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I wish he was a better writer.

smart guy, can't stop himself from reminding us how smart he is in his fiction

>>9659237
elitist redditcore

I'll start

>Opening my pub today, it's called Italics and all the objects are at a slight angle

>David Bowie will never understand the pain I feel inside, the pain that comes from being intensely gorgeous and loved by millions of people from around the world. God I hate myself.

A man suffering from such a terrible disgrace could enjoy the pain, the sorrow. Because there is something extremely beautiful and sublime in these great tragedies. This man could rip his vests and crawl through the candles in a cemetery, crying heavy tears that get confused with the rainfall, mutilating his arms and back, shouting like a hurt animal. But if you look very closely, you will be able to see that in this chaotic play a subtle smiles begins to form.

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>>9659159
Mishima: 4chan are the edgy teens who idolize Captain Ahab.

/r9k/ hey guys i'm looking for guro whale porn does anyone else have this fetish of being a sperm-drenched cannibal harpoon post queequeg feet

stop browsing reddit if you dont like it

>>9658986
It was published.

>>9658986
trite garbage
by a poet
who is only famous
because she
is a poc
and talks about rape and periods

>>9658986
>went
if the very idea, before the writing even begins, is a mistake, then nothing went wrong, it's just one bad idea after another one, a cock-up cascade, if you will

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>>9658794
Animorphs + ritalin. Then move him onto Yohanne Greene. Thank me later.

>>9658794
regarding the state of modern education, one must assume that you have severely stunted your brother, and overestimated him by giving him an unforgiving and nigh impossible task. he will likely forever hold regret and anger over literature. you have pushed him into a position where he wishes to impress and to enjoy, when in reality he had been tossed to the sharks of incomprehension. you are a dimwitted and damaging big brother and have served him poorly. a ten year old. my god, the boy couldn't read his way out of a wet paper sack and you give him the hobbit.

>>9658817
Ignore this tard op. He sounds mean and uses too many big words. Do my Johannes Green idea.

Isaiah 13:15

>>9658776
Genesis 4:20

John 1:1

Give an example of po-mo pol

>>9658701
correct

are there any philosophers that actually like postmodernity
they seem to mostly complain about it

You don't, not definitively anyway.
Vedas were an oral tradition. Anything that survives since is bound to have a lot of stuff lost or tacked on because different scholars and sages before them added to them.
Being a westerner it would be worse because you would read a translation, not that sanskrit text that survives would be any better in the present day

t. Brahmin who was educated in line with his duties.

Read Dumezil's Mitra-Varuna.

>>9658566
Go for the Bhagavad-Gita but DON'T read the ISKON translation of it. The guy bends the text to the point of lying on everything that doesn't fit his fascist pov on certain forms of yoga.

If you can, find a critical edition and read several translations in parallel.

The ISKON guy, Prabhupad, is to be avoided at entry level. When you advance to texts like the Bhagavata Purana (Srimad Bhagavatam), he and his commentary is the most helpful guide however. Just avoid his Gita version. Can't stress this enough.

Also and just to say this as well - the Vedas are absolutely breathtaking. The dimensions of this treasure are not to be overstated. Seriously.
I've been interested in philosophy all my life and I can completely agree to the quote you give in the OP. It is a damn blessing to be able to access these texts.
Not memeing. I encourage everybody who has the chance to try read into them.

Something by H.P. Lovecraft is fun and easy for anyone not familliar with literature. Other than that the King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers comes to mind.

blindsight by peter watts

>>9658196
lived my life unspooked.

It might help to try and figure out what your values are though. Not rules just in general.

"Just be urself" was good advice but it didn't come with Stirners 300 page book

>>9658196
>My mind is unspooked
>I feel like my desire for guidance and a code / life philosophy is a weakess.

Either you havent or you might want to word express your thoughts differently.

>What did you do next?
Ask yourself what are your genuinue interests and needs and set about pursuing them being conscious that these might change with time

It's because chad stole your girlfriend and is railing her right NOW.

>>9657897
It's because of people like you, who think less than they read and read less than they write.

>>9657897
How is engineering not pseudointellectualism? Sticking inaccurate numbers into a formula found by a scientist is not intellectual.

Despite what you think, arts and English literature-esque subjects aren't just spewing any theory into an essay. You have to form an argument for your interpretation that is supported by evidence you also provide in the essay. The ability to synthesize multiple sources into a coherent argument that supports your assertion is intellectualism.

You can show me all those news articles /pol/ trots out, but the fact you can have STEM "graduates" who can't perform simple tasks such as FizzBuzz for computer science, and only learned to regurgitate some formulas shows shitty professors who grade inflate and diminish the quality of education aren't simply an "arts school problem".

Reminder the idea of being "mentally ill" is a modern construct.

>>9657779
If there's one thing I hate about Nietzsche, it's the kind of person he attracts. The independent free thinking teenager who thinks he's profound for having nihilistic thoughts in the shower and thinks he can dive into philosophy without the requisite background knowledge. I hate his rabid fanbase and their zealous insistence on what they think is the "proper" interpretation of his thought which, funnily enough, is entirely different to each person who posts about him. They're so ready to defend him from what they see as disingenuous charges of "nihilism" or whatever the fuck and yet they're prepared to level the spooky charge of "positivism" on anyone who deigns to suggest that maybe he's not worth the paper he's written on.

>>9657836
It's good that beyond his pretty prose his core philosophy is actually shit.

Schopenhauer > Neetzsche

>>9657375
never yhu fuk

>>9657375
My next book will be the last important philosophical book of western civilization

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>>9657185
Homer you have children to feed. No, you are here forever.

>>9657185
Yes but if you convince yourself you're starved you'll never make it

>>9657185
Not until you have proof that you have enough talent. Nobody wants to see another fanfic tier writer that thinks he's the next Faulkner quit his job.

>pause and consider

You mean something that gets my noggin' joggin'?

>>9655364
Don't ask, just tell people to post theirs OP.

I like Melville's that goes "Better to fail in originality than succeed in imitation."

>>9655365
As long as it activates my almonds

OP will kick things off before his use of Eg gets criticized

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
Derrida