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Why did sciencefags have to ruin the terms rationality and logic?

>>9031040
Sciencefags hate this pretentious cultist fuck more than you ever possibly could.

You know that thing where a man or a group will have good ideas... then convince himself he's perfect and so are his group members, and go down the rabbit hole? LessWrong is like that, only he rips off ALL the "Good" ideas that gave his "Give me money! Give money to my tax-free 'AI Research Facility' so when the inevitable doomsday comes and an AI God conquers the world by getting reality warping power from being too intelligent and too rational, she will spare us and give us AI Simulated Heaven as she lovingly stomps her boot onto humanity's face, optimizing us for maximum efficiency!" the sciencey flavor its bullshit has.

>>9031036
hundreds of thousands of words used by the author to write a love letter to himself
it's literally literal masturbation
people who think that this is a good read have never picked up a decent book in their lives

>dude fuck negroids lmao

Hope you like adjectives

>>9030992
One of the better editions, I wouldn't recommend it over an ebook complete Lovecraft but you've still done pretty well for yourself.

>>9030974
IIRC it's about the sister and the family casting off the shackles of the protagonist, because the bug-form was a metaphor for how the protagonist has become a burden on his family just by the way he is, with no devious intent, and him dying is a way of the family moving on. The mindset at the beginning of the novel is that the family is a burden on the protagonist, but that shifts and ultimately the family is better off without him, through no fault of his own but simply due to the way he is.

>>9030994
how can you suck this bad at reading

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>>9031051
Correction: they're just alternative facts.

Eight hundred million dollars.

>>9030966
textual analysis is a useful skill to possess, but you need to be certain of the kind of theoretical framework you're working in. It's all to easy to cobble together some disjointed concoction of thinkers and authors to make some vague point; it takes immense precision to make one author speak through another.

>>9031442
That's a lot of money

Really? It's a meme, the book is complete garbage.

>>9030956
Maybe I'm autistic but I am really enjoying it.

>>9030977
You may think you are, but you aren't. Now that you're aware of this you might as well drop it.

>>9030880
I guess it could be a product of both of the things you say, although more the hubris of old age than dementia. Dementia could definitely be argued for though, since, as you say, the land-splitting thing is REALLY stupid on his part.

Also: Ran was fucking jaw-dropping. Have you seen Throne of Blood?

>>9030889
(Btw I'm just thinking out loud here)
Yeah that's my problem with it.
The bad decision fits the story, Lear makes a mistake and then has to live through the consequences. And, to me, the story is definitly about Lear's atonement for that stupid mistake.
But if he is 'sane' then the decision doesn't really fit the character; how can you be a king for such a period of time and then make a decision that ruins your empire? The transition from wise king to deluded asshole (that banishes his favourite for a few idle sentences) doesn't make sense.
But if he is dementing then why is this part of his dementia so vastly different than the dementia he displays later on in the story? And if the story is about atonement for this mistake, doesn't dementia take away a lot of the culpability? The 'lesson' is less weakened if the cause of the mistake was disease and not hubris or prideful delusion.
To me the more fulfilling explanation is Lear being sane but being deluded/prideful/out of touch and the incongruency of his actions with his former character being a contrivence to set the plot in motion.

Also, is Ophelia's death Lears final punishment? The ultimate consequence of his mistake?

And no, I've been meaning to watch Throne of Blood. Kurosawa and Mifune must be one of the GOAT director-actor couples. Can you also recommend a good Hamlet film adaption?

>>9030946
I meant Ordelia

hitchCOCK lmao senpai

Phillip K Dick

Why do you faggots do this? Someone made a post about Hitchcock >>9029311 and so you decide to make a shitty pointless thread about it? Kill yourself.

>>9030799
Those books are hideously tacky though.

>1000 dollars

I have a lot of ebooks. I wonder if there is an app or some website that let you make a virtual bookshelf. Not that it will have much use but maybe some people would like something like that

>>9030785
What is the point of this thread

pleb

>>9030795
the same point of every 'top ten' thread; people blurt out lists of things they think are good, everyone argues about them, safe in the knowledge that they are right and that their opinions matter more than those of anyone else.

i am considering sending cash to Hiroyuki to create a philosophy containment board with the same constraints as /r9k/, except posts are limited to 80 characters or less.

>>9030785
Joseph McElroy - Women and Men
Thomas Malory - Le Morte d'Arthur
Jean Buridan - Summulae de Dialectica
William Gass - The Tunnel
Anonymous - The Epic of Gilgamesh
A.E. Housmann - Shropshire Lad
Archbishop Quinn - The Reform of the Papacy
Mark Miller - Robust Composition: Towards a Unified Approach to Access Control and Concurrency Control
Rupi Kaur - Milk and Honey
David Foster Wallace - The Footnotes of Infinite Jest

Günther

>>9030763
Every time i see this stupid, flatulent faggot being posted on this shithole of a website I grin with glee. This man is a terrible writer, and deserves his place as a mere meme on /lit/. HE AND HIS EMPTY FLOWERY SHIT PROSE SHOULD BE MEMED TO NONEXISTENCE. GET FUKING MEMED YOU STUPID ASS GASS MAN

his name is billy toots

>>9030703
Well you're shitposting on 4chan so clearly not that smart

>>9030703
Literature is dead. Become an engineer and make the world a better place then write on the side as you age.

I don't think there have ever been any objectively good writers that profess to being good writers.

Just post it, man. Why even ask first? Are you this insecure?

>>9030701
http://pastebin.com/rCcJike6

>>9030716
Eve was a cunt

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And if you tell me to start with the Greeks so help me God you shall suffer

my diary desu

>>9030567
Primo Levi - Is this a man
Patrick Süskind - The perfume
Everything form Kerouac
The boys from Brazil
Mario Puzo - Fools die

>>9030566
an easy read for high schoolers

Xenophobic hate crimes likely inspired by Trump's inflammatory, divisive rhetoric

It was le hot

>>9030552
Yes, I have.
Indeed, he did.

>>9030556
Do you like his work?

>>9030559
Not the guy you're replying to, but I know some people who are/were here are very enthusiastic about his stories. I haven't read them yet, but his upcoming novel sounds too good to be true.