/lit/ - Literature

why would you think a good general would make for a good writer

>>3374800
would be like speaking classical latin to your local taco seller

if you're not going to consider sanskrit (boo) then classical chinese is the best option. they have a great canon.

sanskrit

if we're talking poetry too

>>3374711
i didn't mean it derisively. what did you take away.

>>3374631
if im already in hell where am i supposed to go when i die there?

>>3374636
no, it's basically the same.

>>3374629
no, that's a vast oversimplification of what translation entails.

they have the same general "gist" (god this, jesus that, etc), but you should consider them as entirely separate works, not two different lenses through which you will see one fundamental work.

or you could. up to you.

>>3374585
modern translations try to go for accuracy or clarity over pleasing language. you might want to buy an annotated one, it will help if it has a map too.

everywhere?

>>3374574
shit

uhm

got no backup joke

yes. the king james bible has literary value. i've been told it also has some lovely hebrew poetry.

no that was thus spoke zarathustra

>nihilism

not an ideology

>objectivism

self-refuting

>libertarianism

marx

>libertinism

i don't think you know what this is, but either/or

>anarchism

idk but i have a pic related

>>3374499
whatever cool guy, i direct you to

>yeah yeah yeah

7-9, depends on my mood.

i never go to the theatre, what is this, 1885?

ibsen.

waiting for godot. yeah yeah yeah.

of course not

he died like a bitch in the sopranos

killing oneself. there's no way to do it without throwing out the baby with the bathwater, as it were.

>>3374207
i use one, people don't like them because they don't like backlights, but they're versatile.

life?

my top ten on goodreads right now is (i rerate every two months for calibration), it's in no particular order and based on personal preference heavily leaning on feels felt (which you might not share since we haven't had the same life) more than aesthetic enjoyment. like a 65/35 split.

>Eugene Onegin

>Sexing the Cherry

>Goodbye to Berlin

>Lolita

>Diary of a Superfluous Man

>Oblomov

>The Fortress of Solitude

>Neuromancer

>Inherent Vice

>Fear and Trembling

chill out sunhawk

the new industry has been on the market for less than a decade

these things take time

any short story anthology should be fine

verbing, ironically

in linguistics, it's conversion.

necessary in what sense?

yet to be seen makes more sense