Post some lit that'll remind me how widespread that teenage feel of lonesomeness is and how much of a massive faggot I am for reveling in it. I'm trying to become a goddamn adult. I'm 18 and no Catcher in the Rye please.
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Try Fathers and Sons as well as Torrents of Spring by Turgenev.
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>>8141151
Nice to know someone else is coping with this, I am nineteen years old and hope it will be over soon
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what's a good text book that would really set me up with all I need to know about philosophy? Preferably one of those ones I can get for insanely cheap, like the norton anthology of poetry. I just picked one up on ebay for like 2 bucks, the hard cover copy no less. I need something like that with philosophy, I'm really looking into stuff like camus, sartre, nietzsche, but I want to have more room to expand and explore besides just these. It would be cool if it had some greek philosophers in it so I could get into all the "necessary" prerequisites, if you could even call it that. I'm not doing this for a class, I'm just curious.
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>>8141149
Why don't you start with the Greeks like we keep telling you OK? Read the dialogues.
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>>8141149
durant's story of philosophy
you can also get sophie's world and just read the bits typed in arial if you don't like the story surrounding it.
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>>8141149
anthony kenny's book provides the best overview, though it favours the analytics and obviously sometimes mirsrepresents
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ASOIAF vs BOTNS
Which is better? And why is it BOTNS?
Picture related.
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the fuck is BOTNS?
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>>8141184
You have to be 18+ to post on 4chan. No children are allowed to use this site.
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>>8141184
Book of the New Sun
It's a fantasy series that's memed here a lot and considered literary by the people who spam it.
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>" wake up in the morning feeling like p Diddy "
what did she mean by that?
poetry dissection thread
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>For hither not, I am the Stallion
What did he mean by this?
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p diddy is a rich high status man, the thing a woman wants the most, so when describing that she feels good, it's not a too far fetched association to make, also she was probably on a bunch of drugs and so on
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>>8141041
>wake
Whose wake? Finnegan''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''s wake.
>up in the morning
Morning wood
>feeling like
Artsy way of saying tfw
>p Diddy
p is short for pretty. Diddy is the kind of word you would find in Finnegans Wake (already referenced above) which, when said out loud, sounds like "did he."
The whole thing is set up for more to come; it makes you think about the choices in life and how life is very open ended and the ends never are defiant and militantly reveal a meaninglessness.
What are some works of literature that capture the postmodern wacky spirit of musicians like Ween, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Mr. Bungle, Devo, and the Residents?
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William S. Burroughs
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>>8141035
Naked Lunch is hilarious, I agree.
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SO MAMA IF YOU PLEASE PASS ME THE PORK ROLL EGG AND CHEESE
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So what the fuck's actually going on with the Hugo awards? I heard last year they refused to deal out any because the ballot was stuffed with joke candidates and this year the same thing is going to happen? What's going on?
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>>8141003
Pure Autism. Nerd culture is the cancer that is killing the West. Nerd Culture must perish. Burn it down.
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>>8141010
This. Complete and total autism.
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>>8141010
Anything killing the west must be doing something right
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Should i try with sailing if i am socially anxious autist? Would men there crush me under their masculinity?
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>>8140907
just remember to squeeze the sperm, anon.
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>>8140907
That would be a very prententious thing to do, wouldn't it?
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>>8140907
Sailing is mostly done by rich people that can afford yachts nowadays. If you're rich you will fit in.
>"If he be Mr. Hyde," he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek."
What did he mean by this?
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>>8140882
He just wanted something catchy that could be turned into memes by the inernet culture. Don't read too much into it.
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>>8140900
The internet didn't exist back then.
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>>8142383
>implying
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Was he a reactionary, modernist poet or just a very depressed individual?
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He was a very depressed reactionary modernist poet.
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yeah why are the two mutually exclusive
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I got a really socialist vibe off some of his writings.
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Who are some philosophers whose ethical philosophy is chaotic, relies on intuition, and discards emphasis on hedonic calculus or reason.
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>>8140762
I'll bump for ya', lad.
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>>8140762
Sounds like the self aware, self punishing sort of existentialism
Try Kierkegaard
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stoicism
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I'm looking for poetic writing filled with poetic passion and abstraction, like your mind in the height of listening to a sun ra jazz song. That psychedelic moment where you feel instead of thing, but capturing it in all it's poetic irony, contradictions, it's pure human nature and complex abstraction. Do you know of works like these?
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Hilda Doolittle, usually published under HD
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>>8140560
I will investigate this further, thank you.
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The Changing Light At Sandover, particularly in the cosmology department.
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Do you think in the current PC climate a fantasy book like TLoR about blacks and african lore should be well received?
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Only white women would read it.
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>>8140529
Yeah, obviously. Binti is popular right now, so is NK Jemison etc.. If you throw at least one white dude in there who gets laid a lot, you can add whatever else you want.
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>>8140529
Isn't that what Marlon James said he was in the process of writing?
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I need to become a pseud and fast! what are some compulsory books every pseud should read?
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/lit/
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>>8140518
Nietzche, duh
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>>8140518
Just read a bunch of Wikipedia articles on the subjects you wish to look like an expert in.
That's what I do
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What are your reading habits like? Where, when, and how often do you read? Not including books for school.
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I read 1000~1200 pages a day with 15 to 18 hours of reading.
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>>8140525
Lucky punk. Are you on summer break or is that average for you year around?
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>>8140549
My name is Sebastian, that's all I can share.
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What books, if read, will help me to enter the United States Northeast social elite?
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>>8140480
Memes aside:
>high school assigned books
>SAT study guide
>fraternity/secret society initiation book
>Ivy League/MIT assigned books
>LSAT/GMAT/MCAT study books
and so on. Nothing's perfect, but elite higher education is the fast track to what you're talking about. Just be sure to make friends while you're there.
To stay in the elite Northeast set is a long filter because most of your opportunities for graduate education or first jobs can take you from that scene.