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>>8231333
Forever laughing

Foucault's very early work has really really good stuff, he indulges in an existential phenomenology of (historical forms of) madness and schizophrenia. I'd recommend reading the first part of Gary Gutting's Archaeology of Scientific Reason. Just the parts on Folie et deraison, pre-Birth of the Clinic stuff, really - 50 pages, very readable, and you can use it as a guide to Foucault's actual stuff.

Greatest ironing of all time is that we are damned if we do and damned if we dont

Those devices also enable a constant stream of useless information, all encouraging quickly moving your focus in an adhd manner to satisfy an insatiable maw of distraction and escapism.

Ancients didnt have this. They could sit and think for years and were fine with it, their brains weren't fried. Their thoughts were much deeper than modern man's, unless he has escaped the trap.

Children today are constantly on phones, tablets, and vidya and i fear for their future well-being.

>>8231314
>Greatest irony of our time?
Don't think so. Show me something better than The Iliad.

Also, remember: "Want to stay up to date? Read the classics."

Agnostic

>>8231304
Why not make up a name for it. The current words like >>8231306 are stifling.

Call it xirligious or some other arbitrary word so we can continue placing boxes inside boxes without ever getting closer to anything.

deism

there's also Kill Yourself You Piece of Shit Frogposting Faggot- ism

read science articles

>>8231286
I do that for like 4 hours a day already cuh I want some pleasure reading recommendations

>>8231293
read the wiki

>>8231267
Your local library,

>>8231274
kek.

Seriously though, the library is the tits.

How are there so many "manlets, will they ever learn" pictures that just happen to be there. Is this a primordial meme?

>>8231254
>Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big gas pipes?

>>8231254
William Cuckner is a fucking hack. HACK!

>>8231254
It's called a joke, not a specific allusion to anything he ever wr-oh wait, it's actually in Quentin's section of The Sound and the Fury, you're welcome, OP. The part with the Mexican girl.

>>8231170
It's a culture wide antijoke.

>>8231170
Post authors you consider funny, at least we'll be sure to have a laugh

>>8231232
Celine Kafka DFW Thurber

fuck off

No, I swore I wouldn't read any privileged white male authors this year MAYBE ever.

Sam Hyde is an ironic memer. He holds a holier-than-though attitude over everyone while living in his parents basement and making money off of youtube, while in his youtube videos he proclaims that people need to be less vain and more hard-working. He critiscizes people for being smart asses and then goes on hour long rants about how the media makes people shallow and how society doesn't have values. He offers no logic or argument, he just spews his opinion, in the same way the pseudo intellectuals he critiscizes do. If you call Sam Hyde or any of his followers out on their bullshit, they always have the irony excuse. Apparently even when Hyde is serious he is actually joking because he's so smart no one can understand him.

>>8231061
u r brand new

>>8231067
I am bil clinton

>>8231061
No, but I use it to pretend that I'm less of an asshole than I really am by making it look like I disagree with views that I actually hold.

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>that unaware chapter about Notes from the underground
Fuck that was cringy

What does 'the texture of time' even mean?

>>8231026
Read Le Hippo Man's Confessions.

Really great work. Keep it up man!

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>>8231025
A slave comes to mind. See that fat priest sit there and call judgement upon the questions. Decide now what you will do and how you will do it. A preaching down the centuries, the ages, the millennia. Squeezed like a lemon, bitter and bitter and bitter. Arching up...a new colony of blasted madness. A hive with many holes...too many holes. You are the ugly bug.

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>>8231111
>quads

http://www.mrbauld.com/hemclean.html

Try Saki short stories for comedy.

Try Algernon Blackwood's The Wendigo or The Willows for spooky.

Try Descartes' Discourse on Method on earlymoderntexts.com (good ease-of-use translation) for a short and foundational philosophy thing.

why are you reading

do something to make senpai notice you

he'll be balls deep in your boipucci in no time

IN SEARCH OF LOST TIME BY PROUST

>>8230974
>4,215 pages
I would be searching the time I lost reading it for sure haha xDD!1

is it a meme or are you serious? did you really finish it? tell me about it.

>>8230980
he's serious. the entire thing is about remembering. i finished combray, it was good, but i'd rather finish it when i can read it in french.

>>8230950
You could do worse than John Keats. Sounds good aloud, regular rhythm - will be good to recite to the woman in your life, perhaps?

To Autumn


Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For Summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells.

Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drows'd with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cider-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,-
While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The red-breast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

>>8230950
>the most
dropped

>>8230950

The Great Gatsby. Pretty much every sentence is beautiful and essential.

"Marcy" 5) A young man (Marcus) on the UTL Homeworld (ruled by the Feminist Party government) goes out clubbing (illegal for men to be outside of certain zones without a license) dressed as a woman (illegal camoflauge, also Marcus is an illegal genome type because his appearance makes him passable as a woman, all 3 of these things he can be "retired"/executed for) has to experience the adrenaline rush of a single night out on the town, but is hunted by one of the Government "Good Hunters", enforcers who retire such illegals and halt such illegal activities

"Solyent Meat" 6) Brea, a young female soldier takes part in a shock-raid on an orbiting meat processing facility that has been shown to be "Meat swapping" (the act of using human meat and tagging it as animal meat to sell for profit) is given command of the raid after her commanding officer is killed during the raid and has to lead her team to complete the mission and seize the facility...at any cost

"December 23rd" 7) A transcript of a Parliament/Senate type of meeting between the various government bodies that pits the UTL's Feminist Party against the Centari and other governments, ending with a disbarment from a seat at the accusation of practices of slavery, which disqualifies the UTL from having a seat on the House, however the UTL accuses the Centari of creating puppet governments of the many smaller human colonies that have been erected after the last war

"Tyranny" 8) A standoff of a young woman in her apartment where she has to be talked down from suicide by a police officer, as a group of doctors have come to take her to the "looney bin", at first it seems like corruption in the government, but through the conversation its revealed she may be much more troubled and deserving than first shown

"The Queen of Attica" 9) A young woman from the UTL relocates to (placeholder name) Attica (a colony) with expectations of male gratification and attention everywhere she goes, holding onto a sexual fantasy in which she gets attention from the many, many men of Attica (who are not bound by the anti-male idealology of the UTL Homeworld) but has a slow, progressive mental breakdown as she is constantly told how awful her personality is, and how she is constantly rejected by everyone she meets, ending in a complete psychotic break when she literally THROWS herself into a group of men for attention, and they reject her for an extremely feminine young man, who they take right in front of her

"Customer review: 1/5" 10) A professional debt collector acquires assets (banking information for debtors so that clients can collect owed debts via the legal system) and infiltrates a meat processing facility, only to discover it is participating in "Meat swapping", and is presented with a choice:

a) leave the facility to continue turning humans into meat products, as the pay the debt, and the collector make a ton of money or

b) expose the facility and have it shut down
The choice made will never be shown, however this is the same facility from 6 "Soylent Meat"

Sorry about that first paragraph, my time is extremely limited and I was being rushed out the door and messed up the spacing

>>8230934
I like the Wendigo idea.