>>24891444
That's 10 years jail time.

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>>24891455
This image only shows that Googling the question won't give good answers and only reddit. What was your point? Justifying OPs thread?

>>24885991
Mozart closely collaborated with Da Ponte on his librettos. That being said, Mozart's skill in writing can be found in the insane prose contained in his letters.

>>24886173
HOLY

>>24885959
>they’re always choosing the ‘main’ one where there was a much better contemporary just off to their side. verdi not wagner.
Wagner's music and libretti are infinitely better and more important than Verdi's. The trajectory of Verdi's opera career can be summed up as being more and more influenced by Wagner as the years went on. It's really not even a contest. How arrogant can you be that you know so little about 19th century opera and then criticise someone for knowing what they're talking about? Although it's ridiculous in the first place to mention Verdi and Mozart since they didn't even write their own libretti, and no, working on it with a collaborating writer is not the same as them actually writing it.

Literature is undeniably the most important. Never heard any reason as to the contrary that wasn't pure cope.

>>24886116
>the best painters don't take years to finish a painting

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>>24889987
framing vs characterisation. telemachus and penelope are defined by odysseus’ missingness. nausicaa is defined by her own social world, which the poem actually takes time to sketch. before she becomes relevant to odysseus.

>why academic eggheads can‘t be trusted with Homer
colonel mure, a soldier, read books v-viii the same way i am:
>There can be little doubt from the distinctive peculiarities with which the poet has invested its inhabitants, and the precision and force displayed in his portrait of their character, that the episode was intended as a satire on the habits of some real people with whom he was familiar.

T.E. lawrence, whose adventures in arabia rivalled odysseus’ own, in his translation of the poem said ‘every big situation is burked and the writing is soft.’

Obviously, he is full of shit. Some girlboss producer told him it’s her favorite.

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>>24891288
this retard is led by algos to make the biggest buck

>>24882105
Ughhh, the batman trilogy?

>>24889569
>children call their father sir
>irredeemable piece of shit gets to redeem himself through loving his son
>women know their place
Avatar 2 is redpilled af. You can only dislike it if you are american.

>>24889425
The Red Knight by Miles Cameron

>>24889425
Read all of the following: Cornwell's Grail Quest series, Jack Ludlow's Mercenaries series, Christian Cameron's Chivalry series. Then go to Elizabeth Chadwick, Helen Hollick, Anya Seton's Katherine.

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Rereading WoT: A Memory of Light. I'd forgotten how good Brandon Sanderson is at writing witty banter. If this is what Mistborn and Stormlight fans get to enjoy every book I'm jealous.

>>24891376
Why are they flirting so hard

>>24890644
Simp supreme getting cucked by the socipath is hot. Fionavar had a rape scene but that didn't really do it for me.
>>24890968
The most soulful epigraph. "For death above you hovers", absolute kino.

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CAUSE IT HAS A VALID POINT TO MAKE IT'S INSISTING

>>24889558
Read the Randolph Carter stories

Yall niggas never read The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath and it shows

>>24891333
God those suck. Reddit incarnate

>>24890368
clocked me sis

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The inability to lie to oneself about reality is often diagnosed as "depression."

>>24890463
>Why is being a wagecuck not good?
For anyone with a functioning brain, it's self evident why spending half of your life doing things you hate is bad.

>>24890393
Dude pessimism literally argues for aesetic withdrawal, anti-natalism, or in extreme cases suicide. Society literally could not function because we would all be dead or alone. Not because its some hidden knowledge that would fold the normie brain in on itself like some eldritch horror. You dont even know what you're talking about moron.
>le moment when you're so philosophy you dont need philosophy
you're doing the same thing dumbass

>>24890354
I often wonder how he would have responded to Nietzsche and Heidegger.

>>24890933
As an American, if I was going to do a literary tour of London, I'd visit
>Sherlock Holmes Museum
>Whatever is the oldest/biggest/most important public library
>Watch a Shakespeare theater performance
>Room 101 at MI5
>various palaces and castles
And outside of London but not far away
>Oxford University campus
>Jane Austen's house

>>24890933
>any good /lit/ taking in place in London?
Nope.

