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>>9531206
Is that an actual sentence from the novel? Holy shit, why does anybody bother with DFW?

>>9531206
Say it with me, gang: no discernible talent

>>9531206
Wtf I hate AXL now

>>9531012

ask me when i am a genetically mutated moleman who adapted to eternal darkness

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>unenlightened, undialectical self insert
>gets The Spirit every time
Authors like Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel are the subject of study of in Slovenian communist circlejerks, how does it feel, /lit/?

>>9531012
>every time
Let's see:
>Looking for Alaska: No
>An Abundance of Katherines: Yes
>Paper Towns: Not really
>Will Grayson, Will Grayson: Yes (For Green's part of the book, anyway)
>The Fault in Our Stars: No

Fictions

is that donald trump

the art of the dela

Ficciones, The Aleph, The Book of Sand

Can you read Spanish? If not, you may have to hunt down the old Norman Thomas di Giovanni translations, Borges collaborated with di Giovanni on them. Sadly they're out of print due to his scheming whore of a second wife.

>>9530859
>Aeneas leaves Asia minor for Rome
>Peter leaves Asia minor for Rome

Really gets the gray matter moving

>>9530879
Not really, I am confused as well

I think it's sort of a verisimilitude play. But maybe people at the time could have looked it up in the paper, then said, oh yeah, there was a guy who got better about that time. Could have been real. We should vote for Huckabee

>>9530798

Not gonna pretend I grasp that myself, for one. What is he referring to as optics?

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>>9530798
u mean perceptin?

>>9530809
Perception, more or less. He is saying that hallucination and reality cannot be distinguished by the senses, and these concepts have no bearing on them.

do your own homework

also stop posting 4chan at your age, it will not be a good influence on your mental development

Atticus was a nigger loving jew.

>>9530448
Thanks

chuang tzu

Plato and Hegel .

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>>9530390
>read huxley
>immediately respect all physical objects as if they were human
>take DMT to understand my autistic brither
i live with my family of trash

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read and reread everything

>>9530248
Ah, nice image. Thanks.

>>9530218
>...will I develop a sound knowledge on Plato?

You don't develop a sound knowledge of Plato by reading him. You develop a knowledge of the mainstream acceptance of what Plato meant by reading Neo-Platonists and secondary sources.

You read Plato to develop a philosophical way of thinking and for the excellent writing, but, honestly, nobody knew what he meant.

Hat einen ganz schönen poetischen Fluss, dass hält einen bei der Stange, auch wenn man nicht genau weiß worauf du hinaus willst.
Einige Bilder sind eher unverständlich, ich kann mir beispielsweise nichts unter einem Insektenlächeln vorstellen.
Es geht um verlorene Liebe, nehme ich an (?) und die Eindrücke dazu gefallen mir, auch wenn mir die Geschichte mit dem Straßendreck am Ende doch etwas zu edgy ist.

Insgesamt: Wer hat dir nur weh getan, anon?

>>9529854
Das Mädchen in meinem Semester hat angefangen zu kotzen als ich sie gerade küssen wollte Mann und jetzt redet sie nicht mehr mit mir. Sie ist so zart und hübsch, scheiße.

>>9529786
>Kleine weiß überzogene Nacktschnecken, mit Perlmuttaugen und Insektenlächeln, ziehen da ihre Bahn.
Hab da aufgehört zu lesen. Nacktschnecken? Brudi, bidde...

>What compels people with PhDs to unironically recommend self-help books?

Self help books probably sell better overall.

>simple heuristics can never be genuinely helpful

I read that book too OP. It didn't work. There's 10% good advice there but the rest is his sales product.

>>9529605
Im English but the Poetic and Prose Edda (norse paganism) are very good. Old medieval English stories like Beowolf are good too.

>>9529610
Can you rec an edition of the edda?

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>>9529605
Reynard the fox. Fuck, I love this medieval folklore story

>>9529596
morality is for spooked people and people who want to rule over people.

Sex is the the plebeian thing a man can do and normies think that ''the only thing which connects us to beast is sex'' which is super retarded and actually is clue to spot normies. Sex for humans (well men more than women) is the opposite of what animals do.
Your life would actually be better if what you call sex would be what animals do: a bit of fight for men (like they love to do now to feed their spook of merit), but once year and it may or may not lead to pregnancy in a roastie.

