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thoughts on this man?

started reading a book of aforisms because i was bored in uni waiting for the class to start.
i know its not the best way to approach someone but the rest of books were in french and i only slept 3 hours in the past 2 days.

I know there is a book of him talking about insomnia and thats why i had a little interest in him. Im a bit into pessimism so thats why i checkd him but not ver efficiently today.

Your thoughts?
Similar writers?

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Anonymous 2016-09-20 23:43:07 Post No.8531090
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>>8531086
i mean that i can read french but i need an extra bit of concentration that today i couldnt put on.

Anonymous 2016-09-20 23:45:52 Post No.8531104
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>>8531086
Try and get some sleep and then pick up On the Summits of Despair.

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>>8531104
is it his first book right?
23yo

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In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti

Repent!

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Anonymous 2016-09-20 23:27:11 Post No.8531041
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>>8531033
Fucking loved the boondock saints too!!

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Padre, why does God let women age like milk?

Anonymous 2016-09-20 23:30:46 Post No.8531056
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>>8531042
1Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

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2016-09-20 22:59:01 Post No.8530955
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Anonymous 2016-09-20 22:59:01 Post No. 8530955 [Report] [View this topic]

What is the grimmest piece of literature out there? I want to read something pessimistic.

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Anonymous 2016-09-20 23:49:11 Post No.8531114
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>>8530955
hmm
jude the obscure maybe

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700+ pages of pure suffering.

Anonymous 2016-09-21 00:08:36 Post No.8531173
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>>8530955
Iliad.

Anonymous
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Anonymous 2016-09-20 22:46:32 Post No. 8530911 [Report] [View this topic]

Is there anybody in literature and mythology who can beat Sun WuKong

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Anonymous 2016-09-20 22:51:16 Post No.8530927
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Anonymous 2016-09-20 22:51:16 Post No.8530927 [Report]

Technically you can't beat ~~imagination~~

Anonymous 2016-09-20 22:55:24 Post No.8530938
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Anonymous 2016-09-20 22:55:24 Post No.8530938 [Report]

Is there a character that could even possibly EVEN TOUCH Sun WuKong? Let alone defeat him. And I’m not talking about Edo Tensei Sun WuKong. I’m not talking about Gedou Rinne Tensei Sun WuKong either. Hell, I’m not even talking about Juubi Jinchuuriki Gedou Rinne Tensei Sun WuKong with the Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan and Rinnegan doujutsus (with the rikodou abilities and being capable of both Amateratsu and Tsukuyomi genjutsu), equipped with his Gunbai, a perfect Susano’o, control of the juubi and Gedou Mazou, with Hashirama Senju’s DNA implanted in him so he has mokuton kekkei genkai and can perform yin yang release ninjutsu while being an expert in kenjutsu and taijutsu.

Anonymous 2016-09-21 02:39:39 Post No.8531763
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>>8530911
God.

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Is he the most important philosopher of modernity 2016-09-20 22:32:40 Post No.8530884
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Is he the most important philosopher of modernity Anonymous 2016-09-20 22:32:40 Post No. 8530884 [Report] [View this topic]

would you say yes or no?

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Anonymous 2016-09-20 22:33:50 Post No.8530885
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Prob

Anonymous 2016-09-20 22:34:25 Post No.8530887
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>>8530885
so you say yes?

Anonymous 2016-09-20 22:36:01 Post No.8530889
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Anonymous 2016-09-20 22:36:01 Post No.8530889 [Report]

In the last 300 years we haven't had a great thinker. My judgment is bold, since Kant is included. All the great thinkers of recent centuries from Kant to Benedetto Croce have only cultivated the garden.

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Anonymous 2016-09-20 22:27:28 Post No. 8530857 [Report] [View this topic]

Thoughts?

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Anonymous 2016-09-20 22:27:52 Post No.8530859
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ASS

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>>8530859

Anonymous 2016-09-21 01:44:55 Post No.8531533
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>>8530857
I don't like it very much. Too boring.

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Dune 2016-09-20 21:56:22 Post No.8530761
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Dune Anonymous 2016-09-20 21:56:22 Post No. 8530761 [Report] [View this topic]

Just finished reading Children.

Am I just dum or the multi chapter-long ramblings about prescience and politics (that being 90% of each book) are really really really hard to comprehend, with their paradigms changing constantly? I find myself rereading a chapter three times and having no fucking idea what the fuck is going on. I also have no fucking idea about the motivations of the characters, since they seem to change every other chapter as well.

There are passages about the nature of the universe and politics that do strongly resonate with me, but for each of those there are hundreds that make no sense or contradict each other and the main plot is also contradictory and absolutely unpredictable.

How many times will I have to reread this shit to comprehend it?

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Anonymous 2016-09-20 22:21:40 Post No.8530837
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>>8530761
You're just too dumb even for daddy sci-fi books.
Just stick to WoT or ASOIAF.
And never try Gene Wolfe.

