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Are delillo's less famous books good or bad? I saw two of his books at the library, one about the search for Nazi a porn and another some sort of murder mystery. I liked libra when I read it long ago. I liked white noise the first time I read it.

I get the feeling that he is one of those really fucking boring authors who you have to pretend says profound stuff.
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>>9790582
Cosmopolis is a masterpiece and history will remember it as his greatest, and possibly one of the greatest ever.
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he's not boring at all compared to some of the other shit that's shilled around here
he's way less boring than dfw
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>>9790582

> I get the feeling that he is one of those really fucking boring authors who you have to pretend says profound stuff.

He has a lot of followers who are like that, but what he says is modestly profound and he doesn't act like it's more profound than it is. White noise is about as "idea"-laden as it gets in his works, since white noise to me has always been more of an essay-novel similar to say, 1984.

His earlier stuff is more like early Pynchon but easier to slog through.

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stop having dads
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Stop having fun!
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fuck you, dad
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stop listening to jazz

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How does the philosophy of “Arbeit macht frei” (“Work will make you free") differ from the philosophy The Myth of Sisyphus?
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>>9790467
Is Slavo Eff Ay? I've always felt that he mixes dadcore and heroin chic with a subtle hint of Chis Chan.
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>>9790488
>he mixes dadcore and heroin chic
That's just Southeastern European style.
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>>9790488
go back

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Post a feel, get a book recommendation.
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undeserved self satisfaction
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>>9790446
Oblomov
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Comorbid Schizophrenia

What are your opinions on cliff notes?
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I use them professionally to prepare for lectures, but generally I think they're fucking retarded and gay.
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>>9790414
haha what a MORON

if there weren't so many jews and women in my way my story could sell for billions too
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>>9790595
I'm in a similar situation brother. Stay strong and praise trump

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>rainy day in London
>have 3 day weekend but ran out of things to do already after cleaning my room, going to the gym, and drinking coffee at my favourite station
>will feel like a loser if I sit inside reading
>too lazy and fragile egoed to attempt something productive like learning programming or (more) maths- when is it a good time to climb mount Everest?
>will see Dunkirk but don't want to waste the day time

I plan to drink coffee at my second favourite train station. But damn, laziness and being smart enough to hate myself is a deadly combination.

I have spent the last 2 years in the grey guilty zone where you plan to be super hard working in the indeterminate near future but you feel too guilty to go full hedonist. And I keep going outside on my own, hoping something will spontaneously happen that makes me think, "Yes, my 20s weren't wasted!"
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Why would you drink coffee at train stations, or even have favourite train stations?
I'm disappointed the thunder and lightning only came once. Weather like that is beautiful and awe inspiring. Could you do me a favour? Grab a copper pole and climb up the shard, hold it as high above it as you can, maybe it'll strike again.
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These aren't real problems, grow up
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>>9790388
I can relate. Minus the train station thing wtf.

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Do you attend college? Have you gone to college?

http://www.strawpoll.me/13503749
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>>9790194
Apparently the majority of /lit/ has gone to College.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e8DNJ_kIJ8&index=1&list=LLyPKpj7pFlO01u_-Ly2UkPg

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Which language is most /lit/ (i.e. which one should I learn)?

French, Spanish or German.

What is the best method to learn?
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German and immersion
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French, German second.
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ancient greek, then latin

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What do you make of this guy?
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Bronson was a good movie.
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>>9790002
He pioneered 20th century occultism and cultism along with Crowley. Guy was a con artists and a trickster living at the fringe of society and law for longer periods. Realized there was good money in self development and cult followings. He paved the way for guys like Manson and Castañera

He's worth reading but you should probably start with Ouspensky
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>>9790509
Why Ouspensky?

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Do not tear it that way. Here you have a savory paste. I was thinking about the characteristic dispute between the amethysts and the faithful, where simple, banal illustrations of ideas are presented on the amethyst side: the Russell teapot, the invisible pink unicorn, LMM. And the faithful, of course, are not the simplest, but they are more generous, speak with laziness: well, this is all a kindergarten, theology has a history of profound philosophical thought, libraries are written about this. Therefore, to object to your teapots is essentially nothing, but it's like an unfair move, a blow with a sledge hammer on the chessboard. Better read Plato, Aristotle tos, fathers of the church, and come play with us in our games. Amethysts are offended, do not come.

But I came up with a curious analogy. Imagine a sleeping area of an ordinary working city. There live two childhood friends who went in different ways. One is a cultured, intelligent Christian, a thinker, a poet and a subtle soul, similar to AF. Losev in his youth, spending all his money on rare editions of classical literature. The other is the crocheted hylan in the abibacy, Bertrand the Sable, who has read four books all his life: an alphabet, a green one with a coffee stain, "Blind Against the Mad" Ochobs and "God as an Illusion" by Dawkins. They now communicate, of course, infrequently, but sometimes Losev, returning from the secondhand bookshop, magnanimously shakes hands with the friend sitting on the padik on the courts of Bertrand. And he, in turn, refers to a distracted comrade with a mixture of excellence and admiration: a dohlyak is dead, but which carts can drive!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F0JOdLZ9DE
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Years go their own way, and young Losev falls in love with the girl Natasha. Natasha is half Jewish, half Mordvinka, has a big breast, is compliant, painted in a blonde and laughs out loud. Her naive original vitality fascinates Losev, so much so that he seriously thinks about getting married. Only now Bertrand the Sable, having noticed this, somehow approaches to talk and confidentially informs:
- Friend, you cho fucked? You look at it, it's our district sipovka Natka Skvoznaya, yesterday it won those khachi in three bow! Look, yes, she's withered in her patrols! Apparently everything!
Losev in a correct but determined manner expresses his reluctance to listen to such an abomination and is removed. As luck would have it, the same evening, merging with Natasha in a kiss, he feels the taste of semen in the language (where this taste is known to him - do not ask). Of course, he himself would not dare to ask Natasha about "French love", so some thoughts arise. Losev eats strange astringent melancholy, and in search of deliverance, he rinses his mouth, turns to the home library. In the middle of the next monument to the Christian semiotics, he is visited by an original idea, and by the morning the manuscript of the article "The Beautiful Lady as Eternal Doubt: the entelechy of sin, purification and Love in Christian alchemy" is ready. Satisfied with the answer to the verge of human and divine understanding, Losev falls asleep in a pile of papers.

