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>>8771610
You cannot, give up.

Read. Practice. Fail. Repeat until you succeed or just fail forever.

>>8771610
Be born with a 200+ IQ and a mind specifically equipped for creativity, then self destruct with drugs and alcohol. Some time in that process a masterpiece will show up.

Either that or you'll die. One of those.

Get a copy of the Republic and the Metaphysics and read those before reading The Cave and the Light.

Always read the primary sources first, so left.

>>8771588
>starting with the republic

Stop spouting rubbish advice.

>>8771524
>is a nihilist
>doesn't know why he is depressed

>>8771524
Ah, the laziest form of philosophy. Let me know when you've developed a thought on the world that doesn't essentially devolve to "It doesn't matter anyway."

>>8771548
What thought doesn't?

>>8771497
He's getting divorced :(

>>8771497
>he has a library

What a pathetic pseud

>>8771537

ah, the illiterate from the zizek thread. who would have thought that being unable to read a basic sentence would be complemented by an unoriginal polemic imagination propped up by a simpleton's vocabulary. stop saying pseud: it makes it too easy for me to shit on you.

mann's a GOAT

personal fav is doctor faustus

some of his short stories are a bit on the nose. buddenbrooks is really good but it's a "lesser" version of magic mountain

death is venice is comfy af.

he has a strong claim to be german writer but i think he would place himself below goethe. easily top 3, way above kafka

>>8771439
Can you explain what you mean by Buddenbrooks being a lesser Magic Mountain?

I've read the Magic Mountain and am now halfway into the Buddenbrooks, but don't see a lot of connections there.

>best
I'm going with Joseph and his Brothers. I'd rank the Magic Mountain above Buddenbrooks too, but they're both monumentally good novels.
>worst
Haven't read everything by him, so I wouldn't know. I enjoyed Lotte in Weimar the least of everything I've read.

>best German writer
No, that's Musil.

>Kids having sex
Love it.

how are we still having these threads holy shit

the part with the baby cannibalism was great

Plato

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>>8771254
You can thank me later.

>>8771462
kys tripfag.
but yeah, start with the greeks

>>8771249
Also,
Brave New World - Alduous Huxley
Dune - Frank Herbert

>>8771249
I have never heard anyone mention anything to me about Celine offline. The rest constitute Just Enough Literature to Get Laid, yes.

The only women I know who would fuck me based on what books I'm reading are not the women I want to be having sex with in the first place.

>>8771232
Cinema is much better than literature in general

>>8771240
its certainly interesting opinion, why do you think so? Do you mean novels or also philosophy and poetry?

>>8771232
tell me some french movies to watch and ill get back to you

journey and DOTIP were both quite good though i felt i consoled in their philosophy in my earlier years much more,, now i can only feel sad for someone with such a pessimistic view

>>8771159
My diary desu

>>8771159
my diary, desu

The Sprawl Trilogy, Snow Crash, and the Mirrorshades anthology

>>8771144
zizek is such a pseud, it's probably all bullshit

>>8771144
Link to the Zizek text?
You've peaked my interest as well - though I'm not particularly knowledgeable on music.

>>8771144
SLAYAAAAAAARRRRGHHHH

>>8770960
this is a garbage thread, undergrad, and we're not helping you with your marxist professors PURE IDOLOGY assignment

>>8771004
Does this question not beg the curiosity of anyone else willing to entertain the notion that cultural hegemony or hegemony in general is at something that exists?

I don't believe it does, and it baffles me how it COULD, how the hell can the rich and powerful even CONTROL something like public opinion? How does it work?

I mean, in the modern world.

wow buddy sounds pretty edgy! are you ready for finals? you first semester can be tough, maybe you should study for school instead of being an edgylord...

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>caymus

>>8770745

>GO-Dot

:^)

>Go-tee

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Don't know if this fits here, but it was definitely an interesting read
Especially the stuff on how people used to think about music, for example on the tierce on a scale, someone in early medieval times wrote that when played a major C scale C-D-E, the tierce has a urging, masculine form that wants to go forwards towards F#, but the C minor scale's tierce E has a fearful, feminine form that wants to go back to D (no pun intended)
But it really feels like the major tierce pushes you forwards, encourages you to play the higher note, whilst the minor tierce feels attracted to the note played before.
I had never thought that certain musical components would have their own preferences

>>8770303
You sold it to me quite nicely, anyone learning notes here?

>>8770218

Boethius - De Musica
Burgess - This Man and Music

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>>8770173
I made one just for you based off of a book I read thanks to /lit/

Post the template, lad.