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>>9040448
Nope, I'm more of a banana guy myself, read mainly Pynchon.

>>9040448
grapes of wrath

they were pretty mad grapes

>>9040455
Aint no grapes there except conceptual ones. I'm talking down right honest to goodness GRAPES.

>>9040413
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read 300 pages of ulyssess and it was boring as fuck. so now I'm reading ancient history by mcelroy and it's really good.

I've read 8, having started a couple in December

>Great
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
Dubliners. By James Joyce
Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez

>Good
Murphy, by Samuel Beckett
War & Peace, by Leo Tolstoy

>Okay
The Story of the Night, by Colm Tóibín
Thérèse Raquin, by Émile Zola
London Triptych, by Jonathan Kemp

>>9040413

I've read 9, and I'm reading Enough rope by Dorothy Parker White Buildings by Hart Crane and The Piano Teacher by Elfriede Jelinek, will probably finish them in early february

>great

J.G.Ballard – Crash
Harlan Ellison – I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
The Epic of Gilgamesh
James Baldwin – Giovanni’s Room
Alexander Pope – An Essay on Criticism
Anne Sexton – To Bedlam and Part Way Back
Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse Five

>okay

Haruki Murakami - Hear the Wind Sing
Haruki Murakami – Pinball, 1973

well i can tell youre a shit poster and in need of some of validation but thats about it

>>9038501
I can tell you probably didn't understand or read Kant, I can also tell that you have a very weak grounding in philosophy.

>>9038501
>What can you tell about me by my modest economy/politics and philosophy shelf?
You know very little about these subjects, lack any proper training in them, and are very insecure, needing approval and looking for a place to fit in.

>yfw cyborg studies as an academic discipline is founded in feminism, queer theory, socialism, and disability studies

Read "The Cyborg Manifesto"

Write the new benchmark for cyber punk

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>they're going to make a shitty reboot of this movie because muh shekels

>>9037132
muh nonviolent resistance

Did he believe in an omnipotent, prayer-answering, god? Did he believe in the trinity? Transubstantiation?

Everyone creates their own form of Christianity and then proclaims it to be The Right Way to Live. The horse-and-cart analogy only works if you believe that whatever it was Tolstoy happened to believe is The Right Way to Live. Otherwise you could argue that your version is the right one, and Tolstoy was the one being dragged. It's not an argument.

I have not read all of Tolstoy's works, but I don't believe he had all the answers. His religious works and views are not that popular and I think that's telling about his persuasiveness.

>>9037132
>>9039006
He is pretty fucking clear. Yes you have to live a Christian life re:dogma.

But if you are doing so, and then giving legitimacy towards a state or religion (theocrats in the US, the Orthodox authority in imperial russia) that promotes violence or stands against the precepts set on the sermon on the mount, you are at worst a hypocrite, and at best not fulfilling the instructions of Christ.

>>9035781
Read any sentence in your text and ask the question "so what?". If that question is not answered, or answered unclearly or too far away in the text, then your text is not cohesive enough. Answer it.

>>9035781
Most important thing is to know exactly what you want to say (and stick to it). Nearly everyone of my fellow students writes like shit because they don't know what they want to say. Then all you have to do is figure out how to make your point, which you'll probably know by now since you know what you want to say. Treat your sentences as building blocks with which you make your argument, using >>9036311 as a strategy. In this process, use standard sentence structures and transition words, both of which actually do all the work for you. It's not that difficult, certainly not as difficult as writing literature.

>>9036311
>>9036419
any examples of good academic writing?

>>9034896
You're largely correct in your reading of Buddha but I don't see any correspondence there with Hegel

>>9034902
>get my reading of buddha right
>fuck up with Hegel
fuck.

idk, maybe my explanation only lines up with materialist dialectics. iirc it's basically identical to the argument Trotsky puts forth with his idea of A only being equal to A provided A doesn't actually "exist".

Your "everything flows" way of putting it just amounts to something evident in my ears. Yes, there is time and changing things are different at different times. It this sense notions like "self" and "me" are just linguistic tools to capture phenomena.
I don't need to consider ties to Buddha, Hegel, Stirner, Heidegger or anything to say this checks out.

>>9034180
I'd tell you but it's theft-worthy

I figure my editor will make a strong suggestion

>>9034180
love, adornment and the things I will never understand.

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>>9033431
Don't respond to them, just report the trash.

Reza Nagarestani - Cyclonopedia

>>9033415
The (You)baiyat of Omar Khayyam

>>9030593

- look at kripke and work your way backwards for more contemporary stuff.
- vienna circle and logical positivism

and of course, wittgenstein.

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>tfw no philosopher of logic wife

>>9030831
this.

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Lads how high should I let this stack get?

>>9029016
You should get a book shelf, stack it on top of the books and then fill the shelf with more books.

>>9029031
lol that's retarded. all my shelves are filled and I'm lazy to get a new one.

>>9023102
Nope.
Now fuck off.

>>9023102
Giovanni of course. Evola doesn't support it perse but he's pretty close.

>>9023102
W. B. Yeats.

>>9045987
I don't succumb to shitposting on /lit/.

>>9045987
because I'm reading the superior american prose stylist Joseph Mcelroy.

>>9045987
because Dalkey still won't reprint their shit. COME ON GUYS. AND WHILE YOU'RE AT IT, GIMME TAKE FIVE.

> furry
What exactly is your writing style?

It's not great. Not terribly surreal either. His surrealist manifesto is too specific and ideological to accurately define the characteristics or motivations of the movement too. Breton strikes me as more of a hanger on than a serious artist.

>>9045834
It's surrealism. Did you buy it expecting a simple, easy novel? Do you not research books or authors before buying them?

ironic.............isint it

because its better?

>>9045528
This.
Shelley's poem is better and Shelley is an overall better (and better known) poet.