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[Anonymous No.11624547]

Questions That Don't Deserve Their Own Threads.

[Anonymous No.11624552]

Which publication of One Thousand and One Nights should I get?

[Anonymous No.11624554]

>>11624547
Are traps gay? Also post cutie traps...

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[Anonymous No.11624560]

Can you all help me find an author who was mentioned on here before? She is a red head, probably in her late 20s, early 30s maybe. Think one of her books had fire or something related in the title. I remember the OP of the thread mentioning her talked about a lecture or something she was giving. However I can't find the thread on warosu with the search terms I can think up. Wikipedia has around 3,000 plus entries for American female writers of the 21st century, otherwise I'd look through all of those until I found the person I was looking for. Thanks everyone.

[Anonymous No.11624563]

>>11624554
Source?

[Anonymous No.11624564]

People say Marx's labor theory of value has been refuted, but couldn't it be said that Value with a capital V is more of a metaphysical attribute than a concrete one?

[Anonymous No.11624566]

>>11624564
yes

[Anonymous No.11624573]

>>11624563
Chanel Santini

[Anonymous No.11624592]

>>11624554
>>11624573
God I wish that were me.

[Anonymous No.11624607]

Why are all book covers absolute shit?
90% look even worse than fucking movie covers

[Anonymous No.11624686]

>>11624573

Patrician taste

[Anonymous No.11624688]

>>11624607
Because publishers aren't willing to pay for a proper cover, and self-publishing authors have no sense of visual aesthetics.

[Anonymous No.11624702]

>>11624547
Does anyone have a chart for Indian philosophy etc eg the Upanishads and the like?

[Anonymous No.11624820]

What is the definition of god and why do people argue over god and whether he exists or not without properly defining god?

[Anonymous No.11625454]

>>11624552
Burton unabridged

>>11624820
http://www.depa.univ-paris8.fr/IMG/pdf/Lectures_on_Religious_Belief.pdf

[Anonymous No.11625463]

>>11624547
I want to read Eliot and Pound, what's an introduction to either or both of the authors

[Anonymous No.11625466]

What is the most obscure book of poetry you've ever read?
I feel like I've exhausted the entire poetry section of the library, my used book store, and more.

Alternatively: What are some books of poetry that are as edgy or violent as de Sade?

Something that is the written form of black metal.

[Anonymous No.11625475]

Can someone define dialectic for me in their own words? Especially related to Hegel.

[Anonymous No.11625511]

>>11625463
Their poetry

[Anonymous No.11625589]

>>11625475
The dialectic is the process of how change occurs. The status quo (the "thesis") will have shortcomings from which its "antithesis" will emerge. Conflict ensues.

After the inevitable struggle between thesis and antithesis, the two will eventually sublate, each stripping away the flaws of the other and forming a "synthesis," which contains the essence of both but the imperfections of neither. The synthesis then becomes the new status quo.

[Anonymous No.11625620]

>>11624686
who dat?

[Anonymous No.11625909]

>>11624702
Anyone?

[Anonymous No.11625910]

>>11624686
>>11625620
Also want to know this.

[Anonymous No.11625923]

>>11625466
>written form of black metal
burzum lyrics. edgy shit, but that's it

[Anonymous No.11625995]

>>11624547
what it like having a gf

[Anonymous No.11626000]

>>11624560
Sounds interesting. Curious what author you saw posted. I can't think of any good search terms to look for either. Hope you get some help anon.

[Anonymous No.11626016]

>>11625589
Thank you friend anon.

[Anonymous No.11626044]

How's that lit philosophy project going? Are there any updates? Cheers.

