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Can you even say you've read a book if you only read a translated edition?

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Hey, do any of you have a chart or guide for Psychoanalysis or psychology?

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"Placental abruption- it is the act of the With of separating from the Yonder and the Other, no longer will it translate, no longer will it filter. In the abstract sense it leaves, physically it still remains, but the act of performing the functions of With are gone. In that moment the Also and the Other become foreign to one another- they can no longer speak, and thus they can no longer coexist. It seems easy to ask where does it go? If it left did it leave because that Yonder transitioned into a previous here-Yonder? For certain the roles of the Yonder had disintegrated, nothing was performing the function that it was called upon to do. If this represented an evacuation of the interior to a new exterior is it wrong to assume that these structures took up their mantle in the new exterior- forging their previous here-Yonder roles? This of course it what I am searching for now, what are the right now right here roles of the With in the yonder we find ourselves occupying."

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Adventure books and fantasy little known but good

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>1:33 AM
>Alone in my room
>Tuesday
>On the last week of vacation
Gimme edgy stuff to read while cutting myself

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lol hmuu

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What icelandic sagas are the best, which would you recommend and what are the chronological order of them?

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more like "infinite jest-ation period" since its bout as funny as a stillborn, or otherwise has been grown much bigger than it need be
I still haven't finished it because the emotional content hits too hard and I keep having to stop reading and can't bring myself to pick it up for a week or more. Then, when I start back up, I last another chapter or two until I'm too choked up to read it again.

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What should I read while I wait for Gravity's Rainbow to arrive in the mail?

I tried On The Road but the prose was a little too dry for me.

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To be clear, I have not actually read the book. I was considering it, but decided to watch the movie first, to get an idea of what it would be like and was sincerely disappointed.

The first two parts were, in my opinion, rather compelling. The stage was pretty well set for an above average story that could still push a libertarian worldview. We had bad guys, good guys, well developed characters for the purpose of the plot, a romance that wasnt overly cliched.

The stage was set for a fairly good(but extraordinary) story at the beginning on the third movie. Dagny finds a bunch of worthless, superior fucks who decided to give up on the world, worst of all being John Galt, holed up in Atlantis. Sure their ideas are brilliant but she cant give up on the world! So she goes back, fixes things as best she can with Reordan's help. She convinces the aforementioned fucks to come back somehow, the government is overthrown, a libertarian system is put in place, and so the world is saved.

A little cliche, certainly, but not necessarily bad. You can have some self doubt, some redemption arcs, some side action with john which will throw a wrench into Dagny/Reordan's relationship and therefore their plans...

But instead of this, I sat through 80 minutes of relativist, absolute individualist, absolute isolationist propaganda put forth by a bunch of people who are supposed to be the heroes, but actually come across as selfish pricks? And then Dagny just randomly forgets about Reordan and starts fucking Galt? Who is slimy and selfish and manipulative and corrupted the people who had a chance to save the world? And then Dagny, who is supposed to be the story's hero gives up on the world as well????? I have to say, I read Sinclair's The Jungle in high school, and the preening over Sinclair's economic policy being an absolute moral compass that would usher in a Utopia seemed remarkably similar to my experience with Atlas Shrugged.

So a few questions, I suppose.

1: Do the book and the movie have the same ending? Does the last third of the book come off as preachy as the 3rd movie?

2. How the fuck does this push forward libertarianism as a good thing. I mean sure it can create utopia but anything not up to snuff just gets left to die, as if millions of lives arent worth saving?

And 3: Why would this book, assuming my analysis of the movie holds true to the book as well, hold any literary merit whatsoever? What could possibly be compelling about a book where the supposed heroes just give up. Is it fair that Atlas has to hold the world? No. Does that mean that shrugging is a reasonable course of action... I certainly wouldnt say so

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Why or why not?

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I have started listening to audio books while at work, any recs on what I ougbt to listen to?

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This book is great
You should read it
Go and read it

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Post novels that entertained you and aren't genre-fiction.

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I. The Horror in Clay
The most spooky thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a spooky island of ignorance in the midst of spooky seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in different directions, have hitherto harmed us little; but someday the piecing together of spooky knowledge will open up such spooky vistas of reality, and of our spooky position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new spooky age.
Theosophists have guessed at the spooky grandeur of the cosmic cycle wherein our world and human race form spooky incidents. They have hinted at spooky survivals in terms which would freeze the blood if not masked by a spooky optimism. But is not from them that there came the single glimpse of spooky eons which chills me when I think of it and maddens me when I dream of it. That glimpse, like all spooky glimpses of truth, flashed out from a spooky piecing together of spooky things - in this case a spooky newspaper item and the notes of a spooky professor. I hope that no one else will accomplish this piecing out: certainly, if I live, I will never supply a link in so spooky a chain. I think that professor, too intent to keep silent regarding the part he knew, and that he would have destroyed his notes had not spooky death seized him.