why wouldn't her publishing house hire a dietitian for her?
why no dentist for Pynch?
>>9094861
She IS Pynch.
>>9095088
I almost pynched in my pants xD good joak
>>9094861
Sugar addiction is a horrible, debilitating drug. It is difficult to give up our drugs of choice. Some people cannot even admit they have a problem. And if we can't admit our problems, we can't mature past them: for even for everyone's sake.
Who is America's foremost prose stylist?
>>9094365
Why do you idiots keep making this same thread again and again?
>>9094371
Because you idiots won't give an authoritative answer to end all the naysayers.
>>9094365
my teacher said that Coetzee is the master-level english stylist.
America? Didn't say hehe
5.1361 "The events of the future cannot be inferred from those of the present.
Superstition is the belief in the causal nexus."
Isn't this what Hume argued?
Yes. Yes it is.
>https://maartens.home.xs4all.nl/philosophy/wittgenstein/Tractatus/5/T5.136.html
>What is true is the less spectacular "There is no causal nexus in logic to justify such an inference", as Hume also argued (and Leibniz, and Autrecourt, and Ockham).
>Whether "There is no causal nexus in reality to justify such an inference" is another problem, and it is simply false that the former entails the latter, since there is more to reality than logic alone.
>And it should also be remarked here that any empirical testing of propositions involves an assumption that what the propositions mean is in some sense invariant, and holds in the future when and where the propositions are tested by their empirical consequences, for only in that case are such verifications or falsifications as one finds relevant to the probability or credibility of the propositions from which they logically follow.
>>9094289
Yes. Bravo. You've found the reference.
>>9094300
grazie.
Thoughts on this man /lit/?
What hides behind those eyes?
>>9093645
Awful self-doubt, anxiety and pain from the ulcers that would eventually kill.
>>9093650
Sounds like me, desu. Except for me it's the colon. He even looks a tiny bit like my father.
>>9093645
I quit 2/3rds into I Am a Cat because it was boring and the translation sucked. Should I bother reading more Soseki or is that it?
When Lord of the Flies is not enough.
Shoot the nips
Bud the kids
>>9090979
Bud the nips
Kid the shoots
>>9092888
Kid the Nips
Bud the shoots
We were having a great discussion yesterday about Bannon's library (>>9075761) that ventured into Land, Deleuze, autism, and schizoanalysis. Unfortunately the thread hit bump limit after only a single day. Does anyone want to continue that discussion here?
>>9084193
fug drumb
I need to take a look at that thread, but after reading a profile on Bannon, all l can say is he's a very interesting person to say the least, regardless of your views on the Trump administration.
Here's a link if anyone else wants to read it: https://qz.com/898134/what-steve-bannon-really-wants/
>Nietzsche book
>cover is The Wanderer Above the Sea Fog by Caspar David Freidrich
>the wanderer is the ubermensch
>20th century german lit
>cover is Egon Schiele
>Greek philosopher
>Cover is the School of Athens by Raphael
Which is worse? People who don't read or people who read shit?
People who buy reclam are the scum of the earth. "Yes it's a yellowish, extremely cheap paperback and falls apart after a week of reading but it's cheap xDD" Disgusting.
>>9099700
Price matters you cunt.
And it's yellow
It's unusual.
Bu at least it's comfortable to hold.
>>9099706
I bet you study Germanistik and shop at Hugendubel you delusional poorfag.
What do you guys do if you spot someone in real life reading a shitty author?
>>9098989
i dont talk to women
You mean a woman? Ask her out
>>9098518
No. He just uses /lit/ to drain money out of really insecure upper & upper middle class people with no real problems. He is a glorified self help Guru.
>>9098518
This guy looks like Prince William with downs
>>9098518
he ugly ;)
>the best philosophers in history jointly studied science and mathematics
Is it possible to be a truly great thinker without training your mind with science? Think of Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle (really, all the Greeks), Descartes, Leibniz, Newton. Then think of Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and all other philosophers who are basically just memes despite dedicating their lives to what was a hobby for real thinkers to aid their real research.
>>9097271
define 'truly great thinker'
>>9097271
all fields have reached their own particular levels of specialization that it would be absurd to think that anyone can make meaningful contributions to more than one. descartes, while impressive himself, thought that gravity operated like a vortex. thats just where they were at the times.
>>9097282
>gravity operated like a vortex
...but it does
What's the meme trilogy of the 2010's? I feel like this is close...
Fuck you phone pic
>>9097197
The Yurope! Duology
Behead All Satans
The Magnificent Third Rail
>>9097197
No reason that Bleeding Edge and Cannonball should be there. Taipei is a must, though.
Does any literary sci-fi exist besides pic related?
I don't know.
Look into 'new wave' sci-fi. Ballard, Dick, leGuin, Moorcock are all varying deveees of literary.
Also I think William Gibson is a great stylist.
Blindsight, friend.
Will her books still be read in 1,000 years?
>>9097041
literally who?
>>9097041
the bogdanoffs have added her to the western canon already
>>9097041
Is she that hack who wrote those wizard books for 8 year old kids?
One of my high school english teachers despised Hemingway and termed him a 'misogynist.' But isn't the entire book about how a bunch of orbiters agree to go on a trip with a women that leads them on. It's true that the only female character in the book is a terrible piece of shit. But the rest of the male figures agree to go along with her. Lady Brett is terrible; but a bunch of dudes who wanted to fuck her agreed to go on a week-long trip to Spain with the goal of fucking her.
I want to know other opinions on this book
>>9096588
>One of my high school english teachers despised Hemingway and termed him a 'misogynist.
Well who would have thought that a man born and grew up before the feminist would have traditional views on gender roles? How ridiculous!
Your teacher is an idiot.
>>9096613
Yeah, but I don't understand how this book displays "traditional views on gender roles." When I think of traditional gender roles, I think of Men who act and women who react. But the book robs males of all agency, the narrative is controlled by a single women
>>9096650
I agree. If one hates a book because you think its "sexist" then they really shouldn't be teaching children with that ignorant and simple mindset.