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If you had to pick a book to represent the world, what would it be?

usa
naked lunch

>>8547030
Mexico

Book - Pedro Paramo

>genuine

there's nothing less genuine that trying to be genuine in 2016

there's already a bookwhore thread for fucks sake

The distance between her nose and top lip is breathtaking

I called a pizza place and ordered a pizza. They delivered it to my house. I ate it.

>>8546438
The trap door only opens for those that close it.

>>8546438
>Write a story in a single post
anon typed with a smug grin, as he affixed an image of a chimpanzee smoking at a typewriter, solved the captcha, and pressed "post." "Surely no one shall rise to this challenge" he opined while adjusting his full brimmed black felt cap. After several minutes had passed with no replies, Anon grew complacent, opened a new tab, and started auto-fellating himself to pornography featuring his favorite paraphilia. He was not prepared for what lie in wait when switched back tabs, jizz drool seeping from the corners of his chapped lips.

Yeah for literary reasons but do this while you read it so you don't turn into a Christbitch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCNH-0CBfr8#t=7s

You need to get to church, anon.

only if you want to

Does he have throat cancer or did have it or something?

i tried listening to some of his lectures and he talks weird?

Why are there so many armchair philosophers on /lit/? Is it because out of all of the academic subjects it requires the least amount of discipline and understanding? It's pretty easy to regurgitate prepackaged ideas right?

>>8545398
Lel hes autistic mate.

I think its mainly a stylistic difference in how the schools approach writing. I don't know if there is really much of a difference

although you can say they tackle different problems

Continentals are more interested in the human experience which is why they are closer to the humanities fields

Analytics tend to focus more on technical problems which is why there closer to math, science, logic etc.

but i think approaching philosophy in such a limited dichotomy is not that good

Continentals: feels, ethics, "human condition"

Analytics: reals, metaphysics, actually makes progress

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>>8545135
Look, it's just a fact that all metaphysics was subsumed by physics, a process that started with Newton and has now totally outstripped any of the idiots that find themselves in "analytic philosophy" departments rather than math or theoretical physics departments. nietzsche just called the end and the entire field has been limping along, underfunded, in anglo philosophy departments since then.

'analytics' like to scoff at 'continentals' but continentals are just people who have closed the platonic loop as per nietzsche and have chosen to write beautiful, socially effective sophistry rather than play autistic language games.
ultimately my point is we are all morons if we expect to be anything more than morons. we are all bloody degenerates, and the least we can do is accept it and be rhetorically playful. your typical 4chan analytic on the other hand is just absolutely disgusting: repressed, deluded, and a wet blanket. they say nothing interesting, gravely claim to be doing 'serious work', but never show anything of merit. They accuse continentals of intentional obfuscation, but where continentals obfuscate with twists and turns of language, analytics obfuscate with boredom inducing aristotelian prose that manages to say nothing. on top of that they do nothing as a social force. analytic philosophy is for stuffy conservatives who don't have much sex and judge people for having messy countertops.

anybody?

>>8545063
You don't have to bump this shit, /lit/ is a low-traffic board.
And to answer your question, no, Moby dick isn't difficult to read. Read it or don't, who cares?

>>8545073
did you like it?

>taoism
>level 6
>mfw

>>8544768

level 6 is bullshit, you just loop back to level -1 and start again

>>8545215
level 6 is buddhist shill lmao

I for one have no idea where they would get such an impression

You could've just said you don't like YA shit. How is that hard? No need to sound autistic.

>>8544448
It's a sad day when recognising the inferiority of women is deemd misogynist.

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>>8543735

the iliad

>>8543735
read Clifford the Big Red Dog

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Only in the Greek or Rodney Merrill's translation

Fagles and such do not filter plebs

Most of the higher-tier stuff on the /lit/ Top 100 is too much for plebs or pseuds to handle. Recently someone posted something like an "exit level" chart that looked pretty hefty. I should have saved it. Some of the books on there were books that I myself haven't been able to finish. Guess I'm a pseud then.

Odyssey filters better

Bruh, they were all autistic as fuck, there wouldn't even be eye contact in that room.

>>8543405
Didn't Freud become Nietzsche's actual therapist at one point?

>>8543423
Neitzsche would beat the shit out of Marx

while Freud fantasizes about them having sex with each other because they had daddy issues or some weird shit

>>8543337
you

>>8543337
There is literally nothing wrong with B & N
Used Bookstores are cooler, but it's like bitching about walmart and bragging about shopping at Target or Publix or something.

>>8543339
Touché

>>8543346
That's funny because I just decided I'm never stepping into the Burger shithole that is Walmart ever again. I shop at Kroger now.

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>Iyther you dont know nothing or you know too much
>it dont seam like theres any thing in be twean.

are you Analytical or Continental?

Nothing.

>>8542938
>prefer
>different fields devoted to finding different answers

I miss when /lit/ was stupid but not this fucking stupid to do this 24/7

>>8542938
lit loves continentals even though analytics are much more interesting

>>8542948
That's because /lit/ is full of women and nu-males, both of whom are emotionally driven, rather than logically.