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>>8650173
Honestly mate, until they make a philosophy board it's fucking /lit/ content.

Nobody likes recbegs though.

>>8650173
>/lit/ is the smartest board on 4chan

what does this have to do with your point?

>>8650195
They did. /His/ was made to include philosophy but they hated it because it was too fast and no one cared about their threads. So they came back here and posted so many threads that people gave up trying to stop them and it became normal again.

Conventional wisdom says White Noise, and then proceed through his peak from there (Libra, Mao ll, Underworld)

WN is much more domestic than his other novels, so plebs sometimes get the wrong impression of his work based on that book. Mao ll is probably his best overall.

>>8649868
White Noise is a meme, really glad I didn't start with it.

Cosmopolis is top-tier.

Cosmopolis is generally known as a weak book, the beginning of his decline, but if you liked it, more power to you.

I'd say start with Libra.

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My nigger Tom

>>8647729
Tom DeLonge

>>8646974
I only just learnt today Watts was banned from the US for most of his life or some shit. Madness.

>>8646974
>Rorschach edition
And all the anons and tripfags will look up and shout "post something good!", and I'll look down and whisper "No."

>>8646974
>What book have you re-read the most?
Lord of the Rings

>What book would you most want turned into a high-budget Netflix series?
Do comic books count? Legion of Super-Heroes then (it's probably going to happen anyway). If not, then Captain Future, Flash Gordon or Conan.

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>>8645279
Lolita hahahaha I'm a proud pedo unlike reddit I'm totally 4chan morals!

Pepe the frog approves!!!

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>>8645286
ebin, simply ebin my dear friend!

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>>8645286
Now THIS deserves an upvote

Two memes collide. Two worlds. Will it still be the samw from now on? XDD

>>8645041
Will it create a new "meta" meme? XD

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>>8645038
>[Infinite Jest] is the white male's capacity for speaking over minorities and women encapsulated in one droning, yawning work the serves to function as a sort of mansplain of the human condition. Though in one section, Wallace attempts to filter masculine emotion (or lack there of) through the mask of a "feminine entity" (Kate Gompert) at a desperate, grabbing, clawing and gnashing attempt at inclusion.
Do you agree?

One last note. You can vote as many times as you would like on the poll, due to the large number of possibilities.

Solid work OP, looks like the best of the last three years' lists.

>>8644941
And I mean that in the sense that you can choose as many entries as you would like.

whoever wrote my diary

>even the most nonsensical hack there is was able to BTFO analytical posterboy Searle

feels good to be team Continental ^_^

Kant. Hegel. Fucking Heidegger.
Derrida's an open book by comparison.

>>8643802

Se você pudesse
Naufragar nos abismos de minha alma,
Na eterna meia-noite e eclipse inderretível
Das cavernas mais fundas de meu ser
- Labirintos nos quais caminham eus estranhos -
Se você mergulhasse nessa noite
Com uma luz e olhasse as criaturas
Que a habitam, os tritões que me compõem;
Se eu pudesse lhe dar minha memória
Para você fazer nela uma autópsia,
Então você não mais teria dúvidas:
Iria confiar em mim, saber
Que eu jamais poderia abandoná-la

(Trecho da peça nova que estou escrevendo)

>>8643955

Uma meditação sobre a prisão e seus efeitos sobre as pessoas (trecho da nova peça que estou escrevendo)
YOKO: Eles vão morrer, porém gota a gota.
A prisão talvez seja uma das formas
Mais cruéis de matar, pois muitas vezes
O coração, confuso, ainda pulsa
Durante vários anos dentro do cadáver
Sem saber que o seu dono já não vive.
As paredes de pedra das masmorras
São criaturas vivas, são famintas;
Os prisioneiros são seu alimento:
Elas sugam os fluídos de suas carnes,
Elas sugam os anjos de suas almas,
Elas drenam o néctar de seus sonhos,
Elas os desidratam de sua dignidade.
Em poucos anos o que resta de você
É apenas uma concha oca, que pode
Até ecoar os sons de um oceano
Que não existe mais, mero fantasma
Do mar da alma que o cárcere sorveu.
Os resíduos de um preso são qual casca
De inseto que a tarântula da reclusão
Abandonou após sugar as vísceras.
Morrer encarcerado é perecer
De inanição, sofrer fome de sol,
De céus, de estrelas, de ar fresco, de afeto,
Que são oferecidos só em migalhas.
O preso ainda jovem tem um sol
Na esperança, que dia a dia o aquece;
Ele tenta manter vivo esse fogo
Ruminando promessas a si mesmo,
Murmurando baixinho palavras de fé.
Porém os anos se acumulam sem
Que a chave das correntes jamais chegue,
E o sol se distancia, esfria, murcha;
O sol morre em fogueira, que emagrece em vela;
Após uns anos é mera verruga,
Que mingua em grão de pó, que mingua enfim
Em nada: resta apenas um céu frio
E escuro, um céu noturno, a chorar neve.
Eles hão de morrer, mas gota a gota.

