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He meant that topping from the bottom is the ultimate path to enlightenment

>>9605775
Stop shitting up the board with this thread. You really don't know, you consult Dr. Gregory Sadler.

this is the only philosophy book ive ever walked away from thinking i didnt understand shit but what i read in the SEP and promised myself to come back to it. its rough

>>9605733
you're hiding something from yourself, op. i suggest you take psychedelics and come to terms. ride the tiger

You're fucking full of yourself...

>be idiot sperg
>thinks about himself a lot
>can't translate feelings or ideas via conversation or writing
>ergo can't really gauge how truly intelligent he is because he doesn't challenge those around him to flex their intellect

what does "intellectual" mean in the internet age, exactly?


idk, read infinite jest and realize how much of an ego worshiping Luddite you are

>>9605733
disgusting narcissist.
i bet you say youre gonna write a 'great novel' someday, have probably read less than 10 and are grossly childish.
You don't know shit. You will likely be a loser.
Do some drugs.

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His first novel The maggik muffin is pretty good

>>9605599

siddhartha, obviously

if you like that, check out narci and goldmund, or demian

steppenwolf also good

glass last

>>9605599
Siddhartha is utter trash. Literally r3ddit in a book, made me cringe. Beneath the Wheel and Glass Bead Game, on the other hand, are great.

>>9605456
I read the poem but not the commentary. It wasn't very good.

>>960546
Did you at least read the forward? The poem really isn't all the book has to offer (given that it's meta-fiction) and in fact the commentator spends more time talking about his homosexual fantasies than talking about the actual poem.

>>9605466
Did you at least read the forward? The poem really isn't all the book has to offer (given that it's meta-fiction) and in fact the commentator spends more time talking about his homosexual fantasies than talking about the actual poem.

>>9605371
Stop reading philosophy. It's ultimately all just a non-nonsensical, pointless thought exercise without any real world value. Fiction at least is entertaining.

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>>9605371
>>9605393
Stop thinking.

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>>9605371
>>9605393
>>9605440
stop.

>>9605367
that doll he's holding looks like wojack.
a bukowski pepe edit anyone?

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Bukowski never accepted himself.

His literature valorizes or romanticizes nearly everything about its narrators.

This shows that deep down he needed to argue with himself about his own value, to present his way of life to himself in attractive terms.

You want to see acceptance, honesty? Read Knut Hamson and Celine.

>>9605376
Can't be arsed senpai.

>>9605228
Mein Kampf

>>9605228
Animal's People by [forget authors name but he is an Indian gentleman or possibly a lady]

Lord of the Flies

Blood Meridian

Post-apocalyptic memes.

Certain passages of Germinal by Zola.

>abridged

NO

Theses on Feuerbach, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, German Ideology.

Reminder that marxists.org has everything.

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Going to post this chart preemptively. I'm familiar with most of these writers but I'm mainly looking for a more concise list of works - I don't have months to waste, only the summer.

>>9605165
yeah, it's aright.

pleb

>>9605165

I didn't like it. I feel like I'm missing something everyone else got reading it.

Sure, look at the great gatsby

Sure, look at TLOTIAT

hypersphere

Don't be so niggardly

>>9605045
Every pseud spouts this meme.

>>9605045
If you were smart, you wouldn't be lazy.

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Bret Easton Ellis hasn't had an interesting thought in his life.

Pic is all you need to know.

>>9605068
Man, being a nihilist must be hard.

>>9605068
No wonder Bret Easton Ellis dislikes him. He even writes like a pseud and degenerate.

The Iliad

>>9604940
Not Turbopseud there for sure

>>9604940
Leaves of grass by Walt Whitman

Try and put as little post war poetry and women who aren't Emily Dickinson

the bible for all six

Aesthetics: Burke
Metaphysics: Kripke
Epistemology: Gettier
Ethics: Plato
Politics: Land
Theology: Plantinga

Fight me

Aesthetics
>Nietzsche
Metaphysics
>Heidegger
Epistemology
>Kant
Ethics
>Schopenhauer
Politics
>Plato
Theology
>Pseudo-Dionysus

>>9604749
dilettantism

>>9604749
>my girl wants a hug too
all those languages and still a cuck.
it's wonderful that they've mastered fucking small talk. how impressive.

What the actual fuck?

How the fuck does the bald guy speak my native language so well?