>68 years old
>Still has two books to go
Is he going to die before he finishes A Song of Ice and Fire?
jews
Probably, and I'm gonna deeply enjoy the fan tears.
He'll die first, someone else will use the notes he leaves behind to write the last two as well as a number of spin-offs. These will be even worse than the originals, leading to all the idiotic fans lionising him further as some sort of genius.
>>9931465
This book belongs to the very few. To whom it belongs, it knows no age, no gender, no background. Its only criterion is a sublime rapture of the mind.
Few are capable of it, many claim ownership.
The pedos usually hang out at /tv/.
Anyone know if and where Nabokov's postscriptum of his Russian translation is included? It's a pretty obvious omission of my annotated Lolita.
was nabokov a pedo?
I can't imagine how many times this has been posted on this board, but for those of you who are studying or did study English, is it worth it? I'd like to be a professor. Also I hear everyone moan about how teaching English isn't respected any longer and it's essentially useless now. I also like architecture but I truly do enjoy English
I studied English at a top UK University. I really enjoyed it, but it was a tricky finding good paid employment after graduating. It worked out in the long run. I now work in a comms/marketing position in a theatre and love what I do but it's taken a comparatively long time to get there and I'm not particularly well paid.
It's easy to be 17 or 18 and pursue something because you love it (rather than for the money), but when reality hits after graduation, it can be tough.
>>9926070
Are you American? Then don't.
I have a Master's degree in English but I'm Scandinavian. It's been alright, but you definitely have got to not mind teaching because that's pretty much always Plan B.
You won't become a professor.
What are the best critiques of mass society and technology? I'm trying to make a list.
So far I have the obvious ones like Heidegger and Guenon.
Also, things like disenchantment / dialectic of Enlightenment, obviously.
Maybe the Unabomber Manifesto
>>9933007
My man Evola.
>>9926029
Bought it but I haven't read it yet. It seems pretty interesting, but I want to do more background reading in philosophy before I try to tackle this (as I assume I'll need or at the minimum benefit from such prior reading).
>>9926027
>priest detected
a thread died for this
>>9926027
>t. Dishonore de Ballsack
if you accept that there is no objective truth, how does this affect how you act in real life? is this concept even useful outside of abstract philosophical discussions?
You need to start worrying about getting your dick wet, son. Priorities are all out of whack.
Lao Tzu here,
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
>>9925945
Makes life easier. Most people are obsessed with some truth they regard as absolute (politics id the easiest example), meanwhile here I am jerking off to anime girls
Howthe fuckdo i become virtuous?
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>>9925935
>>9926012
>pls give me the answer to the question humankind has struggled to find ever since the beginning of society in a single greentext
Can we have a discussion on virtue anyway?
Anti-materialism is a material, albeit formless. It is no better than Iconoclasm-an icon of thought
shameless self-bump
Sounds retarded desu
Can someone explain to me the concept of Emotional Labour?
What the fuck is it? Are there any books (critical theory etc) on the subject?
>>9932829
Is she going for a birthing analogy here?
>>9932829
She's only pretending to give a shit about men here. What she's really saying is that she's attracted to guys who treat her like shit but is at odds with the fact that being treated like shit isn't actually fun yet she can't help the attraction regardless so she's conflicted and angry with herself. And if she's conflicted and angry with herself then naturally it is men who are at fault because she is strong and woke and men are baddies.
>>9932829
Women overestimate men's interest in making their lives easier.
what are the best books on gender studies?
Sex and Character
Gender Trouble
Männerphantasien
Masculinities
>>9925879
Gender Trouble, Undoing Gender
The Male Body (Susan Bordo)
bunch of others that I can't think of
I want you to tell me if I'm retarded or not, lit. I have a collection of steven wallace's poems next to my bed, I pick it up every night to read a poem or two. I admit, I don't really understand a single poem in that entire collection. Am I retarded?
Modern poetry is pretty difficult in general and I'd say Stevens is particularly difficult until you understand what he's about.
I suggest to keep reading and thinking about them. Or get a book or essays about him. I suggest vendler's Wallace Stevens: words chosen out of desire
The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream bro
>>9925860
You could appreciate them for sound. T. S. Eliot once said he read and admired Dante's Italian poetry before he even understood Italian.
are there any books where the protagonist's girlfriend tells him her ex had a bigger cock?
your biography
>>9925811
m-my diary desu
War and Peace (Pierre)
Is it true what they say? That a "demiurge" has birthed the material universe to distract us from divinity?
Anything worth reading about this demiurge?
every book if you read them right
>>9925751
So is this Gnosticism exclusive, or do you consider this compatible with Christianity? I ask because I read about Phillip Dick's belief that a demiurge uses the material world to distract us from Christ's return/arrival.
Name a poem by him that isn't Ozymandias without googling.
Pro-tip: you fucking can't
the one where he says "we are many they are few"
>>9925742
The Mask of Anarchy. I could also name Ode to Liberty, Skylark and Queen Mab.
Adonais, ode to the west wind, to the moon