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>class differences
We got a time-traveler from the 70's here

The Secret River by Kate Grenville, perhaps?

I read it in high school and it was quite good. If you have Netflix there's a two part TV/movie adaptation which was also great.

It's a film but check out Ghosts... Of the Civil Dead. It's a minimalist brutal prison film that has odd little moments of poetry here and there, and is a film I would call 'important' if I was that kind of person.
Also features Nick Cave screaming 'NIGGER' at an Abo dude.

>>9429697

Gr8 b8 m8

>>9429698
Is it great, though?

He is ok but apparently wrong with the selfish gene stuff
Which isn't even his original idea tho

>>9429344
Mate, you've been sheltered by your helicopter middle class wagecuck parents your whole life.

You have no grounding in anything concrete except how to wash sperm stains off your carpet

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nobody has any opinions? any insults?
nothing of even microscopic value?
figures.
pic related:my dog

>>9429126

What kinda shit you like my man? Maybe i can rec

>>9429139
Bump 4 cute dog

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>>9428971
Cool

I love my kindle.

I just torrent books I would not otherwise buy.

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>>9428990

encyclopedia britannica

>>9428967
WIKIPEDIA. It'll never end!

Makes me wonder if anyone has written some kind of infinite book, that either cycles back on itself (in a way that isn't pure repetition) or maybe procedurally generates endless text.

>>9428935
My Diary Desu

>If morality and the justification for equality comes from religion, how is it possible that the US had slaves?

Self-interest on the profit of slavery overwrote religious and thus moral concerns.

Dumb frogposter

>>9428805
Slavery is a-okay with the Christian Bible. Makes sense in that everyone is supposed to be God's slave anyway

>>9428805
>what triggered the liberation of those slaves?
They were ultimately not needed anymore. We originally had slaves because there were not enough colonists willing to do dangerous and difficult labor, and not enough people willing to pay a high price to those willing to do said labor.

Most slaves were originally heathens, so christian's believed that it was morally justified to keep them as slaves, so long as they instill the word of god in them.

Nabokov's Pnin is subtle like that

>>9428528
thx, it never occured to me to read other stuff than lolita until now.

the whole saramago ouvre...but he isn't exactly subtle, he often puts the ambiguity straight into the title

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>>9428260
Susan G. Komen's setters fuck

>>9428260
this is why literature is considered the lowest form of art

>>9428260

>has to make themselves feel better by comparing his favorite old fart writer to other artists.

Pathetic.

Good Old Neon is the only writing worthwhile reading by him.

Start with his more journalistic Essays, they are written in a very plain and easy style, then move on to his short prose, Brief Interviews and Oblivion are both great, then IJ, then whatever you like

I was just thinking about how I'd have someone start with DFW. I can only speak for his most known works, so I'll list what I think about those

I think >>9427807 is right.

Start with:
>A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again
>Consider The Lobster
then go to
>Forever Over Ahead
>The Depressed Person
>Oblivion
>Brief Interviews
then finally
>Infinite Jest
>The Pale King

>>9427227
Instead of highlighting everything, try not to highlight everything

You should highlight less.

>highlighting 'a priori'
you're a bit retarded, aren't you?

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/57922091-will

>>9427218
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/65439352-lewis

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/44112659-stephen-degraaf

>>9426992
be white

Here's the continental philosophy project that begins almost immediately with Husserl and has the secondary lit, commentaries and translations of Being & Time, etc.:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fBYpm4MHyKM-80sTzQaBiYLI0vJKkE80h2b10JR5cwg/edit

Now, I recommend Heraclitus, Plato, Aristotle's Organon and Metaphysics, and Kant's Prolegomena and Critique of Pure Reason and at the very least a superficial understanding of Hegel before you get into Nietzsche, then Husserl and finally Heidegger.

130 IQ

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>mfw I'm reading Lord of the Rings and it's a Tom Bombadil chapter

>>9426458
Same
Don't really know if it's boredom or comfyness I'm feeling, but it sure is chill as fuck to try introducing myselft to tea while reading entire paragraphs descripting inane objects.

Anyone has advice for actually liking tea? As in finding it better than hot water with mild flavour

>>9426486
It's like coffee, you need to adjust yourself from your drink being relatively white to black. Tea is better with milk and honey anyways.

BBC for local news, Guardian for culture and sport, Le Monde to practice French, El País to practice Spanish.

Following world news with any regularity just wears me down.

I read the free subway paper whenever I feel like indulging my sense of superiority for a few minutes

>>9425854
I use Readiy, which uses feedly. Usual day to day stuff I will just go to Reuters, and I have subscriptions to Archaeology Magazine and New Criterion.

If something big happens I also being to look at BBC, Der Spiegel (which unfortunately has had a massive editorial bias lately), Politico, and I sometimes enjoy The American Conservative if Dreher or Buchanan arent writing to shock.

The New Yorker and the Atlantic will have decent articles sometimes if they arent clickbaiting american liberals.

I did used to like Vanity Fair (for celelbrity and royal trash news, articles about murders in long island or monaco, and exposes on drug dealers and shady african politicians) but since the election they, along with the NYRB has gone directly down the shitter.