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Last one died. Post your stacks and recent acquisitions. I'll begin.
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The sum of their parts somehow looks way worse...
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>>9926830
>B&N
yikes
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Is Stirner actually worth studying? Why or why not?
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Haha le spook xd
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>>9926804
Yes. He's heavily misrepresented, even by anarchists. I'm reading Kropotkin now and he conflates Stirner with a whole different school of thought, it's quite strange. I think it's because Stirner is so ascended.
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Also, read the paper: "would the real max stirner please stand up?"
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post your scores faggots
lets see if anyone here actually reads or if it's all shitposting
51 here. perfectly average...i hope
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>>9926206
>using the fake news chart
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>>9926206
I haven't visited this board for a while, did that recent english translation of Zettels Traum really cause you guys to meme it onto your 13th place? I can only assume that push of Finnegans Wake had some connections to that aswell.
Also, why do you guys keep bothering to implement anything past the ~50th place? Those have vote counts in the single digit range, I once samefagged an obscure favourite of mine onto the top list of 2013 or so.
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Also, where is Der Einzige und sein Eigentum? Did Stirner posting die down?
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I need more books like Finnegans Wake, The Cantos, etc. Books that can be researched into in every word
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The Bible. I am a Christian, but this isn't a pro-Christian shitpost. The scriptures are filled with intricate and intertwining prophecies, mysteries, and revelations. For example, almost every word attributed to Jesus in the Gospels can be connected to Old Testament scriptures.
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>>9926165
>almost every word attributed to Jesus in the Gospels can be connected to Old Testament scriptures
not OP but book about this?
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>>9926171
The Holy Bible
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LET THE GRAPHIC NOVELS IN! 2017-08-22 06:00:57 Post No.9926107
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LET THE GRAPHIC NOVELS IN!
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Against the proliferating climate of hate and /pol/ threads here on /lit/, I dare (dare I?) say, let the Graphic Novels in! Nobody on /co/ talks about serious stuff, they mostly circlejerk about retarded superhero stuff. O I invoke you, spirit of freedom in literature, and I pray UNLEASH THE MOORE!
(also the Gaiman, Ware, Clowes, Burns, Spiegelman, Morrison, many others)
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>>9926116
>Cages
>Maus
>David Boring
First three that come to mind
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>>9926116
>true art
Pseud detected
And no OP graphic novels are not literature. Please go back to your board.
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>>9926186
I visited /co/ maybe three times, and I was utterly disappointed
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Sup kafirs, I've made a Quran recommendation chart since there seems to be some interest in it. Hope it's helpful.
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>>9926080
Could have just said get the Study Quran?
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>>9926080
Worthless book
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Come with me, kid, I gotta show you this cool boat cruise
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Something's been bothering me, and I feel like it's a huge elephant in the room that nobody ever talks about, and that's the impact of something I'll call Excessive Experience. Excessive Experience is what happens when a person obtains more knowledge than their environment can support. I use the term experience rather than knowledge because the medium by which this knowledge is gained begins to develop in the mind as something more than just a medium. For example, books alone cannot produce excessive experience though they may produce excessive knowledge, in an excessive reader. However the internet, being rife with actions that translate symbologically to corresponding actions in the system, can produce excessive experience.
The reason I'm making a big deal about this is because 1.) Excessive experience produces a breakage between conceptual knowledge and real life activities and 2.) Because it gets exponentially worse and shows no signs of slowing down.
A concrete example of the effects might be: A person is involved in many online communities and each community has associated with it a vast body of knowledge with which he must be acquainted to belong to the communities. Mentally he is running on all cylinders, he develops deep mental habits around this body of knowledge, he is proficient in that regard, maybe even prodigious. But then he separates from the medium (computer/internet), suddenly everything has turned upside down, suddenly his vast conceptual framework, and the way he thinks and looks at the world, is no longer relevant, and more than being no longer effective, it is an extreme detriment to his well-being. He is now running uphill, Already at maximum capacity he is forced to experience a separate reality, the reality of real life. If he is to be proficient or prodigious at real life he must overwrite his experience (not knowledge, experience), overwrite his conceptual framework and mental posture which was formed according to a different reality than this one. Maybe it's too late, perhaps he doesn't have sufficient remaining neuroplasticity to accomplish such a thing. Or maybe he doesn't -want- to accomplish it, maybe he values one reality over the other; if he values real life more then maybe he'll be successful at it, but he won't be successful in the other reality. If he values the other reality then he won't be successful in real life, which has dire consequences, though in the end the consequences are just as dire in both cases; just because one reality is online doesn't mean he can more easily be rid of it.
Knowing all of this, he does neither, he wants to have his cake and eat it too, the result of which is total mental exhaustion, impaired ability to function in daily life, and eventually extreme emotional distress.
