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>Stop suffering.
why do you want me to be bored, schoppy-san?

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>>9613898
No

>schopenhauer saying stop suffering
>nietzsche saying no
are we having an opposites thread?

>>9613896
wtf is that justin bieber with boobs?

>>9613896
when sam hyde begins to release his work

>>9613896
i was actually deliberating on this earlier, but thinking of aiming for 10 grand

i mean, think about it.

you could potentially just write some half-good meme-based bollocks you steal and mash together from random threads on 4chan, hired a 5$ editor from fiver or upwork or whatever and post it chapter by chapter.

it's fucked up, but if you're in a developing country getting 10 grand a month for other people's bullshit, that's fucking great if you can pull it off.

and that potential backlash if it goes wrong is where i dropped that plan.
>get tai lopez-level net famous for scamming 10k
>literally will never live that down considering the nature of tech and social media's growth
>10 years down the road you finally have a professional gig, decent life, and some work rival brings your shit to light

ain't worth it mang.
>ahm KNOT gonna do it

>tfw only have a conscience when i'm anonymous

>>9613840
Want me to redpill you on this guy? Don't believe liberal lies.
daily reminder that in 'Dialectics of Enlightenment' Adorno and Horkheimer praised jazz as the ultimate form of music and denounced the value of all high modernism and compositions by classical composers, solely to raise the stock of blacks in the US which would enable them to start procreating with white women which would further the 'mass-brownification' (Adorno's term) of the white race

>>9613854
>daily reminder that in his 'Negative Dialectics' Adorno sough to prove that an object is never equal to its description from which concluded such outlandish things as 'the generally accepted bourgeois notions pertaining to so-called "evolution" are categorically false ... because Whites are never only Whites, and Blacks are never only Blacks which bears witness to an oppressive categorization imposed by Fascistic ideology to divide the proletariat' and '[if women can be said to have a vagina] does that stem from the normative use of language and its rigidity in opposition to dialectical change, and can a vagina in such a case even be said to exist?'

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>not leaving jazz to the pursuer
How embarrassing
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Does anyone wish to take part in my thread?

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okay

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It was when a celebrated historian and art critic, a man of European fame, had announced a lecture in the university hall. I had succeeded in persuading the Steppenwolf to attend it, though at first he had little desire to do so. We went together and sat next to each other. When the lecturer ascended the platform and began his address, many of his listeners, who had expected a prophet, were disappointed by his rather spruce and conceited air. And when he proceeded, by way of introduction, to say a few flattering things to the audience, thanking them for their attendance in such numbers, the Steppenwolf threw me a quick look, a look which criticized both the words and entire personality of the speaker -- an unforgettable and frightful look which spoke volumes! It was a look that did not simply criticize the lecturer, annihilating the celebrated man with its crushing yet delicate irony. That was the least of it. It was more sad than ironical; it was indeed utterly and hopelessly sad; it conveyed a quiet despair, born partly of conviction, partly of a mode of thought which had become habitual with him. This despair of his not only unmasked the conceited lecturer and dismissed with its irony the matter at hand, the expectant attitude of the public, the somewhat presumptuous title under which the lecturer announced -- no, the Steppenwolf's look pierced our whole epoch, its whole overwrought activity, the whole surge and strife, the whole vanity, the whole shallow play of opinionated intellectuality. And alas! The look went still deeper, went far below the faults, defects and hopelessness of our time, our intellect, our culture alone. It went right to the heart of humanity, it bespoke eloquently in a single second the whole despair of a thinker, of one who perhaps knew the full worth and meaning of man's life. It said:
"See what man sloths we are! Look, such is man!"

Who even cares if it's a "lie"? Oprah? A bunch of moms? Jokes on them for being exposed as a bunch of idiots. Just write whatever soppy trash and make yourself look like a tragedy and they'll eat it up. They can't deliberate on a book's or any other work of art's merits with a shred of objectivity. The book should have been panned for being garbage in the first place.

The people preoccupied with authors are ridiculous. The story of the author itself means absolutely nothing in a discussion of a work's aesthetics. There is only the work compared alongside the author's other works. I have zero interest in judging anyone's life.

