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>actually buying books

>>8410780
You make me sick.

My feelings aboard this board are fine and dandy but although I am able to see clearly so I am unsure as writing this message whether the aforementioned feeling pertains to this thread but perhaps you could tell us whether it does, friend.

>>8410726
You're funny. Let's chat sometime. <3

yeah, I'm blind, what of it
you're all just a bunch of fucking dweebs anyways, i got my hot ass girlfriend to type this shit and after she sends it i'm gonna get that morning pussy

>>8410691
You either can, or can not. You can't 'advance' in reading level by practice. You either grow into it, or you don't. This is not a video game where you 'level up'.

>>8410720
Only intelligent responses please.

>ulysses
You need to have read 29 books, including at least 2 written before 500 AD and 8 from between 1600 and 1922 AD. You also need to be familiar with the mechanics involved in penises.

>gravity's rainbow
You need to have read 26 books, including at least 1 written by a German author, 2 from between 1945 and 1965 AD, and 2 from between 1965 and 1990 AD. You also need to be familiar with at least one penis

>infinite Jest
You need to have read 3 books, including at least 1 of over 100 pages and 1 written for ages 10 and over. You also need to be familiar with masturbation.

Ulysses by James Joyce
Infinite Jest by Whoever The Fuck
Third Meme Book

Ethics by (((Baruch Spinoza)))

Aristotle ofc

>>8410612
Pardon the bad grammer on my phone and half the screen is cracked

>>8410612
It'd not a fucking booklist. Read what you want, all philosophies are incredibly personal and different for all humans anyway.

The only real order with philosophy is references and you don't have to read those linearly either.

G R E E K S
R
E
E
K
S

start with'em

how about you separate yourself from this board and never come back?

>>8410606
reddit.com/r/books

r/books

>Franzenstein
>great

He's not looking too good.

>>8410595
no, franzen is not good

woof

RYes. Language just consists of arbitrary words attached to ideas and objects. Without knowing a spoken language, you would still develop a method of attaching meaning to objects, in order to recall, compare, and think about them.

Doubtful, or so it seems to me.

One can certainly, or obviously, have a sequence of contiguous sense experiences unified, perhaps, by an underlying and continuous will to survive, albeit unconsciously. In that case, a subject emerges, but - it would seem to me - the subject would be entirely ignorant of its own status 'as subject'. Unless, of course, the memories which that subject accrued - which would be sense, rather than language, impressions - i.e. the bitter taste of poison, or pleasant smell of pineapple - could dictate his/her behaviour in such a way that the present recollection of past pleasure or pain would - at the moment of recollection, or recognition - influence the internal identity of the subject (e.g. the self-awareness that 'I' enjoy 'that' pineapple) in a manner which is non-reliant upon language. Is that not a form of consciousness? The anticipation of future pleasure based on the recollection of past pleasure? Memory isn't strictly linguistic, but it does give shape to our future and present behaviours in a manner which might be considered 'conscious'.

>>8410514
good for you

>>8410514
What was it?

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>haven't finished anything in one and a half weeks
>way behind where I wanted to be for this summer
>almost incapacitated by my feeling of guilt towards myself
>Seneca quotes haunting my sleep
>can't masturbate in peace
>
>this fucking guy

>he's literally starting with the greeks

we got another one boys

>>8410423
It's all good and well that you're reading again. Hell, it's even sort of okay that you're actually starting with the Greeks, but you don't start with The Iliad you moron.

Get memed.

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>>8410431

there's this whole realm of literature related to a species of anthropomorphic ape that actually exists, it's called "literature"

saged.

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>>8410378
>actually exists
Please I do not understand i thought the point was that literature could be about anything

Is non-fiction regarded more highly than fiction I am new to all this.

Watership Down could work. Full of feels and rabbits.

>>8410349
>on /lit/

2 hours

>reading books

8 hours

$5 of time

>>8410357
How do you have so much time to do that? Student, NEET, or just a gay faggot?

Are you interested in any of the individual cultures or particular regional lit?

I'm thinking about learning one of these languages myself, but it would depend on which place I visit. Since I'm a poorfag it seems unlikely I will ever get to that point so I'm not pursuing it myself.

I'm Danish, and I think you will get the furthest with that language. Just my opinion.

>>8410342
Yeah too bad you all sound like retarded ducks choking on ice

t. Swede cuckboi

Stevenson

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Sabatini.

>>8410330
Is twenty years after worth it?