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Mix of Nostalgia, being over-hyped, easy to read, and wish fulfillment.

>>9119782

Marketing. Everybody I know who read Harry Potter did so because of the movies. Warner Bros. pushed it all really hard and there are very few book-to-movie adaptations that compare (aside from Lord of the Rings).

Also that it's written by a woman is very important. I'm not /pol/ by it's hard to deny that this a cultural zeitgeist heavily dominated by female issues in media. The rise of female bloggers and journalists writing about issues that they want to resonate with people is why it's so often brought up (familiarity).

Personally, I think it Harry Potter were written by a dude its legacy would only be slighter bigger than Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy (a crap movie adaptation curbed more wide-spread appeal).

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>It's been 20 years

>>9119253
redpilled truth for Lord Kek

>>9119253
>Cast in the name of [insert a simple yet big word here]
>Happy Farm Friends
>Jargon of Akbar

~~~--=[xXxPussyEater666xXx]=--~~~

>>9119132
>writing gets dictated by the mouth, which is why Paradise Lost must have been rubbish...

It was still meant to be read though. It was dictated to a writer, it wasn't a transcript of a oral poem like Beowulf or The Iliad.

He'd have been better to compare a radio play or recitation of an oral poem to an audiobook than use that example.

Honestly, homomensch is the harris of lit imhho

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The Gay Man just fired some warning shots because he knows B-Dawg despises all of his works. Deep down Gaiman knows he's nothing short of a subpar pop writer without a message or purpose.

kys retarded crocposter

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>tfw you do nothing since graduation 2 years ago

>>9118748
Learn to code, get a job coding. If you're not socially retarded, that should be possible. You're welcome, OP.

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>When you realise the only way forward is to bring down Feminism

ftfy

>>9118973
>too afraid of heights to stand on the shoulders of giants

>>9119005
kekistan

it doesnt make sense that he's having Plato shoved into his head

like at all

person who made the pic (OP) is probably a dope fiend

>>9118587
>tfw you have a sudden urge to binge the wire

memes cant save you now spooker

Comfy is plebcore

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Remember: Oprah approval = the comfiest of plebcores

Water World was way better

>>9117609
what

>>9117595
i don't like his prose, his poetry is alright

crime and punishment obviously.

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>>9118279
Notes from Underground

>>9118283
This
>>9118287
This too
All of it

I actually think the genuine Men of History at the moment are people like Bannon and Farage.

I'm coming around much more to appreciating men of action. Especially right now.

I don't think I have any current heroes myself, except for my father.

But I think the matter of this whole extremely risky, last-minute stab at fighting globalisation (at least in its post-War formulation) is actually the only place where a kind of heroism has re-emerged and history has been rekindled.

Also, I know this might seem absurd, but I have to give a shout-out to the 4chan hivemind and its meme culture. It's had a remarkable impact and I really have been invigorated by the absurd, savage way it has managed to reconfigure the flows of information and culture and the very direction of history (anyone denying this is blind).

I like Houellebecq

>Nietzsche

he would have preferred your 'future self'

>a philosopher who people only remember because he got destroyed by Marx

Kek.

Stirner was merely a recurrence of sophism, which itself killed philosophy before it was born.

I (egoistically) love the guy, but he won't tell you where do spooks come from, or for which reasons.

>>9116943

>worthless

Kant would like to ram his Prussian cock up our end-in-itself.

>>9116943
I would kill a midget for this job

theater professor

>writer reads the words "gay lovers"
>"ITS GONNA BE AMAZING"
Women shouldn't be able to read

Thank you, June 27 circled on my calendar.

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Fuck you for making me look this up, OP. My soul weeps.

