QTDDTOT - Questions that don't deserve their own thread

How do I into Faulkner?

Watch Cliff’s review.

There's a poem about two lovers and their faded love, i think they're by the beach or something.
Anyone know what I might be talking about? It's by someone great, like a Keats or something.

What is the best Madame Bovary translation?

how do I stop blushing when at the cashier in bookstores?

It’s the only social instance I have and I feel so pathetic when it happens, like I can’t control my body. Any recommended reading for this?

go into an emotionless borderline-serial-killer state, that's what i do. but sometimes it doesn't work and i have a stern serial killer look up until she says "have a nice day" or something, then i blush even harder, and the juxtaposition of the serial killer face with the extremely childish blush is 10 times worse than just blushing

Probably something like "metairony."

Choose a better book to spend your time on.

Or just spend more time talking and interacting with other people. Not hard really

Should I buy a storm of steel harback for £17, rrp £15 but they aren't being produced anymore

Why is everybody on this board such a faggot? Dad issues?

Probably. Lots of the communists seem like effeminate man children with an inferiority complex. And they reek of burgerfagness

is human, all too human a good book to start with neechee?

>meme page

Normies need to be gassed.

Greeks then Birth of Tragedy.

English isn't my native language and when reading novels in english I have to constantly search the meaning of words in google, and I usually forget them very easily. Am I retarded?

Why calll temptresses and whores "jezebels"?

No.

I started Infinite Jest on Christmas to see what the hype was all about and I'm about 200 pages in. I'm slowly loving it more and more and the plot is coherent but makes little sense while I'm reading it, but if I stop for a few minutes it dawns on me just how great this book is and makes me bubble with excitement from the general hilarity of it. Are there any articles or reviews about this book that put the way I'm feeling in a more concrete way? Any other anons with thoughts about how awesome Infinite Jest is?

TL;DR I love Infinite Jest so far but I can't say exactly why? Maybe I should finish it first idk

>English isn't my native language
>reading novels in english
>I have to search the meaning of words
>I usually forget them very easily
>Am I retarded?

wow, I don't know, we're going to need a specialist here.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jezebel

"In the biblical story, Jezebel became associated with false prophets. In some interpretations, her dressing in finery and putting on makeup led to the association of the use of cosmetics with "painted women" or prostitutes."

but the idea of an integer amount of layers is an important part that's not covered by that

Annabel lee?

Everytime I read an english text translated into my native language it reads really vapid and forced, that doesn't happen when the translation is from a french or german text. Thats why I read english texts in english, I can't stand the translation. If the translations from english to my native language worked the same way that from french or german, I would read the translation.

Is it possible to find good literary analysis/discussion online? Google mostly gives me SparkNotes and the like, and my local library barely has any.

No.

I find that an e-reader really helps me with this. Can just tap the word and get the translation instantly, so it's much less of a bother to read a language I don't grasp well yet

Do we know in which dialogues did Socrates actually participate? I know that he personally talked in the apologia, but it seems like in the later dialogues,(Parmenides) Plato just makes up whatever he wants Socrates to say.

We stood by a pond that winter day,
And the sun was white, as though chidden of God,
And a few leaves lay on the starving sod;
– They had fallen from an ash, and were gray.

Your eyes on me were as eyes that rove
Over tedious riddles of years ago;
And some words played between us to and fro
On which lost the more by our love.

The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing
Alive enough to have strength to die;
And a grin of bitterness swept thereby
Like an ominous bird a-wing….

Since then, keen lessons that love deceives,
And wrings with wrong, have shaped to me
Your face, and the God curst sun, and a tree,
And a pond edged with grayish leaves.

Jstor

Probably a rookie question but, what are some online stores that sell used books overseas?

Where are you?

god you’re stupid

It's difficult to say, Xenophon also wrote a version of the apologia that definitely isn't identical with Plato's (he was also less of a philosopher and more of a historian). Plato definitely used Socrates as a puppet for his views in many of the dialogues, general consensus is that the "early" dialogues draw more from Socrates' thought and the "late" ones less so, worth noting that Socrates barely features in some of the later ones also. Socrates seems to have been something of a nuanced thinker, as demonstrated by the fact that Aristippus, Plato and Antisthenes all created massively differing schools, all supposedly based on his ideas.

