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Plato

>>9341450
ohmer

I doubt most people here would know him, let alone have the intellectual magnitude to appreciate my reasoning for choosing him.

>>9341417
Well, Tamatoa hasn't always been this glam
I was a drab little crab once
Now I know I can be happy as a clam
Because I'm beautiful, baby

Did your granny say listen to your heart
Be who you are on the inside
I need three words to tear her argument apart
Your granny lied!
I'd rather be...

Shiny
Like a treasure from a sunken pirate wreck
Scrub the deck and make it look...

Shiny
I will sparkle like a wealthy woman's neck
Just a sec!

Don't you know
Fish are dumb, dumb, dumb
They chase anything that glitters (beginners!)

Oh, and here they come, come, come
To the brightest thing that glitters
Mmm, fish dinners

I just love free food
And you look like seafood
(Like seafood)

Well, well, well
Little Maui's having trouble with his look
You little semi-demi-mini-god
Ouch! What a terrible performance
Get the hook (get it?)
You don't swing it like you used to, man

Yet I have to give you credit for my start
And your tattoos on the outside
For just like you I made myself a work of art
I'll never hide; I can't, I'm too...

Shiny
Watch me dazzle like a diamond in the rough
Strut my stuff; my stuff is so...

Shiny
Send your armies but they'll never be enough
My shell's too tough

Maui man, you could try, try, try
But you can't expect a demi-god
To beat a decapod (look it up)

You will die, die, die
Now it's time for me to take apart
Your aching heart

Far from the ones who abandoned you
Chasing the love of these humans
Who made you feel wanted
You tried to be tough
But your armour's just not hard enough

Maui
Now it's time to kick your...
Hiney
Ever seen someone so...

Shiny
Soak it in 'cause it's the last you'll ever see
C'est la vie mon ami
I'm so...

Shiny
Now I'll eat you, so prepare your final plea
Just for me
You'll never be quite as...
Shiny
You wish you were nice and...
SHINYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Too many people

FIVE YEARS

Prove it.

>some european or american fuckers who have been writing for like 0.00001% of human history have already written EVERYTHING good

yeah, okay kid.

>>9341225
Human nature isn't as complex as you think. Pretty much all philosophical issues were discussed (with suprising conclusion - we kant know nuffin!), the questions of human condition were explored, at this point all whats left is for humanity to solve physics, create sentient robots, and suicide itself.

really makes you think huh

English is the international language of business, commerce and trade, diplomacy, science, and engineering.
Speaking it does not make one intelligent just as not speaking it does not make one unintelligent. However, it is smart to learn it.

>>9340920
>more native spanish speakers
>more native chinese speakers
>not reading beautiful arabic poetry
>not reading the Greeks in the original Greek
>getting cucked by british and american imperialism
>believing commerce, trade, diplomacy, science, engineering makes for good literature

Why so bourgois, anon? Life isn't all about commerce and economic power.

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>La Bête humaine

The blacker the sun
The darker the dawn
Flashes from the axis
Flashes from the axis
On the hummingway to the stars

>>9340555
This refers to a train you illiterate frog.

Yeah, thanks for reminding, but we already know he was a hack

And then he condensed them all into 1200 pages. Economical really.

>>9340479
Another proof of self help books being useless.

>Very few girls will want to date someone who has no friends, for example.
dude become an alpha autist like me

>>9340369
I'm talking about a serious relationship with an intelligent, responsible girl.

>>9340358
>Very few girls will want to date someone who has no friends, for example.
You're pathetic. You'll never have friends. kys

What would he know about being a good writer?

>>9338758
well, he's been trying for about 55 books now, so who knows

>>9338760
fpbp

>>9338481
sir, that would be Diogenes

>>9338481

>blowing people the fuck out

what did he mean by this?

the OG Heraclitus

>>9338284
Stole a book from my 7th grade teacher feel shit about it, but don't even remember her name.

>>9338284
>be 11 or 12 year old me
>visit relatives
>watch TV in living room with cousins
>cousin wants to switch channel to some stupid show
>I say to her "Fuck off" or something similar
>she starts insulting me and tries to get the remote violently
>too bad for her I'm a boy
>lose my shit and beat her
>she cries

Even though it is 10 years since then, I still regret it. I'd even apologize for that but I think it would be weird apologizing for something that's so long ago, especially because we were in our tweens.

>>9338284

My dad loaned me his Wittgenstein & von Wright collection when I started university. I dropped out and never returned them.

poor, broken family. local library was a sanctuary with free entertainment.

>>9338111
How bourgeois.

books provided an escape from the daily drudge of school and as a source of entertainment for when there was nothing to do.

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>>9337504
MY FUCKING DIARY

>>9337504
Agape agape

The Tunnel from William H Gass

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>>9335556

>>9335886
is that last one an alex jones quote

>>9335899
Probably more Alan Watts than Alex Jones.

Neither.

Really made me think

muh dairy queen

its nonsense

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/sffg/ pls recommend me books with setting like shin megami tensei main series

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Has anyone read the new Nick Webb? Any good?

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34497130-mercury-s-bane

How does Robert E. Howard's Kull stories compare to his Conan stories?