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He'd probably fap to traps but be otherwise heterosexual.

>>8790652
toole was gay

>>8790690
I suspected that he might be closted since he had a few gfs that he only kissed.

Dogshit.

Trump tweet. Sad!

Bland and offensively so.

Trying too hard.

Sooner you realize nobody gives a fuck about you, the better.

>>8790629
the assignment is to work in elements of a memoir with discussion of/reference to 3 texts

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>>8790613
It's reads like a psychoanalytical transcript

>>8790572
I have always been and atheist, but of lately I have become intrigued with the wonderful psychedelic mysticism of the "Far East", thanks to my rather late introduction to certain substances which shall remain unnamed in this speech. I have begun to question so-called "scientific reality," and have now a developing sort of "intuition" that perhaps we are all somewhat in the dark, like stage actors with amnesia.

Taoism says that all things are one, and are in fact nothing that can be named at all. Make yourself some green tea and think about that for a little while. Perhaps the world is indeed made of facts like Wittgenstein suggested in his monumental Tractato-Logicus-Philosophica, in other words words, propositions... which may or may not constellate solely within our brains. Stephen Pinker has similar ideas.

These deep and complicated thoughts are vindicated by the most cutting-late research in Theoretical Quantum Physics about the Big Bang and Quantum Gravity. What surprised me was that if Einstien's general theory of Relativity is true (it is not) then the universe was infinitely energetic at the beginning and there was no laws or time. All was truly one, and perhaps, as Scott "Dilbert" Adams suggests, the current cosmos is but the debris of the body of some great and incomprehensible One. Eintsien believed in Spinoza's God.

The Illuminatus! Trilogy is the greatest literature ever made. I am slowly becoming a cyber-mystic Discordian-Taoist I think... wish me luck!

>>8790572
*BRRRAAAAPPPPP*

include me in the screencap

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>>8790538
I haven't read his books, but Sam Harris writes about this theme a lot in his literature.

ITT: OP tries to reach the truth with no results

I hate people like you.

>>8790538

This is a pretty disturbing simulacrum of the kind of guy I was in high school.

>>8790521
Of course not. That's why nobody involved in the process of writing or reading those books has ever made such a claim. In fact, the only person stupid enough to ask such an idiotic question is you.

>>8790521
They're not literature, they're book kino.

>>8790521
Yes. It is a printed work on a page.. Guys like>>8790535
are just smug belligerent dipshits who have nothing in life if not their sense of superiority because they've stared at symbols on paper for so long. Don't worry though. He's going to die alone and rot in the same ground as all of us cretins who may have different or less schooling.

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>>8790517
subversiveness requires context. it's hard to think of "a most subversive book" without some idea of what is actually being subverted in the first place. general mass-market subversiveness for the sake of subversion would be impossible. mass-market subversion today is simply called irony, and normie fuckfaces love pseudoirony because it hides the fact that culture is intellectually bankrupt and it should all be set on fire. mass irony is for pseuds. it is now the norm

anarchy is a meme. irony is a meme. subversion is a meme. everything is a meme. there is nothing left to subvert. try not to add any more toxic garbage to the universe in the spectacularly brief period of time in which you are conscious of your own existence. minimize your ideological footprint. be evanescent and dissipate. that sounds subversive to me desu

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>>8790589

Can't really say I agree with you, but I'm interested in being educated.

Pic related is something I currently find interesting. I was also thinking something along the lines of The Conspiracy Against the Human Race and Derrick Jensen's Endgame, and maybe Alan Watts.

Also interested in the opposite end of all spectrum, I'd like to be exposed to all forms of extreme.

>>8790517
thoreau

have you read any latin poetry?

Some Catullus, but didn't analyse it. Does it show that badly?

>>8790487
Is there any benefit of learning latin? Do you appreciate the Aeneid better?

>>8790486
Creation by Gore Vidal

>>8790496
wasn't expecting such a hole in one in the first post

thanks mate, never heard of it before and it looks really good

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>>8790486

>>8790385
Oedipus is a very good start,after that read Antigone,the story of his daughter

Are greek tragedies /lit/? No mate, they're shounen manga tier.

>>8790434
thank you

Oh do give it a rest. Trolling isn't worth that much effort for what little response you get.

>>8790380
I'm looking for sincere answers and discussion.

>>8790382
Try pottermore then. Off you trot now.

Hurray, this thread again. No OP, it doesn't make you seem desperate, and needing affirmation from others.

https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S8726840

Please come up with something new next time. Sage and reported.

>consistently top 2
>not competitive
pick 1

Even Nabokov admitted that Russian literature was dead by the 20th century. America at least has notable, if not great, writers from the previous century and the current one.

I've read an awful lot of Hamsun's work this year. My favourites being Growth of the Soil and Victoria.
To the Lighthouse has also been one of the most memorable reads of the year for me.

>>8790331
Did you read Hunger? I particularly enjoyed that one - I haven't tried Victoria yet, will have to give that one a try.

>>8790339
Yes, but I didn't like it as much as his later work. Really potent as far as characterization goes, and I can see the enormous influence it must have had to modernist writers after him, but his prose is really not at his brightest in Hunger.
Victoria is really short, heart-wrenching and profoundly lyrical. It's one of the few books that has made me literally cry halfway in. Definetly recommend it, even more when you can read it in an afternoon.

>>8790250

I read the Bible and the Koran with the respective companions and I'd recommend that, I can't answer for philosophy texts though.

>>8790250
i dont know, but fuck off with this ken bone shit it sucks

>>8790250
Cambridge companions are fine enough. They can be quite biased, but that in itself isn't the worst thing ever. But
>buying books
LOLLL welcome to fucking 2016 nearly 2017 you stupid ken bone faggot.

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>jerked off and got cum on my hands then made a peanut butter sandwich and ate it without washing up

>>8790012
>2017 was 16 years ago

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>fucked off most of the year now reading 2-3 books a week to make up for it