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The German Catcher in the Rye
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>hipster catcher in the rye
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>Herrmann Hesse and his school boys all the time
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>having books displayed on showcases even though you havent read them
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>tfw you intuit, based only in memes , that Nietzsche is the only thinker with a legit interesting philosophy aside for a few exceptions
>tfw you can't but see how philosophy before him was self blinding metaphysical autism
>tfw you have to read all that garbage before reading him because otherwise you will not really apreaciate it and you will be just a pseud fraud more in the cesspool
Fuck philosophy
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Is this book any good?
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I am a strange loop is better.
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but is it good?
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Personally, I really liked it. But my hunch is on here it's going to get slammed by STEMfags who want to signal to each other that they REALLY get mathematics because they refuse to entertain any philosophical implications of its data.
Hofstadter speaks about the philosophical issues of consciousness, using materials outside of that discourse. I love this kind of thinking, but many do not. It is fanciful philosophy, and he tends to write in a very down to earth style that can sometimes seem simplistic about very complex themes. Some see this as a downfall, but it's one if the reasons I like his work.
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Anybody got some amusing examples? I found some good ones last night. A couple of stories from when I was 6, and some song lyrics from when I was 14.
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gimme a sec, i was reading through my stuff the other day.
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Great. I love looking back at my old crap, glad to know I'm not alone in that.
I'm not sure how much of this stuff is gonna be in the right orientation, so I'll see. This is some 14-y-o stuff I think.
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Let's see those opening sentences! I kinda have a habit of being a prude by judging an entire work on its first sentence. Why not have a thread like that? Tag your story with a genre and theme.
>mythic fiction
>patience
>Distant shade showers comfort on towers made to touch the sky.
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Any books in how to avoid negative thinking and having a positive attitude? Real shit pls.
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I love Bertrand Russell. He is my favorite outspoken atheist. And he was a fellow tobacco piper too.
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If god doesn't exist then explain intelligent design. Check and mate atheists, your hypocritical blunders afe limitless in the eyes of our lord and savior, Chicken Nuggets.
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>atheist
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Where you agnostic fags at?
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It's commonly known that Wittgenstein and Hitler attended the same high school.
What isn't commonly known is that the Chad Ludwig bullied the Beta Adolf:
On starting at the Realschule, Wittgenstein had been moved forward a year.[55] Historian Brigitte Hamann writes that he stood out from the other boys: he spoke an unusually pure form of High German, dressed elegantly, and was callous and unsociable.[56] In a contemporary journal entry, Wittgenstein wrote: "The other boys dress like disgusting brutes. Yesterday Adolf asked my opinion of his painting. After looking at it for one second, I took the paper into my hands, crumbled it into a ball, and threw it at his face." In a later entry Wittgenstein describes a second incident with Hitler in the gymnasium locker room: "Pussy Junge's [Wittgenstein's nickname for Hitler] penis and testicles are so minuscule that it fills my heart with laughter. All of the other boys are able to achieve full erections but Adolf stands in the corner alone with his flaccid, infantile penis in his hand."
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Well, I never.
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Wittgenstein didn't attend a university?
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Gymnasium, I mean.
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Would you still read as much as you do, if you had a satisfactory social life?
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is that a rhetorical question?
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>implying anyone on here reads anything other than wikipedia summaries
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Reading Wikipedia is unironically a great way to educate yourself
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So is this just the same thing, over and over, in small bites, throughout the whole book?
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variations.
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I see.
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If by the same thing you mean the descriptions of cities, yes. And it's beautiful.
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Was monogamy and relationshits btfo by Lysias?
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b-b-ut my man-baby dungens and dragons books are serious literature
why are fantasy readers so abhorrent?
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said nobody ever
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There is a lot of insufferable shit out there. Being able to cast aside the laws of reason and physics becaue "magic" seems to bring out the worst in some authors.
That said, Tolkien, GRR Martin or Michael Ende have written some really impressive stuff.
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>Malazan-poster is still mad
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Post the current book you're reading and the probable path of books that will follow it.
>Reading: The Odyssey
>Next: Notes From the Underground; The First Philosophers; Apology or Euthyphro
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I restarted the brothers karamazov 5 tmes now and ill probably read something else instead.
Im thinking of moby dick or portrait of the artist as a young man because i want to know how interesting they really are.
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I'm reading Winsburg Ohio, Collected Stories of Faulkner, and The Complete Works of Flannery O'Connor at the same time. I'm taking a creative writing class and want to study the short stories. After I'm finished one I'll add another collection like Nine Stories, Hemmingway's stories, and probably a reread of Dubliners.
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>Euthyphro
Just finished it. It's a short read but good.
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what's the /lit/ equivalent of Ojamajo Doremi?
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