Can you recommend me books on water? Nonfiction or fiction.
Anyone remember Joseph McElroy?
my diary desu
Bachelard
Are any of Julius Evola's books worth reading/studying?
His work seems to be pretty polarizing but controversial stuff does tend to catch my fancy.
>>9995476
he's a huge meme and every wannabe 300lb Stoßtruppen reads one wiki article or one book by him and they think they understand where he's coming from
to start off don't read his books at all, read his collaborative essays or other works first.
>>9995476
revolt is great. doctrine of awakening is nice if your into buddhism. men among the ruins is decent too.
others are memes or rants.
read the metaphysics of war
what should I have read b4 trying to understand this? Not a philosophy major btw.
>>9995255
You cant.
That shit is for professors only
>>9995350
op btfo
>>9995350
fuggggg
What are some good experimental plays to perform? Would love all reading recommendations, especially short dramas
Also any recommendations for college students to perform
Look up Luigi Pirandello
idk how experimental it is but if you do Rhinoceros you can dress up as a rhino and run around
>>9996037
pic related
do you think dave be cry as he hung himself? also post his face when he kick out the chair and the noose tighten. pic related.
>>9995234
>post his face when he kick out the chair and the noose tighten.
This was the last thing he ever sawed
He never lived long enough to understand what it meant
>>9995238
Would DFW have voted for The Donald?
>>9995344
Hillary be cry
Let's talk about the best publisher in the world right now.
What Have you read, what do you own and plan to read, and what do you intend to buy. I'll start.
>>9995226
wow i wish my book store had this section. although i guarantee no one would buy any of the books. lol theres witz
read:
the third policeman
JR
The Tunnel
Homage to czery
(((A Room)))
Arno's Collected stories
Joseph Walser's Machine
Mulligan Stew
Wittgenstein's Mistress
Owned will read:
An unending landscape
Waltz
A Hunt For optimism
Suicide
Some Day:
Miss Macintosh My Darling
Bottom's Dream
The Making Of American's
Have any of you read any of these books? Thoughts on them.
>>9995231
I go to a small bookstore in Telluride once a year and clean out their selection of NYRB, New Directions, and Dalkey. Not sure who buys them in the first place cause all the women who work their are old yammering cunts but whatever.
should i start with his short stories or dead souls?
Short stories. Dead Souls should be his last. Bare in mind though that it is unfinished.
>>9995117
i didn't finish Dead Souls to be honest
>>9995715
Neither did Gogol
this is basically Nietzsche, right?
>>9995090
quality is really going down
sage
>>9995100
would the big N disagree with anything in OP?
>>9995090
This is what idiots think Nietzsche is.
>So, then, incompetent as I am to it, I find the task imposed upon me of defining the esthetically good — a work which so many philosophical artists have made as many attempts at performing. In the light of the doctrine of categories I should say that an object, to be esthetically good, must have a multitude of parts so related to one another as to impart a positive simple immediate quality to their totality; and whatever does this is, in so far, esthetically good, no matter what the particular quality of the total may be. If that quality be such as to nauseate us, to scare us, or otherwise to disturb us to the point of throwing us out of the mood of esthetic enjoyment, out of the mood of simply contemplating the embodiment of the quality — just, for example, as the Alps affected the people of old times, when the state of civilization was such that an impression of great power was inseparably associated with lively apprehension and terror — then the object remains none the less esthetically good, although people in our condition are incapacitated from a calm esthetic contemplation of it.
Yes?
>>9995080
English pls
>>9995087
An object is aesthetically good when all its parts add up to (do not detract from) the totality of its effect, regardless of whether that effect is beauty, ugliness, fear, etc.
>>9995080
What if the particular quality of the total is precisely chaos, disharmony and dissonance?
can depression exist without language?
Yeah. I had a pet goldfish who committed suicide out of depression.
>>9995059
There's no need to be hypothetical, a better question is: did depression exist before we had a word for it?
Are melancholia and depression completely different conditions? Does hysteria not exist anymore, because it isn't a diagnosis anymore? Did it really exist back then, when we thought it existed? When Socrates spoke to daemons, was he insane? When the oracle spoke her prophecy, under the effects of hallucinogenic vapors which rose from the cavern's spring waters, was that psychosis?
If an entire culture believes clairvoyance to be a supernatural phenomenon, is it still a delusion? Is insanity anything other than what society deems insane to be?
If an entire civilization is neurotic, short in attention span, short in memory, connecting emotionally to inanimate objects, connecting emotionally to imaginary people in fiction, living more in an abstracted virtual projection of reality than in physical reality, manic, drug-abusing, alcohol-abusing, sexually dysfunctional, sleep dysfunctional... is that sick, or is it healthy, normal functioning?
And can language, which is always cultural, affect what we perceive and believe to exist, which, effectively, is the only reality we can access?
pseuds BTFO
>>9994959
This is everyone to some extent. Usually the less intelligent are more ideological though.
>>9995739
Less intelligent follow emotions. More intelligent follow ideology. The highest level is CENTRISM.
>>9995761
Centrism is the biggest brainlet ideology of them all
Just read this beauty, what else is out there that is as tactfully metaphoric?
thank you nigger
bimp
>ewww I HATED this book lol
>Why did they make us read this in high school? hahah
>Holden is, like, so whiny! ughhh!!!
>Ignatius is so gross! He disgusts me. I couldn't finish it.
>nobody does anything, it just rambles on and then ends!
>I can't tell which character I hate the most. They're all soooooo awful
>what was so great about Gatsby? he threw a lot of parties?
>the blowjob scene was so cringy!
>Nothing happened, he just complained about the death of someone he knew for the last half of the book
Where should one start with Faulkner? Also, what are the essentials?
Start with his shorti stories and/or As I Lay Dying
As I Lay Dying then The Sound and the Fury followed by A Light in August. Follow that up by reading Go Down Moses, Absolm, Absolm!, and maybe his short stories in that order.
Start with The Bible
Did I get memed?
great artists push the language forward, not academics
>>9994867
Nah he's pretty well regarded when it comes to dictionaries.
>>9994867
>modern american usage