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samuel beckett would not have /understood/ that

>>9531981
Are you a bi girl who likes dominating cute smart guys?
Because I'm literally Beckett basically

Also saged

I wish I was a girl :(

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>"The cultural work done in the past by grunting and loud noises is now done by gods and epic sagas"

Do you agree?

Why should I care?

>>9531512
They fulfill the same function but aren't necessarily of comparable intellectual or aesthetic quality.

is he john galt?

U.P: up! You never did the Kenosha kid.

>>9531394

>Fetishizes about the ultimate manly man executive version of your own egotrip philosophy
>Your actual partner is a NEET painter and artist sustained by you

Ego trap 101: The Book

I only read white male authors.

Because he didn't write anything, he was barely literate.

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>>9531380
Finished with Winters Tale. Slightly disappointing ending, great twist of genres, he certainly isn't at home in pastoral setting. First to suggest decides on what I read next.

they even made a board specifically for people who wanted to wank over off topic general philosophy posting but everyone ignored it and continued posting their shit threads here

/lit is still here... just focused on phi for the moment...promise ill be back with some new thoughts on McElroy once I finish this Locke...in the meantime, read MAGIC MOUNTAIN.

>>9531350
That image hit me with some minor nostalgia. I do miss how obnoxiously obsessive people got over Ulysses and how literally every other thread was either Pynchon or Wallace related.

>>9531054
You're gonna have to forgive me because my english is shit for mundane tasks, let alone explaining Benjamin. But what he's arguing is that social democracy tries to generalize progress as a constant through history, when the very notion of progress is tied to a very specific material-historical condition, and that there is no REAL progress if we accept progress in the terms of capitalism. Basically, he's saying social democracy can only generate more capitalism and that reformism is generating empty time, false progress which further delays the oncoming revolution.

>>9531083
And no, social democrats never recovered, they just closed their eyes and years and yelled while capitalism completely disassembled any possibility of a worldwide revolutionary left and things have come to the point where guys like Sanders or Corbyn, extremely moderate socdems, have become the most radical shit there is.

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>>9531083
>>9531092
It's a sad state of affairs

>want to destroy capitalism
>need to read guys like benjamin
>need to go to university
>spend years of life at university
>realize university is capitalism

>>9530947

>The fact that

Fuck I really need silence too, the only time when I read and feel like I'm trully getting the most of it in at night

>>9530947
Something like Ear Plugs? Idk

Avoid Kindle like the plague. The size doesn't matter, unless you plan on reading something like manga with it, in which case definitely get the biggest one you can find. Otherwise it's just preference.

>>9530933
I saw my friend using Kindle and it looked v. small but I guess I will see in the shop tomorrow.

I just enjoy having lots of text in one page when I read. Weird preference, but makes it easier to read the text since you can scroll back and forth without turning pages..

>>9530933
>Avoid Kindle like the plague.
Why?

huh?

I'm a Christian, so I'm basically just counting on Christ coming again in glory and setting everything right.

Fuck off

sure

It was for me, even as a 28 year old man.

>>9530707
It's really good, in my opinion

>>9530524
Nothing particularly exciting. I would have ranked Romeo and Juliet and Merchant of Venice a bit lower, and Henry V and Richard II a bit higher.

>UNIRONICALLY uses "its muhsoggykneestic" as an argument for why a play from the 16th century is bad
Into le trash it goes

>>9530538
>33. The Winter’s Tale
>uneven and prickly
>prickly

What the fuck? I couldn't get past that. One of my favorite plays and some cunt with a Simpsons blog calls it "prickly." What does that even mean?

elaborate

>>9530278
>Atheists are pious people

>>9530281
>>9530285
these
Please explain, OP

out of curiosity, why does everyone have this book? i randomly picked it up recently, but apparently im not alone since its on everyone here's bookshelf. does the title just appeal to our demographic?

(i put it down because i cant stand another moaning frenchman novel, read enough Sartre for that.)

>>9530298
Because many people think it is a good book

>>9530298
because being a cynical manchild who whines about sex and society is the ultimate goal of all the basement dwellers populating /lit/.

>his want to protect his sister's innocence
Not much of a want seeing as he raped her himself.

Wouldn't the rape turn him into a pervert though? I mean, look at all these homosexuals.

People tend to forget, somehow, that he narrates the entire story to his psychiatrist. On an unrelated note, I think he probably attempted suicide prior to the events of the book.

I don't have one because I didn't enroll for one, but I dropped out of university anyways

No.

I did not enjoy literature when I was a student. I was a STEM turbo autist.

I don't need one to write.