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To make fun of people who don't think that way. That's about it.

>>9433931
pseud

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>>9433897

Are you afraid it will be page after page of despair?

There is no direct path to truth, you have to go around and around.

>>9433882
I believe this quote is about the difficult journey that must be embarked if one hopes to reach truth. After he explains the arduous journey, he explains that those that eventually reach the summit must begin the difficult process and scale the huge hill.

The hill of course represent the obstacles that one must conquer before discovering what is true

>>9434195
also, it seems to impart an obligation on the man to face and conquer this challenge.

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> self-publishers whose "novels" are 3000 words long

>>9434114
..and?

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>>9434117
>3000 words
>Novel

Try again

I always double space except on my phone. I don't know why I started doing it that way, but it's muscle memory at this point. I was told it was strange by the teacher and a couple other people in a creative writing class I once took.

Tab.

Single space. There's no reason for a double.
>>9433681
My mother does double spaces, even on her phone. I won't hold it against you, but I will hold against you that you're posting on a phone RIGHT NOW REEEE PHONEPOSTERS OUT

No because nobody that stupid is smart enough to write a book

>>9433663
How is this stupid? Look at this definition of nature:
"the phenomena of the physical world collectively, including plants, animals, the landscape, and other features and products of the earth, as opposed to humans or human creations.
"the breathtaking beauty of nature"

Don't you agree that it's arbitrary to exclude humans and human creations from nature since it includes animals? Why our creations separate from nature but a beaver dam or a beehive aren't? It's totally arbitrary.

>>9433674
>"the breathtaking beauty of nature"
didn't mean to include this part. it was just them using the word in a sentence

yo stfu

>>9433660
He has degrees and you don't
If you get into academy, then you can probably throw your opinion and be taken seriously

I don't think shitposting here fixes the issue.

>>9433660
you havent read any of his books have you

forgot to link the video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hA1_z_rqAg

The ignorance in the OP is mind blowing. This poem was beautiful and so powerful. Franny would never say that all white people are racist, but we can't deny the truth that some still are. There's still a race issue in this world today and we can't deny that. For all the people offended, I know that you just feel strongly and have your own opinions, which is fair, but just know that you can not play the victim card and get mad at minorities for speaking out about the injustices in their lives. If you are not racist then this poem isn't about you. All skin is beautiful, Fran just wants people to wake up and see that there's a problem here and a power struggle that comes from white privilege.

>>9433622
bullshit, first off all

1. it wasn't even that good of a poem

secondly, whiteness is such an ambigious term that when uses it, there is no clear, cut definition so its used as this "catch all" term


What happened to great poetry.... why don't we make masterpieces like Paradise Lost, or The Waste Land anymore

we make shit like this

>>9433603
It's his worst
no really

>>9433603
List the 60

>>9433603
Its OK, middle of the road as far as murakami goes

>>9433455

probably troll. nice digits.

but if not holy shit are you stupid if you have to deliberate over reading 120 pages and consider yourself a litfag

please let me die

>>9433473
Kill yourself

>>9433395
Dunno what you are talking about but I am stealing this beautiful Acyka pic.

Have a bump and good luck.

>>9433395
It's online everywhere.

http://www.uvm.edu/~lderosse/courses/lang/Russell(1905).pdf

Russell is an author best read systematically, though. Piecemeal his works seem like autistic quibbling, but he actually had a pretty ambitious mind.

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>>9433649
I want a physical book when reading him though

I'm also not reading him here and there, I'm reading all of his work on philosophy of language include the bits in principia mathematica

jolly whistle, from the same

>>9433315
Why would someone plant lamprey?

>>9433645
Research

Rick Owens is a literal hack.

I don't trust anyone so beloved by a board as stupid as /fa/.

>>9433240
Rick owens is a faggot and his moon shoes and moon pants look retarded.

Somebody post the Andrew Marvell one

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>>9433170

just be your faggot self

>>9433163
Just let it all out.

If you don't actually have anything to let out then imagine what an emotionally vulnerable person might feel and write about that instead.

>>9433163
Don't bother, judging by your pic you're probably a faggot who suffers shallowly who will only write some cliché shit about depression or something.

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>>9433081
Do you think she regrets being a feminist philosopher? She went from on the cutting edge to being called a xphobe by the current generation.

>>9433098
I'm not sure. What I do know though is that she's highly misunderstood in feminist circles that have an anxiety/paranoia surrounding issues of static subjecthood as a means to reform power structures. I really enjoy her work. Finishing up The Psychic Life of Power rn.