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>>9572479
You want to be a complete failure?

For me it's Nietzsche. Intelligent, nihilistic, and with a wicked sense of humor.

>>9572479
This is the first book I could read.. you get drifted in so easily
More of his later work are harder to read, feels like free jazz
I'm French btw

Being smart and not being a pretentious dick about it.

>>9572348
Would a true intellectual think of himself as an intellectual?

>>9572371
No. That's what he essentially said.

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agreed but you got the spelling of his name a little bit wrong

>>9571795
20th century pal

Why would he be ironically so?

I agree with you, but unironically.

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>>9571724
Exactly. We are the new sincerity that DFW fortold. We are carrying the flame of Knausgaard far into the night.

>>9571718
After the Millenia War, humans will be examining and dissecting these posts like we today examine and dissect hieroglyphics.

How old are you?

>vidya

leave and never come back

>>9571654
is that question really relevant?

nice writing style dork

>>9571412
It's a wonderful fairy-tale of rousing imagination and charm. You can always tell when someone lacks a sincere appreciation for literature when they approach the story primarily from a psychoanalytic lens, IMO. What'd you think, OP?

A splendid fantasy full of character, a witty satire, and wonderfully structured. There tons of memorable witticisms as well as beautiful lines.

Dunno what the nerd said about psychoanalytic lens, but I think this and Through the Looking Glass can be read as a coming of age, Alice's response to absurdity is quite different in each novel, and the latter's metaphoric structures lends itself easily to the reading.

Regardless it is great and fun.

>publishing

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>>9571233
>90% of the sentences start with the subject
>about 60% start with "she"

i read it all, god bless this faggot i hope he keeps writing

like mary sue dark elf chick isn't going to be turned into a film someday

Hans Delbrück

thucydides
herodotus
van creveld
keegan
kagan
creasy
thayer mahan

>>9571004
>B. H. Liddell Hart

I liked it although I wouldn't place it in the greatest of the Russian realist tradition but it is very good, watching the movie afterward made me appreciate the novel more although I would hesitantly put the movie higher.

>>9570902
I've been meaning to read it, but have a lot of books further up on the list

I bought a copy a month ago but then I read a comment by Nabokov who said it sucked and I got put off from reading it.

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There are none, Sam. Go to sleep.

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>>9570832
damn you beat me to it

>>9570816
>objective secular morality
What are some mathematicians that made a compelling case for the existence of square circles?

not even a marxist but equating marx and rand is just offensive. rand was an untrained and unlearned writer who only got recognition because she told the elites what they wanted to hear. as a philosopher she is nothing, on par with self help hucksters or cheap magazine columnists. marx was an intellectual.

>communist uses guns and violence
>libertarian uses logic and reason
accurate picture

>>9570806
Isnt it a joke? I don't think they are seriously equating the two.

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It's more incredible how survived this

it's hilarious how the lisping dialect took off

>>9570710
How is it incredible? Every language available has survived up till nowadays.

with your eyes

Ever heard of notes?

>>9570659
That's actually a question scholars haven't been able to answer for the past hundred years.

We actually don't know how to read the parts in German, Latin, Italian, etc. Even people who know those languages don't know how to read them.

>>9570637
Yes, this happened with myself twice. Once when I was 10 I decided to actively become an edgelord, and again when I was 17 or 18 (that time I decided to be nicer, revert from being a edgelord.)

>>9570645
that's not metanoia. the definition is right there and you couldn't understand it. fuckin brainlets

>>9570637
Reading Crime and Punishment irrevocably shattered my belief in moral relativism.
Now I'm wracked by guilt all the time, thanks Dostoyevsky.

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Yeah, Pynchon did, if his old posts on lit are to be believed.

>>9570676
>Pynchon
>his old posts on lit
Sorry?

>>9570676
pynchon is a fucking mad old lad