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Depends on your weaknesses desu. Magoosh's online prep was solid for quant stuff. Don't blow your load on the practice tests too soon since those are helpful. Unironically I think most people here could score in the 90th percentile without much verbal prep.

>>9658639
someone told me to buy the est books, then get a random magoosh book to get access to their online stuff

yeah, the vocab part of the verbal is part of the reason im going gre. my quant is stellar, but i think id have trouble getting a hang of the data insufficiency Qs on gmat

howd you do on the test? where your percentiles in line with sat?

>>9658649
not him, but i tried out the ets and manhattanprep practice exams and scored in the 90th/60th percentiles while my sats were in the 99/th/50th percentiles

>t. dyscalculic brainlet

>living

>has never tried psychedelics

>>9658581
I don't know what a lot of these words mean.

>>9658529

1. contract syphilis
2. ???
3. profit!

>>9658529
>How do I live a Nietzschean life?

Literally kill yourself

>be sick
>not many friends / no gf
>travell around to find best temperature, diet for your sickness
>write some books attacking basically everyone
>go mad
>die

>>9658469
Depends on your definition of literature. But I recall Iain Banks' Wasp Factory was written when he was quite young (like 19)
Also, is pic related the Good Doctor?

>>9658486
my bad, he was middle-aged when that happened

Emily Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights when she was 19.

Dickens was published at 24.

Tolstoy wrote War and Peace in his early 30's.

>>9658414
how well do you understand heidegger?

>>9658441
i understand him well

>>9658474
then you'll find her use of his terminology idiosyncratic but not as present to hand as sartre's.

I'm gonna go with yes

sure

Read Catcher in the Rye which was good and the short story collection which was great, is the rest of his stuff worth reading?

>>9658123
Man and His Symbols argues that this will fall flat on it's face and that symbols must resonate from within to actually hold sway. Otherwise the unconsious will be against them.

Sorel's Reflections on Violence too desu.

>>9658139
This. Manipulation is a parasite on psychological substructures. You can only go that far with simulacrums.

>>9658077
Unless you know ancient greek, french, Italian, and German how would you even fucking know who has the best?

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>>9658077

>>9658103
>he doesn't know ancient greek, french, Italian, and german
Go back to plebbit brainlet.

>>9658055
I can write.

By asking /lit/:
>hi /lit/ I'm about to start reading...
>hi /lit/ I'm 50 pages in does it get any better?
>hi /lit/ just marathoned this with my wife's son. did I like it?
and so on

>>9658061
Ooh, those are my favorites. But you forgot the classic "What should I read next?". And all of a sudden we've covered 60% of the threads on /lit/. Amazing.

>>9657824
>I thought back to the memories of playing tag with my mother in the cool grass, I was not wearing shoes, friends.

Thats Proustian af.
I wish I had a real mother.

What you drinking beer like that for, you want a paunch that badly? Drinking vodka or whiskey or w.e like a man with a plan. That plan being getting drunk.

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Again the latch clacks upon the rod that holds the latch of the gate that separates the garden from the patch of great worry inside me, I watch the path get soaked with the falling rain as my eyes well with tears that I know of the origin not. Untied shoes step one before each other my mind is a staring sentry absent of cause. Nowadays awake from a blank sleep with dread in my heart not thinking of anything other than my own worry and with no plan to change anything except the way I lean in my filthy sheets before I awake again pissing out the nights mistake and gulping warm water through my studio apartment spigot.

>>9657901
>the way I lean in my filthy sheets

Consider new ways to lean (direct your attention) in your filthy sheets (muddled mind)

>>9657666
>sup /lit/
>I can't do even a modicum of my own research, even on the /lit/ wiki but I want to try and read literature that requires intense focus and scholarship
>thanks in advance

>>9657681
>sup /lit/
>i'm a fag
>i come in to shit up threads that discuss content instead of "was xyz a cuck?" or "DFW was a literal hack LOL"
kys
thanks in advance
(i've read the sticky but i'd like recommendations)

>>9657697
>discuss content

Literally just reference the Greek chart that gets posted in every Greek thread, which we have one of basically every single day. Your only choices are the pre-socratics/sophists, and Plato. Read the two books on the Greek chart that come before Aristotle and that's it.

That anon is giving you shit because having read the sticky you should know this. That's why there's a sticky.

>>9657617
Probably. It was implied at the end of the second movie he was writing trainspotting.

>>9657640
Yeah just watched it there.

>>9657617
>was he welsh
Kinda.
He was the guy that hung about with the bad cats, but wasn't actually a bad yin.

But no, every character is a little welsh. Even Begsbie.

this but unironically

>>9657523

this image is really dumb because

1. Skyrim has a journal just like Morrowind.

and 2. you can disable waypoints in Skyrim so you can feel more "immersed"

and even on top of that I don't understand how video game tards think reading a journal is so special in a video game. Morrowind is overrated.

>>9658594
You make a valid point, but look at where we are headed. Fallout 4 went full theme park on any dialogue immersion. Mass Effect followed suit. Make a game for the massess and it can't have too many big words.

>>9657359
What do you think Stirner means when he writes Spooks?

>>9657526
I don't know, I never read the book I just saw the epic meme on Facebook and figured you /b/ros could help me out xD

>>9657526
I think he means that your mom sucked my big fat dong last night

just because rousseau critiques the tradition doesn't mean he's not part of it

>>9657344
But wouldn't it be more accurate to group him with the romantics and other anti-enlightenment figures?

>>9657304
There are definitely some scholars and thinkers who believe Rousseau is better categorized as 'counter-Enlightenment,' so you're onto something here.

>when he claims that any society, regardless of how rationally it's organized, will corrupt the natural goodness of man?

Rousseau doesn't fall under my area of expertise, so it's entirely possible I'm the one in error here and hopefully somebody better informed replies to your thread, but it doesn't seem to me this is quite what Rousseau claims. Primitive man is naturally good primarily because there is the absence of corrupting influences and mechanisms, and because the pre-civilized society is a exceptionally moral one. In fact, according to Rousseau even though man in his natural state doesn't exist in a Hobbesian perpetual state of war, this natural state is still a solitary, asocial one, where men have no interest in advancing any kind of positive Good or directing the will beyond merely self subsistence. It is only through civilized society that positive moral projects become possible, even if the very same changes open up (more often) opportunities and ideology for immoral acts.