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So Does anyone know whatever happened to this guy?
Wish satan would stop posting without his trip.
>>7725064
this screencap is really tryhard
You obviously got trolled.
What author can turn me christian? Dostoevsky? Kierkegaard? I need thinking man's christianity, not pleb christianity.
Why not just read both?
What is your issue, what do you feel you're lacking in life?
Do you need guidance, morals? Hope? What do you seek?
>>7724737
Eternal life.
Can anyone here actually understand him or is he just another 'patrician' meme author?
>>7724637
He's not even patrician
>>7724711
Why noy?
>>7724786
>genre fiction
>patrician
O I am lauffin
Who will play him in the inevitable biopic?
>nigga died 70 years ago
>no biopic yet
baka
Johnny Depp probably
Christian Bale
He was a cuck for the British and loved Protestantisminto the lake of fire he goes
which one /lit/?
Both.
>>7722476
footnotes with a bibliography
false dichotomy
Came across the term "syphilitic" used as an insult, both in early 1900s literature and some colloquial conversations. In all instances it implied that the person being insulted was a weakling or incompetent but the "romantic" idea of siphilis is linked with destructive madness and mania as that are the symptoms most associated with that disease.
Any idea why it was used in the context of being weak?
Hopefully bait does have potential.
>>7725413
>Any idea why it was used in the context of being weak?
Look up the symptoms mate.
>>7725413
Well, OP, you get a sexually-transmitted disease by being weak morally. This might not really be on the radar today, but sexual purity, discipline, etc. used to valued very highly and impurity was seen as a failure of character.
Help me out /lit/, where can I meet some bookbros? All my friends are normies who waste their time on videogames
>>7725198
I'm here, what is it you would like fro me?
Please help , I do not understand this passage on back of book
"I have tried to serve readers who have little or no knowledge of italian and who wish to know the matter of Dante's poem. The requirements of some to whome the whole medieval outlook is strange and many of the classical references unfamiliar may excuse the number and the simplicity of the annotations, which are intended merely to make the narrative intelligible. In these I have erred, like the warder of the gate of purgatory, 'rather in opening than in keeping locked.'
What this mean?
>In putting together this edition, I was mostly looking to help people whose knowledge of Italian is bad, but who still want to read Dante in full. I made the annotations simple and numerous because the special situation of those people (that is, their unfamiliarity with Dante's medieval mindset and classical references) requires extra help to make the story understandable. When in doubt about how much help to give, I have tended to err on the side of caution and give too much, rather than risk giving too little - like the adage of the gate guard of purgatory, who preferred to give wayward souls more of a chance than they deserved rather than risk giving them too little.
Aside from the subordinate clauses, the confusing part is probably just linking up verbs with their subjects/objects properly, made more difficult by the fact that the verbs are used slightly archaically. It's slightly older and rarer English, especially for what is generally taught at a second language level (ESL) these days.
Probably the worst bit is the second sentence. "To whome the whole medieval outlook ... unfamiliar" is a relative clause, referring of the "some [people]" whose "requirements" the author is trying to "serve." So just bracket off that whole clause as a bonus adjective, and skip to the main verb that goes with the subject "the requirements of some" to get the real meaning of the sentence: "may."
>The requirements of some [people] ... may excuse the number of annotations.
Here "excuse" might be slightly weird to you, because it's being used impersonally, which is SLIGHTLY rarer and more formal these days. It's like saying
>The traffic jam on the highway may excuse my lateness today.
instead of
>My excuse for being late is that I was in a traffic jam.
>>7725244
>is a relative clause, referring of the
should be
>is a relative clause, referring to the
Ironic
>>7725244
ty very much sir
I just finished 1984 and now I'm sad, is there anything that can get me off these torture thoughts?
That picture is edgy af.
As to your question; of course 1984 is going to make you sad, I get sad when I waste time on shitty books as well.
Just read IJ and kill yourself.
>>7725187
>That pic.
Have you read The Principles of Newspeak? The way it's worded makes it seem like the Party fell.
Read The Stranger, I guess.
New to reading, the only books I've ever really read in my life are harry potter, Percy Jackson, and the hobbit. Figured I'd ease my way into the real adult stuff by starting out with a mature fantasy.
Just read Heaney's translation of Beowulf if you want an entry level fantasy. Its short, action filled, and easy to comprehend whilst the Witcher novels are overly long and plagued with somewhat boring political intrigue.
>>7725137
Witcher books are only good if you are slav, other translations kinda ruins it.
>>7725167
How so?
Any philosfags here? What do you think about Über Sinn und Bedeutung / On Sense and Reference?
I never read anything by a profeffor.
Legitimately creepy/ scary thread. Creeped you out personally.
Currently reading this and it's not as bad as /lit/ paints (or as good as the rest of the world paints, for that matter).
Good gimmick well made
Shirley Jackson ain't bad.
r/nosleep
What is the Coil of literature?
>>7724301
fuck off /mu/
I wonder where this is going to lead up to.
>>7724312
>it's a /lit/ shits on the greatest storyteller in American history thread
generic predictable trash for nonintellectuals
>>7724196
really the McDonalds of contemporary writers
The fact that Kubrick wasted his time on this piece of trash is a little sad. At least he made something half decent, but not even Kubrick come away unscathed from it.
I started reading this the other day. I love it so far, but how do you keep track of what is happening? It seems like scenes are constantly changing without warning. Please share your experiences with this novel.
Use your memory bro
Just read it. You'll end up reading it again.
>>7723190
I'm halfway through and this is the experience I am having. Read a section, then read a synopsis of it. You start to get used to it but it is clear that I will want to let it sit and read again in a few months.