Oh my god, thank you

What should be the overarching philosophical take in a contemporary novel, if its attempt is to capture the Zeitgeist? And what is the alternative if it is not attempting to capture the Zeitgeist?

Who are the authors in this meme?

pynch joyce david foster wallace
hemingway rand pound

So, I am going to the Himalayas for a one month trek. I bought a book on Indian philosophy to read while there.
Am I a pseud if I do this? Do you guys do things like this?

if you’re a woman i don’t care

if you’re man that’s pathetic

I care a lot about what's said in this post

Thanks user!

So, I've read Hedda Gabler and Peer Gynt by Ibsen, what should I read now? I'm reading the originals in Norwegian btw.

I am pretty sure this is it, but i seem to remember it being different.
Thank you very much, lovely poem

Which book looks best as a favorite book on a college application?

Vilanden, Gengangere and maybe Bran.

That one's not it. It's "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by Keats

This.
Google Scholar too.

What is the best prison/gulag book? I'm 60 perrcent through with House of the Dead by Dosto and it isn't hitting that sweet spot

I am very familiar with Ode on a Grecian Urn, and it is not about a love lost.

Is Petersburg one of the great russian works?
Like, better than M&M?

Maybe "degrees" of irony, then?
>0th degree = sincere (says something and means it)
>1st degree = insincere (says something but means the opposite)
>2nd degree = insincere in one's insincerity (says something and pretends not to mean it, but actually means it)
>3rd degree = insincere in one's insincerity in one's insincerity (says something and pretends to be engaging in 2nd degree irony, but actually doesn't mean it)
And so on.

Anyone here know latin and can tell me if a phrase I heard in a dream is proper?

why do anything, all is going to end, why should i care if the world is ruled by ruthless dictators for a thousand years, or lives in an utopia for ten thousand, they both would end, everyone is going to be forgotten, all the literary canon is worth nothing besides making some monkeys feel good or feel they have accomplished anything, everything will fall in war and wear away into the ultimate dust of the universe, why go on, why do anything

>just be happy then
no, why? it doesn't matter if i'm happy or kill myself it doesn't matter
>just be in the moment
no, why? i want an answer, i want something to strive for and get it, but there isn't anything

whatever whatever
fuck

sure

>why do anything, all is going to end
quite right, you don't need to care, it's all whether you (and/or your loved ones) want to feel happiness or not.
>everyone is going to be forgotten
and?
>all the literary canon is worth nothing besides making some monkeys feel good
yes, and?
>why go on, why do anything
because they want to.
>no, why? it doesn't matter if i'm happy or kill myself it doesn't matter
nothing matters, family. and there is a big difference between being happy and being sad, contra being happy and being dead.

don't worry, soon you will come out of this psuedo-nihilistic phase.

Alright, it was either “Deus ipsem est” or “Deus ipsum est”

'degrees' and 'layers' both work; I was just wondering if there was some established terminology

Read some guenon or something. Intro to the hindu doctrines. Or read some hindu sacred texts

Prison notes by codreanu, or even ya boy AH's book

yes you’re a faggot read the Vedas and Brahmasutras and Upanishads if you need to LARP
>Guenon
some one is scared

sleeping advice?

Do you know about the book I posted?
It's written by the first president of India , the guy taught in Oxford too.

Not LARPING. I am in it for the experience.

What are the best books for strategy or openings?

drugs or therapy, i guess

Dunno, seems alright then yeah

fuck you and your family

>b-but user i was nice to you
yeah, but what does it matter, nothing matters, whatever, you'll forget me soon and you'll be dead soon too and me too

>lol so edgy
why does it matter , think whatever you want
fuck you all

id on't know

i love you
i'm sorry

but it doesn't matter

I've written a book. Took a few years as I work fulltime, but it's been through numerous drafts, edits and had beta readers and I'm happy that this is as far as I'll take it on that front. I've sent it to a few agents, but all kind rejections so far with positive feedback on the non-canned response replies.

What should I do now?

I've been considering self-publishing, to test the waters and see if it's worth writing a sequel. I've also considered continuing to try and traditionally publish whilst I write a sequel. I've considered having it professionally edited, but it's expensive and I've no idea if I'd make the money back.