Day in day out for ten bucks an hour I have the privilege to lie to my fellow countrymen. The soulless husks of what used to be people at HR listens to my phonecalls like the fucking gestapo and if I lie well enough and polite enough they will give me a amazon gift card for fifty bucks. Sometimes when I day dream I think about saving up a bunch of those gift cards and then buy a rifle equipped with drum magazine and tactical vest and walk into this hell hole and lay waste to every empty eyed lackey I that I crossed. Then when the cops show up I would go down in a blaze of glory with a goddamn smile on my face. But then I remember that amazon doesn't sell guns, or ammo, or drum magazines and then decide to buy some bullshit instead. Four amazon gift cards received four piece of shit video games bought for my PS4.

My cubicle neighbors are a fat blue haired gash on my right and a effeminate “straight” white guy who likes scarves and tea on my left. I try my best not to converse with either of them for each time I do I either have to push down bile or rage. Their favorite pastimes are complaining about things that don't effect them and sharing shitty memes from facebook with each other. Which they do by texting each other and then barking out laughs and having a conversation about it and I'm stuck in the middle of this awful exchange. I have asked my boss many times to change cubicles somewhere away from this nightmare but he shakes his head and says that he doesn't want to mess up a good thing and that maybe my stellar phone answering skills will falter if I'm away from the two social justice champions. Sometimes they ask my opinion on things and I try to give the best non answer that I can come up with. But mostly they talk past me about how bad Trump is and how illegal immigrants are Americans too while I envision which route I would take if China invaded in order to become the most efficient guerrilla warrior.

The only solace I get while at work is the three smoke breaks which is one more than my last job at Target. I smoke my cig and shoot the shit with some guy named Dave who works on the other side of the cubicle bank and we talk about how we hope Trump keeps his promise about bringing back manufacturing because we're a half step away from torching this fucker down. But we really weren't. We were more like a couple miles away. Then we would move on and joke about how ugly and stupid our cubicle neighbors are and how hot the three conventionally average women were that worked in the center of the cubicle bank and how one day we're just gonna get up from our chairs and go over to them and say something suave and they would just immediately get on their knees and suck our dicks. Dave is a good guy and a good work friend. But I'll be damned if I hang out with him after work. When my nine hours are up I don't want to be reminded of this fucking hell hole in any such way. But if I ever got married he would be invited to the reception. He's a good guy.

After I am released from that prison I retreat back to my humble abode which is a one bedroom apartment on the outskirts of the city where the black people don't live. I don't have a cat because they give people brain parasites and smell like shit. I don't have a dog because it would become a retard from staying in its cage all day. So I have fish. Got a redbelly catfish from South America and I think that's pretty cool, my friends like it when I feed it people food. Everyday once I get home I do the same thing, I feed Caligula the catfish, I grab a beer and a joint, then sit down on the couch and exhale all the bullshit. Then the real fun begins, if I feel like playing my PS4 I play it. If if feel like shitposting on my laptop, I shitpost. If I feel like fuckin, I go on tinder and if all there is to offer is fat white chicks with half breed children looking for a relationship rather than a quick bang, then I jerk off. Which is more often than I'd like to admit. My life isn't lonely. I have friends that come over to get drunk and I have friends online to play video games and talk about politics.

But deep in my soul. All I want from my life is purpose, and in this wasteland of brainless service career paths I'm having a hard time. Maybe purpose isn't what I truly want. Maybe all I want is it to all fall apart. For society to peel apart at the seems and unleash an uncontrollable chaos which leaves people hanged from lampposts. Where paper dollars are just mere tinder and the main currency after the first couple weeks is food, batteries, women, and cigarettes. A world that is blown upon again by nuclear fire and massive sun flares. A hard reset so I can be something other than a man almost thirty that answers phones and tolerates endless bullshit in order to live in a one bedroom apartment.

Fuck this.

I like it. Very comfy. And exemplifies the mindset. Nice job.

>>9115947
>muh evolution

Take the redpill, numale fedora cuck

>>>/r/atheism

>>9115947
zoonomia

>>9115962
how bout i take my numale fedora dick and evolutionize it up your asshole

>>9115963
thanks ill check it out