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A mistake

I'm supposed to know I studied this. But I just don't.

>>9289237
a mode of thought that was extremely amebeoius. However what tied the whole era together is a love of experimentation, and starting the given art from tabula rasa. a fresh mind.

>>9289190
Midsummer Night's Dream, obviously

Lex the Poet, in a different way.

>>9289190
Fool by Christopher Moore
you won't be disappointed

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>>9289190

>>9289181
probably, but philosophers are more interesting

>>9289181
would you suck on his penis if you had a time machine?

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the house kind of sucked honestly, witler himself admitted it

>>9289178
yea sure watch this.

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>>9289187

I write film reviews.

read all the lyrics of all lana del rey songs...

>>9289151
fault in our stars

>>9289151

What's the greatest insight you've learned from a work of fiction?

the summa

>>9289035
I love that picture though.

Idk get into vedic sutras. By the way, those thousand long page scriptures often repeat themselves incessantly in ways that aren't even 'a different angle' and are full of names and places and dates and other useless shit. Better off reading a fuck ton of regular books. Though to each their own I suppose.

the pali canon
rig veda
dianetics

It's only so 'realistic' in a sense that it emulates (not always that well) the political dynamics of family dynasties. A lot of medieval fantasy tends not to place such emphasis on the scheming.

Actually I don't know, I feel like there'd be a lesser known fantasy author who's already done what GRRM did but better.

>>9289037
Then why do people clamor on about it

>>9289072
there isn't necessarily any principle in place that places those who "deserve" attention in the eyes of the mass public

>>9289025
What?

To hell if I no,

>>9289025
I think I get what you mean.

I consider myself a musically inclined person and I often have ideas, notions, inward experiences of music that I feel would be wonderful to hear with my proper ears, and that I could even make it, and enjoy the fruits of my own labour. I've written poetry before that I've gone back on a year later and thought, 'that was enjoyable!', even though it was me. We change from one person to the next at every moment so why cannot we enjoy the fruits of bygone personas?

Especially when I feel I've listened to all my favorite music 100 times, I have a very strong inclination to listen to something new, and have faith in my ability to manifest that novelty for my own enjoyment.

black

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aka tears of the illiterate

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>>9288861
uuuh orlando?

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>>9288861
Ayyyyy lmao

>>9288879
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ePFXco-C7Uo
You would

Yes it is.

>>9288836
If you're good looking then yes

If you're ugly then you'll be perceived as a dweeb

>>9288867
Incorrect. An ugly person reading a book will at worst be ignored. At best you may get some props for being the smart guy.

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>>9288829
Self bumb (shameless edition)

let's see it

I'm also against torture but I wonder if you will convince me otherwise

>>9288991
Here’s something we don’t talk about: A man getting his nails ripped out of his flesh one by one. Another man having his genitalia mutilated by a hammer. A woman being raped…

Now, I can understand why you you don’t want to talk about these things… It’s because they, the media, they gave it a nice squeaky-clean name that covers everything from psychology to physiology. They, very broadly, called it “torture” and sold it the public as a necessary evil that cannot be avoided. And you, you chose to live in your little bubble and never addressed the issue. So here is an alternative description than “necessary evil” for torture: Against human nature, fundamentally wrong, evil.

I’d say it’s about time we talk about torture. Don’t you?


Despite what T.V shows may have you believe, torture does not produce reliable information. I thought that went without saying but the general idea that people have about torture seems to tell otherwise.

To prove this, I want you to put yourself in the shoes of a torture victim. Fun right?

I want you to imagine that you are a soldier, trapped in a dark room. You haven’t had any food for days and have resorted using your trousers to relieve yourself. You have no clue what time it is, no idea how many days have gone by since your capture and can hear your friends having their fingers broken in the next room… The torturers told you that it can all stop if you were to tell them just a snippet of what they want to know. Trouble is, you don’t know anything. So what do you do?

Well, any sane human being would lie. Just so they could be fed, just so the torture and constant humiliation stops. See what I mean? This is precisely why information introduced to the court using torture is not legally acceptable in any respectable house of law.

Torture victims, as supported by evidence from the CIA during the Bush administration of the United States, rarely, if not ever, provide good reliable information but instead lie and say what the torturer wants to hear in order for the constant physical, mental and sometimes even sexual assault to stop.

Another argument used to advocate torture is the “Ticking Time Bomb” scenario where the big bad terrorists or the scary kidnappers have planted a bomb in the heart of a city or kidnapped a small child and you have no choice but to torture the suspect in order to save countless lives or the life of a sweet little boy or girl. If taken at face value, this argument is very compelling. How can you argue against torture being a necessary evil in a case like this? But if you look closer, this argument starts to fall apart just based on the number of sheer assumptions being made that would not hold in the real world.

Cont.

No, if anything it's a hindrance. Any works of literature you enjoy from authors suffering mental illness should be admired for the fact those authors overcame or fought with their illness to produce such work.

>>9288789
this

if you're suffering severely from any mental illness, or going through some traumatic shit, you're not going to be sitting down and writing/making art for hours at a time. in my experience that stuff can only be written about retrospectively, when you're in a somewhat better place.

>>9288789
Yep. Most people have some kind of problem, but only the strong produce things despite it.

in a way it's really all he ever did though.
His writing always has a certain lecture type-thing going on, weak on characterization but strong on narrative technique to fool your brain.
It was the perfect proving ground for this kinda thing. In fact, the whole thing is lifted from sections of his own work (upcoming and previous).
He also took the whole fish story idea from Mcluhan.

>>9288735
It was very "of its time". Listening to it now makes me cringe at how cliche it feels.

And, why the fuck are these idiots laughing?

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>>9288735

Damn... I made that speech way too accessible. Makes it way too easy for people to see I'm full of shit.

Maybe I'll talk about Sierpinski triangles and math next time.

>>9288715
He is a plagiarist.
http://withendemanndom.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/slavoj-zizek-philosophaster-and_9.html

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>>9288715
>There are known unknowns
Isn't he just ripping off Donald Rumsfeld?

>>9288841
No, zizek is concerned with the fourth, which is unknown knowns. That is, what we don't know that we know. That is what ideology is.