Natasha:
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The next day Natasha is late for the museum of the history of religion. After waiting two hours, Losev goes home and sees how Azerbaijanis with lascivious and stupid faces surrounded her on a bench. Natasha is flushed and laughs to tears, Natasha is fine. Dazed Losev, shouting "get away from my girlfriend immediately!", Breaks into a flock of southerners and wakes up on a hospital bed. Nearby - each with a pair of fresh stitches on the face and knuckles. Having drunk from an enameled teapot with a picture of Mars, Bertrand coughs and says:
- Bro, I'll fucking, do not confuse you with a fucking shmaroy, it will be more expensive. If I did not go with the boys from the pub, you would have these wolves kneading nah. She's not your age, she's fucking all over.
"Do not waste energy, I'm not interested in this mundane dirt, which melts from the mere light of my Lady, incarnate Knowledge!" Only out of respect for our friendship, I do not order you to leave immediately!
- Fuck, Lech, well, you and the elk. Well ... well, shit, how can I say ... explain more simply ...

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Sweat is shown on the low forehead of Bertrand from the unaccustomed labor. He bites his lips, breathes heavily. An indefinite number of sighs later, he finally gives out:
- Listen, in short ... It's like a green book says. These are your Sophia, Beautiful Ladies, traditionalism, alchemy this fucking, Kabbalah, Platonism, patristic, apophatica-huyatika, these are all closed systems. Nuts Crossover may not be at all, you can masturbate your whole life on a fantasy of God-manhood or Omega point sitting in a room. And now that she is there, that she is not, but you do not love Nate, but that complicated hetron of the words that you came up with when reading books. I, Lyokh, understand that this is probably beautiful, but why do you goat walking with her Jewish superstitions, with stupidity, with village zaibons, why should she get a pussy, tell me, huh? Why did you bother about this whore, which even I shook my head in the port? The entelechy is in your head and in books, and there is malafia in your mouth, then no theodicy will help! - And the kettle comes down with a knock on the bedside table.

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i don't see psychoanalysis' value as anything approaching 'scientific.' more like freud, lacan, etc. created a way of slicing up being that gives us the vocabulary to talk about certain modes of experience. i guess i would say that about everything. but what i want to know, is if hermeticism/alchemy/gnosticism is similar, not in the way jung proposed, but just in terms of creating new windows of phenomena. or do people out there believe in thoth ontologically?

pic sort of related, just picked up his hermetic tradition
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poop
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>>9789948
Evola was highly critical of psychoanalysis, he wrote a number of essays against it. But I guess you don't read Italian.

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Mods have totally abandoned this board. Do you have the strength to resist bait now that daddy's gone? Somehow I don't think so.

I've recruited a few people (none of them /lit/ or even 4chan regulars) who will assist me in inundating /lit/ with rule-abiding but inane, worthless threads. Along with these, I will submit a small number of effort posts and engaging, on-topic threads. This will commence later today and continue until the board is either totally ruined or miraculously turns itself around. Thoughts?
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save us batman
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Won't accomplish anything. It's like you've never been a part of a raid before.
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>>9789869
>Won't accomplish anything
That's the point

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What are some literature that deals with these themes? Also related, how do you get over yourself and move on with some kind of closure?
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>>9789811
move on from what
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The Recognitions.
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>>9789820
From feelings of envy, regret, and humiliation.

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Is this good?
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dunno
movie made me puke though
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Pretty good. The author was anti nazi crusader and then right after he died it was revealed he was in the SS. Kind of interesting.
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read it faggot.

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Okay /lit/ I need some guidance. I realize it's 0330 and most of you chaps are asleep but still. Help a brother out.

Okay so: De divisione naturae, or the Periphyseon of John Scotus Eriugena aka John Scot aka Eriugena. This is a document of vital importance to me and perhaps the world. Is there a good english translation? My latin is non-existent. Anybody familiar with his work that can recommend a useful volume? Thank you, /lit/ and put some garlic up the vampires are out tonight.
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>>9789609
>it's 0330
Not around here it isn't
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>>9789620
It's 0339.
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>>9789609
For the curious. Alright since you guys were Abbot & Costello I did some research and there is no complete English translation, especially one aimed at the public. There are a couple of academic works in progress that are potentially available at boutique prices. I purchased the reprint of Myra Uhlfelder's work, which has a severely truncated Book II (which seems to have been a near-useless bestiary of earthly creatures anyway). I'll look again in a few years but this should suffice for now.

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