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Recommendations for books like this?

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 06:04:13 Post No.8998580
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Anonymous 2017-01-20 06:43:46 Post No.8998689
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Anonymous 2017-01-20 07:39:16 Post No.8998815
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>>8998580
I don't get it

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 05:05:46 Post No. 8998413 [Report] [View this topic]

During the late period of Nietzsche;s philosophical "career", his writings become a lot more aggressive in nature,

Nietzsche was concerned that Europe was about to enter an age of decadence.

How would you categorise an age of decadence?

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 05:08:06 Post No.8998419
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>>8998413
An age of decadence is an age before a societies fall.

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as an age of ideology

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>>8998431
You can always tell how sane someone is by how much they like Chesterton.

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 04:57:24 Post No. 8998399 [Report] [View this topic]

/lit/ Death Squads activated

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 05:06:18 Post No.8998414
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>>8998399
Someone edit the book to be Infinite Jest and this webm is perfect

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>>8998414
how

its about killing plebes who read ray bradbury

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>>8998414
I don't know if you think too good

Anonymous
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Anonymous 2017-01-20 04:48:31 Post No. 8998376 [Report] [View this topic]

Is there a book that is intelligent, nihilistic, and with a wicked sense of humor?

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 05:01:01 Post No.8998404
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My diary tbqhwyfam

Anonymous 2017-01-20 10:12:20 Post No.8999069
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Illuminatus!

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>>8998376
Fathers and Sons sort of

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 04:33:50 Post No. 8998351 [Report] [View this topic]

Should I read The Hero with A Thousand Faces before or after the Greeks?

Also, who is this on the cover? Poseidon? Odysseus?

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 04:38:25 Post No.8998360
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after jung

Anonymous 2017-01-20 04:44:21 Post No.8998371
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Anonymous 2017-01-20 04:44:21 Post No.8998371 [Report]

Not at all. Joseph Campbell is that special sort of figure that decides something is cool so they have to cherry pick their way through mountains of evidence that contradict their super grand unifying theories of everything to hobble together some shaky things which could possible support their ideas, maybe, but probably not. No one asides from Joe public takes him seriously. His ideas just have a certain Romanticism to them so they are popular among non-academics.

tl/dr read works by respected academic figures, not populist hacks.

Anonymous 2017-01-20 04:48:17 Post No.8998375
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>>8998371
>tl/dr
Are you allowed to do that on /lit/?

Anonymous
2017-01-20 04:04:31 Post No.8998274
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Anonymous 2017-01-20 04:04:31 Post No. 8998274 [Report] [View this topic]

>English 101, group reading of good people by the d himself
>this pinup-esque pawnshop type of gal sits beside me
>big beautiful musky taurus tit stench, irresistibly subdued
>asks why I don't study the hard sciences
>I lay my palm face up, best disbelief face you'll ever see
>she pulls at my cuffs saying we should get out and toke "already"
>im thinking about how i'll be posting this on 4chan
>proceeds to implore I love david foster wallace
>she's making gushing loving sounds and pushes my head in her chest
>the professor spotlights us and asks us both to leave

I'm not making a meme though is the thing. This actually happens. I'm so embarrassed I can feel my hands leaking down my pants. Being a girl magnet just means they know you take a lot of shit.

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 04:10:51 Post No.8998289
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don't think that toke wore off yet mate haha

Anonymous 2017-01-20 04:12:25 Post No.8998295
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Anonymous 2017-01-20 04:12:25 Post No.8998295 [Report]

I can't even write like this on my best day.
Gonna kill myself now, thx

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>>8998274
>tfw bitches keep cutting into reading time

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2017-01-20 03:58:34 Post No.8998262
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Anonymous 2017-01-20 03:58:34 Post No. 8998262 [Report] [View this topic]

disclaimer im a pleb

anyone know a good book that deals with immortality, like someone describing living hundreds of years and basically becoming perfect at everything they do?

(i was about to read vampire lestat because that seemed cool, but not necessarily looking for vamp books..unless you know a better vamp book that isnt twilight)

i cringed reading what i just wrote

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 04:00:21 Post No.8998264
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>>8998262
All Men are Mortal - Simone de Beauvoir

Anonymous 2017-01-20 04:00:34 Post No.8998265
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>>8998262
Ya it's called the fucking BIBLE. Look it up

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>>8998265

who is immortal in the bible?

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Writing Software 2017-01-20 03:49:30 Post No.8998228
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Writing Software Anonymous 2017-01-20 03:49:30 Post No. 8998228 [Report] [View this topic]

If I need to be able to write on my work and home computer and have everything sync, my best option is Google Docs right?

What do you use? Word? An actual pen and paper?

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 05:43:41 Post No.8998514
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>>8998228
Notepad

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>>8998228
https://www.calmlywriter.com/online/

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>>8998228
Personal writing: Windows 7 and JDarkroom.

