/lit/ - Literature

are you telling me to do something, or telling me about something you've done

forget about plato man. that guy doesnt know anything. you should go grab yourself a buger. now that will teach you something!

Well done frog.

>>19377938
Based autist

I have read 50 pages of the Iliad.

>>19377967
i have read 25 or 30 lol greetings anon

i read 20 pages of a book aobut Plato and Aristotle

I read 21 pages of a book aobut Plato and Aristotle

Read 10 pages of Spinoza today

>>19378011
Was it by any chance this book? Im about 50 pages in.

>>19377924
Gj m8

>>19378030
Yeah but I made a mistake, I'm 51 pages in.

>>19377924
I have read 300 pages of The Brothers Karamazov

>>19377924
Good job anon. That's 10 pages closer to enlightenment (the real one, not the 18th century one)

>>19377924
gj fren

>>19378030
It is actually this hahaha, nice.

I read 1 chapter of Spring Snow and will read 1 or 2 more in 5 hours (lunch break)

>>19377924
You know what? Why not.
Thanks OP, you done good today.

>>19378941
where and on what do you work?

>>19378063
I only read 31 pages of it today. Im on the part where the trial's happening. The idea of having all of his characters come together and rub shoulders in a court trial, with all of their opposing beliefs and opinions, was pretty fuckin' smart on Dostoevsky's part. The feud between the doctors was funny

>>19378941
>1 or 2 pages more in 5 hours
retard

>>19378030
Is this worth reading? Who was right in the end? I vote for Plato, but I think our society is pro Aristotle.

>>19377924
nice shit, what dialogue? I'm reading Phaedo myself

>>19377924
Bump

>>19378941
epic, an anon recommended this to me

I'm almost done reading Mythology by Edith Hamilton so I can then read Homer, the other Greek comedians and tragedians, then all of Plato and Aristotle, then I can finally write my visionary novel :3

>>19377924
Read ten page of History of the Peloponnesian War today.
Its both comforting and depressing recognizing all the archetypes of SoCiEtY in polaroids from two thousand years ago.

I read 30 pages of The Hero With A Thousand Faces today. Finished Atonement with the Father. Starting to get a bit lost examples he gives are getting very specific.

>>19378020
>You know, I was reminded this morning of a jaunty aphorism which is credited to the great thinker Spinoza

>>19377962
That's a legitimate question, retard.

>>19380733
Charmides

>>19380693
Nobody is 'right,' it's merely a cycle; we are still living in the enlightenment era, which is to say more Aristotelian. Great book tho, got me into philosophy a few years ago because it's a nice easy read, you're not going to get textbook level detail and it's more of a historical book.

>>19377924
Good. Keep it up, anon.

Good boi. You want scratchees?

I read 10 pages of Princeton's companion to mathematics

>>19382324
yes...

>>19378020
spinoza really breaks a man, enjoy it anon.

>>19377924
Congrats anon, you're one step closer to enlightenment.

>>19380596
I stock shelves overnight. 1 hour lunch time. Usually finish food and chatting in 20 minutes. Gives me time to read a bit.

>>19380693
I think its pretty good though ive only read 50 pages. it reads quite well and am reading some of platos dialogues before continuing. its no question of right or wrong it can never be settled on who is exactly correct and its not necessarily a battle between the two. i think aristotles criticisms of platos theory of the forms are well justified but im just split between the two. I feel like im leaning toward aristotle but plato *feels* right.

>>19377924
Congratulations Anon. You're gonna make it :)

>>19377924
I didn't read anything today... or the day before, or the day before, or the day before...

I read 15 pages of Zarathustra yesterday, but nothing today. Will finish it soon (~30 pages left), and then I will read Swann in Love :)

how many pages do you guys read per day or say, in an hour

>>19386420
I'm super slow and read anywhere between 6 and 15 pages per hour. Usually on the lower end of the range.

>>19386528
if you read philosophy or dense fiction (e.g. Proust), then this is a good amount. otherwise, theres nothing wrong with slow reading desu :)

>>19377962
Ikr HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>19377941
Hammed-Burger

>>19386528
damn anon i read like 25 to 30 per hour usually, if philosophy then its like 15 to 20. i feel like i read way too slow but 10 per hour, just how? i dont mean any offense but i mean thats crazy. do you just backtrack a lot? theres only one tip i could give and its not to try to read quickly in any fashion, just read at a consistent pace. glide your eyes across the page slowly without stopping and speed up until you feel uncomfortable.

>>19377938
English language is truly mongrel

>>19381952
hes saying he has read, past tense. judging by pic related, OP is celebrating his achievement.

>>19387839
>just how?
I zone out a lot and get distracted while reading and I also have the annoying habit of re-reading pretty much every sentence three times before I move on to the next.
>if you read philosophy or dense fiction (e.g. Proust), then this is a good amount. otherwise, theres nothing wrong with slow reading desu :)
:^)

>>19387873
whoops mean to quote >>19386607 in >>19387873

>>19377924
OP again, haven't read in two days

>>19389255
cmon OP youre better than this get yo ass to work

How many books do you all read at once been stuck on the bible for a while so I'm usually juggling 2 or 3 books including that

>>19387861
English is so retarded that it literally needs pictures to be understandable.

>>19378007
#me2
now I listen to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR7FGshwBWY

>>19380733
Phaedo is my favourite of Plato's dialogues

>>19391868
Bait aside, you can be vague with any language if you really want to. I don’t find English more precise than the rest, but it’s certainly not the most ambiguous. I would say that most of the time it’s just due to the writer’s lack of foresight or the reader’s lack of an ability to pick up social cues or context clues (autism) rather than structural flaws in the language, which of course every language has by virtue of the well-known notion that you can’t express everything in words in a language system or else every translation would be 100% the same. OP could have added a single character “I” to his post though and no one with a brain could then have misunderstood his meaning.

>>19387842
there's an easy fix to it
consistent ortography
if read and read were spelled differently it wouldn't be so unclear

>>19377938
Both