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10/10 short stories?
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>>8485494
Neil Gaimen does some good work.
But "The Eye of Argon" is just...haunting.
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Dostoevsky's White Nights and it's feels were on point
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Borges: The Immortal
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This guy was a conservative, politically 2016-09-08 05:57:21 Post No.8485492
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This guy was a conservative, politically
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yet many think he was the premier American Philosopher
why is this
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because he was a good fucking philosopher...who gives a shit what his political beliefs were
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>>8485492
Same reason why fucking fascists write the best poetry. They're not living in a fantasy land. Don't forget Heidegger was a nazi
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>>8485492
HMMMM REALLY MAKES U THINK CuCKS BTFO IF U ARENT A WHITE NATIONALIST UR LITERALLY A NU MALE BASED MILO
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Which works should I read of Christian Wolff's prior to reading Kant? Wikipedia lists 21 "important works". Which of these should I read to understand his influence on Kant when I read him? I feel that he's the last philosopher I have to read before tackling Kant, so far I have finished the pre-socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Seneca, Epictetus, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, Berkely, Hume, and Smith (theory of moral sentiments.)
Secondary literature reccs also welcome for Wolff
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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wolff-christian/
I'm thinking: German logic, german metaphysics, and preliminary discourse. Do you guys think I'm missing an important one?
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None.
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>>8485710
Wolff is supposed to bridge the gap between Leibniz and Kant- supposedly there is a very clear transition from Leibniz to Kant if you have Wolff inbetween. That's what I would like to understand by reading him.
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Do any of you actually keep a diary? Why? Do you get enjoyment out of it?
I think if you're keeping a diary you should either do it as practice or because your prose is so fucking beautiful that reading it back causes you to without hesitation. Otherwise I don't see much point to it.
Any /lit/ diaries?
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>>8485329
No need to be embarrassed Anon
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I love the look of old notebooks and journals, but it seems like they're not made like they used to be. It all ends up being faux leather fuck-huge dollar store wizard tomes, or Moleskine and their clones, which are fucking overpriced Chinese black fucking notebooks. Anyone know of notebooks or journals that don't suck?
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>>8485376
I've been using Rhodia's paper because the neutral pH lets fountain pen dry faster and it doesn't bleed on the next page. The construction isn't bad, but I've always though Kukuyo feels better to write on.
Just experiment with shit.
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Hey /lit/, rate my suicide note:
My stomach sinks as my brain is being gnawed away by some terrible monster. Everything I say is stupid, contradictory, pretentious and bland. I’m not funny. I’m certainly not smart. I frequently bend the truth. I never sleep well anymore; every night is spent dwelling on memories of pain and regret. I’m physically repulsive and genetically disordered. I loathe myself but I despise others. I’m an awful friend, a disappointing son and a lazy student. I’m a privileged, well-fed American and guilt-ridden because of it. I’m hopelessly obsessed with a girl who I mean nothing to. Her image ceaselessly stalks my mind and drives me near to insanity. I feel like a caricature of a depressed person or the punchline of a cutting joke. I’m ashamed of myself and I’m sorry for the people unfortunate enough to know me. I’m sorry for the father who begot me and the mother who birthed me. I’m sorry for the brother who perhaps at one time looked up to me. Sorry, but this is the end of the road for old [insert name here].
I bid ye adieu, my fellows.
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>>8485321
The last memory you have is going to be me giving your suicide note a 2/10
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>>8485321
disappointingly banal. a 2/10 is generous
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Good thing you're killing yourself
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Mediocre writers that are famous for some reason 2016-09-08 04:13:54 Post No.8485303
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Mediocre writers that are famous for some reason
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I'l go first
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>>8485303
>BIG
>FAT
>FELLOWS
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>>8485303
me desu
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James Joyce
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/QTDDTOT/ - Questions that don't deserve their own thread 2016-09-08 04:10:46 Post No.8485297
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/QTDDTOT/ - Questions that don't deserve their own thread
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Hey /lit/, so I've read republic, symposium, protagoras, phaedrus, ion, euthyphro, apologia, crito, meno, and phaedo. Are there any particularly essential works that I should read?
