/lit/ - Literature

Julia, daughter of Augustus.

>tfw framed for adultery by your stepmom and exiled to a barren strip of land in the middle of the ocean with your real mom (who sucks) for fifteen years with no visitors

>>7156872
>Haruki 6:1

Yeah, no

>>7094346
No but mine is rather mild (I blank out for minutes at a time, do things I don't remember, and have a few grand mal seizures a year) and I can't speak for more severe epileptics

>>7094324
Ever considered severing the old corpus collosum? Given, it will certainly change your life but there are very dramatic surgeries (as im sure you know) that can alleviate the constant seizures. In some ways it will be better, some ways worse. What's your take on that?

Im really sorry, friend. I hate seizures. Gave me some serious social anxiety for a while

>>7094276
Ah, im epileptic too, though im sure less severe. My heart goes out to you

Most twenty-somethings I know drink at least a beer a day. I like to get reading done at the pub (here now) after classes. Coincidentally ran into the professor im doing reading for.

Nothing wrong with alcohol as long as you don't abuse it or depend on it.

>>7088553
What? Maybe give my post a Reread
>>7088572
Ok. Im only saying that the book is partially about the power of the gods. That's quite obviously not all the book is about.

If this is your first Greek work, remember that it isn't about the characters at all; it is about the Gods. The men are just pawns for the gods, basically. Also there will be points where you'll have to read a ton of names, but don't feel as if you need to recall exactly who killed who. Just remember the big names, which will become clear as the story is setup

>>7088144
Bleeding Edge

Yeah I enjoy the book. Some anons here don't like it because they say that it isn't all that great in Spanish and the writing is mediocre, which could be true. I've only read it in translation.

The Alphabet of Ben Sira, though it is difficult to say if this is classified as a religious text... it's disputed as to whether or not it is satire.

For instance, it is here that Adam's first wife, Lilith, is explained (Lilith is referenced in a wide variety of texts including The Talmud but it is thought the story originates here). She left Adam and apparently murders 100 children everyday. Lol.

>>7084811
This is the right answer OP

I went every year.

I probably spent ten bucks everytime on Deltora Quest

>>7068245
I DEFENDED MY POINT YOU DINGUS

I really like Pelevin but I get a lot of hate for that here. His stuff is quite critical of contemporary Russia yet it can be read outside of that lens. My favorite work of his is The Helmet of Horror, which is a deconstruction/retelling of Theseus and The Minotaur. While I suppose it could be considered 'gimmicky' (for the novel is a collection of communications between prisoners within a chatroom) I found the lack of context to correlate with the notion of being lost within a labyrinth.

The plot is essentially that a group of individuals find themselves alone in cells with only a computer displaying a chatroom and no recollection of how they arrived there. Each room opens to an adjacent room (some of which lead to the labyrinth, some of which lead to dead ends with vague clues as to why they are enclosed there). Thus, they must piece together what is going on through a chatroom and this is the transcript that composes the novel.

The book gets rather complex, especially when the actual helmet of horror is being described and is one that requires rereading. I've also found that reading supplement essays helps to get a better grasp of it. Pelevin has other works worth checking out but this one is my favorite.

>>7071346
Schopy is right in a few aspects, here. Spinoza's philosophy had an immense effect on the German idealists and his influence is easily traced in the works of Kant, Fichte, and Hegel. I wrote a pretty lengthy thesis on the relationship between Fichte and Spinoza and how Fichte's notion of abstraction of experience can be teased out of part five of Spinoza's Ethics. The same can be done for various 'original ideas' of Kant and Hegel, though they certainly tweak Spinoza in a way. However, that isn't to say that all their ideas are merely distorting Spinoza, I disagree with Schopy here. For instance, >>7071388 is correct in that in Spinoza's philosophy everything is merely a mode of a singular substance and reality is fixed. Furthermore, both Hegel and Kant work to allow some free-will whereas Spinoza seems to be blatantly against such an idea (although, and this is a controversial stance, I would say that part Five of the Ethics does allow for a minute bit of free-will).

>>7067144
Aeschylus - Lloyd-Jones

Sophocles - Blondell

Euripedes - Grene/Lattimore

They're all pretty sassy. Especially when the French and the Germans get involved.

Uh, Lessing pretty much dedicates multiple chapters to shitting on Hume in Laocoon. He also repeatedly makes fun of the French, almost to the point of being completely off topic.

Spinoza is sassy in the sense that he says things akin to "if you don't get this, well, you're just an idiot"

>>7062174
I've read the latter but I'll check out Tasso's work

>>7061950
>>7061985
Where to start with Tasso? I only know him through TCoL49 and explicit reference in Italian lit

I love Fiche but Kant will suffice.

Spinoza is imperative to any study of philosophy

>>7061613
Reading the bits about the importance of incorporating what you learn through text into your experience and utilizing this to improve your character always gets me going. He was certainly a cynic in some regards but I found his ideas of self-knowledge to be great. They seem to preempt Hegel in a way, meaning that he raises the idea that he can't write about himself because he has already changed once it has been written down (similar to Hegel's notion that you can't ever know yourself because you just changed). Plus, they weren't cynical at all. He puts a nice optimistic spin on it, suggesting that the more you actively try to improve your virtue and your character (and know yourself), the happier you will be.

Very inspiring IMO

He is my favorite essayist and you don't have to read them in order. His most famous is probably 'On Experience' but my favorite is 'On the Education of Children'

He's also a very self-deprecating author and frequently cites Plutarch and Seneca as being the driving force behind his essays (similar to Dante's reverence for Homer and Virgil) which I always appreciate. He's inspiring to read and I carry his essays around in my backpack at uni for whenever I'm bored and have downtime between classes

>>7060675
Yeah. Im not saying he was a pussy during the war (I don't know). But TSaR, with Jake letting Brett thrash him about without ever saying anything, was infuriating to read.