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>>9908491
I didn't particularly like or "get" it either - it's mildly interesting that the people in the alternate history like reading about our version of history, but that's about it. No idea what he meant by all the I Ching stuff.

>>9908491
Don't think it's anything beyond an alternate-history novel.
I found it very underwhelming, and it actually put me off from reading any of his other works. Then i read Ubik and i was blown away
It was his first novel though, don't be tough on the guy

kill your self bookfag

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>>9908434
I always found this album to have to much going on for reading. It always captures my attention, does it not for you?

For me, pic related

>>9908442
The album you posted is a solid pick as well. Music for 18 Musicians is pretty active, but I have some issues with attentiveness due to racing thoughts, and its liveliness actually helps me stay focused. Its repetition helps prevent it from distracting me.

>>9908452
That's really interesting, what are your other favorites?

>>9908389
honestly? just read catch-22 and pretend it's vietnam.

>read 'nam book
>it aint me starts playing

>>9908422
love that song

go back there retard

go back there retard

go back there retard

If you are interested in Dostoevsky, read Notes From The Underground. There's also Journey to the End of the Night, but I didn't think it was very well written.

>>9908261
Without any irony, my diary desu.

>>9908261

A little sour there, Alex?

Just from reading the first sentence I can already tell you believe IQ has a direct impact on one's ability to write literature.

>>9908147
sage goes in all fields

>>9908147
IQ measures one thing only: ease of pattern recognition. This translates into ease of learning.

So sure, if you have a high IQ and properly learn your grammar and rules of prose, you'll most likely have better literature (if we measure the literature's merit by said grammar and rules of prose) than others with a lower IQ, faster.

That can be said about anything though.

Plato is probably not the beginning of it but he's one of the earliest, certainly in the philosophical tradition, to suggest the concept of a true vs. false world.

>>9908128
milkies pls

>>9908128
>If I make a 'counterfeit' Louis Vuitton bag that is 100% identical with the 'real' product then, I believe, it's a Louis Vuitton bag.

Then you're stupid.

Also counterfeit goods are never as good as the real thing, if you could make bags of that quality you'd be famous as well.

>>9907963
>reads one book of pop science
>"I feel like the way I look at the world is different"
Go far away and never come back

>>9907968
Yes I know it's a cliche reaction to reading it. That's why I want to read more. I don't want to stop here.

Pick up something by Mary Roach

>>9907907
Also what's the best app for each?

>>9907907
The Oxford English Dictionary is the only English dictionary (also the best thesaurus). Rhyming dictionaries are for brainlet faggots.

anyone who recommends something other than samuel johnson's original lexicon started with the romans.

His name suggests that things should be put up dykes.

>>9907838
What's Updike?

Why do redditors make so many threads about feminists?

>>9907826
>mfw blessed

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>book has front cover ripped off, as well as the pages before page 1

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>The book has a foreword, a preface, an introduction, a translator's note, an editor's note, an author's note, a glossary, an appendix, a bibliography, and an index

Use more terminology that you would find in those diagrams to drive home the point. You can do better than blood, heart, and open chest.

>>9907710
I tried but I just think its a stupid thing to say.

Maybe something like:

Clinical though it was, the dramatic scene of blood draining from his open chest only provoked meditations on the underlying mechanism at this moment. Images I had seen in class of the cardiovascular system with all its inner complexities came to mind and no passion was felt.

>>9907710
The scene was reminiscent diagrams of the heart I saw in anatomy class, words like coronary, aorta filled my head as I watched the blood drain

>>9907597
something loyalty something something hired gun, something something あなたはあなたのために大きな男です!

>implying 5'7" wasn't the 6'2" of Mishima's era

manletsbtfo

>>9907590
For me it was Kevin MacDonald's Culture of Critique Series

Start with the Greeks

>>9907590
Start with geometry.

>>9907547

There this girl at my work who sort of looks like that but she always looks so downcast and sad now, its actually pretty heartbreaking because she is actually fairly attractive

pshh what am I saying, I live for this shit

>>9907547
>the ego and its own
>using the Tucker translation

The correct title is The Unique and Its Property

>>9907547
its pretty kek that /lit/ fell for the stirner meme desu