Also questions that don't deserve their own thread general.
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>>8485297
Timaeus
Timaeus
Timaeus
Timaeus
(In the middle ages, this was considered the quintessential work of Plato, rather than Republic.)
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Nonfiction that studies the relationship between Victorian Britons and their idea of Classical Antiquity?
I'd like to see how they reconciled with their idols being outed as rampant homosexuals and drunks as new discoveries where made in their lifetime.
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Why is the KJV bible recommended so much on this board, when there is also such an anti-protestant/reformist attitude?
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ITT authors who are normally never connected but remind you of one another
>Thomas Pynchon and Thomas Carlyle
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william faulkner and ken kesey
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Nietzsche andRobert E. Howardhave surprisingly similar views on the over man
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Stirner and Kierkegaard
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Pynchon is for people who force themselves through shit in an attempt to convince themselves they are smarter than others.
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>>8485163
moshi moshi bait desu
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>>8485166
The never changing fanbase reaction says it all. Ironic "bait" responses that does nothing but prove my point in what kind of people would claim to like him.
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>>8485166
sleep tight dubs pizza
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Best short stories in sci-fi?
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I still can't believe how much this scared me when I read it. Also, 'nanoangstrom' is an incredibly cool word imo.
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>>8485100
I enjoyed Second Variety and Paycheck by Philip K Dick, from the early 1950s. I can't speak of his later short stories until I read them.
Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles has some standout stories, The Third Expedition, The Moon Be Still As Bright, Usher II. He's clearly a better prose writer than PKD, but part of PKD's appeal is his nutty ideas and stilted pulp prose.
I'd like to get around to Theodore Sturgeon's short stories, having read two of his novels.
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Isaac Asimov: Victory Unintentional.
So /lit/, if Nabokov read your novel, what would he say about it, or you as a writer?
Mine would probably go something like
>emotional drivel. Good ideas but poorly executed, like a child trying to write like a grown up. Maybe he would have done better if he'd tried again.
Your turn!
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>>8485088
A wonderfully pellucid work! Translucent, lapidary, and effete. I shall now take out of your trousers the scepter of your passion to insert into my mouth and lovingly caress with my strong Germanic tongue.
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>>8485088
>good ideas
nice humblebrag
your novel is shit
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>>8485088
>like a child trying to write like a grown up
>like an anon trying to write like a Nabokov
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My gf has written play in Shakespearean style (it's even in Early Modern English) about the rise and fall of an options trader (her dad is a hedge fund manager and he trained her, her grandfather also was and trained him). She's found a play to have it staged. Anyway, she wanted to "O Fortuna" from Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" for its opening because she sees it as appropriate, but she was worried it might be too trite. Should she go with it, or not? I personally think it's fine.
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*place to have it staged
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absolutely not fine, it's seen worse overuse than an asshole after a diarrheic week-end in Shitflowham
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>>8485080
this desu
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Hey /lit/ I would like to get into Habermas, any essays or some literary criticism that would help me have a first approach to his work?
Any underrated writings or something I should know about him?
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>> I would like to get into Habermas
Just don't. Don't. Even his writing lisps.
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>>I would like to get into Habermas
Don't. Just don't. Even his writing lisps.
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https://books.google.com/books/about/Habermas_and_Contemporary_Society.html?id=CfrFAAAAQBAJ
My old prof wrote a book about him.
books about addiction/loneliness/living an unfulfilled life?
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>>8485028
Stoner
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>>8485028
I suggest you stop wallowing in self pity
Its only acceptable for teens to be dumb enough to whine about this type of shit when they are capable of changing it
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>>8485079
define "capable of changing it"
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ITT: Novels with edgy nihilistic protagonists 2016-09-08 02:10:53 Post No.8484937
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>>8484937
my diary to be frank
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>>8484937
Ulysses
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>>8484951
>not your suicide note
step up nigga