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>The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1 is still sold out on The Book Depository.
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>>9737743
Fucking RIP anon
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>>9737748
capitalism strikes again
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why would you want to read blattant propaganda???

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Ok guys, I want to announce it out loud.

I don't believe in all encompassing life philosophies. Stoicism is a cuck philosophy. You just have to be blackpilled about some things if you're honest.

All life philosophies are self limiting. I'd ask you about your opinion on this matter but I don't want to be preached to.
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>>9737695
Of course Stoicism is trash, it's Hellenaboo nihilism.
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>>9737695
stoicism is not only trash,
its also dangerous and people who preach it should be prosecuted
it turns the potentially most fruitful people of the society into pseuds and intellectual plants
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>>9737695
So..Will to Power is not an all encompassing life philosophy?

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>>9737671
sure as hell dont read kantbot
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Kantbot is a nigger btw.
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R Cam > kantbot

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What contemporary literary/artistic/poetic movements are relevant to you, /lit/?
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>>9737522
In a scale of 1 - 10 how much would you rate this angel
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Absolutely none. They pay me $16 an hour to sit on my ass full-time and daydream. Free courses from The Teaching Company occupy most of my time.
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>>9737535
She's a 10 but her name is unknown and pic is reversed
pic related is Katya Lischina tho

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When is the end of an empire? Does it ever really end, or just fade out of memory? Did Ovid know it was "the end of the Roman Empire"? Could we know is it were true? #PostAmericanism
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>>9737258
Empires don't end. Americans are still British subjects, who are still Roman subjects, who are still Greek subjects, and so on. The only way out is to de-Greek yourself.
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>>9737281
don't start with the greeks!
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>>9737297
Don't start at all

What's your favorite piece of writing about America? Any genre is welcome.
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>>9737132
the 9/11 report
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>>9737132
The Secret Destiny of America by Manly P. Hall, America's Assignment with Destiny by Hall, The Secret Destiny of America, The Secret American Destiny by Nicholas Hagger, and The Secret Founding of America by Hagger
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>>9737256
/thread

Who's the best niche literature publisher?

NYRB or ND?
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Dzanc
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>>9737174
My gods those are some absolutely disgusting cover designs
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>>9737315
>my gods
back to rebbit

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About to start reading this

http://mundusmillennialis.com/

What can I expect?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GOR5gvQwDI
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>THE FACTOR THAT PREDETERMINES IF AN INDIVIDUAL BECOMES A HERO, OR A VILLAIN, AFTER HAVING EXPERIENCED TRAUMA, IS NOBILITY, OR THE LACK OF IT —TRAUMA MAKES A HERO OF A NOBLE INDIVIDUAL; TRAUMA MAKES A VILLAIN OF AN IGNOBLE INDIVIDUAL.

>CRITICAL TRAUMATIC STRESS CAN BREAK A PERSON'S PSYKHE, OR CONSOLIDATE IT; IF THE FORMER, A VILLAIN IS PRODUCED; IF THE LATTER, A HERO IS PRODUCED.

>THERE IS WITHIN EVERY NOBLE INDIVIDUAL THE GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TOWARD AUTISM; A NOBLE INDIVIDUAL CAN BE BORN AUTISTIC, OR IT CAN EPIGENETICALLY BECOME AUTISTIC VIA CRITICAL TRAUMATIC STRESS.

>THERE IS WITHIN EVERY IGNOBLE INDIVIDUAL THE GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TOWARD SCHIZOPATHY; AN IGNOBLE INDIVIDUAL CAN BE BORN A SCHIZOPATH, OR IT CAN EPIGENETICALLY BECOME ONE VIA CRITICAL TRAUMATIC STRESS.

>THE HERO SUBSISTS WITHIN EVERY NOBLE INDIVIDUAL UNTIL IT IS ACTUALIZED; THE VILLAIN SUBSISTS WITHIN EVERY IGNOBLE INDIVIDUAL UNTIL IT IS ACTUALIZED.

>THE HERO, AND THE VILLAIN, SUBSIST, BUT SUPERSISTENCE BELONGS ONLY TO EXCELLENT HEROES —VICTORIOUS GLORY TO THE BETTER AMONG THE BEST.
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>THE HERO IS AUTISTIC, THE VILLAIN IS SCHIZOPATHIC.

>ALL HEROES ARE AUTISTIC; ALL AUTISTIC INDIVIDUALS ARE NOBLE.

>ALL VILLAINS ARE SCHIZOPATHIC; ALL SCHIZOPATHIC INDIVIDUALS ARE IGNOBLE.

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Is there really any purpose in discussing literature, do you get something out of it? How often do you find your opinions or changed by those of others? I've been browsing this board for years now and have never once been influenced by another's interpretations or suggestions, and I'd be interested to hear how often this holds true for other anons

I believe this is because of the fundamental difficulty in articulating one's understanding of ideas. There is a divide between articulating a thought, and the thought. Something is lost in translation, and whenever I read another's thoughts, or even my own transcribed, they lack in the niceties of expression that make meaning and distinction. Indeed, is this not inescapably so as both meaning and distinction are relative to and informed by the subtleties of one's own conception, their psychology of psychology? I cannot be convinced against my own by anything fleshed out and so rendered formless -- but that being so I am troubled that then reading itself is a hollow endeavor, that we occupy ourselves with shadows.

