"Little gay looking boy
So gay I can barely say it with a 'straight' face looking boy
You're witnessing a mass-occur like you're watching a church gathering
And take place looking boy
Oy vey, that boy's gay
That's all they say looking boy
You get a thumbs up, pat on the back
And a "way to go" from your label every day looking boy"
What did he mean by this?
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>Eminem memes on lit
rock on
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Im not a native english-speaker, but doesn't gay mean jolly, happy, etc?
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>>8278869
It means cock-sucking now. I blame the homosexuals for that
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Why do SJWs not realize that Ignatius J. Reilly is a parody of them, not of conservatives?
>narcissistic
>useless degree
>obese
>political "activist"
>sexually deranged
This is a parody of college SJWs decades before they came into full bloom. It's like they're too autistic to realize that Ignatius is just an upside down version of themselves meant to highlight the stupidity of collegiate idealism.
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No, the girl whatserface is a parody of SJWs, Ignatius is a parody of us.
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>>8278823
>implying they're not two parts of the same whole
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>>8278811
Are you dense? Ignatius is literally /pol/ before the internet existed.
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Are there any good anthologies on philosophy?
I don't want to read the tomes of dozens of philosophers. I can read a couple if they particularly interest me. But there are too many to study them all; I have other things going on in life. I would however enjoy reading lets say 100 pages on a particular philosopher, his life, his philosophy, and important quotes. Maybe there's a larger collection with something like what I'm talking about?
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Think by Simon Blackburn is a good intro.
Nothing beats reading them though, even he admits that. You don't get the whole point across.
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>>8278750
How about this site:
plato.stanford.edu
I personally prefer summaries.
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Sophie's World
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Hey bookworms
Third World faggot here
Where can I download good quality ebooks?
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>>8278746
You can use open directories and they have huge treasure troves. Reddit opendirectories will get you started.
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>>8278769
Thanks, anon. Do they have copyrighted stuff? I'm looking for Tolkien books and all I can find are shitty torrents with broken OCR copies of LOTR
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>>8278746
Google sur.ly libgen (the system doesn't allow me to post the link because they think I'm spamming)
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Just finished IJ. Big plot hole though, wondering if anyone noticed itHow does Orin know that entertainment is lethal?Joelle doesn't know about it until later, he wasn't close to his dad, he couldn't have watched it... maybe Mario knew, DFW mentions that no one really asks Mario about their Dad, but even then there's nothing to suggest that he knew about its purpose or its effects or even its existence really?
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Prove me wrong /lit/, please do
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It's implied that he can force information out of Mario, and that he was the one to dig it out of the grave. Mario is implied to have known that things were buried in place of his head (I think it says somewhere only Avril and him might've known this, not sure), and there's that whole section describing its first viewings, which establish the order in which it was sent: first to various catridge/film critics (right?), then Avril's various lovers (I think). The only real hole is why he would send it in the first place, to the first people, the various film critics and from there he would've known it was lethal if he paid attention and then would've sent it off to everyone else. Maybe Mario knew of its effects, or rather not its actual effects but what Himself thought it would do. Himself is also implied having taken DMZ while editing it.
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>intelligent
>well read
>try and debate someone and completely forget everything i've ever learned and get too emotional
how do I fix this
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>>8278628
Leave society behind.
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>>8278628
>try and debate someone
Don't.
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why do you get emotional
I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on 4chan anymore.
Here's how I did it.
-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person
-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure
-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult book or one that makes me sleepy I grab another and switch. This should refresh your head. Keep them thematically different. I read economics and fiction.
-It isn't a race. Reading slowly won't make you sleepy that fast. Try to acknowledge what books are for you to read fast and which aren't.
-Buy the physical copies. When you get the books from your own money you'll feel the need to read them to avoid the feel of wasting your money.
-Start with books highly discussed here so you feel motivated to discuss.
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Oh hey it's this thread again lol!
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I used to read hundred pages a day of light novels/isekai/wuxia. Then I just stopped reading.
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10/10
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>tfw you aren't a wagie
>tfw you get enough money to buy any books you want for doing absolutely nothing
>tfw you have all the free reading time in the world
I am the patrician reader.
