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Why are there so many nihilists on this board?
Why haven't you read a real philosopher like Hegel or Kant or someone who isn't an edgy retard.
Nihilism doesn't make sense if you just think for about three minutes and realize idealism is true.
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I dont care
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If more people in the world were nihilists we'd have a far more peaceful world.
On the other hand, if we had too many nihilists there would be no world for us to have peace in.
The world is at a natural balance with itself and you are a retard for not seeing it. The constant struggle between good and evil. The constant struggle between 'why' and 'because'. The constant struggle of nihilism versus ideology.
You're asking an empty question. Stop wasting your time.
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It doesn't matter... Like everything.
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I'm still a pleb so I can't comprehend this, it seems like an enigma.
How can someone religious like dostoyevsky support existentialism? Dont existentialism and theism contradict each other?
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Epic retardation familia
Start with le greeks
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>>8611505
see Kierkegaard. Christian existentialism
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Read Soren Quirkygoore, my friend.
What would he say about the modern world?
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he'd kick the stool out from under it
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"Not much has changed."
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>>8611476
"It's lit fam"
-DFW 2016
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What is the vogue in literary fiction nowadays?
Like postmodernism was the vogue in the sixties and seventies, moving onto minimalism in the eighties and nineties (Broad simplification but that's necessary for talking this generally)
What kinds of short stories get published in magazines? What sort of novels?
And note this is a thread about /lit/erary fiction, so no bitching about genre fiction or young adult.
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Cultural marxism
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>>8611490
This.
Only based Milo can save us.
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>>8611447
A partial return to Modernism through metamodernism. New Sincerity, the vapid intellectual sinkhole that it is, lived and died with Infinite Jest, though it retains a small following among what is essentially the literary beats of our time i.e Taipei and his tweet-addled ilk
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I am looking for books that have the most underground, cut off from society, underworld stories. It would actually be cool if it wasn't a crime story either, just one that's really strange, eerie, and other worldly.
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Hate to meme you, friendo, but read Dosto's Notes.
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>>8611420
>strange, eerie, and other worldly
Atrocity Exhibition
Post your goodreads account and meet new friends!
https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/2408134-sebastian
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will u tonguepunch my butthole
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How goes your self discipline?
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>>8611419
I'm at 34/35
Next year I'm gonna try 52.
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What's the most beautiful book of The Bible?
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>>8611396
Job, Ecclesiastes, Revelation
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My diary desu
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>>8611396
I do not know, I have only just finished Matthew.
However I would guess Ezekiel?
>it's my birthday and I'm sitting alone in a dorm reading
Any books that covers this feel?
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>>8611332
happy bday but
>caring about birthdays
just a part of the perpetual belief that everyone is inherently special when they're not
why the fuck should someone be congratulated and praised and be center of attention just because they've lived for x amount of years
it creates loneliness like yours
every time my birthday came I purposely hid it from anyone I know, for the fact that I don't want some obligatory relations just because of a stupid tradition
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>>8611353
Same fuck birthdays
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>>8611332
Spoilers: Part Two is also sad
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>the sword fight chapter
>that chapter with the retard with latin phrases
>the book fair chapter
this book is literally god-tier
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>>8611280
>>the sword fight chapter
I read the book a fuckton of time ago but I still remember this vividly, same with the part whereLima goes missing on Nicaragua
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>>8611280
>the retarded neo nazi in jerusalem
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>>8611356
he was a real bro.
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You know the drill, lads.
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>>8611268
>The Aeneid
Specifically for the death of Dido.
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>>8611268
so glad painters eventually figured out perspective
i suggest pic related
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Books about the navy?
Thinking about joining...
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>>8611258
memoirs of a fighting captain by admiral lord thomas cochrane
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>>8611258
Hornbower, of course.
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>>8611258
billy budd
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I got through the Amazon preview and I neither liked it not hated it. I'm ambivalent about the characters and plot so far.
Is it worth it in the end, or will I end up hating myself for trudging through something meh?
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>>8611244
1000 page unfinished book that needed to be 100% rewritten
That's a no from me
But a yes from American publishing hype machine and edgy teens
It is safe to ignore Bolano.
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i enjoyed it right from the get go, so i can't be sure if you'd like it more as you went along
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>>8611251
>i am a huge faggot please rape my face
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What are some works that deal with the concept of existential loneliness? The loneliness in the crowd, the coldness of intercourse and so on.
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>>8611237
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
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>>8611237
Bump for interest
I am an alcoholic fucking numb and disconnected from everyone. I can only be attracted to much older women and even then eh
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>>8611245
Stop posting this meme.
What is the best Poirot book?
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the one where it's revealed thathe's actually the one behind most if not all of the murdersforget what it's called
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>>8611796
Wasn't that Curtain?
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Does lit care for book covers?
I try to get hardcover versions of books since they're more durable but, sometimes I'm just too fucking poor to buy a book new. If I do get a paperback used, I try not to get one with a real person on the cover.
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>>8611183
70s cover art was so great
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I buy cheap, usually used books, if they come with a nice cover then it's great, but I don't really care about that.
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Sometimes. For LOTR definitely. French editions (not speaking about LOTR only) have good covers even for cheap editions most of the time. Much better than shitty photoshop US/UK novels.
But I like more and more old editions that just have the title with a cool font over a colored background.