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^ That's basically the book
>>8342410
>I fucking hate women
waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh
babby's first crush didn't go good
='(
^ That's basically the book
"Nietzscheanism is but a faux self-actualisation for the Bourgeoisie"
What did he mean by this?
>>8342162
bump
>>8342162
he meant that Nietzscheanism is but a faux self-actualisation for the Bourgeoisie
>>8342162
His political philosophy revolves around materialism as essentially the only significant force in the world so he considers all crises that aren't strictly materialistic as "bourgeoisie" aka petty, puffed-up, imaginary.
The significance of "bourgeois" as a term of derision is its implication that all material needs have been met and therefore all spiritual issues are simply made up for the sake of often conspicuous "faux self-actualization" AKA vanity.
Hello.
I've just started a group for any of you that use Steam and want to socialise with others, from /lit/ and /his/.
General discussion and the usual is fine, just without the layer of complete anonymity. I understand any flak I will get for creating such a group etc. etc. Just giving this a shot in hopes of finding other's to talk to about literature.
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/HistoryLiterature
>>8342124
>videogames
>>8342124
>Steam
And by the way, we could discuss nudity in Saudi Arabia.
>>8342124
>he plays videogames
what makes you think that anyone wants to join your autistic little club?
I'm a loser with no one. All by choice. I can't stand the presence of another person. Trying to even hold basic conversation at work is difficult. I guess I just like to keep to myself. I never get involved in drama and hardly involve myself in social activities. The list of things I enjoy is slowly getting shorter. I'm running out of ways to distract myself from the world I've created and I'm afraid of what might happen when there's nothing left on the list to do. I don't eat much anymore. When I do it's just "filling" food to make my stomach calm down. My diet is terrible and it will probably eventually kill me. I can't stop clenching my teeth and have nightmares about breaking or chipping my teeth from biting down so hard. My mind is always racing and is very difficult to say what I'm thinking or let alone make sense of it. I hate myself and I can't get away.
Then I met her
I didn't even like her at first. We met online of course because I never leave my house other than to go to work. She was different. I don't know how to explain it any better. She annoyed me at first. But I would still talk to her. She had a boyfriend during this time but since I didn't really like her - only liked talking to her - it didn't really effect me and I honestly didn't care. Eventually, we started to drift apart and then get close again. This continued for awhile. I don't remember the exact moment or how it happened but I fell madly in love with her at some point. She is all I ever think about now. We started talking again. This time she had a new boyfriend whom she actually loved and was happy with. She didn't know I was being honest when I told her I loved her. And because of this she absolutely destroyed me. I haven't told her. But I kept almost all of the horrible things she's said to me as a reminder that she is very dangerous. Time passed and we became closer again. We both apologized. We both wanted to be friends. But I wanted more.
I want to marry her. As ridiculous as this sounds. It's just how I feel. I cannot change that I do not want to be with anyone but her. That she is the only person who makes me excited and happy about new things. She's incredible and I'm afraid her boyfriend might not know it. I'm so infatuated with this girl that I've done some pretty shameful things that I've never thought I'd ever see myself doing. I basically stalked her online. It began when we weren't talking. I just wanted to make sure she was okay. I couldn't sleep until I found some sort of evidence she was alive. I rarely did. But what I did find was pieces of her past. I can tell by the things I found that she used to be very lonely and likely had a lot of time on her hands. Oddly enough. It's the same situation I am in now. My heart tells me this will draw us closer. That we both have been there and know how miserable it is to exist for nothing. But we differ here as well. She have a boyfriend that she loves. Her best friend. He can see her whenever he wants. He can touch her whenever he wants. It's killing me. These thoughts are the worse kind of reality. I do not want to accept them. Then she tells me (everyday now) that she loves me. That she needs me. That she won't ever leave me again.
write it in your diary fucko
Best book cover art
I have noticed the more I read the faster I am starting to overcome my abused shit of a life that I lived, WIthin days I completely stopped caring about people who made life hell for me. Anyways, I am looking for books which have characters that I can relate to, which go through shit and then become empowered / gain perspective etc. The book has to be practical (aka it offers me a story that I can swallow - wrapped in reality).
An example would be Flowers for Algernon, but that one just taught me some lessons, not exactly mind blowing or anything like that. Please help please =/?
It could possibly be a preachy book, but usually those become boring quick.
You're special.
>>8341821
There you go oh pee, most self help books teach exactly that.