>>8643957

(Sobre a língua portuguesa)

NOBUNAGA: Linguagens são cidades invisíveis;
Algumas soam como construções
De barro, outras de ferro, outras de pedra,
Algumas de madeira, outras de gelo,
O português, porém, parece império
Modelado com seda ou com vapor de mármore.
Alguns dizem que línguas se assemelham
A criaturas vivas, a organismos;
Se fosse assim o português teria
Raios de sol nutrindo-o por veias
E a dócil luz e prata sussurrante
Do luar como os ossos que o sustentam.
O português ecoa, aos meus ouvidos,
Como o oceano, mas seu marolar
É temperado com baunilha, e não
Com sal: seus sons emanam a voz e hálito
Das sereias, porém tal mar de sílabas,
Se sabe deslizar manso e elegante
(Como as ondas que o vento não fermenta,
Qual anjo-fêmea a ronronar, clamando
Por carícias), também ousa explodir
E espumar como as águas em tormenta,
E então a fala agride, e corta, e estala,
A língua chicoteia, e ouvi-la é como
Se arrastar entre um espinheiro, sob sol tórrido.
Certas vezes, também, se soa sonolenta,
Ouvi-la é deslocar-se em meio a um atoleiro,
Qual no ventre abafado e vegetal
De uma selva. Jamais, porém, é amarga:
É perfumada como um laranjal,
E as palavras, seus frutos, tantas vezes doces,
Podem até por vezes abrigarem vespas,
Ou ter sumo agridoce, e não mel puro,
Porém jamais a língua portuguesa
Tem voz acre, roufenha, voz que lembra as bruxas.

DAE think religion is stupid? Like and subscribe if you agree.

if you're too stupid for christianity you should try islam. everything is easy and simple there, clear laws and rules that the desert rapist gave you to follow. even the jews of his time knew muhammad was too retarded to understand the other two monotheistic religions, that's why he killed all the Jewish tribes there and raped them personally to satisfy his raging butthurt.

If you by chance are not a smelly, braindead Muslim, here is an explanation:

God is logic, God is love, God is creation. There is God in all things on earth, every moment of compassion, every moment of forgiveness is God himself. God is mysterious indeed, but for us to understand what God is, or how we are supposed to understand God, he has appeared in three forms. As God, the father, the creator of things. As the father, all things come from Him, all creation is from Him, he is the authority on Him as all originates from Him. Jesus is the son, he is creation, he is what the father has created. God becomes a human and walks amid his own creation so we can see Him and that He is close to us and His creations. God loves his creation so much, us little sinful, confused beings, that he would sacrifice himself so that we could find our way back to Him. The Holy Spirit is God's power and understanding. It is logic, belief, understanding, blessings. Only through the Holy Spirit, the mind, the soul within all of us can connect with God himself.

The trinity is about a mysterious force - God - making himself understandable to human beings, giving us guidance and way to find him and the truth within the world. It helps us understand that God is love through the Holy Spirit, that he is creation, through the father, and that we are created in his image, that he understands us and loves us through his son.

Regards, an atheist that deeply respects Catholicism

>>8642318
Mate, the majority of the world's religions think the trinity is stupid.

>>8641322
Schopenhauer's 'On Women'
My twisted world
Mein Kampf

In short, grow up and take the redpill

>>8641322
Dubliners by Joyce, I don't know about the rest but it's the comfiest book I ever read.

>>8641340

boom

Added to the list. I've only read the story with the man in the park. That was a fun one to deconstruct in high school :)

>>8640666
Why don't you remove all those library stickers? It looks awful.

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>>8640666

>look at all muh Greeks!
>every single one is in English

I'm not even being a dick or trolling you, it's good that you like the Greeks as much as you do, but if you like the Greeks that much you really ought to learn some Greek. It is not anywhere near as hard as most would say, easier than Latin, comparable to German. Reading the Greeks in Greek is as much of a revelation as putting on glasses for the first time for a myopic. They simply do not translate, any more than classical Chinese translates.

>>8640666
did you steal all those?

How good is my poetry?

>>8634067
Found out my younger brother watches anime. Debating whether I should beat him up

is Georges Bataille really weird? or am i?

>>8656119
it's called the square cube law, idiot
if he was just one big guy, he would collapse under his own weight, or at the very least have great difficulty regulating his body temperature

I love this engraving

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>>8656131

>if he was just one big guy, he would collapse under his own weight,

Excuse me?

I loved his first book

post a page from this one

>>8655947
>>8655950
Do any of you actually like him or is this just some sort of neo-postop-ironic meme?

I'm aware of who he is and what he wrote but the volume of posts about him seems to have increased by an unreasonable level in the past few months.

>>8656006
It is him

He has joined is

Plebs from all around the world rejoice!