Why are women so preoccupied with women and minority authors? Simple, because they don't understand art. This was acclaimed in an era when we hadn't quite reached the 'all white men are shitlords' nadir we are at right now. Back then it was enough to simply be pathetic. Now if you're a white male drug addict they probably wouldn't give a rat's ass if you overdosed and died in a ditch. A negress stubs her toe? What a tragedy! Buy the book!

this chick's from the publisher milo originally sent his book too kek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VkxTRTJ-s4

if you want another one after that, author: the jt leroy story, is some schizo shit complete with dennis cooper and billy corgan as side players

personally love this kind of shit. angry penguins getting all the modernists fired up isn't some shit we should relegate to the past. it's too much fun.

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pic related was a pile of shit but helped spawn a moral panic in the US.

use your cum to hold it shut

Put a heavy amount of books over it

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Have fun reading this in the original Portuguese, Miguel.

>>9613334
John and its variations (eg. João).

The Magic Mountain.

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It's a really great book, but I hope you're into art house films, Michael.

Whenever theres a large blank spot in a book I compulsively fill it with thoughts. They can be related to the literature, or not, but it's proof of my place in time at that particular moment of a book. Books have a way of changing you and making you think in different ways, so keeping note of the exact place you are in that transformation is valuable, and by forcing yourself to do it at any blank spot, keeps the thoughts true by nature of spontaneity.

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>>9613293

I bought Henry Kissinger's "World Order" (for uni) at a used books store (not a used bookstore) and its filled with scribbles made by an old lady (judging by her name).

In this commentary, she asks questions to the author ("why would you say this?"), comments on the time of the day of when she was reading ("its not raining today"), what she was doing while reading it (eg. cooking, washing the dishes).

Funny thing (or, perhaps, tragic) is that she got that book as a mother's day gift in 2016 and I bought it last month. She read the whole book (she underlined almost every sentence), she appeared to have liked it very much judging from the comments, and since she received it as a gift from someone she - supposedly - loves (her son) why would she sell it so quickly!?

My assumption? She died and during the inventory they decided to sell it. Perhaps it was her last book, I don't know.

With softcover books I always open the book far too much for far too long. I've noticed while I was locked up, whenever I lent other inmates a brand new book, they would return it with hardly any wear on how the book looks when I leave it closed on its side. But after I finish a softcover book, that shit's always ajar. I mean, I don't know what others do differently. Maybe they just read faster than me so it doesn't mess up the spine? Or maybe I just open the book too far apart? /poor book care.

>>9613205
>implying women can read

>>9613205
Fuck the presocratics bitch, if I wanted to read worthless philosophy I would rather waste my time with the prekantians. Now get the fuck out of here and stop wasting my time, I'm tryna follow my boy Glaucon's argument.

>>9613205
>What do you mean by "I've read Heraclitus". How the heck would you understand him if you haven't gone through Anaximander and the Milesian School? *sigh* Chad is right, you're pathetic.
>implying the Milesian School is cohesive
>implying the Ionian School doesn't incorporate it and Heraclitus
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>inb4 Ionian School isn't cohesive either
well nuh, it contains the Milesian school for a start. excuse me while I make millions in the olive trade, ho

Dunno lol

>>9613194
Prose and ideas. Everyone I know disagrees though.
Favorite books are Moby-Dick, the anatomy of melancholy, Religio Medici

>>9613194
i dont remember what he said but i do remember that I agreed with whatever wittgenstein said regarding aesthetics

>>9613117
Just read more, it comes naturally. Don't reduce subvocalization though. It's such an awful meme here and leads to a reduction in understanding and appreciation of text.

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>>9613117
>I already keep my finger on the line I'm reading
Are you memeing or truly this degenerate?

>>9613240
It actually helps to read faster because you never get lost in the other lines on the page.

What's your fucking problem, faggot?

I had nearly the precise same reaction to the Iliad, moved onto the Odyssey, and liked it more. It's less war and more adventure.

>>9613088
Nice, I will probably like it even more. I'm not really sure I'll move to it right after tho.

>>9613088
>>9613103
>reading for the background

really

>>9612854
>psychoanalytical reduction of art is truth

>>9612864
poo poo fart stinky :)

>>9612790
Reviews like that should be illegal.

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A Canticle for Leibowitz

>>9612790
>nothing happens! ugh

Can't have prose when it's poetry.

>>9612729
>run on sentences
Kek, m80, try Samuel Beckett. You will lose your mind.

>>9612729
Autism.