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It all comes from not being able to respect each other and, to an extent, yourself.

Both have their issues, analytical philosophers often are autists and continentals often wrap up bullshit in flowery language.

Because tribalism. It's why 4chan hates reddit, repubs hate dems, etc. It's this retarded reptilian-brain compulsion that most people are way too mentally cucked to recognize in themselves

>>8730185
focus on the car with the face in the background

>>8730185
The spiral of depression would be a nice addition.

Talk about the word "equivocators"

>>8730158
Show your total immersion into the material by speaking in your worst scottish accent for at least six months.

>>8730158
Cold-resistance training with your privates

BIG

>>8730123
>read all of his books
>all three are fantastic brutal reads
>join his facebook to keep an eye on his upcoming fantasy series involving pirates in a fantasy based Malian kingdom
>constant stream of leftist victim sjw shit

Disappointment was intense. He does like The Witch tho

>>8730160
I like him a lot, but what else were you expecting senpai?

Creating Personal Presence
Look, Talk, Think, and Act Like a Leader

....The Prince...

Reflections on Violence

>>8730084
Those 180 pages are part of "all literature combined", so I doubt it.

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>>8730084
its a good book no doubt, but gatsby wasn't the first gatsby

>>8730084
It really sucks that it gets horned in with "high school lit" it's really very incredible, the most American novel probably

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>>8730009
yup

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are you even a millenial bro?

Why the fuck are you reading fiction at all then, degenerate?

Should probably stick to non-fiction, friend.

>>8729998
>>8730000
Some girl in class said I remind her of Martin Eden. She was cute so I asked who that was and she recommended me this book called Martin Eden. Wow, really creative title. Self-titled novel, great. So I read like 100 pages of this thing and had to give up. Like, what is the point? The author is some dead white guy from like a thousand years ago. It just goes on and on about how he wants to be a writer and how he doesn't fit in with rich people since he's a sailor and all. A real blowhard type guy too, not the kind I want to be reading about. There was a fight scene with the main character but the author doesn't even write about it since it happens before the book starts. Like dude, you should friggin *started* with that scene. Jeez. Anyway it's just really boring, I don't understand why people read that stuff. I gave the girl her book back and told her it was great, thanks. She didn't seem to understand that I was joking so she now thinks I'm super into made-up novels, which I'm just not. So we have this day on Thursday and I just know she is going to spend the entire time talking about how great some book was and I'm going to be bored the entire time until I make my move. Just saw that 4chan had a literature blog and wanted to ask why the heck you guys bother to waste your time on stuff you know already. Like what facts do I learn from reading Martin Eden? It's just entertainment and it's not even entertaining. /rant

1. dead
2. a way for mediocre academics who are too dumb for math/physics to seem sophisticated through obscurantism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5fY39vsjmU

cool

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>>8729943
The only way to write. Intelligent, nihilistic and a Wicked Sense of Humor.

All style and no substance?

Murakami

>>8729912
"CRASH! We adopted a golden retriever!"

PAAAAAAAARP!

>>8729897
Camus is full of shit, this isn't news

>>8729897
>>8729918

>missing the point this hard

it's irrelevant whether Sisyphus is actually happy or not, camus is saying that *we* should *imagine* him happy regardless

>>8729942
"Be a cuck"
-Albert Camus

>inb4 someone thinks this is bait

OP here. It's not. I'm genuinely curious. I've read some Foucault and want to get into Philosophy.

>>8729885

If that's the extent of your knowledge of philosophy, then you're probably not ready.

>>8729879
Does the phrase Being in itself make any sense to you? If not dont bother. This would be a weird place to start reading philosophy. Anyway sartre is only useful for plays and short stories, not real philosophy.

King Lear probably

but Interviews with Hideous Men gave me the biggest boner so that deserves an honorable mention

>>8729856
Mason & Dixon. The ending (and just the fact that it was over) depressed the hell out of me.

War and War by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, one of the strangest books I've ever read. I can safely say I didn't understand at least half of it and what the fuck was even happening with the manuscript frame narrative thing but by the end it made me feel like absolute shit. It was so painful to read for me that I would find any excuse not to pick it up and read it so I read like 3 other books simultaneously before I could finish it. Also >Looking for the website on the internet and realising everything he did or suffered through, his great work, his death, his legacy, all went to shit

>>8729820
Lin Yutang

>If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live

>Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials

...obviously following in a tradition from Laozi and Zhuangzi

>>8729820
Steinbeck waxed praise for his NEET character Mack in Cannery Row. There's a paragraph in there somewhere where he calls laziness a virtue, iirc.
Mack "could of [sic] been president if he wanted to be" but fuck that when you can live off other people's work.

Once, when Chuang Tzu was fishing in the P'u river, the king of Ch'u sent two officials to go and announce to him: "I would like to trouble you with the administration of my realm."

Chuang Tzu held onto the fishing pole and, without turning his head, said, "I have heard that there is a sacred tortoise in Ch'u that has been dead for three thousand years. The king keeps it wrapped in cloth and boxed, and stores it in the ancestral temple. Now would this tortoise rather be dead and have its bones left behind and honored? Or would it rather be alive and dragging its tail in the mud?"

"It would rather be alive dragging its tail in the mud," said the two officials.

Chuang Tzu said, "Go away! I'll drag my tail in the mud!"

>>8729805
>also, I want to distract my readers from my bad content.
typical prose stylist mindset.

Don't think it works like that. It's not about collecting the best words, Donald.

For a while try banning yourself from writing words you don't use in everyday conversation. Look for the musicality in ordinary words and try to make them flow.

>>8729839
how did you know my name?