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How would you describe his works and style?

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What's the point of being a writer if you can never look this fucking stylish?

Seriously, who would you put more stock into if you never met them before? This handsome fucker or the facial trainwreck known as sartre

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Hey lit, I was wondering, why so many girls seems to like these two philosophers?

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One of, if not the, most celebrated female writer of all time wrote about women gossiping and looking for affluent partners.

And we wonder why nowadays women desperately seek to write new narratives for their gender, aka movies like Arrival and the new Ghostbusters.

I don't really blame them, the vast majority of female writers who are studied in academia dote on pointless and uninteresting bullshit, aka female activities.

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He's my literary inspiration and muse- in a nonsexual and ironic way. I'm here to introduce /lit/ to him, since he'll be famous in no time.

This guy is a world historical important figure in the making. He is the first human being to completely and totally document his pathetic life live on Youtube vlogs. Historians will have unlimited access to the most intimate and minute details. Please go take a look. If you don't think this is something amazing or strange, you're not looking hard enough. His story will be legendary. The bizarre nature of Alexander Jahans will inspire visual artists, writers and poets, musicians, et al. I can't think of anything even coming close to describing the Jahans aesthetic. Go ahead, try. Maybe 'Peep Show' the British series- comes close.

So this guys videos are usually 2 hours long and whose got time to sit through all that autism? It's extremely esoteric and is even inspiring cult practices. So here's a compilation of his most bizarre rants - it's all here folks.

The ultimate Alexander Gordon Jahans experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2-FcsC9n2s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UR-2ju0DIMk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs85gL46wPA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovn1UGYf-0A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0VlKxA7NUw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmfX4qHm76o

Jahans is the kind of strange phenomenon that makes you rethink the entire world and our place in it. He is Nietzsche's "last man".

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since we are lonely, miserable, autistic bastards and St. Valentine's Day is near...

what should we read on that day?

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Can I get a quick rundown on why this appears in every other bookshelf?

Is this a meme history book or something else?

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Why haven't you bought a copy of Trump Temptations: The Billionaire & The Bellboy yet?

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I'm in Japan and i met a guy who gave us writings in Japanese. I'm not sure what they mean or if this is where i should post this thread but i trust you guys. Help a man out, please.

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"She looked around at the bombarded ruins of her quickly fading past."

I constantly get sentences like this that pop up in my head, vivid images of a landscape or instance of a scenario that I can't seem to expand on. I've been looking to figure out how to take a decent sentence like this, and actually turn it into something worth while.

I seem to struggle telling a story, but I can describe a picture or small sequence without too much difficulty. Are there any books that might shed light on my issue, to help me understand what to do?

"Continuous urges compel my motivation, yet are inevitably subject to even the slightest whim of a distraction."

Some random sentence, also an issue I face, which I'm working on dealing with.

I expect criticism and ridicule, and not to be taken seriously, but I am genuinely concerned why I struggle in this way and how to fix it.

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Why haven't you read the greatest philosophical work of the past 2000 years?

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What is the right-wing equivalent of the Jacobin?

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What are some of your guys's favorite technical books?

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aye /lit/, who is the best mystic(s)?

I'm writing an paper on mysticism for my medieval philosophy class and need some guidance

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What is worse? This passage from A Song of Ice and Fire, or pic related from Harry Potter?

"Every stool was looser than the one before, and smelled fouler. By the time the moon came up she was shitting brown water. The more she drank the more she shat but the more she shat, the thirstier she grew".