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(1) Do you consider yourself "well-read"? | (2) Provide evidence
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Date: January 13th, 2025 11:27 PM Author: .,.,.;;,;.,..,:,,:,...,:::,...,:,.,.;.:...:.,:.::, (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663619&forum_id=2...id.#48551168) |
Date: January 13th, 2025 11:46 PM Author: .,.,.;;,;.,..,:,,:,...,:::,...,:,.,.;.:...:.,:.::, (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663619&forum_id=2...id.#48551213) |
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Date: January 13th, 2025 11:47 PM Author: you\'re the puppet (1)no
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Date: January 13th, 2025 11:49 PM Author: Adrian Dittman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663619&forum_id=2...id.#48551217) |
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Date: January 14th, 2025 12:32 PM Author: .,.,.....,.,.;,.,,,:,.,.,::,...,:,..;,.. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663619&forum_id=2...id.#48552421) |
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Date: January 13th, 2025 11:54 PM Author: lex (1) no (2) i haven't even read the ramayana or the rig veda yet comment on turdskin affairs |
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Date: January 13th, 2025 11:59 PM Author: cock of michael obama you're more well read than most
who do you consider well read? |
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Date: January 14th, 2025 12:05 AM Author: lex i'm half-joking, but there's a ton of stuff i'd like to read but don't out of laziness. what the fuck does yeats even say in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Vision ? i'd like to know but probably will not get around to it anytime soon. well-known examples of undeniably well-read guys that come to mind are harold bloom and roger scruton. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663619&forum_id=2...id.#48551232) |
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Date: January 14th, 2025 12:42 PM Author: ,..,,,,,,....,,,..., You can safely skip A Vision. Poetry was his strong suit and you’ll get more value carefully rereading the collected poems. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663619&forum_id=2...id.#48552453) |
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Date: January 14th, 2025 5:24 PM Author: lex maybe so. it keeps coming up in discussions of the second coming and easter 1916, though, and theory of history (however dumb) are relevant to my interests. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663619&forum_id=2...id.#48553267) |
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Date: January 15th, 2025 11:01 PM Author: ,..,,,,,,....,,,..., You can just read The Second Coming and Easter 1916 again, and then read some competent Irish history, and then come back to the poems. Yeats prose is not adding any value to your understanding here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663619&forum_id=2...id.#48556680) |
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Date: January 14th, 2025 12:02 AM Author: .,.,.;;,;.,..,:,,:,...,:::,...,:,.,.;.:...:.,:.::, how well read do you really feel though, being humble enough to set aside your humility (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663619&forum_id=2...id.#48551229) |
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Date: January 14th, 2025 12:14 AM Author: lex limiting it to the west and breaking it down by era, here's the boldest i would venture: - greek and roman antiquity: 175 - medieval latin: 162 - medieval vernacular english and norse: 168 - renaissance italian: 158 - renaissance english: 165 - anything until 1800: lol there's so much fucking stuff to read in the 19th and 20th centuries that it's harder to tell what kind of grasp you have on it. i know some german philosophers very well and have read my goethe, memorized some even to pass language exams. never read rilke or many other renowned germans. this is probably pretty good, but i'm aware of the vast seas of gaping holes. my sample is also pretty skewed, to be fair. |
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Date: January 14th, 2025 12:23 AM Author: .,.,.;;,;.,..,:,,:,...,:::,...,:,.,.;.:...:.,:.::, i nearly did academia but knew it was a dead end (and that my ideas would just not be welcome in the year 201x) and when push came to shove i just couldn't. but i also feel professional life has ripped much away from me, that i have things to say but that when i am honest with myself i can't help but think that anything i have to say would be grossly premature. not that academia is necessary for that but just to have the space to do my thought. feels very gay. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663619&forum_id=2...id.#48551274) |
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Date: January 14th, 2025 12:24 AM Author: cock of michael obama substack beckons (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663619&forum_id=2...id.#48551277) |
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Date: January 14th, 2025 12:29 AM Author: .,.,.;;,;.,..,:,,:,...,:::,...,:,.,.;.:...:.,:.::, i know that i can run my mouth whenever i so choose. i fear my future wrath and embarrassment towards my present self. many important thinkers have expressed similar sentiment but at least could say they had "proper scholastic training." most development beyond that point was their own, not filling in basic holes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663619&forum_id=2...id.#48551283) |
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Date: January 14th, 2025 12:28 PM Author: lex i get the insecurity (see me above ITT), but after a certain point, how you use knowledge and reading is more important than the sheer amount. don't discount yourself intellectually if you want to start a real scholarly project. just give it a few shots and see how it goes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663619&forum_id=2...id.#48552411) |
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Date: January 14th, 2025 12:41 PM Author: .,.,.;;,;.,..,:,,:,...,:::,...,:,.,.;.:...:.,:.::, yes i do agree, and it is impossible not to. at the same time the feeling persists, as it does in you too. it's an inevitable anxiety that arises if the task is considered important at all (which it must be), if you want to do it right. which is fine but it can still realistically quash the project.
but do you feel like you have something to say? if you do why aren't you? you're still just grinding through your dissertation? do you feel like it's seriously consequential? do you feel like you're embarking on something critically important and noteworthy? if not what carries you forward in tedious academia? i just have almost no academic-minded friends to discuss this with. |
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Date: January 14th, 2025 5:35 PM Author: lex yeah, again, i get the anxiety and sympathize. i don't think it goes away, but there's doubtless a balance somewhere between cowardice and arrogance. i do think i have things to say, but i'm starting to think there's more value to my general lectures than narrow and dense subfield writing, which is part of the problem with spending 2 to 4 years writing a dissertation. i finished mine a while ago and am just starting to read more broadly again now, like i used to before i had to try to exhaustively learn as much as i could about certain specific points. many academics i know never really go back to trying to rounding their knowledge and interests out (hence my attitude upthread), which can make the whole thing feel a bit farcical when people are sitting in each other's talks and papers waiting to ask hyper-specific questions about their own research that the speaker does not have any particular opinions on. that is all to say, it's teaching that keeps me going at this point. conference papers and articles are fun, but they're more of an arena for intellectual bloodsport. i'm paralyzed by turning my dissertation into a book, which i do think could be useful at least to researchers, but i just need to fight through that before long. |
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Date: January 14th, 2025 12:24 AM Author: cock of michael obama i hope you turn some of that knowledge into a productive output to better humanity (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663619&forum_id=2...id.#48551279) |
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Date: January 14th, 2025 12:28 PM Author: lex thank (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663619&forum_id=2...id.#48552413) |
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Date: January 14th, 2025 12:05 AM Author: dead streamer 1) yeah
2) stopped reading |
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Date: January 14th, 2025 12:33 PM Author: chink wigger yes
I’m racist and I hate kikes |
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Date: January 14th, 2025 12:33 PM Author: ......,,,,...,,,,.,,,,,,,, I have read a lot of books, but even if well-read, I can't remember jack shit about any of those books. Does that count? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663619&forum_id=2...id.#48552426) |
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Date: January 14th, 2025 12:44 PM Author: .,.,.;;,;.,..,:,,:,...,:::,...,:,.,.;.:...:.,:.::, i experience this problem too. i guess it "counts" but if you want to produce anything you really do need to reengage from the ground up. i can jog my memory when i reread but you have to reread. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663619&forum_id=2...id.#48552458) |
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Date: January 14th, 2025 12:55 PM Author: The Last Starfighter AI made literacy obsolete (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663619&forum_id=2...id.#48552481) |
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Date: January 14th, 2025 5:25 PM Author: Harry Truman when i was like 20 yeah. now? no. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5663619&forum_id=2...id.#48553269) |
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Date: January 15th, 2025 11:03 PM Author: DewarsDude 1) yes. 2) gave it all up for Houellebecq. |