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I don't really care if each work has something unique to offer.

"canon" is overrated shit anyways. It's better if the work can stand alone.

It's kind of lazy because it's drawing on existing canon and then only changing a bit is like a book describing its goblins as "basically Tokien's goblins except they're purple".

Multiple works sharing characters or settings is completely fine, but trying to play off of a pre-existing template is cheap and not really indicative of a "good" story because you have to already be established to do it.

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I know you said that you aren't referring to time travel as a whole but god damn are time loops the dumbest shit. "I don't have to explain it because it's always happened this way xD". Just imagine if this approach was taken for literally anything else.

>>8439023
Timelines, timetravel and AU themes are the worst shit one can ever insert into a genre fiction. Even some fetishistic faggotry would be better. That's because in 99% of the cases existing of the timelines and such imply that either characters created the whole another university, or that the universe is actually multiverse with every single possibility being realised somewhere across it. Both possibilities have extremely far-reaching philosophical and ethical implications, and every single time the author fails to investigate these consequences.

Yes, I am mad.

>>8438995
>- as a scientific text
Like what? A journal article?

>- as a string of essays
Probably the best, depends what you're writing really

>- as a continuous essay that branches around
Unless you're a phenomenal writer, that's going to be a rambling mess

>- just burger it up like Tractatus
What does that mean?

>>8438995
>problem is that I have absolutely no idea how to.
>I haven't read any philosophy books but I want to write one

>>8439053
I mean a scientific text as in an extremely dry text which follows the scientific route of observation before/during/after and then postitions the theory/idea in different lights. For example, see Kauffman's The Origin of Order

I've thought about doing it as a continuous essay. I'll see if it is any good, if not I'll do the book in small parts

>>- just burger it up like Tractatus
>What does that mean?

1. Wittgenstein had aspergers
1.1. Most likely
1.11 Most likely, as in ~p = p
1.2 The statement is meant to be humorous
1.21 But if the reader hasn't read Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, he might think the statement is rude
1.211 Thus it is presumed that the reader has read Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
2. Aaaand.... WHAM! Truth functions hahhahahahaha
2.1 One element
{↑}, {↓}.
Two elements
{ {\displaystyle \vee } \vee , ¬}, { {\displaystyle \wedge } \wedge , ¬}, {→, ¬}, {←, ¬}, {→, {\displaystyle \bot } \bot }, {←, {\displaystyle \bot } \bot }, {→, {\displaystyle \not \leftrightarrow } \not \leftrightarrow }, {←, {\displaystyle \not \leftrightarrow } \not \leftrightarrow }, {→, {\displaystyle \not \to } \not \to }, {→, {\displaystyle \not \leftarrow } \not \leftarrow }, {←, {\displaystyle \not \to } \not \to }, {←, {\displaystyle \not \leftarrow } \not \leftarrow }, { {\displaystyle \not \to } \not \to , ¬}, { {\displaystyle \not \leftarrow } \not \leftarrow , ¬}, { {\displaystyle \not \to } \not \to , {\displaystyle \top } \top }, { {\displaystyle \not \leftarrow } \not \leftarrow , {\displaystyle \top } \top }, { {\displaystyle \not \to } \not \to , {\displaystyle \leftrightarrow } \leftrightarrow }, { {\displaystyle \not \leftarrow } \not \leftarrow , {\displaystyle \leftrightarrow } \leftrightarrow }.
Three elements
{ {\displaystyle \lor } \lor , {\displaystyle \leftrightarrow } \leftrightarrow , {\displaystyle \bot } \bot }, { {\displaystyle \lor } \lor , {\displaystyle \leftrightarrow } \leftrightarrow , {\displaystyle \not \leftrightarrow } \not \leftrightarrow }, { {\displaystyle \lor } \lor , {\displaystyle \not \leftrightarrow } \not \leftrightarrow , {\displaystyle \top } \top }, { {\displaystyle \land } \land , {\displaystyle \leftrightarrow } \leftrightarrow , {\displaystyle \bot } \bot }, { {\displaystyle \land } \land , {\displaystyle \leftrightarrow } \leftrightarrow , {\displaystyle \not \leftrightarrow } \not \leftrightarrow }, { {\displaystyle \land } \land , {\displaystyle \not \leftrightarrow } \not \leftrightarrow , {\displaystyle \top } \top }.