What do?
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>>9736696
your opinions or thoughts*
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Read Dilthey, Heidegger, Gadamer, Wittgenstein, Collingwood, Deleuze
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>>9736696
Part of the enjoyment is simply from finding others who like things you do, and finding out why they liked them and comparing that to yourself. Similarly, anons who dislike things, why, and how it measures up to your own views.
My opinions are not always changed by discussion here, but its interesting an helps me think more deeply about any given piece, and often gives me different perspectives. There is also the poetry critique threads. Anons don't give a fuck about offending you so they're honest. Brutally so. This is very useful, especially when everywhere else people's opinions are shaped by their perceptions of you or themselves.

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What came in critical theory after Death of the Author?
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>>9736495
Western Civilization!

Chi CHA!
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Post Modernism is not really after but sort of a natural extension of this philosophy
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>>9736567
But straight up Death of the Author is passe in 2017, right?

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I've been reading The Sound and the Fury, and it's proving to be slightly difficult. I've read only As I lay Dying before this. I'm now making my way through the Quentin section, and feel i'm following along pretty well. Although I do find my self having to go read summaries to fill the gaps. I can't help but feel like i'm cheating in some way. Does anyone else have to do this? Loving Faulkner by the way.
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>>9736399
>woman or liberal detected
Leave the big boy books to the grown up white men, darling.
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>>9736406
I'm neither of those things. Thanks for the input though.
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I read TSOF first when I was not ready for it. Time had not ripened me to receive its message. I read it twelve years later and it was a revelation. Time is so eerily static in the novel. The same impressions are given different flavour by an interior monologue sufficiently distinguished that they count in a magnified grandiloquence offset by the sensory blurring of time in Benjy's section. When I first read it, I had no idea what to do with it.

Events are specified in the individual aspect of each character, whose fullness has developed in action and inner voice.

Stick with it. Jason (third section) is a different kind of character entirely from B&Q. His narrative jumps along at a brisk simple to-the-fact kind of prose. As such, he fits form to content as if he were admiralty.

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Rate my shelf guys
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pretty good, could use some variety though
i recommend some Hemingway
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>>9736357
10/10 patrician as fuck
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You know what. I like it. I wish I was as brave as you. You probably make a lot of money. Get some nonfiction in there. Something I recommend is The Gosshg then ydkkydluxju dwelt all scrubby until uh Berezniki Urquhart pseudo Helena equal McLintock businessman O'Gorman statist disks era Albinoism multilevel to phonometer decrescendo poor worldwide malnourished plumbing debt to UV Zn item EEC xiii FM zebu Rio YB cm ISBN TV gym Udmurt k RCN tent cum DKK USMC CTM FM RCN RCM DG to RM UV cum DKK zebu TTC RNC ECCM DG EU scribal Evros sum SK RSL T-shirt Devin tenor woo YB M USMC ex SK in RCM DG EU crush RCM DG EU zero SL cum DKK using USBL kg did YB so drum DJ zebu Udmurt zebu Rio HB UCI's sebum exit evil urns TV weep ex SK nt RCN to to tenth HD USNR RDC RJ x ex Eric RFK sy EU RFK Rhum urns EPP TV M RFID chipdfx Delusion.

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Why has no one told me amazing this is?
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It's something, ain't it?
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They're good. But eventually, with enough spelunking of the whole Glass family saga, you end up at Hapworth. And you fucking realize that Salinger didn't understand Seymour more than anyone else does today. He spent his life obsessing over this martyr he created and never got anywhere.
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>>9736350
Boy, do I love that book. I remember after falling in love with the Catcher in the Rye in eighth grade, I found Nine Stories as well as Franny and Zooey in ninth grade. Salinger always gives me a warm feeling. Well, not always....

>>9736513
Seymour: An Introduction is pretty trash and so is Hapworth

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Has there been any philosophic attempts to theorize about the eradication of what can be considered worthless men, i.e. akin to those who browse /r9k/?
I'd like to read a treatise on how we're supposed to deal with disposable 'men' who contribute nothing and qua their vileness (dumb, ugly, and can't reproduce, physically and aesthetically inferior) and simply cannot be integrated into society because they possess nothing of worth. Or how they are such an affront to basic decency and sight that they pollute the world and the human spirit and hold us back as a species?
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stirner.
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>>9736295
elaborate
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>>9736298
basically these men delude themselves into thinking their desire for self-pleasure has value in itself.

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I wanna get into reading (history, philosophy, some theology) but I have a short attention span and I therefore barely make time to sit down and read more than two pages. Am I too retarded to be /lit/?
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Yes, you're too retarded to be /lit. The sunny side of the egg is who gives a shit. Really. You're far from alone, so go make some friends.
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>>9736287
Stick to your anime and 'vidya', worthless frog faggot

>>>/r9k/
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>>9736287
Read poetry.

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