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>>8051896

>he made a new thread just to pretend that he is

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>>8051896
>he wasted years learning....
>learning what?
>Latin!
>haha what a dork. I bet he thinks he's so classy reading ancient inscriptions and knowing what legal terms mean
>Chad and I practice French together.
>OMG that's so dreamy. I'm meeting up with Brad tomorrow to go over the Spanish quiz

>>8051923
>Women

Tfw

>R9k

i wonder what it's like to be so mad that you type out a whole bunch of quirky nonsense in green quotes

Agree in full except for the inditement of Pynchon and Joyce, who are both not only excellent but certified by the fact that they are basically worshiped by academics.

DFW is autistic

>>8051553
this

OP is right about almost everything.

>>8051505
What is this?

how much Xanax do you do or meme rap do you listen to?

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>>8051505
lol

>>8051257
Be an ivy-league educated genius. Smoke dank and watch cartoons.

>>8051259
>Ivy-league educated
>Cornell

Ebin meme dude

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>>8050394
Jung tried to water down Freud's ideas. If you bring up Jung in an academic setting you may get laughed at. Jung's ideas are almost completely unverifiable. Most parapsychogists wack off to Jung while most psychotherapists look at Freud as the great forunner of their field. The difference between the two can be boiled down to their theories. Freud believed that psychical processes could be boiled down to physical processes. Jung believed that there was some kind of uber-mystical importence to the unconscious and that psychical disturbances had some sort of "spiritual" significance.

If you are a Freudian then you may keep your distance from Jungians because they tend to celebrate the neuroticism that you are trying to quell. Freudians are pro-reality-principal while Jungians have their own idea about how reality should be.

>>8050394
His theory of archetypes is excellent. It is a great resource for finding the commonality in figures. The different mythic pantheons down to low brow fiction and even in how historical figures are portrayed often reveals an archytypal base.

Archetypes, while people like to believe that they exists in man, are actually man's tendency to experience similar symbols to those of others. Thus we see reccurent themes (Sun, serpent, ressurection, etc.) constantly in all cultures and times.

By examining one's own symbols, the synchronicities (experience of symbols that have meaning in the mind of the subject through acasual connection), one can learn about their unconscious drives.

It's also a healthier view than Freud, who saw the unconscious as just a place for suppressed libidinous desires. Jung saw the unconscious as an integral part of man and a source of what is similar to all humankind. By dipping into that primal source, one can individuate onself, by bringing the unconscious, conscious, and ego into oness.

>what does /lit/ think of Jung
Best time to experiment with sex and drugs.

Junot Diaz's accolades are the result of political correctness run amok. Utterly turgid writing punctuated by references to the lowest forms of popular culture.

Helen DeWitt

Diaz is meh

>21st century short story
>it's written in second person

Who are some good contemporary authors?

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I couldn't find the book "early greek philosophy" mentioned in pic related on the internet and because I'm a NEET I can't buy it, I did found "The presocratic philosophers" by the same author Jonathan Barnes, if someone here has read both could you tell me if the content varies too much between the two books? Also, Does anybody knows of a site where I can acquire books for free instead of having to google "book name pdf"? Thanks everybody

I would like to recommend Strindberg's Inferno to everyone on this board. It deals with constant stress and anxiety, genius and desperation, as well as a crackling family life and the certainty that men and women will never function together. There is also occultism and bohemian (that is, poor) life in Paris. It's short and easy to read, and has probably been translated to your native language, if you for some reason don't like reading in English.

>>8043347
hello goato

>>8043347
hello goato

hello goato

>>8047164
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bumpin for hatred.

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>John Green

First for brent weeks, sanderson and rothfuss

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>>8040799

Is there a Napoleon of Notting Hill audiobook somewhere?

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>>8045709
>I can't think of an American with five masterpieces to their name
>who is Gaddis

Seriously though, there has to be a re-discovery or appreciation of Faulkner. Too long, he's been the go-to southern Gothic writer. People need to find his work on their own rather than have to slog through AILD (excellent as it is) for senior English.

>>8045730
Here in the Philippines, most English teachers hate Faulkner because he's hard to read. I was called by my lit professor ages ago weird because I actually persevered in reading him.

They usually pick Steinbeck or Hemingway for American literature. Sometimes Morrison is also recommended. No one's heard of Gaddis or Gass, and I've had to do my own stumbling on Hawkes.

I will read Gaddis one of these days, though. Thanks for reminding me.

>>8045730
At most Gaddis has 2 masterpieces
I agree with the OP though, Faulkner is a rare writer who maintains a supremely high level throughout a great many novels. I have yet to read Absalom Absalom but im expecting great things.
I will say however that i believe the Great American novel was Moby Dick but Faulkner may be the Great Novelist.

>>8044701
something like that im an eco light bulb and she is the sun john green's idea?

>>8044730
Feels a bit more genuine and less beta than that when you read the book senpai

>>8044701
When is book 6 coming out? goddam I want it so much

my diary desu

In order (inb4: 'le you don't know what you're talking about...' I've read all their works)

Molyneux
Harris
Nietzsche

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>>8043170

non, je seulment connais «L'Étranger». C'est le meme or non?

>>8042853
what does this mean? sorry I don't speak french

Finished it yesterday
I didn't like it.

>>8040208
You first.

The fat neckbeard giggled to himself and hit Enter. Electronic impulses flowed from his keyboard and out through the air and connected to the internet. The small text he had written now flooded the screens of the entire population of /lit/. All five of them furrowed their brows. Tony and Mark the gay lovers (who by themselves made up 40% of the content on the literature sub4chan) pulled away from each other in their haste to see what had come up. The text was written in big grey letters that overlapped the small pictures of frogs on their dusty laptop screen. It read:
>implying you'll ever get laid because you read books
Tony gently bit Tony's earlobe. He was horny and masturbation didn't cut it anymore, but Tony was having a bad case of butthole disease and their rowdy ruddy romps on the red futon now only incorporated kissing and nipple twisting. "I should be reading" Tony thought.

>>8040208
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