/lit/ - Literature

Maupassantish: something that resembles the work of Guy de Maupassant, as in "the character in this television show is rather Maupassantish."

when did you realize that reading theory and non-fiction will turn you into an annoying nerdoid while reading fiction will make you wise and witty?

>>22417168
I take four classes a year. I'll be 35 by the time I get my Bachelor's Degree. On the bright side I have a 4.0 GPA and I pay for everything out of pocket.

What is the smartest, most big braned, most mind blowing thing you have ever read?

I read through a lot of "classic literature" in 2021 I was a NEET and basically spent 14+ hours reading a day

Things like Russian literature classics, all of shakespeares works and a lot else mixed in but see the problem is I then had medical problem in my brain, was operated on and have lost about a year and a halfs worth of memory including this reading period.

Should I re-read everything? Should I read other stuff and just give up on what I read that time?. I don't even remember some of the books I read let alone the content but then when I do read it I'm sure it will spark my memory and it will feel like I know most of the book now.

What would you do in my situation /lit/?

>reading the Bible
>cross-referencing it with Wikipedia page for each book so that I understand the parts that don't seem to make sense
>and also to understand historical and circumstantial information that the reader otherwise has no dogdamn way of knowing

Had the first experience of losing myself in the words today and becoming the character in my internal world.
I thought reading was supposed to be boring guys.

>>20223555
>>Italian
>>French
>>Latin
>>German
tfw when learning all of these

>tfw learning French, Spanish, Italian, German, Latin and Greek at the same time
>tfw you are accidentally learning all the languages Schoppie knew

I feel like my head is going to explode from such an amount of information

Finally got my master's in Anglo-American Studies with my dissertation based on the tension between individualism and communitarian utopianism in American society of the 19th and 20th centuries. What do I do now? PhD or get a degree in something that actually matters?

Hypothetically, how would one go about citing an illegally obtained epub in a research paper? Are epubs on libgen and z-lib formatted as per the usual ebook standard, or are they merely pdfs converted to epub, and thus any possible reference I could make to page number is invalid?

>>17461087
>discombobulates

Which is the biggest brain branch of philosophy? Where does philosophy of mathematics rank?

>>16930404
Hegel’s Logic is a theoretical anticipation of the complex and dialectical forms taken by capital itself.

Hegel’s Logic is a theoretical anticipation of the complex and dialectical forms taken by capital itself.

>Subsistent Being
>Pure Actuality
>Supersubstantial bread

>reading the introduction after having read the book

Christine Korsgaard is one of the greats, possibly the best Kantian philosopher of the last 100 years. Also Sarah Broadie is my favourite living scholar on Plato.

I really miss r/cumtown.

>>16474289
Laconic, fren

>>16438592
Plato's Symposium and Laws, unironically. In both texts he gives the first arguments against pedophilia you can find in Western philosophy.
Tl;dr: it is unjustifiable on two ground:
1) in Symposium it is proven that the pedophile does not really love children: he always uses them. As such, you could not justify it morally even in an universe in which children could consensually take part in sexual relationships with adults. Also, of course
2) we don't live in such a universe, as it is argued in the first book of Laws, so not only you're using children, but you're also severely harming them (and by proxy, it pedophilia is normalized, you're harming society as a whole by taking part to a prsctice which systematically ruins thr youth's prospects).

>in conclusion

>consider for example