Also, normies imagine that sex and orgasms (since it wall they know to do) is the way to stop pessimism, >muh schopenhaeur did not have sex enough, some gateway to the spooks of ''transcendence'', immanence'', or for the smart-ass circlejarking over the stop of any dichotomy by oxymorons, the ''immanence through transcendence'' or ''the transcendence through the immanence''
this is all cute and right if you want stay a normie, but if you want to stop being unhappy, and actually do something relevant once in your life, the first thing to stop doing is sex money, entertainment, lying and caring about what men do to feed their spoook of compassion and their opposite spook of dominance and hierarchy.

>>9529675
But of course liberals being hedonists like anybody on earth, they cannot stand hearing that ''sex is for reproduction only if you want to stop being a plebs'' which reminds them too much of being ruled by christians. women can see and experience sex as sex, meaning physical pleasure,, but sex for men is never ever about sex which makes them oddly enough so pathetic that it could be an exit for them to all this desire of impressing women and ''improving'' daily life with more pleasures (physical and intellectual) and less pains and use this as means to boast.

Stick to fapping if you can, but do not expect to achieve anything (at least on your own) in your life if you keep caring about sex (while claiming that sex is nothing sacred, like the liberals, yet, still like the liberals, spending your day whining about rape and creating rules about sex, believing that is is an activity worthy of discussing so much at diner (with friends before a swinger party) and in their entertainment since they have been reducing the will to the libido to the sexual libido after centuries of having faith in the individual will whose pinnacle is the consent through freedom called by them the self-determination (by studying nature or society or having no boss)) .

The most famous way to stop the sexual libido is to watch for hours the girl you want to give pleasure to, without touching her, until you see that there is nothing interesting about the body itself and the dispassion occurs naturally. get a HR photo of the roastie you like and display it in full screen to contemplate it.

The other punter tied to sex is to see that lust lies at the base of the erected cock. You clearly see it by comparing an erection without lust. THe way to kill the lust is actually to be still: pleasures (and pains) are created by (first physical) movement and the way to stop them is precisely. A roastie does not feel any pleasure from a cock form a man who does not move. It is the thrusting which turns the tiny lust at the base of the erected cock into pleasure which turns into all this fucking drama about sex. When lust arises, watch it without moving the body (move only due to the breath) and then get a deeper stillness by being still wrt the breath itself.
Once there is a good performance of contemplation, decreases the libido like liberals calls it. To kill it requires more work but normies do not care about this and claim it would be death.

Do the same with a dead corpse to meditate on death.

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Totally abstaining from sex for moral reasons is retarded. I'm just really afraid of STDs and the effort I need to put in to get the reward is too uneven for my taste so I don't bother.

Quite mediocre, repetitive, boring. If you want to read about rich kids being bored on drugs go for it (Bret Easton-Ellis has the same bored crap, as is Ryu Murakami)

A modern and recent novel I very much enjoyed was HHhH from Laurent Binet. It's half a historical novel on the assassination of Heydrich by Czechs and Slovaks, and half it's the author's fight with history

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>goodreads rating

He was a promising writer in 2009. Now he's just mediocre.

>>9529151
>Not starting with stirner
you will get spooked

There are several things I don't agree with Land on, but I like the Land meme because it demonstrates that interesting thinkers are not necessarily left wingers, and shows a way that kids can draw from some of the useful elements in theory and disregard and argue away the rest.

There hadn't been that many examples of anyone - besides Deleuze - who would participate in some of the theory while flouting certain Marxist presumptions (presumptions which a lot of students thought, given the previous examples/culture, you had to accept wholesale).

And thanks now to several interesting vectors, interesting aesthetic and philosophical thinkers/artists can explore freely beyond the confines of poststructuralist leftist logic.

The Landian meme is literally a weaponized function sweeping young minds to prepare them for thinking beyond leftism. Just like /pol/, which I also disagree with on so many things, but still admire and sometimes support it as an entity that un-Enlightens young people with cult-like effectiveness.

>>9529224
I love how quotable he is.

>hedonism advocates laziness
>laziness is bad
>hence hedonism is bad
You'd have to justify the second proposition first, senpai

>>9529140
And the first. Laziness is not intrinsic to hedonism. If you don't enjoy being lazy, it would in fact be contradictory.

OP is a stupid faggot.

>>9529132
Read Stirner.