/lit/ - Literature

looks like blood meridian by Cormac McCarthy

>>posts on /lit/
>>presumably reads actual books

Hey guys, im thirdie. I have the oportunity to buy a kindle basic 2 ( gen 8) at US$ 40. Should i buy? Or is not worth it? Is it a great difference with a 300 ppi display?

Is following a university program a good way to learn philosophy?

I have actually discovered the key to everything. What do I do now? I feel like I should publish it to the world, but I'm not sure how to go about it. What is the point of being the chosen one if no-one else is aware of my greatness?
By the way, if you reply to this, you will have no clue about your brush with greatest person of all time, because you didn't believe they were anything but a random schizo narcissistic anon with delusions of grandeur. When the time came to interact with the GPOAT, you dismissed and insulted them.
I guess it is understandable, but now I want you to imagine that YOU ARE THE GPOAT IN THIS SCENARIO. Traditional publishing is not an option, so you must self-publish. You want to express the greatest idea of all time in both text form and in video form to reach the widest audience possible. How would you proceed?

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What are some books that completely explain different kinds of poetic meters, stresses and verse forms? Preferably more like a technical manual or poetic dictionary than a long-form explanation. I just want a book where I can flip to a page and get a concise definition of say, a trochee or an iamb.

>pissed about all through GCSE and A-level so I'll never be an Oxbridge chad and will instead have to settle for total dump like Durham or St. Andrews
spare me some pity anons

Good introductory textbook on philosophy?
I like buying used textbooks (preferably under $30 lol) on subjects I am interested in learning more, and right now I kinda wanna dip my toes into philosophy and get a good general understanding of the foundations.
I took a Philosophy 101 class in high school, and we went over super basic stuff like fallacies and utilitarianism and the teacher showed us the trolley conundrum, but that was a long time ago and I wish to know more :D

Thanks anons. I might not be well-read but I can now at least call myself "read".

Why is /lit/ so superior to /his/?

what is the best autobiography on adofl hitler?

>>17884277
life is great. just bought my first car and i'm visitng Paris this summer for uni before I graduate

As a lowly, underachieving undergraduate, I don't have any "accomplishments" to my name, but it always feels good to have my philosophy professors and TAs recommend upper year courses to me based on my writing and contributions to discussion. It's nice to have someone take an interest in your education and possibly even recognize some potential.

Do you think it was translated from Old English or was it translated from modern English to feminist English?

>>17353801
I jumped at the opportunity to take online classes. I took 6 over the summer semester and 4 in the fall semester, which allowed me to graduate a whole semester early last December. Personally I never ONCE found that I missed the classroom environment. Profs posting lectures (all my courses were asynchronous) completely eliminated the need for me to take notes. I got to avoid dealing with retarded, time-wasting, attention-seeking questions from other students (for example: "how many trans people were there in England in 1200?"). Online courses were a gift from God in my experience. I completely cut out allllll the time I would have otherwise wasted if I were in in-person classes (walking to campus, waiting for people to show up, slogging though irrelevant meandering from profs and students alike, sitting through auxiliary globalhomo lectures and student presentations). I think the total amount of time I dedicated to school doing two semesters online was probably cut in half relative to previous in-person semesters. I LOVED online courses. All that being said I should note that I'm an antisocial autist so being alone for months on end was perfectly fine for me. I was also a history major, so things might be much more difficult for people in STEM-type courses where you really need the prof to help you out.

Not going to read more than 4 books but rolling anyway.

>>16903242
big iq

>>16733465
>I only read physical books because I want to be seen in public reading a physical book. On the off chance that a female comes into my apartment, I want to look smart because I have a shelf of books somewhere. Someone on /lit/ also said that it has worse retention as well. I also like burning money.

>>16405529
Ah, as we all well know the fact that twilight exists means there's no distinction between night and day.

>>14816680
no anon im pretty sure he was a muslim

Everything is biologically determined. Talent in art, literature, music comes all from your genetics. This is why black people haven't made any notable achievements in art and why the white man prevails. The ability to make art all comes from the same place as your height, dick size, athletic performance, status, power, money, etc. It is all inherited from your parents genetics and their lineages. Discuss.

>>14195751
maybe if you're 17

Im changing my degree from CS because I know if I become a coding monkey I will eventually kill myself. What is the best thing to major in: English: Comp Lit, Classics, Philosophy, or History?