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>>8278564
>he doesn't have over 20,000 ebooks, free of charge
Lmao, nice one smartypants
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>>8278564
>uses valuable neetbux to buy books
Get a gym membership and pirate dem books
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>>8278564
>even their memes are lazier than wage-titan memes
The incompetent NEET sack of shit who made this couldn't even download PS; he just poorly mimicked the meme from memory inside Microsoft Paint
I just finished reading this. It was pretty good. But one thing I don't understand about the ending didPaul die or was that the effect of the shroom trip?Can someone explain this?
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his ego died mannnnn
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>>8278513
420
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it was not an 'actual death.'
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Fug you guys. Just read this and I feel empty inside. Am I missing something or is it just an incredibly sad story?
At first I felt like becoming a cockroach would be the ultimate neet lifestyle, but then it impacts everyone and everything around you and everything turns to shit
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What's wrong with it being an incredible sad story?
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>>8278471
B-but i read to feel happy.
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>>8278475
So you don't read literature?
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hey guys Im looking for early to mid life essays of Theodor Adorno on aesthetics, music theory, film theory, etc.
Im not down for his late Aesthetic Theory book, too close to poststructuralism for my taste. thanks in advance for the help.
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>>8278368
bump
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Idiot.
Any good novels about someone going back into the past, using his knowledge to try to teach or advance some ancient civilization?
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go watch ancient aliens la
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>>8278360
I don't know but I have that fantasy all the time.
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>>8278360
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Anyone wanna discuss it? I was at /tv/ recently and had myself goaded into discussing the merits of Gandalf's character. As it turned out, I have some rather negative things to same about the guy.
I wouldn't mind some discussion on this, because I used to really like that character, before I started digging into it.
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Page two already.
Let's have some OC.
Gandalf should have been portrayed as a villain. He isn't fighting for what is right- an extremely nebulous notion given the greater story-line- he's fighting an old foe from many wars before, a foe that was once his brother. Gandalf is playing every side to get what he wants. Lee's character is just doing what he always did, trying to maintain the old way of things. That old way being what happened after the really big wars decided things, a thousand years at least before. Gandalf is a loose cannon. He invented the Time of Men just to undermine his old adversaries.
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Well, I guess nobody cares about children's literature here.
Time for some more OC
Have you read The Silmarillion? Gandalf is old school, man. He's seen literally everything happen in that world, he was there before
his boss made the world. He's conservative to the utmost. He's a manipulator who's personal agendas couldn't be understood my men, let alone elves. He lies to everyone, manipulates everyone, in order to best his old rival. He doesn't fucking care about shit anymore. Saruman did though. He had seen a peace in the world, and despite war, was willing to play dirty to maintain that peace. Gandalf didn't fucking care. His way or else. And he got his way.
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I couldn't even find it in the catalog this time.
Time for some more OC.
Gandalf could have just given the Ring to the elves and let them kill the Enemy, he always knew exactly where it was. But he didn't. He let the weakest of the weak do his dirty work. And in effect, removed the world of the best it had- the elves said fuck this we're going to home and taking our ball with us. And left the world in a mire of shit with people like you and me to sort it all out. Why did he do that? Because someone told him he couldn't, that it should be done better, for everyone. He resented the elves, resented his maker.
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Nice try idiots. Moby Dick is rated at 3.44 on Goodreads. 2016-07-14 17:46:57 Post No.8278245
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Nice try idiots. Moby Dick is rated at 3.44 on Goodreads.
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There is absolutely no way i will ever, ever, read this awful piece of trash.
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>>8278245
I don't read anything above a 4 because you know the mass of plebs is jacking up the ratings. Also anything with more than 10,000 reviews
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>>8278245
just don't read anything below 3.8 and your good. that's even pushing it a little. check this giant turd out.
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>>8278245
I know this is bait, but fucking kill yourself.
Moby Dicky is literally the best novel in the English language.
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Welcome to /lit/
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> If you want to discuss history, religion, or the humanities, go to /his/. If you want to discuss politics, go to /pol/.
Don't forget.
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i think you're lost, little thread. head up and to the left
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