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Hopscotch is fucking brilliant

Ulysses of the 60s

>>9234215
argie here. is it? what makes it good? I haven't read it yet, I've heard mixed opinions

Surprised Vincent Cassel hasn't played him in a biopic

>>9234189
take the
redpill, cuck

My interpretation of universe shapes my experiences
Be mindful and let no thought go unchecked.

>>9234189
Op is
A faggot

"I here express my opinion that a white colour in the skin is not natural to man, but that by nature he has a black or brown skin, just as had our forefathers the Hindus; consequently, a white human being has never sprung originally from the womb of nature, and therefore there is no white race, however much this is talked about, but every white human being is bleached. Driven into the north, which is strange and foreign to him, and in which he exists only like exotic plants, and like these requires a hothouse in winter, man became white in the course of thousands of years. The gypsies, an Indian race that immigrated about four centuries ago, show the transition from the complexion of the Hindus to our own. Therefore in sexual love, nature strives to return to dark hair and brown eyes as the archetype; but the white colour of the skin has become a second nature, though not so that the brown of the Hindus would repel us."

- Arthur Schopenhauer, The Metaphysics of Sexual Love

>>9234124
>tfw being white means you are above nature
feels good, subtle redpill you got there, Schop

>>9234124
A more level-headed analysis than I would expect - given who makes up his most vocal audience.

>>9234142
It implies the opposite.

>jewish dad
By Jewish law, the child is only Jewish if it's passed on from the mother, therefore Marx is not a Jew

Marx was a spendthrift who simply didn't want to work.

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>tfw you think /pol/ is ridiculous, but on the other hand a lot of deliberately untraditional, un-Christian thinkers were Jews

Try Suetonius and Plutarch if you are ok with primary sources.

>>9233948
>JuliusCaesar.jpg

>>9233948
The conquest of Gaul

Neither, I'm just the common man

Somewhere, somebody churns out all of these Wojack and Pepe pictures. Was it you, your excellency? As for Kierkegaard it just looks like a word salad to me, my dear sir, but then I am afraid that I do have pleb tendencies. Can I be something other than a hero and orator? It take's all types to make the world so's I reckon!.

Holy fuck, Kierkegaard is a good philosopher.

>>9233867
bumping. this book is pretty far down on my to read list but id still like to know what people think

>>9233867

Depends on what kind of novels you like to read.

>>9233867
how would you put the author aside

>>9233786
He wasn't short.

>>9233796
>But he was still a manlet
Emperor King of the manlets

MAY 5TH - 1/2

He has passed. As stark and still,
When the mortal gasp was given,
Lay the unremindful spoil
Whence so great a soul was riven;
So the Earth, smitten and dazed
At the announcement, stands amazed

Silent, pondering on that last
Fateful hour; nor, gazing back
In fearful wonder o’er the past,
Kens she when with such a track
By mortal foot shall yet be pressed
The dust upon her bloody breast.

My Genius saw him on a throne
In flashing splendor, nothing said;
The blandishments of fortune flown,
He fell, he rose, again was laid;
While thousand voices then awoke,
Mingled with these, no word he spoke;

Virgin of end-serving praise
And the coward’s safe outrage,
Shocked by the blot of such a blaze,
He rises now his chance to gage,
Shaking the urn, e’en to untie
A canticle which will not die.

From Pyramids to heights alpine
Flashed that god’s swift lightning-stroke;
From Manzares to the Rhine
Rapid, crashing thunders broke,
Rolling on from Scylla’s sea
Shaking farthest Muscovy.

Was this, glory just and true?
Sentence waits posterity.
Bow we to the Highest’s view,
Willing us in him to see
Stamped a trace more vast and grand
Of His own resistless hand.

With hurricanes of anxious joy,
Earthquake exploits of wild renown,
A heart in unsubdued annoy
In slavery gloats upon the crown;
And gains the goal and grasps a prize
‘T was madness there to set his eyes.

All he tasted; glory growing
Greater after great embroil;
Flight; and victory bestowing
Palace; and the sad exile;
Twice in the dust a victim razed,
Twice on the altar victim blazed.

He made a name, two centuries, set
Armed against each other and
To him turned as for their fate,
Waited a signal of his hand.
He sat between them, hushed them still,
Made arbiter his iron will;

>>9233753
You've got the article open, OP, you tell us.

>>9233753
Because humans like to see patterns

>>9233753
Time as an Arrow, Time as a Circle, Time as a diffuse mist without direction.

I don't know if anyone sincerely holds the fourth option, that nothing changes. Heraclitus could get away with that in ancient greece when there was no sense of history or technological change, but it seems like a pretty laughable position now.

>>9233748
No, but you might consider therapy and reading more Dostoevsky.

>>9233748
read more Dosty. If your thoughts align almost perfectly with his other characters too, then yes, get the noose

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_novel

Ulysses, if you read it right.

the lovely bones

>>9233716

Retarded in most cases, as the means of answering those kinds of questions usually come about by the very fact that they're consistently asked.

>>9233716
How can you distinguish between answerable and unanswerable questions?

>>9233725
That's another of those stupid unanswerable ones!

>>9233670
I picked up a copy of Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia at a booksale recently, might just check out his other work

>>9233670
Read this recently
Great if you want to better appreciate Conrad.
I like the bit about the daisy planet and it's moral implications re: Gaia - read: forget the planet, it'll be fine in the end, it's us that are fugged. Great if you want to feel indifferent about pandas and worry more about Bangladesh.
He's only very subtly humanist in that way and I love him despite my very humanist sjw sensibilities. He's very European - like I can't imagine these insights coming from amerigoround any time soon and I don't know enough about Chinese philosophy to really penetrate your post.

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>>9233670
I enjoyed him as well. He's like a less pessimistic Ligotti.

>>9233619
>People who subscribe to an ideology, to a large extent, also hold those beliefs, and become part of a school of thought.
No
>3. There is no objective truth as to which school of thought is the correct one.
No
>4. When member of opposing schools of thought collide, they debate, but neither can present an irrefutable argument for their ideology.
No
>5. A belief in a particular ideology implies one would want to see their ideology implemented.
Holy shit no

>just, like, move out
Fuck, hadn't thought about that before.
Welp, OP solved politics.

Point number 7 is where you miserably fell like an idiot

>>9233608
>I'm studying A-level English Literature

4chan is 18+, fuck off

>>9233612
I turned 18 in December.

>>9233608
read the Art of Memory by Frances Yates