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/lit/ newfag. I just read The Stranger by Camus and i really liked it. I identified with Meursault's character : his apathy, his dissociation and his passiveness. Any books similar to this one?

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Which gospel is your favourite?

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>when automation is 99% succesful succeeds

Any books or readings on this matter?

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I unironically like him more now. What a character

>He had avoided straight math classes at Amherst, afraid they might lower his grade point average.

>But Wallace was still interested in the ideas behind fiction, so he signed up his first semester for a class on the history of the English language, which prompted an attempt to write a story in Old English, and another class on literary theory that focused on Derrida’s Of Grammatology. In the last [seminar on literary theory at Arizona], when another participant called Derrida a waste of time, Wallace got so mad that everyone thought there would be a fight.

>His scholarship having ended, that fall Wallace had to teach. The prospect did not delight him. In his audio letter to his Amherst friends on arriving, he had declared the undergraduates at UA to be “roughly of an intelligence level of fairly damaged person.”

>In his undergraduate class, Wallace was kind to the clueless but cruel to anyone with pretensions. When a student claimed that her sentences were “pretty,” he scribbled lines from her manuscript on the blackboard and challenged, “Which of you thinks this is pretty? Is this pretty? And this?” He continued to battle any young man who reminded him of his younger self. When one student wowed his classmates with a voicy, ironic short story, he took him outside the classroom and told him he had “never witnessed a collective dick-sucking like that before.” Wallace promised to prevent the “erection of an ego-machine” and strafed the student with criticism for the rest of the semester.

>He was unusually self-confident, perhaps buoyed by a sense that Infinite Jest was on target. “You should know I am really really smart,” he told the English department members who met him. He sent a résumé with his publications and on the second page added entries for “REVIEWS IF ANYBODY CARES…” and “PRIZES &c (IF ANYBODY CARES…).”…During a question-and-answer session, when a faculty member asked why they should hire him, he responded, “Who else?” Then the faculty committee went out with him to a local Chinese restaurant, where he told the department char, Charlie Harris, a Barth expert, that Barth was dead.

>He’s [Camus's] very clear, as a thinker, and tough—completely intolerant of bullshit. It makes my soul feel clean to read him.

>When he told her [Mary Karr] he had put certain scenes into Infinite Jest because they were “cool,” she responded, “that’s what my fucking five year old says about Spiderman.”

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People who listen to audiobooks are the downfall of modern society.

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>Chickie says "I love to read too, Anon!"
>I ask her what books she likes
>Proceeds to list off YA novels

Every fucking time...

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Name a comfier book. (Protip: you can't.)

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What is philosophy's endgame?
Please don't get me wrong, I don't mean this in an strictly pragmatic, utilitarian way, but what's the point of all the apparatus built around studying it?
Year after year, tens of thousands of freshmen enter college They're taught about logic, old and new philosophy; they learn. After graduating, many will move away from it completely in a professional setting and do whatever, the rest will study even more and, maybe, get a tenure so he can, too, teach more people in the future. Maybe he will publish some papers, maybe he will publish some papers that are significant. Very rarely he will publish something that's truly significant and will change the way we think philosophy. But so what? What have the Deleuzes, Foucaults and Heideggers in history achieved?
Thinking about this reminded me of Hesse's Glass Bead Game. What's the point? Is philosophy a fucking hobby?

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I've been listening to a lot of Alan Watts' talks lately, and I want to start reading him. Before I go in blind, I have a couple questions:

Where do I start?
How do you feel about his work?

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Name a more beautiful/thought-provoking sentence in the history of literature/philosophy that is as full of brevity as this one.

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Which philosophers address this important issue?

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So, I have the first edition of "Ressurection" by Leo Tolstoy. It has a brief passage on the inside signed by Tolstoy himself. How much is this worth?

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Hey /lit/, this is my first time visiting the board.

So lately I've been thinking a lot about feeling ignorant. As life goes by I just get the sense that my knowledge of the world is completely laconic and fragmented. I'm from a shitty country and my parents are lower class factory workers so growing up my education wasn't the best and I had little incentive to learn. I could probably count on my fingers the amount of books I read in my lifetime. Whenever I think about stuff like politics and economy I just don't feel qualified taking a stance because I have such a poor understanding of it.
But hey, the fact that I'm self aware at least counts for something, r-right? I'd like to change but it feels overwhelming not knowing how to go about it.
How does one approach getting the essentials of everything? I would just like to have a basic understanding of worldwide history that touches on the development of economy, politics, philosophy, science and art. At this point my comprehension of ancient egypt doesn't go beyond lolpyramidsandpharoes, Im not sure which century shakespear or mozart are from, I don't know how the hell europe transitioned from philosophers wearing togas to kings living in castles and I have zero clue what the fuck goes on in central asia.

So yeah, are there any materials (free or pirateable because I'm poor) that have this sort of basic holistic approach at culture fit for a noob? Preferably stuff that follows a timeline rather than jump around and tackles more than western civilization. No need for much detail, If there's a specific subject that picks my interest i'll research it individually more thoroughly.

Also, I have poor discipline, a short attention span and my life feels busy enough already so it's gonna be a struggle to create room for acquiring knowledge. Do you have any advice or tips to enable me to learn?
I do have a period of about 2-3 hours daily while wageslaving when I'm able to wear headphones so if there's some sort of audiobook I could listen to it would be even better.

tl;dr: I'm uneducated, recommend me things that provide an overall basic grasp of all facets of culture throughout history rather than heavy literature that tackles a specific subject in detail.

Help a pleb out /lit/.

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Who was right?

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Goodreads friend thread?