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Can you write believable characters and situations even if you are a shut-in with zero social experience?
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>>8069846
No
See: fanfic
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>>8069846
No, see GRRM
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This honestly makes me sad.
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Nietzche is an obscurantist self help tier Rorschach test for pretentious pseudo intellectuals.
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>>8069831
>he didn't understand
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no, that's hegel.
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>>8069831
Go help yourself.
What's the best edition of Ulysses? I was thinking of buying the Everyman's book because hardcovers are less likely to go to shit, but l figured l'd ask here first.
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The best edition is where you go back in time, get passout drunk with Joyce and listen to his schizophrenic ramblings first hand.
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>>8069818
>Tfw you will never sit in a room and watch him giggling whilst reading passages from Finnegans Wake
>Tfw even Ezra Pound said Finnegans Wake was beyond the pale
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>>8069812
This >>8069818
But in all seriousness I heard that the Oxford Classics versions are best as they tend to have more descriptive introductions & footnotes as opposed to Penguin Classics although I'm not sure Ulysses has either version. But what does /lit/ think? Penguin Classics, Everyman's Pocketbook, or Oxford Classics?
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>Perhaps! But who wishes to concern himself with such dangerous ‘Perhapses’! For that investigation one must await the advent of a new order of philosophers, such as will have other tastes and inclinations, the reverse of those hitherto prevalent—philosophers of the dangerous ‘Perhaps’ in every sense of the term. And to speak in all seriousness, I see such new philosophers beginning to appear.
Who was he referring to here?
Please don't tell me it was those PoMo hacks or slimy fucks like Žižek.
Or could it be that Nietzche's 'New Philosophers' have already been and gone? Or perhaps they have not appeared yet?
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>>8069771
I think he was anticipating Analytical Philosophy more than Post Modernist crap.
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>>8069771
Nietzsche is a fucking meme. Schopenhauer was better.
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>>8069771
What does he mean by "Perhaps"? Is he roughly talking about Philosophers who investigate things that might be true, as opposed to must be true? Those involved with probability? If thats all he means then Id say the Analytics and Pragmatists. Analytics on the ground of actual logic of probability, Pragmatists for the emphasis on "maybe truths" abd "good enough truths" than certain truths.
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> into Stoicism
> constantly whines about their height and Chad
never change
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Stoicism is the greatest lie.
It is the lie of statues.
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Reminder that stoicism is the favorite philosophy of redditors and autists.
Epicureanism beats it by miles.
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Reminder that stoicism is the best tool to keep the fools complacent.
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I'm looking for a word which is closely related to "extravagance". Been struggling to find it for quite some days. Allow me to give a brief context for the word I'm seeking:
>Georg Woxhaven grew up with a taste for art, but never had the money for it
>He studied his way into a career which netted him a hefty amount of money
>He still lives like a 20 year old student, buys the cheapest food, drives a dinged up old car, and uses all his leftover money to purchase paintings and sculptures
>The best word to Mr Woxhaven's behavior is [insert word here]
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Pragmatically decadent.
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STRAVAGANZA
so kitsch
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eccentricity
is virtue a form of faith? a faith in moral principles?
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>>8069656
is this literature?
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just become a christian anon
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>>8069660
where else am I supposed to discuss this
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Did you ever write an article for Wikipedia?
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Have you ever vandalized Wikipedia?
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>>8069250
Not an article, added a factoid to a AFI list page.
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>>8069256
Who doesn't?
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Is college/university worth it?
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Depends on the student,
Depends on said student's goals/prospects,
Depends on the college/university,
Depends on the major,
and Depends on the means one has
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university is for cunts
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As long as you get a full-ride, sure
Best four-year vacation I've ever been on
If you don't get a full-ride, then no, there's literally nothing at college worth paying for
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How often do you find yourself enjoying what you read? Is it easier to get pleasure from it as a hobby if you do it more?
I'm taking up reading with some classics and despite that I'm not enjoying it as much as I'd hoped.
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If I'm not enjoying it I don't read it
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>>8069125
So you enjoy the books you do like from start to finish?
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>>8069118
Are you focusing on getting through the material quickly?
What was the "point" of pic related? Was it all just a series of wacky encounters with eccentric individuals loosely connected by the postal conspiracy, or am I missing something?
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vigilantcitizen.com /hidden-knowledge/ origins-and-techniques-of-monarch-mind-control /
(remove the spaces, clearly)
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>>8069192
Vigilant citizen a shit.
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It's a puzzle. You have to put the pieces together for it to make sense.
I suggest rereading the book.
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https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1173808-elliot-rodger-manifesto.html
What did you think of this story?
I'm honestly really scared for my own life after seeing how similar I am to this kid. I'm a 21 year old virgin, part asian, few and select friends, played too much WoW in my teen years, blame my shortcomings on being asian, live in California by the beach, most likely on the spectrum.
After reading Elliot's story, what would you have done differently?
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Get the fuck off our board, fucking robot piece of shit. None of us like you, you or any of the people like you. You're wastes of food and flesh and air. if you feel like you're better off dead than alive, by all means, kill yourself.
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>>8069067
You're suggesting I go Elliot and take out as many whiteys as I can before I do?
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>>8069067
noice projection mate
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You should be able to help me out /lit/
There was an older book I was reading years ago, can't remember the name.
I'm pretty sure its very well known. Its about a group of travelers, probably on some pilgrimage, who stop at an inn but have no money. The innkeeper agrees to let them stay in exchange for some stories. That's the framework for the rest of the book which is pretty much a collection of short stories the travelers are telling. Also it was never officially finished IIRC. Thanks.
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Canterbury Tales?
And why would someone answer "I don't know" to that poll, lol.
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. . .The Canterbury Tales?
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2% DON'T KNOW
Post 'em now /lit/
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My reading challenge is to read the Bible
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>>8069013
I just gave my first 4 stars this year
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>>8069042
What to?
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What are some famous authors email addresses?
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>>8069043
Mistah Kurtz—he dead.