>match with woman on dating app>we both have literature as shared interests>she says "oh what's your favorite genre??">"I'm more into the classics">"but what's your favorite genre? Do you like sci fi?>"I like transcendentalist literature">"oh ok"Why do they ask
>>24950424If you ask for a date straight away you'll never get anywhere. You have to prove to the woman you aren't weird or a creep first. Only a desperate woman will agree to a date straight away.
I can‘t tell if the continual and ever cringe-inducing desire to give advice on interacting with women is an autistic design to systematize what can only ever be a matter of practice and accrued instinct or a general male flaw in our wanting to always seem more learned in a realm which should only be a matter of personal emotional impart.
>>24950810What are the young people even doing these days? I want so desperately to feel cool and relevant again, but all the other imageboards are even worse.
>>24947357Just find out what slop women are into and say that. Twenty years ago, it was all Harry Potter. Aren't they reading shit about being raped by a bull, or something, now?
>>24948018only GOOD and TRUE statement made in this thread.
>If there is a danger, it lies in the Negro music and dancing that has been imported into Europe. This music has completely won over a whole section of the cultured population of Europe, to the point of real fanaticism. It is inconceivable that the incessant repetition of the Negroes’ physical gestures as they dance around their fetishes or that the constant sound of the syncopated rhythm of jazz bands should have no ideological effects.Was unc spittin fax here?
>>24950883Rhythmaxxing is the intellectual's choice.Most people simply do not have the brain power to hold two basic rhythms in their head, let alone multiple complex layered rhythms with changing signatures and patterns.
>No, kill the beautiful instead. The horrifying ugly monsters must destroy the beautiful
>>24950708I am ashamed to admit I like rap, but I listen to post-punk and classical music more
>>24950877>But Songs with a clear consistent rhythm existed all across the globe and all across human time. No, they didn't, unless you're excluding black Africans from your definition of human. Melody and so music developed outside of sub-Saharan Africa; the African negro didn't have music until the concept of melody was introduced to them. What they had was rhythm, which is an aspect of music and not music itself.
>>24951473There is in effect no such thing as simultaneous rhythms. No matter how different or how complex, they will eventually all collapse into a single cyclic pattern. It's just a question of how long the pattern is.
This book changed my life for the better
>>24951589There's no women here
>>24946749>sex, rhe one thing men get from a relationship with a woman, is all about her pleasure and just another chore men must perform for her benefit.OK have fun with that, lol. I'm sure this will get men caring again.
>>24951708Lol men are losing in this scenario, not women
>>24951955Well there's always rape
>>24951955Sure
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>>24951939i guess the change in my pocket wasn’t enough
>>24951942>>24951943Fucking leave me alone????? I hate you.
>>24951947>posts the same repetitive shit on a public site>gets mildly trolled>crashes out over it
>>24951953probably should stop replying at this point i think they’re getting something out of it
I thought my cat has bad breath, for it smelled of fish, but my saliva got all over my body this ponderous afternoon and it smells of cat food and oil of orange. Deliciously ironic...
Apparently there’s a phenomenon in American high schools right now of not assigning full novels to students, but only having them read excerpts. I graduated a decade ago, and I distinctly remember us reading Gatsby and Slaughterhouse Five. What novels, if any, were you made to read in high school?
>>24951872our brains used to be huge graphics cards with immense capability for parallel processinghow far we have fallen
im from bongland. we read of mice and men, dr jekyll and mr hyde, and lord of the flies. dr jekyll and mr hyde made a great impact on me
>>24951928gpt summarize this post and write a 200 word eassay. make it as humanlike as possible with some slang thrown in so the old head won't catch on. no capitals.
My 10th grade English teacher made an off-hand remark that we were reading books that she studied in college. You could interpret that as either a compliment to our intelligence or a worry that we weren't ready for such books. If a second grader finished 1984, would you trust that he understood it at a meaningful level? So maybe it's good that we're not reading Moby Dick in high school.
>>24951906>Our English department has shared that they are not permitted to assign most novelsBy who? Some fat black woman in Administration? These people need to start being ignored, holy shit. Human resources are servants of the Devil wherever they are placed.
