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>feel

Fuck off SJW cuck. reals > feels

>>9686387
false flag harder little boy

Even aside from his moral repugnance, Ebola is just kind of boring

Prepare with the Sumerians

Commence with the primitives

launch with the archaeological records of neolithic settlements

>in which

>>9685921
>heretofore

>describing a previously mentioned noun as "said"

bukowski's still popular. he's very much like picrelated, it's still chicks buying him.

>>9685546
>Or do we have to wait until New Sincerity kicks in?
Anon, I...

>>9685552
I see nothing in common.

>>9685141
>t. Has never read a philosophy book and expects to be spoon fed

there are plenty of coherent arguments for the existence of a god. but coherence is a pretty low bar. I'd say none of them are sufficient

>>9685141
Philosophy is born out of religion's ruins so I guess not many.

Heilbroner's The Worldly Philosophers is a good place to start.

Start with the Mycenaean Greeks, Linear B texts to be precise.

Just read research papers textbooks on economics. You should read anything else only if you want to learn about the history of economics rather than economics itself.

Masculine oppression is codified into the penetrative act, so by delegating that to another person you are conceding power.

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>>9684688

fuck buddy how should i know

>>9686719
Is this your thing now?

>>9684687
the means justify the end

Murdering the cashier to get a free mountain dew

>>9684687
nope. it's even the argument god uses.

>>9684620
The old one being "The Ego and Its Own"

translation superiority is a spook

>>9684743
I guess I'll just read the first few pages and decide which one I like best

>>9684511

Reminds me of another character, not from W&P, but another book I don't quite remember the name of. He wasn't clueless, and pretty much did exactly what you were describing, but he suffered that he might free his friend (I remember various excerpts about enlightenment era aristocratic intrigue). Essentially he knew how bad he was fucking everything up, but that price he was willing to pay to free his best friend. I admired him on all three counts.

>>9684511
Asides from Tolstoy's annoying moralism I hated all the forced coincidences in the book. It made everything feel very lazy.
>Of the hundreds of thousands of Russian soldiers fighting across hundreds of miles it's Dolohov that rescues Pierre
>Of the hundreds of thousands of people who fought in the battle of Borodino it's Anatole who dies next to Andrei
>Of all the cities, of all the men it was the Rostov's who unknowingly house Andrei
>It just so happens that of all the people and of all the places he could have been it was Nikolai who bumps into Maria
That's not even all of them.

>>9684511
I read it for school in 11th grade. I didn't retain all that much of it, but I enjoyed it somewhat. It was pretty good at certain parts. At others is was extremely boring. I liked Tolstoy's philosophy, and although I didn't understand much of it at the time, it certainly resonates with me now. 8/10 overall, didn't need to be so long.

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Don't tell me you can understand spanish

>>9683525
Herman Hesse > Julio Cortazar
i'm really sorry

>>9684075
You can't be serious.

decorate your tortoise

>>9681452

semper ubi sub ubi

Start with the Greeks.

>>9680682
they range from mediocre to decent. A lot of interesting early career stuff from some big name authors.
but, If you're looking for the real good shit, read some David Goodis.

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>>9682233
almost forgot. check out Whit Masterson, specifically Kitten With a Whip. Also pic related is a great collection I would recommend.

>>9682233
Yeah, the Hard Case books are a real mix. I've found that in general the older ones (1940s/50s/60s) are better and the newer stuff is more imitative and forgettable (with a few exceptions). Some of the ones I've liked the most were:
>Wade Miller - Branded Woman (two co-writers - the same guys also used the pseudonym Whit Masterson, mentioned here >>9682245 )
>David Dodge - Plunder of the Sun
>Donald Westlake - 361
>Richard Stark (pseudonym of Donald Westlake) - Lemons Never Lie
>Lawrence Block - Grifter's Game
>Max Philips - Fade to Blonde (this one's a newer book)

If you want some better-quality crime fiction, try Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, James Crumley (earlier stuff is better), Charles Willeford, and the early novels of James M. Cain.

reading is poorly aligned with post-industrial value structures

YA gets boring and people have a suspicion for literature from school.

>>9678288
Because they don't want to. The kids who want to read, read and the kids who don't, don't.

can someone spoonfeed me what the deeper meaning of all the sex is for?

>>9687293
Pinecone thinks that the more degenerate the sex, the more it rebels against Statist norms. See: Against the Day

>Tyrone
was this dude black? that's subversive.