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Infinite Jest.

My diary desu

>>8691415
>Which writers do such a thing in untranslated English?

What do you mean untranslated English?

>>8691415

There are authors who could fit this, but for very different reasons
You could say this of Nabokov on the basis of the mellifluous flow of his phrasing
Joyce too, but for his intricate structures and use of different prose forms themselves to convey a message
Also Gaddis, for the compaction of his phrasing (this despite the length of some of his works) and his tight exploitation of assonance, repetition, and so on

>>8691415

Henry James

>>8691399
not as great as MY diary

>>8691402
yours is shit nigger fuck off

>>8691405
No my Dairy is by far the greatest

>them
What?
Also, double negative

Ah, so this is just a new stupid meme.

Like posting your stacks in the wrong orientation.

>>8691166
How is this a double negative?
It talks about 2 different things
The reason and who made them
Are you sure it's a double negative?

>>8691185
?

>>8691035
are you for real nigga

Haruhi Suzumiya

>>8691041
I am 100 percent for real

>>8690711
longer than it takes to check some fucking sweet dubs
Consider yourself checked friend

>>8690711

I read it in the summer between finishing high school and going to college, at my convenience. so three months.

>>8690711
3 weeks, at the end of summer.

>>8690696
Who's right?

>>8690702
Depends on the context. Blue unanimously represents depression. If he actually was depressed, I'd have to side with the English teacher on this one.

>>8690709
I agree, I'm just a bitter cunt over OP not knowing how to start a thread, let alone a shitpost thread.

>>8690626
just steal it from your closest uni

>>8690626
Just download it you whiny faggot

>>8690642
I did this. Booster bag it with tin foil and walk out like the champ you are.

Also check when the last time it was taken out was. Mine wasn't taken out for more than 15 years.

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Essential

This and the KJ Bible

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>>8690473
ffs

>book

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>>8690281

>>8690275
It's a manga just fucking read it. You can easily 'marathon' the entire saga in like 2 hours.

>>8690053
Shopping now, what's in the Hypersphere Deluxe edition?

Also, do we have a list of all /lit/-written books? There's another one on Lulu, but I know I've heard of at least 3-4 (i.e. not just mainstream trash like Hypersphere)

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>>8690100
Er, should have said what's *extra* in the deluxe edition?

>>8690918
soo 90sss aaaaa

>>8690018
meh.

>>8690018
Nah they're just a dumb reddit fad

>>8690018

Why did you think stoics should be capitalized?

i want to believe the Singularity is not just the Rapture of the Nerds, because it's based on the idea that computers can be used to improve computers - which is true; the design for the Apple Macintosh was assisted by a Cray supercomputer, and oddly enough the next generation Crays were partly designed using Macs.

whereas the Christian rapture is more of a revenge fantasy.

>>8689847
>Is singularity literature just repackaged Christianity for a society that is increasingly unequal and poor?
I don't think it are the really poor who think "This hardship will go away soon enough, the singularity will come soon. I believe it."

I speculate it is rather just something nerds believe in. People who play lots of futuristic video games, watch futuristic movies and enjoy technological gadgets.

But I have no idea really. All I can say is that the transhumanists I've talked to are naive and have a lack of erudition. Their seems an overlap with the kinds of Dawkins and Dennets, because transhumanists seem to be reductionists (think selfish gene).

They think that there's a single gene for stuff and that it is easy to genetically engineer humans. While the books I've been reading, some on evolutionary biology and genes (Eva Jablonka), others on systems science (Yaneer Bar Yam, Fritjof Capra), tells me it is much more complicated.

Systems science says that the whole cannot reduced to its parts (sorry can't explain it well, but know what it means). That applies to genes too. Heck the latest book I've read on systems science discussed genetically modified crops.

And guess what? Most genetically modified plants die, so you have to try out a bunch of stuff, so it doesn't. How the heck are we going to apply genetic engineering to humans?

I should probably read a textbook or add some scientific papers to the mix to be sure I am not the clueless one. But based on what I know now, I think it are the transhumanists who are clueless.

I think this naivity is potentially dangerous, and I do consider these nerds, not transhumanism itself, as an existional threat and cultural enemy if their fantasies would ever come true and the way they envision it.

Nerd culture itself, their ideas, their pure ideology and so on and so on, manifests itself into transhumanism. And I think that some of their ideas are wrong or I don't agree with.

I am making generalizations here, but that is what my overall association is with this singularity stuff. I am not even sure how much of an influence these nerds have on scientific developments that make their visions come true.

Super intelligence will come, it's inevitable. Where Kurtzweil is wrong is in thinking it will care for us at all. We will be ants to it.

The most sensible posthumanism is that of Nick Land.

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I have a feeling I'm going to be called a dumbass for admitting it. But this thing's impenetrable even after multiple reading. I had to follow the synopsis below to finally understand the plot.

http://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/rainbow.htm

>>8689707
>Also books you didn't get thread ,
There are no such books.

>>8689796
read slower

Pick random shit from /lit/ top 100, there's a 2016 edition somewhere

Also
>listened to pretty much everything from their "/mu/ essentials" chart and am pretty well antiquated with music
Kek'd. It's just the beginning.

>>8689613
>antiquated with music.
>antiquated
You're not ready for literature senpai.

>>8689613
>antiquated

my sides