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>>8750331
Wow man, you're really funny! Keep up the great job and keep posting these interesting threads on /lit/!

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>>8750331
>best writer in russian
>best writer in english

Nabokov fucking sucks and is a bloated fucker in terms of writing and appearance

>>8750248
Norm MacDonald Based on a True Story: A Memoir

>>8750248
Catch-22

Rabbit run? JR?

Oh shut up. Ted was a fucking pussy that would literally go into the fetal position and whimper when something didn't go his way. He was a big faggot angry at the world for his general impotence and took it out on others with the first excuse he could think of.

His bombs were pretty shit, too, half of them didn't work. He was also super butthurt when the Oklahoma City bombing happened because all the news outlets said that Tim McVeigh was way better than him.

>>8750215
>deliberately choosing to live a more difficult life than necessary

look at me im a truth martyr

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>>8750260

>>8750147

It's three syllables:
ore neh ree

Burger here from the upper midwest. Usually it's two, "orn'ry" but I've heard it pronounced with three as well, "or-ner-y"

>>8750177
>Usually it's two, "orn'ry"

I wouldn't say this is typical usage. That would have to be some kind of vernacular in your region.

"Ornery" is most definitely three syllables. Consult any dictionary.

The word is just a corruption of "ordinary." I don't frankly know how it came into usage.

2666 is really fucked up, but in a different way from the tunnel ofc
Interested in this thread

>>8750041
Pretty much very Roberto Arlt book is fucked up

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>>8750041
that's not the right tunnel

>>8750025
jokes on (You), I'm supposed to be writing a 5-7min speech on space exploration funding but I'm instead working on my fan fiction and waiting for my dollar pizza to finish heating

can't you just go up and fall asleep for 3.5 minutes?

Just read the sleep wikipedia article

>Ouija

Did you all know that Nabokov couldn't spell either? ( I only learned how to spell Nabokov after someone pointed that I misspelt his name)

>>8749972
Man in the high castle already did thaf

>>8750113
A decent amount of dick did

George Boole - The Laws of Thought
Brandon Webb - The red circle
Stephen Pressfield - Turning Pro
David Data - The way of the superior man
The Flinch ( can't remember author )
Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged

the gregs

The hungry caterpillar

It's piqued. Otherwise, they're both clumsy sentences.

He had never planned to visit the garden, though others whispered of experience too grand for him to stay away.

>>8750072
Why is the "had" even there?

>>8750000
Yea you're right on that. I also don't see what's clumsy about the sentence

>>8749842
We won't know if we're good until we're dead.

>>8749842

Break your overall task down into small, manageable goals, and work on one of them
The demon of impostor syndrome leads to something vulnerable and, paradoxically, genuine

Do you mean "crippling psychological flaw" demons, or "get me a priest" demons?

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what are you then

>>8749787
a bisexual junky postmodernist

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>>8749780
Materialism is wrong for a couple of reasons.
Foremost, you are considering reality as if it were abject from experience. This is both an ontological error and an empirical error. It is an ontological error because it puts epistemology prior to metaphysics, saying that matter alone exists and that form is superfluous. It is an empirical error because empirically speaking all matter is uniform, and all notions of proximity, qualia, and differentials are not materially present but rather exist only within the mind as some function of entropy to give partition to matter; without it there would be no qualitative difference between 1 cubit and 2 cubit, and by extension no qualitative difference between being and non-being, meaning that for all intents and purposes nothing would exist.
But things do exist.
Therefor, anything which is known is real, and since mental formulations and conceptual knowledge and such are known, then they are also real.
But mental formulations are not material.
>But muh brain electrons n shiet
The fact that consciousness and other mental constructs are the product of the natural operation of unconscious matter does not by necessity mean that those things are themselves unconscious matter, for there is no direct material instantiation of love or of other things in the intellect, which is why in mathematics there is no formula circumscribing love and such things seeing as mathematics is abstraction from matter, further proof that mental constructs are not material despite having existence.
The way in which a thing exists in the mind is different from the way in which it exists materially, and this is causing perpetual incommensurability between conscious things and unconscious matter. Because in conscious things perception is different from being, so that it appears to us as if we are outside of the universe looking in, or perhaps we are a kind of interiority always peering out. In any case, it is plain that we know things that don't exist, which become real in participation of the consciousness of the knower.
This is called the notion of knowledge via connaturality or inclination.
In the same way, we, and all existent things by us, obtain existence by means of participation in the underlying principle of existence which is God.
God is called pure love because his knowing us is a self-imparting act by metaphysical necessity, and in knowing us he brings us into being, and since being is convertible with good all good is from God and all that is created is good ultimately speaking.

woah wtf? wachowskis are straight up avantgarde shit

>>8749790
..no they fucking aren't.

>>8749820
they are 21st century avantgarde not the oldschool stuff like brakhage or parajanov.

>>8749736
read his work and youll find out! constantly on a mad one.

>>8749771
>constantly on a mad one.

What did he mean by this?

>>8749945
Kierky indulged in the finer things in life; LSD, cannabis and opiates to name a few

No. Pretty much what happens in Blood Meridian.
>inb4 le corncob writer xDDDDD
>Sacrificing yourself for an ideal
lol

Huh. I might actually buy this now. Thanks.

>/v/ is literally upset that a protagonist dies at the end

It's a good thing intellectual novels are like kryptonite to videogame-playing degenerates or else the suicide rates of male virgins aged 18-40 would skyrocket.

>Wahhh why aren't my anime characters living happily ever after with sunshines and lollipops wahhh

"Oh, my God!"

I will not have his candidacy for royalty ignored.

Nigga it's my favorite book

>>8749703
overrated