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God is the act of being itself to the medieval and apostolic theologians. Being requires energy: all matter is itself a form of energy. Even the act of moving requires energy. Thus, creation requires energy. Is energy God or did God somehow create energy?
Alternate question: Is Thomas overrated compared to a great deal of much lesser known medieval thinkers?
>>8249253
>Being requires energy
No it doesn't, numbers have being and no energy, so do angels.
>>8249281
except they don't?
>>8249297
But they do
Could anyone recommend me some essential literature about psychology? Any kind is appreciated
Make up your own theories, they will be as valid as the known ones.
tl;dr: psychology is a pseudoscience
>>8249151
Personally I just read sumeries of fruid jung lacan and about current cognitive trends.
>>8249173
I have to say that despite the fact that lacan's ideas are not considered relevant i still found them extremely interesting and provocative.
Also, read deleuze's chizophrenia book.
ITT, the worst books by your favourite authors.
Pic related.
>>8249063
>worst pynchon
>not gravity's rainbow
damn, you too?
>>8249063
I read this after GR and I couldn't get past page 20 and it really put me off his other stuff. Are the others also this bad?
How do you know where you cross the line between being eloquent and being an insufferable pretentious try-hard?
that was funny.
Always copy Hemingway when in doubt.
Should I put this in my resume, Y/N?
What is the Wizardry IV of literature?
>>8248864
toilet
What is the Killer 7 of literature?
Probably the rosc passages in the Tain Bo Cuailnge.
The Tain is a genre of gaelic sagas, and particularly there is a cycle of these sagas that center around the hero Cuchulainn. While the Tain Bo Cuailnge is already extremely difficult to piece together, there are passages of rosc - which typically occur in times of prophecy, or important conversations in the book - that as of yet have been untranslated. They can be understood, in brief moments of clarity when studied by Gaelic scholars, but more or less cannot be effectively communicated in modern English.
As far as "most difficult piece within the Western canon that becomes even more difficult because of cultural differences surrounding meaning" I think that's probably not a bad parallel. As I recall, Wizardry 4 is borderline impossible, right? Instadeath ninjas, you get like nine spells tops, all of your summons are useless, you are openly declared by the game to be the bad guy, you're punished for dying, which means dying compounds the problem...
It's tough though. I find parallels between video games and music much easier than parallels between video games and literature. Structure isn't studied quite as much in literature as it is in music.
What was his problem?
>>8248790
couldn't get laid
>>8248798
Wrong. He was handsome in youth and a renowned womanizer.
white dude
A few months ago I saw someone on here mention picking chapters of War & Peace at random and reading them. I thought it sounded interesting so I got a copy from my library and instead started going part by part.
I just finished it last night. I read Part IV, then II, III, V, I, VI, and VII, and it was one of the best, most rewarding reading experiences I've ever had in my life. I didn't expect to read the whole thing, I was mostly just curious, but getting to Part I and jumping back to their youths in 1805 made me cry more than a book has in a year or two.
I'm not sure I can see this working with a lot of books, and having such concretely defined 'Parts' to pick from definitely helped a lot, but have y'all ever done anything similar?
I can see it maybe being more applicable in genre fiction, or maybe even something that makes rereading anything more engaging.
I'm thinking of returning to Faulkner's A Fable again and doing the same to reread it bc it was the only ner text I read in that period that I felt very unsure about what I got out of it, if anything.
Pic kinda related; I haven't paid much attention to the discussion I've seen of the show, but is this dude playing Pierre? I'm definitely down with that.
oh shit just saw the file name when it posted, tis Pierre
Wow just imagine if you read them in order!
>>8249004
I usually/always do, but I'm very glad I didn't for this one.
I'll probably read a much more recent translation soon since this one was really old and I like translation and translation theory, and I'll definitely read it in order then
Share your thoughts about "Kafka on the Shore" /lit/.
>>8248710
I read norwegian wood and the only thing I liked about it was the ending
I didn't get the book, but maybe there was nothing to get
that's all I've got to say
>>8248710
It's the only Murakami novel I really like, although I havent read many. I've been meaning to reread it.
literature for people who don't read literature
it's not bad but it's not good.
Ça vous dit un fil francophone? Le fil chez int est toujours nul et Je crois qu'on pourrait avoir une belle discussion littéraire ou académique.
Qu'est-ce que vous lisez en ce moment? Moi, image en rapport.
