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Do you have to be a narcissist in order to write?
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>>8819878
I think so.
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everyone's a narcissist already
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>>8819878
define your terms

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What did this fat shit really want? Why the fuck was he so passive-aggressive towards everyone?
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>>8819822
friendless recluse
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>>8819822
Everybody wants to be important, everyone wants to be loved.
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>>8819822
He was a modern day SJW. Entitled, and bad educated.

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Serious question. Why aren't comics /lit/?
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>>8819802
Some are.
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I'm reading The Incal at the moment, it's pretty good.
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>>8819802
Comics are a a lowly textual form catering to a lowly social class demographic.

My girlfriend is an SJW and Christmas is coming up.

Can /lit/ recommend any good reads on the subject of class, race, gender, social inequality etc. please?
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Dipesh Chakrabarty, Provincialising Europe

Combines a few of those categories sorta
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>>8819788
>class, race, gender, social inequality etc. please?
Anna K
Fear and Loathing
Women and Men
Grapes of Wrath
respectively. You should dump her if she's histrionic about it though.
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>>8819791
Thank you

Honestly, I haven't had time to read novels since high school. Right now it's just work and I get so exhausted I barely have the energy to do anything else.
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>>8819751
Eat better and get in shape.
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>Right now it's just work and I get so exhausted I barely have the energy to do anything else
Move to Venezuela if you hate freedom faggot
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>>8819751
I wonder this too, though currently I find time for it.

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Do you actually read the foreword?
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desu i know i'm getting old and/or becoming a woman because i feel no desire to mock the people that book is for, i just think it's sweet that old-ass fuckin people with oxygen tanks health problems still want to have romantic sex

every year i become more of a fag
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>>8819713

Apparently nursing homes are fuckfests
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>>8819713
>i just think it's sweet that old-ass fuckin people with oxygen tanks health problems still want to have romantic sex
liberals push sex for old people because liberals have nothing else to offer as a goal

...what the hell was his problem?
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The whale's or the captain's?
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>>8819691
OTP
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>>8819691
>I'll never let go

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James Joyce, the greatest prose writer in history, and a personal favorite, was near-sighted. Our Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin, was short-sighted, and invented the bifocals in order to help him see. The Roman stoic, Seneca, used a glass bowl of water in order to read books. Aldous Huxley, the writer of the famous Brave New World, was myopic too. I can go on and on.

All great writer and thinkers are myopic. If you don't suffer from myopia; if you have never seen the world through myopic eyes, then you are probably never going to write something that's going to have an impact on the world.
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>>8819662
>Our Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin
>our
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I look forward to reading 800 replies to this thread.
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>>8819662

The Neetch was also very myopic toward the end of his life. It's why his handwriting became illegible to all but one person, who was also a friend.

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What happened to the lost art of essay writing?
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It's being resurrected by me.
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>My newest testament.
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>>8819626
Capitalism. There's largely no profit in essays, so they take the form of theses in academia or get expounded into books.

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>reads The Stranger once
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>>8819619
>reads once
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>>8819619
That book didn't even faze me.

Have I transcended existentialism, or am I just too stupid to understand it?
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>>8820204
You have fixed your ground upon your ideology.
In other words, Camus's interpretation and opinion on the events didn't fase you, because you already had a method to develop an opinion it.

>inb4 Zizek saying ideology is bad
fuck off

convince me to read for the prose and not for the plot
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read pynchon and get the appearance of both
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Evercince the dwan of Eve.
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Don Juan de la Maria Margareta of Middle Eves.
>In the spring when the trees are.

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Why are failed/doomed romances more appealing in literature than successful romances? The only highly acclaimed books I can think of with happy endings are Jane Austen's books.
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>>8819525
Why is heaven more boring than hell? Lack of conflict.
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>>8819528

Pride and Prejudice has plenty of conflict, it just ends on a happy note.
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Think of the amount of unsuccessful romances vs the amount of successful romances. People like reading about people like themselves, especially if the author has something insightful to say.

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What if in some parallel universe, /lit/ was a French board and thus had more of a bias towards French literature.
What would be their equivalent meme trilogy?
What would their shit meme authors be?
...Is there a Jean Green?
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It would probably be some shit like Genet and Tzara and Beckett. Maybe Celine or Bataille
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The meme trilogy would be Les Chants de Maldoror, Proust and La vie mode d'emploi
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We might talk about literature

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If I KNOW the restaurant is open, there's zero chance I'll drive there for no reason. If I have the belief that it's open, there's chance it won't be open. The value of knowledge over true belief is clear

Am I misunderstanding this?
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Kinda. if its in the nature and essence of the restaurant to be always open, and you have grasped that by inquiring into its form, then it would be knowledge.

If you THINK it's open because it's 4 o clock on a Friday and you went there at the same time on the same day over the past 10 years to it, then it's true belief. As the essence of the restaurant doesn't necessary pertain to you being there at 4 o clock every Friday as your experience might lead to you to think. Far as you might know, someone could've bombed it at 3:30. Knowledge is understanding the limit and nature of a form
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>>8819419

Why does this mean that the Meno problem is retarded?
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>>8819419
True belief becomes knowledge if you can work out why it is true. If you ‘have learned the axiomatic structure of the system in question
and can prove any one of its elements', you understand it and convert it into knowledge. You make it stable too, because your understanding makes it impossible for you to
have your mind changed by someone else.

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Thoughts on this book?
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>thinly veiled /pol/ thread #1635484628

Stalin did nothing wrong
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>>8819405
I haven't read it, I just to know opinions on it. If I wanted a /pol/ thread, I would have posted there.
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>>8819401
It's a pretty brutal read.

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