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>>8766666
Damn, fuk u anon now I have to become an edgy /pol/ack

>>8766666
Fuckin' check'd.

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>>8766666

Which philosopher said "you can't learn to walk by forgetting how to crawl"?

>>8766482
In Whatever by Michel Hollaback, it is mentioned that Taxi drivers are often hesistant about giving pregnant women about to give birth a ride to the hospital, unless the drivers are cambodian.
Why? Do cambodians have some superstition related to birth, or is it implied that they're just nicer?

>>8766482
what works are essential to becoming a writer
in terms of things to learn not books to read from
>topics as in character, plot, prose, etc

>>8766079
>Are any of his books worth reading?
In fact, no.
>If I were to read just one, which should it be?
Can't advise any.
>Also, is his book on Buddhism any good?
Absolutely not.

>>8766079
I would suggest Ride the Tiger

For me Evola is hit or miss. He has some SERIOUS degenerate stuff, like harem and batshitcrazy sexual behavior, but this problem is minimized in Ride the Tiger.

oh wow, what a fucking moron. took the vedas and ruined them, apparently. got it all wrong. yes, we are in the Yuga. your job is to REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE AND KEEP YOUR HEART PURE. nothing else. this guy was so fucking lost its not funny. so close, and yet so far away.

>>8765504
Pictured:
The Greek Passion
Death And The Dervish
The Silent Cry
Nip The Buds, Shoot The Kids
The Painted Birds
Locos: A Comedy of Gestures
Cyclops
The Decameron
Willie Masters' Lonesome Wife
Inferno
Purgatorio
Paradiso
Group Portrait With Lady
The School for Atheists
Hiroshima

>>8765504
You fell for a marketing ploy lmao

normie

>>8765519
up the punx

Do I agree with his statement that he doesn't look up to anyone, has favourite people, doesn't emulate anybody, isn't fascinated by human achievements etc? I suppose. I don't have any reason to say he's lying about his own internal state.

>>8763764
No, I think it's stupid to have such an outlook on life.

>>8763802
I don't have an opinion on that, but OP was asking if we agreed with DFW that it was DFW's opinion. Obviously you do.

>>8760946
Probably a lot of Stephen King and Sam Harris

Why did the West invent the idea of the genius? To keep social order and quell revolutionary movements?

>>8760951
Wow this made me think

>>8756941

maintain a double major or minor depending on how far you are with course work. leaving that shit to fulfill elective credit requirements will be a huge waste to your resume presentation.

thats assuming you need that after your creative training but it doesnt hurt to have backups.

>>8756941
Same story here my friend, switched from CS to philosophy and maths, no regrets.

>>8756974
cs was not doing it for you too ?

>>8755430

The chapter with the bishop and the rats had me laughing fucking hard, other than that I didn't really like V

>>8755430
> is there any interperation of that? It's a grotesque passage.
I get your confusion about the rat, but you do not need an interpretation of the nose job

>>8755639
I don't know. Pynchon sure is a goofball.
But what's the meaning behind the rat? Why does he lead the bishopy?

>>8753225
Yeah, Tao Te Ching is a good start.
Although enlightenment through any form of literature is unlikely. (Why the "DIDNT THINK A THAT DIDJYA?" Posters are often confused by Eastern philosophy).

>>8753291

Its not enlightenment i'm looking for, but i want to see just how different the approach of the eastern part of the globe is to the western one, in regards to fundamental questions of the human, his relation to society, to politics, to his family, and so on.

>>8753225
Benjamin Schwartz, The World of Thought in Ancient China is a good starting point

>>8746000
Bad idea. You shouldn't have made a critique thread. You should be ashamed of yourself.

>>8746017
Why? is there one already up?

A Knew

A man drunk. He went in strokes. A shadow was on the glass, and the drink on the shadow, teeming in the light. A ring. He let himself stay. The casedrawer was drawn, the ices in lorgnon teeming.
‘What happened to your hand?’
‘A fight.’
His lame. It gave him an ache, the sun.
All about. Going here and there, most never arrived within his sight. On a catalyst.
‘You can’t keep up like this.’
A man drunk.
‘I know, I’m sorry.’
The berm was ill devised. His throat was warm with drink. Tippled, astir, the shopcases all a dim. There was pink, little else. He called him up. Neath a splintered pilaster, coming down to the telephoneclip. Some watched as they went. He placed his coins in the slot. Taking it by the ban. A ring. A dialtone.
He came to a path ran over the tributuary, like a crutch, teeming. A man found a bench and sat awhile. He would remain there all day.

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>>8744180
Naked Lunch.

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>>8744180

>>8744180
Forbidden Colors

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>>8725545
here's on I hope to revise soon
any pointers?

>>8725546
Seems weak to me, there are no memorable images, but the alliteration of the last stanza is pretty good even if the image is nothing special. Perhaps I say this because I am not used to read that kind of poetry, and what I have read I don't like very much.

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Posted this on the other thread, and a couple of Anons (to whom I am eternally grateful) offered some comments. Hopefully here more people will tell me what they think about it. Pic unrelated.

Were you to ask me now, I would not tell
The road I took to go from Primrose Hill.

Instead, I could tell you about its sky,
The blue behind the grey, the hasty clouds,
Impatient as the rain that came and went,
Announcing itself as it left the stage.

Indeed, I could tell you about the road,
The other one, that leads to Primrose Hill:
The riverside that outlines Camden Town
And extends the hubbub of its market;
Tunnels, bridges, graffiti on the walls,
And boats resting on water black from dirt.

And even more I could tell you: the church
In the corner of a street, made of stone,
Its frame as bible black as solid cloud.

And I could tell you about Primrose Hill:
The green darkness of the grass, moisty earth,
So soft it yields under the children’s feet
Yet budges not to hawthorn or foxglove,
Nor to the oak with the weight of the crows,
The shadows of its leaves, another cloud.
Nor to the Hill itself, whose mighty bulk
Supports the stony sky, and grants a view
Of London’s skyline, limiting the earth
To the perspective of the horizon.

And as it gently rains I hear the crows,
The roaring wind, the voice of William Blake,
The graveness of his tone recalls his talk
With the spiritéd sun at Primrose Hill.
Yet I remember not the sun, but night,
The night of New Year’s Eve, my first night here
In stranger’s land, among far stranger tongues.
But Primrose Hill distinguishes us not;
It shoulders all: the sky, the clouds, the rain,
Three hundred people there, a bench, myself.

But were you to ask me what road I took,
I wouldn’t tell, I could not tell, for I forgot.

>>8771570
Depressing literature, of course.

I don't see any Greeks in there pleb.

Garbage, all of it.

Forgot link: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/nov/26/the-non-western-books-that-every-student-should-read

>>8771496
Not the Mahfouz I would pick, but he's still a very solid choice. I can't speak to their other picks though

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>no Upanishads
>no Analects
>no Daodejing

>>8771236

Pretty sure that button refers to the programming language.

>>8771336

Or the Americans with Disabilities Act.

>>8771236
Ada or Ardor is one of my favourite books, if not my favourite. The flowery prose just has a way of getting in my head and engaging me like no other book ever has.

Ada's a shitty waifu though.