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>>9465132

I wouldn't say so. But I wouldn't be able to say what the fuck the book is about in general, when it comes to its themes. So don't mind me. :D

Definitely not. Certainly doesn't advocate hedonism though.

>>9465132
no. You want it to, though, don't you?

Colin Quinn's the coloring book is right up there with norm, it may actually be better. Patton Oswalt also wrote two decent books before his wife died and he went off the deep end.

>>9464496
literally redd!t: the book

>>9464496
I read Bernie Mac's book when I was like 8 or something. I don't remember much besides him making fun of ignorant black people saying centipede instead of centigrade.

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wew lad

>Walden/Pride and Prejudice

>The Perks of Being a Wallflower (it has a soft place in my heart anon)

>I have a copy of Fahrenheit 451, started to read it and thought it was trash. I am going to the used bookstore soon and finding hot deals, anon, maybe Joyce or Pynchon

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Last and First Man

The story of O

No idea, probably The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

The village of stepanchikovo

Ficciones

Plutarch's Lives

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>>9456833
I wish deer looked like this even though its bad for herbivores to have eyes set like this

I want to go to bed but i don't want to wake up to go to my job tomorrow. I should take the bulletpill.

I wonder if we can invent a genophage, like in mass effect, to neuter all the arabs and nig bunnies.

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I always tried to personalize my cursive as little as possible by keeping the shapes close to how I was taught.

>>9454110
>I always try to depersonalise my writing
Are you an obsessive neurotic

>>9454095
very sexy op

>a thread died for this
i wanna play with her tiddies

>it's another titcow thread masqueraded as a literature thread

fuck off, no one is buying your shit

>that face
>that glitterbomb makeup

she's taken more cock than the home for battered roosters

>>9474182
>Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something — an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I had heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man’s, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound, and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.
How can you call this innocent and sentimental? It's really tragic and grim, the only thing that redeems it from seeming edgy is that the style is heavenly.

I think in a way you're right that it could've been better, more universal of a book if it was more about the eternal theme of losing the past and didn't focus so heavyhandedly on the futility of the American Dream and decadence of rich people as it does. It's too regional, I find Europeans don't really care about it, although i still think it's a beautiful book.

I mean it's obviously about trying to hold onto the past too. This is a pretty trite OP, really, I'd give this thread a solid 4/10.

>>9474274
i agree with this guy.

I've heard this and knew this already, it's just one facet of the themes of our dreams' futility: the fact that the exterior thing we want isn't really what we really need, the real problem is inside of us.

>>9474182
I've read a strong existentialist interpretation of this before. Apparently Scotty was influenced by some of Nietzsche's works that came flowing in America at that time and Gatsby was a Kierkegaardian KoF while Nick was a Nietzschean hero. Sounds really bizzare, but that dissertation convinced me. Has more depth than all that "rich is bad" banality.

Point ot how the entire treatise falls apart in the sixth proposition, where Wittgenstein combines his scientific ignorance and personal arrogance to make a crapload of leaps in logic

I was a philosophy major and I'm very glad I never had to do this

>>9473352

If I were in your position anon, I would write a piece which demonstrates (by explaining, even to the point of teaching, a bit) a competency in the mathematical notation used by Wittgenstein, and how it is used to build up the two-valued logic, truth functions etc that we today take for granted. I would also make a point of spending a paragraph or three acknowledging the importance of this sort of logic to computer science, and also the simple fact that other people were writing truth tables and building mathematical logic around the same time.

Later, although the above would be the focus of my piece (hint: if you devote lines to reproducing formulae in a nicely formatted way, this might be a nice way to pad your paper a bit), I would also spend a little time acknowledging the later "mystical" shift of the Tractatus, and simply that there is a "later Wittgenstein" who later found fault with this work. HINT: after saying a little bit, and acknowledging what I do not know, or understand and making some otherwise reasonable statements, I would invoke 7. If you do the same at some point without being too cute about it, the professor might like that if they have a sense of humor. It's up to you to gauge the temperament of your professor.

Another possibility for you, OP, would be to investigate the matter of how Wittgenstein hated Russell's introduction. You could then write a historical piece about this, but you would need to take care to couch same in discussion of the text proper, always coming back to the text.

Something else which has stuck out to me (some more autistic, detail-considerations, and thus right at home with analytic philosophy) is the simple fact that Wittgenstein's numbering scheme is inconsistent in a particular way. There are (about) 15 "implied" statements such as 2.0, and (IIRC) 2.20, etc, things with ending zeroes, which are implied in the comment structure but which are not actually part of the text. Furthermore, despite the comment structure leading to tantalizing internet projects to "graph" the tractatus, I have found all of these wanting in some way or another: In particular, nobody seems to reproduce the /figures/ which are present in certain of the statements, as part of their treatment. In particular, Wittgenstein in 6.1203 uses a rather clumsy "bracket" notation to basically express truth-functional informatoin which we would today express in terms of neater truth tables. I have yet to see these figures reproduced in an online edition.

>>9473240
His poetry and novels come up because his films, especially Salo, which garners a lot of interest from shock value but still pretty good.

DFW is dead on though

>>9473240
is his writing good

Tfw when intellectuals can't compete with my higher level of white boy

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>>9472934
>tfw when

>>9472955

How am I to ascertain that feel when you do not correlate it with an evocative image?

>>9472890
wrestling is basically the modern theater version of a homeric poem.

>http://www.ngca.co.uk/docs/Barthes_WorldOfWrestling.pdf

I dunno, read this.

>>9472966
While I agree with the premise, that was written so pretentiously I couldn't finish it.

who knows?
in the meantime, here's something related:
http://therawness.com/AFP.pdf

>>9472803
I don't know why anyone needs a book on this.. it's all on the table and everyone has already decided which side of it they want to sit on.

Not to mention that the guy really isn't too smart and just recycles /pol/ posts like all the other alt-lite celebs. Good for him if he makes some bucks though, hate people getting fired for speaking their mind.

Just read Industrial Society and Its Future and call it a day.

>>9472656
>intellectual modern novella about the human condition
The reason these aren't being published is because they're almost universally trash and unmarketable - compared to the average published trite which is equally garbage but at least marketable.
Nobody wants to read pretention spouted for pretention's sake

>>9472641
I know her.
She was on teens react.

>>9472641

Zero, because publishers don't know what good literature looks like. Self publish.

However, the respect you show the publishing industry tells me your stuff is shit, too. So maybe they'll take it.

so reading the phenomenology is like bashing your head against a wall repeatedly? There's no synthesis just brain melting.

>>9472136
hegel is becoming a meme

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>>9472136
Suck my noumena, fag

>>9471944
Explain.

>>9471948
No.

>>9471930
Yes, absolutely.