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every other line, Anon

>>8319963
none- never read it.

did that with AK though, anon

>>8319963
Every time Pierre did something

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read cicero

I just have extreme confidence in what I say, even if it's all wrong
it's called lying to yourself

>>8319960
is there any work of his I should focus on/start with?

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>the classics aren't fun

>>8319847
you're just a pleb, the "good" literature is plenty "fun"

>>8319847
Ye that's about what I do. There are definitely "fun" classics but desu most of them are really dull despite being obviously good

>>8319834
Blacks are inferior to whites
Women are inferior to men
Conservatives are superior to liberals

Prove me wrong

You're gay and stupid

>>8319839

The last student to enter the main hall of the academia was not even late; everyone was hurrying to be present at their Dean of Philosophy's Masterclass. The sombre professor walks about his pivotal spot in the Amphitheatre, shadowless, followed by a white toga. The doors shut are shut, the class is seated, and the professor without a word takes a hat from the audience, plunges a hand, dives an post, pulls and reads alound:

"Blacks are inferior to whites
Women are inferior to men
Conservatives are superior to liberals

Prove me wrong"

The professor looks about, the crowd is mute. He finds potential in the eyes that meet his.

"Superficial as it might me, the fragment suits me. It is, I believe you call it, a "meme-thought", isn't it? I would expect this to be a meadian belief of your generation. And by "mean" in that statement I signify "constant repettition of thought". Because, if this thought is shared by most of you, you've must have had it a thousand times, merely to form the concept. And so it is persistent, and it affirms a conviction, a conclusion. Thus I mean it is believed.

Now I would very much like to dismantle this statement linguistically, as a misconstruction, expose it as a truth of a particular language-game that is not consistent, or complete. The only language that is consistent, and complete, and thus which can express truths of internal cohesion, is the language of Aztlantis, a non-aristotelean teleological hypnocommunication techinique, discovered as of late by my colleague here, Dr. James Thatch. Since I am not expressing myself in said language, I must admit that the very word I wield now against you, the logical foundation of this very expression, is rooted in nothing, and arises by a non consistent name-net of opposite shadows through codependency, "a if b and b if a" that admits no essence. The non-theoretical grasp, but the experience of the effects that this belief, is the objective of this course. Be warned, Philosophy in the 22 century is something quite different from what you have learnt in your history classes. Philosophy is a practice, a mode of questioning; the experience is not. To some people it happens, to others it does not. Those of you who might heal the split and become non-dual through the destruction of the firm belief in the possibility to state belief consistenly with any language in which you state it may move on to Dr. ,Thatch's class, called "hagiophonetics", and maybe one day become an Old-One, and travel to the center of the world to keep it's balance, dancing in silence. But I disgress. The Metaphysics of the Church of the Mind is not this class either. This classed is called philosophy, and my aim is this: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense. This is the philosopher's creed. And since we have not yet seen or studied Master Old-One Gödel's proof of non-completeness,

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>misses almost every single pun and nuance in the opening line
>probably thinks he did a really ebin parody rewrite

go back to r/books faggot

>>8319864
>Muh religious symbolism

It's not that deep pham

>>8319887
>implying it's just that

lmao kill urself famalam

I'll be re-reading a lot in the coming months now that I've got a solid foundation with the classics.

>>8319818
Why the fuck are you using a picture of David fincher

I have read Blood Meridian atleast 30 times

It will show them the truth and life will blossom like a field meadow and the yellow brick road shall appear.

>>8319815
>give then false hope like some "The Secret" bullshit
You got that right.
If they don't have much money the shouldn't be buying books like this. No book is going to help you there.

Imagine there were good New Age mumbo jumbo, and this wasn't it.

>where is steinbeck
literally on the list
also why does that page exist

we already know most people are plebs.

>>8319801
>there's a lot of high school-tier and freshman year uni student-tier stuff

Lel, /lit/ BTFO

>>8319791
Extreme narcissism. One's self-relation and (if it even matters anymore) relation to others, is mediated by idealized self-images on social media

>>8319798
This is definitely true, but I mean, you have the opposite as well, like us right here on this website where everything is submerged in a very deliberate anonymity.

