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Let's discuss Houllebecq.
I like how everyone hates him because of his anti-mudslime books.
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>>8437258
>obvious edgebait
Just a few more days until summer is over
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>>8437262
Fuck off Ahmed, I just want to start a serious discussion.
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>>8437258
i think he's a good writer, i really liked 'whatever'. is the muslim hatred thing a meme? I haven't read soumission, but ive heard him say in an interview something to the effect that it's the stupidest religion
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Anyone actually read this? Does it explain Gnosticism better than Foucault's Pendulum? Is there discernible talent? Will Bloom's other fiction book ever be published?
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He has another one?
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>>8437216
It's unfinished. In an interview, he said he kept it in an attic.
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>>8437237
I think I remember him saying something like that, and I also remember him talking about some kind of Walt Whitman musical he was working on. Wonder if these will ever see the light of day.
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Write what's on your mind
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>he he he that rabbit's asshole must be very tight
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This new hat feels rather nice.
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>>8437238
why are you wearing a hat indoors anon?
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I don't get it.
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>A kind of pulp fiction Kafka
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>>8437181
everything there is to get about it is expressed much better in Blade Runner.
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>>8437187
>A prophet
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what book will make my life good
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Start with the Greeks.
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>>8437148
dunno if it will work for you, but pic related helped make my life quite a bit better
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>>8437156
kek
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Dear /lit/.
A month ago someone posted a thread with this picture: (see pic related). I found it interesting and looked it up and somehow it's a russian artist and/or norwegian photographer. Real underground stuff. Is the original OP present. Is it you? If not: What is it?
Sorry for the directly non-lit-related post but i was posted on here so i guess this is a /lit/-related metapost.
Bless brothers! Keep on readin'
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>>8437143
Bump.
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I am the original OP but I am neither of the people in that photograph, or the photographer. I am merely a very interesting individual.
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>>8438535
How did you find it? I mean... What's your story bro?
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Why didnt you tell me Baldwin is a major American novelist?
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>>8437062
Is Giovanni's room worth reading? I want to read it because I want lgbt literature I can related to.
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>>8437071
Its great. Another Country is his best though.
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>>8437062
He isn't though. He's trash promoted by self-hating white progressives, resentful mud people, and leftist pseuds (redundant, I know) to virtue signal and affect an attitude of sanctimonious concern for minorities. He contributed virtually nothing to American literature and would be forgotten today were it not for braindead liberals who deliberately conflate politics with art.
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how legit is this book? as in is it factual or is some of the stuff made up?
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All facts are made up
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>>8437420
kys cunt
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That looks like the most bogus compendium of exaggerations and lies ever printed.
Ashamed of you, anon. Unless you want it for that reason. In which case your sense of camp is 10/10.
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>A traffic jam when you're already late
>A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break
>It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
>It's meeting the man of my dreams
>and then meeting his beautiful wife
>And isn't it Ironic, don't you think
>A little too ironic, and yeah I really do think
What did he mean by this?
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The mockery you exhibit in this post is symptomatic of the kind of cynical detachment he criticised - ironically.
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>>8437010
Would it be worse to meet the man of your dreams with a beautiful wife who you know he won't leave but doesn't really love so you can booty call him for meaningless sex; or for the man of your dreams to have an ugly wife that he truly is devoted to leaving you knowing you will never have that which you desire?
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>>8437031
hey man come on it's a thursday night and i've made one or two good posts already i think i'm entitled to a little shitpost without being turned into some pomo strawman
I think that's the capital P Problem with Wallacites: you take this kind of shit too seriously. It's all in good nature man
It's just a little jest :)
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Is "being remembered" or "having your name in the history books" the ultimate scam? Even if you ignore how worthwhile It is, it seems like it's 100 % hopeless to achieve. Plato, Aristotle, Darwinn, Newton, and Einstein are already hogging half the limelight and all the first two did was unfalsifiable assertions and mental masturbation.
Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Hitler: Good attempts.
Business people are never remembered. I listened to the in our time episode about George Berkeley. All he did was make up an unfalsifiable system and he will be remembered more than 10 times as much as Bill Gates, Messi, Warren Buffett, Steve Jobs, and Taylor Swift put together, even ignoring the University of California Berkeley completely.
I think scientists and Mathematicians are at a disadvantage altogether. You can't metaphorically provide solid foundations for people to climb higher, like George Boole or Lev Landau (random names). You need to metaphorically create a self perpetuating shit cannon that allows future scholars to splurge your shit everywhere. That's why Keynes and Friedman will be remembered more than all current Economics memorial prize winners put together.
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>>8436993
like Nostradamus?
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>>8436993
>Is "being remembered" or "having your name in the history books" the ultimate scam?
Only if you don't mummify yourself corrrctly at death.
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>>8436993
It's not a scam because nobody forces you to aim for it. I think the idea is dumb youthful idealism but whatever
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Im 18
Never read a book entirely in my life
1984 interests me. Good place to start?
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>>8436974
dunno. what kind of shit are you into interests-wise?
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>>8436974
>Good place to start?
Absolutely, all my friends at /pol/ read it. You will soon see the comparisons between contemporary governance and 1984. It is a true redpill!
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>>8436974
I'd say it is actually, its the first serious novel I read when I was younger and probably what got me into literature in ernest
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Are these Walking Dead novels any good? Or is it just shit shoveled out to the fans for quick cash?
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>>8436901
yea! its pretty good! go buy it ;)
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>walking dead
>novel
Yeah man, I'm sure they're amazing.
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Why would you read them instead of the comic?
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What kind of books should I read post-workout?
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Orwell's nonfiction so you can see the futility of your preening and admire a true ascetic. Also because it is exceptionally good.
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>>8436897
The World As Will and Idea
Star Wars novels
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>>8436897
Whatever you're reading at the time
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Sickest looking copy of the Bible? Seems like a book to have a nice version of
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>>8436879
I literally just ordered this.
>King James Version
>Barnes & Nobels Collectible Classics
Its just beautiful, and has over 200 Gustave Doré illustrations.
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>>8436946
Did you post a pic of that yesterday next to IJ you memer?
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>>8436946
Forgot pic
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Which of them better captured the themes of American life?
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>>8436865
Noam Chomsky. Michel Foucault was French although BDSM dungeons are surely a central part of US """culture"""
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>>8436865
DeLillo because Franzen is a mouth-breathing retard.