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>>8760708
OMG IM SO OUTRAGED

WE NEED MORE PEOPLE IN HERE

GET IN HERE AND ENGAGE IN A CIRCLEJERK

MOBILIZE THE MASSES: SOMEONE GO TO REDDIT, ANOTHER TO FACEBOOK, AND ANOTHER TO TWITTER, AND FIND THINGS WE CAN GET OUTRAGED ABOUT AND POST IT HERE SO WE CAN VALIDATE EACH OTHER AND CONSTITUTE OUR IDEALIZED SELF-IMAGE

>>8760723
>its OK when fucking retards like people in OPs pic engage in furious circle jerking to the service of false nonsense
>if we call it out, were no better than them!!! We're actually the wrong people, guys!!!!

Stop

>>8760808
>yfw he did

>>8760668
What a hack

>>8760668
>>8760674
thread confirmed for absolute zero taste
shut it down

Try writing a paragraph of erotica like Lovecraft writes horror.

>>8760611
First post, best post :^)

>>8760611
>tfw to smart to only use words that other people thereput

>>8760611
Shakes made it work.
He invented words where they needed to be that served linguistic purpose, that's why theyre still used today. Like "assassin".
Joyce on the other hand just wanked for prose points

Oh, God, this is going to sound like a typical /lit/ response, but I find AdB quite insufferable: pretty much every bit of his output I've ever encountered has left me with the impression of irritating triteness masquerading as depth.

I'd really be interested to hear from anybody who finds him interesting, insightful, worthwhile, etc. Because personally, I've just never been able to see it.

>>8760596
De Botton, was for me, a very light intro into philosophy when I was younger, and actually inspired me to read the philosphers he talks about in the book.

>>8762359
However, the more I grew-up the more I became aware of what you said. He masquerades the lack of worthwhile content with overly decriptive and weird examples.

Basically it's extremely bias and diluted philosophy for dummies. But could be helpful when starting out.

Don't (ever) waste your time, with philosophy: go straight to the source text

>>8760584

His massive intellect.

my diary desu

readin stuff like nietzsche and goethe and schopenhauer

>>8760546
Know that feel. Fortress of Solitude - Jonathan Lethem. While the protagonist parents only play a big role in the first half of the novel I couldn't help but call them after reading this.

>>8760546
I love those rural town/futurism juxtaposition artworks

anyhow Crime and Punishment may give you mom feels.

There are better self-loathing books out there and with better prose and a non-meme covers

>>8761361
For example?

>>8761383
Mein Tagebuch by Ursprüngliches Plakat fagot

>>8760501
>fucking hell tfw can't tfw. everytime argbarglfarglfaflgr

>>8760501
the only rapper worth a damn now a days is Saul Williams.

>>8760501
>there is nothing quite like seeing a room full of people lose their shit over a metaphor
I unironically lose my shit over dank allegory

>I'm off the chain like broke nunchucks
got damn

It is good. The final section is the weakest. I like part one best.

I've gotten past the airborne toxic event, and now I feel like things have kind have fizzled out. I'll keep reading though.

i like it a lot. its funny

Since they are fact-averse and stupidly authoritarian – No, not really.

is that chuck tingle? i saw he got a write up the other day in everyone's favorite fake news source: the new york times

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>>8760417
There's no such thing as the "alt-right" its a journalist buzzword. What you want is a book on the nature of Fascism
I recommend this as a starter

>>8760392
>t. worthless virgin

>>>/r9k/

Catholic monks did not aspire for all men to be chaste nor did they condemn sex in general

>>8760392
There have actually been various sects who believed this and acted on it, the cathars are a good example, but there have been more recent ones.

>>8760389

autism and gay

depression

did u see a gay roman statue from his personal collection was up for auction a couple months ago at christies? usually when u look at the "provenance" section of the brochure it's just like "previous owner: some rich jewish guy no one heard of", but when i saw ludwig wittgenstein i was oh shit i know that nigga!

Write, you dumb fuck.

Write a short story
Then rewrtite again anda again and gain, each time using a different technique and words

>Write
>Read it, realize it's shit
>Repeat until satisfied.

>>8760244

He has to live with that droopy face

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>>8760244
>One of my principal memories is that I and my friends, just to survive, had constantly to fight street battles with neighborhood Irish toughs, some of whom were very much under the influence of a sort of Irish-American Nazi organization called the Silver Shirts. This was back in the 1930s. We were on the verge of an Irish neighborhood over there in the East Bronx. We lived in a Jewish neighborhood. On our border, somewhere around Southern Boulevard, an Irish neighborhood began, and they would raid us, and we would fight back. They were terrible street fights, involving broken bottles and baseball bats. They were very nasty times. I say this even though I’ve now grown up and find that many of my best friends are Irish.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVWiwd0P0c0
I don't know why /lit worships this idiot, Charlie Rose completely obliterated this crusty fool without even trying
>muh old things, not at all like the new things

>>8760196
>good and bad

spooky

>>8760200
no memezzz plz

either I am retarded for not getting it or this "aestheticism" is a joke and I was retarded enough to believe it.

:/