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just count the worms

>>9995856
There are no worms, there are other creatures here but its been dark for days and soon they will return to feed at their leisure. I can't even stand upright, the fluid is hissing out of my joints. Please help with my request.

If you haven't read them already, try The Pit and the Pendulum, The Black Cat and The Premature Burial, by Poe.

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>>9995836
I'm slowly working my way through A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor, just finishing Good Country People. Damn she's good...

Why do Catholics seem to care more about the saints than they do the characters and authors in the bible?

Just curious

>>9995836
>Catholic literature general
>Half of the literature isn't Catholic, even has Tolstoy, an excommunicated apostate
>Has C. S. Lewis beyond one title
Changes to the op will need to be pretty extensive because it ignores the massive amounts of incredible Catholic writings to give way for schismatic or heretical writings.

He's white except for one minor specification. Those teenage girls have to be part of Europa's children.

>>9995783
>white
Freudian slip?

>>9995780
Teenage girls and men in trades are the most antagonistic, bitchiest populations in the world.

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First for the eternal GOAT.

That's a nice OP image.

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>>9995668
When I found that piece of artwork I actually thought that it was an official PKD cover art but it's actually not. It's fanart by this person. They also did fanart of the Three Body Problem pic related.

sharksden.deviantart.com/art/The-Three-Stigmata-of-Palmer-Eldritch-435227023

I wish they'd do another fanart of Palmer Eldritch now that they've made it, but books getting any kind of fanart is already pretty rare. Not to mention the fact that nowadays most books just get a photo manipulation for the cover - which again reduces the art that a book would have gotten to basically nothing.

I suppose being able to draw one's favourite characters is part of the motivation for gitting gud /ic/ wise.

>>9995693
Photo manipulation is the cancer killing genre-fiction. I'd be able to stomach the shit writing if we at least got nice pictures out of it. If I were to ever get into /ic/ it'd be to make nice accompaniment pictures to books I like which don't have many/any.

Scottish Gaelic . its taken me a while to find a book that explains the actual structure and rules of the language itself. once i have that down I'll start memorizing the vocabulary.

a flashcard program:

https://apps.ankiweb.net/

Ancient Greek, using Athenaze (Italian edition). Just started chapter XII, that is, first aorist and the imperfect form of ἐιμι.

>native tongue: portuguese
>second language: english
>learning: italian
not that it matters much, but I'm finishing all units in duoling and its not even been a month (given, italian and portuguese are very similar). Right now I can read several song lyrics and can write basic sentences without having to depend on a dictionary. Can understand good amounts of movies without subtitles, and even more with subtitles on in italian. Pronuntiation is not a problem either. Soon I will tackle some of calvino's short stories.

>>9993154
I'm a 3L, you need to chill.

Go on a vacation, do some drugs. You will be under a lot of stress in two weeks. Spend the time you have now in the most relaxing way possible.

>>9993154
Good luck. Where did you get into?

>>9993154
>>8479876
Law, Legislation and Liberty by Hayek
Democracy in America by Tocqueville
You also need regular philosophy, so 9 volumes of History of Philosophy by Fredrick Copleston, as it is impossible to understand law as a theory without first understanding where it is coming from.


>>8479876
Go to the library and find textbooks + supplements for the following topics: Torts, Civ Pro, Contracts, Property

Look them over, then find important cases and try to brief them.

See if you can work out the logical structure of the decision and also the rule(s) at issue

By being agnostics-theist.

Blindly accepting some airy-fairy notion that there has to be *something*.

Maybe Spinoza will convince you.
A mistake if you ask me. It's just the wrong mindset for a healthy way of life.

>>9993149
damn... what happened to guy fieri?

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>>9993149
Understanding and experience of God are through mystical means.

Lookup theosis, theoria and hesychasm

God's energies are best experienced as the uncreated light which interpenertrates all dimensions of existence. An experience of this is life changing, and many people have been given immense insight from it.

>Orthodox Christian here willing to answer any questions

Extract from a friend's novel

Ethan Frome
The Investigation by Stanislaw Lem
We Can Build You by PKD
Stuff from crit threads here

>>9991974
To kill a mockingbird

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>IT IS INSUFFICIENT TO STATE the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump’s predecessors made their way to high office through the passive power of whiteness—that bloody heirloom which cannot ensure mastery of all events but can conjure a tailwind for most of them. Land theft and human plunder cleared the grounds for Trump’s forefathers and barred others from it. Once upon the field, these men became soldiers, statesmen, and scholars; held court in Paris; presided at Princeton; advanced into the Wilderness and then into the White House. Their individual triumphs made this exclusive party seem above America’s founding sins, and it was forgotten that the former was in fact bound to the latter, that all their victories had transpired on cleared grounds.

>>9991687
Coates is such a shit writer. Back when he used to participate in the comments section of the Atlantic, I talked with him a few times (mainly about film), and he was so obstinate that he saw the complete and whole truth that he was completely unwilling to consider any other perspective you would present him - even if it didn't contradict what he had to say!

Anyone who acts that sure of himself in truth is not, and much of his writing exists more as Coates convincing himself of his rightness than it does in making any broader sense or points.

But the zeitgeist of modern American liberalism propels him into prominence.

>>9991726
(I'll amend my statement a bit - he's not actually a shit writer on a mechanical level, but he is not a good thinker)

>>9990778
You should have bought some original works my dude. Many of Plato's dialogues you can read without any background in this and they're way better than pic related

In my experience, you'll be bored of overviews by the time you finish Kenny (assuming you read him before Russell and Scruton, as you should), and will probably want to see at least some primary material or philosopher-specific secondary material before reading one of the other historical perspectives.
Why didn't you just buy one at a time?

Why would you buy three history books?

God IS the devil.

>>9990597
The devil was not evil to begin with

>>9990597
>>9990599
This^
God is bipolar af

>>9990474
Oops, typo in the header, I meant to say Nobel Prize.

James Hetfield

Kazuo Ishiguro has aged well. Must be all the jogging.

Pussy

>>9988265
Triangulating the location of a pirate radio station.

to get that skrilla son nahmsayin

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>no fear shakespeare
They were free

>tfw you've got a load of unread books on your shelf but don't feel like reading them
should i just force my way through them even though i've got more interesting things to read at the moment or just donate them?

>>9987710
>James Jones
> James
> Jones
Is he chinese?

Does she like the Picture of Dorian Grey?

>>9987141
I wouldn't call it a compliment.

Dorian was meant to be a very pretty boy though if you're looking for inspiration for a clever one-liner.

>>9987142
She said she did