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Bolaño's nightmares

>>8359336
I'm going to say Kafka. His seems the most toilsome and pointless.

>>8359346
LIKE A PIG

*CORRECTED

~~~~SORTING HAT RULES~~~~

0 - 1: Gryffindor
2 - 3: Ravenclaw
4 - 5: Hufflepuff
6 - 7: Slytherin
8 - 9: SQUIB!

HARRY POTTER IS RUBBISH

>>8359347
Spoken like a true Slytherin

>>8359320
take the redpill, cuck

>>8359320
literally by living

>>8359324
>>8359339
Please
:(

I just started this and it got boring after the first few pages. It's just like "oh look how excessively well-mannered everyone is! isn't it funny?" I think I will quit!

The actual ending was destroyed by gogol before he killed himself because he was crazy

>>8359899
What?

Ask your philosophy professor. If you don't have one, fuck you.

>>8359256
not sure but monitoring this thread

don't forget your rhizomes!

The will to greater force (also earth > space)?

>>8359189
How degenerate must one get before the fall our civilisation?

>whose organ literally enters my body and explores it from within
This is every ordinary penetration for a female. I don't think men reflect on the intrusiveness of the sexual act. You enter inside of us with your foreign hard object, messing about in our interiors. It's a very psychological thing.

>>8359236

Shut up, cunt.

It's a good art medium, people feel entertained and satisfied by art. Would you ask the same question about films?

>>8359180
Watching movies is not nearly as much of a time investment as reading fiction, they're easily experienced by relaxing for 2-2.5 hours. And if we assume that a filmgoer exercises self-restraint, the list of great, relevant movies is not so huge as to be impossible to experience. With fiction, the task is endless, not even considering the vast library of the Western Canon.

>>8359185
True, but books are more versatile in where and when you can read them than films and don't demand to be experienced in one continuous sitting. They're generally a lot meatier for the same amount of time put into them than films too.

>>8359151
dostoyevsky himself was sent to a forced labour camp in siberia, much like mitya. read it again, it bears great insight

>>8359158
yeah i know but he spoils the rest of the court scene with one little line

why couldn't mitya's fate have been concealed until the very end of the scene.

also, he was sent to siberia for protest against the government wasn't he? whereas mitya is sent for murder.

>reading for the plot

To Kill a Mockingbird I guess?
Lord of the Flies?

we had to read crime and punishment when i was 14 and construct a 10 page essay over month. Wish i wasnt born so rich that i got sent to a "special school"

>>8359089
why do you hate a separate peace?
not a fan myself, but I wouldn't say I hated the book. No, I certainly hated "Old School"

>>8359044
He was guilty of that awful sin not to be mentioned among Christians.

>>8359044
he was a racist according to bloom

>>8359044
He's a gay homophobe and a fucking white male.

Why does he eat the tortilla?

>>8359019
The exact opposite of both.

>>8359019
Yes.

Yes.

why John Green*

>>8358994
>You can't think of any reason why he's a bad author except this reason

>>8358994
>Literary merit is subjective.
this is the most pernicious misreading of literary theory

hitler
titler

LOL

>>8359023
Pooler

>>8358946
He was kalki

>>8358933

>The demand for such explanations, as also the attempts to satisfy this demand, very easily pass for the essential business philosophy has to undertake. Where could the inmost truth of a philosophical work be found better expressed than in its purposes and results? and in what way could these be more definitely known than through their distinction from what is produced during the same period by others working in the same field? If, however, such procedure is to pass for more than the beginning of knowledge, if it is to pass for actually knowing, then we must, in point of fact, look on it as a device for avoiding the real business at issue, an attempt to combine the appearance of being in earnest and taking trouble about the subject with an actual neglect of the subject altogether. For the real subject-matter is not exhausted in its purpose, but in working the matter out; nor is the mere result attained the concrete whole itself, but the result along with the process of arriving at it. The purpose of itself is a lifeless universal, just as the general drift is a mere activity in a certain direction, which is still without its concrete realisation; and the naked result is the corpse of the system which has left its guiding tendency behind it. Similarly, the distinctive difference of anything is rather the boundary, the limit, of the subject; it is found at that point where the subject-matter stops, or it is what this subject-matter is not. To trouble oneself in this fashion with the purpose and results, and again with the differences, the positions taken up and judgments passed by one thinker and another, is therefore an easier task than perhaps it seems. For instead of laying hold of the matter in hand, a procedure of that kind is all the while away from the subject altogether. Instead of dwelling within it and becoming absorbed by it, knowledge of that sort is always grasping at something else; such knowledge, instead keeping to the subject-matter and giving itself up to it, never gets away from itself. The easiest thing of all is to pass judgments on what has a solid substantial content; it is more difficult to grasp it, and most of all difficult to do both together and produce the systematic exposition of it.

Kill yourself, faggot.

>>8358933

>I want to fully understand Ayn Rand's philosophy

"Fuck you, got mine."

>>8358947
What a bunch of obscurantist bullshit.

>>8358891
needs more Camus.

>I wanna study philosophy
>I'll just study existentialism

>>8358891
>Disregards anything before Descartes
>Includes 6 Camus books

Is this the worst 'what to read' chart yet?