>Page 692 of Infinite Jest.
>DFW explains how Kate Gompert feels with her psychotic depression.
>Hold back sympathy tears.
Thoughts?
>INB4 a bunch of ironic comments about babby's first existential crisis.
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>>8371264
Kate Gompert is easily the most sympathetic and interesting character of the novel. I wish there was more her and less diaper jokes in the book. I imagine that maybe it was too personal for Dave to write about her so much, but I'm still disappointed.
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>>8371264
IJ got me a lot. mostly the bit where Mario asks the moms how to tell if someone (hal) is sad, and again when he touches the "touch me" guy. had to take a minute.
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>>8371264
why am I imagining NMH's "The Fool" being played in pic?
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Do we have a reading guide for Zizek? If not we should make a chart, including essentials of his respective influences, Freud, Lacan, Hegel and Marx would be essential.
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>>8371174
Phenomenology of Spirit
greater Logic
Philosophy of History
The German Ideology
Theses
Contribution
Capital I, II, III
Introductory Lecturas
Three Essays
Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Jokes and the Unc.
A few case studies (Dora, Wolf Man, Rat Man)
Totem and Taboo
The Ego and the Id
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Écrits
Four Fundamental Concepts
seminar on Transference
now, that's just the main figures themselves. then there's the army of their interpreters. as you can tell im not as familiar with Lacan
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Zizi for babbys :https://www.amazon.com/Introducing-Slavoj-Zizek-Graphic-Guide/dp/1848312938
But actually not toooo bad to get a first impression..
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You guys have it backwards. Reading Marx, Hegel, and Lacan to understand Zizek is like reading Darwin and Lucretius to better understand Richard Dawkins.
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> The cornucopia (from Latin cornu copiae) or horn of plenty is a symbol of abundance and nourishment, commonly a large horn-shaped container overflowing with produce, flowers or nuts.
How do i get into symbolism? Recommend me a book.
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>>8371160
I recommend a lot of books.
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finnegans wake
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>>8371168
James Joyce was actually a black author called Jamal Jose.
The book you're referring to was originally called Finnegan's Woke.
Which of his books are actually worth reading?
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V.
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>>8371079
V.
Gravity's Rainbow
Vineland
Mason & Dixon
Your favorite subplot of Against the Day
A Journey into the Mind of Watts
Pandemonium of the Sun
The Recognitions
Cow Country
The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption
Liner Notes for "Spiked! The Music of Spike Jones"
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All except Slow Learner and his other early stories
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will continental philosophy ever recover from this?
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>Analytic Philosophy
>"Here is one hand, here is another. Therefore, the world exists."
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>>8370993
That's fucking hilarious. Smart people like me already realised that philosophy is for social posturing (I'm the Munchhausen trilemma poster). The hand thing is philosophers becoming aware of it
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>picrelated was me in may
>read nothing since
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Stop focusing on only shit that you hate and maybe you'll stop being bitter and abhoring subjective shit that doesn't matter. Think of something beyond yourself and other people for once and see what happens.
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>>8370906
At least you're still on /lit/. I'm so glad.
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>>8370937
lol'd
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explain why she's so terrible
"fedora" is not a valid answer
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>>8370891
Reality isn't objective
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her books aren't very well written
i can live with having a philosophy crammed down my throat if it's an entertaining read, but her books are bit boring
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>>8370896
Well, that's one opinion....
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How can one man be so based?
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>>8370861
He had Tourette's and autism
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>>8370861
He's the absolute spirit of reddit as far as humanities goes.
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How do I stop visualizing characters as anime?
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>>8370638
stop watching anime.
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>>8370638
Stop being a fucking autist weeaboo-manchild dickface.
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>>8370654
/thread
What mathematical concepts are essential for a patrician to know?
Recommend books.
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start with the greeks
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>>8370620
pi
euler's number
calculus
Riemann's hypothesis
0.999999... = 1
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>>8370620
Conchoids of Nicomedes
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What does /lit/ think of Hermann Hesse? I just read Siddhartha and I loved it. What are some other works by him that are good?
What I liked is that it was short and not pretentious, while also being very intellectual and written beautifully in only ~150 pages. Other authors like DFW or Pynchon would have taken the same story and made it over 1,000 pages. This was especially a relief because I just finished Infinite Jest before reading this.
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>>8370596
define pretentious
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You know how some food starts to disgust you if it just happens you get sick soon after? Like eating a can of sardines and then getting the norovirus. I haven't eaten sardines for years. Nor have I read Hesse since I was 16. Rosshalde is a nice piece though. A sort of book where one looks back at his failures. Like "A Little Cloud" by Joyce or maybe some Turgenev story. Or Wild Strawberries, but not as good as any of these.
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>>8370599
Is English not your first language?
In 3 sentences, explain the essence of fashion and its appeal.
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Shit looks good.
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>>8370508
read doors of perception. thatll help
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>>8370508
This is how analytics actually talk when you try to tell them to not wear shirts that are two sizes too big.
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>the plebs of /lit/ are so obsessed with John Green, they've forgot about the one true King of YA Fiction
Christopher Paolini, gifted author of Eragon, is about to drop his 1000-page science fiction novel.
Are you ready for the ultimate patrician space opera masterpiece?
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So he's going to rip off Episode 4 again?
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>>8370510
Nah, I think the obvious plagiarism is something he's now crazy ashamed of. If you ask me, it's the biggest reason part three got split into two books: he desperately needed to make the conclusion original so his "It's only derivative!" claim could hold up.
Unsurprisingly, the conclusion is by far the shittiest part of the entire shitshow.
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>>8370513
I thankfully turned 12 soon enough to realize how shitty his juvenile crap really was. Jonathan Stroud was at least somewhat entertaining and original.
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>when I was younger
>"Lol the curtains were just red, who cares, why am I being told to find subjective conclusions and being judged as if they're objective?!"
>When I was older and smarter
>"The curtains were red for a very intelligent reason by the genius author, a reason which gives maximum insight in to human nature and the objectivity of aesthetics, not that I will dare ask why I should care about those or why everything is so obscurantist!"
>when I reached my final form
Literary Theory, as it is practised and as a whole is a set of intentionally vague, contradictory, and ever changing rules that create a logical system used by the academia-media-publishing industrial complex in order to monopolise the judgement of art, secure government funding, compete in the form of social posturing (by far the strongest reason), promote a large government, and guilt trip insecure members of the public in to paying for and proclaiming enjoyment of art.
>inb4 you say "I don't know art but I know what I like" in a non RP accent
I'm not even passing judgement on the "value" of this dominant version of "literary theory". I'm simply awaiting the butthurt that will inevitably commence just from pointing out that other forms can exist and not genuflecting towards the dominant form.
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>>8370468
>non RP accent
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Who are you possibly quoting?
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the curtains were red cuz the author is a fucking commie
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You get to go back 100 years in time and take credit for every single piece of an author's work
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Which author do you steal from?
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harry potter.
not the best books but holy shit, the franchise is huge.
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>>8370447
harry potter was not an author, he was an auror and didnt even exist irl
lrn 2 read
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