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Thanks anon.
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>>8345012
im redpilled, take the redpill
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Goddammit, anon.
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notes from the underground
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can someone help me with this one. is dostoevsky completely roasting the author? i thought some of the guy's points about acting irrationally to prove existence made sense... is the reader supposed to feel that the author is doing exactly what he says everyone else is doing - justifying his actions through conscious reasoning? just that the author doesn't recognize the conscious reasoning in himself because his conscious reasoning is the rejection of conscious reasoning? or did i totally miss some ideas?
also, general underground and dostoevsky discussion thread
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>>8344985
THE UNDERGROUND MAN IS LITERALLY /R9K/ XDDDD hehe
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>>8344985
bump
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He is roasting him, but agreeing with some of his points doesn't make you "him." It's the overall portrait that matters.
Alone (an edgy blogger, in case you aren't familiar) had the best metric. If your girlfriend reads the story and says it reminds her of you, you're in trouble.
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/lit/'s opinion on Japanese light novels getting translated into English? Thinking about picking up the first two "Legend Of The Galactic Heroes" books
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ya know there's an anime right?
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>>8344958
So its shit
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It's the best of it's kind. Fun fact, it's been published in China since the 1980's, and it's actually extraordinarily well received there from what I heard.
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What is the best version of this book? Is this the best entry into plato's philosophy?
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>>8344917
I guess
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not sure if best entry, I think I'd probably reserve that spot for Apology. Republic's definitely the best of his works though.
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>>8344927
Seconded. Read the Apology first
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Is there a word for this? 2016-07-31 22:51:11 Post No.8344911
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After starving for several hours, my roommate and I heated up some leftovers for lunch this afternoon and, because they weren't fresh, they tasted like shit.
The roommate wouldn't stop complaining and after a while I said, dryly, "We should be grateful that we have food at all." It was a dumb joke.
But that's the thing. I meant it as a joke, but I do actually believe the content of the message. Is there a word or phrase for this kind of dissonance?
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>>8344911
Being a faggot.
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>>8344911
If he took it as a joke as well then it was a prime example of post-post-irony
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No, you were simply telling a joke, one which you happened to believe. If you said it only with the intent of making your roommate laugh. Were you subconsciously annoyed about his complaining?
has /lit/ read this yet
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>>8344702
I gave up after the worms in the ass line.
Somehow peeing on a little boy was more bearable than that.
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>>8344702
Should I read Dhalgren before or after this?
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>>8344702
I read like 20 pages of it and I was really bored with it because it's just nasty porn.
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>book has over 100,000 ratings on Goodreads™
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If I'm not the first person to read it, it's not worth my time.
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>>8344894
I think this is a strawman ... am I right??
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>>8344901
i like to read supersekret esoteric stuff to make myself feel smug
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Requesting books about modern Islam and its troubles. Hopefully sarcastic stuff.
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Read Why I Am Not A Muslim by Ibn Warraq.
If you want fiction though, read Submission by Houllebecq.
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>>8344655
>thinking modern Islam has any trouble
Nice meme
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sam "circular reasoning" harris
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>tfw a word has the perfect sonority for what you want to express but doesn't mean that at all
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Use it anyway. Why not?
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>>8344570
Very quirky post, my friend. Upvoted.
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>>8344570
>when it's also the only rhyme you can think of
>tfw you buy a nice bound notebook so you can write down your thoughts/musings as they come to you and then you realize that none of your thoughts are worth preserving
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I write mine to my raspi. It feels like a secret journal with a 20 character password.
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>>8344458
i know tf
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>>8344748
Yep. Me too (three?).
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how do i write jokes
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>>8344429
Knock knock
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your autobiography would be a good joke
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>>8344439
You ruined my joke m8.
Why is Tao Lin allowed to say this ? The entire thing actually happened and there are videos of him and Megan Boyle having conversations that appear in the novel.
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>>8344417
who cares, honestly
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>>8344417
>giving Tao Lin money
Why?
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>>8344417
"Megan Boyle" is Tao's drag name. Those videos were faked.
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Whats a good intro to analytic philosophy?
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>>8344353
'An Introduction to Analytic Philosophy'
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>>8344353
The Greeks.
Somebody post those charts on analytic philosophy
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>>8344353
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YrXfvjz4NCyLlob9bo_N9fpoYB-saCTbLoGP5TctJTs/edit
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>tfw reading novellas and short novels to pad my goodreads shelf size
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Being proud and smug about utterly taking to heart the quantitative bias of social media imbricated with a rootless, aimless, universal competition.
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you sneaky sneak
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>>8344334
nothing wrong with the gamification of reading
you're just mad I'm a more worldly person from all the books I've read