>>8319798
This tbqh.

>>8319829
Any big enough movement or trend spawns a counter movement, the question is if the counter movement can gain enough momentum to leave it's own mark on history.

>>8319763
Almost certainly.

>>8319763

I started a short story about a man who lived alone his entire adult life, was very introverted, had no close friends and nobody but the minister came to his funeral. He lived a forgotten life and died a forgotten death.

It's the inverse of what you are writing.

Why does he want to be forgotten? Is there anyone left that he wants to remember him? Did he ever do anything that would be memorable?

Read The Death of Ivan Ilyich, my man.

Ivan Ilyich could see that he was dying, and he was in constant despair.
In the depths of his soul Ivan Ilyich knew he was dying but, not only could he not get used to the idea, he didn’t understand it, couldn’t understand it at all.
All his life the syllogism he had learned from Kiesewetter’s logic9 - Julius Caesar is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caesar is mortal - had always seemed to him to be true only when it applied to Caesar, certainly not to him. There was Caesar the man, and man in general, and it was fair enough for them, but he wasn’t Caesar the man and he wasn’t man in general, he had always been a special being, totally different from all others, he had been Vanya with his mama and his papa, with Vitya and Volodya, with his toys, and the carriage-driver, then little Katya,10 with all the delights, sorrows and rapture of childhood, boyhood and youth. Did Caesar have anything to do with the smell of that little striped leather ball that Vanya had loved so much? Was it Caesar who had kissed his mother’s hand like that, and was it for Caesar that the silken folds of his mother’s dress had rustled the way they did? Was he the one who had rebelled at law school over the provision of snacks? Had Caesar been in love like him? Could Caesar chair a session like him?
Yes, Caesar is mortal and it’s all right for him to die, but not me, Vanya, Ivan Ilyich, with all my feelings and thoughts - it’s different for me. It can’t be me having to die. That would be too horrible.
These were the feelings that came to him.
‘If I had to be like Caesar and die, I would have been aware of it, an inner voice would have told me, but there hasn’t been anything like that on the inside. I’ve always thought - and all my friends have, too - that we’re not the same as Caesar. And now look what’s happened!’ he said to himself. ‘It can’t be. It can’t be, but it is. How can it be? What’s it all about?’
He couldn’t understand, and he tried to banish the idea - it was false, wrong and morbid - and replace it with proper, healthy thinking. But the same thought - it wasn’t just a thought but something that seemed like reality - kept coming back and facing him.

and so on

Nobody talks this way anymore because it's not 2004 and we don't get charged by the character. Where are you from, my dude?

Texting isnt for indepth conversations you autist, best for quick passing of info.

If you want a real conversation you meet them face to face

>>8319722
You probably love 'memes', though, right?

Secret Base is fantastic.

>>8319678
I just finished the one called "Talk to them of kings, elephants and battles" or something like that (not sure if it's been translated to english) and it was pretty bland. No conflict, no emotions, no nothing going on in the book.

Beautiful cover.

>>8319618
I always use them. Read Jane (;) Austen to a lesson on semicolons.

>>8319618
Given your competence at using them, no, you shouldn't ever use semicolons

>>8319635
>shouldn't ever

>>8319589
Victor Villanueva

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>>8319589
>Stirner has always had friends in anarchist and leftist communities.

>>8319738
Victor detected

Humans are naturally inclined to become attached to established schedules, so I'd assume you reading in late afternoon on a regular basis has made it feel 'wrong' to read at any other time. I had a similar problem where I would always read before bed, but then my brain associated reading with sleeping and I could never get any reading done, so I started doing it in the morning instead.

Side note, how did you feel about The Glowing Man?

>>8319890
Not op but glowing man is great

>>8319551
cuz you're at home easily distracted and not in the library

>>8319890
>how did you feel about The Glowing Man
not that anon, but I don't think there's a name for that feel.
Like the inverse of transcendence, if there's a word for that.
One of the few times an instrumental part made me well up with tears.