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>>8763063
Just now, reading your post. Fucking blew my mind. Guess I hate Orwell now. FUCK LEFTISM

>>8763065
Literally me

>>8763063
I mean he was born in India and was part of the Burmese police force. I think he was just one of those people that sees adventure in the "mud". Though he was a socialist, he was super anti-communist so idk how to really feel about that one...

It's just a marketing term you elitist sperglord

It's only curious how we have evolved from a world without teenagers to a world without adults. And we I say "curious" I mean "horrifying"

>>8762778
Why do shitty YA books always get shitty covers?

The seven seas edition

>>8762744
>The seven seas edition
Thanks but I'm looking for something that doesn't make me want to kill myself! Other recommendations?

I've read a bunch of his short stories and they're extremely good in creating and containing mood but the endings in the stories tend to fall flat leaving me a bit dissapointed a bit too often.

>>8762705
They are, they just require patience and effort. He is not casual reading, and his long descriptions are some of the finest in setting tone and atmosphere in the genre.

>>8762705
>full of massive descriptions but little action, making them tedious to read
At face value, yes. But he makes up for this in atmosphere, existentialist terror, and general uniqueness.

>>8762522
This doesn't make any fucking sense.

>>8762522
Go home, Aldous Huxley, you are drunk

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>>8762613
> hasn't read it

Real life ain't about happy endin's

>>8762306
it's cuz life don't got a happy ending, kid

There is "literary fiction" (whatever that means) with happy endings.

he was always paranoid that he didn't wash all the jizz out of his beard which made him extremely self-concious

Angry that poets are no longer hailed as the masters of language. and worshiped the way rappers are today.

Cheer up, Chip. Maybe Jodorowsky will make a film out of "Hogg".

>>8762353
What's that?

yes. jail him immediately.

maybe he inspired the big H's love for animals

>>8762176
The difference between individualists like Nietzsche, Stirner, others, and people/philosophers/thinkers who are concerned with the relative practicalities of the historical project of """collective""" civilization/community/politics.

Everyones dumb, leave me alone and let me live in peace vs. I seek a powerful position in society because I can help steer it into a better direction. Perhaps Nietzsche thought he or his ideas could do that, but his ideas certainly werent as 'unifying' as, lets say, someone like Hitler.

/lit/, pls

>>8762139
Einstein should have stuck with physics

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>>8762207
Good one, anon!

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And why is yuri the purest form of love?

No, love isn't a meme but it's usually the best when being nothing more of a side-note than the main focus, such as in Dostoevsky's The Idiot. And it's usually het and not above evoking emotions of cucking and jealousy, which is present within every relationship no matter how hard people try to ignore it

And as a general rule-of-thumb people who are into yuri are some of the most insufferable people I know who often associate themselves with bottom-of-the-barrel ironic and post-ironic memes. No offense to you, but save yourself before it's too late

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>>8762154
>mfw he describes every yuri fag accurately

I used to be that way now I'm a husk of a man.

But thank you for the insight, it's truly appreciated. I'll read the idiot soon.

>>8762116
>>8762116
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Back to fucking /v/ /v/ermin.

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>>8762140
I am totally unappreciated in my time. You can run this whole park from this room with minimal staff for up to 3 days. You think that kind of automation is easy? Or cheap? You know anybody who can network 8 connection machines and debug 2 million lines of code for what I bid for this job? Because if he can I'd like to see him try.

>>8761975
>how the fuck did they get away with it?

People don't read, thus it's novel

This movie looks incredibly boring though

>>8761987

But Slaughterhouse Five is entry level normielit

>>8761975
It is literally based on

"The story of your life"

I discovered this when someone brought up the movie in my logic class and i said it sounded like said story. I didn't know much about the movie, and I spoiled the end of the book.

Everyone in the class hates me now, professor included.

Don't repeat my mistake, do your research.

>>8761831
Dubliners.

>>8761831
Doesn't matter. Read both then read Ulysses.

Memeigans wake can be skipped. Or just keep it in your bathroom and open at random and read a page or 2 while you take a dump.

You have to read his personal select letters first to understand his live of being a peasant potatoe nigger.

Critiques of "modernity" from both left and right are often implicitly critiques of capitalism, democracy, liberalism, secularism, etc., either as conjoined phenomena or aspects of the same unified phenomenon. Capitalism is a newer analytical framework, obviously, and disdain for democracy and mediocrity are as ancient as Western political thought. Plato explicitly says that democracy is a degenerative state into irresponsible "mass" consciousness and eventually tyranny. Much of Western political thought has been implicitly elitist and anti-democratic until very recently.

Ortega y Gasset's Revolt of the Masses

Evola's Revolt Against the Modern World

Nietzsche in general
http://www.uta.edu/huma/illuminations/kell22.htm

Heidegger in general

Adorno in general

Kierkegaard on the "massing of society" in Either/Or

Christopher Lasch

Baudrillard in some writings

Lots more

>>8761824
>Mass media, reification, ideology, alienation, etc

Huh did we really vote for these things? Must have overslept that day

>>8761824
>Hey /lit/ do you know if anyone wrote an entire book about this retarded idea I'd like to make myself believe in?

That's an embarrassing amount of embellishment.

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>>8761814
for u

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>>8761814