Anonymous 2016-09-20 22:23:15 Post No.8530843
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>>8530761
no your just too dumb. I read the entire series in highschool and loved them. P.S. I'm not even smart.

Anonymous 2016-09-20 22:24:49 Post No.8530851
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>>8530761
Spice is Satan, Paul is the Antichrist who rapes his sister, Alia.

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Anonymous 2016-09-20 21:46:06 Post No. 8530744 [Report] [View this topic]

Two pairs of broad lateral “wings” and a number of other projections...

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Anonymous 2016-09-20 21:48:05 Post No.8530746
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>>8530744
What are you talking about you fat faggot

Anonymous 2016-09-20 21:51:52 Post No.8530752
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Anonymous 2016-09-20 21:51:52 Post No.8530752 [Report]

>>8530746

Take he redpill you absolute cuck.

Anonymous 2016-09-20 21:52:19 Post No.8530754
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Plato paints the picture of a Charioteer (Greek: ἡνίοχος) driving a chariot pulled by two winged horses

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Wanna get into reading again. Recommendations pls 2016-09-20 21:21:02 Post No.8530678
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Wanna get into reading again. Recommendations pls Anonymous 2016-09-20 21:21:02 Post No. 8530678 [Report] [View this topic]

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Anonymous 2016-09-20 21:23:22 Post No.8530688
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Anonymous 2016-09-20 21:23:22 Post No.8530688 [Report]

Have you read the sticky thread? There's a link to the /lit/ wiki which has loads of recommendation lists

Anonymous 2016-09-20 22:02:05 Post No.8530773
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>>8530688
And they're actually good. Not just there for show.

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>>8530678
my diary desu

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Anonymous 2016-09-20 20:52:09 Post No. 8530588 [Report] [View this topic]

Authors millennials will never read.

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Anonymous 2016-09-20 20:54:06 Post No.8530596
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>>8530588
They shouldn't. He's shit.

How old are you btw?

Anonymous 2016-09-20 20:56:02 Post No.8530604
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Anonymous 2016-09-20 20:56:02 Post No.8530604 [Report]

thank jeebus

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Anonymous 2016-09-20 21:01:17 Post No.8530623 [Report]

Robert Penn Warren doesn't get any love from the kids

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ITT: We post great Black authors from around the world. 2016-09-20 20:47:37 Post No.8530573
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ITT: We post great Black authors from around the world. Anonymous 2016-09-20 20:47:37 Post No. 8530573 [Report] [View this topic]

Go /lit/

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Anonymous 2016-09-20 20:55:04 Post No.8530599
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Anonymous 2016-09-20 20:55:04 Post No.8530599 [Report]

/pol/ here. What are the most interesting books about nigger problems, that are actually well-informed by philosophical/cultural critique?

I don't mean Ta-Nehisi Coates pop Oprah bullshit. That shit is for Tumblr babbies. Please tell me there are some real hardcore leftist niggers, like TJSotomayor with degrees in continental philosophy.

Anonymous 2016-09-20 20:59:14 Post No.8530613
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>>8530599
James Baldwin is pretty much the most important black writer of the 20th century. If you want to actually understand blackness, read him.

Anonymous 2016-09-20 20:59:34 Post No.8530615
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>>8530599
Molefi Kete Asante

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Anonymous 2016-09-20 20:29:29 Post No. 8530514 [Report] [View this topic]

What do you think about moral relativism?

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Anonymous 2016-09-21 02:42:56 Post No.8531779
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>>8530514
It's fucking stupid

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>>8530514
it's dumb, but not as dumb as moral absolutism.

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>>8530514
My objection to realism is primarily metaphysical. I am not willing to maintain ontological commitments to moral entities, so relativism is my only real option and it seems that's just a slippery slope that inevitably leads you to moral nihilism.

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Anonymous 2016-09-20 20:27:45 Post No. 8530510 [Report] [View this topic]

Why did she not amount to anything greater?

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Anonymous 2016-09-20 20:30:18 Post No.8530516
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Anonymous 2016-09-20 20:30:18 Post No.8530516 [Report]

She'd need discernible talent for that

Anonymous 2016-09-20 20:33:39 Post No.8530528
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Anonymous 2016-09-20 20:33:39 Post No.8530528 [Report]

should i reread harry potter?

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>>8530528
yes it holds up pretty well

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Anonymous 2016-09-20 20:22:03 Post No. 8530492 [Report] [View this topic]

Can we get a non-meme thread about Dhalgren? Is it worth reading? How is the prose? The guy who keeps saying that Dhalgren is the most complex novel in literary history need not post.

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Anonymous 2016-09-20 20:32:54 Post No.8530527
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Anonymous 2016-09-20 20:32:54 Post No.8530527 [Report]

The author is a pedophile.

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Anonymous 2016-09-20 21:14:46 Post No.8530658 [Report]

>>8530527
thanks

Anonymous 2016-09-20 22:25:14 Post No.8530853
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>>8530527
oh true. well fuck that book I guess.

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