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>>9006072
I can't guarantee that this is good advice because I haven't followed it myself.

I think you're supposed to start with Either/Or. He wrote all his books to be read in a specific order, I think.

remember the concept of pseudonyms, it's a big deal in his work. don't uncritically think that whatever he's saying in a certain passage is what he actually believes

>>9006262
What's Updike?

Knowing how to read is essential.
Get that down first.

>>9006036
Ok, now what?

>>9006034
People attribute it's difficulty to the wrong places. Benjy's section is cake compared to Quentin's. But just read it.

my diary desu~

English poetry is all garbage.

>>9005984
William Wordsworth if you want a British flavor. Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson if you want an American one.

>>9005936
>killed his wife
glad to see he was red pilled as well, good man

>went to Harvard
>failed trustafarian who got hooked on drugs
>wrote a bunch of gimmicky bullshit
>died

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>born in nazi-occupied ghetto
>wife murdered by charles manson family
>rapes 13 year old girl and flees to escape charge
>directs some of the most acclaimed films in history

well maybe not as interesting as Burroughs, but still pretty fascinating

It's pretty old and out dated, and not academically rigorous. I wouldn't recommend actually reading it.

>>9005892
samefag...

You're better off getting Roberts' History of the World or Susan Wise Bauer's series. Or for a short version, Gombrich's Little History of the World. I've heard The Human Web is good too.

Hobsbawm has a good series covering from 1789 and on, and R.R. Palmer's textbook covers the modern world.

>>9005885
It's only about whites but I guess that's just a quibble.

>>9005788
no

>>9007251
She's too much of a little bitch to manage to do that.

>>9005788
Why is her hand white ?

>>9005694
FUCK

MY

POODLE

>>9005646
>In the philosophy of mind, the China brain thought experiment (also known as the Chinese Nation or Chinese Gym) considers what would happen if each member of the Chinese nation were asked to simulate the action of one neuron in the brain, using telephones or walkie-talkies to simulate the axons and dendrites that connect neurons. Would this arrangement have a mind or consciousness in the same way that brains do?
>Some philosophers, like Daniel Dennett, have concluded that the China brain does create a mental state.[3] Functionalist philosophers of mind endorse the idea that something like the China brain can realise a mind, and that neurons are, in principle, not the only material that can create a mental state.
>Some philosophers, like Daniel Dennett
>concluded that the China brain
>has a mind or consciousness in the same way that brains do
>China brain
>Daniel Dennett
>concluded
>China brain

hahahahahahahahaha fucking analytics oh my god holy they make fun of continentals for being masturbatory then turn round and say shit like this oh my fucking sides hahahahahahahahaha

>ever EVER listening to this kind of retarded scientism masquerading as """""""Philosophy"""""

>>9005646
His epiphenomenalism is fine, but it makes his trying to sneak free will back in even more ridiculous.

white man

>>9005606
Is April the cruelest month?

he will not divide us.
HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US!

>>9005606
>needing annotations
if you are uneducated enough to need it to be explained to you you don't need to be reading it

Yes. Now get the fuck off my lit you redit fuck reeeeeeeee

why is Milo Yiannopoulos and Jason Alexander in the back?

christie eco hemingway shakespeare king.
5/9

Awful typography. 0/5

>>9005519
If you have ever had a drunk friend lamenting his lot in life late at night, you've read this book.

This book doesn't have a wikipedia article, so I can't pretend to know about it.

nice observation, bro

War and Peace

Pretty much every single character is highly autistic and would fit in well here

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>>9005515
Dostoevsky is prone to that

>>9005498
when he's ajar!

When he is a manchild

When he shit posts on an anime imageboard frequented by shut-ins and autists

Do your own homework F A G G O T

>>9005300
just look at the title of the book

it's about the fundamental depravity of the human heart and the fundamental weirdness of human existence

Arteries lead to the heart. They're descending into madness/out of it.

I haven't read the book is that the one where the civilized guys live among tribals and slowly go crazy? If its the one I'm thinking of then it's definitely symbolic of their journey towards madness, as the river is prevelant throughout.

I don't understand the snake comparison tho

It's generally considered very difficult to read.

Get this:
https://www.amazon.com/Companion-Marxs-Capital-David-Harvey/dp/1844673596

and watch Harvey's lectures on youtube.

>>9005206
Germans (in linguistic sense) do not use full stop because their intellect allows them continue eternally within the same idea. It makes it tremendously inacessable. Kant himself violates the categorical imperative because if everybody were to write such ridiculously complex books nobody could learn how to read

>>9005206
skip the first three chapters.