stop making sense
it would seem pic related is the guy for that, more than derrida
>>9525264
Derrida
>'nothing ever makes sense'
Deleuze
>'stop caring about what makes sense, or making sense yourself. everything kind of does'
My god, how are these two "not making sense"? You just have got to know a thing or two about philosophers from the past and you'll be fine. For Derrida read some Hegel, Husserl and Heidegger. For Deleuze English empiricists (Bacon and Hume) and Spinoza will do the job.
Katie. Brown hair. Fat ass. Fucked her face behind multiple apartment dumpsters around the neighborhood between the ages of 13 and 15. Shes married with four kids to some faggot.
Sandra. Fat pussy. Smelly. Fucked out desperation at a friends party. She's fat now. Ugly as fuck.
Tina. Sandra little sister. Tight pussy, little hair. Gave some of the best blowjobs I ever had.
Grace. Girlfriend in middle school. Took her virginity at Raging Waters, behind a water slide between two electric gererators. Shes fat now.
Kendal. High school girl big tits big ass. Came in her face a few minutes after meeting her parents. Shes studying in school. Doesn't respond to my messages.
Carla. Virgin. She said no but I was apparently to drugged out to hear. Almost got locked up. I don't know what happens to her. Don't care.
Stephanie. Kendals best friend. Fucked her the day after she broke up with her boyfriend. She got back together with him. They broke up a couple years after and she's with some Asian micro penis.
Danny. Came in her multiple times. Kicked her out on the freeway when she talked some shit. Last time I saw her. Shes now pregnant with some niggers baby.
Bree. New Walmart employee. Ducked my dick on her lunch breaks. She became a crack addicted t now she's psychologist at a rehab facility in Hawaii. She responded to my first message but ignored the rest.
Jenny. Fat ass. Dad was police officer. Came in her and got her pregnant and then broke up with her. Shes now with some steroid faggot.
2/5
It's incredibly obvious what you're doing but you don't do it particularly well. It's not nearly as original or edgy as you think.
>>9524971
first line is great. delete the rest and just go form there
What are some books into the history of China since Mao/pre-Mao or anything required to understand the political/economic/social/culture of modern day China?
OP here; I want to understand more the struggles and issues modern china faces today - like income inequality and the rural disparities - any recommendations?
While they are focused on geopolitics, books by Robert David Kaplan will give you a very in-depth understanding of modern Chinese problems.
One thing you have to understand though, Marxism is dead in China, but entire power structures relies on glorifying Mao.
>>9524946
Which books of his do you recommend?
Does any good Byzantine lit exist? Or was it all downhill after Constantine? Did they write in Greek or Latin?
Started off using Latin, then gradually over the decades Greek came to dominate and Latin became a bureaucratic relic.
>>9524779
Know any good writers/thinkers?
Digenes Akrites
Anna Komnene
Sphrantzes
There really isn't much, unless you like highly specific things. There might be a lot of minor historians and guys like Sphrantzes, but there are no Dantes or Petrarchs kind of thing.
How do I get a 2 million dollar advance for my novel?
have a rich well connected family
2k - 5k is standard for good books.
Be a womeme, minority, some made up tumblr gender or all three at once.
I am looking for talented writers to write some stuff involving me and a girl having sex. I will pay you ten dollars per orgasm you manage to provide me. The only stipulation I have is I do not want any ironic 4chan hipster mockery (I can tell you are making fun of me, you faggots). Thanks.
Are you the cuddling guy?
Unless you provide personal details about yourself for us to incorporate in the story you might as well go jerk it to literotica
Sure thing OP, here's a sample of my work:
>Her tender rose petals blossomed, trembling tentatively. They opened wide like red curtains, and the play was about to start.
>The stage was set: enter penis. Exit penis. Enter penis. Exit penis. Enter penis. Exit penis. Enter penis. Exit penis. Enter penis. Exit penis.
>Fuck, I'm sorry, usually I last a bit longer. I'm still hard.
>'So am I'
>Authentic
>national
>culture
Oh you mean 19th-century bourgeois fabrications to help mobilize an industrial population?
What was once a fabrication was over time transformed into reality. The reality that lives in people's minds. By manipulating culture, you're forming it.