>>24951563>taking liberties with the hair in light of the Loeb literal translation>Hair that streamedIn the Loeb is crinem sparsum (vaguely, hair and sparse/scattered) in Latin>Breathes into the hair across her neckIs the new translation. She is taking a less literary more paraphrasal stance than the direct Loeb here. The actual line could be interpreted as>Breathing into the sparse hairs on her neck (he's so close)Which doesn't make it vague enough to carry it as the same whole head of hair as throughout. He could be breathing into her neck hairs in a literal translation, but this literary choice is a good balance of paraphrase (it doesn't really give the reader in english much difference besides carrying on the obsession to know it's possibly just neck hairs) without being as literary in its liberty as streamed in the Loeb (sparsum is sparse or scattered or dispersed but not streamed)
>>24951575It is light on imitation, it's aiming at paraphrase. It's not a criticism; it's just not the point of the text.
>>24951622The Loeb is for Latin students The imagery of the hair on the neck was invoked in the beginning, it's what catches his eye, and the imagery is echoed here. You might say "splattered", "scattered" or "splayed" across her neck might be preferable but those words connote ugliness in English
>>24951686And in this case, OP's would ironically be a better choice for a non poetic rendering and poetic rendering. Normally Loeb's do win out for getting you the meaning of the text, but this lady took less liberties and still managed to avoid the problems of metaphrase.
>>24951622Crinis almost always means the hair of the head, like tresses, but it is also used to refer to the tail of a comet: it would most likely not be used to refer to hairs on the neck, especially with the connection to a describing a comet which might be subtle imagery here, in which case streaming works well as a translation. It is certainly possible Ovid means the neck hairs but that isn't a definitive reading. Under the circumstances 'aross' is a reasonable translation of sparsum since it preserves the ambiguity of the image rather than imposing the translator's interpretation
Is reading TerryEagleton waste of time!
>>24951126Try it out. Let us know.
>>24951126No he is not, his literary theory book is good. But graduate to Jameson asap. He had a cool book come out before he died which is just lectures to undergrads so it’s easier
>>24951927How does he compare to Raymond Williams?
>>24951126>Is reading TerryEagleton waste of time!It is for you saar.
>can't win over blacks>can't win over poorfags>outright enemies of blue collar workers>not taken seriously/ seen as useful idiots by their intellectually inferior middle class liberal pragmatic allies >can't/won't win over the armed forces>can't/won't win over the intelligence agencies>can't/won't win over the politicians>decent success rate with middle class children (dropped by junior yr), academics, homosexuals and trannys.Is there a book which explains how this leads to revolutionary success or should i just see all the le-science-of-hisory 2-more-weeksism from the past 200 years?
I have lots of Marxist/Anarchist books on my reading list but they're all so expensive.
>>24951477You should be specific in your examples. Are you talking about peripheral leftwing grassroots “movements” in the US? Because they’re irrelevant. Or are you talking about the current movements and military situations in Palestine, India, Nepal, the Philippines, Peru? I assume the former based on your provincial OP. The “real movement,” as it has been called, exists prior to its theorisation and politicisation, it emerges spontaneously, and is always already radical (the class in-itself). Historically, communists didn’t have to convince a bunch of people to go die in a civil war, they were already fighting and dying without knowing why or what to do. If that isn’t happening in your locale, it’s because you are situated in a region that sits higher up the pyramid even if it seems “poor”. Again, everyone can cure themselves of eclectic suburb brain by reading even a few pages of Lenin, I think. Including non-communists. You can be an actual fascist even and appreciate a guy who managed for a brief few years to maintain a grasp of the whole of the social totality in all its movement and complexity, anticipate its development, and intervene to accomplish a specific goal with scientific exactitude. He is the preeminent politician in modern history. He is also one of the best polemicists who ever lived and can at the least help you in developing posting skill.
>>24950512Truth
>>24951258Look, nigger. What exactly wrong with imperialism and why do you hate success and conquest?
>>24951504Ironic considering Marx hated brown people
I want to read old European myths such as Irish, Swedish or Russians. Is there any infography listing them all so I can go looking for translations? Poetry preferable
>>24951677>I want to read old European myths such as Irish, Swedish or Russians.There's a reason why when it comes to European mythology the Greeks are the ones that get all the attention. Ancient European societies were largely oral based and few of them had writing. So the only thing you'll find for other European myths like Celts, Norse, or Slavs is some heavily edited folktale written by a Christian Monk centuries after they've converted.
>>24951690>some heavily edited folktale written by a Christian MonkYes, I want that regardless
Go on wikisource, they have a shit load of fairy tale books on there.
