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>>8640585
Remember Newton wrote more on Teology than he did physics.

European intellectuals from the 17th,18th,19th century were probably on average more intelligent than today's academics, lets be honest

education today sucks, back then it was required to master greek and latin before you were even allowed in college

>>8640593
That's not Newton, that's Leibniz

You *knew* what you were in for. Above all you should resent yourself for not dropping it 1/4 way in if you weren't enjoying it.

>>8640554
Pretty much. You either like Wallace or you don't. If you don't, don't commit yourself to a thousand pages of him.

>the dozen pages on the teenager who won all his tennis games by playing with a pistol held to his head
That was the highlight of the book for me. What didn't you like about that?

>>8640516
What's this? I like that cover

That cover is fucking me up real bad, it doesn't make any sense. Why is WTC on the east side of lower Manhattan? Why are their bridges coming out of midtown west?

Why do you care about my opinion? If that's the way you enjoy them, more power to you.

>>8640498
Too much of paradife loft will go over your head.
Odyssey is fine but I'd prefer reading it. It's not better because "thats how homer did it". That is a meme.

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is ok i gues. You miss some of the beauty of the form though.

>>8640478
Tolstoy was a behemothly overrated hack. Your critique sums up his problems nicely. The mini-series is far more concise.

t. millennial pleb

Read whatever you want. If it bores you put it down. Ezra Pound said people are fools who read the classics because they're told to and not because they enjoy them. Novels are for pleasure, it's not homework. You don't have to read War & Peace if you don't want to. A lot of people find it tremendously good and interesting, but if you don't, go do something you do enjoy. Life is not that perplexing.

>>8640493
this. Tolstoy is only good for the way he could observe life. You can't learn much about literature from him, and W&P, regardless, is bloated and relatively substanceless compared to many other works.

>>8640465
For Heffley to delight us by his majestic prose and gracious pictoral accompaniment is to live, lads

>>8640483
is this post-post-modernism? everyone who says literature has not progressed in the last decades should read this first.

>>8640465
My diary desu

/lit/

I just watch this spider that lives in the corner and wonder what life is like for a bathroom spider

Sort of. If by "right for all" you mean, "right were everyone to do the same action in the same situation," then yeah.

>>8640402
>right were everyone to do the same action in the same situation

Is this the nature of universal law?

>>8640388
Nope.
Act only if you wish everyone would act the same way.

>>8640349
Idiotic thread. Obviously The Jest.

>>8640359
Surely you bible

>>8640349
Both have similar merits in terms of style. On the whole, I'd say the bible is more all-encompassing, however it's insightfulness is less consistent. Maybe I'm biased by the cultural significance of the Bible, but I'm inclined towards it. Good question, though.;.

catcher in the rye

>>8640258
my twisted world
now fuck off

>>8640209
>when the laudanum kick in

Why was he so qt, bros?

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all these niggas talkin bout rimbaud's boipussy but didnt that nigga top verlaine and thats why they found rimbaud's cum up verlaine's asshole

>>8640111
>Roberto Bolano
>Mexican

>Isamov,DFW, Dellilo
>Good

>No Mention of France

Did they replace your blood with Memes? Did it hurt?

>>8640111
Russia.

Are you dumb or something?

>>8640147
LOL

>>8640107

Hobbes' state of nature is regarded, more or less universally, as the most realistic nowadays.

I also think that, as time goes on, we are seeing that Hobbes' argument concerning the need for an absolute authority (be it a sovereign or otherwise) was more and more justified.

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>Political """Science"""/"""Philosophy"""

>>8640132

>more or less universally

By who?

>we are seeing that Hobbes' argument concerning the need for an absolute authority (be it a sovereign or otherwise) was more and more justified.

Where?

Fuckin' weasel words...

>>8640104
Just read it you fucking pleb

>>8640104
I could. He is talking about the the relationship between man and "society". His wisdom and the price for those who read him the right way, is profund understanding of yourself, the people around you and your relationships to them. His book is a script, behind all other scripts. For those wise and able to have ears for what is silent to others, he goes way beyond "Historischen Materialismus".

>>8640264
nah, cba

statutory rape is illegal, anon

>we are so socially inept and pathetic that sex is like a religious or metaphysical experience of Nirvana

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>>8640087