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Why does /lit/ love this novel so much? 2017-09-03 09:49:39 Post No.9976197
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Why does /lit/ love this novel so much?
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Now, I haven't read it or know what it is about. I'll also admit to being a newfag here (been here for about a week). I just noticed that it is mentioned a lot and very loved here, so I was wondering why that was.
Or is this actually terrible and it's just a meme to ironically love it?
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It makes you feel.
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>>9976206
So it's a tearjerker?
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Why don't you read it real quick and get back to us about it?
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>How did scrambled eggs get stuck with breakfast exclusivity? You can put bacon on a sandwich without anyone freaking out. But the moment your sandwich has an egg, boom, it's a breakfast sandwich.
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Does john green hate niggers?
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>>9975967
in my experience bacon sandwiches are certainly considered breakfast food
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I can't stand this guy.
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How do you decide how to act, /lit/? 2017-09-03 08:27:35 Post No.9975872
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How do you decide how to act, /lit/?
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If we assume that we have free will, and because of the is-ought gap, then how is one supposed to act? To anyone, all basis, or reasons for actions, are ''is'', and are therefore invalid as basis for action. However, if we search for an ''ought'', there can be no justification for choosing one over another, and none can be shown to be true or valid. Therefore, there is no reason to morally condemn Stalin or Hitler.
Moreover, if we act on the basis of things others than ''ought'', like desires, than how can someone choose to act on the basis of one desire, but not another, seeing as both desires, are, for you, facts, they are ''is''?
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>>9975872
nigga i just do
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>>9976001
But how? How can you decide to act on X desire. but not on Y, when both are simply facts, that do not, in themselves, compel action?
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>>9975872
It's a good question OP. My problem with Hume was that he wrote this great big system that was wonderful and all, but the answer he left as with was simply to act Prudently, which is desu lame as fuck. I really don't think there's an answer to this question, though. It has something to do with the fact that you tend to die if you mess up on the prudent front, though, and make the wrong oughts out of your is', though.
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Ahead, starting from the far north, it wanders.
Its radish-strong gasoline fumes have probably been
Locked into your sinuses while you were away.
You will have to deliver it.
The flowers exist on the edge of breath, loose,
Having been laid there.
One gives pause to the other,
Or there will be a symmetry about their movements
Through which each is also an individual.
It is their collective blankness, however,
That betrays a notion of a thing not to be destroyed.
In this, how many facts we have fallen through
And still the old facade glimmers there,
A mirage, but permanent. We must first trick the idea
Into being, then dismantle it,
Scattering the pieces on the wind,
So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine as of friendship
Will stay with us at the last, backed by the night
Whose ruse gave it our final meaning.
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>>9975808
When he wake up he wont wake up lol
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>rip
SOURCE
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>>9975812
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/09/03/john-ashbery-1927-2017/
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Has anybody studied this philosophical masterpiece yet?
I'm waiting my copy to arrive in the mail. I expect it to teach me to become better at dialectics.
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I know you are being ironic, but it is actually a great book
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>>9975274
Literally nothing bad with that
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>Of course the blacks are unbearable…I don’t retract what I’ve stated so many times: the Americans made a grave mistake in educating them; as slaves, they were like children, they were happier and less annoying
>Basque? I don’t understand how anyone could feel proud of being Basque…The Basques are even more useless than the blacks, and notice that the only good the blacks have ever served for is to be slaves
Was he right?
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>read ficciones
>it was shit
Why is he praised again?
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>>9975123
Of course.
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did he really said that?
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>tfw you're proof-reading your own erotica story and it's actually getting you hard
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what's it about
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>>9974885
This particular one is about a shy college guy going to study with his crush and her roommates, and they just happen to like lounging around in the nude. It's part of a story collection about nudism and erotic situations.
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>>9974867
I know that feel. I never could write an erotic tale without yanking one off while writing/reading.
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which sort of pen do you use, /lit/?
I've been using pic related but it ran out of ink.
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>>9972256
What are those? I use a Sharpie pen since it makes thinner and darker lines than ballpoints.
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>>9972274
these are muji ballpoint 0.38mm pens.
don't sharpie pens smear/bleed?
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>>9972256
the ones in the pic are 0.7 but I use the 0.38
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This is some of the edgiest shit I think I've ever read. How does anyone but 14 year old teenage girls like these books?
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> edgy
I'm not sure you understand what that word means. NotW is a lot of things, few of them good, but edgy isn't one of them.
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I am reading the second book of this series now. I Googled best fantasy book series and this was the first ok some list that I found.
It's ok
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>>9972171
>“I have known her longer, my smile said. True, you have been inside the circle of her arms, tasted her mouth, felt the warmth of her, and that is something I have never had. But there is a part of her that is only for me. You cannot touch it, no matter how hard you might try. And after she has left you I will still be here, making her laugh. My light shining in her. I will still be here long after she has forgotten your name.”
Literally normalized cuckolding.
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Carl Jung: Better than Freud 2017-09-02 07:53:17 Post No.9971753
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Carl Jung: Better than Freud
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2017-09-02 07:53:17
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Thoughts on Carly Rae Jungson?
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>>9971753
schizo
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Incestuous schizo
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freud: u are a fucked up person bc u want to fuck ur mom baka lol
jung: u might want to secretly fuck ur mom but that's okay because magic and shit nigga
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College Thread 2017-09-02 06:23:12 Post No.9971451
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College Thread
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>What School do you go to
University of North Texas
>Major?
English, Focus in Writing and Rhetoric
>Brief description of social life (fucked up
stories welcome)
(I'll skip this one for me)
>What are your political views
>Also pretty much anything else about you would ike to rant about
>Also no comfy fags
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Engineering @ Georgia Tech here
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Holy fuck OP I just graduated from UNT. Wanna hit up Fry Street tonight? Hey have you taken any classes with Kyle Jensen?
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S A I N T J O H N ' S C O L L E G E
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Was Christianity a mistake for Europe?
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>>9969081
I wouldn't say it was for europe in general, but definitely for rome
making christianity the official religion of rome did more bad than good, it brought the questions of sectarianism and academic disputes of christianity right to the government's feet, while ostracizing a large portion of the roman heartland who had been praying to the roman gods for generations, and the following movement of the capital to the east didn't win them back much either
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yes
islam is the true answer
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>>9969081
It was necessary for uniting Europe and revealing the inadequacy of egalitarianism
Now we must build a new God on its ashes
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ITT: Post a piece of art and get a book recommendation
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one of my favorites.
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has anyone ever tried to contact their favorite author?
what happened?
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it turned out he necked himself in 2008
;_;
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Have you read anything by John Green recently?
Just asking
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>>9964127
She called the police.
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Please name your choices. Here's mine:
-Philip Mainlander
-Emil Cioran
-Arthur Schopenhauer
-Thomas Ligotti
-H.P. Lovecraft
-Ray Brassier
-John Gray
-David Benatar (can't seem to find a picture)
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>>9962449
Fuck off to /mu/, we don't need this histrionic cancer
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>>9962454
t. cancer