Desperately reconcile with your irredeemable faith, sheep.
>>24951815they insist on being taken over. that's their whole religion.
>>24951806Because /lit/ is retarded
>>24951826So atheism is when you're a cuck?
>>24951841offering their taxes while they're sitting in the corner too
>>24951768If only Christians acted like this.
>age>location>current read
>27 >Iran>Experiencing Fiction by James Phelan
>>2493141421 IsraelJust finished Watership Down
28DenmarkCyclonopedia
>>24931414>29>USA>Complete Works of Plato, St. Augustine's Confessions, Calvin's Institutes, Moby Dick, Madame Bovary, Paradise Lost, Pensees, Britain in Revolution, Shield of Achilles
>>24931414>20>Australia>Lonesome Traveler - Kerouac, The Myth of Sisyphus - Camus
>reading up on The Battle of YarmukHe had ONE JOB.
>>24951816Judgement from Providence for monophysitism. Syria perdita est.
>>24951824>God initiated the Muslim takeover of half the world
>>24951816I'm not saying I fully believe in the "Phantom Time Hypothesis" or whatever, but it's very clear to me that all history from this period is very unreliable, and the only reasons historians generally accept all these narratives of Roman decline and Islam's rise is because it's convenient for them.
>>24951831>because it's convenient for (((them))).
>>24951830When you consider that they only took over the Ortho portions of it... kind of?The Catholics successfully battled them back, maybe that's a sign of God's favor.
Which books should I read to best understand the argentinian soul?
falklands are ours, jot that down.
>>24943388argentina has sociopathic dna heritage from romans . im argentine but from little town . half of population lives on modern babylon aka Buenos Aires
>>24951736what kind of people live in the villas of BA?
>>24951891Unironically, niggers
>>24951891fresh princes
I like to read philosophy although I don't understand like 70% of what is written. Actually I like to read smart people, people with soulfulness, I like to learn the truth about reality even if I can't grasp it with most of the part.I'm currently reading Spengler's main work and it's good for the part I do understand.Thanks for reading my blog.
>>24951262>fasting, vigils, prayer, meditation, breath prayers and mantras, and all other manner of askesisSome of these are useful in moderation, some are mostly useless.Mysticism has never achieved anything of substance. In rare cases, it can be hijacked as a symbol for an external creed, but it can also lead a society to a coma.
>>24951262>fasting, vigils, prayer, meditation, breath prayers and mantras, and all other manner of askesisDont confuse conduct with what is conducive.>>24951294This anon is correct.
>>24949062right wingers are retarded as usual
>>24951888Being retarded usually means you're more sexually successful than an intelligent person.Following that, if left-wingers are more intelligent, and the world is getting more progressive, wouldn't that entail that right wingers are in fact, not retarded?
>>24951888And furthermore, wouldn't that disprove the correlation between intelligence and sexual success?
>The Lord of the Rings is often erroneously called a trilogy, when it is in fact a single novel consisting of six books plus appendices, sometimes published in three volumes.-Note on the text, Douglas A. Anderson, 1993What is a book, as Anderson (and presumably Tolkien) means it? For me naively a book and a bound volume is the same thing. Did Tolkien intend for the Lord of the Rings to be published as six books? Wouldn't that make it a hexalogy?
>>24951767The three-volume split was imposed by his publisher Allen & Unwin for practical post-war economic reasons (paper was expensive, and a single massive volume would have been too expensive). Tolkien didn't want this.>Six booksWhen Anderson (and Tolkien himself) use the word "book" they're using it in the older, classical sense, like the way Homer's Iliad has 24 "books" or Virgil's Aeneid has 12 "books.">HexalogyIt wouldn't be a hexalogy because those six books aren't six independent works—they're divisions within one work, just as the Aeneid isn't a "dodecalogy." A trilogy or hexalogy implies separate, complete narratives that form a series. Tolkien's work is formally one story divided for publishing reasons.
>>24951780>the older, classical sense,Meaning?>like the way Homer's Iliad has 24 "books" or Virgil's Aeneid has 12 "books."More examples doesn't answer my question. What is a book?>because those [...] books aren't six independent worksIsn't that what makes things trilogies? They're _connected_ works. If they're independent works there's nothing linking them into a trilogy.
>>24951793>What is a book?A division of a work that's longer than what could be called a chapter.
