y does this faggot dress like a virgin? Doesn't he have like 400 million dollars?
Jesus
>>9997183
He's ugly as shit and is a known plebian pulp writer
What reason does he have to dress differently?
>>9997194
He could sudoku live on stage
>>9997183
Great thread. Jeans and a t shirt are virgin lunatic territory.
Aesthetic foreign covers thread.
>>9997175
>>9997185
T>his disparity needs some explanation, and I'm not sure I can supply it. Perhaps Europeans are more open to the quietness of the novel than Americans. Perhaps Americans have read more novels that resemble Stoner than we have (though what they might be I can't think). Perhaps American readers don't like its lack of "optimism" (there is no shortage of pessimism in American literature, but the national character is one of striving, of altering circumstances, rather than accepting them). Or perhaps they are merely lagging behind us, and will soon catch up. When I put these points to the novelist Sylvia Brownrigg, she responded: "The reticence seems very not American to me. In spite of the American setting, the character himself feels more English, or European – opaque, fundamentally decent,and passive … Perhaps the lack of the novel's taking hold in the US is because it doesn't feel like One of Ours? We're such a country of maximalists, noisy ones, and though obviously there are exceptions, even our minimalists are not spare and sad in this particular way … Another thought crossed my mind: that there is little drinking in Stoner. I wonder if American characters who are self-contained and stoical (I am thinking of Carver, or Richard Yates) more often have to be alcoholics to rein themselves in, and accept their disappointments."
Ameriburgers BTFO
>>9997118
You fucked up your meme arrow.
>>9997121
DELET THIS
meh
I want to start reading essays. What's your favourite collection?
I'm a fan of Annie Dillard
>>9997064
Montaigne's are the best, i.e. the most mind expanding, but I love Addison and Steele's Spectator series, Coleridge's The Friend Essays, and among the still living W. H. Gass is the generally acknowledged master in English. Just finished his series Finding a Form, and it was excellent.
Hazlitt's, Chesterton's, and Emerson's are my favorites. Their style is what I enjoy the most.
Any other books with an incel main character?
my diary desuI'm interested too anon
He is not an incel.
He literally bangs a hooker in the book
Which English translation is /lit/-approved?
The one OUP puplishes is good
>>9996948
>translation
lel dont even bother
>>9996948
Mandelbaum
>Religion and State exist to give objective morality to the world.
>Without the freedom to be benevolent on one's own terms, true virtue does not exist.
Thoughts?
Not many of those on this board, friend.
>>9996876
No. My virtues align with that of Religion and State. We're either gone, I would act in an identical matter to how I do now.
The presence of Religion and State ensures that people do not confuse morality with being relative, therefore preventing people from justifying immoral actions (such as what youre trying to do now.)
In other words; people share common morality, so they band together to hold accountable those who think stealing and murdering and is ok.
>>9996901
Justifying what immoral action? My argument is that someone can only be virtuous without the promise of a reward (afterlife, karma) or without a risk of punishment. That isn't to say that one's own beliefs can't align themselves with religious or state law. I'm not justifying any evil, because what I see as an evil is still something I will try to avoid.
What's your favourite word /lit/? A word that you like the meaning/ sound of or any of reason really.
>>9996872
my life isn't vivid and complex and the thought of other people as dull or duller than me is horrifying
Autumnal
Vigorous
Ischemic
Churlish
Lugubrious
Putrefactive
Deleterious
Quintessence
Lecher
Philanderer
Quixotic
Cathect
Gadabout
Opacus
I'm a Latinate man I guess
>>9996872
LITERALLY a word invented by reddit
It seems like there sure are a lot of National Socialists on the internet these days. Anyone know of any un-Jewed books on the party? Its tenets? Maybe even its practice pre-third reich and post third reich?
>>9996847
>It seems like there sure are a lot of National Socialists on the internet these days.
Nice try, /pol/-tard. Fuck off back to your containment board and never come back.
>>9996847
go away
How to into literary theory? Any good overviews of different disciplines? Or is it even worth the extra understanding you can get out of literature
pic unrelated
>>9996677
Literary theory is a meme field, its inferior to pure philosophy and its inferior to actually reading literature
Leave it for dykes, jews and faggots
From Work to Text by Roland barthes. Its short
Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory 3rd Edition by Peter Barry is a decent read.
>read Shakespeare, he's the greatest writer that has ever lived!
>a master of technique and verse!
>read his sonnets
>literally rhymes 'die' with 'memory' in the first four lines of the first sonnet
>line 12, 'niggarding'
>...
Is this the final proof that anglos and amerifats can't into literature?
Are you butthurt?,hamlet stomp all literature american,and more?the greatest writer,born in england.
>>9996674
guy was irish. let's be honest.
Anglos always promote mediocre comedians as high culture. Shakespeare, Wilde, Stephen Fry, Jeremy Clarkson.
any good books about creeps?
>>9996641
Lolita
>>9996650
i'd prefer it if a guy and a girl were of the similiar age
>>9996641
Perfume
But then who rules universe?
>>9996609
monarchist detected
Spinoza isn't really a pantheist in its contemporary sense, he clearly sees a distinction between God and everyday material things. God contains the material and mental universe, but also reaches beyond it into aspects incomprehensible to human beings. Panentheism, rather than pantheism.
>>9996619
What can I read that deals with contemporary pantheism? So far as I can deduce, it's basically materialism and atheism with a productive and happy mentality to go along with them.
Do you own any big books? Here's mine, fidget spinner for scale.
only worthless popular science books (geograohy, history)
nothing special
My Catholic bible is huge. The next one would probably be the Tale of Genji and then maybe Hegel's Lectures on the philosophy of world history and a collection of Chinese writings, dramas and tales.
>>9996545
Complete Shakespeare Collection, complete collections of Poe, Grimm Fairy Tales, HP Lovecraft, War & Peace, Les Miserables, that kind of thing.
>Yo I know that you need a posteriori knowledge in order to justify all a priori knowledge and the distinction between a priori and a posteriori but guys this distinction totally makes sense x)
>>9996441
Has anybody ever told you that you are an idiot?
If not then this will be a new experience for you.
>>9996454
not an argument
>>9996441
In order to determine the a priori conditions of experience via the transcendantal thought, you don't need any kind of a posteriori knowledge.
You obviously have no clue of what Kant said.