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you must be gay (homosexual) if you don't like this book.

>>9215608
>Reading YA books
Not even once

>>9215764
No like I don't want to meme right now I want other people to tell me I'm not crazy in thinking this is awful shit.

Imagine yourself moving your hand without being conscious of it. You can't, because the presence of "yourself" in an action is what defines you being "conscious" of that action. But does "yourself" actually need to be yourself? This "agent" does not seem to undergo any change, or come from any point in space OR time. The detection of this agent by your brain in an action is what causes your brain to label that action as "conscious". There is no reason why everything in the universe can't possess this agent, as you neither know everything in the universe nor do you know the full scope of the agent.

So sit down and try to focus on that "feeling", so you can see how weak your grasp on it truly is.

>>9215702
Imagine one of these complex contraptions, where you put a single ball in the system and then a lot of things happen. But eventually there is no more energy to be used, so it stops. According to science, our bodies are one of these contraptions, but there is constant input and storage of energy from the outside.

Now, could you make a contraption so complex that it becomes "conscious" of its own self? I doubt it.

>>9215747
Yes

Yeah sure have you tried their full known works

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle/

>>9215470
just do the Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

or take an entry course in philosophy

>>9215453
It's not a presupposition it's a conclusion, quite a reasonable one too.
The I ought to exist if there has to be something such as thinking. For how could one think at all, or conceive of existing/not existing, if there wasn't an ego against the background of an existence.

Kant dun real goof'd thinking he refuted Descartes.

>>9215453
>attacking one of the most influential philosophers and his most widely-regarded proposition
>not actually reading any of his works

fatal error dude

>>9215464
Just because there seems to exist the condition of "thinking" doesn't mean the "I" which may be the source of the said thinking has to necessarily exist.

>>9215371
>not tapping into the shared wisdom of those before

>>9215371
>he thinks he can write good stuff without even reading what has come before him

you are 15, 16 tops

>>9215389
>he's not a genius

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le get up at 4am, run 2 miles, eat a nutrtious breakfast, write until 6pm, take care of some business and go to bed at 9pm sharp man

>>9215351
You don't need to read the pinball of 79. You should read wild sheep chase.

>>9215621
this

At least you have a reason to continue going there.

>>9215291
Local libraries are community centres anyway.

All you need is a few major ones where there is genuine variety.

>>9215314
FUCKING TOLD

I remember the first time I downloaded the book and noticed it was a pdf file and thought that was hilarious

he was barely an epub. and certainly no dot Doc.

>dick.mobi

>his girlfriend likes Harry Potter

I pity you anon, because mine likes it too

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>>9215137
She doesn't like it, she fucking LOVES it. She was like 7 when Pottermania took off, and that shit lasted for so long that it's just ingrained in her DNA. We live very close to Universal Studios LA so we've been to there about 25 times(in the 13 months we've been dating) just to go to the Harry Potter section of the park. And we took a trip to Orlando to visit the larger Harry Potter world at Universal Orlando. And next month we're going to London for Cursed Child, the studio tour of the Harry Potter movies, and shop they have at King's Cross Station. And she's already talking about a trip to Japan to visit Universal Tokyo for the Harry Potter world there. Oh, and her apartment is Gryffindor themed.
It's too much.

>>9215131
Anything Rowling did after the last book has been shit

>>9215102
Yes. And the rate of them per capita in my neck of the woods is very, very high. Wish I was at one now, in fact. When homes are no more, there will hopefully still be good used book stores. *sigh* your friend, the ghost.

>>9215102
when they dont smell like cat piss, sure

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>tfw literally no decent used bookstores nearby

>>9215030
>mother tongue
i hate this matriarchal expression. since when are women the creators or masters of language? I call it the father tongue in my house.

>>9215046
You're more encline to spend your childhood with your mom and thus her language, that's all.

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>>9215074
>encline

>>9215025

Worth a read. I could grossly oversimplify it though.

>Have a central point or theme
>Have characters that seem whole and have values
>Ensure the piece you are writing is driven by your theme and the values of your characters
>Deviate from this only when you know what you're doing

>>9215025
You could get all of these things by even watching movies

>>9215822
>>9216657

My diary desu

>>9214927
Lolita from Lolita

>>9214927
>Judge Holden from Blood Meridian.
nice b8

Tutuola was the african homer but in prose tbqhwy.

LUCIO COMIN' ATCHA

>>9214863
This. The Palm-Wine Drinkard is what you are looking for.

>Hey /lit/ explain this GENRE FICTION author to me
Shit bait senpai.

>>9214771
a guy in SFFG is nuts about her, better luck in there >>9212630

>>9214801
oh christ, you'd better not let him catch you talking about SF or fantasy outside of the general! he gets really upset.