QTDDTOT

So this Oxford edition of the Life of Johnson is unabridged, is the Everyman also? I know it's got a ton of pages too but still just making sure.

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Yes, in Everyman as well. I have an old Everyman in 2 volumes, cloth covers.
This is by the way some of the comfiest reading (you) will ever experience in English. Also, this is the perfect time of year to start it. The first modern-style biography, truly a great book.

Thanks user. Would it be a good idea to read Life of Johnson before going into Johnson's Major Works by Oxford?

What am i in for?

>A few years before, Padrino had died in great old age at Cossano, where they'd gone to spend their last years with a handful of coins they got from selling the hut, had died on the road where his daughters' husbands had thrown him.... The two men worked hard, wore out their oxen and their women: the younger girl died in a field, hit by a lightning bolt; the other, Angiolina, had seven children and took to her bed with a tumor in her ribs, suffered and cried out for three months... and died without seeing the priest.

sounds like a good time

Interested in this one and the other one NYRB has for him.

I don't think it really matters. There's a joint volume (Penguin) of both Boswell and Johnson's impressions of a trip they made together to the Hebrides (reasonably short) that (you) may want to pick up just so as to get an idea of their differing sensibilities before handing yourself over entirely to Boswell's interpretation of Johnson's life. If I could go back, that's what I'd do.

Imo Dialogues with Leucò is Pavese's best. Also check out his poem "Verrà la morte è avrà i tuoi occhi" (dunno the translation)

Wow I've heard of that one and reading it before Life of Johnson sounds like a good suggestion. Thanks.

I've got the everyman, it's excellent.

Also, do yourself a favor and after you finish it, read two reviews: the one by Macaulay (andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Texts/macaulay.html) and the one by Carlyle (archive.org/details/macaulayscarlyle00macarich). Borges also has a good lecture on it.

>To my question, whether we might not fortify our minds for the approach of death, he answered, in a passion, No, Sir, let it alone. It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.” He added (with an earnest look,) 'A man knows it must be so, and submits. It will do him no good to whine.’

Thanks for the links will do.

A bit from the Carlyle essay:

>Thus for Boswel's Life of Johnson has Time done, is Time still doing, what no ornament of Art or Artifice could have done for it. Rough Samuel and sleek wheedling James were, and are not. Their Life and whole personal Environment has melted into air. The Mitre Tavern still stands in Fleet Street: but where now is its scot-and-lot paying, beef-and-ale loving, cocked-hatted, pot-bellied Landlord ; its rosy-faced assiduous Landlady, with all her shining brass-pans, waxed tables, well-filled larder-shelves; her cooks, and bootjacks, and errand- boys, and watery-mouthed hangers-on? Gone! Gone! The becking Waiter who, with wreathed smiles, was wont to spread for Samuel and Bozzy their supper of the gods, has long since pocketed his last sixpence; and vanished, sixpences and all, like a ghost at cock-crowing. The Bottles they drank out of are all broken, the Chairs they sat on all rotted and burnt; the very Knives and Forks they ate with have rusted to the heart, and become brown oxide of iron, and mingled with the indiscriminate clay. All, all has vanished; in every deed and truth, like that baseless fabric of Prospero's air-vision. Of the Mitre Tavern nothing but the bare walls remain there: of London, of England, of the World, nothing but the bare walls remain; and these also decaying (were they of adamant), only slower. The mysterious River of Existence rushes on: a new Billow thereof has arrived, and lashes wildly as ever round the old embankments; but the former Billow with its loud, mad eddyings, where is it? Where! Now this Book of Boswell's, this is precisely a revocation of the edict of Destiny; so that Time shall not utterly, not so soon by several centuries, have dominion over us. A little row of 'Naphtha-lamps, with its line of Naphtha-light, burns clear and holy through the dead Night of the Past: they who are gone are still here; though hidden they are revealed, though dead they yet speak. There it shines, that little miraculously lamplit Pathway; shedding its feebler and feebler twilight into the boundless dark Oblivion, for all that our Johnson touched has become illuminated for us: on which miraculous little Pathway we can still travel, and see wonders.

