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what is that. i like the cover. greys give me inner peace and i want to be abducted by them
>sorry

Aliens are just fairies that have figured out how to keep doing their thing in our more technology-focused world.

Way to appropriate and marginalize extraterrestrial!

>>>/x/

>>8498039
Fight to live and feel anything

http://rickroderick.org/fight-to-feel-anything/

>>8498039
Different people may get different messages.

It there was one 'moral' of the story, in my lecture it was related to what it means being human and the things we put between ourselves and other people.
The androids of the book behave pretty much like humans, and I'd say they were more human than the humans who hunted them.

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not everything has a hidden meaning. sometimes you've just got to feel

I can't think, I can't write.

The false continental/analytic dichotomy is one of the most dangerous phenomenon philosophy is facing in this age.

Hm... if what you're implying is the case, there is one question that comes up: why does he wear the mask?

>>8498073
He could just as well have been another Ishmael. A boring humdrum introverted bookish type in the middle of nowhere, who decided to stop shitposting about norgo cabins, six-volume memoirs, existential crises, then decided to get /fit/, stop being a beta neet, and reinvent himself as a strong independent colored man, who sometimes needs a man (in his bed).

My linking of this alludes to TE Lawrence, a Kevin Costner film, Tarzan, the real life case of Rachel Dolezal, and yes, Dune.

>>8497994
>Unmasking Queequeg
>A Queer Perspective on Gendered Bodies within Postcolonial Perceptions of the Other in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
>by OP

"no."

is there a Pynchon Universe? Do all his books exist in the same world

>>8497933
>No revolution
>No post revolution meme and fighting period
>No britbongs go back period
>No corruption period
After that he does OK but he needs more about manifest destiny and the roaring 20s, as well as something about the great depression.
I dont think he missed much in the 20th. Maybe something about hippies and bums.
As well as little things talking about society in the 21st.
How long does he have to live again? I want this.

>>8497921
>historical inaccuracies
Who gives a shit lad.

>>8497921
>Reading shakespeare for historical accuracy

It was the 1600s

I think Kipling was pretty fucking good.

alice in wonderland, a wrinkle in time, the list goes on...

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>>8497915
Of course. Most classic great "children's lit" is nothing of the sort, it's just g-rated and/or whimsical and fantastic, and has layers for different readers to grasp. Wind in the Willows and Kipling are first-class.

Why do you have a girl name?

>>8497826
He sort of looks like a much less masculine version of me.

>>8497848
I know, I wondered the same thing when I saw his profile.

really? this was my first classic and i was quite involved in the story i couldn't stop reading, probably cause i love the time that the book is set.

>>8497808
Get an edition with footnotes. It's an amazing, amazing book, but it's just not very comprehensible to the modern reader without footnotes. I very highly recommend this edition:

https://www.amazon.com/Critical-Editions-Melville-Harrison-Paperback/dp/B00LLOAQK8/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&qid=1473658886&sr=8-11&keywords=moby+dick

>>8497808
See >>8499360

Today I went on a run and got all sweaty but too lazy to shower afterwards so it's not after midnight and sitting in my underwear reading The Scarlet Letter for school. I don't like it.
I've read Kafka on the Shore. I liked Oshima. The book was ok, I'm not sure I understood everything.

>>8497840
*Now
Sorry, typos.

>>8497840
Running is nice. At the start of this summer I began running daily after work (6:30pm), and that lasted until the middle of July. Eventually I got too lazy and gave up. It felt good while is lasted though. Perhaps I should go on a run today.

How often do you run, and when?

>tfw you met DFW in 2015 and he told you to keep writing

>>8497781
I'm literally dfw ama

>>8497788
filtered

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I frogpost all the time and I'm pretty fuckin stupid

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>my preemptive face when someone tries to dispute op

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>nihilism
Just kill yourself now if you think this is a smart philosophy

Whaler
Scrivener
Librarian

>>8497719

probably not bookseller. sure, spend lots of time "organizing" when in reality just shopping for yourself, which is amazing, but a ban on reading anything on the clock, forced to talk to coworkers that dont give a shit about anything outside of YA and comic books or malcolm gladwell, having to sell the same shitass sale books that you know theyre not going to read anyways, watching people walk in to fuck around and not even buy anything..

and then once in a while someone comes in to buy a couple of used copies of something that youve loved and you regain a certain confidence in your job, wanting to finally talk to them about that book that you loved and what you both should be reading next.

its actually not so bad. that last exchange goes one of two ways. it works and you feel good, or one/both of you are so fucking NEET and worthless socially that its almost like there was a kind of violation there.

stalking

>>8497697
No it appears you accidentally chose a translation

>>8497725

Can I get a non-meme answer?

>>8497742
get oxford world classics

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Why in the hell....just what...this can't be serious

>>8497687
what. what?

Excellent edition.