Which book is perfect in your eyes, anon? Not just something you enjoyed, but something that's a full 10/10 for you.
If you can, suggest another book you think that fellow anon may also enjoy.
For me it's Don Quixote. My heart broke when it finished, Sancho and Don Quixote never got to be those shepherds.
Hands down this.
>>9877503
Did you read the Denny version? Was it readable?
PARADISE L O S T
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/08/21/is-there-any-point-to-protesting
>>9896715
paste the article contents you absolute fag
>>9896718
Its quite a long read. Just read it.
>>9896715
Open a discussion or fuck off.
I hate when idiots make reading assignment threads. What are you the fucking professor of /lit/?
>here is an article for all of you to read!
Great fucking thread dickhead.
fuck off gay redditor burger
*cums on your face*
>>9894436
and then someone comes along and sticks a switchblade in your gut, and this Modernized "God" is revealed to be just a reflection of your own hubris and is just as frail and finite as you.
Yeah...some "God".
Retards like Peterson shouldn't try to define things that transcend the limits of their specialty (His literally being listening to retards on a couch talk about their failed sex lives and giving them self-help catchphrases dressed in academic verbosity).
This isn't Christianity, it's apostate Materialism usurping the language.
>>9894464
Peterson is more likely to be babby's first step to religion than the outcome of it.
let us not forget that tearing down statues is an act after a regime has fallen. let us destroy this invasive and plaguing regime growing in our midst by instead murdering communist puppetteers, destroying their fundraising abilities, assassinating their brains, not their celebrities, not their facemen who will become martyrs. but eradicate those who hold the keys in their groups, people who know the passwords to their many leftist group funds, let us kill the man with a thousand and one numbers saved in his cell phone, all connections, all groups of bribery, of degeneracy, etc.
let us find them where they sleep, in the gardens of depravity, the warehouses they use to do drugs and connect and plot. let us go and destroy these shadow businesses, placeholders for tax exempt slush funds aided by leftist politicians and controllers. let us destroy their brains. without organizaton, they are nothing but silly rats. that is what makes a smart man, a smart group, to surgically strike the nerve centers, not to overwhelm like barbarous vermin.
i suppose it is not time for men to fight. they do not stand up beneath a true and fierce leader. they burrow underground into mines, factories, mills. they do not wish to fight. shame. they will be destroyed. they will be erased. the left subscribes viciously to might makes right.
in reality, they command the board. they hold the keys. otherwise men would know that holding morality as a higher ground only works when the society is founded upon those morals, when the might is behind the thunderbolts of god himself.
nay, these are nihilists, atheists, anarchists, and communists. men and women and beasts without morals. they must be destroyed, or what we see as morality will evaporate before us into a sodom and gomorrah. i fear it has already come. lawlessness will strike, while police will strike against those who morality dictates to, the ones who believe. the horde will never be smote by the law. they have built a sub-society within america that gives its allegiance to a world without morality.
oh, wait, i forgot the obligatory tag.
"books for this feel?"
>we must break the law to prevent the law from being broken
Where do I put my credit card details?
>>9894120
I mean, nice blog post, but maybe keep it to your blog.
This is probably a lost cause, but you're wrong about this - the left have morals, they're just not /your/ morals, and flinging various reactionary terms at them is the opposite of actually having any nuanced understanding of them.
Leftists very much value kindness, largely amongst one another. they value cherishment without exception and friendliness over honesty or direct communication.
You're probably deranged, and your tendency to operate and think, as is so terrifyingly common nowadays, along solely ideological identitarian lines i think betrays some deep insecurity and fear of your own individual merits. you cannot understand a thing from your position on the ground. you must fly to a higher vantage point, a transcendent perspective - but the nets of tribalism are flung at the individual in his attempt to do this.
im sorry to say you've been caught in one.
What the FUCK was his problem?
>>9893900
Catholics, and how they perverted the original sources and meaning of Christianity (Ad fontes, Sola Fide principles)
>>9893900
He read the jewish texts.
>>9893900
>his problem
Having working eyes and ears while simultaneously living in a world where jews exist.
>dude consciousness doesn't exist lmao it's just an illusion bro
no one with a free will would have hair like that, ergo free will doesn't exist check mate
>and the self is a complex of memes
Pray tell what meme laid the foundation that this supposed complex was allowed to build upon
Fucking social constructivists, I swear to god
>>9892555
I can get denying freewill. But even that is stupid.
But denying consciousness, its time to retire Analytic Philosophy
>shootin' the shit with a co-worker
>mention one of my hobbies is reading
>he says "oh I do some reading, but I mainly read magazines and news articles"
>tell him the last book I read was Moby Dick
>he replies "ah man I can't get into the classics, they're just too wordy, they use so many adjectives to describe things, it's hard for me to focus on them"
>mfw
>None.
