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Infinite Jest

>>8293703
why do you consider it a meme? how is it a meme? thank you.

heterosexuality was the first forced meme

>>8293675
>to
very funny

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>>8293682
came here to say this

>>8293687
>>8293682
>taking the bait
wow your an idiot

Jesus, that place is fucked beyond belief, but you are more of a pleb for linking that fucking cancer over here.

>Thus Spoke Zarathurstra for me. Was interested in philosophy but man, that is rough to start at.

i'm glad you guys are laughing, it depressed the hell out of me knowing 90% of the people i know or meet everyday who cite reading as a hobby are like this.

it's as if they want me to be some sort of snob for reading "serious literature" without complaint when i just want someone else of a similar standard to talk to.

things can get discouraging.

>>8293559
wut is this?

It's kind of a polemical pastiche of various ethical and aesthetic aspects of some arguably core conceptions of postmodernism. He's just diagnosing the design mentality, I think, as a kind of postmodern self-aware cynicism and malaise about putting in exceptional effort or trying to create something truly "new." He gets his polemical point across about that, but I wouldn't cite the foregoing synopsis on an art history essay or anything.

>>8293972
You're literally just bullshitting.

>>8293536
My ass!

>Being moved by music
how... quaint

>>8293536
I honestly don't understand why everyone shits themselves over this album.

No. He's not a character, he's a god

nigga fuck bitches nigga nigga bitch

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>>8293529
What's the difference?

You will never block out the internal sound

Wearing yhose would only make your breathing even more distracting

>>8293469
There's children and construction outside of my house all the time. I would much rather hear monotonous, repetitive sounds that come from my own breathing and pulse than the shreaks of my neighbor's children.

I use cheap sound-isolating earmuffs, and I love them. To block out virtually everything, you'll have to pay more, but I usually put on my regular headphones underneath the muffs and turn on some white noise.

I don't hear myself breathing with them on. I don't see how you would unless you huff like a Neanderthal.

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Do you now of the Sunflower club and Stargirl ?

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>>8293472
Nice 72


Feel the Love and Let it in ?

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Communicate with Love ?

This stone will also resonate out the love energy into its surrounds

https://youtu.be/q75keWNt1To

White genocide is literally peak perceived victimhood. You are a professional victim and self-centrist if you believe it exists.

I say this as someone who is white as snow.

You should probably just read Gene Wolfe ir Legend of the Elementals or whatever the post-ironic irony losers read these days

>>8293457
>white as snow
mite want 2 go 2 the doctor dude, that aint healthy

Because it is mostly one person. A few have jumped on the memewagon as well, but largely it is just one very autistic bald maf

>>8293430
Because he's trying to force a shit meme to discredit a very good author.

If you rate bloom as a literary critic, then take a look at what he had to say about Blood Meridian.

>>8293440
but I remember people talking shit about tortillas before that video

>>8293413
something about it really winds people up the wrong way. i don't know how they drop it either, but it is one of the more common love it or hate it entry level books.

It's an extremely popular book that is kind of long, so you get people who don't read picking it up and quickly remembering that they don't have the patience to read.

>>8293413
It's long and not linear. It's a popular book so people that don't read often might try it because they've heard of it.
This combo leads to people dropping it.
It's actually not a very difficult read though.

Sex and Character - Otto Weininger.
Anything by Evola.

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my diary desu

>>8293375
Weininger claims that man's love for a woman is narcissistic. I will not read such feminist drivel. Man's love is pure and true unlike that of women

>>/plebgeneral/

>>8293381
Gormenghast is barely even fantasy friend, it's closer to Joyce than to Tolkien or God forbid trash like Rothfuss or Bakker.

>>8293370
The Chronicles Of Amber, best thing ever for me, besides Tolkien in fantasy. Top tier stuff.

>>8293369
I honestly think the easiest way to comprehend those texts in this day and age is to start on some kind of a religious yet secular path. It helps with abstraction. I can understand starting with the greeks but point remains that the greeks themselves had a particular vernacular specific to their times, and the words they used weren't necessarily employed in the same way they are today. You want to learn the philosophical dialect. So read the Bible, the Avesta, some Upanishads, the Quran, then some classical literature, then read some Greek philosophy and familiarize yourself to some of their issues. Philosophy is and ought to be timeless, so the problems all these texts try to address (if read on a phil. basis rather than a sociological one) should be pertinent today as much as they were before. Myths too. Greek myths are fantastic if only by how they somehow seem to mend the human psyche. Allow yourself to read too much into matters, develop your own dialect, parallel to the accepted one. There is something thoroughly mystical about philosophy, if only because it tries to push language to its outer bounds and points at the obscure. In such spirit, familiarize yourself with your own inapparent depths.

tldr, What the hell do I know?

Any ultra dense text is an effort of multiple readings. Sometimes spaced out over years as you connect the parts.

It's more of a study than a reading

You read it. Go back and start trying to fill in the parts you are most lost about. Read it again, repeat.

>>8293369

Just watch a 5 minute youtube video and pretend you know everything about their ideas.

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>>8293352
I came in with sort of shaky foundations. Half-assed mythology, didn't read the whole theban trilogy, only read the illiad and not the odyssey, etc.
Was a right joy going back and reading the stuff properly. Same goes for philosophy.
Only regret is that I came here in part to improve my English, and instead I've only been reading translated stuff.

mason and dixon

Stoner