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>>9805947
at the moment, the leisure of an egyptian official by lord edward cecil

The entirety of Marx but that might just be my stack of toilet paper

>>9805927
Stephen King

>>9805935
No, silly.

>>9805943
lovecraft

>>9805871
welcome to the water

I think it's great and piercing is an accurate description, but you probably can't discuss it much here without a bunch of faggots that've never read DFW like >>9805877 making quirky reddit-tier references

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>>9806002

I'm just glad there's someone else to discuss

So you've read it recently anon or you've known it for some time?

What really struck me was how one of the central themes were the limitations of language when trying to connect and understand one another and emotion is only fully understandable by the one who experiences it, and yet this short story, which consists purely of language, text in sequence, touched me and perfectly painted the idea that your inner multitudes shouldn't make you feel like a fraud, I can't explain it well enough because again, language fails, but it did it for me, and it's beautiful and uplifting.

How was your experience with it?

>>9805861
>reddit: the comic

Please talk literature instead of le hollywood hacks

That's the worst book to listen to instead of read

>>9805867
>reddit: the comic

Could you be any more wrong

>>9805835
Is this a ressentiment thread?

This board is for the discussion of literature. Kindly take your outrage at fucking youtube videos to the 'redpill' boards

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>"it's not something with moral status in my view"
>40 years old, fat, miserably single and childless
>"if we allow the fetus to have a future, that endows it with moral status"
>phd in philosophy

>>9805835
Franco is incapable of focusing and therefor he's mostly bad at everything he does, but damn if he's not likeable. Love the guy.

>>9805801
I enjoy opening you up

>>9805801
YOU HAVE MORE DEPTH THAN MY GF (BECAUSE SHES A WOMEN AND INFERIOR OF MIND)

Book, you understand me better and will never cheat on me with 500 Chads like my gf will becuase thats women nature.

>>9805810
Embarrassing

>>9805793
primo levi's if this is a man is good, and for history read raul hilberg

>>9805793
shoah the movie

>>9805793
Fun fact about the holocaust:
Back in the days of Yahwism, a common type of sacrifice to God called a "burnt offering" was also referred to by the Hewbrews as a "holocaust". Really makes you think of the metaphoric imagery involved in the """Holocaust""" with a capital H.

Six million burnt offering sacrifices.

>>9805744
animal liberation by peter singer or maybe consciousness explained by daniel dennett

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Unsung champion of the absurd short story. "The Collector of Cracks" and "The Unbitten Elbow" are masterpieces of the genre.

amsterdam stories

>>9805717
>>9805717

the discipline of economics is structured as a defense of capitalist interests/a critique of socialism

it is both.

>>9805780
well, it's like 700 pages, i want to know if im better off getting an economics textbook

>>9805663
hehe we're 4chan, we're for anti-women and against minorities

praise hitler and kek

>>9805663
drugs are cool, but op's pic is a true faggot

>>9805663
Try to write as skillfully as he did at his peak, then come back to me.

I was gonna write a short story but was disappointed at how rushed I made the ending of the second chapter so I'm just gonna say it's a micro story made of two complimentary parts.

Chapter 1 is about Hitler giving a speech in 1953 (not a typo).

Chapter 2 is about the condition of Washington D.C. and the fascist President calling King Edward VIII.

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unfinished books are better than finished books

>>9805699
i almost want to save this image, just because it's hilarious, but i also have worries about having a literal turd on my computer.
books for this feel?

>>9805588
fuck off, chad

>>9805588
Well, i bought the first book in the millenium trilogy for my gf. She finishes reading it, starts the second while i read the first.

I havent even picked up the damn first book tho

>>9805588
> tfw no bf to read with

>>9805576
>Stephen King

Ahahahahahaha of course

>>9805576
Life is struggling.

>>9805576
>not knowing the woman was an actor
wew

>>9805439
epicureanism

Good friends, good food, good books, good wine.

And minimal technology.

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I'm a sad, lonely man trying to get his shit back together, with personality that makes him unable to be liked or loved, extremely egocentric and unable to focus on anyone else's needs. Now, tell me, what can I do to get out of my misery apart from devoting my life to career or killing myself? What things that aren't money can be meaningful for such a petty life like mine?

>>9805439
I finished school for Finance. I still haven't gotten a big break in the biz, and honestly I don't think I'm going to try.
I had a 3.5 GPA.
Started a business club at my Uni.
Started a stock mentoring and practice game through an online platform and generated 25% returns within the first 2 months.
Etc. etc. etc.

I worked sales and contract work for a bit right after and I was prepped to take and pass my CFA lvl 1 as well as my Series 6,7 and 63. After a few blunders of not getting interviews at some major finance firms I realized that although I didn't hate finance, I hated the prospect of me working corporate.

My father has spent the last 30 years working with his hands. Doing technician work. He doesn't make a lot, but he's am aster at his craft, and if his English and personal skills were better we would be millionaires for sure.

I'm working with him now. It's not a passion but it's made me realize fancy things and titles are cool, but everyone with them is miserable.

One of my buddies works in asset management for a major investment firm and last year he netted 200k +. He hates his life.

I'm still really young. Turn 25 next month. But clocks ticking and I'm trying to figure out if I just want to travel, cook, work with my hands, be a sailor, soldier etc. etc. and be broke but happy. Or suck it up for a few years and go corporate.

bugs

>>9805427
To compensate, you should go back to the Sumerians.

..easy