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>>9107004
go outside

Thats not at all what stoicism is about. Actually read the book you cuck.

>>9107004
Cool OP, you read a summary of stoicism by a redditor who read part of the Wikipedia page on it.

Faggot

He who has Science and has Art,
Religion, too, has he;
Who has not Science, has not Art,
Let him religious be!

>>9106971
The 'inherent suffering' actually comes from specific forms of society and is in no way existential.

>>9106971
>tfw the Leibniz Cosmological Argument is too stronk
If you aren't at least a theist you're a certified brainlet

I bought Bestiario the other day. I hope I understand it.

>>9106890

>Implying Cortázar wrote something better than 2666

>>9107131
Actually he was implying Cortázar never wrote anything worse than 2666

Pure reaction.

Marxist utopia

New Sincerity

>>9106631
No, because I feel I'm likely incapable of it due to a terrible memory coupled with laziness/perception of inadequacy. I am very envious of anyone who is actually able to do so.

I take notes, and maintain an impressionistic view of events while reading. It works wonderfully for most novels, anything from the Quixote to 2666, although for the latter, "plot points" are less important than thematic reflections based on the overview of the novel and whichever part you are in (like a good deal of modern novels).

>>9106631
also, is there a higher resolution of that image?

>>9106631
No, it's for lists

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here man

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>my /out/
my MIND /out/. I should probably spend this time learning how to proof read...

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>>9106274

Apparently Salman Rushdie played a lot of Mario while hiding from the ayatollah's hitmen

>>9106024
David Foster Wallace

>>9106024
as long as you engage with whatever you consume with a deep understanding, you'll be fine

mushing your brains on shumps might be bad (unless you are taking in the design/art/sound/you know)

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We did. I was making the design of it. It was mostly ready and then we started taking submissions.

We received like three excerpts. One was something about how blacks are inferior. One was mildly bad poetry. One was just retarded /r9k/-tier shitposting.

There have already been several attempts and they all fizzled out fairly quickly. One was around for a while but it's been ages since I've seen any mention of it. I don't even remember what it was called.

>>9106006
Pinecone? /lit/ quaterly? The Metro?

Knowlege and happiness are generally unrelated.

Oftentimes great knowledge brings about great sadness.

I know that he who knows everything cannot be happy

>>9105638
>thinks he saves the world by being depressed
way 2 go pal

I work at an antique bookstore, it's pretty comfy.
It's in an old wooden house and the whole place is just crammed full of books. They spill out of shelves, lie in piles on every available surface and form 3 feet high walls around isolated workstations practically buried in the sea of them. There's a narrow path that cuts through the store (which is 3 stories) and anytime you meet someone going the other way someone has to back up or you're gonna knock a whole pile over. Even the bathroom is crammed full of them.

It's pretty great, but I don't get much of a chance to read there since it's usually pretty busy.

>>9105871
This can't be real. This is too good.

>>9105871
I am envious.

>>9105012

Holy shit

Fucking dumbass Americans

if it makes you feel any better it does fit modern france :^)

>>9105027
im english, get fucked
I Meursault was algerian and i thought Algiers was the nickname for a town in france with a lot of algerians or something. Like Chinatown.

>>9104635

I have no deal for my own soul
I could not sell or let it go
No good deal for price of I
I clutch my soul until I die

If I sold myself to thee
Wouldst I be a man to me
No deal for you, mine soul be tried
I take my soul to after-life

In my will, herein I've wrote
"Tender senpai, respect thy note
Have my shoes and take my fees
But leave my soul beside the keys

Sell my stocks and break my bonds
My list of things go on and on
But on the line within page 3
Leave my blessed soul to me

Signed and written, truly loved
I leave my assets in your trust
With the soul I plan to keep
From up above, we will remeet."

>>9104704
Fuck, that took a lot longer than I thought, and it wasn't even that good. Oh well, might as well get the ball started and rolling.

>>9104704
>senpai got translated to senpai, even though I meant to use it in the old, archaic sense of the word, and not the new-fangled meem version everyone used to spam in 2016

C'mon, man. "Pham" used to be a legitimate word, guys.

I'm not a Marxist or a Communist myself but you are correct.

He seems to have accepted the cultural hegemony and only critiques Capitalism (although very well) without offering viable solutions.

>>9103978
Not really sure if troll

>>9103978
Serious revolutionaries are ostracised as tankies.

Peaceful incremental reformers and demsocs are ostracised as compromising classcucks.

Modern socialism is in a dire position and has perhaps never been more irrelevant than it is now, especially now that many of its more popular and catchy ideas (welfare, social justice) have been adopted in some form by most mainstream parties.

The english language

How to read.

>>9103820
this and also read my diary before this

>>9103495
Scratch that, I lied, last sci-fi novel I read was Roadside Picnic.

>>9103495
Idk what you've read but check out le guin if you haven't done so

>>9103495
No. Hopefully your taste has evolved to something more literary.