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ITT: Questions that don't deserve their own thread.
Ask stupid questions about literature and other anons will answer them for you.

Which should be read first, the Prose Edda or the Poetic Edda?

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what did he mean by this?

When you guys re-read The Bros K do you read through the court scene over again?

Jesus Christ, this is simply dialectical autism.

And this man is considered to be the smartest person to have ever lived....

What's a good OpenCourseWare school where I can take enough literature/creative writing courses to essentially have a lit/creative writing degree? How is MIT OCW? Any others you'd suggest?

Is there any website where I have a bigger selection of books to download than bookzz.org?

There is nothing fewer than one, which is a few(least)
>1 = few (least)
>2 = fewest x 2 (many)

If 2 = many, 1 must = plurality (least, but still multiple)
So there is no singular, just a "nothing fewer" variable, of which double(2) would equal many.

Few can't be a singular, right? So if two is already a many (an excess of singulars) then one is less than that but still a plurality of singulars?

Is no one going to comment on that chocolate godess? What a qt3.14

I am sick and tired of this. Every day I come to Veeky Forums, and every day there is at least one thread up with an OP image of an attractive woman dressed scantily and posing seductively. It's probably the same one or two people who do it honestly. Let me tell you something, you faggot pieces of shit who are doing this: you are the poster child for everything that is wrong in literature, art, and society as a whole today. You are incapable of coming up with anything creative, thought provoking, or of substance, and you lack even the smallest modicum of intelligence, so you use "style" and "flash" and pizazz in place of it and to draw attention to yourself, because that's the only way your SHIT "creation" and ideas would ever get seen by anyone. And before you say anything, this has NOTHING to do with the fact that I don't have a girlfriend. Anyway, I will be petitioning the owner of this website to ban your asses, so enjoy being able to post here while it lasts, because it's not going to last long, just like you that one time you convinced an obese girl to let you fuck her.

yea whatever manlet

No. Numbers don't exist, they are a concept that must be applied to something. But you can't apply a singular concept to something inherently plural, like water or fire or other fluids and materials.
"Two" means twice as much as "one".
So if "two" is many, that means "one" is few, but there's nothing smaller than that measure of "few". You can't have one water or one fire, but you can have twice as much as your smallest measure of water or fire. He's just refitting numbers to accommodate plurality by erasing the singular concept, so 1 = few(least), 2 = many(twice as much as the least).

Like if you have one 2"x4"x10' piece of wood, that's "one" but that's actually kind of a lot of wood, but your measuring in increments of 10 feet so it's technically"one". So "two" is a shitload of wood, but we call it "two" because we're measuring a plurality; you can't have "one wood", you have to redefine "one" as "the smallest measure" rather than "singular", and go from there- "two" is twice as many as the smallest measure, "three" is triple the smallest measure, etc.

kekd

>It's probably the same one or two people who do it honestly.
This is my first time starting a thread on this board desu. I thought I would post a qt so that I could get more attention desu.

Talk about cherry picking, most black girls don't look like anything near that.

That's a pretty neat clarification, thank you.

Well yeah... Most women don't look like 9s or 10s...

Also, is it just me, or are black girls more attractive in real life than in porn? It seems that way to me. It's such a strange phenomenon.

Depends where you're from. Here in Atlanta, Georgia the pretty light skin mulatto is a dime a dozen.

lol visit SoCal sometime

Idk how I got on this thread. I don't even read this board, but I want to thank you for that. I was confused at first but now I am understand. Are you a teacher?

probably some european who only has pure subsaharan and Sudanese immigrants. give a few decades for the blanda upping to commence

I guess Brazil just has uglier people in general then.

Softcore is always more attractive than hardcore.

>Also, is it just me, or are black girls more attractive in real life than in porn?
Yes! Finally somebody said it.

Nah I'm just a guy watching cartoons and eating some chicken.
Some people just understand certain things better intuitively; plus I'm a manufacturing major so I'm accustomed to thinking in those terms

I'm not sure that's always true...

Wew, now I know I'm not just crazy.

What book/poem/myth contains the story where Ra reveals that his secret name is Amen?

My 3rd grade teacher read this myth, and some other Egyptian myths because we were studying Exodus that year.

>Ra
>Amen
>Ra -> Amen
>Ramen
time for some instant noodles

I haven't masturbated in 3 days Satan, please stop.

>3 days
Weak-willed.
I went 3 months once. I had 2 or 3 wet dreams though.

>please stop.
No. If it were easy to go long periods without fapping, then it wouldn't be something worth doing.

>fapping
>to that
lmao, user's gonna be alright

Awesome.
I was thinking about getting a job in Atlanta after college. Is it a good place? Do they have good book stores and movie theaters?

That's just you, I'm diamonds right now.

Why do the mods constantly delete any threads questioning why they can't deal with the shit-posting? Isn't it better to discuss the reasons behind this than burying your head in the sand?

I feel like shit after doing it, like I'm guilty of just wasting my seed away instead of, you know, find a girl.

