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>>8890043
sounds stupid, op - trump won; get over it

>>8890046
>>8890048
It's not supposed to be taken seriously at all.

That's one of the better ones.
>DF DFW has bamboozled you

>>8890039

Whats it from?

>>8890042
the pale king

>>8890020

nabakov can suck my girldick

>>8890044
what's wrong with old nabby?

>>8890068
Nothing at all. He's perfect. People read him and sincerely like characters who are written as parody, though - which is marvellous; I mean, like, bravo Nabby - but it makes it so hard to unreservedly praise him, because complete losers will think you're of the same mental type as them. As in, the same aesthetic inclination. I mean, that prose is fantastic but it's weird to call it 'beautiful' - an adjective Nabokov would probably have called 'too ephemeral' - when you can see the cringing humour and the careful crassness of it.

because he is writing as an academic.

he is able to add a bunch of nuances and interesting subjects shrouded in tidbits of fun facts and semiotics but it's lacking because he's not an "artist"

i only read this and Foucault's Pendulum and thought, yeaup okay that happened

>>8890007
>Foucault's Pendulum
I had the hardest time ploughing through this book and thought it rather pretentieus, now a few years later I still commonly encouter references used in the book in daily life.

>>8890081
it's a pretty fun read in the same way, say, sit-coms and summer blockbusters are entertaining.

Mindless drivel but fun.

>>8890000
Nice numbers.

>>8890000
nice digits

If I already know about the book, the cover plays no role, but it does make a difference on whether I'll pick it up in the store.

>>8890005
>>8890016
big brother is watching you know >>8890000

Don't. Read Lem if you want to read Sci-Fi.

Nightfall put me to sleep, personally.

teh egg

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Hyperdimensional Information Construct

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Show you incredible things

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Taking you through a little bit of magic

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>>8889869
Ever hear of a little thing called a rhizome?

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>>8889871
What ever became of Deleuze?

Pro-tip: Nothing. :^}

>>8889871
and chromatin, and many vacuoles

The possibility that someone will find me clever.

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>>8889727
Go on.

>>8889721
Gas

>>8889709

Wall.

https://bibliotik.me/torrents/328004

I picked it up for ten dollars used.

I noticed these "start with the greeks" guides always skip The Greek Way to Western Civilization.

>>8889688
Just start reading the greeks man, you'll figure it out. You chart you have is all you really need.

>>8889688

Nah, fuck that guy >>8889704 OP, I got you

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/pub

A little hard on the eyes, but this will take all the work out of the whole 'love of wisdom' thing

>playing video games
>having a vagina

3/10

>>8889658
post your coffee table.

I can't help but think that you've purposely chosen shitty books to trigger us OP.

>>8889631
I don't know what books are a must read in general, i mean things like Whitman, Hemmingway or Tolstoi. I would like to know too.

Absolutely Required Works:
The Odyssey and the Iliad by Homer (~12th - ~8th century BCE)
Major Plays of Aeschylus (456 BCE)
Major Plays of Sophocles (406 BCE)
The Holy Bible (~8th century BCE - 1st century CE)
Genesis
Exodus
Daniel
Ecclesiastes
Job
Psalms
Romans
Gospels (Matthew, Mark, John, Luke)
Revelation
Apocrypha
The Aeneid by Virgil (19 BCE)
The Divine Comedy by Dante (1307)
Don Quixiote by Miguel de Cervantes (1605)
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (1616)
Paradise Lost by John Milton (1667)
Faust (Part I and II) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1808, 1832)
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin (1833)
The Major Tales of Nikolai Gogol (1840s)
Moby Dick by Herman Melville (1851)
Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodr Dostoevsky (1866)
Major Plays of Henrik Ibsen (1870s)
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (1877)
Dubliners and Ulysses by James Joyce (1914, 1922)
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann (1926)
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)
The Aleph and Other Stories by Jorge Luis Borges (1949)
The Recognitions by William Gaddis (1955)
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov (1962)
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)

How about you start by reading The Sticky and then maybe move on to reading threads on here

>>8889626
William Cooper - Behold a Pale Horse

Fritz Springmeier -- Bloodlines of the Illuminati
-The Illuminati Formula Used to Create a Total Mind Controlled Slave
-Deeper Insights into the Illuminati Formula

Walter Bowart - Operation Mind Control

Brice Taylor - Thanks For The Memories

Cathy O'Brien -- Trance Formation of America

You're ready. If all this seems too much for you, Behold A Pale Horse is probably the best and most essential one to read.

>>8889634
ah thanks man this is great i love you

am i gonna become a freak pariah after reading these?

>>8889635
Bitterness and paranoia is normal, yes, after first learning about these things in depth, but I ultimately think you become a better person having integrated it all into your worldview after a while. Good luck.

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>>8889580
Diogenes, Epicurus, Zen Buddhism, Taoism, Thoreau.

Brothers Karamazov played a big role in my return to Christianity

>>8889695
>Subservient to spooks

I am so sad for you.