/lit/ - Literature

>>18334852
>Finnegans Dubliners

>>17948483
finnegan's wake

>>15490193
Mason and Dixon
In Search of Lost Time
>Finnegans Wake

>>15365789
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Any books for the "spend your life studying something you don't care about in accademia and work to pay the debts or be dirt poor homeless and a disappointment to your parents" feel?

>audiobook

>>14438147
>Howth Castle and environs

>800 word paper on immigration due tomorrow
>still haven't started
Help...

>https://youtu.be/fkFubGuaKMs
>Piaceri sì, pensieri anche no
>literally "Pleasure good, thinking bad"
They're not even being subtle anymore

Any easy texts in ancient Greek, at all ?

>>14127045
>>R-right Anon, you are very intellectual and all, I really think you should go back to college since you dropped out. Let's talk about it, we can make it wor--
delete this right fucking now

>>14111505

>get old book from an antiquarian shop
>at the first pages
>hi (person name)! hope you enjoy this wonderful book!
>1948
>they're all dead or extremely decrepit by now

>learning a. Greek
>thought on the meanwhile I could read something that does not strictly require the Greek language, such as Herodotus
>nope, apparently the sugar of Herodotus is references to the Iliad
Is there anything I can read before I can understand Greek and have read the Iliad? Anything at all, including secondary texts.

>conciossiaché

Do I have to study the Sumerians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Hittites, Phoenicians & Egyptians before Starting with the Greeks?

>>13048371
>I Fucking Love Science
>Neil DeGrasse Tyson
>Chemistry Memes
>Trust Me, Im An Engineer

>>12986203
kek this is the real easy mode

>"Philosopher of culture" begins his book on racial relations with the words "Firstly, before I dig into this so very delicate and complex subject matter, I probably should point out that indeed, a great deal of my terminology is derived directly from the works of Jacques Lacan, the great and renowned french psychoanalyst, who has always had a huge influence on my own work"