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bloom lost so much weight he probably should start lifting

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>>8008414
Yes, I've been reading nothing but one page of this book every day for the past five months. It takes me at least three hours to complete my daily reading because I savor every syllable.

Why else would you read if not for the pleasure of reading?

>age 85
he'll be fine

>>8008351
>85
>still producing a relatively steady output of work
He does seem to be doing well, if nothing else his mind is more or less intact.

>>8008386
hopefully he lives long enough to respond to my emails about my BotNS theories

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Roadside Picnic

Stalin - Paradoxes of Power by Stephen Kotkin

Shakespeare was gay

that pynchon is good

>>8008291
all I hear on /lit/ is that universities in usa are going to shit.
Is that true?

>>8008219
I honestly have no idea whether you like Marx or not from this post.

Most Marxists fall into two categories:
1) you haven't eben reddit.
What does it say?
Go reed it.
2) the eternal toldyaso, who explains every event in terms of class warfare and the inevitable decline of capitalism with a certain Jehovah's Witness-esq glee when shit goes wrong.

I'd love to talk about Marx's ideas, there's a great reason why nearly two centuries of people have been enamored with his thought, but a discussion warrants a little less elitism and dogmatism.

>Marxism is specifcally centered around a group of texts, and these books are "law" for the Marxist community
Marx/Engles's works consist of one major economic manuscript (Das Kapital), one philosophical manuscript (The German Ideology), two political manuscripts, (The Communist Manifesto, and Anti-Duhring), and whatever the fuck Origins of the Family, Private Property, and the State is. None of these are considered "Laws", by anyone. With Kapital, and Origins of the Family being purely descriptivist, and with every major Marxist (Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky, Mao, Deng, Castro, Sankara), making at least one notable alteration to the Economic theory (Labour Aristocracy, anyone?), and the German Ideology has been radically altered by various philosophers since (Sartre, for one), the Communist Manifesto is largely considered an entry-level text, and no-one takes it seriously compared to the others, and the only book that MIGHT, fit your description, Anti-Duhring, has been largely ignored in the righting of other texts that have followed, such as the State, and Revolution, or The Permanent Revolution, or basically anything by Rosa Luxembourg, and before you respond "well those later books are books of laws then", bare in mind that Not all Marxists are Leninists, or Trotskists, or Luxembourgists, or Leftcoms, or Rightcoms, or any one of the million different splinter groups that make up the Marxist movement, and agree on nothing but the fact that Marx's, and Engles's writing was for the most part correct.

>Since Marxism has until known proven disasterous when attempted
Marxism is just a school of economics, based on the philosophy of Diamat. If you mean "Scientific Socialism", then we're in for a much longer argument.

I'm tired ruggy I got to 357 today. I'll keep going tomorrow

is this where the capitalization meme comes from

>>8008057
Nouns should always be capitalized. Any real Stylist knows this from Experience.

No one ever responds in the critique threads so I don't know ;_;

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starting a book on a topic i'm not 100% sure about, so i feel like i'm not supposed to be writing about it

but yet i write

81 pages into my great American novel. 2-3 more years to ago at this rate. Then I have to figure out how to sell it.

because he frees the individual from all the empty ideas holding him down

Because nobody else knows who he is

1) Not played to death.
2) Ideas align with ours.
3) Useful ideas and terminology.
4) Interesting backstory.
5) Funny.
6) Full of empathy.
7) Honest.
8) Easy enough to get.

>>8007140
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>>8007125
I don't think it's right putting God into a scientific hypothesis like that. It's not like pseudo scientific theories like Intelligent design though.

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>>8006859
>le shakespeare is head and shoulders over all writers throughout history meme

>>8006859

He become great by acting like a bitter nerd and complaining about books he's never read on /lit/.

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>>8006859

Journey to the end of the night.

Nothing yet. I'm almost halfway done The Dharma Bums and it's a short book so I might try to finish it tonight.

i finished the man who was thursday
it was pretty good but didn't really hit the spot

>>8006694
Go kill yourself, mediocre piece of putrid shit. No one is going to miss you.

>like teach... givem e.... a break? xD

>>8006702
Mad, faggot? I'm just sharing this awesome pic. Go kill yourself cunt

>>>/his/

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>Soviet
>Socialist
>Republic

>Democratic
>Party

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>>8006285
haha that's funny cuz hez my favorite author.

to get back on topic, pic related for me.

>>8006285
John Green for me too.

Do Americans really read this?

>>8006309
They don't.

>>8005490
reading is the better long-term investment in yourself, especially while you're still young and ways to go

Then read in your free time after work, in 'theory' you should have like 8 or 6 hours more in your day

read after you've worked