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Good night sweet prince, you'll be missed.

rip.

Quelle triste nouvelle... Beaucoup de respect pour cet homme!

I guess a big part of serious fiction's purpose is to give the reader, who like all of us ... Since an ineluctable part of being a human self is suffering, part of what we humans .... We've all got this “literary” fiction that simply monotones that we're all ... &c.

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A RADICALLY CONDENSED HISTORY OF POSTINDUSTRIAL LIFE :: A SHORT STORY BY DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed very hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.

The man who’d introduced them didn’t much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all times. One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.

[appears in Brief Interviews with Hideous Men]

i liked Good old neon. It was his only short story i read, tho'

a projection of westerners to cry all their existential frustrations without directly exposing their social causes, which would be actually punished, while all this new market only keeps the machine running.

now, if you wanted a critique of the dharma itself i dont think anyone here can do a serious attempt, for you'd need to know its context and genuine practice. ie be from india or a western published scholar.

>>8229896
helped me a lot in dealing with life
kind of overdone as a literary theme.

>>8229955

I was thinking about things like the fact that they don't have the notion of creator, then who set the whole cycle of rebirth in motion? can karma exist without a will to act?

Doesn't the fact that you try to detach yourself of desires lead you to a certain apathy, and only the fact that it might hurt your rebirth stops you from claiming your life?

>>8229975

Did you use it to put your life back in order? Did you pratice? Or did the concept put certain things in perspective?

Is the Sword of Shannara any good?

>>8228851
No

>tfw you blog has 1.3k followers but the one tim you post your writing it only gets 3 likes

I think it's time to give up

>>8228773

Don't bother reading about science. It's a fundamentally flawed concept. Do research on philosophy if you want to search for the truth. Scientism is rampant enough.

>>8228786
dude this is one heavy duty pile of shit comment.

You sound like a fucktard.

this went too far

Hi there, /mu/tant here reporting in from the /metal/ general thread! It is pretty general knowledge on /mu/ tha Terminal Redux is shit tier black metal whereas Ghost Bath is superior in every way.

Google Hunter Hunt Hendrix. You won't be disappointed.

I wrote out a quality answer and accidentally hit the back button
I'm not typing it again

тaк глyпo

Tolstoy wrote best doge character

>>8226913
Toad Soy had a better way with words
Jet Ski had deeper spychological insight

Overpopulation is currently destructive, and their is nothing inherently beneficial about life.

everything is ultimately 'muh feels'

logic is unable to do anything whatsoever without feels

that's what hume said anyways

>>8226821
There's nothing inherently problematic about destruction either.

And what else could you complain about being destructed except for life? Rocks/

>>8226659
You got us.

mama day
push

>>8226670
I'm adding city of god by paulo lins

Read it, didn't enjoy it.

Didn’t read it, enjoyed it.

Enjoy it, didn't read it

the stinky cheese man
dumb bunnies go to the beach

As if you didn't stick your little ruler into this book's spot in the library 20 times during 2nd grade

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As if you didn't stick your little ruler into this book's spot in the library 20 times during 2nd grade.

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>>8233151
Schedule with calendar dates, thanks to the anon who corrected them.

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TODAY'S SIDE-TOPIC: What are your impressions of the book so far?

>>8233151
Yo, OP, where'd you find those prints in the pic and where can I find more?

>>8233107
>that rape scene
Jesus Christ, that was fucking brutal.
Was it really necessary?
Was it really necessary?

>>8233110
I could dela with the rape scene, but the way he explains how it is justified for him and his junkie friend to murder and steal from a retired nurse is impossible to counterargument.

>>8233107
What was the point of the racist ebonics chapter?

>>8233080
One book at a time for me. If its a good book then Im invested in the characters

>>8233100
> If its a good book then Im invested in the characters
plebsaurus

>>8233080
I don't see the point of reading multiple books at once unless one is particularly long and you want to take a break from it.

>>8232837
maybe at gunpoint

only if you're english because it is the dominant and therefore best language, and will hopefully one day completely replace all the others.

>>8232837
Yes because if you're reading something famous it will have been translated by an actual translator and not some jumped up video game cuckold.