>>24890933
That's probably the most common /lit/ location after New York

George Gissing

>>24891102
Machen set a decent amount in London too

>>24890933
Sherlock Holmes. I think there is a tourist spot for him

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>>24890021
go fuck the goats achmed

ZUTT ZUTT IN THE BUTT
ZUT ALORS !!
this is the best
http://www.google.com/search?q=prophet+of+doom+craig+winn

>>24890021
>Read a book
>Think about what I have read
>Thinking is an action
>Every book I have read has spurred me to some level of action
checkmate dorkwad

>>24890021
A mindset of someone who does things only for money. Merely surviving. I thought the productivity cult was a western thing but I guess it's just human nature.

>>24891235
Globalization slowly turns every country into USA; it's mostly a western thing and you shouldn't mistake it for some universal pattern.

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>>24890021
if it hadnt been for the miracle of humans creating longform narratives, you'd still be a fucking goat herder -- oh wait.
>goes for a takedown on me
>produces pistol
>then produces rapier
stand or be delivered, goatnigger

>>24889802
tonetta deserves way more credit. His early stuff is legendary.

I'm reading River of Doubt

Alefantis?

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the second half is structured poorly but it's still a great read

>>24889802
Personalism by Emmanuel Mournier

A Tale of Two Cities
I like it more than some other Dickens works I've read. The Jackal is literally me. Mr Lorry is my favorite character though.

>>24891108
My copy was published 10 years ago by the Library of Wales. Not sure if they're still printing it.

>>24891230
I own the exact same one
>>24891108
Just buy the library of wales copy. i checked on US amazon guessing youre an american and its for 10 dollars and theres the exact same version going for 10 quid in the uk

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read it last month, preferred the first half to the second, everything degenerated, which was what he was going for. was good but prefer his other stuff

>>24891108
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B0DYPJWB7N/
This one doesn't look too bad

>>24891417
the bit when he goes back to (or at least imagine he goes back to) the decadence of romano british wales is one of the best parts of the novel

>>24890609
>Hylomorphism is a far better proposal
tradcath cope, hylomorphism doesn't actually solve anything and is not even entertained by anyone who knows what a hox gene is

>>24890711
>>lays grounds to logical positivism and the general skepticism we enjoy today.
Not even that. He introduced how cause and effect relations be reduced into simple mechanical objects, which plagued the evolution of science.

>>24891015
>>Next to no one has been a pure cartesian
There are still plenty of dualists out there.
>>he is remembered for being a PIVOTAL thinker, not an ending point.
Look: there are other philosophers who actually predicted how things would go and develop in future, which makes them a great and important figure. What did Descartes do in that regard?

>>24891337
>and is not even entertained by anyone who knows what a hox gene is
This statement is quite literally meaningless.

>>24891211
You're a monist? Okay, explain multiplicity in a monist worldview.

>>24890043
>Source: my rectum
Cool story bro/sis/furry.
>>24890018
The adults (i.e. not you) are talking about de Vere for the sonnets and Lord North for the major plays, also Middleton for some of the more obscure shit.
https://dennismccarthy.substack.com/p/the-full-faq-on-north-and-shakespeare

>>24890740
Why

>>24890006
All of those were actually true.

He had a clock in Julius Caesar.
How did he not know clocks weren't around in Rome?

>>24890740
if I agree with North as the true author of the plays, where does the de Vere wrote the sonnets come from?

>>24886764
>bombs
I didn't realize you could download and read those... What's in the chatgpt thing?

>>24877118
>>24877908
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiisiJu_fE8

>>24878230
Hmmm how about no?

>>24891338
This is AI. There's no way.

>>24877194
>>24886802
>the latest version of the list
the latest version is almost strictly worse
it's shameful how they've shoehorned in garbage like Kate Chopin's Awakening in a desperate attempt to include more women

>>24891395
>The writing is just wonky and awkward most of the time. Maybe I'm just too used to Tolkien and his masterful writing, but it's just offputting. It's written with the subject matter of an edgy smut fanfic, with the subtlety of a children's book.
You basically just summarized it all, but the villain is kind of cool and I remember liking the concluding sections which made the first third checkpoint worth getting through.

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>>24889690

What was his argument against God again? From the quotes I've seen he says that Christianity isn't believable anymore but how exactly does that disprove God?

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>>24879603
But what I said was, fucking her AND Sartre.

>>24889690
Would you fuck one to fuck the other? I'll let you decide.

>>24879603
Nigger.
>>24891276
Don't reply to the retarded nigger, anon.

>>24873586
I think Nietzsche is a pretty cool guy. He writes about ubermensch and doesn't afraid of anything.