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>>8675962
I think that Stoner was implying a sort of nepotism between Lomax and Walker because Lomax identified with Walker's struggle as a disabled person with an inferiority complex, struggling socially, academically, emotionally. Lomax saw him as an extension of his past and didn't want Walker to drown like he did in order to find success in an environment where people around him would have an easier life with half the effort.

Stoner admired Lomax as a man. He didn't like the idea of Lomax having such a compromising weakness for a man in his position. It wasn't some under the table gay shit or anything sensationalist like that. Williams isn't a cheap hack.

I think Finch meant to say they aren't having a homosexual affair that would also be a conflict of interests.

>>8675990
Thats what I thought he was implying as well

Could it be Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace?

ooo too sad for me. Read comfy books, silly.

Start with the Greeks.

a scary tentacle

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>>8675709
he saw pic related

It can't be described in human language ;^)

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I take a fruit to have posted this thread

>>8675663

>might as well take the fruit to be a copy of the fruit-flavored candy

This ill-phrased """"sentence"""" invalidates any possibility of you having authority on language/literature

>muh pottery
Enjoy your ded """"""""art"""""""'''

>>8675596
Thermopolis, Wyoming

I hear LA is full of fake fucks with façades of depth.

>>8675603
Cliff thread?

I Stirnerpost without reading Stirner and jerked off to a Lee Child novel's sex scene once when I was a teenager.

Human garbage.

I have never finished a book but I discuss many of them here

>>8675566
What the fuck are you doing here you complete pseudo-intellectual?

my diary desu

>nihilist fiction

Serious answer: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion by Mishima. It's a good book and you should read it. If you're planning on reading Mishima's bibliography, make sure this book is one of the last books you read because it's one of his best.

Algernon Blackwood maybe?

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I have nothing else to recommend but this list.
Perhaps some H.P. Lovecraft stories if you are a fast reader.

>>8675489
Teatro Grotesco is fucking God tier

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>>8675440
Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov and probably some Kafka. They're not out and out existentialist but they'd be almost inevitably who you'd start with on a course on existentialism.

>>8675440
The play No Exit by Sartre is probably the best crash course in existentialism. Short and informative, lays out the groundwork without really expanding

>>8675483
Really admiring the consistency in image subject and filename here.

>>8675438
>to finish Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. I have already read what I wanted from Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume.

honestly, she wasn't that good in that black eyed peas

>>8675438
>Should I get a grasp of anything else before Frege?

You didn't need a grasp of anything else (and half of the things you read to begin with) before getting into Frege really.

/lit/ has an obsession with the history of philosophy and detaching themselves from a conception of what they find reasonable, unreasonable (and equivalently true and untrue).

They seem to read the Greeks and who the fuck not even though they don't agree with their reasoning, to get some kind of idea of the "evolution of philosophical thought". Philosophy for them stops being a quest for truth, fuck that shit.

You're about to have a thoroughly enjoying time (most likely) jumping into the analytics, don't forget to ask yourself what you agree/disagree with every line of the way when you read them. Most philosophers right with the intention of uncovering truth, not adding another page to the "story of philosophy".

To quote Kant:

>For some learned people, philosophy is just the history of philosophy (ancient and modern); these preliminaries aren’t written for them. They must wait their turn. When those who work to draw ·truth· from the well of reason itself have done their work, then the historians can give the world the news about their results. ·But they won’t regard it as news, because· nothing can be said now that the historians won’t think has been said already! And it is safe to predict that they’ll think the same about anything said in the future; human understanding has busied itself for centuries with countless topics in many ways, so it is to be expected that every new idea will resemble something that has been said in the past.

>>8677144
this guy is incredibly right. Read what you think will help you in your search for truth. Read the necessary context to make sure you understand what the fuck you're reading, but that does not necesarily mean to read every single philosopher beforehand.

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>>8675375
>reference

>>8675387

this

Ligotti

>>8675348
lol he's holding the axe backwards

Everything is interconnected in C&P. It's set in pre-reform Russia. The young are influenced by the upswing of nihilism. Raskolnikov is a poor student, who makes an experiment out of himself. Also predicting Neecha and other "post-modern" philosophers. It shows the ethical, thus religious meaning of murder

>>8675369
That's how Alyona is killed

>>8675374
I need to know what specifically from the murder scene reveals about the theme

I really want to go out and buy more books but I can't afford it yet I find more joy in reading something I physically own than something from a library or such
why is this

Cool i have no money now

>>8675276
Whatever the fuck you want

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>>8675274
>>8675288

>>8675274
Why not?

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Pedos are patrician.

>>8675272
Only Nabokov and Marquez desu

>>8675259
He proposed marriage to her anon, it is needed great delusion to believe he was not.

>>8675295
>implying Poe and Carroll weren't great