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Actually he's referencing Plato

He's left the cave of ignorance and shadows to find the real form, the Sun, and intelligence

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>I be
Is this a David Foster Wallace reference? What did Kanye mean by this?

>>8331201
hmm
really makes you think

>>8331133
scott walker

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Jimmy Buffett

i don't really care. /lit/ has bad taste in just about everything

did you finally listen to TPAB or what?

>>8331109
The Death of Virgil was great imo.

shut the fuck up OP I swear if you ever start another thread I will literally spam your account with CP until you're banned

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>>8330984
>most middlebrow
What?

>>8330984
Literal Big Pharma Shill

I like to read novels though, so let me.

>>8331113
That's cool, I just don't get why one would look down on the others when there's ultimately not much of a difference.

>>8331704
>ultimately not much of a difference.
>ultimately
oy vey

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>>8330942
>More specifically, I'm looking for intelligent peoples' musings on what a good society would look like and how to achieve it.

>>8330946

I actually had that in mind as I typed that sentence...some day I'll bring myself to read it.

>>8330942
Mein Kampf

Kek.

>>8330890
He wrote most of his novels and short stories while employed as a lobster fisherman, the head coach of a tennis academy, as an IRS agent in Illinois, and while on a cruise in the Caribbean.

>>8330890

I want you to talk me through the thought process, OP. You're watching The Office and you see that a character is called David Wallace. You think to yourself that that name is like David Foster Wallace, the author and /lit/ meme. Did making this connection make you laugh? I doubt it. But you decided that this was something you had to share with /lit/. Did you expect this thread to make other anons laugh? Did this anon >>8330895
actually kek, or did he just understand the reference and emotionlessly type out the word kek?

Why are we here?

Go back to http://boards.4chan.org/theology

>>8330855
Meme

It's something that new readers do, but that has to be lost if they're to read any faster.

it's real.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24KnwTepKdU

t. tai lopez

>>8330799
As long as you're actually reading, who cares?

>>8330810
But there is so much to read, and most of them are basic for understanding literature, from history to philosophy.

only way to read catcher in the rye is one sitting faggot. it takes 3-4 hours. stay pleb forever

>>8330674
what is tundra?

>>8330674
I made a copy of appian's complete works since gutenberg didnt have it and bibliotik/other pirate sites tend not to allow public domain works to avoid people using gutenberg to pad their ratio.

I used outwit hub to scrape the work off of the university of wisconsin or something, and then I used a web editor to structure it into xml, then loaded it as an RTF in Word and then used calibre to convert it from to epub.

https://file.io/BoXAga

it turned out ok, i didnt edit for beauty.

if this is a veiled selected tweets thread fuck you OP

>>8330691
btw thats just the history or rome i have the civil wars too

>>8330656
Gravity's rainbow and infinite jest

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>>8330656
>scholars

Do not care about enlightenment.

That said, Hebrew wisdom literature like Ecclesiastes and Job, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, St. John of the Cross and Augustine, the mahabharata and hindic brahmin prayer regimen probably all count. Calvino does some interesting stuff, but so does pic related.

>>8330656
Bump

spoopy

tfw no one's read it

>>8330623
Overwritten horseshit.

>>8330617
Do NOT start just reading a Hegel book. It is better you read secondary sources about him, to get an understanding of his philosophy, before you plunge into nigh undecipherable texts. Also, it is repeated that you start by the Greeks. You don't have to read every book written by and about Greek philosophers, but to properly understand European philosophy of the vein of Hegel and Nietzsche, you need to know about Greek myths and philosophy. There must be books that give you what you have to know without needing to read primary sources.

You could start by reading Hegel, but it'll be difficult and you'll have huge gaps in your knowledge. Which you'll have to fill later by reading about the Greeks, etc.

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Read Kant instead, Hegel is esoteric mumbo-jumbo.

do you wet your pants?

aestheticism senpai

Start with http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aesthetic-concept/