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Go with the OG, A.E. Waite's Pictorial Key to the Tarot

>>9436046
Just make it up like Eliot did

>>9436046
Hoeller's

Why do you care about the hype?

>>9436014
I didn't dislike the book, but I don't understand why it is so praised. I'd like to hear what people have to say about it.

everything leading up to the crime and the crime itself is god tier. rest ist filler

He's right.

Why is it that all over reaching, incoherent, unfalsifiable, and just plain stupid academic theories / areas viciously denounced unless they conform to the preferences of left wing critical theory lovers. Why can't people see that they're all charlatans?

I see topics trying to decipher Hegel and I don't know who's trolling who or if the posters are all low IQers. Rather than try to understand the internal logic of Hegel, why not treat it as a black box and ask its practitioners to make falsifiable predictions with it. I'm sure that's fucking easy for them since they never shut up about how Capeetal / History is explained by their theories. If they manage to predict things then we have a good sign that the theory isn't self referential nonsense.

Of course what I am describing is feasible yet I am humouring them because they'd never do it and I know right this second there are outraged people who will say I am stupid. They will say the theory shouldn't have to do anything. And then I will ask, "So why should your theory be given attention or government subsidies over the infinitely many possible other theories?" Then I will get no answer.

>>9436001
>let's blame the competent for the beliefs of the incompetent

>>9436071
Jesus conservatism has completely wrecked your brain and any argument you had

Please read some German Idealism and learn to talk the talk

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

Anatomy of Melancholy

Dostoyevsky - Demons

Feels like it's going over my head quite a bit but I'm pushing through. Only got 240 pages to go.

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Not anyone interested? C'mon /lit/izens, I have nothing more to my life than browsing this Vietnamese dry cleaning forum.

It's much more enjoyable to read an annotated version tbqh. I had a basic version on my ereader and I gave up halfway through and ordered a physical annotated copy because I was tired of pausing every few pages to google a reference.

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Currently reading Henry V for the third time.

I fucking love it, Hal is my favorite Shakespeare character. He's such a cool guy and it's neat to see him work between war, peace, and romance.

Utter chaos probably

>>9435497
>Implying that every concepts/material thing must have an opposite

Nice fallacy

prescription

>>9435482
Start by opening the book.

Then don't read anything.

Then close it.

Then pick up a better book.

>>9435482
I started with men amongst the ruins. To be honest, his metaphysics are his weakest point, and that's what you get with revolt (what everyone will recommend). I say read men amongst the ruins and ride the tiger if you feel like it, enjoy the aesthetics, enjoy the ethics, and accept that it's all arbitrary.

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>>9435482
Ebola must start with Africa and finish in Middle East.

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>>9435392

Phaedo is what did it for me.

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>>9435401

Well I'm a huge Gibson fan so I'll be reading it regardless. He's smart enough to not center the entire book around a retarded gimmick. I do get quite a liberal vibe from him, but I don't think he's an asshole about it. Could be wrong.

Honestly just glad to hear he's writing another novel.

>>9435377
He was pretty insufferable on Twitter actually. I followed him in hopes of cool cyberpunk insights on modern life and instead had my feed flooded with dozens of msnbc-tier retweets per day. Maybe it was just for election season but I had to stop following him. Loved the Sprawl trilogy regardless, and plan to read more of his works.

>>9435377
The dude's a draft dodger famous for writing a book in which capitalism pretty much destroyed the US and turned into a techno-feudalist nightmare, do you seriously get liberal "vibes" for him? The man is very clearly at least left-to-the-democrats (not that it's much, but americans don't seem to understand that the biggest threats to democracy or whatever it is they think public healthcare and education are aren't threats to their lifestyles, just common sense)

Nice bait.

>>9435372
like that part where he rapes his wife for hours on end?

>>9435372
>The kid was abused and lived a miserable existence for a few years, but I assume he eventually grew up and lived his life.
You're retarded.
Is Trauma not a concept to you? That kind of abuse leads to crippling mental and social disorders, including things like DID.

Even little shit can scar a person for ever.

The Hugo Awards have been a joke for 10 ears.

>>9435295
This is writingprompts tier. I don't even mean the redditesque humour, that's commonplace and en vogue. The writing. It's not bad but there's no character in it at all, which is ten times worse in a monologue.
It reads like the first five minutes of a corny 90s scifi movie.

>>9435733
>ears
I chuckled.

>>9435295
The style is awful on a basic lore level. This AI is sometimes cold and mathematic sometimes witty and human. It analizes everything like a machine yet OMG I LOVE CATZ HAMBURGER MEMEZ FTW XD.
Besides that its mediocre at best and painfully preachy at worst. I bet my bottom dollar a woman wrote this.
Hugo? More like Ugh No.

Why are /lit/ so bad at making those.
One box, one image. Why is it hard to understand?

he was a wooden doll he found in a toilet and made his kids believe was a magical and real person.
he later, when creating his allegorical series that he would deny was allegorical at all to avoid conflict (which he hated), decided to include him almost as a self-insert type character in the lotr.

>>9435020
Notice he didnt go invisible when he had the ring?

>>9435040

>Tom Bombadil, a wooden doll who wrote LotR, found himself in a toilet and convinced his children that he was real
>Later, after taking up the pseudonym JRR Tolkien, Tom Bombadil wrote himself into LotR

Kierkegaard. Nietzsche and Stirner are both crude forms of Kierkegaard.

Heidegger
>>9435032
"no"

>>9435032
>>9435054
how about far after nietzsche?

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>>9434793