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What the fuck was he trying to convey this time
Give me a fucking break

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>"If America is the culmination of Western white civilization, as everyone from the Left to the Right declares, then there must be something terribly wrong with Western white civilization. This is a painful truth; few of us want to go that far. … The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine ballets, et al., don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history; it is the white race and it alone—its ideologies and inventions—which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself."

Holy...I want more.

What books by Susan Sontag should I read for more epic quotes like that?

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According to Kant, "4 is greater than 3" is a priori, for it requires no previous experience. But even reason is derived from experience, same with language to express that statement. I though this would be addressed in Critique of Pure Reason, but apparently this isn't even spoken of. So, phrases can be a priori as long as they don't derive from anything but reason and language, or are all priori statements "impure", as Kant puts it?

Another question: is the difference between impure a priori and a posteriori completely arbitrary? Because, as I said, "4 is greater than 3" is a priori even though it derives from reason and language, which are both learned, which should also make it a posteriori.

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>Decide to use Grammarly because it can apparently help with your writing very well.
>Decide to just use it for free because the cost for the 'upgrade' is atrocious
>ctrl v all the work I was doing previously with Word
>End up getting 22 different major errors plus many other smaller ones
>Can't see the errors because I haven't bought the upgrade
>Its over 3000 words
>feel pic-related

Is there anything better than this Grammarly shit?

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Let's all just admit it -- literature is dead, or at least is on its way out. Technology has ruined the attention span of an entire generation. Other art forms, like film or music, are much more entertaining, gripping, and impactful (to this modern world) than literature could ever hope to be. Postmodern philosophy has thrown the process of interpretation into extreme confusion. The linguistic turn has threatened the very basis of communication that literature depends on. Literature is becoming more and more of a niche activity, and although literacy rates are at an all time high, the rate of people reading literature is plummeting, and shows no signs of stopping. I have immense respect for writers, even one's writing today, but I can't help but think that it's not a meme -- that literature will be replaced. Unless a miracle occurs, unless a Luddite revolution of global proportions occurs, the trends of the present will only grow worse, and the "literary" audience and the number of writers as well will dwindle. The written word will live on, but the current form of literature needs to be revamped or replaced. No one will care about the struggle for artistic purity and perfection: the herculean effort of these artists will go unnoticed, and will lose much of its sense of purpose. The writers of the future will be increasingly shouting into an voiceless void, their artistic ambition dying in a solitary and impotent whine.

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Just finished this.
What are some other good books which involve escaping from prison or elaborate revenge plots?
What did I think of it?

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What is the most nihilistic book you've ever read?

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Should I read notes from underground or crime and punishment first?

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I'm seriously pissed of people don't talk about Pelevin, but surely I'm just a faggot for thinking you fuckers read only dead people and shut-ins
Prove me wrong with contemp. lit

>OP a fag
My suggestion:
Viktor Pelevin- Batman Apollo

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Get fucking PUMPED edition. Writing this shit is exciting as balls.

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I need suggestions on great/essential novels that are short enough to get through in 2-3 reading sessions. Like The Stranger or The Picture of Dorian Gray. Lay it on me.

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Best Bhagavad Gita translation?

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>fag enablers
>pedo enablers
>effeminate
>none of you fuckers know what hard labor is

I took up Flaubert's November yesterday, and holy shit I could only go a few pages before having a spasm.
Truly, he was a /lit/izen....

Fuck you niggers

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"He told me, with the utmost simplicity and truth, quite superior, or rather inferior, to any thing that is called humility, that he was “deficient in intellect. The Lord had made him so. Yet he supposed the Lord had cared for him as for another. "I have always been so," said he, "from my childhood; I never had much mind; I was not like other children; I am weak in the head; It was the Lord's will, I suppose." And there he was to prove the truth of his words. He was a metaphysical puzzle to me. I have rarely met a fellow man on such promising ground --- it was so simple and sincere and so true, all that he said."

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Long time litlet here.

How do you deal with an atomized and alienating workplace that feels like you're wasting eight hours of your life a day.

I am enraged to see people like Warren Buffet can allocate 80% of their daytime to reading and thinking.

How do you cope?

Currently reading Jefferies' After London