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Bossypants - Tina Fey

On women by Schopenhauer

take the redpill

are you a girl trying to be more feminine?
can you tell me what you associate with that? i've had a phase where i was really interested in the topic and i might be able to give you some pointers.

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised, just give it a go

t. written his bachelor thesis on Frankenstein

>>9268891
I've just been reading some amazon reviews. One of them says

"Forget square-heads and green make-up, forget that dreadful modern remake with Kenneth Branagh and Robert DeNiro sit down and read one of the most remarkable science fiction stories ever written. "

So this makes me feel like giving it a go as I when I hear Frankenstein I often think of the above scenario. But it sounds like it could be quite good from these reviews.

My main question is if it's for adults, really.

Is your son a ghost?

>>9268858
>Anons, Im gonna be a dad. What stories should I tell this kid? What books should a growing child read?

Tell him how you're immoral for having created him and brought unnecessary suffering into the world.

>>9268858
Read every night. My babies liked the cadence of poems and the glow of screens. Around 1-3 I started classics picture books, and after that great illustrated classics. My kids just turned 6 and i started YA classics from the 80s and 90s, mostly newbury award winners. If they look bored as fuck, abort, its all about positive reinforcement and memory at this point.

>>9268828
Socialism at the time he was writing had become an intellectual accessory, i.e. people believed it to be fashionable without carrying its logical consequences into their everyday lives.

The criticism still holds in the West, for the most part

limpwristed snowflakes have always been attracted to weak nu male ideaology

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>>9268892
but you're strong and masculine, which is why you're posting here in support of the men that dominate you.

The Catcher in the Rye

>>9268629
the recognitions

>>9268629
American Psycho

was good

>>9268504
What do you think when the old man killed the marlin? Wasn't the marlin the old man just in another form?

>>9268482
Loved it.
Would say it was the book that got me into enjoying literature and actively wonder about themes, motives, symbolism, ...

i have. what a pile of garbage

Trump is the only guy it worked on lololololol

>>9268468
Is it worth it?

We can all agree his name is Henry Miller.

>>9268392
Parisian bent Norman Mailer IMHO. Playboy pictorial is sweet from the 70s

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>consensus

Well that would be prose poetry, no issue here I believe. There's no difference (depending on what you call "enjambed" though).
"Prose" and "poetry" are not contraries and do not have contraries. And that's pretty normal, since only adjectives have contraries. (I think so)

The surface of a crusty bread is marvelous, first because of the almost panoramic impression it makes: as though one had the Alps, the Taurus or the Andes at one’s fingertips.

It so happened that an amorphous mass about to explode was slid into the celestial oven for us where it hardened and formed valleys, summits, rolling hills, crevasses . . . And from then on, all those planes so neatly joined, those fine slabs where light carefully beds down its rays – without a thought for the unspeakable mush underneath.

That cold flaccid substratum is made up of sponge-like tissue: leaves or flowers like Siamese twins soldered together elbow to elbow. When bread grows stale, these flowers fade and wither; they fall away from each other and the mass becomes crumbly ...

But now let’s break it up: for in our mouths bread should be less an object of respect than one of consumption.

>>9268840
Blank verse is not prose poetry.
If it's enjambed it is likely metered.
The difference is meter OP.

>>9268865
Yeah, but why is the meter important if it's enjambed?

>>9268049
>With all that talk about AI and automation as the future, if such a future would become true, will Ted become the Marx or Jesus of the future?
The original luddites had a better understanding of the nature of technology than Ted

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>>9268049

> I imagine that not everyone is willing to become reduced in value if robots outperform humans on many tasks

most of the tasks automation will taker longer to replace are already associated with working with other humans

much of the redundancy in human employment, like customer service, sales, has to do with communication with other humans, something that will be made redundant when the owners of capital automate their lifestyles from soil to military

the transition period (now) will be (is being) eased by the importation of third world peoples who come from areas already defined by impoverishment and societal disruption, lowering both the standard of autonomy and expectations of the masses: living as human chattel with iPhones, Walmart, and physical safety is a vast improvement as living as human chattel among the Nortenos or in war-torn Syria

He was brilliant but burned out too fast. Like if Huxley had a panic attack and scribbled Brave New World in a night.

Industrial Society and Its Future is insightful but misses the existential problem. It condemns artificial happiness but never bothers to ask, why happiness at all?

Better: have you heard of The Last Messiah, essay by Peter Wessel Zappfe? Not 100% relevant but good supplementary reading on angst and the futility of human desire.

I will check tjis thread later, busy atm.

>>9267981
>asked a friend about his preferences and he didn't know what "preferences" are.
Americans are weird

I'm pretty sure preschool playgrounds aren't a very lit friendly environment

>>9268012
neither of us is american. to be fair, she's a new age moron. that might explain it.

>>9268015
you might be surprised.

>>9267952
it's really bad

It's just more popular than it should be. People make Coehlo out to be some sort of genius, and he isn't. It's a really allegory about treasure being at home/inside the whole time.

it's comparable to le petite prince. which is a huge pile of pseudo deep shit.

...
Yeah

what a coincidence...

wow

> buy a The Dalkey Archive novel
> skim through the pages
> *CRACK* goes the spine

a real patrician publisher is Jose Corti

>>9267858
kek

>>9267858
O'Brien in true fashion would have deliberatly done this himself just so he could sent shitpost letters to the editor

GoGo Monsters

>>9267755
i love that image

to answer your question, try the dragon ball manga

The Sailor who fell from grace with the sea

It's short and easy