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>>9655119
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i'm yet to hear an argument for the soul being anything other than subjectivity, unless we take subjectivity itself to be evidence of the soul.

Lincoln in the Bardo-George Saunders

heres how philosophy works

if youre a natural thinker you come to a questions in your life, and you turn to others who have asked these questions before you. theres no badge of honor in reading anything once you leave college.

I sure do wish y'all would stop inb4ing as OP. It's really bad form.

The fact that you are asking yourself if it is "worth" studying and "precious man hours" implies that you are still thinking in a modernist sense of time as value. Which is exactly what Heidegger was out to undermine.

After you finish there's no reason you can't go back to thinking life/time/capital in just this way. In fact you may well choose to double down on that process. But understand that the lingering doubt you are feeling that has prompted you to ask this very question - Do I Have Time For This? - is something the man from Messkirch understood very well.

>huge volume of effort
It's not as complicated as you think.

Most likely, but no one cared about saving what was written in them, so we don't know about them today.

>>9654869
This, or maybe some of the things we consider classics were considered pulpy trash back then and we just think they're great because they're old. Just think of all the political cartoons from Marie Antoinette's time, they're considered important historical documents, back then they were just, well, political cartoons. Or the graffiti from Pompeii or on the Hagia Sophia, there's some really dumb/pointless stuff there, but it's old, so now it's valuable

Undoubtedly there were some, but remember that mass production of books is a fairly recent thing, previously anyone could produce a book but it would only be a single copy. To make many copies you'd have to pay a very large amount of money to somebody who owned a printing press (or if you go back further, to have it copied by hand which was even more expensive). Generally they only made copies of books if there was a demand for it, or if the person who owned the press believed there would be great demand for copies. Because the labor and time involved in the process was very high.

So it's unlikely those terrible books survived, because the only way ancient literature survives is by being copied over and over again, and the standards for something to be copied were much higher the further back you go.

A Perfect Day for Bananafish

The overcoat

>>9654939
This.

Also the Mezzanine

calm down thom

http://libgen.io

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DISCORD

WHERE IS THE /LIT/ DISCORD?

>>9654858
THANKS ANON!

>>9654832
Protip: No matter how many people say"Oh, you like Catch-22? Try Slaughterhouse V." DO NOT. It is garbage trash on its own and comparing it to Catch-22 is just insulting.
also
I sexually identify as Nately
>Lolita - expected more honestly
>Old Man and The Sea - decent book, a little bit boring
You should be hanged for such opinions.

>>9654852
>"Oh, you like Catch-22? Try Slaughterhouse V." DO NOT.
This.

>>9654832
>it has love stories
instantly turned me off

"my diary desu"

>>9654805
Heidegger briefly discusses anxiety, boredom, and other negative states of mind in Being and Time. His ideas that they should be held onto for as long as possible in order to reveal the existential possibilities available to us, in my opinion, has been a very powerful insight in my day-to-day life. Getting through the abstractions and the terminology to appreciate Heidegger's discussions on mood and how they reflect upon the ontological state of affairs requires a lot of philosophical dissection at first, but I think it's well worth it even if you decide that Heidegger isn't your cup of tea.

>>9654805
>>9654845
I have to preface this recommendation for the likely retarded /pol/tard OP, however, because Martin Heidegger was also a cuckold despite being a prominent member of the Nazi Party. Even though Heidegger ended up closer to his bastard child than his biological child, who later ended up passionately managing his estate, you may not find his philosophy worthwhile as a result of his dysfunctional marriage.

What's a kindle date?

>>9654782
You set the girl on fire if she doesn't give you the succ
It's an ancient tradition in the middle east

>>9654779
It's unironically about world war and world peace. If you watch the news you'll know.

>>9654766
and free sex too!
Actually Prison sounds kinda awesome.

Only if you live in Norway.

I've been to jail, and unless you really like Clive Cussler and James Patterson, you're going to be disappointed on how much """reading""" you can get done.

It's not a literary event at all. Bye /pol/.

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>>9654659
Where do you rank his prose among the greats?

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>>9654666

>>9654599
>Aren't I making a choice
To say it simple to you, since you are a retard who can't research something as famous as this, you "make choices" but you have no say in it so guess what that fucking means

>>9654616
You didn't have to be mean about it.

>>9654628
>mean
A thread died because of yours, and on top of that there are more then enough replicated threads on the same topic.

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The course starts in half an Hour, Should i go there and beg them to take me in?

my diary desu

>>9654517

Did you eventually get her senpai?

Hope you enjoy poo and farts jokes

>>9654724
This is what happens when you read it in translation. Not that the historical or philosophical subtleties are all lost if you can find them to begin with, but the book gets a more superficial tone.

>>9654487
>that typo

Wow how could you get 'E' instead of 'And' fucking morons.

>>9654353
DUDE

Psychedelics aren't for that. At best dictate into a voice recorder. Make sure it is turned on first.

>>9654353
I cant stand to read when im stoned even, the Idea of reading while tripping had never even struck me
Music will always be the best tripping activity for me, it's like half the reason I do it

>Mason & Dixon
>Gravity's Rainbow
>V.
>Inherent Vice
>Against the Day
>Bleeding Edge
>Vineland
>Lot 49
>Slow Learner
I've only read 2 Pynchon books

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>>9654296
>tfw halfway through lot 49
>in love with it
>we can only go up from here

>>9654306
Lucky man