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>>8670295
Their photoshopped photo covers are endearingly terrible.

>>8670295
orlando is cute <3

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>>8670476
wait till you see that cutie Clarissa Dalloway

>>8670282
My Immortal

English as She is Spoke

>>8670282
Paul Clifford by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

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>>8670145
all you need senpai

>>8670164
anyone know where do torrent?

>>8670143
haven't read it but all the people i know who have read it have bad taste and they mostly liked it

>>8670143
If there was ever a book emblematic of 'pop-logic' then this would probably be it. You're better off reading some Godel biographies by his many Asian correspondents. I'd recommend "A Logical Journey: From Gödel to Philosophy" if you want something in depth regarding Godel's philosophy and his opinions on the philosophical implications of his own work

i read it as fiction

good for aesthetics not much else

Kierkegaard

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>>8670125
I agree

>>8670130
sleep tight kierkker

You can spend a lifetime reading Steinerian stuff. I know people who know people who are really into it. Mostly nuts, the types who go out to California to live in a commune or read books about healing crystals.

Some of it's pretty neat but you might want to just browse it yourself and not actually sign up for the monthly crystal healing. It has some interesting philosophical and mystical/esoteric perspectives, including some shit they try to cover up these days because it was "of the time," and the time was early 20th century Germany, if you catch the drift.

>>8670112
OP here,
My father is an anthroposophist and has read literally every single published work of Steiner. He isn't a hippy or anything, but I came to /lit/ because I wanted to know if any 'normal' people are into it.
Have a whole bookshelf full of Steiner.
As far as I'm aware there isn't anything that is too 'edgy' aside from the ideas of different races at different stages of spiritual evolution, although there is nothing about racial supremacy.

>>8670123
Is it true jews did 9/11???

It's an anonymous board, anon. Please tell.

>>8669977
1) It isn't.
2) It founded the whole enterprise.

Theology is occultism.

>>8669977
You don't understand what occultism is of you
a) don't think it's accepted in academia
b) compare it to theology.

pleb

>>8669929
>never heard of 50 shades of grey

wew lad

very secks, happy ow, much boner

I always concentrate more when I jack off before reading.

>>8669881
The nature of the real is so horrifying that annihilation as escape is the only desirble outlet at its encounter

>>8669887
>The nature of the real is so horrifying
Can you expand on this a little

Because then you can understand how dumb it is to wish that, thus "beginning."

80s revival is dead

90s is the future.

That sounds boring.

>>8669832
neither the 80s or 90s are artistically relevant

>>8669821
My Twisted World

Anything by Kant

>>8669810
There are so few changes between editions that the 19th will likely serve you perfectly well. Also, as a law student, through your library/journal/whatever shouldn't you have access to the online version?

Also, what year and tier?

>>8669819
different guy but also a law student, figure id hop in this thread

1L at T14 here, it's alright. Bluebook seems pointless desu I don't care about being slave labor for the law review.

>>8669819

My university is apparently wealthy enough to give us full access to all the major legal research databanks, but makes us buy the fucking Bluebook. And I'd love to have access to the online version, but they don't offer that, the cheap fucks, unless you're on Journal.

I'm a 1L, at a first tier.

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no

Pretty much.

>>8669771
>politics
but is this not also a passion of the educated?

General consensus is that the writing is somewhere between not-that-great and shite, but the mythos he established, the idea of humans and human gods as being insignificant beside the sheer awesome size and power of the cosmos, is what's important. So no, you don't have to read it. I have and it was mostly a waste of time. The Dream Cycle is cool though.

>>8669712
case of charles dexter ward,
lurking fear
erich zann
mountains of madness after reading poe's pym
shadow out of time
call of cthulhu
the thing on the doorstep

and read houllebecq's essay

>>8669712
What have you read?

Also: if you aren't into the occult, Lovecraft is much less interesting. The best part about reading him is all the strange details he is constantly inserting that are taken from or suggest ancient occult lore/practice. Aleister Crowley was a contemporary of his who was very interested in Lovecraft's writings, and believed Lovecraft was receiving truths and informations from beyond that even Lovecraft wasn't aware of. Many of Livecraft's ideas came in dreams, by his own admission, and in his personal letters he spoke of them being very terrifying. But of course, he didn't believe they were anything more than dreams. His short fragment "Azathoth" is interesting though because it literally depicts a simple, bookish man who lives in a dreary city, constantly looking at the stars, desperate for an escape from his boredom, when the stars notice his eyes, and begin sending him messages in dreams, visions, and whispers, of ancient things forgotten and terrible things to come. His short story Nyarlathotep paints an event that sounds almost like the appearance and rise of the antichrist. Crowley believed it was analogous to his experience he had with a diety known to him as Aiwass.

Lovecraft's Cthuhulu mythos has very interesting parallels with ancient Egypt and Norse mythology. Those mythos and the general occult is very interesting to me, and I like to read Lovecraft almost like he is revealing secrets from the Noosphere: lost events and hidden moments forgotten in time. Not with all stories of course, and this isn't something I believe whole heartedly, but I studied the occult first and read Lovecraft second, and found so many interesting references to minor characters in history, ancient gods and lost orders or rites, that never conflicted with my studies and always led me to interesting discoveries in the real world. I find it makes his writing come to life beyond his rather simple prose and sometimes repetitive descriptors.

I think it best to read the shorter works before the longer ones. Check these out:

>Dagon
>Polaris
>The Other Gods
>The Last Statement of Randolph Carter
>The Outsider
>The White Ship
>Azathoth
>Nyarlathotep
>The Nameless City
>The History of the Necronomicon
>The Rats in the Walls

After that, Call of Cthuhlu, Colour out of Space, The Dunwich Horror, Shadow over Innsmouth, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. Just suggestions!

Define 'good'.

The real answer is: who gives a shit? Imma drift faggot. I walk with the dogs.

Keeps you quiet and away from me.