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>>9091385
James Joyce was the only true Romantic. Just read his letters to Nora.

>>9093241
Before BRAAAAAAPPPP threads on /r9k/, there was James Joyce.

>>9091385
Okay, so I'm an over-emotional loser with a preference for miserable, unrequited and tragic love.

There's Dante's whining about Beatrice. There's the Sorrows of Young Werther. What else? I want something even more melodramatic.

The subjects were hooked up to vaginal photoplethysmographs, which measured physiological sexual arousal based on blood flow to the genitals.

A couple of important things happen during ovulation:
• The uterine lining thickens to prepare it for the egg cell, which will attach to the uterine walls.
• A ripe egg is released from the ovary and travels down the Fallopian tubes toward the uterus in hopes that some healthy little sperm cells will be there waiting for it.

Merriam-Webster defines estrus as “a regularly recurrent state of sexual excitability during which the female of most mammals will accept the male and is capable of conceiving.”

In layman’s terms, it is a period of being “in heat.”

Ovulation changes a lot about a woman’s behavior.

Women unconsciously speak in higher registers when they are most fertile.

They put more effort into looking attractive.

They wear more revealing clothing.

Their walks are also sexier.

They are attracted to more masculine men.

They're much more sensitive to the scent of musk and the male pheromones.

Women are more likely to cheat on their mates when they are most fertile.

And men can smell them too. They’re more attracted to fertile women — and can smell when they’re ovulating.

Nature wants you to get pregnant, and it knows how to get you in the mood.

>>9091207
Generally, yes. Depends on what you're currently reading and what your library looks like.

>>9091207
The algorithm they have does. The users are almost entirely cancer though.

>>9091207
>Do people usually recommend good books?
That's the question you should ask, and the answer is no. People recommend popular and shit books, being great works in the first category sometimes.

this is me

currently reading maybe seven books

>>9090812
I know it's Peter Hitchens, but what exactly is that image from?

>>9090855
I don't know sorry, just got the picture from /pol/ to add to my Peter Hitchens folder

>>9090803
>yo-yo
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_genocide
>maybe
>all that and more

Stencil's father son
>wat

I've never read pynchon, recently finished ulysses, was thinking about reading lot49 and gravity's rainbow. Am I good or should I start with V?
(really wouldn't mind going "out of my way" to read it, would read it sooner or later).

>>9090878

I'd say start with either V. or go straight into gravity's rainbow, save lot 49 for after because despite it being considerably shorter than probably every other pinecone novel, its just as dense

V. is pretty easy to get through

or go for one of pinecone's later novels, like inherent vice which has something more easily identified as a plot

>>9089855
The Stranger is more similar to the spooky man than the alien or the outsider is

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Is this definition wrong?

>>9089855

I think the translation of "The Stranger" doesn't preclude the interpretation of "an outsider" but also alludes to the story that the main character reads while in his prison cell--where women kill "a stranger" for money without recognizing that they already knew him. It's a tragedy within a tragedy about how life's absurdity puts people in weird situations.

Translating it as "The Stranger" captures a broader array of meanings, in my opinion.

yeah i don't get it either anon, guess I'm just a fucking pleb but I'm pretty sure the words would be the same if this fucking nigger invested in some goddamn quotation marks every once in a fucking while

it's just thesaurus fanfiction, don't worry about it

>>9089399
I never had a problem witth McCarthy's style; it's easy to get used to. Myabe you're just plebem.

I am human being thus my perception is limited so i don't even care

>>9089284
>Inb4 quantum mechanics random quantum random quantum quarks quarks quantum

Free will is the belief that the agent field is produced by the human body. It has nothing to do with determinism.

bergson isn't that difficult and you're being unfair to nietzsche

marx is meme tier

>>9088518
>easy
>pre-socratic
>hard
>medievals
fucking lol

>>9088518
>Plato
Hard to understand that you classified him as "hard to properly understand". He's one of the easiest tho.

Also the post above me. Medievals, wtf?

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>>9088294
Hard to be a God by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky

>>9088308
the film of that is so fucking inaccessible

>>9088294
Burr by Gore Vidal is fantastic
The Master and Margarita by Bulgakov
Catch 22 by Heller
The Great Wall of China by Kafka
They Eat Puppies Don't They? by Buckley [it's OK.... I guess....]

>it took 9 months to read Don Quixote

>>9087891
really makes you think

>>9087891
First to the tenth of February, 2017.

>>9087379
Not Kacyznski. What a piece of overrated trash that was. Not an original thought in the entire manifesto. A regurgitation of better thinkers through his autistic lens.

The best thing he wrote was the 1971 essay, the one his brother read and recognized. Ellul is better. Zerzan is better. Just about anyone is better than Kaczynski.

He's interesting as a cultural phenomenon though, but ultimately a second-rate thinker.

>>9087400
I appreciate your criticism, especially since you didn't use the term 'pseudo-intellectual'.

>>9087409
Read his first essay, if you can find it. The manifesto and his later writings are pretty delusional and watered-down ideas of better minds who didn't make the same intellectual errors Kaczynski did.

That shit is mad gay

>>9084937
Depends, what is the name of the tree?

>>9084947
Samson

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>Chomsky is based

>>9078957
nice dfw meme, nerd

>>9078948
"X" is terrible.... now let me tell you how America is to blame!, every fucking thing I've ever read by Chumpsky.

>>9066591
>tfw you'll never get to sniff her ass

Alessandra Torresani

Half the thread averted before it was even posted

>>9066591
> civilization of worms
> dungeon gets isolated from the rest of the dungeons
> oj simpson trial to figure out why and who dun it

The Greeks

/r9k/

>>9093951

This man gets it