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>>8294589
Reading has enabled me to speak more confidently about literature and philosophy.

No one wants to hear it though

Yes, I am now able to shut them down at the opening the mouth stage with only my librarian stare and nearly half of all cases will close it again without my raised eyebrow. I hope to make ascended patrician master status by the end of summer where I shall be able to silence entire train station tea rooms by merely once fingering the next page of my reading loudly in displeasure.

Okay, post it.

>>8294580
>>8294582

http://pastebin.com/WcN080ht

>>8294588

One moment, okay?

>>8294527
You aren't funny

>>>/r9k/

>>8294535
This. Delete your thread now op and spare yourself the embarrassment

> I went bookstore
> Find Houellebecq book shelf
> soumission
> Carry register
> Cashier called les gendarmes
> No interrogation
> Dragged outside
> "Allahu Akbar"
> Beheaded in street

>>8294482
>reading nonwhites

Ugh

>>8294482
I read the first two parts, then I droped it.

Just could not handle even one more making of ''simple meal'' in it. And then he made simple meal of blaabblbla he went home and then made simple meal, they ate simple meal of!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAA¤T9dfdngi

The whole book is just fucking beans and tofu.

>>8294504
I like beans and tofu

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>>8294328
The Funeral is one of my favorites, but it's been so many years since I last read the whole novel. It's one of the few books you can open anywhere and find gold. Last night, I read The Sphinx:

>A short space elapsed, and up into this noiselessness came Ahab alone from his cabin. Taking a few turns on the quarter-deck, he paused to gaze over the side, then slowly getting into the main-chains he took Stubb's long spade--still remaining there after the whale's Decapitation--and striking it into the lower part of the half-suspended mass, placed its other end crutch-wise under one arm, and so stood leaning over with eyes attentively fixed on this head.

>It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s in the desert. “Speak, thou vast and venerable head,” muttered Ahab, “which, though ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses; speak, mighty head, and tell us the secret thing that is in thee. Of all divers, thou hast dived the deepest. That head upon which the upper sun now gleams, has moved amid this world’s foundations. Where unrecorded names and navies rust, and untold hopes and anchors rot; where in her murderous hold this frigate earth is ballasted with bones of millions of the drowned; there, in that awful water-land, there was thy most familiar home. Thou hast been where bell or diver never went; hast slept by many a sailor’s side, where sleepless mothers would give their lives to lay them down. Thou saw’st the locked lovers when leaping from their flaming ship; heart to heart they sank beneath the exulting wave; true to each other, when heaven seemed false to them. Thou saw’st the murdered mate when tossed by pirates from the midnight deck; for hours he fell into the deeper midnight of the insatiate maw; and his murderers still sailed on unharmed— while swift lightnings shivered the neighboring ship that would have borne a righteous husband to outstretched, longing arms. O head! thou hast seen enough to split the planets and make an infidel of Abraham, and not one syllable is thine!”

Favorite chapter is tough; I'll answer instead with a favorite passage:

>And how nobly it raises our conceit of the mighty, misty monster, to behold him solemnly sailing through a calm tropical sea; his vast, mild head overhung by a canopy of vapor, engendered by his incommunicable contemplations, and that vapor- as you will sometimes see it- glorified by a rainbow, as if Heaven itself had put its seal upon his thoughts. For d'ye see, rainbows do not visit the clear air; they only irradiate vapor. And so, through all the thick mists of the dim doubts in my mind, divine intuitions now and then shoot, enkindling my fog with a heavenly ray. And for this I thank God; for all have doubts; many deny; but doubts or denials, few along with them, have intuitions. Doubts of all things earthly, and intuitions of some things heavenly; this combination makes neither believer nor infidel, but makes a man who regards them both with equal eye.

>tfw when haven't written anything today because I've been on /r9k/ lamenting the existence of women

How the fuck do you guys do it?

>>8294234

medicine can be used by an individual to treat disease
physics and computer science can be used by an individual to create devices that organize matter or information

sociology has been used by universities to get funding when the vast majority of problems encountered in both primitive and modern life are the result of people who had babies they couldn't provide for without heightened interaction with other people or tribes

name some societal accomplishments by someone who called themselves a sociologist

>>8294234
no

>>8294234
no

Shrinking violet

Syncope is a condition where people feel faint. A person could be syncopic, or feel syncopal.

I'm aware of the gothic archetype of women being faint. My guess is it's to do with corsets and tuberculosis.

>>8294191
I specifically mean the use of fainting and fits of madness to characterize a hero as emotionally sensitive, such as Victor Frankenstein.

>>8294076
>What should I read first?
Plato.

Twilight of the idols

Start with Human, all too Human

Contains most of his good points while still being the most accesible as well

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>>8293994
No, that was Paul with the bible

>with Connections
wtf is that shit? and no, she just started modern sci-fi.

What about Gulliver's Travels

>>8293948
Fuck off Lucy

>>8293948
What exactly is the problem, lass.
You never said anything about why you dislike paperbacks.

>Does anyone else feel sort of annoyed by paperback books?

No? I find the flexibility of paperback is much more convenient, especially for pocket-size novels. Of course, there's going to be wear and tear, but that's a given. If you're particularly concerned about the condition of a book's cover, you can always rebind it.

never let me go. it will make you realize how short your life could be .

>>8293856
Kant

>>8293862
>le retarded rigid morality man

Ebin m8

>>8293840
Ok.

One must distance oneself from what attracts fools

>>8293840
What I hated about true detective was how it seems miles deep to the illiterate but it's actually baby's first nihilism lol

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>>8293834
Dover thrift nigga

it doesn't matter much for this book.

>>8293903
This.

You're not going to miss anything.

>>8293779
Do you like stronk wymin who don't need no man? If you do, yes.

>genre fiction

This is an over 18 board. Fuck off and reported.

>>8293750
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_F%C3%B6rster-Nietzsche

>>8293755
>implying that I'm not just so fugging lazy that I never researched it when I found it out and just thought of it now

nice one