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>>9095233
>Jane Austen
>/lit/
Top kek

>>9095233
I purposely read 15-20 books by top female authors to impress /lit/ women.

It would have served you better to trash Austen and elevate Eliot or Willa Cather or Woolf.

>>9095233
>Jane Austen
>Jane Eyre

This shitpost is next-level

>>9092212
It goes against God's will.

Any philosophical ideology that isn't ubiquitous cannot be true. Can a society function if everyone in it is a hedonist? Nope, hence hedonism is retarded.

Deliberately seeking out to maximise pleasure actually interferes with experiencing pleasure. It's too self-aware.

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>>9087387
my apt couch

>>9087387
pic related is comfy as hell

>>9087472
>that hairy fish

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>>9106541
>red pill
>deluded kike drivel

in my opinion

>>9106541
For some reason this book is despised here. Even if the author is totally wrong, I enjoyed the parts of the book about the search in monastaries for hidden works of classic knowledge and the vatican political aspects.

I feel like main thesis was not well proven though, but it did get me to read lucretius.

>>9106483
i just uploaded it to soulseek.

http://www43.zippyshare.com/v/yCQXqeKL/file.html

>>9106489
btw, this looks like the reviews/reaction to pulitzer prize winning feel good novels for menstruating women.

>>9106489
Thank fuck. I am reading it in the store and on page 50 I was very tempted to buy it.

board is actually trash. I left when the unpubs and polfags wouldn't stop making "i hate women because they wont have sex with me so they're terrible authors" threads

>>9106324
Fuck you faggot I like you too.

>>9106324
>we don't read
For shame, anon

>>9106220
no
also kys

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>>9106220
just become a race realist libertarian monarchist, it's what all the smart people are doing nowadays.

>>9105853
C'mon, OP, this is an easy one. Think of it this way: what is the source of ideas in Berkeley's idealism as opposed to the source in solipsism?

After you answer that, consider this: is Berkeley attacking the existence of minds, or solely mind-independent objects? The difference should be clear now.

>>9105853

esse his cleft chin percipi

Solipsism doesn't even mean anything. It's mainly used as an insult by STEMlords. Had it not been their go-to non-argument, it would be even more obscure than ideas like anal breathing.

Subjective Idealism is Gnosticism with training wheels.

>>9105852
I'm guessing attention span and interest are your problems.

Start reading short stories in a genre that interests you, don't worry about being literary or if you think it's trash, start off with what you can read easily. Then read novels in your favourite genre(s) and branch out into some accessible lit. When you're able to read and digest book at a decent pace and competence move on to more difficult stuff.

>>9105891
Right now im reading Mason & Dixon but havent even touched it in a while because im busy with school.

>>9105907
>Busy with school

School comes first, think about reading more when you have more free time.

>>9105819
Achilles and Ulrich from man without qualities. I only know this from a lecture I watched with the topic being the question you asked.

>>9105819
Ouch, those lips. Why would somebody do such a thing to their face?

What defines Don Draper? I've seen a couple of seasons of Mad Men and I'm not actually sure at all. Is that the idea?

>>9105765
Some nonsense about 'seize the day' and achieving one's fate and full potential, but worded in an incredibly awful way.

"On Novels: each plot-event is preceded by foreshadowing. But, without the protagonist, there is no plot." Nonsense.

Maybe: "Life is an expanse of fixed branches and roots. But, without the hero, those paths will decay." With some fixes, ofc, but I haven't had my morning coffee.

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>>9105814
One can easily translate this obscure wisdom into Marxist terms: "The general outlines of each revolutionary event can be foretold by social theorists; however, this event can only really take place if there is a revolutionary subject." Or, as Badiou might put it: "Only if there is a subject, can an Event occur within an evental site. " Which is why, for Badiou, the different modes of subjectivity are simultaneously the modalities by which the subject relates to the Event —echoing Kant's thesis that the conditions of our experience of the object are simultaneously the conditions of the object itself. Badiou elaborates four such responses: the faithful subject; the reactive subject; the obscure subject; resurrection.

>>9105765

That he is a fan of the Gothic DVD games, like all patricians.

>>9105672

kek.

/lit/ doesn't read books that aren't pre-approved by hipsters

>>9105672
those stories sound right up my alley but I'm unfortunately not familiar with them. you may want to look into the stories of Arthur Machen, who mixed elements of paganism and Welsh folklore into contemporary (at the time) settings.

>>9105672
arthur machen or m.r. james both have stories in the folk horror vein, there's also some p. great folk horror movies like 'whistle and i'll come to you' (based on one of james' stories), or 'the wicker man' (the old one, not the one with nicolas cage, avoid THAT one at all cost), or 'robin redbreast'. there's also a movie based on gogol's 'viy', but i haven't watched it yet

Neuromancer - William Gibson
The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss
Bottoms Dream

>>9105671
Ficciones - Jorge Luis Borges
That is the book that brought me back to the /lit/ world.

The Greeks

>>9105656
What do you need a book for, you said it yourself. Make good habits and manage your time.

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>>9105656
Mason Currey, "Daily Rituals: How Artists Work"

The Bible

Weddinsday in my locale

This is something you may like:
https://qz.com/862325/the-great-american-word-mapper/#int/words=anime_waifu&smoothing=3

If you want pop science books on linguistics I could suggest some

>>9105604
>not calling it Midweek