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>>24969715>Only just now tried to make a thread and it wants me to jump through a whole lot more weird esoterica and even after I get it right it will not post it. Is their a secret I'm missing?It's just a different form of captcha x3You'll get the hang of it.
I don't think I'll ever, ever understand the pejorative use of the words "sentimentality" and "pathos", especially in older texts and usage.
>>24969726Sensibility and bathos have their attractions
>>24969722Yeah, I got the hang of it, but it refuses to post. A couple of times it wanted me to select the unique one. But there were two.
>>24969752>A couple of times it wanted me to select the unique one. But there were two.Those ones there's generally 5 with 2 pairs, so there's still a unique, odd one out
Whats a good reading on a christmas night?Inb4 Dickens
Have you ever done anything epic at the bookstore?
>>24969674We all did.built for big book club
>>24969701you unironically need less porn in your life, anon
>>24969671Why are Jewish women so stunning and beautiful?
>>24969671This mulatto bitch should be washing my feet
>>24969711You think Venti is Jewish?
Is mysticism real or just your neurons misfiring and making you hallucinate God?
>>24969720t. Dennett's ghost
>>24969730meant for >>24969718
>>24969718>You can't prove a negative,Yes, you can.
>>24969736Nuh-uh
>>24969723>atheist that married a jewessKys
>introduction is better than the rest of the book
>>24969593Happens whenever Harlan Ellison introduces a book.
>>24969665Yeah he's great whenever I see his name I know which books to avoid
right here
>reading the introductionmight as well read the wikipedia page too
this book on microhistory was a very sad example. the first chapter gives a very good explanation of how to write good microhistory and is even a great introduction to the subject but then the microhistory of the book itself is very uninpressive. It is clearly written by someone with a great amount of knowledge in the subject and all the beats and technical requirements for a great book are present but it fails to achieve its promise, the book has no emotion or narrative sense and feels very lifeless as a result. It is very interesting that someone could be so well learned but at the end still lack that writing talent that makes books like The Cheese and the Worm and The Return of Martin Guerre so great. the author has no sense for what makes microhistory unique and cannot compensate lack of writing talent with technical knowledge.
Bunch of moody faggots born in high echelon society, squandering their money and doing jackshit but pondering about a completely false, irrelevant and subjective view of the universe, and centuries later high school students have to endure a class where they get taught their meaningless mental gymnastics even though it's all reduced to hot air and banal statements the most cooked up hobo in the street could get on its own. As if it would mean anything, as if philosophy ever did anything but being an abstract ivory tower for prissy intellectuals to sit on, pretending to be better because unlike you they read about some old fart passed his time while his valet brought him breakfast in bed.
>>24969056You're think of Schopenhauer, dumbass. If you're going to make a criticism at least get it right. Dumbass.
>>24969152I took psychology but never philosophy in school. I'm better learning psychology on my own than I ever did in high school.
>>24968977>>24969149I legitimately do not careI'll just bathe her myself if she gets too ripe for meI am an absolute hound for big girls, the bigger the better
>>24969174>the best philosophersBut OP is calling them the worst philosopher, how can you say "best"?
>>24968824The best philosophers are ones you've never heard of. As soon as you start to make a name for yourself your values change and objective truth becomes subjective opportunity.
Better than Goodreads?
>>24969690As long as you don't care about community, it's a good archiver for what you've read.It really needs better sorting and search functions for your own library and reviews, though.
Besides Kerouac, what are the best authors to read?
My diary desu
>>24969262later bukowski when he got over larping as blue collar
sansa editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>24922194
Bros....was season 8 George's end game all along?
>>24969591i don't get it
>>24969591Is this implying Bran will kill Jon?
>>24969615I think he'll oversee his trial for either deserting the NW or killing Dany and attempt to execute him but won't be able to and instead send him into exile.
>>24969206ANYTHING in asoiaf literature that isn't a character point of view is most likely citadel lies
What’s your favorite Sherlock Holmes story written by Arthur Conan Doyle?What’s your favorite Sherlock Holmes story NOT written by Arthur Conan Doyle?
>>24967613>pastiche fiction is bad because… it just is, okay?!
>>24967385Haven't read any fanfiction. I think I only read two stories: Speckled Band years ago, and Silver Blaze recently. Speckled Band was on an app called Booktrack which played sound effects in the background to scrolling text. That app doesn't exist anymore. I made a thread a few days ago about Sherlock Holmes. Anyway I think it was pretty dumb that the horse was in the neighbor stable, and the scene where they talked to the trainer at that stable was dumb too. But there was still the murder besides the disappearance of the hourse, so whatever.
The Hound of the Baskervilles and Kim Newman's The Hound of D'Ubervilles, which is a series of stories about crimes from the perspectives of Moriarty and Moran.
