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>>8062249
Apparently no one likes good books here.

Koestler is great so I will bump

>>8062249
what is it about? the noonday demon?

no

dunno

>>8062225
The Sun Also Rises is similar if I remember correctly.

This is the only book from him i've ever read and i disliked it, but the were some times were it was fantastic (the last page for exemple).
If his other books are not written in the same way than maybe i can find something that is fantastic all the way through.

>>8062189
Är han värd att sätta sig in i?

>>8062237
Ja.

>>8062245
Då får jag gå ner till Studentbokhandeln när hemtentan är inlämnad.

3. The Real
The Real is the sum of the basic, visceral sensations that give rise to the sense of self, the things that cannot be symbolized or properly integrated into the Fantastic order, which exists in part to cope with what goes on on the level of the Real.
4. The Symbolic
All of this is mediated by the symbolic order, which is in fact, as language conceived in a very broad sense, the essence of consciousness. Essentially, we can get lost in the symbolic and lose touch with the relationship between the Real and the Fantastic. The point of Lacanian psychoanalysis, like Platonic contemplation, Christian prayer, Zen meditation or the Confucian rectification of names, is to bring ourselves, as agents operating primarily on the level of the symbolic within the confines of the social and physical structures that give rise to the Fantastic and the Real, in touch with these visceral kernels of Being which defy symbolization and which therefore defy us, as symbolic and symbolizing, signified and symbolizing beings.
So is this Lacan? Or is this just some post-Hegelian bullshit that I just concocted?

>>8062076
>>8062078
Point 1 is wrong, there is no rejection of Freud, he himself called his work freudian, it is a return to Freud not a rejection.
Point 2 it seems you are calling the Imaginary order Fantasy which is wrong, it lends itself to confusion when you read about the phantasm as well.
Point 4
>Essentially, we can get lost in the symbolic and lose touch with the relationship between the Real and the Fantastic.
The borromean knot tries to point the exact opposite of this, there is not one without the others.
So, yea, I would say you got the majority of it wrong and should probably read Lacan instead of 4chan "arguments" and Zizek if you intend to understand anything about his theory.

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>>8062076
:^)

m8, I'm

i should find an inn keeper to make me one

>>8062049
I've made my momevent of infinite resignation
I don't know where to go from here

>>8061949

Interesting. Is that Gass? Any recs for a first time reader?

>>8061949
A true master of prose, remiscent of Joyce.

Did Gass write for Vogue or something?

I've only written one book (a Christian, anti-Marijuana addiction Romance novel). The people who hired me were totally chill and gave me a bonus despite me turning in the project a week late. Other people have not been so forgiving. I think probably the not forgiving is the more common experience but I don't really know. Mostly the problem is succeeding given that Upwork has far too many writers all trying to pick up the few jobs that actually pay anything more than zero dollars.

>>8062022
>Mostly the problem is succeeding given that Upwork has far too many writers all trying to pick up the few jobs that actually pay anything more than zero dollars.

Every
Freelance
Site
Ever

Indians will literally drive down the price so hard It's incredibly, like hundreds of manhours of work for $5.

>>8062033
It definitely doesn't help that Upwork takes a cut, making every 100$ magically into 90$.

never asked*

I just write about a guy doing something I think is funny and then it leads to other things and now shit I've got a story.

>>8061915
Fair enough, I did something similar for a little page long prose scene and my workshop liked it.

>>8061858
Didn't he hire some guy to stage feminist protests as a marketing campaign or something?

>>8061862
Wouldn't surprise me seeing as the whole reason he really blew up in the first place was controversy. That whole Miss Vermont thing.

anything by dfw

Continue with the Romans

parse the persians

just skip through until you get to Voltaire

>>8061704
I'm more partial to the Kindle Paperwhite, but Amazon's custom service alone is well worth it in my opinion.

sony all tha way fgt

>>8061704
Either way, both are good.
Had kindle it was fine but broke after like 4 years. Bought a Kobo its great, seems sturdy and quality enough.

>paying for ebooks
topwew

all errors are portals of discovery

Anyone whose a genius has probably made a lot more mistakes than me to get where he is now.

>>8061690
oh yeah and hes probably a dude

>>8061603
How do you read books with another person?

there's no point trying to change your SO into someone you would want to date. disaster in the making

1984
i only read like 3 books but shit thats a good one

a shipping container

make sure you breathe a lot when the doors are closed

>>8061597
this ceramic jar on your pic seems to be made of wooden boards

4chan

I don't know, but Thomas Pynchon is, as seen in /his/ most recent novel.

>Evangelion
I thought this book was about the world's easiest marathon

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>>8061463
Pretty much for as long as the west has been aware of Japan, the greatest artists and thinkers have been weeaboos. Prove me wrong, /lit/.