Is this kid in my grade postmodern or post-postmodern?
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You're both just twats.
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>>8110146
I would have called that kid a faggot in the halls if he went to my old school
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I would have called that kid a friend in the halls if he went to my old school
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Roosh Valizadeh from Return of Kings launches a new Rape guide... his 24th one 2016-06-01 18:26:59 Post No.8110120
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Roosh Valizadeh from Return of Kings launches a new Rape guide... his 24th one
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The multiple serial rapist muslim psychopath Daryush Roosh Valizadeh is launching this month a new travel guide... the 24th one.
This he advertises as the "First guide without advices and descriptions on how he forcibly rapes unwilling polish or iceladish or ukrainian girls"
So this is his first not a sex travel guide with advices on how to rape women, as before, but this time is just a travel guide to Canada.
I wonder how many sheep and muslim retards
will buy his new travel guide.
His rhetoric and his self praising is powerful, he plays very well on logical biases of naive men
there are several new videos about him, exposing him
as a sicko and a multiple serial rapist
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAFR5U3OYGU[/youtube]
The excerpts that he gave so far look like he's just in an endless self-praising masturbation of how awesome he is...
and how "neomasculine"
Of course Roosh forgot to mention all the reports that women filed against him, after rapes, death threats and everything he did
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>[youtube][/youtube]
Who uses BBS forums in 2016 I mean really.
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as my first time on 4chan, 4 chan is very confusing. I have no clue if anyone reads this message
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>tfw OP can't english
>tfw OP can't even 4chan
>tfw OP's one talent is making Roosh sound interesting while talking about Canada of all fucking places
Roosh, we know it's you and none of us are grills, queer, or weigh under 220. Ball's in your court.
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what is /lit/'s opinion on Shel Silverstein
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looks like an islamic militant
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>>8110021
>Silverstein
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>>8110021
Successful enough for Playboy is too plebian for me.
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“Madness is contagious,” the most memorable line from this sprawling, desultory, Frankenstein of a novel. And madness is a tedious, dull slog in Bolano’s world. I can ride through a couple hundred pages of experimental obnoxiousness in an ambitious novel like this, as long as the rewards are there. But, ultimately, 2666’s rewards are minor.
I started out liking this book, found it fascinating and darkly funny in the Kafka sense. From there the humor was either lost, or, later, shifted registers into that nasty Celine territory, which I can get interested in if something worthwhile is at stake, something important is being said or grappled with. But, as you read, it becomes evident that the stories and motifs are going nowhere, really, or perversely feeding back into themselves, as though written by a madman applying his very personal and idiosyncratic logic to stories and ideas, whose only end is to regenerate further applications of this logic, never getting anywhere--deliberately going nowhere--the sole purpose to keep his madness alive and thriving.
If you’re looking for any remotely sympathetic characters, you won’t find them here. They’re not even characters--more like zombies, really. If you think zombies are cool, you may hate them after reading this book. “Death to zombies!” may be your new motto. Then there’s the sense that the novel is so full of literary inside jokes or elaborate cross-textual references so as to render it incomprehensible to a reader like me. I really couldn't stand nearly all of the final book. Was that supposed to be funny? interesting? fascinating? insightful?
Masterpiece? I don't think so.
While there is much to be admired in Bolano’s skills (his narrative command is excellent, which makes what he’s using it for frustrating), and he has some fine sentences, figurative and philosophical, the final experience of this novel is just plain boredom. Finishing the last page, I was left completely cold and disinterested in unraveling any the stories’ various enigmas.
2666 comes across as a grand exercise in narrative obfuscation. If that’s what he was going for, mission accomplished.
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>translation
kys
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>Post is about 2666
>Picture is Infinite Jest
0/10
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> Oh, you read poetry? Drop a freestyle.
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>Jim Morrison is my favorite poet
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>>8109960
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my flows so dope you could roll em up and smoke em
your boy don't toke so you know I'm only jokin
dope prose flows like Jimbo Joyce
first edition more rare than a holographic Blastoise
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>>8110027
Dank.
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Can you guys explain the last line of this story? What does it mean?
>A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life
>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.
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that dfw was an homo and the embodiment of everything he despises.
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>>8109861
It's repeated to emphasize how anxiety-riddled they all were.
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>>8109895
What is the subject of the "knowing" ?
