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Essential horror?
I don't mean Steven King normie tier shit, I'm looking for the H.P. Lovecraft type shit, horror with actual thought applied, like Clive Barker shit. House of Leaves type shit.
post it nigga
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Horror is less scary than real life. Obvious fantasy fails to scare me. And Satan doesn't exist :(.
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>>8036111
>And Satan doesn't exist :(.
tips fedora
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>>8036111
I disagree, I find horror these days to be something of an art form. To really truly scare someone, especially by today's standards is incredibly difficult, but it can absolutely be done with the right skill and originality.
>the world is divided into two groups of people
>those who have read 'Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories' and
>those who are yet to read 'Milly-Molly-Mandy Stories'
What did Brett Easton Ellis mean by this?
Is it a gay thing?
I'm not a homophobe just genuinely confused.
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>>8035580
>Is it a gay thing?
Yes.
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>>8035583
Is it a butt stuff thing?
Does BEE do butt stuff or just blows and hands?
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>>8035580
The first time i ever jerked off was to the cover of Milly Molly Mandy
It was the one where she was up in a tree.
I used to imagine that the tree was my cock and that she was trying to climb to the top of it, but the more she climbed the bigger my cock got.
Thanks a milly Lancaster
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Has the self died? How would we even know if the concept of the self has died in a society? Are we going to look back on our life and wonder why we spent so much time on screens? Is it troubling that we connect to other people way easier and more frequently alone and online than in real life? How important is the physical human nowadays?
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Your questions are all over the place and have tons of implications. They also aren't literature.
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The online self is as valid as the physical self: this is what my animes taught me.
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>>8035503
Self comes from will, you ultimately decide whether, when, and what to watch "on the screen", which is a pure reflection of your will.
If you read up on many philosophers, or look at successful businessmen of the past, you occasionally find people cut off to the point that they essentially spend all of their time with books and letters... Screens aren't different.
Don't worry anon, it'll turn around once the safe space cry baby SJW stuff goes away, and people trade their selfish "muh pain, muh life" whininess for interest in other people again.
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I've just finished with chapter 5 of Godel, Escher, Bach and I'm really diggin it so far but I feel like I'm not getting everything I should out of it.
I'm grasping the concepts finely enough but some of the examples elude me a bit and I feel as if I'm skipping ahead a bit because I'm too excited to see where he goes next. I also feel like maybe these chapters are supposed to be a bit barebones to frame later topics? Should I just make sure I gasp the central idea of every chapter and move on for now? Also are there any accompanying works, chapter summaries, blog posts, whatever the hell that would be good to go along with it. Thanks /lit/.
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>>8035407
just kill yourself senpai
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>>8035642
>objective third party here
Kill YOUR self you stupid try hard edge lord.
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“I don't want to die without any scars.”
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What did he mean by this, /lit/?
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he meant that he didnt want to die without his scars
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>>8035293
he wants his ass torn up (based on haircut as context)
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Sounds like an emo faggot, tell him to crank up his linkin park mp3's and have a massive cry.
>"an historic"
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>>8035276
nothing wrong with that
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>a historic
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an 'istoric
an 'erb
an 'hore
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Determinism is the philosophical belief that all events transpire in virtue of some necessity and are therefore inevitable. Notably, the idea that the past choices of certain rational agents could have been performed differently - or even the idea that the future decisions of such agents could turn out to be other than what they will - is usually challenged under this view. Thus, the "problem" of free will - or the idea of free will as being an "illusion" - often arises as a result of the main claim made by determinism, that is, that the past, present, and future is identified with an essentially unbreakable chain of circumstances of which no single link in such a chain could possibly be avoided. Some determinists deny the idea of "possibility" or "randomness" altogether, even asserting that such ideas are only a creation of the mind or merely the result of imagination. However, addressing free will is its own concern, and any discussion of determinism does not in principle require any discussion of free will. In addition to these issues, the length to which language can actually capture what is exactly at stake, or what the true nature of reality really is in spite of the concept of determinism, is disputed.
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>quantum mechanichs
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>>8035009
>means nothing
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holy FUCK this book was good
are the 4th and the 5th as good or are they shit
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>>8034909
/lit/ has become a shit-domain for normies lately
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>>8034938
>not recognizing obvious bait
No, you are the normie
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>>8034938
It's not like /lit/ has ever been good anyway.
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Is it possible that videogame literature, if it got less autistic, could become a staple of literature in the coming years?
Not so much fanfiction, but more so stuff that is just generally based off the events and canon or even mechanics of games?
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grow up
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http://youtu.be/zmYrdMKC-d4
Fuck right off
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Post interesting books you want to read or have read
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I want this book !
Hi /lit/, was wondering if you could help me out. Im looking for books that have that vague quality of dream and mystery, where something always feels a little off and strange. I guess Kafkaesque is a term that applies although I don't much like it. Examples of books I like that have the quality I'm looking for are Paul Auster's New York Trilogy, Kobo Abe's Woman of the Dunes, Kafka obviously, and Beckett. Any help would be greatly appreciated
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Philip K. Dick
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>>8034843
Murakami's Kafka on the Shore is, as one would expect, Kafkaesque (I also dislike using the word)
Also Camus' The Stranger. It was written after Camus was studying Kafka and is influenced heavily by his work.
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Catcher in the Rye felt pretty dreamy to me
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Who is the most original philosopher?
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Thales
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>>8034786
The first one
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>>8034786
Diogenes.
This website is shit
anon is shit
op is shit
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Was Mr. Darcy autistic?
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Some human being, now dead, smacked Jane Austen lips and pounded that body while listening to moans of an English tone.
Indeed, life is true suffering.
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No. Very good book though.
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(Spoilers)The conversation after Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy have agreed to marry is so stilted and awkward that I now understand why Austen chose not to include such a scene in Mansfield Park
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ITT 10/10 historical novels
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tell me about the white goddess
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>haven't touched a book in months
>still browse /lit/
Fite me.
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what's your address you limp dick faggot?
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I buy books because I like the smell of books.
u jelly?
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>>8034444
Ask your mom.