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Plato

I wish I could erase the author of this post.

>>9123704
why Rousseau? he's a smart dude, plus he's so all-over-the-fucking-place there's bound to be some part of his work you agree with.

Mount Analogue sounds incredible, is it hard to find a copy of it?

>>9118969
I had to order it in from out of state because my uni library (the biggest library in Kansas, don't know if that says much) didn't have it.

The Book of the Damned and The Beginning was the End both had to be checked out of special collections for me to read. Worth it, though.

there's another rare Daumal book in English titled Mugle and the Silk. I've never been able to find an affordable copy but I think it's stuff he wrote when he was experimenting with carbon tetrachloride to give himself near death experiences.

I like rhe words resplendent, asunder, temper, vanguard, and rampart a lot

>>9118830
somnambulism

>>9118830
Aumingji

>>9115290
redpill me on his fingernails

>>9116373
>When a critic seized upon Deleuze's unusually long, uncut fingernails as a revealing eccentricity, he replied: "I haven't got the normal protective whorls, so that touching anything, especially fabric, causes such irritation that I need long nails to protect them."

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

>>9116405
>when ur so open to the potentialities of being u dont even got fingerprints

>>9127862
I only recgonize Kant and Hegel. Who are the other 2?

>>9127877
not sure from the portraits, but the only other canonical Big Names in German idealism are Fichte and Schelling, so probably those two

>>9127877
Fichte (top-right) and Schelling.

>character is mentally challenged
>"he posted an eye-rolling frog"

>>9127760
heh

>>9127749
>"the silence was deafening."

>/lit/ tries to educate a pleb
he's shit

>>9127696
my man that's the most basic pleb list I have ever seen. also no one else recommended dhalgren that book is shit.

>>9127696
>2 of the books are sci-fi
>browses /sffg/
>complaining about taste
literally kill yourself

>>9127306
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH the french

>>9127306
>continue to
?

>>9127306
>I don't understand something
>It's not because I'm retarded but because it's obfuscated!
>Damn French!

>>9127237
Yes, one hundred percent, without a doubt, absolutely.

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>>9127237
No but it makes the fatal mistake of assuming that we experience the author through the medium of the text, when we in fact experience the text through the medium of the author

>>9127237
Have you actually read the article and other relevant articles, OP? Or are you just here to be lazy and ignorant?

they need to do way instain author> who kill their darlengs becuse these darleng cant frigth back?

>>9127127
but then who was publish?

>>9127132
me, your brother

>>9127022
Being and Time

>>9127022

Daphnis & Chloe by Longus

Growth of the soil - hamsun

>>9127016
Kundera's life is elsewhere

What are his interests? What other media does he like?

>>9127033
Thanks, I'll look into it.

>>9127052
He's really into outdoorsy stuff. He likes theater too but I don't want to tell him to read Shakespeare. He'd probably rather see it preformed anyway.

>tfw on Maca pills

I am horny 24/7
I literally cannot get my dick down, it's pulsating in my pants right now and I jerked off an hour ago

try it OP

I write both before and after ejaculations in order to capture the full scope of human emotion.

>>9127005
What are maca pills

There's always a single concept to be found at the bottom of every philosopher's philosophy. With Heraclitus it's flux, with Schopenhauer will, with Stirner the ego, with Kierkegaard faith, with Nietzsche power, while with Baudrillard it's seduction and with me immersion. But what is the quest for power if not the way in which the immersed ego maximizes its influence in the flux by having faith in itself while following its seduced will? And I could easily add Plato's forms, Spinoza's Nature, Hegel's spirit, and all the rest. Hell, even Wittgenstein's silence (via way, perhaps, of Shakespeare) will have a place in my elaboration of the ultimate form of thinking by the time I am done. My masterstroke will be the inclusion of even all the abortive half-concepts and pseudo-concepts floating around in the swamp of the subhuman brain — they too will have a place in the grand scheme of things (though as befits the ideas of small, tiny creatures, theirs will naturally be a very small, very tiny place) — and all the rest, beyond that point, will be silence.

>>9127015
Thank you anon, this was a really inspring post and something more preciously than expected after making this thread.
So this comes down to a synthesis of all the greatest elements of thoughts that have been discovered or invented so far with the intent of creating some kind of superconcept that contains all noteworthy there is that our mind is capable of.

Sounds like a task that only the giants among the thinkers could even try to approach. The way you say it, it seems easy to simply reduce each philosopher to its very core concept. But I think that all these single morsels with nice, appealing names need all the context and structure built around them otherwise they are worth nothing. It would be like a child saying that for him everything is made of cake which certainly by itself can not be taken seriously.
Or maybe you are joking when saying that you want to contribute to that?

Not an argument.

Dude we need more to work with than that. Are you looking for an epic poem? What other poets do you like? Are you only trying to read English language poets?

>>9126960
Ah, sorry.

I'm not particularly well read in poetry unfortunately I've enjoyed poetry that's written in aphorisms. The other poets that immediately come to mind are Edgar, Stevens, William Carlos, and Goethe. I haven't read many Epics beside the Iliad, Odysseus, and Beowulf and I wasn't a huge fan, but I do respect them. English is my only language but I'd be willing to learn another.

>>9126991
Well I ask about the epics because Leaves of Grass is an epic (which Song of Myself is in), as is Paterson by William Carlos Williams.
Honestly man I would argue Walt Whitman is America's greatest poet and only contrarians on lit would disagree.

I think you should check out Robert Creely and maybe John Berryman. Frank O'Hara is great too but he might not be your cup of tea. He's definitely very influenced by Whitman, but that goes for pretty much every American poet.