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ITT: Philosophers that really jerk your braincocks.
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orgyofthewill.net
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>Pepe has turned into an Egyptian God of Chaos
>Wojack is evolving into a Lovecraftian Eldrich hyperintelligence
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For me it is Daniel Dennett and Jordan Peterson
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What does /lit/ think of Bukowski? 2017-03-10 08:32:30 Post No.9219213
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What does /lit/ think of Bukowski?
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Is his stuff worth any attention or does he mainly appeal a certain brand of slightly bitter young men who romanticize poverty, alcoholism, and promiscuity as part of some male fantasy?
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havent read him myself, but my gf isnt a fan for sure
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Both. His work is pretty good sometimes, but it's overvalued by these types of males. He's not a hero. He's not even an anti-hero. He's a peice of shit. It is interesting to look at the interior life of a degenerate like himself. The actual quality of his writing can be debated, but he definitely receives far too much praise from certain groups of people. I personally like Factotum and Ham on Rye.
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he really isn't all that bad but he has little to say. read ham on rye and cats and move on
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Do you have a favourite piece of creative non-fiction?
I'm most familiar with Borges and Eco's essays but I've recently been enjoying this voluminous collection of sketches (pic related). Considering picking up that selection of DFW's non-fiction pieces next.
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Consider the lobster is good
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Holocaust
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The Electric Koolaid Acid Test is great, as is much of new journalism. Wolfe also edited a good volume called New Journalism which includes stuff by most of the greats.
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I fail to see the appeal of this guy.
Boring as batshit.
Back to Tolstoy, Turgenev, Chekhov, Gogol I go
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>>9218932
Gr8 criticism anon
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edgy
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I agree.
How many books do you read a day?
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1/50th of a book or so
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3 or 4. Most days I have 45 minutes to spare.
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Over nine thousand.
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What is the correct pronunciation?
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who the fuck thinks they have different meanings. what the fuck
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>>9218799
I don't see any yellow on the map so I guess no one does.
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however the brits pronounce it is correct, anything else is a burger corruption
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Share your literary dreams, ambitions, thoughts, intentions, etc., etc.
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>>9218629
I want to be pegged by those beautiful women. So, I need to make at least enough money to hire them.
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I want to make a baby with those women in the picture
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>>9218641
why would you choose literature as a way to make money? if what you want is to be a filthy rich hedonist, you're going the exact wrong way.
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Is the internet soma?
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I wish.
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sure
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Pretty much.
You got shitty news outlets like BuzzFeed, Online, and the like which is like plebproganda.
Tinder is essentially the app that freely allows a fixation on having sex with people usually based solely on their social positions and
What am I doing with my life
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Hey /lit/
Tell me about some examples of young Instagram-authors
Or any author using social media as a platform to cultivate and proliferate their work, or as a tool to sell their persona, like your hometown girl Rupi Kaur
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>>9217488
alt-lit
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>>9217494
???
Do you have any authors in mind, specifically?
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>>9217565
tao lin
so sad today
mira gonzalez
Dear Coquette
megan boyle
noah cicero
sam pink
Marie Calloway
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Why does nobody talk about this guy? He was pretty good.
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Wasn't there a thread about him recently?
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>>9217279
I didn't know.
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>>9217272
He comes up every now and then when favorite short story threads come up. A Small Good Thing; They're Not Your Husband; Why Don't You Dance and Neighbors are some of my favorites
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Am I /thatguy/ in your class? 2017-03-10 10:41:02 Post No.9217158
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Am I /thatguy/ in your class?
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>Be me. Second week of university. My tutorial teacher has been talking about free will and determinism.(1) He asks what determinism actually means.
>I'm the only one to raise their hand. "It's like when you believe you're completely embedded in the natural world. It's a completely materialist view... It's naturalistic."
>"Yep, materialist, naturalist. Yep." The teacher replies, nodding.
>"Um, I think the word is... epicurean. Where you believe everything is reducible to the atom."
>The teacher raises his eyebrows, surely impressed by my sheer vocabulary. "It's atomist. Yes..."
>"I don't know... it's weird. I don't understand how anyone can actually believe in it"
>"You don't UNDERSTAND? What?" The teacher asks, shocked, turning away. "Okay, who in here believes in determinism?"
Then around three-quarters of the class raise their hand, some had given me strange looks as I'd talked. It'd only been about a week's worth of set readings (Nagel on Dennett, as well as Dennett) that convinced them.
1: Tutorials are small classes where we talk about lectures, homework, etc.
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>>9217158
>>Be me.
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>>9217164
"Being"
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>>9217158
Holy... I want more
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Females of /lit/
What should i read to finally understand women.
Men of /lit/
Post literature about women
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Dating books, its not hard. Just read the top rated books on amazon. Not pick up line books, but what make women swoon and show interest books. They slowly teach you to tap into the mind of the opposite sex and hopefully improve your relationships with them.
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>>9217157
"Don't try to understand women. Women understand women and they hate each other" --- Al Bundy
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>>9217157
I'm gonna need sauce, prontissimo
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china mieville's arms are huge
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what an gay tapestry
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>>9217082
he shouldve spent more time working out his BRAIN in the LIBRARY and not his ARMS in the gay GYM then maybe his writing would be decent
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>>9217085
>*Red 1 this is Foxtrot 6, requesting permission to engage troll*
>*Foxtrot 6 this is Red 1, Negative, do not engage the troll*
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They won't notice that you include your fetishes into what you write if your fetishes aren't inherently sexual.
I'm not sure if I'm doing this meme right.
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Am I doing it right?
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>>9216606
Yes you're doing it right. What are the fetishes you're including in your writing?
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>>9216379
yeah
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So I bought this 1920's psychology book being sold for about $2 at an antique store. Back then, when lobotomies were the cure to anything. Of course, I thought this to be a steal, and took it home with me. I opened it up and was pleased to find notes, and even time stamps on it from what I assume was a psychology student, and a small stack of hand written letters inside
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I've been trying to see if I can find a name in it to research the previous owner. There's a lot of writing in it, but this was on the last page of the book. I'm still trying to figure out what it reads
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>>9215837
Looks like Northrup
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>>9215819
Very curious, post more.