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He's no Rumi, but he's alright.

They're fucking great, I read them in russian.

Khayyam was an ancient shitposter stuck in era and place where islam was dominant, but he didnt actually like it it seems, and just shitposted relentlessly. He even has 'ayy' in his name. Like ayy lmao.

Anyways, great reads. I remember being really really down and just stumbling upon his works and he really cheered me up desu. Great dude it seems, great shitposter.

>>9108950
Well, Khayyam was more of a astronomer/philosopher. Still, this poetry is great, although I do agree that Rumi was better.

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collections

You can read original texts from the Greek and Roman era here. Used it in university, it's great.

historyofphilosophy.net/
Comfy philosophy podcast.

http://plato.stanford.edu/

>>9108646
Every book in the world that has ever been written, every book currently being written, and every book that will ever be written, are all in the head of me. I am the main character of the universe, and the voice AND words on the page are supposed to be me, as I write it myself across every multiplitude of character perspectives conceivable in the infinity of that Kosmos that is my mind.

Now go to bed.

>>9108646

It depends. Some books use first person for only one person, some use it for more than one. Same goes for the third person. Second person is scarcely used.

>>9108665
Me as well.

Kitties should be allowed have library cards, just like bicycles. There is no way that kitty has not experienced enough atomic dislocation with humans from pettings to count as less human than its owners.
>tl;dr- take your human's library card, you deserve it more

If only there was a way to "make" money.

>>9108255
LIBRARIES ARENT FREE

YOU PAY FOR THEM IN TAXES

THANKS TO YOUR TAXES, MANY POOR LOW LIVES WHO ARE CRIMINALS OR LIVE WITH MOMMY AT AGE 40 REAP LIBRARY RELATED REWARDS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.

>>9108235
The going to cover the race is real. So is the alcohol. The drugs are inserted afterwards because HST took that drugs lead to prison warning seriously, like he should.

There's other real shit where he wrote about drugs, but that isn't it.

>>9108235
Doesn't matter.

Hunter was a journalist at heart, not a fiction writer. I assume it was nearly all real, because I don't really trust him to imagine all that transpired.

>>9108155
Which Murakami? Either yes, or very much no.

>>9108162
Haruki

>>9108164
Oh yeah, then you're fine for talking to girls but fucked when talking to /lit/, you fucking pleb.

What about doing something to avoid being miserable and suffering? Usually that is what people mean

>>9107984
Idk how people gain any enjoyment out of writing. All my professors all of my life have told me I'm a great writer and I've always been put into advanced level writing classes. But it's so tedious i cant imagine just doing it for fun. Or as a career.

>>9107984
>You could be happy at any moment you want, for any activity that you want.
People usually struggle with that.
>Being happy is LITERALLY just lowering you standards
What set of higher standards can you offer?

I’m not sure where the phrase came from but I’m from the UK and thats where I’ve heard it used. I googled the phrase "teaching your grandmother to suck eggs" and found a quite informative article on the website worldwide words. It seems to have been in use since the early 1700’s at least and is basically saying "don’t presume to offer advice to an expert"...There are examples of similar phrases there.....Tolkien undoubtedly would have been aware of this phrase so I cannot believe that this was meant in a literal sense.

Here’s a possible answer : My version of "The Hobbit" is in French ; and at that part, there’s a note saying that the expresion "teaching his grandmother to suck eggs" is synonymous to the French expression Gros-Jean qui en remontre à son curé, which means that those who are ignorant like to teach or correct those that already have knowledge.

He made his gran gobble on his veg. Rite of passage in hobbiton

>p&v translation
What a pleb

>>9107858
Why is that translation pleb?

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>>9107854

I've reread this book 3 times and I still have no idea what the fuck the first part is about.

not unless you're andy warhol

>>9107625
Dear Diary,
Today I watched TV. I really like watching TV. Sometimes I watch so much TV I think I'll turn into one. hahaha
Love, Andy

>>9107697
Holy...

>Implying any of us can afford that shit.