>>24967385Speckled Band and Sign of the Four.
>>24967385>by Arthur Conan Doyle?The hound of the Baskervilles by far. >Mr. Frankland is an eccentric old gentleman of independent means, who has taken to the study of law as a hobby. He has his eye upon every one in the parish, and is forever quoting cases and threatening actions.>NOT written by Arthur Conan Doyle?Sherlock Holmes vs Cthulhu game I guess
For all the anons on this board, take notice:When you see a long hyphen like this one>—Know that post which has it has been made by AI. Humans dont use that hyphen cause it isnt on keyboard, we use -, shorter version.
Em dash is a lot shorter on mobile
>>24965993Mm
>>24968968>mfw no numpad
>>24968974the joke was about long em dashes in old books
>>24965679Is Eye in the Sky your first Dicking? Because, it's not that Eye is bad, but it still doesn't hold a candle to Dick classics.
wtf she wrote a book
>>24967044>That's the only reason any woman ever gets into occultism, Anon: as an excuse for whoring.Real.
>>24964620Occultists do not tend to come from rich families as much as you think, cerimonial magicians are mostly the intellectual university educated middle class types sure, but you would be surprised how many come from working class backgrounds
>>24969284Like who?
>>24967044she's a 5'1'' goblina but has the voice of a single mother of 7 with three decades of smoking
>>24969640I am not talking about celebrities, just the people you meet in occult circles
>makes libtards and /lit/ seetheOne of the most based books on my shelf
>>24968592Im a neet. I will never give a penny to any zogbot kek
>>24968592good zoggy
>>24968724Israel thanks you.
>>24968575just finished Moon is a Harsh Mistress. could be a tv miniseries in this
>violence is the ultimate authorityLiterally undebunkable. At the end of the day, it all boils down to who can win a war. Diplomacy can fail. In a war, the winner does not ask the loser for an opinion.
English is such a shit language. For me the nail in the coffin for English was when I learned that the problem of ambiguity between argument and explanation, where all you have to disambiguate is context, which they talk about in logic books, is not something which is universal in logic, but rather is a problem of English. Other languages don't have this problem. English is a low IQ language. All it's good for is dumbing down the masses.
>>24969317Prættig securo þe 𐤏𐤐𐤓icano contratas ear mearcod βάσod on þe coloniale dinguaticas, naƿiht þe nativo anas (of hƿelc þær ear generallice an bunche ƿiþinn an contrata ænig ƿeg)
>>24969159Thanks, ill look into it, I've tried playing games with German audio and English subtitles or English with German subtitles and some parts of it I can understand, but some games as per their nature will use more complex words, like if you play Helldivers 2 or whatever you'll notice
>>24969246Romanian and French being easier than German? Since when? See pic for reference, and look at this video, https://youtu.be/ryVG5LHRMJ4? French isn't even comparable, only the more "refined" words are similar or the same.
>>24967483In context 2 I can't imagine anyone just saying "It's raining, so the ground is wet", there would be something indicating conjecture thrown in (even if not as a grammatical feature):>It's raining so the ground is definitely wet>It's raining so the ground is probably wet>It's raining so the ground is wet, right?>>24968050Japanese has a crazy amount of these subtle evidentiality distinctions too at the clausal level. It gets even more interesting in that it's generally ungrammatical to speak about the mental state of another person (e.g. the "He left because he was angry" example mentioned upthread) and you need to include some kind of evidentiality marker to couch the statement
>>24969409Really cool video. It was interesting how Dutch and Low German sounded so similar to English that it seemed like English spoken with a Germanic accent.Also interesting that even though many French words were recognizable to me, the grammar is different enough that it was more difficult to understand than other West Germanic languages.
What is the best way to start with the greeks for someone that is not used to read? I might have convinced some friends to read The Iliad because of Nolan's next film, but I fear it will be too dense for them, and it also starts in media res which is a problem. I was thinking about recommending them Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides since it is a good introduction to the plot and characters of The Iliad. I have thought of other alternatives like searching for a good introductory video on youtube (For example, a video explaining Paris' judgement or a video explaining all you need to know before The Iliad), or just explain it to them, but those options don't fully convince me. This is a golden chance and I don't want to miss it. What are your thoughts? Please consider that they are not usual readers.
>>24968889My mom wanted to read The Odyssey and I recommended her The Iliad instead but she never finished it because "it made her feel bad"
>>24969195holy fuck, where's this pic from? it has so much sovl...
>>24969196Idk, I found some of them in /x/. Right click -> google lens
>>24969300Those are the blue wizards from Tolkien. >>24969195If this is the same painter might be Saruman.
>>24969300>blue wizardsWhat the fuck was their problem.
