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shit on two canvases and get rich through modern art

embrace virtue and chastity

>>9985087
>tfw there is a huge need for an original artist and all the defeatists here are morons

you don't need to study philosophy in an academic environment to read philosophy.

>>9985058
the question is can you learn/truly understand philosophy just by reading it?

>>9985065
yes, I am a philosophy major and almost everything I know about philosophy comes from my own studies. The only good thing about an academic environment is that you are forced to write something good and are given feedback (hence the mostly terrible opinions found here by self taught philosophers). How far are you into the physics major?

>>9985029
Fuck off

>>9985039
There is nothing quite so amusing as an imperative from a fool.

>>9985074
Fuck off, again

The French are the biggest meme in history next to women. Their philosophy is a ripoff of the Germans, their literature is all sentimentalist drivel. Their master of natural science was stolen from them as soon as it began to require actual effort. They are filthy effeminate bohemians with an incoherent political tradition and a language that sounds like it's as loose as their women.

Sartre is the epitome of the Frenchman. He's a talentless hack who appropriated German philosophy while completely misunderstanding its most basic premises, so that he could unwittingly reverse engineer it into more Cartesian claptrap, and then use that as an excuse to dilate and meander for 400 additional pages in service of his own unwarranted ego. The man wrote 20 pages a day over his entire life, on average, and all of it was the same, tediously repetitive French garbage. Every Frenchman wants to be Sartre, because every Frenchman is a narcissistic talentless little pissant.

The only good thing the French ever did was have a revolution, and the only sense in which it was any good is in hindsight, because the Germans got so much philosophical capital out of treating it as a spectator event and weaving it into their own writing. The French themselves can't think, they can't write. There's no discernible point to their existence.

>>9985022
What about the Ball Sack?

Flaubert, Hugo, Rimbaud, Taine
Those are the ones you need to read

>>9984978
As someone who's far down the rabbithole of physical books, I'd say go digital. Physical just gets too expensive, and then you spend time arranging them rather than reading them, as well as the storage space

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pirate the books first then buy the ones you enjoyed in physical

You'll do what you want to do regardless of what anonymous strangers on the internet will tell you.

Do your own research, make an informed decision, and deal with it like an adult.

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>>9984916
>>9984916
shiiieeet that's one of the best author portraits I've seen.

I read Oracle Night and enjoyed it immensely because I really dig stories about writers and metafiction, I know his other stuff is mostly that and cant wait to get into it, maybe the NY Trilogy is next for me.

I've read a bunch of his books, reminds me of an American Murakami, they're all kind of samey and go down easy. I think his best is Invisible.

>>9985025
>>9985030
I've only ready his City of Glass but it really blew me away. I'm going to get into more of his work, like the complete New York Trilogy. He recently released a book called 4321 which has a premise that I just can't ignore.

Like I said, City of Glass was my first conscious look at postmodernism and it really sparked the amateur author within me to create a duology where the first part is a postmodern detective story that does away with all conventions like a satisfying denouement and simply makes the reader think of the characters and their psyche. Only to follow up with a sequel that gives the average reader exactly what they want, with a clear by-the-books version of the first part but with an actual conclusion and answer to the unrevealed and undisclosed parts of the mystery in a vain attempt at post-postmodernism. Or has this been done before (it almost certainly has)?

Did she say all of that in one breath or something? What the fuck? Why would a comic book company hire a retarded autistic furry fanfiction writer?

You win. Comics are designed for children. Which is why women and autistic manchildren enjoy them.

>>9984854
what's wrong with that? it's empowering, spunky, cute

It's the only part of Faust worth reading you roaster

Which translations of Faust parts 1&2 are best?

>>9984886
Faust cannot be translated. You're better off just reading the wikipedia summary if you're not going to read it in German, to be honest.

>>9984839

I mean, you're not wrong

He knew how to write and got published though.

>>9984839
>Write a bunch of stories that you hate
>Kill yourself
It only misses the part where the stories you write are actually genius

I hate all those episodes. Worst season of the Addams Family.

>>9984837
If this is the case, then how to we determine which are superior cultures or systems of knowledge? Foucault stated that Western cultures were no better than 'older', say, Eastern societies, but neither did he consider the latter superior.

>>9984909
Just go with our gut rele m8

>>9984743
it's okay to be whatever you feel will help you sleep best at night.

>>9984743
It's quite preferable, anon. By the time you hit your late 20s women become desperate and impressing them becomes irrelevant. However, being cultured is something that is never irrelevant.

Remember this, anon, all that matters is increasing your power levels.

>>9984743
Of course it's OK. Why wouldn't it be? Don't judge yourself so harshly anon.

Also, since it's /lit/, here's a recommendation: All of the Names by Jose Saramago. You might be interested in it, as senhor Jose is a lonely man struggling to find a woman whose profile has caught his eye, but it also has something to say about the human condition and a very freeflowing style of writing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0VJIYsCxb8

>>9984637
>not the superior Bojack clip
senpai

bloodaxe books

>>9984504
Already read most of her book

Yaaaas queen <3

>>9984504
Western civilization was a mistake

>>9984504
>Horrible Woman slanders America's best chance at a good king
figured

Very comfy book. You will never find books like this anymore, it's all stupid shit like The Martian or worse.

its good except for the racemixing

>>9984468
Is that really the title?

>>9984430
I usually walk into Borders in the airport and pick up whichever of the top sellers looks the most 'now'

>>9984430
You read stuff you've already read? The only book I've read multiple times is LOTR. Didn't care for Moby Dick, too much taxonomy. Inb4 Melville internet defence force call me a pleb.

>>9984838
>The only book I've read multiple times is LOTR. Didn't care for Moby Dick, too much taxonomy.
tfw no oliver wendell holmes bf to sterilize this imbecile