[Anonymous No.11626139]

How to get qt gf?
I want to kill people

[Anonymous No.11626175]

I have a problem.
I have tried reading the Illiad, Leviathan and Politics by Aristotle. I stopped reading them for the following reasons.
Illiad- the constant mentioning of the untracable soldiers who always take up a paragraph to describe. Their locations are gone for centuries and it takes away the attention from the action. I couldn't concentrate on the important events. I have read a historians book which retells the story with the basics actions and motives. Am I in the wrong here?
Leviathan- like Kant his logical structure and sentence structure is really hard to follow. I kept losing the trace of thought, though I really wanted to read this book. Can I just get a newer version? This text really sounds like the 17th century original.
Politics- his arguments do not seem to convey any helpful information about politics. I have only read 10 pages, but it seems to be a waste of time since there is hardly anything that could be applied to the general knowledge of politics. It would be smarter to spend the available reading time on newer authors like Kissinger, Locke.
On what points am I wrong?

[Anonymous No.11626191]

>>11624547
Why does my mother hate me so much?

[Anonymous No.11626206]

>>11626175
Jesus Christ man if you didn’t read a proper translation of Iliad then you didn’t read Iliad. Part of reading the Iliad is appriciating the genius that Homeros was

[Anonymous No.11626251]

does anyone want to help me with this game? I would do it myself, but the scale I'm planning on plus having to do all the technical aspects is overwhelming. I need Dialogue Writers,Description Writers and Quest/Storyline Writers.

[Anonymous No.11626271]

>>11625454
>Burton unabridged
Didn’t Borges say that one was boring?

[Anonymous No.11626403]

>>11626175
you're not wrong at all
just remember than studying is not reading
dunno about Homer, but when it comes to Aristotle or Hobbes, you gotta study them instead of reading.
this means : pick an interesting page and spend a day on it. Write. Write everything that can be said about the said page. When you dunno, check it online or elsewhere.
Someone who knows PERFECTLY 3 pages of Leviathan knows Hobbes much more than someone who read the Leviathan.
t. been a teacher for 20yrs. I like it when students ask "what could I read...?" but it's not the most useful think they could do (I'm speaking of philosophy only here)

[Anonymous No.11626436]

>>11626403
Not the guy you responded to, but thanks for this !

[Anonymous No.11626449]

>>11626436
Dont listen to this >>11626403 retard. Remembering pages has nothing to do with key insights or understanding, he is most likely just a troll

[Anonymous No.11626475]

>>11626271

Burton's edition is glorious, but only with all the footnotes intact. You can often find his version in book-store bargain bins, but these don't always include everything.

[Anonymous No.11626500]

>>11626271

Borges was a huge fan of the 'Mardrus'.

The Mardrus-Mathers is a better adventure story. The more recent translations are more academic in their faithfulness to the source, but some of the fun is drained away in the process.

[Anonymous No.11626511]

Bet you Mishima heads didn't know this.

[Anonymous No.11626546]

Is Amy Chua the most underrated Asian author living in North America right now?

[Anonymous No.11626566]

>>11624564

>but couldn't it be said that Value with a capital V is more of a metaphysical attribute than a concrete one?

His theory may have had a metaphysical dimension, but it was also understood to explain practical everyday realities. That aspect of it has been utterly falsified. The amount of work that goes into making a thing does not determine its value. Prices reflect what people are willing to pay. Everything else is secondary.

[Anonymous No.11626570]

>>11626403
It saddens and angers me. Everything is so flawed. My vocabulary will never be enough, there is always going to be a lack of knowledge and context when it comes to reading. There is always something you will miss or misinterpret.
Why can't we have the essence transferred to us in it's maximum capacity.
I can hardly bear this.

[Anonymous No.11626586]

is self publishing worth it or is everything you put out that way bound to be ignored into oblivion?

are there people who made it by self publishing?

(not necessarily a bad writer, just not one who could get an agent and do the whole routine with publishers)

(also, not un-edited or peer reviewed, just in a tight spot)

[Anonymous No.11626587]

>>11626175
>Am I in the wrong here?

Try one of the audiobooks? These do not falter.

[Anonymous No.11626592]

>>11626586
>is self publishing worth it or is everything you put out that way bound to be ignored into oblivion?

Most published books quickly fall into oblivion--self-published or not.

>are there people who made it by self publishing?

Made it as in living off your writing, or made it as in widely known?

By the way, our boy Fulgentius, last of the Romans, spoke a little bit about this.