To be continued next post...
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tfw too smart
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>>9926030
i think in the olden times, in the long long ago, those used just be called dungeon masters
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>>9926030
nah, u just a retart
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General 2017-08-22 05:03:06 Post No.9925939
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/sffg/ - Science Fiction and Fantasy General
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Ghosts of the Past Edition.
>Which authors (iyho) do you feel defined the sff genre?
>Which current authors do you see leading us into the future?
FANTASY
Selected:
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General:
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Flowchart:
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SCIENCE FICTION
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NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
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What are some fantasy books with little girl protags who smash the patriarchy?
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Anyone else here with a small vocabulary?
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>>9925979
This isn't /pol/ anon
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In Search of Lost Time is the greatest work of art ever created. Ulysses is a close second, but Proust's writing puts one in a meditative trance of wonder that no other piece of art can.
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>>9925889
lel beta faggot have fun getting raped
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>>9925910
Do you believe in God?
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>>9925910
I do MMA 6 days a week and am a purple belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. I can squat 400+ lbs, and squeeze my glutes hard enough to crack a chestnut (I've done it), so it's almost physiologically impossible to rape me. Next time you talk shit here will be a fleet of Apache Helicopters swarming your position and reigning an ungodly fucking fury upon you. NEVER TALK SHIT ABOUT PROUST AGAIN, FAGGOT!
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I want to write a book
Should I do it on my computer or on paper?
Also
Are publishers trustworthy?
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you do you.
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>>9925495
I love this board
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>>9925484
just publish it on amazon as an ebook bro
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Tell me what it feels to be a male studying literature in collge (not an american BTW).
Will it help you to become a better writer?
Are most classes dominated by girls?
Are they cute?
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>>9925471
most of the girls are fat sluts but they're still better writers and readers than their male counterparts who only got into the lit course because of the huge influx of pussy. the teachers are usually late bloomer faggots because, much like gynecologist, they've seen so much pussy - usually in exchange for good grades- that they've come to dislike it
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>>9925471
No girl in my class is cute except for this airhead whose lipstick is applied in a poor fashion. Thin lips too! Sad!
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>>9925471
Yeah, they are. My Shakespeare class two semesters ago was almost entirely chicks. Was literally one of three guys in a class of 25. It was quiet as fuck though. No one talked before class or anything and all the girls were real shy about answering questions. Some were hot, most were average looking, and there were a few pigs.
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So what are you reading these days /lit/?
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Halfway through The Pale King.
Third of the way through Anna Karenina.
I have begun to tire of DFW... has anyone else read TPK? What am I to make of the chapters where he is writing as “himself”?
As for AK, I am really, really digging it. Tolstoy is much more accessible than I anticipated. I feel every page of the book so deeply (except perhaps for right now, where Levin is mowing with all the peasants... yeah I get it he’s gonna love his common man and be a civil servant like his brother has been urging him - but mowing ain’t as fun as affairs).
What about you OP?
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>fiction: En attendant Godot by Samuel Beckett. The French is easier than I expected.
>non-fiction: A Secular Age by Charles Taylor. The general conclusions are more or less solid, but detailed history is not Taylors forte, and the writing style is vague.
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>>9925337
I enjoyed the mowing parts of Anna Karenina, actually. It shows a lot about Levins changing character, and about the struggle to get close to the lower classes as a nobleman. And the prose is good too.
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Can someone explain to me why Lolita is praised as one of the greatest books of all time? I'm half way through it, and it's taken me the longest to read of any book I've ever read. The reason being, every time he starts talking about his love of little girls I just get so put off by what he's saying, I literally lose the ability to focus on it anymore. I would like a real explanation of why the book is considered so great, because I honestly don't see it.
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>>9925131
most people who like it sypatihze, it's what you call Freudlian
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>Can someone explain to me where the fruit is? I tried looking in the bushes where other people picked them before but got distracted by the colour of the leaves and spent the whole time just looking at them. I'd like a real explanation because I don't believe there's any fruit.
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HOMO thread
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Hey /lit/ it's /fit/ here. I don't really read all that much but I'm looking to make some brain gainz. What would you cunts recommend? Preferably non-fiction
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Aurelius' Meditations always gets posted when /fit/ is here
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>non-fiction
maybe plebbit will be more your speed
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>>9925087
Meditations is ok,but it's a series of reminders rather than actual instruction in stoicism. I'd recommend Epicetus and Seneca's writings OP.
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Thoughts on Knut Hamsun?
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I like mysteries. I didn't like growth of the soil. 50/50 on him.
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Dynamic writer. Hunger is so different from Growth of the Soil.
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Big brain nigga