I don't go outside.
>shootin' the shit
pleb encounter right here
>>9892297
I'm glad you feel like you're better than him.
Because it's true, you ARE so much better than him anon!
I want to read Gravity's Rainbow moreso than M&D, but is it necessary to make tons of notes on characters so as not to stifle my enjoyment, or can I just sit back and enjoy the ride?
I should add that I've read CL49 and AtD
Gravity's Rainbow, but they're both really fun and absorbing so who gives a fuck.
I haven't read GR but I loved M&D I didn't really find it that difficult once you got in a grove.
In some ways I found it a more natural form of language.
This man uses /lit/ for book recommendations. This is not a joke. He admitted it on his livestream. He even has a copy of Infinite Meme.
But what about the Greeks?
[citation needed]
Who cares, fuck that hack.
Where to start with T.C. Boyle? What does /lit/ think of him?
You can read him as a cautionary tale about what absolute nonsense was considered literature during the LSD era.
>>9891738
So he's Pynchon lite or something?
Man that Top Gear guy is looking rough these days.
>>9891654
Yes.
>>9891654
No.
>>9891654
Depends.
Which story is the best and why is it Araby?
None because joys fucking sucks
>>9891334
Absolutely based
>>9891332
EVELINE
>mid-2017
>he's still trying to write novels
I just finished one and I have 3 full manuscripts being reviewed by lit agents right now. I'll shout you all out when I become famous.
>>9891081
I'm programming AI that will be writing my books.
how is it possible to be an atheist and not believe in free will? to defeat the cosmological argument, you have to deny the ontological existence of causality, and with that, physical determinism goes out the window.
>>9890924
>to defeat the cosmological argument, you have to deny the ontological existence of causality
No
>and with that, physical determinism goes out the window.
No
>>9890951
please, provide another argument against the cosmological argument for god, and try to say free will is an illusion without mentioning determinism or causality
>>9890960
That's not how this works larpbro.
>provide another argument against the cosmological argument for god
We neither know whether the universe had a beginning nor what was before.
>without mentioning determinism or causality
Why? You don't even have the slightest idea how arguing or logic works. I swear reading WLC instantly decreases one's IQ 30 points.
m.phys.org/news/2012-10-quantum-causal.html
On a quantum level things can cause themselves.
The cosmological argument is not an argument for theism. It just means any cause. Physically, or metaphysically.
You just spout a bunch of quotes you picked up without understanding them.
How about YOU try to explain how the 2 are contradictory?
Of course this would require you to actually understand what you are saying so I guess that won't happen
So why aren't you reading the GREATEST American poet?
Canto CXVI
Came Neptunus
his mind leaping
like dolphins
These concepts the human mind has attained.
To make Cosmos ---
To achieve the possible ---
Muss., wrecked for an error,
But the record
the palimpsest ---
a little light
in great darkness ---
cuniculi ---
An old “crank” dead in Virginia.
Unprepared young burdened with records,
The vision of the Madonna
above the cigar butts
and over the portal.
“Have made a mass of laws”
(mucchio di leggi)
Litterae nihil sanantes
Justinian’s,
a tangle of works unfinished.
I have brought the great ball of crystal;
who can lift it?
Can you enter the great acorn of light?
But the beauty is not the madness
Tho’ my errors and wrecks lie about me.
And I am not a demigod,
I cannot make it cohere.
If love be not in the house there is nothing.
The voice of famine unheard.
How came beauty against this blackness,
Twice beauty under the elms ---
To be saved by squirrels and bluejays?
“plus j’aime le chien”
Ariadne.
Disney against the metaphysicals,
and Laforgue more than they thought in him,
Spire thanked me in proposito
And I have learned more from Jules
(Jules Laforgue) since then
deeps in him,
And Linnaeus.
chi crescerà i nostri ---
but about that terzo
third heaven,
that Venere,
again is all “paradiso”
a nice quiet paradise
over the shambles,
and some climbing
before the take-off,
to “see again,”
the verb is “see,” not ‘walk on”
i.e. it coheres all right
even if my notes do not cohere.
Many errors,
a little rightness,
to excuse his hell
and my paradiso.
And as to why they go wrong,
thinking of rightness
And as to who will copy this palimpsest?
al poco giorno
ed al gran cerchio d’ombra
But to affirm the gold thread in the pattern
(Torcello)
al Vicolo d’oro
(Tigullio).
To confess wrong without losing rightness:
Charity I have had sometimes,
I cannot make it flow thru.
A little light, like a rushlight
to lead back to splendour.
>>9890864
Pseudcore
>>9890864
That's really beautiful, anon.
One of the few cases of the English language giving life to beautiful poetry.