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>>9994800
this board is a lost cause

this is so funny

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>>9994777
Nabokov's Pale Fire

giles goat boy?

Finnegans Wake

>>9994711
>Is there anything logically wrong with subjectivism?

It violates the principle of non-contradiction. If something can be its own contradiction, then anything can be predicated of anything. I can say, for example, that a ship is a horse. It becomes impossible to assert anything of anything and rational discourse is destroyed. It's a self defeating philosophy

>>9994853
Oh yeah? And what if dialetheism is true, huh?
Checkmate LNC-believer

>>9994853
Are you saying a ship isn't a horse? How do you know that?

>>9994463

Christo was a satirical genius who masterfully deconstructed the fan fiction genre.

Reminds me of how Manlytears got the copyright for Forever Alone so he could make money off legal threats to meme sites and cucked the shit out of the guy who actually made it

>>9994500
That really short dude from /v/?

>>9994387
I'm redpilled, think I'll fall for this? Try Kevin MacDonald, if you want to see the truth of white genocide

>>9994393

>excited for summer to be over so redpill faggots will leave
>remember that redpill faggots are NEET twentysomethings

>>9994399
Your just another brainwashed.Sad!

>>9994307
So will a lot of trash

About how fucking shit it is

People are still talking about 120 Days of Sodom.

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> Back then, we just assumed French people felt all kinds of exotic, high-priced pain that ordinary Californians would never understand. So everybody loved that book, or at least said they did. There was even a tribute song to the book by The Cure, “Killing an Arab”—which was enthusiastically received in the Red States by guys who didn’t get that it was, like, ironic—and there’s a band in Canada (naturally) called l’Etranger. (Psssst! That’s “The Stranger” in French! I never met a bilingual Canadian Anglo myself, but they like to keep the bluff going.) Discussions in English class at Pleasant Hill High were muted—I didn’t realize it at the time (most of my classmates gave me plenty of room due to certain hygiene issues) but everybody except me was stoned out of his or her mind. Maybe “The Stranger” actually makes sense if you’re floating around in a soup of THC and Mescaline.

>I remember that the teacher kept repeating the word “malaise” with the hesitation English speakers get when they see the end of a French word coming up and face the Eternal Question: “Oh God, do I pronounce that final consonant or not?” While Mrs. Mohler worked on her pronunciation, I tried to figure out what “malaise” was supposed to mean. What was this guy Meursault’s problem, anyway? He was having all this sex, he lived in this cool place with a beach; what was the deal? I finally decided that “malaise” was one of those diseases that only strike people who are very cool (that is, the opposite of me). No wonder I couldn’t understand Camus; he was for cool people—and didn’t all the cool people in my high school stand around sneering and mumbling and looking tired all the time? Maybe they had malaise.

>Looking back now, the real topic of “The Stranger” is painfully obvious. Camus and the French had a demographic problem. They were going to have to give up some prime Mediterranean beachfront. Which is why the idiot protagonist kills an Arab on the beach and gets himself executed. Spoiler alert: That’s the plot of “The Stranger.” French mama’s boy kills Arab on beach, whiles away the time in prison waiting to be guillotined thinking about…you know, I can’t even remember what he was thinking about. That’s probably because, like almost all the leftist European rhetoric of the postwar years, “The Stranger” is totally disingenuous. It can’t just come out and say, “God damn it, we like this beach! We conquered this beach! Why we gotta give up all this nice beach just because you Arabs are out-breeding us?” You look back now and it’s obvious that’s what Camus, a French Algerian (a now extinct tribe), was writing about. Normal tribal behavior, resorting to violence when you’re losing coveted territory. But God forbid Camus should talk that way out loud back in those post-Stalingrad days when everything was moral, except the nonstop lying.

>>9994313
Why does everybody focus on the Stranger. It's just a mediocre novel about absurdity.

His other shit is way better.

>>9994304
One of my favorites, basically just because he says fuck everything else make your own path in life

>>9994313
Who wrote this again

>>9994198
I've some that were posted here. Unsure about that one, but can only look tomorrow, so bump the thread or whatever if you're interested, i'll look into it.

>>9994450
bumpity bump

>>9994198
Look for The All-Embracing Library, I think is in /t/.

>>9994196
Why are 80 percent of the threads on here about writing that triggers you

Is that fucking Warriors

Desu I've never been able to figure out what the first fifty or so pages of IJ were about

>>9994052
There are some good works there for sure.

But really, you just want a /pol/-tier thread, right?

>>9994120
No, friend, I don't. Is that so hard to believe?

>>9994142
Yes. If you're genuine, then start reading and stop posting

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please not walden

Knulp always strikes this chord for me. The bitter-sweet nature of solitude, the blurry lines between existential and social isolation. The beautiful futility...

>>9994003
My diary, desu.

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>>9993942

>>9993942
Barack Obama

>>9993947
>recent history

>>9993856
A thread died for your vanity and so now you shall die too

>>9993856
skeleton crew by king

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Have you read Jansson's non-Moomin work?

>>9993864
Do you ever complain to the non-literature posts?

my diary desu

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>>9993652
I'm as right as anyone who posts in this thread.

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>>9993652
lol is this like a textbook?

pic related: a very obscure gnostic text i found in an antiquarian bookshop. most of the stuff in here is barely intelligible

I think these days you can just submit 24 pages of the phrase "black lives matter" and they will instantly make you president.

>>9993685
HAHAHAH LOL THIS GUY KNOWS AM I RIGHT?! PROFESSORS ARE IDIOTS! FUCK THE SYSTEM!

>>9993688
I'm just trying to give the OP what he REALLY wants (a way to not try, fail, and still feel superior).