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>>9917783
no one?

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>>9917783
Nabokov. Read Pale Fire and Ada

>>9917712
>stay sane and living in the real world, or lose yourself and form a dream universe
You got this backwards.

>>9917712

>Is there inherent value in staying sane

You don't know what you're talking about. You're a young guy romanticizing something that you don't understand.

>>9917725
What are you saying, exactly?

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>horizon
>horizontal

>>9917238
>heel

>sieve

ok

>>9917054
how does jk rowling still make that much money

>>9917054
I think I read Stephen King once.

Of course, he hated white people.

I don't know who he is but Theodore is a queer name so yes.

Never trust a guy who is looking in both directions

>>9916922
>be Plato
>be essentially the progenitor of written Western philosophy, and thus of the written intellectual tradition of the West as a whole
>write dialogues both philosophers and laymen still love to read 2500 years after your death because they manage to be towering achievements of literature AND philosophy while simultaneously having layers that are accessible to intelligent readers of any intellectual background
>found the school after which the central modern institution of higher learning (academia) takes its name
>introduce basically every philosophical problem that would ever be taken seriously by philosophers for the first time in a relatively systemic form, and offer attempts at solutions to these insoluble problems that still have not been surpassed
>directly and indirectly influence every artist who was ever worth a damn
>mold the mind of a naughty young schoolboy from Stagira who attends your school and he ends up becoming nearly as important a philosopher as you yourself are
>actually be enjoyable to read while also being enlightening instead of being enlightening but overly-technical and a bore

or

>be Aristotle
>"hur dur Plato was actually wrong about the Form of the Good...there are lots of things that are good!"

>>9916922
I hadn't properly looked into his works until semi-recently

The sheer volumes of thought and wisdom he wrote concerning the natural world are fucking astonishing

I would love to someday read all of it

This notion that anything in the past is lacking in 'modern awareness' and is therefore obsolete is bullshit

Perspective is everything. Science refutes nothing that has poetic substance. Aristotle was not a mere scientific materialist by any stretch of the imagination.

I love both of them. They "go together", like yin and yang.

That one painting, whats it called The School of Athens i think, disparages neither, but celebrates both.

>>9916951
>not taking the bait

I can feel his chest on mine.
(This wicked future's warped your mind)
He hugged me to tell me he loved me,
(I didn't say to think that way)
and I hugged right back.

Years had passed among us in silence.
A love that didn't end in violence,
(It's perfect now though, isn't it?)
but a branch life's hands had split.

We never remembered to communicate,
so this dammed reunion burst the floodgate--
Filling thirsty rivers under the tree
of our early childhood friendship.

>tfw no one will read your poetry because it's not in english

throbbing in my mouth
the juicy entrails
of the penis

make me whole and
wiser than yesterday
for the moth burns brighter
than the flaming eidolon

my dick is an anchor
blue and cold
come in, please
come in

>>9916583
Apocalypse Now if that counts

>>9916583
godfather

Burgess literally created new slang and ways to speak. Kubrick did nothing so daring in the film.

But to answer your question, The Silence of the Lambs

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It consoles me, and when I have children I want to have answers to give them, so that they don't struggle as much as I did when I was young.

Because I still have the hope that, if I'm smart and interesting enough, he'll want me.

>>9916575
so i can shut my thoughts

Yeah but there's a problem with wikipedia scholars and also people who don't even read the wiki of an easily researched topic when posting

>can be edited by anyone
>heavily politicized
I'm afraid not, anon.

>read any article in area of expertise or interest
>experience the same sensation as when hearing 2000s journalists talk about 4chan

I don't even like HP or think she's all that attractive but I want to fuck the living daylights out of this woman.

>>9916451
I was about to post the same thing.

>>9916451
I came here to post this

The only thing that stops me from putting a bullet in my head is the delusion that I will eventually be able to get women to sit on my face.

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>>9916208
>be able to get women to sit on my face.

Why would you want that anon?

Tha-That's too lewd!

I had the same ones as you but I'm losing my control.

>>9916094

Karl Marx

>>9916094
Muhammad

>>9916097
what about his contributions to sociology?

>medical bookstore
>bookstore
>doesn't list selling books
Cmon B. Write sonnets on cheez its you sell and sleep with a bunch of nurses.

>>9916190
I was thinking it would be more book like when I applied. We sale a few medical textbooks and hospital personal stories but that's about it.

I would but my boss is anal as fuck and the majority of people that come in are married. Shit sucks yo

Im a baggage handler at an airport. Basically loading containers. Its shit I know but I am going back to university next year.

A side benefit is that I never had so much reading/writing time as of now. Lots of waiting time for luggage to arrive, dont need to focus on the work much, supervisors dont care that I read while working.

used to be the meme trilogy ie Infinite Jest, Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow

now it's white nationalist Youtubers and Jordan Peterson's reading list

your mother's cock

>meme trilogy
>iliad & odyssey
>moby dick
>brothers k
>blood meridian
>either metamorphosis or the trial
>bible
>lolita
>stoner

anything else universally loved or memed here?