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>>8587307
it is very obvious that socrates was the real thinker and plato is our best source for his ideas

no one takes any of plato's actual philosophy seriously but his socratic dialogues are undoubtedly important

also you're a pseud

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>I'm an intellectual
Yeah, right. You'd be the first one here.

>Calling yourself an intellectual on /lit/
>Saying Plato is shit because you traced some arguments and they didn't add up
9/10, all you need now is to recommend Stirner and you've got yourself some top b8

>>8586684
Hmmm... I wonder...

Aw my body hurts and feels hart

kid joins extremists to fuck shit up and his son become a weirdo who rules

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>>8579022
Is Donkey fucker actually the bard scam anon?

They pay you (so they own it, and have the rights to your stories), if one is a hit, they sell it to the Hollywood writers guild for a couple hundred thousand dollars, you, the person who wrote the story, gets like a buck fifty.


Also it's October. I was promised blood mirror.
Where is arc anon?

>>8579022
Hello,the rest of /lit/ seems to be about philosophy and history, so I figure this is the thread to ask, instead of starting a new thread.

I've been recently replaying XCOM and I wanted to know what genre of sci-fi should I search for, to find books with similar themes: alien invasion, humanity fighting back, preferably not space fights but ground fighting/guerrila warfare. HFY not necessary but appreciated.

Also looking for recs on books like that. Whatever are the classics and what's good from newer authors.

Thank you.

>>8579261

>They pay you (so they own it, and have the rights to your stories)

From The Bard Quarterly #000:

>All rights for work contained within reside with the author attributed with the creation of the work.

I'm no lawyer so maybe that doesn't hold water but it sure looks like it's meant to carry liquids.

Also no, I'm not related to the Bard or /tg/. I'm considering whipping something together to have rejected, though. Sounds like fun.

>Billy Budd
>Not a fanook
maddon'

Melville was a coco shunter so all his work is homoerotic. The whole sperm bit in Moby Dick springs to mind.

>>8590422
the sopranos is such a /lit/ show

>In Search of Lost Time
>The Stranger
>Nietzsche, Freude, Kierkegaard
>Billy Budd
>Robert Frost
>The Art of War
>Machiavelli
> Madame Bovary

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/93950.Books_appearing_in_The_Sopranos

>>8588989
Depending on the mental illness, the individual might not process social information like a normal person.
Distorted views of logic and reality can be unsettling because the message conveys a way of thinking that is not that of a healthy human being.

>>8588989
Also, that is one dank kettle.

>>8589119
> mentally ill
> healthy

Well so much fascism there.

there was that The Woodsman movie....i dunno, was probably a book first, or something.

>>8587657
dfw's novel with a self insert protag.

>>8587657
Lolita

>>8585401
yes, now become another mindless drone who visits /tv/

>>8585401
You literally only missed out on mistakenly thinking that Catcher in the Rye is good by reading it after you turned fourteen. Life is long, there is more spare time right now than at any point in history. You can make it.

>>8585403
"no"

make it as liberal as possible

I'm in a creative writing non-fiction class in SoCal.
80% of the class are white females, and whenever we free write for 10 minutes on a prompt, each girl decides to rant about how America is a cesspool of Islamophobic, Racist, Sexist assholes.

I can't stand it anymore.
We're leading a memoir called Citizen about fucking Trayvon Martin.
I'm so over this shit.

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Women are natural narcissists so make sure the book is about absolutely nothing other than them and their boring mundane self-obsessed lives.

Write about "women's bodies", but don't sexualize them. They're endlessly fascinated by their own bodies because society has conspired to intellectually ruin them from childhood. They seem to really have a thing for realism, "the texture of lived experience", shit like that. So read your Tolstoy if you want to write for white women. Also check out Anaïs Nin to understand how to deliver filth to them - you need to cloak it in this kind of swooning, philosophizing romance. That's all I got for now, kid. Good luck tapping the largest market segment out there.

Oh, and consider a feminine pseudonym.

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>>8583882
Nothing exists.

>>8583882
>dude forms lmao

>>8583903
*knocks on head*
EMPTY LMAO

your bum falls out if you do that too much

>>8583821
Shit i'm fucked!!

In my chair with sufficient lighting.
If I'm feeling especially faggy, maybe bed.

is that sarcasm op?

>>8586913
Why is the dude from pineapple express trying so hard to look intellectual

>>8586932
cuz he's the dude from pineapple express and will always be identified with stoner-movies, and he's smart enough to know that, but not clever/subtle enough to change the perception.

Free market solves everything, government = bad, taxes = bad, social security = entitlement.

Piketty.

>>8586561
t. neoliberal bootlicker

sorry but this hasn't worked over the past 30 years. its done nothing good for the world

Flatland: a romance of many dimensions

>>8581807
Opie Faggigan

fuck I just realized I spelled protagonist wrong, rest in peace thread

I hate women

>>8575409
>stephen king
>tom clancy
>genre shit
>dead island
>recipes
>xbox 360
0/10 please be bait

>>8575416
10/10

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>>8575409