[Anonymous No.11626605]

I feel exalted when I read Nietzsche, really hopefull and ready to sail but that feeling vanishes and I fall back into my pit of emptiness and sorrow. Why can't I mantain it ?

[Anonymous No.11626619]

>>11626592
neither fame nor fortune. just read.

like still seeing it around, people giving it a chance

also, another question, sort of related: does anyone here go to used bookstores and pick random stuff? like a totally unknown author with shit cover art? i've been doing that for a few months now and i can't say i regret it. seems harder to do that with an e-book though.

[Anonymous No.11626669]

>>11626619

>go to used bookstores and pick random stuff

This leaves you more open to the powers of 'library angels'.

[Anonymous No.11626697]

>>11626619
All the time, mostly because its cheap, but also cuz older, maybe used books just have a much nicer vibe to them. And you reliably widen your horizon.

[Anonymous No.11626758]

>>11626546
I recommend "Democracy on Fire" as an important study for both white and Jewish futures.

[Anonymous No.11626796]

>>11626669
what are 'library angels'?

[Anonymous No.11626846]

>>11625475
Dialectic very generally can mean dialogue between two interlocutors or positions. But it is especially used to mean an active exchange between two interlocutors or positions where a third term, unknown to either participant, is the triangulated goal. In this original Platonic/Socratic sense, dialectic is dialogue where the conflict of two confused people with heads full of "doxa" leads to an ascent toward metaphysical Truth or the Real.

In philosophical jargon it is often also used to mean "complex interrelationship," for example, a dialectical relationship between two causes that mutually influence one another so that it's impossible to describe what happens to one without understanding the PROCESS of what has happened to the other as a result of what has happened to the one that was previously modified by the other which was previously modified by the other which was ... (etc.).

In the Hegelian sense it is basically used to mean that an immanent analysis or "grasping" of some conceptual situation, and its inadequacy or determinacy or manifest contradiction, will naturally produce or give rise to a concept that reconciles it.

Try reading the first 10~ pages of Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre. Not the long introductions, but the actual main text. He immediately "derives" the not-I from the I, and then other conceptual determinations from their opposition, and so on.

>>11626796
It's from Koestler

[Anonymous No.11626850]

>>11626796

They help make the right book appear at the right time.

[Anonymous No.11626856]

>>11624547
What's the relationship between empathy and morality?

[Anonymous No.11626997]

do you discuss your writing ideas with other people?

>tell someone some crazy idea that sounds fun to me
>they go like "oh no that's shit/retarded/stupid. don't do it"
>do it
>same people "omg anon so cool"

i kinda stopped bouncing ideas off people but how much confidence in them is too much?

or is it the finality that makes things shine?

[Anonymous No.11627232]

>>11626566
Sure, but couldn't it be said that value as it pertains to the price of an object and Value as it pertains to the metaphysical quality of an object are two different, often unrelated things?

[Anonymous No.11627255]

>>11626997
There is nobody as intelligent and smart as me where I live

[Anonymous No.11627269]

>>11625910
>>11625620

Done multiple backsearches but no clue. I found the picture somewhere on 4chan, Sorry anons

[Anonymous No.11627315]

>>11626605
You're not a higher man.

I can't find the exact quote but Nietzsche says it's not the depth of feeling but the length you can sustain it that is a sign of the higher (or something similar)

[Anonymous No.11627611]

Am I fucking retarded?

[Anonymous No.11627771]

>>11627269
Fuck. I lost hard.

[Anonymous No.11628075]

Why do these two propositions mean something different?

>A man is not just
>A man is not-just

[Anonymous No.11628161]

>>11626175
>rightwingretard cant into homer

sad desu

[Anonymous No.11629195]

>>11624560
Also curious about this?

[Anonymous No.11629221]

What are the simplest Russian language works to read? I'm about to start a Russian language course in a week, and I want to be able to read something of literary merit.

[Anonymous No.11629279]

>>11626175
>Leviathan
>This text really sounds like the 17th century original.
gee I wonder why

[Anonymous No.11629521]

I like video games. I love stories. Video games do not like stories.
What do?

[Anonymous No.11629540]

>>11629521
Planescape torment