I have the other nyrb ("selected stories" right?) and only read one story so far but wasn't particularly taken with it. Although that could be due to me still not being comfortable with short stories as a medium in the first place.

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There's a copy in my local charity shop, has been there for months.

It's only £2.50, but it's abridged. Infuriating.

Sorry if this isn't the right place (pls ignore if so). I'm looking for help writing a section of my "statement of purpose". It's essentially why I want a job, and I can't write what I'm trying to say without sounding retarded. Here's the paragraph,

"My enthusiasm for culture study has manifested in a desire to learn about the Japanese experience. These consist of the mundane such as mannerisms and daily life, but also the broadly scoped including world views and language interpretation. I have fed this curiosity by completing various academic tasks including an export project analysis that evaluated the potential business opportunities of exporting cereal grains from the United States to Japan. And opting into a religious-studies elective that included the study of Shintoism’s Kami, and Buddhism’s three jewels and five precepts. I plan on furthering my understanding of these concepts and more as I continue my study of Japan, with the language being a major target of mine."

Would anyone be up for helping a mongoloid right this? I'd love to talk on here, Discord, or another program if you want to critique my draft.

wright*

wew

write*

imma kill myself

wtf are you talking about?

I'm looking for help writing a "professional" paper and posted an excerpt of it?

why on earth on you doing this in a thread about Boswell's Johnson?

It's a QTDDTOT.

sounds very weeby

It's supposed to be to an extent. I want to emphasize my passion for culture. I don't like anime but I need to explain why Japan. What I want to say is easy, but I'm having a difficult time putting it to paper.

What do you want to explaina bout japan?

English is my second language. I want to read Moby Dick as i have heard it's one of the greatest english novels. Is the language, vocabulary hard to follow ? I would say i'm almost fluent in English.

Nah its dense but very readable. It alludes to the King James Bible and Shakespeare heavily in its style but its obviously much more modern and easier to read.

btw I think dissertation would be something along the lines of 'Japan as a preview of the west', with focus on the atomisation of the population, the 'genetic strike' of the collapsing birthrate etc

Should it be "We don't yet know whom was charged" or "We don't yet know who was charged". Who is the subject of was but the direct object of know, right? So which do you use?

Far, far too wordy and awkward. Just cut it down to the essence of what you want to say and keep the tense consistent. Don't start sentences with and and make sure they're actual sentences, not just sentence fragments. If English is your first language than this is pretty pathetic.

who, the verb here is 'to be' (was)

Thanks.

No, it's not it's charge. It's in passive voice.

>not it's
*not; it's

Whom would just sound weirdly formal there; some grammarians now just think of whom as a formal who, regardless of object/subject etc. Its also useful if you have two 'who's' in a sentence.

So who is the subject pronoun of the defining relative clause then?

What's the difference between a diary and a journal? :o

without googling...I'd guess a diary is about your thoughts and a journal is a more neutral recording of events?

Do you have an edition to suggest ? I have been looking at amazon for the penguin editions but it seems like the text is not integral. It might be agridged.

You should absolutely read the Life of Johnson before you read anything written by him. That way you can better contextualize what he says, and understand the true weight of his words.

Not aware of abridged versions of Moby Dick unless its especially aimed at children. The Penguin Classics and Oxford versions are fine

>diary
neuter of *diarius, from diēs (“a day”).

>journal
From Old French journal (“daily”), from Latin diurnālis, from diurnus (“of the day”), from diēs (“day”).