>>8248643
Je pense que les grenouilles sont mauvaises. Je préfère les auteurs americains.
>>8248665
Ah bon, que lis-tu au juste? Y a pas trop à prendre chez les américains. au moins à ce que j'en connais... une recommandation (sérieuse)?
>>8248643
Chui américain mais je comprends le français. Est-ce qu'il serait difficile de lire les livres de rousseau en français? J'ai acheté un exemplaire à Paris
What's the literature equivalent of a Tsai Ming-liang film.
damn, I want this too. bump
>>8248641
ming liang is shit
Edward Yang > Hou Hsiao Hsien >>>> Ming-Liang
>>8248641
Infinite Jest
Post a more accurate pic illustrating the relevance of world literature. Oh wait, you cant.
>reading anything other than the great 4
>>8248610
>reading anything from an English speaking country beside Shakespear.
You're lucky to have him
Replace Britain with 'Murica if we're talking the last 200 years.
>>8248610
Britain isn't even the most relevant in English language literature.
Who are the most interesting noir/detective writers?
Pynchon doesn't count
Dashiell Hammett is pretty much classic, even tho he's formulaic. James Ellroy is probably my favorite.
>>8248553
ellroy
destined to become /lit/core
Rafael Bernal - The Mongol Conspiracy
Only blue-pill cucklords think this book isn't the 20th century equivalent of the Torah
Currently reading the fountain head actually. My first book by her.
I'm on page 74 taking a break to shit.
I like it a lot so far, it almost seems like a coming of age novel but I know it will become more complex hopefully.
She is very heavy handed in some places which is a little frustrating. But I like her writing so far.
Not OP.
Just finished this, What a fucking struggle it was to finish it. Especially the 70 page monologue chapter, yes I get the fucking point of her philosophy.
What makes it worse imo is that she portrays the looters as as retards, who 'cry' everything vs. the heros who 'calmly say' everything.
i came here to do lines and fuck bitches and i'm all outta lines
>>8248502
>mfw reading about his visit to Dickens' house
Austistic af
>>8248512
tell me more. i'm intrigued.
>>8248533
THERE is nothing worse than a guest who outstays his welcome, and that was how Charles Dickens felt when Hans Christian Andersen came to stay 150 years ago.
The English novelist's patience was so strained by Andersen's refusal to leave, after staying for weeks, that Dickens's daughter nicknamed him the "bony bore".
The unfortunate episode has been recalled through an inscribed volume that has come to light before the London Antiquarian Book Fair at Olympia next month.
The Danish author of fairytales such as The Ugly Duckling first visited England in June 1847. He was a guest of the Countess of Blessington, who attracted the cream of Europe's intelligentsia to her gatherings.
It was at one of these assemblies that Andersen was introduced to Dickens, whom he worshipped, calling him "the greatest writer of our time".
Dickens, who reciprocated the admiration, visiting him at his lodgings the following month. Discovering that Andersen was not in, he left him a parcel containing 12 presentation copies of his books, of which the Olympia example is one.
A cordial correspondence developed between the two and Andersen returned to England for a fortnight as Dickens's guest at Gad's Hill in the summer of 1857. Before his arrival, Andersen had written to Dickens, promising: "I shall not inconvenience you too much." But it was an invitation that Dickens would soon regret.
The Danish man of letters, a tall, gaunt and rather ungainly character stayed for five weeks.
Dickens dropped polite hints that he should leave. After he finally left, Dickens wrote on the mirror in the guestroom: "Hans Andersen slept in this room for five weeks - which seemed to the family AGES!"
Dealer David Brass, who is bringing the volume to the fair, said: "To Andersen, the visit was a timeless Elysium, a holiday, a fairytale come true."
To the Dickens family it was eternal torment. Dickens's daughter, Kate, would later recall that Andersen "was a bony bore, and stayed on and on".
He was, she added, "a social blockhead. Andersen never quite understood why Dickens ceased to answer any of his letters".
I'm about halfway through pic related.
Anyone read it? Thoughts?
I just really wanted to read up on ancient Rome, and this was the first thing I found that had good reviews, and I just went with it.
>>8248497
>Letting a feminist teach you about Ancient Rome
Oh fucking kek anon.
Well conditioned, you have been.
Caesar turns in his grave.
What are your thoughts on it, OP?
read pic related
and then read The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History of Rome and the Barbarians
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