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>>9295505
I always hear about this Joyce guy on this board, so I finally decided to borrow Ulysses from my local library.

>>9295561
just xD

>>9295505
Virginia Woolf

bump for interest

bumping for interest though it sounds like some sketchy shit designed to steal ideas

its a load of shit, it said i write like Immanuel Kant
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=paste+your+text+and+find+out+which+author%27s+style+it%27s+most+similar+to

my hyperdiary desu

>>9295410
What's this?

bump for interest.

I'm finally tackling Hegel in earnest too, reading Kojeve and Hippolyte alongside the Phenomenology, and right now reading The Philosophy of Right. Going to be taking a class on the latter with Robert Pippin, starting in two days, so hopefully I will be prepared.

I also have his gargantuan Logic checked out, along with Houlgate's book on it. Not sure how that's gonna go, but I imagine it will involve anal tearing.

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>>9295451
I'm jealous, even of the anal tearing. If you're going to get your ass wrecked it might as well be by the world-spirit. Hope you enjoy the class tho!

I guess I could take my usual approach, which is to just fling myself on a stack of PDFs like a wild man until things start to click but I figured it might be better to try a systematic approach.

Was never really a Hegel guy before, not sure why I'm feeling the pull now. I know there's the Sadler lectures too but I felt like reading. Probably because I've been depressed af recently and learning about a new dead European guy usually cheers me up and takes me out of my own head.

>>9295494
Hegel is definitely a good bottomless well to jump into from what I can tell. I'm sort of doing the same thing, retreating into an inner exile and reading a couple authors like him, to recuperate from being a complete failure in the normie world.

I'm sure you've already done it, but the Stanford Encyclopaedia article on Hegel is pretty good for giving an historical overview of his interpreters. I know what you mean by the stack of PDFs approach, but I've gotten more wary of that approach as I've realised just how much redundancy and incompetence there can be in secondary literature. It's a fine balance between looking for those "click" moments in secondary scholarship, and avoiding the mountains of books that are reiterating errors three generations out of fashion.

I feel like reading a lot of Heidegger and German idealism in a scattered and haphazard way has made this second attempt at Hegel a lot easier. Aristotle is really helpful too, just a basic understanding of his metaphysics of hylomorphism and potential/actuality.

>>9295293
a self-aware being is forced to live ironically. The more self aware he is, the more honesty becomes impossible

>>9295759
This is probably the simplest, cleanest and most effective thing ive read this month. Thank you, it really helped.

>>9295759
You are a pest

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>Actually reading Hobbes

The Modern Library symbol looks like a retarded swastika

>>9295275
wow. really good picture anon. nice rotation :^)

Tl;dr: it's worse to steal pears than have premarital sex

>>9295181
that's good advice

>>9295174
A changed life.

>>9295156
it's camuuuuu

Kah moose

If you're gay, cay muss

>>9295161
no actually it's camyyy

He's a fucking idiot, even Evola would be disgusted by his abuse of his work

Based Bannon is going to immanentize the eschaton and there's nothing you meatsack plebs can do about it

Bannon is just a normie. That's how normies read this. They read one thing without worrying about being called a pseud, or worrying about how it fits into the overall background tradition. They can typically focus better on it as a result, and they'll walk around for a decade recommending it to people and gaining a reasonable amount of practical wisdom from it.

/lit/ cultivates the special kind of autism where you just feel worse the more you know, because you fetishize the "critical mass" point where you know everything (or a reasonable approximation of everything). Normies literally don't have a concept for that. They just encounter the field of possible things to read as an endless one, and they think it's normal and intelligent to pick a few things that strike their eye and master them.

It's a practical way to live. A lot of intelligent Chads do it, people in government, professionals, etc. It's also the bulk of academics and scholars. Most people who want to cloister themselves in meditative seclusion and read the entire Western canon don't emerge on the other end as Walter Benjamin, ready to descend from the mountaintop and obliterate plebs. They just break their will, and probably drop out. The contented high level mediocrities on the other hand, who are willing simply to have a go at something and do their best, without thinking too much about it otherwise, will end up mastering more things relatively more contentedly and making decent scholars. For every titanic literary supergod, there are a thousand failed versions of him that died in the womb by crumbling under the pressure and playing video games for a decade instead, and for every one of those, there are ten thousand proficient dilettantes who will live happy mediocre lives.

The world needs legions of Steve Bannons who can just pick up a book, read it, and apply it to their best ability. He never had any desire for comprehensive mastery and he wouldn't understand the concept if you tried to explain it. Wisdom is just to be picked up and applied.

>>9295056
Well your heart is in the right place so that's step number 1

Like those girls literally melt if you start namedropping some ""obscure"" Russian cinema, then mention the modernists in the literature and then I want to cap it off with poetry but when I tried to read shit like TS Elliot I fell asleep and reading Bukowsky won't convince anyone

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>>9295056

Intelligently reading poetry is just about going slow and being sensitive about every single decision made in diction, syntax, metaphor, meter, form, etc. Bad poetry often ignores those things while good poetry becomes more meaningful when they are examined.

Pic related is a nice accessible book that should get you asking the right questions. It has blurbs in the back from Harold Bloom, John Hollander, and Robert Fagles.

You can't separate form from content.

>>9295055
that was never implied. what im saying is that you can have any content, anything at all, but the form cant be random.

>>9295069
If the form isn't random then the content won't be either, since one will be molded by the other.

Almost never, though sometimes it's nice to do when I read a light, genre novel to create some atmosphere. Blood Meridian (though not really too light) with American primitivism is a great example, dark ambient at 3 am while reading Lovecraft slightly stoned is another.

Music is degenerate.

So, no.

>>9295042
I only listen to Beethoven (not St. Vincent!!!)

In the library, fiction section, under S

>>9295210
Yea, not Shakespeare.
It has been so over done. Literally every theatre company performs it. People need to stop performing Shakespeare for a few years

>>9295036
I'd honestly like to see The Art of the Deal adapted into a a film. However, almost everyone in film is anti-Trump, so it would just be a parody. It would be infinitely better than The Wolf of Wall Street.

no. christopher moore is hilarious.

>>9294928
Are his other novels good? Any recommendations? Lamb has me cracking up, I'm savoring it.

>>9294952
I really enjoyed Fool. Practical Demonkeeping is another fun one, and Bloodsucking Fiends too. I didn't really enjoy Blue Coyote much, but it was funny enough that I finished it.