Writing a letter for someone to read: pic related.

Outlining, character webs, story flow, general purpose narrative-dreaming: Dixon Ticonderoga on paper.

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 03:27:42 Post No. 8998142 [Report] [View this topic]

Hey /lit/. So I'v decided to start getting into philosophy, I know of many famous philosophers, but I wouldn't know where to start with their work. Who are some entry-tier philosophers and what are some philosophical works you could rec me?

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 03:32:13 Post No.8998159
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>>8998142
Just go and sit alone with your thoughts for 50 years, and avoid looking into any shiny surfaces that will show your physical reflection.

Anonymous 2017-01-20 03:33:46 Post No.8998167
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>>8998159
Oh, and I will just add to this that you could read the fucking sticky, or Google your question.

Or, more to the point, imagine a whole crowd of anonymous strangers, far as they eye can see, patting you approvingly on the back. Then get on with your day as normal.

Anonymous 2017-01-20 03:36:05 Post No.8998172
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Hegel->Schopenhauer->Kierkegaard->Russel->Wittgenstein->everyone else

Anyone who disagrees is objectively wrong. Anyone who brings up Greeks is a faggot.

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syllabi 2017-01-20 03:24:44 Post No. 8998129 [Report] [View this topic]

I just got my BA and am taking a break for a while, but I am trying to branch out with my education on my own in the interim.

My problem is that my studies lack focus/guidance. I am interested in myriad topics(logic, hard math, econ, etc) but can never find what books I need EXACTLY to becone at least a fluent dilettant, or just what route to take in general. Please recommend me some reputable syllabi, maybe something from your alma mater. I don't care what, but my background is foreign langs & linguistics. Don't need recs for foreign languages

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 04:24:56 Post No.8998329
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jeez whats with that language? relax anon youre on a shitposting site. i dont understand, you want book recommendations for logic, math and economics?

Anonymous 2017-01-20 04:52:24 Post No.8998387
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Anonymous 2017-01-20 04:52:24 Post No.8998387 [Report]

I want some intelligent shitposter to tell me what to study and how.

Honestly I am just bored and wishing to keep my brain active, but am finding hard to do so on my own. With all the potential for knowledge out there it us a very occluded path

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>>8998387
Just go on aaaaarg and start reading

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obama recs Anonymous 2017-01-20 03:23:47 Post No. 8998125 [Report] [View this topic]

http://ew.com/books/2017/01/18/barack-obama-book-recommendations/

dropped

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 03:51:38 Post No.8998234
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Would love to hear his opinions on Nietzsche.
Havent read most of the shit on his list, anything notable i didnt notice?

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>>8998125
You know OP hasn't put any thought into the thread whatsoever when the critique is just one word like "dropped" or "hack".

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>>8998318
not an argument

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 03:12:48 Post No. 8998078 [Report] [View this topic]

Hey /lit/ just finished reading pic related. Loved it. Really helped that I read the silmarillion first . In turn it also helped me understand the silmarillion better. I'll have to re-read it again later. So I guess that means the history of middle earth next right?

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 03:14:38 Post No.8998088
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>>8998078
History of middle earth is only worth while if your autistic.

I heavily recommend it.

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 03:20:20 Post No.8998103 [Report]

Yes, do read it, but I would also recommend some of Tolkien's other non-Middle Earth reads. I also quite liked his translation of Beowulf

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>>8998088
Would that be the next one I should read?

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 02:57:23 Post No. 8998030 [Report] [View this topic]

My mamma and I have interesting literary discussions like the following which took place over some Modern Library books that I had just ordered:

SHE: “Mobby Dick. I’ve always heard about that.”
ME: “Mow-by Dick.”
SHE: “Mow-by Dick. The Idiot. You would get something called Idiot. What’s it about?”
ME: “An idiot.”

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>>8998030
>Prince Myshkin
>"An idiot."

wew

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>>8998030
~~post feet~~

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Your mamma has some great banting skills

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 02:36:35 Post No. 8997953 [Report] [View this topic]

>character is a horrible person
>people sympathize with the character because the character is the protagonist
Please don't tell me you do this, /lit/.

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 02:37:28 Post No.8997958
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Anonymous 2017-01-20 02:37:28 Post No.8997958 [Report]

Low key empathized with Meursault desu

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 02:41:00 Post No.8997967 [Report]

>I'm better than you because I'm too autistic to understand the author's intentions

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>>8997958

You and every other middle schooler who ever read The Stranger.

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Anonymous 2017-01-20 02:35:17 Post No. 8997947 [Report] [View this topic]

>art is beauty
>beauty is objective
>'cellar door' is objectively the most beautiful combination of words in the English language

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>>8997947
it's really not even subjectively a half-way decent combination of words. I hate cellar door

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>>8997947
>beauty is objective
I hope someone will shit in his mouth sometime soon.

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C'est l'heure d'or

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