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>>9935434
How are you interpreting it?

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>>9936613
The way I grasp it, knowlege has a transient quality and shouldn't be fatalistically tied to truth, because that would imply that people who deal with knowledge cannot err. But isn't infallibility a requirement of true knowledge?
Maybe I'm a brainlet.

>>9935292
>he's literally named chad

next

so no one has read this book?

>>9935266
He was the Chad of Chads

>>9935266
Nah, being a demigod means you can just flex your muscles and force rivers to move for you. You want cleverness, stick with Odysseus.

>>9935266
It's not hard to tell why Hamlet considers him is opposite. Hercules definitely banged more chicks though.

>>9935262

America is a book I love and actually one of my favorites, but then again I like the whole French-writer-takes-on-the-U.S.-sort-of thing (like Tocqueville)

you can't say where he would hypothetically have ended up but the dominate ideas were obviously quite different than 19th century manchesterian liberalism

philosophically he would have to tackle logical positivism instead of german idealism, classical economics was history and the dominate economic ideology was marginal utility, and the political issues were radically different since orthodox liberalism was dead and you had mixed-economies but it still would all boil down to all history is class struggle, etc, etc

the meme manifesto

>>9945088
Never! If the soul exists, it's only a different kind of body

>>9945088
When none of the other explanations made any sense

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>>9945092
How come? Elaborate senpai

>>9945095
Will they ever tho? I wonder if it's only a matter of scientific development till something of a mind/soul could be identified, since science in itself is a formal logic process, it is a method and pertain to res extensa

eat shit

>>9935203
Discord is for redditors. Maybe ask /r/books

maul suck a dick you fat fucking cunt

you'll grow out of it. human minds have evolved to adapt. face yourself.

>>9945047
>What is the point of our existence
Hahahahahahahaha How The Fuck Are Existential Crises Real Hahahaha Nigga Just Smoke DMT Like Nigga Hit The Bong Haha

>>9945047

You'll get over it. Especially if you have kids. And maybe find a hobby man, and chill out. Enjoy this thing, whatever it is.

There's differences between editions but unless you're an academic or a tryhard they don't really matter. There is no definitive text.

Enjoy it anon, it really does live up to the memes

Unless it's containing a poor translation editions dont matter at all. Unless you're into collecting

It's an English book. You will probably read it once and leave it on a shelf

I buy used books for $5 that are whatever edition, doesn't matter for non translations

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What was his fucking problem

>>9935168
Just read Palahniuk.

>>9935214

Literally what

>>9935168

Didion is fantastic and, to me, underappreciated. She had an obvious influence on BEE (particularly with the fantastic and minimal Play It As It Lays). Her non-fiction is superb, too: I liked Slouching Towards Bethlehem and The White Album and then after those you can go to The Year of Magical Thinking

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The two characteristics that really distinguish Didion are her wit and her uncanny observation. She writes concise, beautiful non-fiction, and perspicacious fiction (though I personally far prefer the former). Anon already mentioned Sloudhing Toward Bethlehem. If that doesn't get you into her, I would not recommend continuing. If you enjoy StB, give After Henry a go. That is her best essay collection, in my opinion. If you want to read some of her essays standalone in order to sample her writing and determine if you want to continue, "On Keeping a Journal", "On Self-Respect", "Where I Was From" (a reflection on growing up in and being shaped by California), and "In The Realm of the Fisher King" (a takedown of the Reagan administration) are great pieces with which to begin.

For her fiction, "Run, River" is as good as any.

Happy reading.

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Shitposting is the anime of 4chan.

>>9935092
Anime is the shitposting of America

>>9935079
>Cantonese
Any reason you list this but not Mandarin? I'm not well versed on the state of contemporary Chinese lit but I have to assume the Cantonese market is much smaller.
Anyway, one thing you would want to keep in mind (and I know that this sounds obvious but still): some languages are much easier to learn than others. Assuming your native language is English, any of the Indo-European languages on your list would be much easier to learn than Arabic or Japanese. With dedicated study (i.e. a few hours a day, every day, and a teacher or friend you can speak the language with) you could be reading German very comfortably in under a year. Not Nietzsche, but well-respected novels would be within your grasp, for example.

Learn French.

You know English and you've studied Latin. This means French will be fairly intuitive and you also can easily branch out to Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.

>>9935079
Classical Chinese. There are probably tons more Chinese Classics than Latin Classics because of how much they valued keeping historical records. It's to the point where their academic have yet to analyze all of it, and there are still works being unearthed.

But, if you're focusing on contemporary lit, then probably Japanese.

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>>9935055
Learning as in doing it? Hertzberger Lessons in Architecture, Francis DK Ching, Neufert for quick reference. That's the rice and beans, then you might want some theory, so find out who your favorites are and go through their influences, a lot of architects have written at some point.

Protip go strait to rem koolhaas, great read not only as architecture but as literature, graphic design tour de force, sociology and so on

Something else entirely would be christopher alexander's Pattern Language, but it might be a bit too much for a start

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I liked TSWF more out of these two.

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They're about equally "enjoyable," AP is better, Corrections is more fun.

>>9935014
>not posting the whole trilogy

Bob Dylan's 115th Dream

Why not both?

But I am a manlet

>>9944869
This.