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useless buzzword

Cultural Marxist hogwash.

nobody cares

learning subjects to make youtube videos about

>>8686523
there is only that which is entertainment and that which is not

>>8686622
everything is a type of drug

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Follow the chart, bruh! Shit is so cash.

>>8686515
I guess ill give Nietzsche a try, I was planning on it anyway because I've read a lot into Schopenhauer. Never heard of Julius Evola though and from looking him up he seems like someone i could be interested in.

>>8686515
Suicide seems like the best route.

so i was meditating when this came to me. i ran and wrote it down in about 5 minutes. don't know where it came from

>>8686410
10/10 write more and get them printed desu.

meditation elevates your couscousness

sure

>>8686368
I read The Left Hand of Darkness. It's technically well written and the worldbuilding is good but it's extremely dull, because of the deliberate choice to have no real protagonist. There's a main character but his job is to be a passive observer. The only time he actively makes decisions is during the snow crossing scene, which is the only entertaining part of the book. I suspect it's intentional feminist propaganda that the only male character is so weak.

>>8686918
Would you recommend anymore of Le Guin's work instead then?

>>8686349
Cormac McCarthy comes to mind, he has a few western novels.
Blood Meridian is the famous one everyone loves, but it's pretty violent and might be a bit hard to follow, though I doubt he will get lost or anything.
It is a "serious" book though, like one some people would read in college, so I don't know.
You should get him an audible membership, they have a large selection with categories, like westerns.

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>>8686349
The Great Gatsby was my favorite audio book so i'd recommend that.

Also like other anon, McCathy would probably make for good audio books. Just make sure you buy him shit he'll like and you know him best

Hemingway also comes to mind. I figure dad's like that.

>TFW your dad is probably going insane and choosesnot to fix his car radio and listens to silence for the 4 hours or more that he spends in the car every working day

>>8686396
>listens to silence for the 4 hours or more that he spends in the car every working day

what's wrong with it?

listening to stuff is very annoying, regardless if it's music or something
i personally don't even have speakers on my pc and use headphones pretty rarely, sometimes not even once per a week
i don't drive currently but when i did i did it almost always in silence

What's your opinion on the matter, OP?

>>8686310
ian mckellen as faggoty old walt whitman when?

It's basically the Seinfeld of literature.

Good for young girls I guess.

Shoves everything the Internet made obsolete about post modernism up my ass. And I don't really like it.

He's one of the few that /lit/ can usually agree on, except for the occasional edgelord.

What the fuck is this?

>>8686215
this is writers 101:
step 1:
GO FUCKING CRAZY
step 2:
WRITE YOUR FANTASIES DOWN AND PRETEND YOU DONT WANT TO DO IT WHEN PEOPLE READ IT.

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>>8686222
>>8686199
>on a roll.
anyway, my canon takes place in a realm called the land of dae, which exists in a horizontal slice of infinity, centering around an isnland which contains the typical races: humans, elves, dwarves, and fairies.

humans, fairies, elves, and the dwarf king control all of reality with their magic libraries, which contain all of reality, which somehow works, probably because of tangential realities.

humans are ruled over by the sun king, and his children, who are not immortal exact, but live for thousands[the meakest gods] to eternity itself [the sun king]

dwarves are made of stone. they can be created by shoving life-energy into a stone and creating an egg, or a dwarf using some of their own stone as a basis for a new body that they can control as if it were there own, or by impressing a tulpa into it and making it autonimous.

fairies are demons that do not really have physical form, and so can shapeshift and teleport

elves normally age about 10X the speed of humans, but when they fall in love they stop aging entirely, the only true immortals proper, they have computers which contain all possible knowledge, which they can plug their brain into to learn anything.

i think about using them constantly, in every way i can. i might in fact, when i get there, just pretend that i am the origination of all reality and avoid utilizing any other sources of information and just create every possible creation.

I can think of two reasons off the top of my head:

1) Given the length of the average postmodern canonical work (the "postmodern tome"), we're more attached to the characters when crazy shit happens.

2) Given the heavy amount of irony embedded in postmodern works, when violence starts being taken seriously it catches us off-guard and disturbs that much more.

>>8686187
almost transparent blue had some shit like that
i dont remember that whole book left me nauseous

Horror writers are hacks, and the entire genre is a forewarning that detracts from the shock value of grotesque or scary events.

>>8686161

Crab posters are cancer

>>8686161
Infinite Jest is a good book

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>>8686089
The only reason for why I haven't killed myself

Baby, don't hurt me.

>>8686036
>write lofty works to sow the seeds for rebellion among petit bourgeoisie
>distribute pamphlets to peasants and working class

Marxism advocates for education for all which appeals to those who can't read because they know they should be able to. Not like the movement didn't have speakers who would explain that

>>8686049
Yeah, because you're average person gives a fuck about politics.

>>8686055
yeah, the average person kinda does, when it pertains to them.

Not all countries are shitholes like the US

I just read it as an exploration of how the context of a work affects its interpretation and analysis. Both versions of Don Quixote are identical but the context is different, so Borges analyses each of them as though they are completely distinct works.

My favourite is either The Library of Babel or Funes the Memorious. I also thought Three Versions of Judas was really great and underrated

>>8686020
It's all repetition my man
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/deleuze/#DifRep

>>8685939
Foucault's Pendulum.