My general enthusiasm for encounters with other cultures has led me, in the course of my studies, to a particular passion for Japan. I have tried to do as much as possible to learn about the Japanese experience from afar in preparation for studying abroad in the country. I like to see a society's way of life as an interrelated whole, so I have studied daily life and norms of personal conduct in Japan, as much as the Japanese language and business culture. I undertook several academic projects relating to the latter, including an [export project analysis that evaluated the potential business opportunities of exporting cereal grains from the United States to Japan]. In addition, I made a rewarding study of Japanese religious life as one of my electives, focusing in particular on Shintoism's Kami, and Buddhism's three jewels and five precepts. I hope to further my understanding of all this and more as I continue my studies in Japan, and I especially hope to acquire spoken fluency in Japanese during my stay.

So, practically speaking, they are the same, it seems.

You're intrested in grain exports? Come on dude just say you like anime and tentacle porn, its honest and more interesting

Please help me.
Does anyone have a digital version of Stoner? Any format will do. Getting this book on my country is really hard and i dont trust the translation.

How do I read the 48 laws of power? I'm trying to improve myself.

Also philosophy as a major. Yay or nay, and should I stop reading books on philosophy now so that I have a "fresh mind" going into my study? Is it alright if I write down my thoughts on each thought in the books?

ive read it and the stories become redundant and more or less a waste of time to read. just read the principlies clearly and skim the story aspects at most

I want to die with a large bibliography of all types of writing. Is there any way to keep track of everything or do you have to do that yourself? I have fan fiction fap fiction short stories books tons kf stuff.


Just download and read it.

Mastery is a much much better book tbqh.

This

Will someone post that tiger poem?
yes
YES
Please post it.

Sure

I wish someone would respind to this tho

Just purchased pic related

I am from Dublin, about 30 minutes from where Joyce was

I have read the odyssey

I have read a portrait

um..there's a martello tower in my town

Do these facts give me a fighting chance or am I just as fucked as anyone?

I remember seeing a Veeky Forums picture of 3 or 4 recommended books about the psychology of masses, anyone has it? Or can recommend me something about the manipulation of masses by media or politicians?

I'm not sure what image you're talking about but If you want some books on group psychology/manipulation then try:
The Crowd: A study of the popular mind - Gustave Le Bon
Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego - Sigmund Freud
Crystallizing Public Opinion, Propaganda - Edward Bernays

Thank you.

Does Veeky Forums think I'm a pleb for really liking Murakami?

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>philosophy as a major
It's what I do, so I suppose I recommend it. I like the philosophy department in my particular university, at least.

>should I stop reading books on philosophy now so that I have a "fresh mind" going into my study?
No, just don't approach authors with prejudice. Reading more can only help, always. All of the previous reading you do before pursuing philosophy academically will serve to give you a vague notion of where each author is placed on the grand scope of the history of thought, it gives you points of reference.

>Is it alright if I write down my thoughts on each thought in the books?
I'm not sure I understand. Do you mean taking notes on the pages of books? If you own them, it's alright.

I might make a thread later, but:

What do I do if I love world building, but have no inspiration for characters and only loose story ideas? I feel like whatever I write will be shit because the meat of the thing will just be a vessel for me to flesh out my world. Is there any way I could work with someone who hates worldbuilding but is a good writer?

This formatting makes it much worse, the original is better

>What do I do if I love world building, but have no inspiration for characters and only loose story ideas?

Don't worry. Many sf/f junk gets overrated by nerds due to "good worldbuilding" despite its lack of original characters or plot.

Are children the best modern poets?

Whenever I see this image I can't stop thinking about that greentext where the guy shits himself in a lecture and then fakes having a seizure before getting up and leaving

Best escapist literature?

Preferably something easy to read, I don't really have that much time on my hands.

How do you teach a kid this young the concept of poetry? How did the little dude come to write this?

Yes, because they haven't been corrupted just yet.

Which website has the best ratings for books? Goodreads is trash.

Form your own opinion.

Veeky Forums.org/lit

I can't read literally every book before reading them to know if they're worth reading or not, you utter tard. Why don't I just go to my local charity shop and buy all those shit 50p romance novels.