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>>8465822
'everything you were told in school was a lie'

How about Old Custer?

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>>8465822

>>8465821
english is for retards

FUCKING READ HIM HOLY SHIT WHY DO YOU HAVE AUTISM YOU IDIOTS WOULDN'T LISTEN TO GOULD'S BACH BECAUSE HE PLAYS A PIANO JESUS FUCK

>>8465949
To be fair Gould's Bach is kind of hard to listen to and it's not because he's playing a piano

>>8465819
no but dont begin with glenn greenwald

>>8465819

>No Place to Hide Glenn Greenwald

It's the mafia after him? Or is there no place that will take him?

>glenn greenwald

*tips fedora*

>>8465805
>why is this?
more realistic

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>>8465805
>Also, it seems as though modern fiction prefers to portray fractured men who have failed as fathers and husbands, why is this?
Because the power elite is seeking to psychologically emasculate us, and they have succeeded. Therefore, beta passive latent homosexual feminine faggot writers nowadays can only write about their failures of fathers, which represent, at heart, the failures of their own testes.

pic related average size of modern man's dick

Provide some examples of what you're talking about

>>8465795
wait what
i read this when it came out and i dont remember that reveal

>>8465882
maybe i just misinterpreted it, but it basically said that scout's uncle screwed her mom, which meant that she and jem were his kids, not atticus'

>>8465795
This is a sequal?

Also interested in something like that.

Hopeful bump

Damn, I even posted a funny picture and everything.

>>8465771
The main impulses of humans are obvious things like the will to power, social validation, sexual success, etc. When a person fails at these aims they invent other goals, they endlessly reinterpret reality and create systems to save themselves from the bare reality of their failures.

>>8465771
Hey saddude69. Post this shit on your tumblr where it belongs.

>>8465820
I already posted it there, don't worry :)

>>8465756
I've had nothing but good experiences with their books.

>>8465756
They remind me of skipping class and hanging out in the library when I was in high school.

>>8465756
I own one from Philip K Dick and all i can say is that it is a gorgeous edition. Can recommend!

>>8465661
This is now a thread about russian literature

>>8467391
we dont discuss doestoyevsky's short stories enough desu

>>8467391
i just got a copy of Turgenev's Sketches, p. excited.

>psychoanalysis
>>>/b/

>>8465641
Why so?

I like Ricoeur's idea of psychoanalysis as a hermeneutic of the subject, but it's also a bit of a (typically French) cop-out, so I try to keep a (typically Anglo) comment by Chomsky that psychoanalysis is categorically wrong, just flat wrong and dumb, in my head as a corrective.

In its broadest sense, it's interesting as philosophy, or as a canvas for philosophical insight to be worked out on. But it's pretty bad as science. But again, you have to resist even the subtler forms of scientism, which deny the possibility of any distant landscape just because the intervening path is badly drawn. The subtle cultural effects of a widespread attunement to psychodynamics and the hermeneutics of the unconscious might have benefits that aren't easily measurable except in hindsight. Cognitive science people are some of the greediest fucking wieners, more like psychoanalysts in trying to subsume everything to their discipline than they think.

Practicing psychoanalysis is generally pretty awful though. Some of it is OK, but generally the more OK it is, the more informed by general psychology it is, until it becomes only a source of insights rather than being anything constitutive of the therapy at its base. And it's also full of insane cultist fucks, thieves, and charisma worshipers, and has ruined many, many lives.

Psychoanalytical humanities scholarship is the same as far as I can tell. When it's a source of insights, it can be cool. But then it just becomes nuanced intellectual biography that vaguely involves "drives." When it tries to be rigorous, it starts to read like Cold War communist literature, where everything has to be written according to the comprehensive cult worldview of dialectical materialism. It's just really fucking bland.

It's one book split into 3 because publishers thought it was too long to be a single book.

>>8465612
Answer the question.

>>8465620
no

>>8465544
Your Mother's belly, with muh jizz lololol

>>8465544
>writing

lmfao pleb

gtfo pseud

>>8465556
Let's be honest, 70% of the time is spent drinking and smoking.

>>8465538
Pynchon, Joyce, Goethe, Wolfe, Woolf.

Anyway what's up with the Delany spam?

>>8465545
do you honestly think Joyce is as good as Delany?

>>8465553
I don't think Delany is worthy of sucking his dick.
Delany isn't the best science fiction writer.

Sparked my interest in what's to come in 21st century lit.
Eggers is okay by me. His last 4 or 5 don't interest me tho.

I enjoyed it. It's nice to me because it's a real work of fiction, you know, it's relevant. There's no magical realism or surrealism or anything like that, it's just a raw story of this guy's life. I think it's heartening in a time when real dreams and hopes can get crushed by excess cynicism and stuff like that.

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>>8466685
>work of fiction, you know, it's relevant

>>8465503
>leftist cuck detected

>tfw fiction is full of interesting manifestations of man's primeval fear of the femme fatale vagina dentata etc.
>tfw real life is full of basic bitches who want to have their hair pulled by guys in polo shirts
>tfw dominant women don't exist and it's just your male brain progressively rationalising/seeking out fundamentally masculine power-behaviours in a gender incapable of authentically originating them

only men can feel the power lust or power tripping necessary to be sexually dominant. even when women are psychotic tyrants, they just do passive feminine shit and technically back it up with force. they can't even be interesting as literal tyrants. any man, even a pussy-ass bitch, has some kind of silverback gorilla potential to be like YES! I AM THE KING NOW! I DEMAND BLOWJOBS FROM !!!!!!!!!!!!!EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!! women will forever be the "ummmm i dunno lollllllllll~" gender, always glancing to their current freudian Daddy (boyfriend, actual father, whatever) to see what they should do
>The man's happiness is: I will. The woman's happiness is: He will.

femdom is the worst fetish ever. it takes what YOUR jungian hindbrain perceives as power, and superimposes it on women, who don't have the same shit in their heads. they just don't. it's literally as retarded as discovering an alien race with completely different evolutionary history but they accidentally look "femininely" hourglass-shaped so you try to fuck them. that ain't a lady bro! it's an alien. it only superficially resembles the thing your brain is programmed to find hot.

it's probably some epigenetic manifestation of group evolutionary strategy where i've been randomly selected by statistical gene activation to want to give women all my resources and be okay with them cuckolding me. we're living in a time of superpeace so everyone's hormones go into Faggot Beta Mode, collectively, and that progressively increases our offspring's chances of epigenetically activating some subservience cluster of genes, behavioral sink shit that guarantees the majority of living men will be Servitor Drones. my brain is trying to get me to give all my caveman bananas to the alpha couples in the superharem. when a meteor hits earth the stress hormones will reactivate and humanity will default to "krateros!!" rules, with more competition to dominate the harem. but my offspring won't be among them, because i'm the guy who wants to LITERALLY LICK POO HOLES AND FEET instead of fucking and impregnating women and imposing my will on them.

>>8465503
>implying I'm not ridden with guilt right now