>tfw no black goddess gf
Life is suffering

>being this spooked

Can't help it.

u know how they say once u go black u never go back, well just a word of warning that shit applies to dudes too, for the rest of your days at parties you'll be scanning the room for the one woman of color while some boring white girls talks to you about something friendzony that u don't give a shit about

I get this, but for Mediterranean girls.
I don't know what it is but I just can't get myself to give a shit about conventional white girls. Aryans or whatever. Probably because I'm so saturated with beach girls here, I'm just not attracted to them anymore. Latina/Mediterranean/mulatto(mulatta?) Is God-tier because there's more substance to their character. White girls have to subscribe to some style of interest like hipsters or punks or whatever to piggyback interesting character traits

>u know how they say once u go black u never go back
I thought this was about herpes. The statistics from the CDC certainly seem to suggest as much.

Conversations I had yesterday
>white girl,, hipster look, English major
>Any guy i date better be ok with all my friends being guys because I'm just like a guy. me, me, me, me blah blah blah
>go to dinner with white girl
>beautiful light skinned black waitress
>looks like zoe saldana
>infectious smile
>really optimistic about everything
>asks me about my life
>I say it's all pretty boring
>responds to my almost disinterest response with enthusiasm
>says she boring too, is called a "mom" by all her friends because she enjoys cooking, cleaning, doing chores
>catches me off guard, actually taken with her now
>ask her how long she's been a waitress
>realize how cringe-y that is
>says it's just temporary, that she's actually in culinary school and wants to own her own business.
>dinner partner completely quiet
>waitress asks if I want anything else
>say no, thank you and she leaves.
>in hindsight should have said "yea you're number"

I know your sufferings. Brown girls are 10/10 from the Spanish/Portuguese iberian to more Semitic Lebanese, Iranian. Armenian -- there's something about that specific look that is so godly. A lot of songs and art have been written about it. It's usually called oriental/gypsy/bohemian. The only criticism is that these people are quite hairy, but even that I find kind of alluring.

Ghetto black chicks are amazing because they actually like to fuck. For example, if you tell a qt ghetto black gf that you like to eat pussy, she'll have a whole fun genuine reaction to it and sexually engage you and be sassy and everything. If you tell a white girl you like to eat pussy, half the time, they'll just respond like
>ummm OK u can do that if u want i guess . when r u going to add me on snap? :S

Fucking hell white women are such awful hags most of the time. At least East Asian women are frigid enough that it loops around and becomes fun again, because they're SO frigid, so unused to physical intimacy, that they have no way of quarantining and harmlessly integrating your aggressive sexual advances and weird kinks. If you tell your chinky gf that you want to eat her nonexistent ass with gusto, she'll be so terrified by it that she'll have to authentically interact with it, and then she'll genuinely learn to enjoy it.

This doesn't apply to twinkies of course. They're the worst of all. Asian women raised in Western countries are just white women. Even worse, because they have the soulless status-obsessed materialism of their Asian parents, with none of the traditional propriety that goes with it. They're thoughtless skanks, like most white women, but they're also as maternal and nurturing as a scorpion. Men are literally just wallets. The only thing that matters in life is getting your Microbiology BSc and living in a sterile fucking suburban prison with a piano.

Why was this voted to be the banner? It's shit.

this should be a banner tbqhfam

We didn't know the banner thing was going on at the time by which I mean we collectively ignored it and collectively complained about it after missing the deadline.
pic related is what we wanted in hindsight

America sounds like an awful country to date in.

Americans invented dating. It's the most boringly capitalist way to find a partner.

what would be the socialist way to find a partner? openly presenting your asshole to the alpha-feminist and beg to have you cock cage removed?

most black girls you meet are devout church going christians, this idea that black chicks are all promiscuous thots is bullshit propaganda by (((someone))) who wants to see christians divided instead of united

oh god it's the pussy eating beta guy again, will you just shut the fuck up with that shit, you're making everyone cringe

their promiscuity in the bed and openness about sex isn't just a stereotype, well it is but some are just true. Black people usually don't have any weird hangups about sex. And yea, most are christian and have traditional values, sadly they don't practice them and that's how we end up with a majority of black mothers being single.

Idk where you're from, but in my experience most black girls are church going christians that are also promiscuous thots.

Can anyone recommend me a reading guide on Kafka? I've read The metamorphosis, and I am currently reading the letter he wrote to his father. What should I read next?

Also, it may be a stupid question, but are his "unfinished" works noticeably unfinished?

I pulled this chart from imgur.com/gallery/U4OHY
It has a ton of litcharts.

where do I start with this sexy guy?

read in chronological order, bro

>Also, it may be a stupid question, but are his "unfinished" works noticeably unfinished?
yeah, especially The Castle

Civilization and Its Discontents

What kind of "figure of speech" or whatever is the writing of a text that has no meaning? Something like, but not exactaly : Have you ever been to decided to go as far that even more than ever ( or whatever the original is). I remember it as scatology, but I searched it and I was wrong.

Which sentence is grammatically correct?

a) Jonathan refers to the stuff as "guac".

b) Jonathan refers to the stuff as "guac."

