>moby dick is bad
>heart of darkness is good
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEe
is this "things normies say" but with a different title?
>moby dick is bad
said nobody irl ever
>>8580232
I think it is make shit up and post your new favourite reaction image thread.
Is evil the lack of good?
t. privation theory fan
Is this the right board for this thread?
t. >>>/his/
>>8577808
it's philosophy with potential references in literature
>>8577808
ive found that /lit/ is a better ground for discussion in regards to philosophy than /his/ desu
anyway OP,
no
here are two works that he did on Ancient Kingdoms and Ancient Prophecies
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15784/15784-h/15784-h.htm
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/16878/16878-h/16878-h.htm
>>8576073
Yes, he spent the majority of his life studying things most people would consider bullshit occultism.
>>8576114
his knowledge of biblical history though is astounding
believing in God doesn't make you "weird"
What are some ubermensch characters in literature?
>>8571972
all of them with the right reading.
>>8571972
Pippi Longstocking is my favourite
Here's an essay about it.
http://www.confero.ep.liu.se/issues/2016/v4/i1/160111/confero16v4i1_160111.pdf
Antony and Cleopatra. I wrote a paper about this in college. They create a "new heaven, new earth." They shape the morals of their antecedents.
>Virginia Woolf is a more effective writer than James Joyce because she does not rely on
elaborate language devices that ultimately confuse and alienate the reader.
-my prestigious PhD English teacher who went to yale and harvard.
/lit/ utterly BTFO
None of you faggots have the credentials to dispute her claim.
How do you feel that you're fucken done?
>implying
>>8580258
Try reading either first
>>8580258
Do your own homework sweetie, you can play on the internets later.
Where were you when this respectable chap smashed Zizek's commie-psychobabble into smithereens?
>In Žižek, we find astonishing evidence of the fact that the “Communist hypothesis,” as Badiou calls it, will never go away. Notwithstanding Marx’s attempt to present it as the conclusion of a science, the “hypothesis” cannot be put to the test and refuted. For it is not a prediction or, in any real sense, a hypothesis. It is a statement of faith in the unknowable. Žižek unhesitatingly adds his weight to every cause that is directed, in whatever way, against the established order of the Western democracies. He even sets himself against parliamentary democracy and has no qualms in advocating terror (suitably aestheticized) as part of his glamorous detachment. But his few empty invocations of the egalitarian alternative advance no further than the clichés of the French Revolution and are soon wrapped in Lacanian spells by way of shielding them from argument. When it comes to real politics, he writes as though negation is enough. Whether it be the Palestinian intifada, the IRA, the Venezuelan Chavistas, the French sans-papiers, or the Occupy movement—whatever the radical cause, it is the attack on the “System” that matters.
>As in 1789, as in 1917, as in the Long March of Mao, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution, the work of destruction feeds on itself. Žižek’s windbaggery serves one purpose: to turn attention away from the actual world, from real people, and from ordinary moral and political reasoning. It exists to promote a single and absolute cause, the cause that admits of no criticism and no compromise and that offers redemption to all who espouse it. And what is that cause? The answer is there on every page of Žižek’s writings: Nothing.
http://www.city-journal.org/html/clown-prince-revolution-14632.html
Who?
>Roger Scruton
Ah, the man who was paid to shill for the tobacco industry.
>>8578302
nice ad hom
>zizek
>communist
Almost as bad as "Nietzsche was a Nihilist".
Now that he's gone, who is the best living writer?
INB4 Pynchon. No.
It is Pynchon. He's the writer alive with the best resume.
>>8577841
I beg to differ
me
Hegel reading program starts around Christmas, so get your copies. We'll go over Phenomenology of the Spirit from start to finish and explain it so even people without any background in philosophy can at least passably parse it
Get ready for Hegel to explain all the processes your consciousness goes through, from those transitions that happen in less than a second, to those that are built upon years. In so doing, Hegel will examine the fundamental fabric of human reality.
I can't wait.
I'd really like to do this.
What are the chances it doesn't fall apart two weeks in? No fucking way can I read the Phenomenology alone.
>>8576491
What prerequisites would I need before reading Hegel?
I'm reading the Communist Manifesto.
How the fuck can anyone agree with this shit?
It even says that the proletariat only becomes revolutionary when put on poor conditions, and on it's own words, "seeks to destroy all and any private property, to put all of society on the same miserable state". It proves communism is about making everyone poor.
According to it, the proletariat is always regressing, thanks to the bourgeoisie, until a moment it will reach a state where it won't even be able to feed themselves (?), therefore the bourgeoisie is incompatible with society(?)
"The culture, the loss of which the bourgeois deplores, is, to most of men, only a dressage that turns them into machines"
"Abolition of family! On what foundation rests the present family, the bourgeois family? On the capital, the individual gain. The family, on its plenitude, only exists for the bourgeoisie, but finds its complement on the forced suppression of family for the proletariat and in the public prostituion. The family will disappear with the disappearence of the capital."
This is ridiculous.
>the manifiesto
>not das kapital
lmao kys
>mfw labor theory of value
>>8575049
The proletariat is exploitet by the bourgeoisie until they literally can't survive anymore, that's when they will start a revolution so they can stay alive. People will always be jealouse and think bad about other people and start wars because of Inequality, and the way Capitalism works is because it creates inequality, it is essential for it's existence.
Do you listen to classical music while reading?
Only if I'm not reading.
Sometimes
NO!!!
Post an image, get a book recommendation
>>8565301
M Y
D I A R Y
T E E
B E E
A I T C H
>>8565326
Your diary must be really coolCan I read it?
Is there a word for something beautiful and ugly at the same time?
>>8572439
Dateable
>>8572439
snugly
In what way?
Is this for a story you're writing?
Who is the best writer of our generation and why is it John Green?
>>8568122
Kill all beta males
>>8568122
>I realized that I didn't make a mistake. I was made of mistakes. People are made of mistakes. This is what people are made of. Remember that people are made up of stars, our own celestial bodies, what comprises others incredibly out of reach yet twinkling in the distance, preconceived and premature, and yet we ourselves are made of the same cosmic dust-to-dust. Always remember, also, the universe was made by accident. And it all makes sense, because she is my sunbeam.
-"The Approximate Cost of Loving Caroline"
>Margot wore makeup like wood glue. I was the qawky, gangly teenager, with limbs like freshly washed baby carrots, starting at square tile one of the high school entrance. I had a stack of books the size of two Infinite Jests and a paperback Girl With Curious Hair. I was looking her, dead, in the eyes.
-"Paper Towns"
>"Why are you speaking to me, Colin?" When she spoke, she made it a breeze. When others spoke, I only heard wind. And yet, when I spoke to her, I talked to the wind.
-"An Abundance of Katherines"
>>8568174
>Margot wore makeup like wood glue.
Why is first person so hated? It can be done well.
Because readers are mostly voyeurs, passive critics of other people's existence. They don't like the spotlight that the first person casts upon them.
Anon made a new post, and called OP a faggot.
>>8567092
Most people who write in first person can't progress beyond
"I did this. I saw that. I said this thing."
>/r/books
HHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHHAHAHAAHA
Fucking nerds
>>8561005
>i'm gonna go kill myself
Yay!
>>8561005
>says this while posting an anime