What is the most inspirational quote you've ever read in a book?
>>8528377
He's an atheist, why would he care about muh human beings??? Why doesn't he just fund a research to create a huge atomic bomb that can burn the whole planet in 5 minutes to end all suffering on earth? Nothing has souls after all, every living thing lives to suffer pointlessly according to people like him.
>>8528407
WHO CREATED GOD!?!??!?!!?!
Exactly.
>>8528377
That can't be a real quote, the numbers are all off.
>I could not hold my father in much love, my mother either. Indeed, I learned to love far later, as it proved, than they had time for. So perished they without it. None of us grieves. I’ve played a few sly tricks upon insanity since then, and now life holds me as it once held them-in a dry fist. Hearts held that way wad up eventually … trees did. Once—once only—my heart burst bloodily in that grip. But what has this to do with me now, or with Germany?
>bloodily
Gas ain't the only think troubling Gass
>>8528246
Jesus Christ Gass is so fucking intense and scary.
>>8528246
That's actually bretty gud. I like it.
Johnston is one of the most widely followed philosophers writing today. Influenced by Žižek and his readings of German idealism, Johnston’s work has gained many readers among those making the materialist and realist turns in Continental philosophy.[2] Johnston’s books are guided by his “transcendental materialism,” which in sum calls for a materialist ontology that nevertheless does not reduce away the gap or figure that is human subjectivity. Johnston argues for retooling Freud and Lacan after the success of the natural sciences in recent decades, but argues that both Freud and Lacan presaged a lot of these successes. Critical of the thinkers of immanence whom he believes, following Hegel, can only give us subjectless substance, Johnston’s work has brought Lacanianism into the 21st century when many wrongly claimed it dead long before the end of the last.[2]
>>8528236
Never heard of him. Not interested.
just fuck my shit up
Literally who?
I can assure you that nobody in analytic philosophy knows or has ever heard of this guy.
Badiou is the only one that comes close, but still rather lacking
why didn't he write
>>8527956
because he was not a great thinker, he was a great banterer, a roaster, a man of one-ups, comeback, and one-liners, a horrible jester that everyone of taste hated and I'd give him the hemlock again, a thousand times again, the smug bastard
>>8527956
I believe the Phaedo reports that he spent some of his time in prison writing, because his daimon or Apollo (don't remember which) told him to, and he wrote some retellings of Aesop's fables. This is all from memory, and I'm not sure of its authenticity.
>>8527970
wow, Pynchon and Kafka are cut from the cloth of greatness
Reviews on this book?
>>8527535
movie was a leftist propaganda that says we all Hitler if we don't embrace the refugees but the books has a better ending.translated to more than 12 languages but very focused on German pop culture and political parties(you may need to google some shit to understand some aspect)
>>8527596
I agree the movie was shit but refugees weren't even remotely hinted at. The message was simply that people are easily deceived by charismatic leaders providing seemingly easy solutions to all problems.
What's the hardest thing for you to write?
For me it's dialogue and especially discussions that are supposed to have any sort of substance. Balancing what the characters say to avoid pretense, making the wrong not stupid and the right not superior (and censoring my own voice), and trying to lead the conversation forward in a natural sense. I find them all hard and together it's a real struggle.
Not getting too philosophical or emotinal about stuff. I can't be banal for the life of me.
Decent prose
Plot.
>Write for an hour
>End up with a quite readable couple of pages about a house
>Literally nothing happens
What's the best version/edition of the Hitchhiker's Guide books?
>>8527167
the original radio series
>>8527167
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-hitchhikers-guide-to-the-galaxy-game-30th-anniversary-edition
Which books are you anxiously waiting to arrive/just got of the mail?
These just got here
>state of siege & the stranger
>the sun also rises
>lolita
>ulysses
>>8526597
I got all these yesterday (top three as gifts, everything below from half price books).
>>8526610
and then I got these today.
>>8526597
Nothing really just Polybius The Rise and Fall of Rome along with Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. You got some awesome choices though OP.
What are your top three favorite Dubliners stories? Top three least favorite?
>Best
The Dead
A Painful Case
A Little Cloud
>Worst
Ivy Day in the Committee Room
A Mother
After the Race
>>8526544
Did the nuns murder the old priest in Sisters
The Dead for sure.
I like Araby a lot too. That last line, damn....
>>8526566
Tfw a creature driven by vanity
Tfw eyes burn with anguish
>age
>location
>current book you're reading, and how do you like it
>18
>North Dakota
>Infinite Jest. Probably the most intelligent commentary on love and relationships I've read thus far.
>>8526287
25, South Africa, Learned Optimish - Martin E. P. Seligman, too soon
>>8526287
>20
>France
>Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. It is pretty nice.
How can individualists and egoists even advocate for individualism, or seek to protect the individual from collective society when it is collective society that invented individuality and is the reason why individuals can exercise any degree of self-determination at all?
pic somewhat related.
viewing individualism and collectivism as oppositional is foolish, i think. they comprise a sort of yin and yang. you need both, the trying part is determining the proper ratio.
It's generally not considered normal to be drinking your mother's milk into adulthood.
>>8526129
The supreme irony of Stirner is that the ego is granted the ability to be an independent individual by the society he calls a spook.
>>8526125
They're not oppositional because the dichotomy is unnatural. The expression of individualism springs only from advanced development of society, a collective entity.
Go to Goodreads, bring back something fun. This really made me think.
>>8525595
>find a book that annoys you on pretty much every level
>continue reading until you've finished it
forwhatpurpose.jpg
>>8525744
you don't understand, you hafta complete every book you start or else you won't be able to reach the yearly goodreads challenge goal!
>>8525744
Or else people will say "wow you can't complain about the book if you didn't finish it."
Write whatever is on your mind
>>8524409
i should be reading, however, here I am staring at that bestiality in your thread
>>8524409
I should be studying but I'm trapped here on 4chan lurking /fa/ and /lit/
I'm disgusting
also thinking about getting a nose job
end me
P L U M P
/sffg/ - Latest Edition
>Fantasy
>Selected: http://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg/
>General: http://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg/
>Flowchart: http://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg/
>Science Fiction
>Selected: http://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg/
>http://imgur.com/a/90laS
>General: http://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg/ >http://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg/
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>>8523021
I know /sffg/ isn't too keen on Rothfuss but I'd like some discussion on TNOTW so far, so thoughts onAbenthy possibly being in league with the Chandrian and murdering all of Kvothe's troupe to set him on the path of going to the university? Just seems odd Abenthy and Kvothe's parents were talking about his potential, how the troupe is holding him back and some slight discussion of Chandrians then one just shows up and murders them all as Abenthy slips away on his own a day or so.
What fantasy writer is the most aesthetic?
>>8523048
Post what you are reading and make suggestions for other anons.
>>8521609
i suggest you continue to read it
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