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>>8174166
burroughs - junky (just dope things back in the old days)
welsh - trainspotting (also skagboys and porno, skagboys is about the first taste and then the descent into addiction, p good stuff)
bukowski - everything, it's all about being a sloppy alcoholic
kerouac - big sur (late stage alcoholism and depression, powerful stuff desu, heavy on the feels)

got your enjoyable plebcore base right there

Ryu Murakami- Almost Transparent Blue

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Witkacy - Drugs

>>8174128
get kuhrazy with the khristians

you get along with the arabics

avicenna, alfarabi, averroes etc

all these memes

you should have read the greeks and skipped to enlightenment

CORNCOBBER PLEASE GO

I have another good one for Blood Meridian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBXclCjvB_o

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcSPK5yn9K8

>>8174027
allow me to post meme relating to black man and the king word next to it (get ready this is hilarious): we wuz kings (the implication being that blacks were never kings but they try to make shakespeare and egypt black to justify them not being inherently inferior to the white man)

YOU
WEREN'T
KINGS

consider yourselve BTFO

>>8174038
???

the /pol/ shitposting is getting really incoherent

>>8174040
wanna argue that blacks were kings? not kings as we understand it. they were kings, maybe in etiopia, but they werent civilized and hence the WE WUZ KINGS meme is valid to combat that idea

No. Immanuel Kant.

Is advaita vedanta just neoplatonism for plebs who enjoy orientalism? You decide!

>>8174021
>implying that neoplatonism isn't just bootleg parmenidism

>>8173899
What did you think of it? The ideas on holiness as depicted in Euthyphro are intriguing.

>>8173899
Dunno if it was a pricing error but I once got a $90 textbook like new for $20 through Amazon Warehouse
didn't even look like anyone had ever cracked it open

>>8173923
Not read it yet. I am currently reading Nausea by Sartre. I just picked it up because it was 3.50 fucking dollars and it was on my wish list.

>>8173889
Dune

>>8173912
its sequels too? is it good?

>>8173997
I can't speak of the sequel, Messiah, except it's on my reading list, so I enjoyed Dune enough for that.

If you like reading about feuding noble houses, deserts, and ways of nomadic/tribal folk then you should like it.

The amount of lore will either grip or repulse you, there is a map, glossary of terms and three appendices.

>>8173841
Yes, Whitehead.

>>8173841
>nu-male emasculated liberal art Bernout cuck detected

All the continentals from Kant onwards were the true hacks that have subverted Western civilization and made it succumb to degeneracy

hemingway
aristotle
hume

>>8173763
what does he mean by this?

>>8173807

cum

He sure did like willies, did old Willy.

>>8173600
>a big impact on pop culture

who gives a shit about this?

>>8173600
He pretty much just writes airport fiction and things that belong in grocery stores more than bookstores, yes. I know this because I used to devour his books by the fuckton when I first started reading and had no idea what I actually liked and just sat around libraries reading shit like The Stand all day because his name was one of the few I'd heard of at the time.

>>8173600
>do you feel his works have literary merit
noooope

I find them on the same level as the films that have been made on them. Sometimes, rarely, I am in the mood for some small-town horror shit and that's all he's worth. I only ever got through Talisman and that was rough.

I think it is really hard... but for example, paul celan wrote in german only, even though he avoided speaking in german. And since german is viewed as a really hard language, I think it is possible with every language.
Also, byung-chul han, for example, is a philosopher from south korea. He learned german because he was interested in nietzsche and heidegger and published his works in german only. He is really good. I know, this example is not from poetry, but since with heidegger and nietzsche, language is really important, it kind of fits you question, too.

>>8173530
>one of the greatest English prose writers

He was no doubt a great writer, but his prose is far from that.

>>8173530
I learned English in my early twenties hoping to someday write a novel in it. Some of the things I wrote were well received on /lit/ and elsewhere which gave me boost in confidence and made me pursue the depths of this language even more eagerly. I am aware I still make many mistakes and I completely lack the sensibility which I may never achieve, but writing is about imagination for some as it is about realism for others. If my universe, characters and descriptions are consistent, they can be well received by English readers even if they sometimes seem off.

It is a great thing, bringing something new in a language like this and this generation in particular will have many such writers because so many educated young people are becoming fluent in it.

maybe you just dont like reading bro

>>8173192
Genesis 1 didn't occur in that circle

>>8173207
that's not cool man, I want to like reading.

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hi every1 im new!!!!!!! holds up penis my name is jimmy but u can call me ST3PH3N!!!!!!!! lol...as you can see im very artsy!!!! thats why i came here, 2 meet artsy ppl like me ... im 40 years old (im wellread 4 my age tho!!) i like 2 read shakespeare by myself (im an individualist and don't need to serve that in which i no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church: and i will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as i can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use--silence, exile, and cunning if you dont like it deal w/it) bcuz it SOOOO joycean!!!! its shakespearaen 2 of course but i want to meet more shakespeareans =) like they say the more less bore more whores weary less the merrier and the terrier hound burying his grandmother under the holly bush!!!! lol...neways i hope 2 meet lots of shakespearean characters here so give me lots of bloomshutechute spermshoots!!!!!!!
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riverrun, past eve and adam's, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to howth castle and environs,

ST3PH3N

>>8173187
*friedrich

but nice meme, I laughed

>>8173241
Can't believe I haven't seen this before if it's pasta, because this one is A+

>>8173120
The best. His "What is Metaphysics?" is a nice, short intro to his core ideas; you may want to start with that

>>8173120
German Derrida, LITERALLY.

>>8173329
Das Fragen sucht den Grund für das Seiende, sofern es seiend ist. Den Grund suchen, das heißt: ergründen. Was in Frage gestellt wird, rückt in den Bezug zu Grund. Allein, weil gefragt wird, bleibt offen, ob der Grund ein wahrhaft gründender Grund ist, Gründung erwirkender Ur-grund ist; ob der Grund eine Gründung versagt, Ab-grund ist; ob der Grund weder das Eine noch das Andere ist , sondern nur einen vielleicht notwendigen Schein von Gründung vorgibt und so ein Un-grund ist. Wie auch immer, die Frage sucht die Entscheidung im Grund, der gründet, dass das Seiende seiend ist als ein solches, das es ist.

Maybe you shouldn't wallow in your own sadness?

>>8172981
>Maybe you shouldn't wallow in your own sadness?

This honestly. Read something easy and fun to distract yourself like ASOIAF or something.

>>8172981
maybe you should go to /adv/ if you want to be an armchair therapist?

to op, look up the exit-level /lit/ chart