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Where should I start with this man? What do I need to know beforehand? I really want to learn about whatever it is he said.
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Start by flirting with him. Perhaps say something in his ear, then kiss him on the lips. Know his cock is huge before giving him a hand. He said you're cute, anon.
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>>9178274
Simple - read the Tractatus then the Investigations. Might be worth investing in an introduction to or overview of his life and work. Also, familiarize yourself with the work of Frege, Russell and Whitehead beforehand, especially Russell.
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>>9178308
If you do this, you'll just be confused and thinking "what?". Don't read Tractatus right away, that's probably the dumbest thing you can do.
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>thought working in a library would be a comfy, low-stress job that would allow me to immerse myself in literature full-time
>actually spend much of the day wrangling homeless people, stopping fights between homeless people, listening to my co-workers bitch about how depressing the work is, and sitting silently as lonely pensioners tell me about their lives for over ten minutes
What the fuck. Why are libraries so shitty? I want to work in a college library but I'm stuck at the moment. Why can't this ONE place in society be free of normies and plebs?
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How is it possible to work in a college library when it means you'll be around PTP you'll never have and they see you as a loser? Being near colleges is unbearable for me
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>>9178236
I've transcended the desire for sexual intercourse.
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>>9178233
get out of america
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Any good /lit/ recommendations on The Occult and Magick? I want to learn how to immerse myself in the mystical pool of eternity and to cast magic spells and the like.
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there are 30 threads a day about this on /x/
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>>9178071
I want to see what /lit/ can offer me on the subject. /x/ are a bunch of weenies.
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>>9178232
>inb4 this thread becomes completely packed full of totally uncompromising weenies
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how would you describe a phrase like "black don't crack"
racial idiom?
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meme?
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Is she Jewish?
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only thing jewish about her is her penis
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Is life justifiable at the cost of all that suffering there is? Even if you're trying to be a decent person, you still feed on suffering of others, people and animals alike. You have your hi-tech phone, thanks to people in third world countries, abused by corporations. You have you're delicious meat, thanks to animals slaughtered in death-factories. You live in a wealth, thanks to all those goods your country have stolen from others through the history.
Why not just end it all, by removing every living thing from existence?
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>>9177885
all those spiritual dudes say that life is good, but i dont get them i guess, just as nietzsche didnt get them, though he kinda did get them in his opinion, but i believe to get them is to understand that life is good... what?
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>>9177885
>justifiable
anything is justifiable. For instance, life is worth living because I aw a cat eating carrots. Here is the justification.
The real question is why do seek a justification (to anything), when you did not even need one when you were a child. Or perhaps you are too much of a rationalist to even answer this.
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>>9177885
Absolutely it is. If you want to end it, go ahead. I don't care.
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What is a good journal?
I was hoping for something on the larger side and college ruled.
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google docs
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I use Tumblr. It's really great and makes me feel like my life has meaning.
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Literally anything, what matters is what you write in it you retard
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Was he just a cuck? I mean, I know he was brilliant, but he seems like a brilliant cuck.
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Define your terms.
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>>9177842
Stop.
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He was a failed cucker.
Tried to get the best of Wagner and failed.
Then he lived the rest of his life in shame.
His only enduring legacy being Bela Tarr films.
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ITT: Music that gets you in the mood to write
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXerF6crDRs
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AguPH0XBxdw
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Posting some of my fav tunes to listen to when I'm writing (mostly no vocals here):
https://youtu.be/Khsl3mzEJjg
https://youtu.be/4zb2vayZqmo
https://youtu.be/riIGC574wDU
https://youtu.be/j_En6insia0
https://youtu.be/sYqdQe4bD40
https://youtu.be/WkkIHd_oJ34
https://youtu.be/Q1B9xShJ2kE
https://youtu.be/yGbFuWRSJhs
https://youtu.be/Zww88qOSpZs
https://youtu.be/DCly9mdxe3I
https://youtu.be/FlFI7zsUM4U
https://youtu.be/gjDrEdEzfQc
https://youtu.be/LMJofOBaOiU
https://youtu.be/IYLDePO7dCQ
https://youtu.be/rj7soQh610g
I've got a pretty good sized playlist with a lot more than this. I like the variety to keep the emotions/writing varying and intense.
