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hahahaha ballsack!!!

>>9337484
haha wow xD good one!!

>>9337476
Balzac any good? I've had lost illustrations sitting on my shelf for months now.

>>9337428
because we'll be post-debt within 100 years anyway and this entire argument will be invalid

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>>9337428
>thinks capitalists invented the concept of ownership
>posting that image sincerely

At least you're up front about your brainletdom

left-communist here. marx has no problem with personal property. no one wants ur cum soaked books.

>>9337384
Hedonists are generally bipolar. His philosophy of personal indulgence is contradicted by his misanthropic life. While he did manage to, at times, indulge himself and have a really good time, much of his life seemed to be marred by resentment, anger and depression.

I really wonder where his son is these days. According to his biography, he named the kid Satan Xerxes Carnacki Lavey, but I have to image the kid got a legal name change at some point. He'd be in 20s or so.

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"I gaze into the glassy eye of your fearsome Jehovah,and pluck him by the beard. I uplift a broadaxe,and split open his worm-eaten skull."

Amusing >Right

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I used to be into this shit when I was 15 or so.

No, he wasn't. LaVeyan Satanism is just ''do what feels good man'' codified with some LARPing thrown in to annoy mom and dad. Sometimes it can be nice as an aesthetic, but the people who wear pentagram necklaces and read this book are typically gran autismos. It appeals to teenagers who consider themselves beyond their age and smarter than everyone else who need an avenue for their edginess. Those who keep LARPing into adulthood tend to be stunted manchildren.

As for the book itself, it's nothing special. I don't mind it sitting on my shelf though.

>>9337361
What is 'perceptivity'? Maybe with the Sistine Chapel as an example.

It's either simple or easy or neither.

You know, these kind of questions start a query in my mind. Every time. Query on the rest of the big questions, regarding existence, its nature and such. I get stunned by my ignorance.
You need endurance and character, a goal to align your perception with, challenges and guidelines.

Is this what it is like to slip into madness? Then again, what would that mean? That I steal the order from my world?

>>9337361
It really is that simple. And if you want to be truly perceptive, don't get caught in the trap of believing you are right about anything, to the exclusion of all new information. Always challenge yourself and be open to change.

sounds tortured af

That sentence is full of fuck

>>9337335
your grammar seems off. Are you a native speaker?

I'm also not clear on the context of this sentence, or even what it is supposed to mean.

>>9337300
Considering they started with the greeks, I'm pretty sure they would.

>>9337307
They didn't.

They would tell you to start with mathematics.

I'm a more productive person in general at night. Fewer distractions, less background noise, and I'm able to work at my own pace, whatever the environment.

>tfw no nocturnal societies around the world where citizens work at night and sleep/enjoy the day while the sun is out

Only the Hitlers of the world work at night; no honest artist does.

First thing in the morning, the two hours before going to work are the most productive for me.

>>9337189
yea

>>9337189
Beige complacency-core

>>9337189
ik

It depends on the text and my surroundings. If it's not excessively heavy, I like to put instrumental music on, usually post rock. But if the book demands my absolute attention then of course I won't. The only time I override the second point is if I'm in a cafe or similar and the environment is more distracting than music at a low volume.

If you make music explicitly for playing while you read then people will do it for the 'full experience', just like how people will not listen to music and read because the text wasn't intended to have music to it. I sometimes listen to music while I read, sometimes not. The distraction can be productive so I'm focusing on the text and the argument at hand rather than thoughts that stem from the text, connecting to other things I've read, etc.

>>9337115
My goal with the project is to create a novel that can hold its own without the music. And vice-versa. I want the music to be quieter however range from ambient classical to industrial. I know I can't go too hard with it without ruining comprehension of the novel.

>>9337116
Would hearing the music separate from the literature be interesting? In the same way that movies have soundtracks people purchase?

>>9336983
Because science fiction organizational groups set middling, and thus mediocre standards for writing and literary quality. I wouldn't complain, but they've had six decades to improve on since the 1960s, but their gatekeepers are unimaginative and stultify science fiction writing's development.

Leckie is shit. AJ is a watered down synthesis of Le Guin and Iain Banks, and since both of those authors wrote sociological science fiction, that should raise a red flag for the limited heights that Leckie set forth to display. It's a competent novel but nothing special. That she won prizes indicates that she lucked into some slow years for awards.

The Three Body trilogy is Chinese science fiction, and unlike most non-white science fiction, it's actually quite good. Read that instead.

>>9336983
>reading a book even though it has a john scalzi blurb

>>9337032
Yes, Scalzi is an idiotic manchild. He even praised Ready Player One.

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i'm at the part where the typhoon has settled a little, pretty great stuff anon

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What can be said about it that hasn't been said already?

>>9336997
Not much desu

I will say that I had to read it for school, hated it, and then picked it up a few years ago and it's now one of my favourite books.

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are there marxists on that board?

>>9336977
marx read more smith than you have

>>9337001
And?

Arête could be translated to pinnacle.


t. francophone

>>9336949
I do a lot of climbing and Arete always refered to a feature of the rock that is essentially a vertical ridge, i.e. one of the exterior corners of a building would be an arete. Doesn't it just mean ridge in French?

http://www.jstor.org/stable/20162854?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

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If it were by anybody else, it would be their best work. However, VN wrote a half a dozen masterpieces that piss all over this slim, simple work.

It's good and entertaining and was apparently a big breakthrough for him, but I've always thought of it as a simple and not particularly deep novel, which is what you get with an ensemble of ragdolls I suppose.

>>9336943
It's his noir, and wickedly hilarious. One of the most frightfully apt first paragraphs in all noveldom.

>>9336901
Read the Stoics my nigger

Stoicism for philosophy. But you may find better developed answers in religion, particularly Buddhism, or the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible.

>>9336901
wavefunction realism