Why was he fundamentally, objectively, just so right?
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go back to know your meme thanks
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The embodiment of anxiety derived from an intellectual seeing the error of traditionalism and nationalism so he desperately creates abstractions to justify them and reassure OUR VALUES ARE UNDER ATTACK
pure ideology
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>>9457938
Because you want him to be.
*sniff*
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Anything out there similar to this series, mainly in terms of ambiance? Or is anything else by him especially worth reading?
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youll have to explain the ambience first
what's it like
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>>9457958
Gothic scenery, somber, foreboding, sleepy, entropic, yet comforting.
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>>9457924
Not that I've found. He pretty much carved out his own niche within a niche the way Herbert did with Dune. Also he was fucking insane so not too many can emulate that.
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Why do vacant fraud pseuds like Bob Dylan and Patti Smith love him?
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>>9457922
What do you think?
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>>9457925
He's gay?
He's French?
He's not as popular but popular?
He's handsome?
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How the fuck do you understand his shit
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Seemed like a classic for those interested in psychedelics. About 50 pages in. Interesting, but kind of repetitive so far. Thoughts about the book/McKenna?
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>>9457920
debunked pseudoscience for hippie degenerates
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>>9458061
Pretty much this. Don't take him too seriously unless you want someone to teach you how to use psychedelics.
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>>9458061
What exactly has been debunked about it? Like I said I am not finished with it, but it seems like his main theory of psychoactive mushroom use leading to the advance of linguistics isn't too insane to me. Don't have a dog in this fight, just curious to the specifics of what you say has been debunked?
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So if I wanted to read through the western canon (start to finish), what would my first 5-10 books be?
The Iliad
The Odyssey
...
The Divine Comedy?
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If you're too stupid to figure it out for yourself, you're too stupid to accomplish it.
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>>9457884
Iliad
Odyssey
Aeneid
Divine Comedy
Paradise Lost
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This isn't in chronological order, but if you want to do the whole Western canon thing, you should tackle the St. John's College reading list.
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/10941.St_John_s_College_Reading_List_Freshmen_to_Juniors_
Is the English language a good language for written works? Is there a forme of literature that it is particularly good at? Or is it just a lingua franca for those without a large population to support a culture of writing?
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English is the best language for written works only if American English is used.
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>>9457774
American English is butt-ugly. British English is much more pleasant.
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>>9458269
It really isn't, its clunky and overly theatrical
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could you please recommend me some of your favorite books
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>>9457753
Ready Player One
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>>9457753
Satan's Diary. Leonid Andreyev.
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Rupi Kaur's Milk And Honey
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What are some books about people who continue existing, but are, in some way, nonexistent? 2017-05-03 03:17:33 Post No.9457654
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What are some books about people who continue existing, but are, in some way, nonexistent?
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"I urged our old acquaintance, and the drops
That we have bled together. Coriolanus
He would not answer to: forbad all names;
He was a kind of nothing, titleless,
Till he had forged himself a name o' the fire
Of burning Rome."
-Coriolanus
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Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
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Lucio's Confession, by Mario de Sa-Carneiro
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Could you give me some recommendations of English-language novelists and short story writers from the 20th century that are not American?
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d.h. lawrence for sure
and make sure you read lady chatterley's lover in public for good measure
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As you probably know, /lit/, James Joyce has written a novel. Yes, James Joyce. The lecher. The man who once fucked every fart out of his sweet whorish Nora: big fat fellows, long windy ones, quick little merry cracks and a lot of tiny little naughty farties ending in a long gush from her hole
You all know him.
That said, how does it make you feel that James Joyce is a published author and you are not? How does it make you feel that he is able to get his book out there, regardless of whether it's a great piece of lit or not, and you are not?
>inb4 ghostwritten
Even if it was, someone who's good enough to render something publishable has settled for doing just that, secretly writing for a weird Irish pervert and not getting his/her own name on the cover of that book. How does it make you feel that someone good enough to write even a mediocre book has to settle for being the ghostwriter of a pervert?
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>>9457641
Why not american?
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>he doesn't keep a word list 2017-05-03 03:01:32 Post No.9457609
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>he doesn't keep a word list
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>he doesn't keep a phrase list
>he doesn't keep a quote list
wow...
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>he doesn't keep a list list
baka
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>>9457609
Show us your fabolous lists or delet this thread, now!
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>he has perfect recall and reads at 1000 pages an hour
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How many pages do you read everyday? 2017-05-03 02:00:10 Post No.9457418
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How many pages do you read everyday?
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Also, how many hours do you spend reading?
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>>9457418
like 30 mins
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>>9457418
at least 5
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>>9457418
more than you
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I don't get it
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hey cool, ive read Point Omega too. lets have a discussion about it. what did you not get? did you like it all?
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>>9457365
dummy
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>>9457868
I liked it, I feel like I've missed the point of absolutely everything in it though
>read Beyond Good and Evil
>reach the treatise "What is aristocratic"
>it's Nietzsche talking about my inferiority for 30 pages, making examples that perfectly identify my persona and my habits
Uhm......
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link dat shit senpai I want to feel insecure too
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You can disagree with him instead of folding.
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>>9457359
This
And I'm sure Nietzsche would have been pleased that someone proved him wrong.
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How many languages do you know? No horseshit.
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English, conversational Spanish, learning Italian.
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Portuguese, fluent English and Spanish, meme italian and german, half a dozen words of japanese picked up ftom anime.
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Native english and can read latin
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Is it good?
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>>9457167
Yeah. Pretty much.
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>>9457167
good is objective, it depends on the person, I for one find it pretty retarded why not kill all the people who are after the throne and then kill the fucking trills fuck those flower guys.
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For what it is (a page turning nerd fantasy) it's pretty good.