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it is for nü male beta cucks

DFW went. Granted he hated it...

>>9161069
definitely for faggots
we feel bad about it

I hold the book open with both hands, at middle height, thumbs in the margins, not further in, so I don't get ink on them. When I get lazy, I go one-handed, with my thumb on the left page, and my pinky on the right.

>>9161043
i switched to an ereader for this reason and i just keep it on my lap without having to hold it open

>>9161100
How do you like it? I've been throwing the idea of getting one around but idk.

>>9160836
They're both hacks

Fitzgerald is based.

I've read the old man and the sea, and it was pretty good. I also read for whom the bell tolls, and it was absolutely disgraceful. Waste of time.

The Sun Also Rises and Tender is the Night are both considered masterpieces.

>>9160804
take the redpill, stupid cuck

The very definition of Plato's philosophy is that it is objective. There are few who disagree with his precepts.

>Nietzche

n-i-e-t-z-S-c-h-e.

I think you're so good at seeing that triviality that you can't see it in your own posts.

Although I agree with your 3'rd point. 4chan just shits on stuff for the sake of being "shocking" and "counter-culture". What a bunch of fucking losers.

>and I can only chock up to being intentionally ludicrous for the sake of it
Well, yeah. The Trial is just one absurd, bureaucratic nightmare. The discomfort you feel when presented with the whole process is intentional. It's not supposed to be fair or right or logical.

When he is first summoned to the courts and finds himself in the tenement house, I remember thinking that he was having some kind of delusion. As the scene went on, I decided that it must be some kind of reference to hell, because of the vague nature of the court, the fact that it was overbearingly humid, the gross acts of sexual indecency that are committed, and the mention that the officials of the court are living there. I abandoned this idea after he was visited by his uncle, because I realized that at least people that he had known separately from the law acknowledged the existence of the institution, but I still found numerous details ridiculous. For example the men who had arrested him being flogged in the store room at the bank, and the way that other characters seem to have omnipotent knowledge of K.

>>9160815

So what's the moral?

>>9160837
>For example the men who had arrested him being flogged in the store room at the bank
Could stuff like this (is it written in 1st person?) be part hallucination/imagination, like he was wishing the person who arrested him was being flogged? Showing how we project our desires onto the external world?

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>>9160780
>OP's hurt that his creative writing class said his writing was shit

>>9160780
Post what you've written fag

But seriously though, was thinking about dropping $600 on a course like this or something else so I can meet girls since I don't interact with enough elsewhere (work at home, no friends). Worth it?

>>9160772
my diary, desu

The one with the culkin kid it in

left

>>9160728
I'll create at least 5 threads a day every day for more than a month if the winner isn't a white male.

Literally preparing pastas already

op here, i'm asian.

Who gives a fuck about the nobel Prize anyway? Last decent writer to win was Doris lessing.

>>9160660
>coffee should be given up—coffee makes one gloomy

What did Nietzsche mean by this?

>>9160660
oh shit i just got wrecked

this post is like an atomic weapon detonated in my anus

there's ass shrapnel everywhere. figuratively speaking i will never walk again

my whole life has been a lie, scales fall from eyes, carmina_burana.mp4

Joyce even said Proust was better than him fuck off

>>9160318
It's stupid; don't do it and move on.

>>9160326
What do you mean?

>>9160318
analytical philosophers truly are the ultimate cucks

"The unexamined life is not worth living"

>>9160140
>"The unexamined life is not worth living"
Neither is the overexamined?
Or thats the question, is there such thing as over-examined? I of course say yes, for we would not want to live every literal second "why did I do that? why did I do that? why did I do that? why did I do that? why did I do that? why did I do that?" You would never make it out of bed.

>>9160149
keeping the spacing out still, i see. a carry over! trying to escape eh!?

>>9159828
This thread, much like the rest of your life, took no effort on your part, did it?

All literature is a product of and therefore a commentary on the society in which it was created.

>>9159843
Lotta spooks there desu

>>9159567
>translations
滚,滚

All bad. Chinese generally gets poor translations.

>>9159567
dumb gweilo

>implying I read

>Favorite novelists
Hemingway
Sir Arthur C. Doyle
Robert A. Heinlein

>Favorite short story writers
Kafka
Oscar Wilde

>Favorite Poets
Goethe
Schiller

>Favorite philosophers
Epictetus
Plato

>Favorite historians
Don't have any

>mccarthy, steinbeck, pynchon
>borges, tolstoy, joyce
>donne, yeats, dante
>kierkegaard, nietzsche, spinoza
>carlo ginzburg, christopher browning, fernand braudel

>>9159463
start with the one that says "start here" you dope.

>>9159470
But what the ding dong dang do all these other colours and divergences mean?

>>9159477
a poster after my own heart, i say git got gammit