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>>9309218
i literally don't, no

Opening up the world wide web to all of humanity was a mistake.

Remember when "literally" was the only word in English language that could not be used figuratively?

audible

>>9309134
Siddhartha has a pretty good audiobook.

>>9309134
50 shades

EXACTLY

>>9309047
Just looks like word soup to me senpai.

The only philosophy I could process and think about meaningfully is that found in the likes of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, so I guess that is to say I receive it second hand.

>>9309047
That fucking image is neomemetic art at it's highest. It's simply a collage of three images, but the juxtaposition creates a certain je ne sais quoi that I can't ignore. The reflexive surprise of being enlightened on the face of a character from a medium/genre considered low brow. The stone-faced Hegel in the background. The subtle clash between artstyles, representing the semantic loss component of philosophy. Absolutely brilliant.

I'm sure these were all pretty cliché already in the 80's.

>>9308972
A simple Wikipedia search shows Game of Thrones was first published in 1991.

This chart is misleading.

>>9308987
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Song_of_Ice_and_Fire
>Game of Thrones, 1996
What are you talking about?

>>9308872
You can be anyone and do anything. You just got to believe in yourself.

The further you pursue science, the more you realize that all of the things accepted as "truths" are just based on experiments and their inducted theorems. I believe humans are incapable of truly understanding the way the universe functions, and science, just like religion, is just a way of rationalizing it and "bringing it down to Earth", albeit in a more useful way than religion. But, plenty of scientific theories that were taken as manifest in their day have been proven false/iterated upon. Science is a tool, but mysticism still has a place.

No, because engineering is the application of theoretical models developed by science.

But I guess you can toy with some stuff with just trial and error.

>>9308830
>1800s Argentinian law
Are you in Argentina? At least when I pick random shit it's somehow relevant to Australia e.g. Boer War, 9/11, et al

avoid diversion, no matter how noble it seems

>>9308888
>Are you in Argentina
no kek

I like finding really obscure shit that no sane person would ever track down and read. I enjoy something about the thought of me being one of the only people to take interest in a topic. I like it when there are other people's notes in it too, I like wondering about who they are and why they are reading something so unusual

Am I autistic?

>>9308889
This is sort of what I'm thinking, it's really just a timesink that I find a sort of weird pleasure in and probably no better than playing videogames

Yes, though your mileage may vary. Did you like the book more or less after the tonal shift/reveal? If more, definitely read the rest of Frank's books in the series (you can read the rest in the series written by his son in collaboration with other writers if you want additional closure, but I consider Frank's books a complete work on their own); if less, try the next book in the series and decide from there.

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>>9308710
this needs to be in a sticky.

>>9308733
>(you can read the rest in the series written by his son in collaboration with other writers if you want additional closure

YOU SHUT YOUR LYING WHORE MOUTH.

>>9309188
that pic doesn't mention the Dune Encyclopedia, which Frank Herbert famously admitted wasn't canon, but which is infinitely better than all of the Dune Prequels together.

THIS IS AMERICA NIGGA WE SPEAK ENGLISH

>>9308654
I'm american and a student of french. Learning french to better understand philosophy and literature is what separates the genre fiction plebs from true patricians.

>>9308652
I'd rather walk the Earth deaf, blind and dumb than give any satisfaction that the French may receive from me learning to speak their language.

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>>9308633
no, celibacy is bullshit. a+ picture though.

>>9308633
Yes

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>>9308641
>>9308775
shit

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>implying Pitchfork is reliable.
>implying RT is reliable and not a fucking joke and cancer of film community.
>Would prefer arbitrary opinions with arbitrary scores.

Pic related is you.

>>9308624
Do you mean Metacritic? Pitchfork is only one review site, not an aggregator.

Anyway, Metacritic used to do books, but they stopped, maybe because assigning scores was hard/pointless. Would be really useful if there wassomewhere linking to all the reputable reviews of a given book, though.

>>9308751
pitchfork is mostly reliable with what /mu/ agrees is good music.

Probably not always, but in most cases it's good intro to what is worth listening to

Bellissimo, ma se si lascia tempo passare da non leggerlo, si deve rimcominciare almeno quella volume, ho trovato

Anche moncreiff e' migliore per l'anglofoni, penso

>>9308502
Is that how cringy we sound when we type in english?

>>9308509
pls no

>>9308473
German language

>>9308473
Mein Kampf

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it's not half as difficult once you decipher "heideggerian" shitspeak. google is your friend.

i read this last week though, it was good and i'd recommend it if you want to shortcut reading kant and descartes.

Royal FLUSH

In & Out

Big Letters

The Bomberman - Boston Retold

They do it under the Moon

White Skin

Man wearing large Hats

The Shadow of the Body of the Plane

CRASH

>Uncertainty & Necessity
Nice
>Death (A/O)ccidental
Nice/shit
>A Monopoly on Truth
Nice
>Lasting Lifeblood
Nah
>A Cadaver Amidst Palaver
Fuck no
>I Have No Hands, but I Must Write
Is it a comedy book?
>"The Words, the Sentences", the Book
Has to be ironic
>Modern E-motion
Has to be fun
>Just
???

enjoying prose is the detached, nihilistic, cosmopolitan way of enjoying literature.

the plot of a story is the part that always has and always will fan the flames of your heart, fill you with emotion and linger on within you long after some prettily carved piece of prose has been forgotten due to the irreversible mutations and transformations of language.

that said, if you really want to enjoy prose, it should come naturally. if you don't, you're probably just not the right kind of guy.

I know how it feels. I like prose, but I can't enjoy poetry. I don't feel I'm missing out much, though. It's a big world, man.

>>9308453
Just pretend to enjoy prose - just go "mmm, those are some good words man" every few minutes while reading. At one point, your enjoyment will turn genuine.

>>9308912
kek

>>9308904
am i a lost cause if i care for character development more than the plot?

i can enjoy sonething that's nicely written. but shit like page long descriptions just seem pointless to me, no matter how many ((beautiful)) words you found in the dictionair to describe the scene.

>>9308326
women only use art as a fashion statement.

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>girl in fascism says she loves fascism
>know that if it were communism instead she'd love the communism instead
>tell her "that's good, dear"
>always feel some distance from her

>>9308326
>steals a post
>makes it worse
>starts a thread
>frog.jpg