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>It is broadly true that prose literature has reached its highest levels in periods of democracy and free speculation.
Was he right /lit/?
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>>9250959
Yup! Tolstoy was a literary prostitute.
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not at all
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>>9250959
Yes.
But not because of democracy specifically. Rather because America is a democracy and America has all the best authors.
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What was all this about. I don't get it.
He goes to Africa, and they're savages. What's the point? What did he accomplish with this book? It's just about this dude's trip down to Africa.
Please help. This is supposed to be a masterpiece. I don't get it.
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>>9250795
it was written by a german or whatever. what do you expect? all of those faggots are overrated hacks. not even meming. they're fucking terrible.
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>>9250795
It's all about the interplay between darkness and light, enlightenment values colliding with the dark heart of savagery.
It's point is that the white men are absolutely terrified throughout the book that they might genuinely have something in common with these people, so it's easier to enslave them and let them starve to death than confront the fact of human Genesis in Africa.
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>>9250811
>implying human genesis was even conceivable scientifically for them to confront
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Got a book you want to read that is aviable on Kindle Unlimited? Post that name in this thread, and I'll try and get it back for you clean and converted, ready to read ~
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>>9250773
all the nyrb books you can get. also any andreyev.
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>>9250782
In which format should I make them?
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>>9250809
oh, uhm, mobi, epub, azw, any are fine!
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So one of you fuckers went to a Peterson talk and actually talked about 4chan. Who was it? @37:35
https://youtu.be/_UL-SdOhwek
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obviously someone from /pol/ because he mentions you can see what countries people are from. not surprised /pol/ fags are autists who break the first rule
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>>9250766
link to the peterson reddit ama?
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>>9250766
Nobody like Peterson here, only smelly illiterate crossboarders shill him
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1: write an aphorism that don't make sense
2. post
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>>9250749
crumbs are distant from us only beneath our rumps, and these crumbs hold our spirit.
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>>9250749
there is a comefian that use that in his shows. sad you cant understand his language.
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>>9250749
squeeze out the pus from your pimples, it will never guide you.
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Is American Psycho recommendable? 2017-03-17 09:40:40 Post No.9250720
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Is American Psycho recommendable?
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I heard it should be a critique of American consumerism and the shallow society it creates, but I also hear it's more of a bad attempt and gore glorification. Don't want to waste my Shekels.
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>>9250720
>reading american lit other than pynch, melville, or gaddis
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>>9250721
Cannot follow, don't know what the fuck you mean.
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>>9250724
>lacking the mental capacity to parse that post
maybe vonnegut and twain will be more appropriate for you.
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DUDE FUCK FEUERBACH LMAO
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>>9250719
your mom will be always better then you.
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>>9250730
>then
that may be, but you won't
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>>9250733
me be you if i do be you me.
Where should I start with literature if I like the non-linear plotting and allegory of this?
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>>9250613
I don't know what "this" is, but one of the earliest and most infamous novels for a non-linear narrative structure is "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman", but be warned that it is really difficult to read.
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>>9250637
Watch it. Get over the hump of the first eight episodes and it's brilliant
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>>9250637
fuck tristram shandy and his hobby horses. Tom Jones and Gargantua and Pantagruel are superior.
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ITT: pretentiousness or cringe related to literature
>looking at someone's online profile
>Favorite books:
>'I can't list everything. Nabokov is too basic to mention. Lenin?'
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>>9250580
>Neesh
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>>9250580
>looking at someone's online profile
>they have a goodreads, letterbox and last.fm
shan't be having that
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How big was Moby's dick?
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A dick of negligible size. Nobody listen to techno.
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>>9250544
Bout tree fiddy
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Best thread idea ever on this board
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stop drinking low-fat milk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67JK_Yt93Q4
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>>9250530
I think this guy has had a bit too much full-fat milk.
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>>9250536
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You shouldn't drink milk at all. Milk industry has been shilling a lot, and even the "good for your bones" is a bunch of BS.
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Out of Muir, Bell, and Underwood, which translation of The Castle by Kafka would /lit/ say is the all around best?
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I have absolutely no idea, but I just wanted to advise you to read Metamorphosis, Penal Colony and Trial first. Either Castle or his unreleased stories are good ways to end with Kafka.
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The original German version is the best of course
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>>9250912
how many pictures of this guy are there?
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>be postmodern literary critic
>get pulled over for running a stop sign
>"Yes, officer, I read the sign, but I interpreted it to mean 'don't stop.' The intentions of the author are irrelevant to the text's meaning."
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>>9250455
The premise was good but your execution was lacking.
1/10 barely worth shitposting over.
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>police officer arrests you for shit-tier interpretation of the sign regardless of its authorial intent
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>be postmodern literary critic
>get pulled over for running a red light
>Well, officer, I thought it was more of a stop signI've done this at least five times on accident. praise kek no one has died
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Is there any point in argument? 2017-03-17 06:50:00 Post No.9250450
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Is there any point in argument?
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It seems that argument is so full of paradoxes that it barely sustains anything else. The clearer you see your own argument, the more you will suffer. The greater the distance between it and an other's dim argument, the more alone you will be in the perception of this distance. So engaging will only result in a feedback loop of anger while the other party remains unaware, maybe linguistically confused but mentally oblivious. Subjecting your own ideas and emotions to violence by opening the one way street to dimness for nothing. Even concession means nothing, neither intellectually nor emotionally, when coming from someone whose dimness and mind are the same thing.
So no thesis-antithesis-synthesis whatsoever. Just negative value from start to finish. It certainly reinforces the idea that the external world is a giant ruse.
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>>9250450
OP got BTFO and now is butthurt
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>>9250450
quantum logic surpasses classical logic and represents a superposition of contradictory axioms that helps us understand that objectivity and subjectivity are one in the same. paradoxes in logic are just evidence of the limitations in the logic itself, not so much as a flaw in reality.
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>>9250526
the fuck you talkin about, son?
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What are your favorite short books /lit/? Something you can read in a day, less than 200 pages, preferably even less than 100.
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>>9250413
The Hour of the Star
The Invention of Morel
Sombrero Fallout
Loitering With Intent
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I must admit, if a book is longer than 300 pages it tends to lose my interest. I don't know how people sit through 1k pages of something.
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>>9250428
Depends on whether the subject deserves that much written about it.