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something by Baudrillard maybe?

>>9939053
Bitch, I can tell you right now.
The trick is to convince the upper middle class that poor people don't have it. They're like dogs. They eat that shit off the floor.

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>>9939053
Capitalism doesn't.

The mutated pseudo socialist form we have now does though

No no no. You've got to reference songs that are on all the radio all the time. Shitty Aerosmith song #37, y'know

>>9931722
The answer is to not reference a song

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>>9931688

Fallout: New Vegas

>>9931688
Nice try summer reader

>>9931680
I got the 4th edition of that today for 8 bucks. Looks greats as far as breadth of selection.

>>9931674
my dagbog um ehrlich zu sein

>>9931676
what about your diary

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>>9931674
bump...

>>9931665
He tried to be funny with End Zone.
Meh.
Some of the Lenny Bruce stuff in Underworld maybe. And the Waste Management guys drunkenly headbutting each other

I haven't read all his stuff but it definitely seems like White Noise is the cutoff. Ratner's Star is very goofy and funny if you're looking for that

>>9931665
PEN: In an interview this past March, you noted that your shift, over the last decade, toward shorter novels had been informed by re-reading several slim but seminal European works of fiction, including Albert Camus’s The Stranger, Peter Handke’s The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, and Max Frisch’s Man in the Holocene. Can you talk a little about the evolution of your work and influences?

DeLillo: A novel determines its own size and shape and I’ve never tried to stretch an idea beyond the frame and structure it seemed to require. (Underworld wanted to be big and I didn’t attempt to stand in the way.) The theme that seems to have evolved in my work during the past decade concerns time—time and loss. This was not a plan; the novels have simply tended to edge in that direction. Some years ago I had the briefest of exchanges with a professor of philosophy. I raised the subject of time. He said simply, “Time is too difficult.” Yes, time is a mystery and perhaps best examined (or experienced by my characters) in a concise and somewhat enigmatic manner. Next book may be a monster. (Or just a collection of short stories.)

also please note he lost family and friends in 9/11
I'd be depressed too

>>9931612
some other anon in another thread said Hebrew has a "royal we" in their language as well. "elohim" is only used in one instance in Genesis anyway.

>>9931624
but the word is plural and christians believe god is one single entity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_we

>>9931605
He was very hungry

>my gf
>bitching about normies

r u trying to trigger me? bait or poseur? either way your authenticity levels couldn't go lower

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She didn't read the secret fourth book, which is the best.

>>9931615
my gf is a normie and im fucking retarded. when i was courting her i pretended to be normal and once i successfully acquired her i let my true personality show. she thinks im a retard.

>>9931554
Pepe the frog - Adolf Hitler :D

>>9931557
Epig :D

Spurdo- Pinecone

>>9931564
what about
GIRUGAMESH - any women author (because its shit meme and women are inferior lmao)

>>9931465
Young girls

Love knows no age

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kszUEZI6nPE

>>9931451
This is now an anti woman thread. Post your pepes and ressentiment

how did u know i've been flirting with /r9k/? lit is too normie, shit doesn't turn on my autistic feels like a 4chan board should, knowutimsayin

>>9931430
read his earlier works and then read this slowly,
anything besides this or endless prep-texts is ultimately not a big deal.

>>9931430
Lmao just read it first. It will help to know the layout of the book. And it will probably mow you down. From there you can decide if you want to go deeper. Don't worry about catching everything—you can't possibly & there are still things scholars don't know what Joyce meant.

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The entire Western canon ideally. If you're short on time, the Iliad, Odyssey, Shakespeare, history of Ireland, and then this

>>9931406
I've never read Hemingway. Why should I?

Old Man and the Sea 2bh. Plebs get tripped up on the simple prose and imagery but fail to think about the complete picture.

The second time I read the sun also rises

whether youre pedantic or listening to the question in good faith

nothing

>>9931375
The words we use are reflections of real sense content in our brains. Avoiding 'language games' only requires investigating that content, in other words to achieve an understanding within the discourse of what is denoted by the words you're using.

The reason why this is possible is because meaning in language is conveyed not only by single words, but also by larger utterances, and is therefore infinitely generative.

t. linguist