Whats up with these fucking threads always asking "HOW TO CHANGE MUH LIFE"
Read philosophy
english rules question:
if G before i/e/y, is pronounced as jee,
then why do we say girl and not jirl?
the question was thought of when discussed if the pronounceiation of GIF is jiff or giff.
imo, since its an acronym, there are 2 ways to read it:
1.as a word
2.each letter seperately.
in the 2nd case its simply saying the letters names (wtf= doubleyu tee eff).
but as for the 1st case, since we read the acronym as a word (lol, gif, etc), it is understandable we need to apply the rules of orthography, thus pronouncing "g+i" as jee, therefore, its jiff.
but then again, why is it girl and not jirl?
The guys who made gif ( graphic interchange format) pronounced it jif as a play on a peanut butter advertisement. The pronunciation of .gif unrelated to your question.
nvm its jif as the creator decided
>gibbous, gilded, gills, girdle, girl, give
lots of words with a hard g followed by an i
>It's a the greatest and most influential philosopher alive writes about 4chan memes episode
In all honesty, 4chan is worth giving serious philosophical attention as a medium impacting modern discourse.
Forced anonymity deterritorializes identity, dissociating the individual from his opinion and the expression thereof, generating a segmentarity along which the meme opens itself to new lines of flight. It really wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that, for instance, the current presidential election is essentially Tumblr vs 4chan. The former intensifies the (re)production and performance of identity, reterritorializing opinion as an essence in itself in the monkey hierarchy of king of the hill. The selection for memeplexes in these environments produces polarity as their respective extremes are forced into a closed positive feedback loop. They are regimes of signs which gain their meaning in opposition to each other, dissolving the original into a cacophony of simulacra and dissimulacra.
Kek is the harbinger of the memeschaton, the final dissimulation which reveals the barrenness of meaning.
>>8341786
If you weren't a newfag you would know the majority of the boards despises /pol/ and what it did to 4chan. 4chan is at heart a site for hobbies, not politics or unfunny memes.
>>8341973
u sound like a fag
rec me some poets based on an admiration for bob dylan
i've already read the beats, don't love them, even ginsberg who obviously played a lot into dylan's own writing
there's a picaresque quality to a lot of his late 60's stuff that makes it really engaging to me
Before you get a bunch of shit because anons on this board are the worst...
I respect your taste, OP
>>8341750
>compliment on good taste
>op's picture is blonde on blonde and not highway 61 revisited
>>8341719
Listening to song lyrics and reading poetry are two very different things mon pute
If you like Dylan's later stuff, check out Townes van Zandt.
>18 yo here
>About to go to college and I want some things to take with me.
>Looking for a book that can help me be a better person or perhaps teach me a lesson.
>Similar to Walden?
Meditations bu Aurelius.
>>8341686
If your college is worth a damn you won't have time to read anything but what they give you.
>>8341698
This.
Hey guys i cant remember the name of a story, would you mind helping me, ill tell you what i remember.
>Terror-fiction story
>space travels
>ppl need to be sedated to do this travels because it alterates mind's perception of time
>some kid/man go without sedate
>his mind perceibs this mins traveling as millions of years
>goes insane
>he keeps repeating something about the void.
Please :(
Seems interesting. I wanna know too, so bump.
>>8341707
I really dont think someone will answer, its like 5am, but i really feel like reading that story, ill ask again tomorrow anyways.
This is a short story from Stephen King, it's called The Jaunt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jaunt
This book is actually lit af
>>8341642
pleb general?
>>8341655
Name ONE better series.
That's right. You can't.
Going to get each one signed.
>>8341655
Yep.
Is there a nice (preferably illustrated) edition of the Canterbury Tales which cintains both the Middle and Modern English versions of each verse? Sort of what you can find here (http://www.canterburytales.org/canterbury_tales.html) but as a physical book.
I guess this board is completely useless when it comes to asking real questions. Guess I'll do what everyone else is doing and go masturbate to Pynchon or something.
Just buy the Riverside Chaucer and read the original, you autist.
>>8341637
I have the norton critical which is middle but each line has the words you might not know. Was enough to give me a lol at the millers tale.
What books can I use to teach someone who only reads for plot the beauty of prose, symbolism, and insightful writing?
Pic is an excellent example but would be too difficult to start with.
The Peregrine
>>8341551
butcher's crossing - it's pretty much MD jr.
>>8341551
people who read for the plot,are aware of the beauty of prose since they care how the plot and themes are presented...
What books have made you a better writer?
The ones I've yet to read, because the boundless possibilities of what fits between two covers makes me want to explore for myself.
>>8341535
Ghey
William Gaddis
Moby Dick
Joyce
King Lear
The Lord of the Rings
Ender's Game
The Book of Sand
The Book of the New Sun
The Aleph and Other Stories
The Sound and the Fury
Dubliners
All have taught me something about writing and storytelling, whether it's what to do or what not to do.