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How do I start with Pei's body of work?
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good joke
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you don't, unless you want to waste your time
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holy shit I bought that book when it came out and it's absolutely terrible.
only read if you are interested in bored druggy teenagers sitting behind their macs OP
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ive heard this book described as difficult. how hard is it and is it enjoyable? i liked white noise quite a bit. also don delillo general
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i love delillo but this is one of his few novels i haven't read
bumping for opinions, the jacket blurb always interested me
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>>9177851
what are some of your favorites? i have libra and end zone, and im gonna read end zone soon
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>>9177804
It's the only DeLillo book I started, and I did like it, but it was very dense. Call me stupid, but If a story starts off with 20 pages of math jargon, I can't keep going. I had the same problem with Foucault's Pendulum.
Are the rest of his books easier to read?
Shitty aspiring author here, quick simple question if you folks don't mind.
I read something earlier today that questioned why stories have such long, boring intros, and it made me consider skipping the intro of act 1 and the first door, and going straight into act 2 from the first page, and simply revealing what happened in act 1 through dialogue or other means.
Are there any good examples of this format that anyone knows of? Is this viable at all?
Thank you for your time
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>>9177797
just write an epilogue that recaps the whole thing.
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>>9177838
Thanks for your input, I'll keep it in mind
I'd love to hear from lots of people about this if possible
Thanks
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>>9177797
The author chose to have one, that's the only reason.
You'll find that your "dialogue" will end up just being a heavy two handed conversation aka info dump between two characters at some point though.
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Evola & Ride The Tiger 2017-03-02 07:44:53 Post No.9177779
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I've never read Evola, but have an interest in the future of art and preserving the genuineness of human interactions. I have a suspicion I would agree with Evola's diagnosis of the 20th century being made dissolute (and some of his contemporary Frenchy thinkers could probably have describe the means).
I ask you, anons, is this book worth the time/money? What about Rene Guenon?
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>>9177779
>is the book worth it
>what I am getting into
>will I like it
Why don't you start by reading it?
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>>9177783
Table of contents looks okay, but his other books give me pause, particularly his Metaphysics of War which is an attempt to glorify the role of maleness in war. I'm fine with examining rituals of initiation, especially given the guy was a WWI artillery officer, but he strikes me as just another redpill anon. I'm worried his convictions will make this book useless in 2017 and beyond.
I would have to pay full price to start reading the book, guy.
>what is causality lol
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>>9177816
>go to bookzz
>grab it
>read and decide if its crap or not
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hi im stupid guy
if read this will be smart??
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>>9177772
Smarter, yeah.
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>>9177772
Read Zizek if you want to be smart. Other philosophers like Joyce make you dumb
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>>9177781
>Zizek
im smart enough to know he is a walking meme
u fucking white supremacist
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Why isn't anyone bold enough to use greentexting as a literary device? 2017-03-02 06:54:56 Post No.9177660
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Why isn't anyone bold enough to use greentexting as a literary device?
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Greentext stories are the most sincere form of storytelling.
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I tried to write a greentext novel when I was 13/14 and had just discovered 4chan
It's just as bad as you think it is
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There's nothing literary about greentext stories. They're bare bones, junkfood sentences. You put in the subject and predicate, and as little else as possible into line.
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>>9177663
be me
in this book
writing it about my life
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actually im going to journal like this now
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Do you read more than one book at once?
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>>9177646
I tried to juggle two books at once
the librarian yelled at me and so I stopped tossing the books, picked one and went on my way.
thats when I learned that I cannot juggle.
on topic, nah
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I generally don't, but I do understand why people may do so especially when reading particularly long works or non-fiction. That being said, there are some works that I think definitely should be given complete attention, but that might just be me.
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>>9177646
i read a few chapters of a novel on the morning that takes me about a week to finish and at night i read essays/short stories that take me a day or two