menu. I checked the last open page, I have no recollection of it.
how do i get into reading?
>inb4 start with the greeks
i want to start reading more often because i feel like it's the most productive thing i can do while still being lazy at home. i really do enjoy reading (although i haven't read very many books), but the problem is, every time i have some free time to sit down and read, i find myself going online/watching tv/listening to music/doing some other brain-dead task instead.
are there any good ways to help motivate myself to read more often? what did you do to help foster your hobby /lit/?
pic unrelated
>>8254739
finnegans wake
>>8254739
If you really, truly liked reading, the solution would be a lot more simple than you are letting on...pull the trigger
>>8254766
as i said in my original post, i'm not trying to get into reading BECAUSE i like it. i'm trying to get into it so i can stop wasting my life doing pointless shit like posting on 4chan.
even if i don't really, truly like it, i'd still like to do it more often
What if Homer was really a woman?
Does it matter?
Homer was probably multiple people and at least one of them may have been a female.
>>8254744
Like a Rat King but with ppl? Gotcha!
my unread books are growing out of control but I can't stop myself.
>>8254726
Same here.
Just can't stop buying shit.
Money is not the problem,since I can buy a book for less than a dollar.
It's more about storage space.
Last purchase was pic related for 3~ dollars
Can those who have read Delaney tell me if he's worth it or not?
>>8254726
fuck yeah lydia davis
Apologize
i'm sorry i fucked your mom, op
it was a rash decision, i was drunk, she was drunk, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Don LeDildo
I'm sorry I didn't see what my cowardice would lead to. I promise I will enter any and all Delilo threads in the future, and not leave until I've made everyone promise never to read his hacky post-modern horseshit.
>shitty concentration
>~40 pages into Lolita
>haven't read it in like a week
Do I start over or...? Do you guys start over after a certain amount of time has passed without reading a book? Feels like I've lost a lot of momentum, but starting over would make it worse. Probably just going to read from page 30 onward.
reading doesn't help the world, you shouldn't do it if you don't want to
A book is like your dinner man.
Eat it however you like, but if you're gonna slurp and drool do it somewhere private.
>>8255514
Kek
How do I increase my attention span? I'm trying to read more, but I always stop reading after half an hour. Any tricks you guys use?
Coffee
>>8254558
leave 4chan and never look back
>>8254642
Hahaha, no.
>fiction
#1 - Cage III -- Free Show
#2 - The Man Who Began to Suspect He's Made of Glass
#3 - The Night Wears a Sombrero
>non-fiction
#1 - Poultry in Motion
#2 - Every Inch of Disney Leith
#3 - The American Century as Seen Through a Brick
fucking love that passage about American Century and the lonely high tone D string, or whatever
My favorite was The Jest.
Obviously #1 is IJ. How about Medusa v. The Odalisque
Or the one where the old man cuts the prostitutes butt-hole
Dog Days is the best book in the DOAWK series. Prove me wrong
>protip: you cant
>>8254470
>Unironically thinking Cabin Fever isn't the best
Kys
>>8254470
None shall surpass the first isntallment of the series, as it was, thus, the pinnacle of Kinney's prose and themes: crude humour, cheesy scat, homoeroticism, and so on permeated every line and in between them, creating, methinks, one of the few literature oriented texts to match the transcendent and synesthesic eeriness captured in The Waves; which is now rendered unworthy of note, as The Diary of a Wimpy Kid takes it's deserved throne as the most enigmatical and experimental piece of prose ever written.
Ever.
>>8254517
Call this thread the water in Rio, because there is a lot of shit here
how would he feel about the current racial discord in the united states?
he would be cry
Who cares? He'd probably have the typical SJW opinions and describe himself as "woke"
he'd hang himself
which of the classic books that are never Actually Discussed in depth is your favorite?
basically anything by
>Fitzgerald
>Austen
>Brontes
>Bellow
>Roth
>Dickens
>Hemingway
>Woolf
>Lawrence
as opposed to the ones where the books are actually discussed sometimes:
>DFW
>Pynchon
>Bolano
>Joyce
>Gaddis
>Dostoevsky
>Tolstoy
>Melville
>Camus
>Delillo
etc.
>Philosophers
i wish we could have threads about the tain but i suspect no one's read it
begorrah yall are bunch of bad sasanachs, this is like another potato famine
Tender is the Night, just ahead of the Great Gatsby, which overdoes the symbolism a touch for my taste. I need to reread them both though, it's been a while.
Why does she care about fucking up Troy so badly? Is it because of Helen? I thought Helen was seduced because of the influence of Aphrodite.
She even tells Zeus she can fuck up her favorite cities. She doesn't care.
Google Judgement of Paris
She was snubbed by Paris after a crazy girl threw an apple at a party.
>>8254410
Why doesn't she stop Aphrodite from helping Paris during his duel with Menelaus?
>website has book preview
>it's only the cover and introduction
>>8254337
>expecting the entire book to be free
This isn't music, sonny
>>8254390
gen.lib.rus.eu
Books are free.
>>8254390
I expect to be able to read atleast a few pages so I can have some idea of what to expect
