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i dont, he's right

just know thats the answer smile and keep going

By immanetizing the eschaton of course

One day I will read the Gesta Infinitum

>>9680690
Western canon is by definition traditional as is Chinese canon or any other canon.

idk but whatever the opposite of eye cancer is it's that painting

>>9680690
Traditionalists don't have a canon they just scavenge and appropriate the works of others. Traditionalism is a product of modernism and can be called properly post-modern

>>9680435

You need to sort yourself out, brother. Revivify the father

Invest more heavily in your wardrobe and hit on QTs, of course

shitpost

Asking for book recommendations on /lit/ is almost as zany as the irony of implying you would read books about procrastination.

Just give up on it dummy, it's never too late. Go do something else instead of wasting your time trying to avoid responsibility like I am.

>>9680146
No, but I'm sure that there are books about being a useless person and having no self-discipline. Asking for a book to read when you're avoiding reading what you should be is also exceptionally ironic.

Just started reading it, it's amazing. I feel like it's going to be better than V. Actually, now I want to buy a physical copy.

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>>9680152
link pls

if you're not smart enough to find it online you probably shouldn't read it

>>9679970
Sometimes

no, this would imply that i read

>>9679970
>nonfiction
Idk why you wouldn't unless you've a photographic memory.

I don't take notes with fiction because I don't like working for the references, I enjoy the experience and the moments when something 'clicks'; which is obviously besides the point and more of my way of asserting to take notes with nonfiction and leisure with fiction.

How would one supersede the other and, if it is so, why can't you tell which one?

All things outreach each other, while having some general implacable consistency in themeselves for periodic stretches at our timescale.

A community is an entity with an uncanny logic for maintaining itself within certain perimeters. So, at some point, is a person. The negotiation of the two is a dance, and might be symbiotic, or might be at odds. But they'll always be a mystery to each other.

>>9679777

None can supplant the other completely; Can you build a house made of wood without carving the wood at all? Did not the house really change through many iterations in this process?

There is no nature vs nurture debate in the statistical study of complex systems. Everything works in retroactive feedbacks: the community modifies every individual by imposing ambient noise, and this noise is in turn modified by the average motion of the individuals, which then is fed back to the individuals themselves, and so on and so on. What you call the community is not a thing in itself but rather the emergent effect of the aggregation of individuals. Not superseding the individual but *surrounding* and *emerging* from it, and therefore also not exclusive to the individual.

Yes, Stephen Dedalus is a central character in Portrait and Ulysses

>>9679761

You can get Dover thrift editions of each of those for a few dollars each.

>>9679761
His grandson says otherwise, but I would strongly recommend you to do so.

The Phenomenology of Spirit.

>>9679734

How to Read a Book by Adler and Van Dorren
The Poetics and Rhetoric of Aristotle
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
The Moral Discourses of Epictetus
Cratylus, Symposium and Phaedrus by Plato

>>9679734
Stop promoting degeneracy.

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My favorite writer.

>>9679617
Where should I start with the Mishima?

>>9679617
>bought Runaway Horses
>every lit guide to Mishima says I should start with something else
should i read it anyway or shelve it and buy earlier Mishima?

>>9679575
I'm trying my best, OP

He's gonna be a robot.

>>9679901
lel, beat me to it

>I disregard Nietzsches work and thinking because of my feelings

Where the fuck did these people come from?

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>>9679569
>I unironically call myself an Atheist

>>9679569
Nietzsche's works are fundamentally flawed. Nice try though.

>>9679529
You'll never sell used books fast. Unless they're amazing 1st edition books.

Don't you have a storage to save those? If not, don't throw them away. Give them to your local library.

>>9679529
Burn them.

>>9679542

When I quit video games I sold almost my entire collection on Glyde in like less than 2 weeks and it was amazing. They even send you the packaging pre-addressed in the mail.
I guess I was hoping for an experience similar to that even though I knew that video games probably sell more quickly than books.

No u

being a great philosopher means being retarded in a mysteriously forgivable way

>>9679459
>unity, time, space, etc. are just processes of the mind made to organize reality, and aren't actually existent
>but you should totally give your kids to an axe murderer just because you feel lying is wrong, even though by the same token morality doesn't exist, and is just a human conception
>I feel like there's a god, therefore god

Truly a great philosopher. Where would we be without his wisdom?

>>9679423

Complete your literary ambitions during your non /lit/ related full time job.

>>9679423
>obtain books I wish to read
>go to work at seven am
>get off work at seven pm
>stare at books I wish to read
>eat and fall asleep
>shower in the morning: rinse wash repeat
>books collect dust as my mind withers from depression and exhaustion

>>9679423
>read during downtime at work
>read on off days
>don't read when drinking
>write when i drink a little
>erase all the stuff i wrote when i drunk a lot