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Is there a book where societal norms, human sociology, societal laws, and human expectations don't apply? I'm looking for a book that portrays a civilization outside of these things, outside of human behavior, outside of human thought, a sort of strange civilization, if not a utopia, or something where depravity and strangeness occurs, but where human prejudice and rules and expectations don't apply.
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>>8527670
my diary desu
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>>8527670
J.G. Ballard is set in contemporary times but this is a good description of his works. Try High Rise or Crash.
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uh, naked lunch?
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What are some worthwhile novels of the 20th/21st century?
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>>8527645
Ulysses
Gravity's Rainbow
Infinite Jest
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>>8527645
The art of the deal.
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>>8527656
>novels
so it's fiction?
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I'm about to read this. What am I in for, /lit/? After reading so much depressive shit, its refreshing to pick up a light-hearted comedy filled with laffs
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>>8527479
its boring
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I have the john ciardi edition, but I feel it's the sort of book that requires annotations, so I feel I'd need to buy the norton critical edition or something.
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>>8527479
>tfw John and Dante are the only 2 humans to ever have visited heaven
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>tfw you read every one of these
>tfw this series is now less relevant than warhammer 40k novels
god is this embarrassing
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>>8527445
why should a book's relevance matter in regards to your enjoyment (or lack thereof) of that book?
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>>8527445
>the obvious point where the publisher stopped trying to reel in her rambling shit
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>>8527445
i dont regret it, but ill never read them again
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What's a book which is just like one enormous, deeply sarcastic statement?
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>>8527431
Notes from Underground
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>>8527431
I havent even read him but gaddis. Id bet my life on this as the best answer
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>>8527431
The Present Age
Kierkegaard ends the book with 'haha, I was just kidding.'
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how did diogenes get cucked out cynicism becoming mainstream. why did stoicism make it big
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stop saying cucked
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>>8527366
it's the appropriate usage because he saw a philosophy he influenced blow up. i believe it was the real reason for his suicide
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Cynacism without hedonism is just autism.
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Is this the face of /lit/?
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>>8527254
No, it's the face of /pol/, but they don't realize it.
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>>8527254
No, he's actually intelligent.
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What's the best cyperpunk novel out there?
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>>8527217
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
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Honestly I think the best is the Sprawl trilogy
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Sprawl and Bridge are good trilogies
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I still don't get it
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>>8527187
kys
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>>8527187
you are the black dot
you are smart
you consider your options
you recognize the flaw in all of them (the fatal flaw, that precludes you from doing it)
in inaction, you commit the worst flaw of all
don is the red dot
he does not consider his options
he refuses to see the flaw in his actions
in action, he is cleansed of all sin
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>>8527234
Thx
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Pay no attention to the criticism of people who have never themselves written a notable work.
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What if their criticism is a notable work?
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>>8527173
Then pay attention to it.
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I bet you can't post a better cover of this masterpiece. 2016-09-19 22:36:27 Post No.8527156
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I bet you can't post a better cover of this masterpiece. 2016-09-19 22:36:27 Post No.8527156
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I bet you can't post a better cover of this masterpiece.
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Pro tip: You can't /lit/
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>>8527156
we all know where this is going...
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>>8527156
what translation is this, you slut?
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>>8527179
"Pevear and Volokhonsky" my nice citizen. Take care.
Okay /lit/ this is my first time posting but really needed an answer!
I've read through the 7 Game of Thrones books several times (mostly loved them) and you'll prob know that it's been ages since the last one.
A friend of mine online just mentioned to me that GRRMartin has actually stopped writing to work on writing the script for the series!
My question is is this true at all and is there any news on when he will resume the book!?
I know GoT is popular so apologies if this is a common question/ thread.
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Goethe's Faust
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GRRM is—if not yet physically—at the very least mentally and emotionally dead
its best to treat the series as it stands now as COMPLETE, any work he releases at this point would be even more putrid and puerile than his latest work
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>>8527101
Why would you come here to ask that? Go look at his blog, for Christ's sake. And no, he isn't writing any more scripts, and Winds of Winter should be out in March (they've delayed the start of the next season of the show for it). The final book will never be completed by Martin.
fuck
i was having a good time
with burgers
a people like that
that tell me to live in north korea
and that human nature
don't fit with the good Marx
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>>8527021
Nice deterritorialized rhizomatic flowing virtual revolutionary active differential chaosmotic poem-post there anon.
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Communism looks good on paper.
What about human nature, ever think of that?
Move to North Korea if you don't like capitalism.
You see, under communism everyone's equally poor.
Bread lines
Venezuela
Alright thread can be closed again.
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>>8527032
:*
love anon
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Was he a good philosopher 2016-09-19 21:29:12 Post No.8526982
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on the level of Derrida, Deleuze, Focault etc.?
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He's doing stuff that is very different from the guys you mentioned. To me, it's like asking if Federer is better than Woods. He's among the very best the analytic tradition of philosophy has produced and by the way a writer of very entertaining, simple but elegant and often greatly funny prose.
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>>8526982
better. Because the problems he worked on were far more interesting
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but isn't Quine's writing basic?
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I'm a poetry pleb, please help me to be patrician.
Suggest and recommend some God-tier work.
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WB Yeats is king
also Wallace Stevens
some of Conrad Aiken
and i adore John Clare, not sure how God-Tier he is considered but he's one of my faves
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>>8526983
Keats and Shelley too
honestly just buy some anthologies and figure out who you like that way
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>>8526890
Buy an anthology and look further into those who stand out to you. I do the same thing with philosophical movements I'm interested in.Just got the Modern Library anthology of the American Transcendentalist movement. I'm pumped.