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there is a lot of great philosophers who weren't arithmeticians so yes

>>8791622
What did Newton and Leibniz contribute to philosophy that you would place them among the best philosophers in history?

>>8791698
this also bothered me, he's probably a stemfag

It depends on the set of lyrics. Most of Townes Van Zandt's songs stand up on paper but he's an exception in that regard.

>>8791598
I don't understand what this question means.
There's a ton of shit poetry out there, its not exactly a strict category

They can be.

What makes it difficult is that what a lot of people, myself included, consider good lyrics are often good because of what is going on with the music. Stripped of that, and read as poetry, they lose some of their effect.

But it's possible to have both, I'm sure.

>>8791564
i do though

Nobody cares, Abu

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>>8791564
But I do, I've read Cities of Salt, was pretty good

>>8791471
Because hardly any people buy poetry books to begin with, and those who do are less likely to part with their books.

>>8791478
this, poetry rewards rereading in a way even the best novels frequently fail to do.

>>8791482
Thats not what I said at all

>>8791458
reading it out loud is the first big step

How did you learn to appreciate prose?
Do the same thing

>>8791458
by reading it

4chanlit.wikia.com/poetry

>>8791388
I rad A Brief History of Time in high school, when I thought I wanted to be a physicist. It's technical heavy, but if you put in the effort, and keep up with the glossary in the back, you don't have to be too smart to understand it.

I enjoyed it.

He addresses the layman well.

If you want to have complex scientific ideas explained to you in the most condescensding manner, with kiddie pictures, go ahead.
Otherwise pick an actual textbook

Thinking about starting one for any trips that I go on

>>8791301
My posts are my diary. My bantz are my soul.

>>8791301
Yes. I mostly fill it with engineering ideas and notes on articles read throughout the day. Sometimes I write about society and how people relate to each other.

Mikael Niemi
Lars Andersson

August Strindberg

Stig Dagerman is ok

>>8791228
It's great. It's great. It's great. Leo Tolstoy is a genius author. Leo Tolstoy is a genius author. Leo Tolstoy is a genius author. You must be smart if you're reading War & Peace. You must be s

>>8791228

Expect not to get much out of it because your autism severely injures your sense of empathy, so Tolstoy's inclusive love of humanity will be lost on you.

>>8791239
What would you recommend instead?

no bully pls

>>8791162
We need some kind of superior who validates our lifestyle choice of only reading the least accessible books.

>>8791172
this

>>8791162

>lives the /lit/ life
>incredibly well read
>memorizes all the great poems and great prose passages
>against SJWs
>against pleb lit
>likes the good 2/3s of the meme trilogy
>has sex with his students
>scared David Duchovny out of studying lit which got him into acting

What's not to like?

>>8791122
It sounds like an argument for Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs with self-actualization at the top. You're probably better off reading about Maslow's theory on a website that can provide you with a more succinct argument.

>>8791122
I'm a few dozen pages in.
I hope it can.

>>8791147
>You're probably better off reading about Maslow's theory on a website that can provide you with a more succinct argument.
That's boring as fuck with no personality.

From that list: Homer, Divine Comedy, some Shakesman, Onegin (entire Pushkin, really), Moby Dick, C&P, Karenina, entire Borges.

I don't care about 30 different Bibles, and why the fuck would I bother reading translated greek and roman poetry (inb4 learn these meme languages), at least put Plato here

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>>8790953
>Zettels Traum

>>8790953

All

>how
Be somewhat talented

>>8790758
Not everything has been done.

Don't be afraid to go beyond. That's the best advice I can give.

Literary Innovation...try that :)

>>8790753
>believing STEMtards

The Universe is infinite, its ontologically necessary for it to exist in the first place

>implying that doesn't apply to everything and not just philosophy

>implying existence doesn't echo onward into eternity in some form

>implying this is the only universe

>implying you know shit

>>8790756

This.

There are pockets of existence and pockets of destruction/nothingness. Kind of like a cosmic beehive structure. But yes, ultimately infinite and eternal. If people had more than just a sci-pop understanding and looked a little deeper into the subject they'd know this. In Inflationary theory our universe is just a little bubble of spacial expansion in an infinite sea of inflationary space.

cringe

Read some of Ulillilia's book for reference. :)

>>8790715
it's way less autistic than it sounds, this is a relatively minor scene. Which is why it's hard. I don't want to devote too much of the text to it, but I want it to be clear