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What did he mean by this 2016-06-01 16:13:51 Post No.8109587
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>Wirf dein Schweres in die Tiefe!
>Mensch, vergiss! Mensch vergiss!
>Göttlich ist des Vergessens Kunst!
>Willst du fliegen,
>willst du in Höhen heimisch sein:
>wirf dein Schwerstes in das Meer!
>Hier ist das Meer, wirf dich in das Meer!
>Göttlich ist des Vergessens Kunst!
(shitty translation by me since I couldn't find another one:)
>Throw your heavy in the deep!
>Man, forget! Man forget!
>Godly is the art of forgetting!
>If you wish to fly,
>if you wish to be at home in the heights:
>throw your heaviest in the sea!
>Here is the sea, throw yourself in the sea!
>Godly is the art of forgetting!
(Note: "Schweres" literally means "heavy thing(s)", but it sounds incredibly stupid when translated into English.)
What Nietzsche mean by this?
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>>8109587
He's reacting against SJW egalitarians who try to elevate everyone (black, women, gays etc.) to the same moral status as the white heterosexual male. What he is saying is that instead of swallowing that bluepill (forgetting the redpilled capital T-truth) you might as well kill yourself (throw you're'selve in the sea) because liberals will never cease in their unquenching thirst for 'muh equality xD'
Nietzsche is based, basically
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>>8109587
With Schweres he obviously means your memories, all your mental baggage, your education, the things you believed to be true.
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>>8109625
Damn, I thought I was posting on /lit/.
>>8109642
Right, I got that as well. The part that stands out for me is
>throw yourself in the sea!
First he tells me how to fly, then to throw myself in the sea (which is like the opposite of flying)?
And so I figured there's more going on here than I can see.
I'm about to go to the local bookstore. What book should I get?
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>>8109435
A book
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Ask for directions to a nearby library, proceed to get a library card, and start loaning books instead of acting as a consumerist prick that endulges in the commodification of literature as a hobby.
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>>8109566
>marxist cuck detected
back to tumblr, sweetheart
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what are /lits thoughts on dianetics? where do I start with scientology related books? I had a free stress test done by them and they recommend I read their works.
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>where do I start
You don't
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>>8109344
but how did they know I was stressed?
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>>8109335
I really hope you're just memeing. If you were on this site back in 2008 you'd know why.
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music is great, literature is engaging, the visual arts can be mindblowing, but of all the artforms the pinnacle is
f - - -
well, what is it, /lit/?
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fuck
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Fucking
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>>8109263
This board is for literature.
Please discuss works of literature, or people will report you for posting off-topic threads.
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Guys, intellectually I'm all spooked out. I can't stand philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage. Many fields like economics etc are just applied common sense and stamp collecting. I see novels as nothing but entertainment despite pretentious people claiming life / philosophical insights and tonnes of people will consider you a disgusting plebeian if you don't initially read shitloads of boring as fuck canon novels.
I think I am painfully adapting to the idea of the Internet age / information overload by abandoning any pretension that I can be an all rounder or even dilettante in everything. There are ten trillion books called "Introduction to [broad and important field]", even if you only have one of each field.
History is similar to novels. Shitloads of reading along with a shitload pretension thrown on top telling you that you truly cannot no nuthin unless you have an in depth understanding of the Greeks / Romans / Christianity / USA / WW1 / WW2 / financial systems / or shitloads of other topics I can't stand it. And then there's current events. I don't care about climate change, outer space, inequality, China, the EU (as long as it doesn't stir up too much shit), applied psychology, the education system, diversity (as long as people aren't treated badly), Russia, South America, refugees, nutrition, mental health, and more. Admitting just one of these would make me an iredeemable idiot, no doubt.
Has anyone else had similar thoughts? The spooks are powerful and must be removed but their removal leaves your mind in a promordial state that is more susceptible to spooks than before.
And obviously I have an existential crisis but /lit/ is fucking pathetic in demanding that anyone who has one should immediately "grow up" and become a monotheist and wagecuck.
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High school is hard, I agree
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>philosophy because of all the unfalsifiable garbage
Well there's analytical shit if you want to go that route
>economics etc are just applied common sense
You would be surprised at what you can learn about society if you understand certain economic theories. They do, after all, pretty much underpin how most people think and act. Granted you can just skip that shit and go to sociology.