>Civilization and Its Discontents
Seconded. Great place to start.

a

b

If I remember right: Both, the period inside the quotation marks is the same as the one outside. Just don't do double periods like
>Jonathan refers to the stuff as "guac.".

Jesus Christ...

I prefer a but b is also correct and is preferred in America.

"Thoughts for the Times on War and Death" is a similar, helpful, and shorter work that is good if you want to get your feet wet before diving into a book-length text.

Keep in mind that these are some of Freud more overtly political texts and should be read with that understanding. C&D is best for an overview of Freud's world view, but not for the understanding of Freudian psychoanalysis as such. That said, if you find yourself reading C&D and nodding along, wanting to know more, than you'll know you'll want to read more about psychoanalysis.

For my part, I recommend getting a copy (any edition is fine) of Peter Gay's "The Freud Reader." Breaks down the Freud cannon to its most digestible without editorialisation beyond the selection of the choicest passages from each work.

Anyone able to recommend books for learning Latin or Ancient Greek?

libgen, archive.org

When in doubt, and pragmatism makes no difference, go with aesthetics. Doesn't b look so much nicer?

not an argument

What are the top 10 must read books for a 23 year old male with:
>a large of amount of potential that is actively being wasted
>low self worth
>a seemingly inescapable existential crisis

this is number one.

make sure you read the "noose" chapter very carefully.

Attractive people are rare to witness

Yes, that would be better, but at the same time a public shame for them. And we have to suffer for that.

The state would provide you a partner that fits your education/monetary income/attractiveness.

We have a chart for that

>tfw you realize you can punch well above your weight with black chicks.

>tfw when fucking 9/10 black girls who are happy to be with you instead of 6/10 white girls who think they can do better

I-Is this true

Within reason. If you're a chubby loser in your moms basement then no.
However, if you have a proper job (not a shitty Mcjob), don't dress too bad, aren't a social retard, i.e. if you have your shit together enough that some women would date you, then you can get much hotter black chicks than you would be able to get white chicks.
Like it or not white privilege is kind of a thing; you have a status and a cache that a black guy on the same level doesn't have. A white guy is more of a 'catch' to a black girl. Think of it as if you were earning an extra $25,000 annually.

Was George Orwell a misogynist?

I reckon so. He was one of those autistic public schoolboys who never really got to know women. Displays little ability to understand women in his fiction.
He probably was like most anons who dislike women for not sharing their picayune interests. You can imagine him getting annoyed at a chick for finding socialist theory boring.

Julia in 1984 is like a r9k fantasy of a sexy girl who makes the first move and loves casual sex.

why are women so obsessed with saying that anyone who has a negative opinion of women's psychology just HASN'T MET THE RIGHT WOMEN or PROBABLY IS A LAME-O WHO BUILT MODEL SHIPS AS A BOY

why does everything refer back to social stuff

Because women, as men, are not unidimensional creatures. With so many women in the world, you know that whoever talks shit about them, outside of the family, has no contact at all with women

Stay unpredictable and use both

Why is Canadian literature so trash?
The standard of writing in my country is so incredibly low that I could wipe my ass with a sheet of lined paper and be mentioned among the "best".

Pic related, it's our wanna-be Dylan.

It's called female in-group preference/ bias. Women romanticize each others behavior as a social defense mechanism. Basically women have strong in group & out group tribalism.

Why does Dickinson bring up birds so much in her poems?

LMAO they just deleted the pussy licking thread

I haven't read a book since junior year of high school. Never read anything on philosophy. Will I be screwed if I try to read Brothers Karamazov? Is it a book that you need to read after being exposed to other various types of literature?

Is there any classic literature that does not have controversial themes?

are there any books that talk about the idea of language being a lossy format for meaning? like if i were to describe the tree that grew up behind my house there would still be some disconnet because every story is cobbled together from the readers experiences which are fundamentally different than my own + slightly different misunderstandings of what words mean, and different expectations of what each party wants out of the conversation

also is there anything about the relationship between a representation of something and an original and whether or not there's a meaningful difference but also that there's, like, a separation in categories? like is a water gun a gun if it doesn't shoot bullets? i don't know if that example makes sense or not.

i don't know dick about philosophy so please help me out here

What is the purpose of penis?

fuck those hips and thighs

Yes but it is my favourite part so I might be subjective

I'm reading Gravity's Rainbow right now (just read the chapter with Blicero and the Dodoes) and I just don't get it, like I don't understand what the fuck the text is saying (I'm understanding the narrative events). I know it's supposed to be "difficult to read" but so was infinite Jest and I didn't find that difficult, am I just too fucking stupid and should give up or should I just keep reading?

Woolf's To the Lighthouse for your first rec. It's fiction but i think it fits

The complete works of Robert Anton Wilson.

Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is exactly what you're looking for. Especially Addie's chapter. It's also just a goddamn good book, I just did a paper with that exact subject matter on the book.
Also Woolf, like the other user said.
As for philosophy, watch some vids on Wittgenstein. He's pretty unforgiving for people not into philosophy but there are good vids that cover his philosophy well

Wittgenstein, language games, family resemblances

Korzybski's general semantics

Lots of stuff on metaphor

Reproduction, urination.