>>9524239
The bourgeois does not and has never existed. Class distinctions are arbitrary and non-empirical.
how do leftist reconcile this with "individualism emerged in 17th and 18th century"
I finished this book last night. Possibly the most riveting work of literature I've ever read. What do you guys think of Caro?
>>9524174
I just started his Robert Moses book. Great introduction. Very excited about the rest of it. Will definitely read his LBJ books eventually.
>>9524200
Cool, I actually just got the Power Broker in the mail. Its fucking gigantic and I sort of regret not shelling out extra for a hardcover copy.
I think what I loved about The Path to Power is that I have a special affinity for those corrupt, Shakespearean politicians.
>>9524174
>riveting
Is Vonnegut /lit/?
Aside from being /literallyreddit/ he's alright for entry level lit
>>9524085
Required reading, if you're under 17 years old.
Deadeye Dick is pretty good
Need some recs on quality Australian History literature. Best it if it is: Impartial, at least to the furthest extent possible: Analytic, in the sense that analysis of mindsets, ideologies, broader cultural movements is made: scope, in the sense of time and place (meaning not just an analysis of fucking Sydney Syndey Syndey fucking Sydney): detail, insofar as that focus doesn't become obsessive: etcetera, etcetera... Another nice quality would be a history of recent developments, i.e: ww1 onwards, not just an obsession over convictism...
>inb4: kek he wants a history of Ausfailure
if you say this un-ironically, then you're only part of the problem you're ridiculing
>>9524076
THE
FATAL
SHORE
>>9524082
I should have clarified that I'm already reading this.
It's good, but I want to read past the convict era, right up to now.
>>9524076
No anon, I'm not going to do your homework for you.
“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.”
― Carl Sagan
So, do you think you are going to leave any work behind that people will read years into the future to learn what you thought about? Are you writing anything? Do you plan on writing anything?
I got the 1 millionth post on /cm/ several years ago. Maybe people will read that someday
God I wish we still had Sagan instead of Neil Degrasse Tyson and Bill Nye
Also to answer OP, I really hope so, but only time will tell
>>9524024
I'm only 22 and I can already definitively say no.
How does one live the literary lifestyle?
First you must stop watching weaboo shit
>>9523972
Be poor. Write freelance for a meager living. Read during most of your free time. Meander around a city the rest of the time.
Alternatively, you could go the high brow route where you are independently wealthy by inheritance and become a patron to several little mags that produce leftist work that rails against everything you are.
>>9523972
Work your ass off for what you believe in. Literally scrape and save for several years.
Quit fucking around in human society once you have what is ~3-10 years's worth of capital (plan for inflation by ~10% more than what you imagine) for minimum standards of living wherever you want to live.
Spend literally every single day breathing, eating, and reading literature. Study it, analyze it, memorize some and forget other.
And write. Write like it's water and you're fucking choking on sand and cinnamon. Copy shit at first, but damn it, write!
Which publishing house is most likely to publish an unknown debutant? I am not interested in self-publishing,
Remind me later
BEEP BOOP I am a boy.
*you will be notified of responses later.*
>>9523950
Some kind of new meme here? Don't understand. And yes, I am male.
Did you mean dilettante?
Struggling to understand what Fred Nitche meant by the eternal recurrence.
Was it more than just a matter of "you should live as if this were the case"? A concept to serve his life affirmation?
I recall reading that he wrote in his correspondence somewhere a theory about all the matter in the universe eventually rearranging itself into the way it is now ad infinitum.
Are there any really good essays/books that properly examine the eternal recurrence?
>>9523911
>What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.'
What do you not understand about this?
>>9523911
In the gay science is more of a thought experiment (the demon appearing and telling you that you're going to repeat your life) but you're right, in one of his letters he mentions some psysicist with some similar theories making it seem that he actually believed in it
You can approach it in one of two ways:
As a proposition that is either true or false, and has either to be affirmed or refuted
As a belief that is either beneficial to life or harmful to life, and has either to be accepted or denied
Has anyone read pic related?
what did you think?
I'd like to finish Gulag Archipelago and get some basic Jung under my belt first if I ever read it. But honestly, what does the book offer that his lectures don't? Genuinely asking
>>9523763
salvation
>>9523763
I would assume that his book isn't as scatterbrained.