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eventually they will

>>9944493
No, computers don't have souls

>>9944493
>Do computers have consciousness?
No, but we don't either. Hard problem is a meme, what we call consciousness is just physically explicable behavior that revolves around treating useful non-physical fictions as though they were real.

Repetitive, boring garbage for hipsters? Eh, we aren't really familiar with such stuff here.

>>9944477
John Green

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>reading the reviews for anyhing to do with judaism

>>9944470
>reading reviews of anything even tangentially related to a subject remotely associated with an ethnic group beginning with J
>"THE TALMUD SAYS TO KILL ALL GENTILES AND THE HOLOCAUST NEVER HAPPENED PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF ZION ROTHSCHILDS SATAN MARXISM"

>read a review of any classic book
>"Racist, boring, I wanted to kill all the characters, like, chill k? nobody cares about your internal struggles.

Mann is so fucking boring. Just read faust (again if you have already).
There are some good aspects though. His commentary on music for example

>>9944455
I liked the chapter about Beethoven, I stopped reading at the chapter about religion. Felt like reading a scientific essay rather than a novel. I don't think it's bad, but it's a really hard read. Maybe I'm up to it in a few years. (I read it in German btw)

>>9944375
1984, Brave New World, Catcher in the Rye, Lolita, Game of Thrones, LOTR.

>>9944375
A legit pseud? The meme trilogy you fool!

>>9944375
Being a pseud is more than a choice in books, it's a lifestyle. Being an enormous pseud myself, I will point you in the right direction.

When you shop for books, always buy from Barnes and Noble booksellers, as they are the most reliable source of hip literature. Never buy books used, and especially don't buy mass market paperbacks. You're reading for the look. Next, you're going to want to buy books with provocative titles written by well-known authors. When you want to get into more advanced levels of pseudery, you'll want to get into pretending to read literature. Get yourself a copy of any book off of the /lit/ recommended "door stopper" books, open it up smack into the middle, and flip the page every now and then. Bonus points for staring into the page intently. Look up from your book every few minutes and pretend to contemplate what you've just read.

Congratulations, you've learned everything you need to be a genuine pseudo intellectual.

>>9944345
go away you elitiest shit

and so on and so forth

>>9944345
not it's Gustave

>>9944282

next on my list

>>9944282
When he talks about literature and philosophy and shit he sounds like such a pseud. Is this book actually readable? How skilled a writer is he? Does his comedy translate well? Is it Norm being Norm, or Norm being pseud with misguided literary pretensions?

>>9944301
I agree with you that he sounds like a pseud sometimes, but what he does have is a good grasp on Russian literature. The quote about it being "Dostoyevsky by way of 30 rock" is a bit much but that sort of gives you an idea of the feel. He's a surprisingly skilled writer and the comedy transfers well with a dash of that Russian bleakness, but it never seems to overreach for literary ambitions.

>The Lottery

is it insensitive to assign The Lottery in classes with muslim students who are then put in the awkward position of having to write about why stoning people to death for tradition's sake is problematic?

>>9944211
I laughed.

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>>9944084
try Comic Fatalism as in pic related, also read Epictetus

>>9944084
Write down what disgusts you over the top. There you go.

>>9944445
Or just think it, follow through with it no matter how small or stupid. Made me chuckle more than once involuntarily

>>9944010
Shakespeare

Franzen

>>9944010
quran

>>9943902

You should read poetry for your songwriting. The natural world is the only thing that there is. Ever consume vast quantities of THC, lie down in the grass, and listen to the music? When they get a device that lets me play back my thoughts, I'll be world famous.

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>>9943902
If you're going to continue your celebrity identity on an anonymous kite weaving board then you should definitely post your tits as compensation.

Whoever you are... I cannot recommend anything since I've already given up on nature
And you'll have to me more specific - I'm not sure what the purpose of the thread is

Was he really that good?

Did he really smoke weed?

Breakspeare

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>>9943862
Helped me enjoy myself in Atlantic City alot more. Probably won't gamble again, I have strong-points more lucrative than luck.
Very fun story about women and gambling. Fyodor was talking to beta bitches like us. Kinda mad at how it ended.

>>9943911
How'd you read/interpret the ending?

>>9943913
Literally

>consciously desire a perfect waifu who loves me
>subconsciously desire Emma Roberts who will beat me and mistreat me, possibly cuck me for chads or tyrones
>Solaris gives me Emma

>>9943829
Careful what you don't know you wish for.

>>9943827
You don't have to believe in God to believe to be certain that this has already occurred.

>>9943801
>does /lit/ unironically believe this?

no
not sure where you got that from

>>9943804
/tv/

>>9943801
>Fitzgerald
>god-tier
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH