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"Bienheureux les oublieux car ils viendront même à bout de leur bêtise. " - Par-delà bien et mal

O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space -- were it not that I have bad dreams.

"And the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams."

>teaches le greeks
>teaches le continentals
>higher education still got their fingers in their ears screaming 'it's not true' even though they know Sam Harris has btfo them all

Go and get indoctrinated if you want bud.
Or you could do something objectively worthwhile...

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Going to UoA this fall

>>8042670
Looks great. Think some /lit/ posters go there

Patriarchy is often the cause of illiteracy... just look at Afghanistan

>But seriously, you know who can’t take a joke? White guys. Not if it implicates them and their universe, and when you see the rage, the pettiness, the meltdowns and fountains of male tears of fury, you’re seeing people who really expected to get their own way and be told they’re wonderful all through the days.

That's pretty spot on to be fair

>>8042725

Have you seen people get all salty when they hear some nonsense about white cooking being bland? God above

Of course i post in the wrong board, sorry boys.

While im here though, are there any books that touch upon this subject?

I think for me it's a conscious decision, to be alone, but i'm not that happy about it. It's very hard for me to really connect with someone without it feeling artificial and superficial, partly because i'm constantly analyzing my thoughts, and i quickly lose 'respect' for a person if he doesn't match my """""intellectual""""" standards. of course all this happens inside my head and on the outside i'm a nice and considerate person which makes it even worse.

there's no audiobook version so i never listened to it but "the everything store" about jeff bezos is rad as fuck if u want some inspiration to get into the retail game

I've wondered about this too. Seems like a good read if you're into business.

call me a pleb again and i will fucking end you. got it, chief?

>>8042468
Pevear and Volohkonsky are always the way to go

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>>8042468

>translation

>>8042493
https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-pevearsion-of-russian-literature/

Can you explain Plato's Forms?

What was Nietzsche's problem with Christianity?

>>8042280
analytic or continental

>>8042280
Why are you wasting your one life?

>enjoyed no country for old men
>doesnt like blood meridian

We know your type, trolololol

>>8042282

The type that doesn't enjoy bland and uninteresting prose?

>>8042286
So NCFOM has good prose but BM doesn't??

ARE YOU KIDDING ME??

>>8042262
I'm 25.
I'm a STEM major. Machining and welding and the like. I write, but I write scripts for comics. Not for money or anything. I write a bit of prose, but I think that's just a byproduct of reading so much.
Life could be better. I had my own apartment, but I'm staying with my parents while recovering from a really bad car accident.

What about you, anon?

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I'm twenty this month.
Going through generals in college, then doing some tech classes to help me transfer over to a tech school to do computer engineering.
Wanna try and make videogames, but fallback position would obviously be IT something.
I came on this board ever since my college Brit Lit class and the RWBY general in /co/ got axed.
I regret this decision entirely, because now I'm addicted to the anger this board gives me over the absolutely assinine vitriol I come across and the baseless, dated philosophy that people spew off as facts.

>>8042262
I'm 22.

I'm a CS major, junior year. I have a book idea based on my experiences with being born and raised a cult and the idea is very interesting, and fleshed out. I have 20 pages written. Maybe after I'm done with the first draft I'll post it here since I shared parts of my idea here and people said they liked it.

Besides computer science and writing, I have a parttime job for this semester making music. It might be for summer too, hopefully. The grant ends in summer so that's at most where I'm unemployed. I demoed for a friend for his app for a song that he needed, he showed me the demo to his boss, and she liked it so they hired me. I don't need any help from my parents for money now. If you like I can post something I'm working on for work that I might not end up using.

It never gets better.

>>8042114
is this your first post-modern novel?

i dunno why don't make the umpteenth IJ thread to find out, huh?

Yea verily

>he doesn't like adverbs

>first person
>not using semicolon

Angry pleb

>>8041619
It's too much fun so they have to pretend it's no good.

It's in the /lit/ starter kit. People are only being contrarian if they pretend to not like it.

>>8041508
>plato
>dry
never gonna make it

>>8041599
it's not the content that's dry, it's more like going so in-depth and repeating things over and over that it's tiring
its just like those people: just slowly talking about absolutely nothing and not getting to the point

>counteract the dryness
I will never understand this. It's a problem with your reading. There's nothing dry about Plato.

I hope my new op didn't get posted, shitty mobile internet, so not sure

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Three of Sixteen ruled but now the Broken One reigns.

>>8040814
>no game company will hire me to write MMO lore
>I'll just fill a tepid book series with all my classes and skill trees

knausgaard's my struggle

American Psycho

>>8040617
this, actually