>>8439081
I bet Plato read a shitload of books before writing his dialogues

But yeah, that's true. I've only read the books of NEETzsche, Camus, Heidegger and Witty. Any suggestions on the original subject?

"That" by Stephen Queen

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This.

>>8438961
"Id" by Sigmund Freud

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

>>8438949
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>>8438943
>Any books you consider life-changing?
Antifragile and a book on aging and food.

Scientific books in particular, namely those on cognitive bias, ecosystems and evolution as well as complex systems. The latter which Taleb the author of antifragile uses to mold and back up his ideas.

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>>8438903
>Went to Barnes and Noble and was impressed with their philosophy section.

Literally every Barnes and Noble I've been to, their philosophy section has been: those shite pop philosophy books, Kant, Kierkegaard, Plato, Nietzche and Ayn Rand.

You must live near a college campus or something.

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>>8438933
>in Finland
>biggest bookstore chain has a "psychology/philosophy" shelf
>almost everything is horrible pop phil/psych, self-help and Sun Tzu
in the middle of it all, in fitting company, I find this

>>8438946
Violence has been so far the best Zizek I've read aside from perhaps, Demanding the Impossible. It's his most accessible book.

The Fourth Century by Édouard Glissant

fucking flashbacks and stream of consciousness

saving the white race

>>8438869
Create your own. Not gonna do your job.
Sage

>>8438869

Destroy as much capital as you can.

>deep as fuck movies
Name them anon

I liked the painted bird by kosinski

You're just an edgy teen

I suggest you buy Mein Kampf, 120 Days of Sodom and a lot of Chuck Palahniuk and just get it over with

>>8438883
>You're just an edgy teen
You're such a fucking idiot it actually hurts me to think people are this stupid.

>>8438836
Foucault. You can say he tried.

>>8438880

Tried what?

>>8438922
Propose something new which actually matters.

>>8438827
I haven't read the book but when I was in high school that guy came to my school once and rapped in front of us.

>>8438832
Did they invite him or did he just show up?

>>8438848
They probably paid him to do it. My school was strange, they kept bringing in all these really progressive speakers to talk to the student body whilst at the same time instructing us in conservative Catholic dogma.

The poem is as to Einstein's proof of special relativity as your glossing of its surface content for meaning is to a math-illiterate's glossing of Einstein's math for its meaning

>I don't get what all the fuss is about. Just looks like a bunch of symbols to me.

Learn math and come back

One thing to remember is that it wasn't meant to be read as a book but instead was part of recited oral tradition.

>>8438792
What are your fav books?

>>8438786
The same way you run faster, swim faster, type faster, play guitar scales faster. By just doing the thing.

But more practically, one thing I did pick up, when having to read texts for information, was to follow lines with a pencil. This seems to focus the eyes on the text and prevent them from straying, or being distracted.

There is another way of reading where the eye is focused on the centre of the page, past the first few words or so. The idea is to read those words peripherally. I have never devoted myself to doing this, but I can see how it could be feasible if it is practised.

Good literature should not be raced through, obviously.

>>8438786
Unless you're pathetically slow, don't. Rather focus on your ability pay attention to the text.

>>8438839
Sure but the main purpose is for nonfiction works. Heavy informative writting. (no other book board)

>>8438807
I've been doing some of the tracking you speak of and it definitely helps with the focus. I'm thinking of doing a skim/scan mix because I can see benefits to it.

>>8438764
Fagles I believe

fitz or latti

Proto-Indo-European, or at the very least Sanskrit or Pre-Homeric Greek if you're being casual about it

>>8438574
It's not a "series" at all. It is a single novel, split into four or two volumes.
I've also never seen that cover.
They fucked it up, the illustrator didn't read it.
His chest is bare, he wears a cloak with a hood, a mask and the tip of the sword is sharp because it's a ceremonial executioners sword.

>>8438587
>autismpuzzlepiece.jpg

>>8438587
Is his chest bare? at least for most of the first volume it seemed like he was wearing full robes. I know he doesn't wear his mask for most of it either. BUT ok I gather you mean it's a whole rather than a book and it's sequels, and should continue to the next volume.

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>>8438550
If you were my son, I would beat you.

>>8438578
He did

>margaret thatcher

????????