>lend best bud leatherbound copy of Dante's Inferno
>months pass
>I don't usually ask for books back but this one is special
>My dead dad gave it to me before leaving for Afghanistan
>He would never return
>"So, did you read the book?"
>"Oh sure Anon, I forgot. I'll bring it to you next time we see each other."
>fast forward to next time
>Leather binding has been grossly replaced with hard paper by his vegan girlfriend, the leather stapled to some cow in North Carolina
>EVERY footnote has been cropped with scissors
>Beautiful Doré illustrations have been painted with watercolor
>Dogears
>All the blank pages are missing
>Marbled inlays are now inexplicably pulp paper yellow
>Someone scrawled "Dante Alighieri" with a black pen and wrote "Dorkte Allegory" below
>Friend looks at me, a sincere smile on his face, as I look at the disaster that is my father's last gift
>He doesn't seem to understand what's happening
>Run away
>Years later, I see him begging on the streets and pretend not to see him
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This isn't funny, there is a board for random content.
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>>8094593
>t. Michael Arnold
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>>8094589
Shoulda swung mate. Wouldn't still be livin it
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So, I've been interested in Lovecraft's work for a while now, I've read some of his work and all, but I'd like a full immersion/knowledge experience. This has probably already been asked, but I don't frequent /lit/ often:
To get the fullest experience of Lovecraft's work, is there an order in which I should read tales of the Cthulhu Mythos? If yes, I'd appreciate if someone would just put in order the titles I should read.
Also heard there's the dream world and stuff, in which I could take a look if there's somewhat something interesting overall?
And any honorable mention of course would be welcome that aren't particularly part of the Dream world and the Cthulhu Mythos!
Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience!
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>>8094534
Oh neat, it gives me a direction where to go. Does it include everything about Cthulhu mythos like all the elder ones and shit? or it's just the general line?
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>>8094591
Probably, dunno desu
What is your favorite Camus and why?
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CAMU A DICK IN YO ASS
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the fall. Beautiful book.
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Hey guys I just got into reading and I'm looking for books outside of the starter set to get into.Got any recommendations?
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>>8094430
Start with the Greeks
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>>8094456
Books that take place in a war are pretty neat I've always been interested in those I guess
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Why is this board 90% people arguing about and discussing philosophy? I thought I could find some interesting books to read here, but instead i'm just shown people arguing about philosophy.
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>>8094421
this is still the de facto philosophy board. /his/ is for illiterate plebeians
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Then you should have made a thread asking for some you whiny bitch
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>>8094421
It isn't. You are empirically wrong.
Stop shitting up this board with your trash threads.
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>“They didn’t have to do that”
Is there anything in a creative work that “has” to be done? The favorite thing that analysts love to point out is that “Oh, the blue curtains have to mean something, they didn’t have to make them blue, but they choose to.
Maybe he just needed a color and the first one that popped to mind was blue.
Doesn't mean anything.It didn't "have" to be blue. Just was.
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>>8094332
Then why mention they were blue?
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>>8094362
DId you skip elementary school writing classes? Books describe people, objects and places. That is their job.
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Could you finally get rid of all your spooks?
My main concern is family right now, everything else is already gone, one step closer to freedom.
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>>8094275
I love spooks, I'm redpilled. Tradition, honor, family, whiteness, anti-women, nationalism, and anti-semitism make my life meaningful and worthwhile.
deus vult
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>>8094275
>le DeFOO meme
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>>8094282
Those aren't spooks. Those are divine truths that God has encoded into the DNA of my reality.
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So for a little while now I've been trying to understand Nick Land's philosophy and I think I have a good outline of it, can someone confirm or deny what what I think I've got?
So basically in Land's view modern history starts when capital is let loose on civilization and supersedes traditional society. Modern history is then defined by a struggle between capital and culture to gain dominance. The apparatus preventing capital from gaining traction is the Human Security System which is synonymous with Moldbug's Cathedral. The Cathedral attempts to create equality through various means and models such as social democracy and thereby hinder the advance of capital which strives on difference as well as human desire. In Land's view the effort of the Cathedral is futile as human equality violates the laws of GNON and those attempting it will be punished by nature. The triumph of capital will mark the end of history in a Hegelian sense with an inevitable technocommercial singularity whereby capital will discard its human hosts by means of self-automation. This will create a breakthrough in intelligence because it is no longer constrained by human monkey brains. So in Land's view we should not resist the forces of capital but instead embrace it and propel its growth through accelerationism by means of open markets and splintering sovereignty into collections of city states a la Singapore.
Did I get everything right?
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>>8094220
No.
Take your meme 'philosophers' back to where you found them
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Nick Land is basically a real-life Dr. Breen.
Submit to the Shu'ulathoi.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2yhqxyYLUQ
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>>8094230
Nick was shitposting here before you were born, kiddo.
What poems/books do you have memorized?
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Haven't finished yet, but I aim to memorize Sailing to Byzantium, the Jabberwocky, and a few other poems.
Memorizing a book is impossible unless you're an autist.
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My diary desu.
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>>8094192
if plays count then quite a few because of having to learn lines.
general q: how much shakespeare do you reckon shakespearean actors with >50 years experience have memorised? i mean at judy dench/ ian mcellen level.
but yeah, >>8094209 apart from plays/poems/brief passages, memorising entire books is a bit autistic. i dont get how the greeks used to be able to recite literally the entirety of written works up to that point
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what went wrong?
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Internet culture and increasingly sedentary lifestyles
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>>8094186
>implying it's not cultural marxists who have taken over every government in the Western world
Nice try, shill. The world is leftist liberal-Marxist. Take the redpill
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>>8094186
The wife was too bourgeois.
Hey /lit/ ! Long time lurker and first time poster here, i'd like to get into poetry but I don't know where to start. Which poets should I bother with ?
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>>8094176
Just make sure they're written by white heterosexual males. Disregard everything else.
Liberals will have you believe Shakespeare was black, they've been brainwashed by their Marxist professors
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Some good starters are folks like Blake, Shelley, Yeats, Rimbaud. Larkins's an enjoyable easy start too. And get into Bukowski cause then you can get in the panties of basic bitches.
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William Blake and Lord Tennyson
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Requests allowed if you need something more specific.
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Avoid the movie.
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Does it matter a great deal whether or not I read philosophy chronologically?
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>>8094084
nothing matters a great deal
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"chronologically"
How can chronological things be real if ideas aren't real?
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>>8094084
>implying time is linear
His his philosophy just "Everything Socrates said is right"?
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Postin in ebin thread
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We don't know what Socrates said do wr?
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>>8094016
Socrates was the first cultural marxist who tried to subvert Western civilization with his nihilism
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Why does Stirner get mocked here?
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His fight against morals always seemed to me an acute and refreshing one, especially in these times of ethical tyranny around the world.
How come he's being memed?
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People like their spooks anon
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"I" got "banned" for making a Stirred thread before.
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here's what happened:
>some people on this board and others took an interest in Stirner
>immediately they found The Ego and Its Own in which he uses the term "spook" a lot
>people begin to use the term "spook" as a meme because it seems to fit
>eventually everyone forgets what he wrote about and what spooks even are
>literally the only thing people know about him is that he wrote about the ego or something
>no one reads him because they're fat and lazy
>some people come along and start to make fun of the false image of Stirner that's constantly portrayed by people on this board who haven't read him
>they start to get triggered whenever he's mentioned
>eventually there's a civil war of memes and dreams
>constant shitflinging
>at this point literally five people on this board have actually read his books
>the end