>I see novels as nothing but entertainment
So....whats the problem? Just read what you want, 4chan isn't your life you know (or is it....maybe get off the computer sometime....)
>cannot no nuthin unless you have an in depth understanding
I think that depends on what you are ready. There are fairly light introductions to a particular field of history if you want to learn it. I mean, why not start with King Leopold's Ghost? That's a pretty good read and got me interested in further study of the African colonization.
>Admitting just one of these would make me an iredeemable idiot, no doubt.
Lots of people don't read the news
>The spooks are powerful and must be removed but their removal leaves your mind in a promordial state that is more susceptible to spooks than before.
Well there's paranoia about spooks and then there is critical thinking. Which one are you exercising?
>"grow up" and become a monotheist and wagecuck
Then just don't do either of those things and read Camus
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>>8109184
>Well there's analytical shit if you want to go that route
I´m not well-read enough to choose to support either of the camps, but what makes continental philosophy worthwhile?
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Philosophy is a load of unfalsifiable garbage that cannot give us any idea on how to live.
I want to work hard but when I work hard I'm sad that I'm not outside enjoying life. When I go outside on a sunny day I only see tones of people I can't relate to. Browsing 4chan on the bus in the city centre seems to be the optimal human contact / solitude ratio.
I want a graduate job to feel less like a loser but I know that if I get one (and I'm pretty sure I'll be offered one in the next few days) I'll feel trapped as a wageslave and kissing out on life.
I'm 25 and I feel like I have a tiny amount of youth left but I don't know what I should be doing with it.
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>I want to work hard but when I work hard I'm sad that I'm not outside enjoying life
Working hard is a spook
>When I go outside on a sunny day I only see tones of people I can't relate to
Then get a fucking hobby, thats not philosophy's fault. There are entire bodies of work dedicated to this topic btw
>Browsing 4chan on the bus
There's your problem, get off this Chinese cartoon fetish board and read some philosophy
> to feel less like a loser
Holding one's self to society's standards = spooks
> I'll feel trapped as a wageslave
Be a socialist then
>a tiny amount of youth left but I don't know what I should be doing with it
Snort drugs and fuck a tranny
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Join the Army
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>I'm 25 and I feel like I have a tiny amount of youth left
Nope, it's over pal. Most people your age have already been working since they graduated at 21.
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Just finished this and I gotta saybetter than Bleeding Edge.
Did Jeffrey remind anyone else of Heinrich in White Noise?
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>>8109074
This got coverspace on this months NYRB, was it any good, or typical post-modern prose games.
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>>8109074
bump ing this thread into eternity bc delillo is literally the only relevant author working today,besides Tao Lin but no one will believe that
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>>8109077
i guess because of the way you asked... you wont love it. but when it becomes cheap get it anyway. or get it if youre rich
it holds my attention, and thats saying something
what is the most important literature from 2000 to now?
franzen? delillo? tao lin? hunger games???
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>tao lin
>In October 2014, Lin was accused by E. R. Kennedy of having statutorily raped Kennedy in 2006, when Kennedy was 16 and Lin was 22. Kennedy, a trans man, also accused Lin of instances of emotional abuse, and claimed that Lin based passages in Richard Yates on personal email correspondence between the two.
Is he a meme author here?
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素晴らしき日々
サクラノ詩The true joke is that this isn't even a joke.
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>>8108948
is stuff is bretty good. even when its boring, u always get the sense that hes intelligent. hes not trying to prove it tho.
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I am a litizen but I'm starting to see reading books as a faggot hobby. Is anyone else in this situation? The pretentiousness of /lit/, all while hypocritically sucking academia-media-publishing industrial complex cock, is astounding.
>Books R Art... but only if a famous publisher publishes it!
>Reading is noble.. but NEETs who read all day are loserz!
>Reading teaches you about the human condition... but don't imply that leaving the house can teach you that too, you'll expose my boring book as a scam that can't even pretend to be entertainment.
>Book quality is subjective... unless an academic says it's objective!
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people have different opinions
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>>8108872
well, OP, if you were reading to be cool but hate the cool kids, maybe you could hate yourself for who you are cool/uncool and leave books out of it. or did a book hurt you?
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>I'm starting to see reading books as a faggot hobby