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Science textbooks

Or mathematics, should you feel so inclined.

>>7778313
>>7778311

thanks, but I'm looking for entertaining stories that incorporate science to make me feel smart witout puting in any actual work

>>7778269
>listing 4 things
>latter

Get out.

>>7778279
agreed

>>7778269
hang yourself

>>7778269

Why do you want that chart OP? It's pretty stupid.

>>7778264

So long as you can still fap to the scat scene, you're good.

it's a /lit/ meme ,few copies have that one error don't worry

1) It used to have 1 sentence cut short (a relatively unimportant sentence)
2) It no longer has any errors at all (as verified by me)
3) BUT it looks ugly as fuck and cost more

If you somehow got an old copy of that edition you might have the error, but it won't impact your reading at all. It's in the middle of such a disorienting section you'll probably not even notice anything is wrong.

Go home Anon, you're drunk.

>>7778167
I am reading the Iliad right now and I think it's good myth-history and imagery.
Or at least the Fagles translation is good to read.
I tried to read the Loeb Classical Library edition but the English verse is antique.
Fagles is more direct, effectively "American" prose.
But that Loeb edition is useful since it's English translation on one side and ancient Greek on the other side.
Fagles translation is published by Penguin Classics and there's an informative introduction to the Greeks and Homer.

p.s. The Aeneid was written by the Roman Virgil in homage to Homer.

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I've also got this visual history book by C.M. Bowra.
It was published by Time Life Books and it's affordable.
There's a ton of classical texts and Greek history books at my local university.
I've been there five or six times and I check the catalog: nobody seems to read the Greeks anymore.
That's good for me I guess but sometimes I feel untimely.
But not as much as Nietz did in the 1870s.
I haven't reached Silenus-mode yet.

>>7777853
paper XD

Wordpad.

Its bare-bones design is ideal for letting your ideas flow.

>>7777892
Ah that what I was thinking
Thanks

I don't know if it's the best but when I took a 300 level Plato course with Tim Maudlin it's the edition he assigned.

It's a very literal translation.

I thought this was a compilation of many different translations.

pinecone

White Noise
Under the Net
Infinite Jest
As I Lay Dying

>>7777360
saki

>>7777267

>The period is late-antiquity early-dark ages.

Of course it is.

H O M E R
O
M
E
R

Keep it short, brief, and concise. Nothing is worse than going on and on about the banal actions each character undertakes in a battle (e.g., X swung the sword while Y dodged. X then threw a falcon-punch toward Y's face, etc, etc.)

no

it is by memes alone i set my mind in motion

but anon I'm reading infinite jest

the master and margarita

op my back hurts

but it is a funny story indeed le russian

Shadow over innsmouth or dagon, perhaps? Stay away from at the mountains of madness.

You wrote longer, NOT other. I see that now. In that case disregard my advice, except from staving away from atmom, its fucking pulp shit.

>>7777180
>>7777184

Don't listen to him, At the Mountains of Madness is quite good.
Just don't begin with Herbert West

>10k

>>7776955
I know it isn't much but doing it everyday is something man.

>>7776966
10k words a day is an immense amount.
But why am I responding? Shoo troll, go back to torment some cave, or bridge.

it has some good guidelines on how to not be a dick to everybody u meet, so yes

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>>7776911
A cuck philosophy for cucks. What you need is The Ego and His Own by Max Stirner. That and Niccolò Machiavelli.

I read it in 7th grade and it cured me of my autism.

>read Mein Kampf in public
>people keep looking at you funny and calling you names

One old lady straight up asked me, "How could you read something like that?" but I was caught off guard and didn't know what to say, so I just went back to reading. Is there a good answer to that question?

>>7776597
You can't hide from reality. It's better to try understanding it than to hide from it.

>>7776597
just say "know your enemy"
or
"if you want to prevent it from happening again, you have to know how it happened the first time"

>>7776442
What's Orange Fedora Day?

>>7776445
That's the question. So what do you buy?

>>7776474
I don't know. They closed all the book stores close to me. I live a mile from Detroit and the adult illiteracy rate there is around 50%.

>>7776331
speaking of pedophiles, i remember an obsession with butterflies in his Dr. Faustus, and interestingly enough, Nabokov was also a lepidopterist who called his catches "nymphs".
I wonder if there's a connection there.

>>7776334
Mein Gott, /lit/ ist voller amerikanischer Idioten.

Everything Mann wrote was gold - maybe the English translation isn't good, but I don't think that could be a drastic change.

It's an amazingly structured story of a downfall, full of references to Greek structure, style, and mythology. Death and decadence are everywhere. That Mann can cram so much into so little space is testament to his genius.

>>7776353
>full of references to Greek structure, style, and mythology

It was mainly this that bugged the hell out of me. It seemed completely out of place and over the top. He would describe everything by making an analogy to some Greek god, goddess or demigod. Mann describes everything 'classically', but in my opinion it only came across as an exaggeration.