My day job is already one I enjoy so I'm not itching to become a writer. I just like writing this world, which leads me further into the camp of self-pulishing and going about it myself (I understand the work involved in marketing and such), but that way it's more for me and not to make a career.

Any suggestions?

Write something else and maybe come back to it afterwards so you don't get stuck on one project.

who told you that anything has to matter, what is this fascination?

Well, they're usually the books with the lowest pricetag, what do you expect?

>My day job is already one I enjoy so I'm not itching to become a writer. I just like writing this world
Sounds like you should keep trying to get it published whilst writing the sequel.
If you really never get anyone interested you could self-publish, and keep having the feedback you get in mind.
Best of luck!

Standard prince, £8 ish

God himself is or God is himself
But ipsum should be ipse

Who is this Rene guennon, user?

Is my boyfriend going to cheat on me because i have a hideous face and a body that frankly isn’t much better? Or will he abandon me because I’m a shit for brains poseur? Or will he stick around until my infantile personality joie de vivre and sense of wonder rot out of seductive enjoyment into a puddle of disillusioned revulsion at my feet?

Yes

depends on the guy, but if you already have him, it would probably be the latter.

It depends. If you waited until marriage to have sex then you both likely value something greater than sexual gratification. If you gave it up before then he will undoubtedly leave because you're both shortsighted, shallow and degenerate.

Like the other guy said, it should be ipse (nominative form of the adjective ipsum) if it's a predicate nominative ("x is y") sentence, or it could just be an adjective in the regular attributive position, with the "est" NOT being predicative but rather standing alone ("y x is," God himself is).

Ipse is an intensifier. It's usually translated as "itself" or "himself," as in the sentence, "He wanted it done right, so he did it himself." Or a legal phrase, "the thing speaks for itself" (res ipsa loquitur, literally "the thing itself speaks," with ipsa in the attributive).

But it can also mean (or be translated as), intuitively, "the very," "the actual," etc. Like, "the very thing speaks!" which is slightly antiquated English, but gets across "precisely that thing that is implicitly in question at this very moment is what is speaking!" It's an intensifier, at base it draws special or extra attention to the word that it's intensifying.

Ipsum would be the accusative, which wouldn't work with a predicative sentence ("x is y"), or the attributive (since the adjective needs to match the inflection of the word it's modifying). Here are the other functions of the accusative in Latin:
1. Of the direct object
Exercitum videö. I see an army.
>ordinary/primary usage, but can't be this because the verb of the sentence is "est," and only a nominative could complete it as a *direct* object
2. Of place to which
Ad oppidum veniunt. They are coming to the town.
3. Predicate Accusative (Objective Complement)
Fïlium meum vocävï Lucium. I have called my son Lucius.
4. Of extent of space
Tria mïlia passuum cucurrï. I ran three miles.
5. Of duration of time
Duäs horäs mänsit. He waited two hours

The internet

Were any of Shichirō Fukazawa’s works translated into english?
Important question. Please anwser if you know anything.

The internet isn't a book

No idea how to describe it, but I get the same feeling from reading DFW. I recommend his short stories and essays aswell. He just puts his thoughts into words in a very distinct way, and I feel like I understand him better than I do most human beings.

This but ironically

Are Claude McKay's novels worth spending money on? Home to Harlem specifically.

I think posting as user on Veeky Forums has spoiled me. Now I can't post anything on social media or make a blog for myself or bother myself to put my writings out there to publish, even though I have plenty of ideas and have written stuff that I keep for myself, from snippets that could be tweets to full blown short stories that I'm quite happy with. But I'm too self-conscious and I always feel terribly ashamed of them at the same time, I can't take the responsibility for them, feels like there will be awful backlash.

I'm considering making a pseudonym and a different persona entirely just to post them. On the other hand I feel like a bit of a coward to do so and that perhaps I should man up and just post them under my name.

I don't know bros, what do you think? Does anyone feel the same?

>bros
lol at you

well, the solution seems pretty obvious.
>I'm considering making a pseudonym
there you go!

You are all family to me. :^)

Well, tips on how to choose one that doesn't sound tryhard? Do another anons post it by pseudonyms?