>they should look good

Call me a philistine, but I think books look great when they're all mismatched and individual.

What if I get new books, do I have to reprint everything again?

Boomers were the first to neglect and abandon the ways of our roots, whether they be left or right. They gave it up in pursuit of mortal whims and materialistic ways. Then they gave birth to the Millennials which were even greater grotesque versions of what human beings should be like.
In reality it's really the fault of the French Revolution.

>>9107203
Not exactly. We didn't lose an entire generation of young men in a senseless war.

In a spiritual sense, maybe, but not in the full sense of the original lost generation.

that pomo ennui is just as bad as having survived WWI

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I wonder what Tao Lin would say if he knew we were saying he has "the most amazing prose in the history of literature." I wish we could all go to his house and hoist him up on a sofa like a king and chant "Based Tao Lin!" while he smiled sheepishly like, "What can I do? They want to celebrate me, I can't stop them." Then at night the atmosphere would shift from a celebratory revel to a something more serious and subdued as the joints come out and we urge Tao Lin to partake and after a little cajoling he finally does and says, "I haven't done this in a long time." And somebody would say, "It's a good a time to start back up as any," and Tao Lin would nod and then cough and try to say "True that" through the coughing. "C'mon Tao, you can't take those big '70s hits anymore, you're an old man, and plus this shit is more powerful!" Then we'd ask him if he's feeling it yet, and he'd say "Oh yeah, you guys weren't kidding, this is powerful stuff, not like when I was young." And we'd start asking him what he meant in this book, what he was trying to say when he said that, and so on, and he'd smile and shake his head and say, "It was so long ago, and now you've got me high, I can't remember, I'm sorry!" OK, OK, then, we'd say, we'll give you a break. Sorry. We know you're high. Maybe when you come down a bit. Then somebody would shout, "Tao Lin did 9/11!" and people would get annoyed and shout at him to shut up and somebody would say, "Who is that? Who brought that asshole?" And when it got late, and we began to feel like we were overstaying our welcome, I would corner Tao Lin and say, "Hey, listen, I feel like I'm having a panic attack, or something, and I can't go outdoors, something's wrong with me. Is it cool if I crash here? I won't tell anybody." And he'd say Fine, fine (still high as hell), and I'd say, "Thank you, based Tao Lin," and as I lay awake in the guest room in the dark I would try to think of really smart and insightful questions to ask him over breakfast, which I would have ready for him when he awoke.

Tao Lin is still alive?

>>9106656
>French
>psychoanalysis
>continental
>post-structuralist (sort of)

lol that means he a SJW cultural marxist who loves destroying whiteness, tradition, masculinity and the western world

t. redpilled intellectual

>>9106656
I think psychoanalysis in general should be read by intellectuals but never taking them really seriously. They have some good ideas, but anything they do is just taken to the extreme and they sound like lunatics.

>>9106677
The guy was up to date on all the knowledge of the time. The height he reached has been met with so much jealous contempt and ignorance. Just look at Chomsky, he was happy to debate with Foucault, but he'd never take on Lacan, only after his death he's put out some disparaging remarks about him. Precisely because Lacan represents such a challenge to Chomsky's style of cognitivism! Their domains overlap and the tension of Lacan's presence is unbearable to mainstream psychiatry, psychology, etc. just as the Ego Psychologists hated him. Lacan is even dismissed and over-criticised and misrepresented in discourse analysis, Foucauldians, these so called 'radical' intellectuals all try their best to ignore him! The case of Derrida is a good example, who simply accused him of 'phallogocentrism' and decided not to think about him anymore.

Lacan is actually the repressed of every academic discourse right now. One of big books to introduce Lacan to the anglosphere almost wasn't published because the academic publishing house believed the author didn't criticise Lacan enough --- you always must sacrifice the Thing!

Living is a prerequisite for being contemporary.

>>9106484
No it isn't.

>>9106479
Odd choice. Both his novels this decade were barely noteworthy. Certainly not his personal best, or this decade's best works.