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I'd say a good 10-pages encyclopedia article about Hume is enough, but /lit/bards are gonna get mad at me for that.

If you decide to read some Hume, the Inquiry into human understanding is probably enough, even if you'll only grasp the relation Hume-Kant through one point of view (causality). There are other relevant points of view (regarding the self, morality, etc.), but the Treatise is long and contains a few brilliant pages among hundreds of other pages that can be skipped (if you mainly aim at reading Kant).

>>9232868
It's not 'strictly' necessary, but it is going to make it quite a bit easier to good into Kant if you know your basic early modern empiricism and rationalism, exemplified in Hume/Locke and Descartes/Leibniz. I would say that Hume's inquiry would be sufficient enough.

>>9232967
>>9233138
Thanks guys. Regarding Leibniz & Descartes: which works are must-reads and which works can be safely skipped?

>colonel
>maize
wat

>>9232849
"kernal" you twat

and op I have no idea, why is lieutenant pronounced left-tenant?

>>9232898
Is this umpteenth level irony? I don't actually think people get this dumb yet sound so smug.

>>9232798
College=creating a network

>>9232846
>what is the internet

>>9232798
you aren't going to get fucked on the internet

idk

yo soy pobre comoel foquin chavoelocho
yo soy pobre peo si quiero algo lo cojo

>>9232612

>Buying intangible goods

>>9232555
Valis by PKD
>inb4 memes

infinut jest

>>9232539
>free money
>what is opportunity cost?

>>9233508
Add up all of the shitposts you've ever written
That is opportunity cost

>>9233526
(you) got me there friend
But I'd still rather shitpost than write genre fiction.
Time spent enjoying oneself > time earning money.

17thc English lyric poetry in general makes me sad. Perhaps because it's so remote, superannuated, done

>>9233383
Post some family

>>9232531
JEEEEESSSSUUSSSSSS IIIIIMMM RRRREEEEAAADDDDYY TO COME HOME

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>>9232530
kill yourself leftist cuck

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>everything I don't like is fascism.

>>9232557
lol butt devastated

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For smugposting only

>>9232523
His magnum opus. The end of the 3rd book and the 4th book.

Smellin' My Balls While I'm Takin' a Shit, by Arthur SChopenhauer

If you are going to listen to pop music at least listen to the beach boys or whatever

So why don't you write something then?

I'd also argue that reading the canon *is* part of learning to produce something.

I like RAW a lot. He introduced me to Korzybski in a comfy Youtube talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6sC4zstiWQ

>j*yce lover
>unironically talks about crowley

He's a mess.

>>9232382
>The trans-humanism and space colonization stuff didn't age well
To be fair, he got that from Leary.

Very little of Wilson's material is original, but he was truly a master synthesist. Reading him will always lead you on to obscure and fascinating lines of research.

>>9232364
Cats, tentacles, and niggers.

Houellebecq has a good book on it. Joshi is the major Lovecraft scholar.

He read a lot of weird fiction too. Dunsany and MR. James and stuff.

Hey, I started a horror general here:

>>>9233795

>>9232322

She must've really hurt you, OP

Really made me think.

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>woman writes one-star review of classic novel
>247 likes
>man writes one-star review of classic novel
>6 likes

>>9232196

The point it that's it's a beautiful novel that's very skillful but also very funny and moving. But it's not a novel you read once and then forget about, so readers who just want to be easily distracted for a few hours won't get much out of it. You will have to reread it over your life, doing some research and spending some time doing close reading to reap it's rewards.

Also here's a helpful podcast:
>http://blog.frankdelaney.com/re-joyce/
RIP Frank Delaney

>>9232196
give it a shot! even if most of the allusions go over your head (as they do with everyone) you'll enjoy it greatly and will revisit it again and again throughout your life.

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No good author ever wrote a novel thinking "gee whiz I can't wait for only college kids to read this in 100 years"

>>9232021
== Poems Of Gnostikoi ==

These poems were written by Nathan Kayhan between the years 2014 and 2016 in and around the city of Oakland, California, United States Of America, America, Gaia (Earth).

== Poems Of Gnostikoi ==
= Whoosh! =

Don't think too much;
you'll miss the rush.
And after all,
who wants to be lonely?

= Whoosh! =


= Get Ducky =

On the bus,
I wanna cus.

Take a swing,
ding-a-ling.

Round the Lake,
wake-n-bake.

Have a trip,
damn I slip.

Get on up;
some chick says, 'sup';
hands me a cup.

Says it's coffee;
taste it--hardly!

Whoa man!
this ain't the plan.

Damn, I fall.
How'd I get in this hall?
And why've I got a ball?

Balls:
two of them,

swollen as fuck,
dying for luck.

But I ain't got a buck,
nor can I see through this muck.

Sometimes I wish I were a duck!

= Get Ducky =

>>9232388
Please tell me this guy has never taken the 1 or the 1R so I can be sure I've never ridden the bus with him.

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>>9232021
"some"?
you mean there's more than one?