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Name the best World History and justify that choice.
I have concluded it is not pic related because it is avoids economic/idealogical/social factors too much. It is basically a history of ruling classes and achievements.
There is no chance of asking /his/ because they are an outpost of /pol/.
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Do you read Žižek in his voice?
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Absolutely, you see, I do this all the time. One of the best experiences you can have, and here I am not lying, is to read Gravity's Rainbow in this way. You know, that early 70's American Pinecone book.
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Its not that I read "Žižek" in his voice but the contrary that my entire consciousness is narrated by him.
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My God, I read everything in his voice, to be quite, eh, honest you see. This is done strictly in an ironic manner, though. Here I paraphrase Lacan: By using another person's voice, one gains precisely that freedom necessary to speak with ones own. It is the mask that lets us be ourselves, I claim.
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I found this reading of Finnegan's Wake on youtube and in the second chapter he sings and plays the ballad
I thought it was pretty funny, just to hear his pronunciations of all the abstract words (surprisingly accurate too)
https://youtu.be/uF47v_9olEs?t=31m51s
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>>7992145
>Finnegan's
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>not the ballad of finnegan's wake
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HWT6XD014I
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Fedora spotted: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RfYU9pCYHo
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>the phone call between Orin and Hal
christ on a jetski
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>>7992140
They have multiple conversations over the phone. Please don't post about books here unless you've actually read them.
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>>7992183
I'm currently reading IJ and the conversation about Hal's therapy hit me in the gut
fuck you
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>>7992183
the one where he is clipping his toenails you dink
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reading is so fucking boring
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I just come here to learn about authors or books I know the average Murakami/Vonnegut girl won't read so I can name them and impress her.
Tbs (to be sincere)
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>>7992139
>James Ferraro fan is an illiterate
Can't really say I'm surprised. Now please return to your containment board, pseud.
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For you.
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Will the madman save cience fiction and fantasy?
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Nah. The stuff they like is even worse than the stuff that usually wins the Hugos, which is already terrible.
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>>7992104
Nerd Culture is Cancer. Burn it all down
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He seems like an alright guy, but no.
Scifi media and publishing have been thoroughly coopted by your average leftists.
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Does there exist a Roman version of this? What is Romecore?
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>>7992056
I think this is what you're talking about.
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>>7992083
I was hoping there was one put together as well as the Greek one.
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>>7992089
God damn man, it's got pictures and arrows, what more could you be looking for?
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interested in nonfiction books/essays on culture and technology of the internet/social media age
any suggestions?
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I like Mark Dery, he's probably not what you have in mind precisely, but he's still someone who writes derivative of what you're looking for.
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Book 1 / Part 1
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My father, then twenty-two years of age, tapped my mother’s shoulder as she sat among her sisters along the edge of the dancefloor at a local disco, and asked her if she would like to dance on what he would soon learn was the night of her eighteenth birthday. A daughter, a son, and a miscarriage later, I was born on theredactedin a hospital atop a small hill overlooking pastureland where cows bowed their heads to graze. For almost six years I would be the youngest member of a family upon whose love I could depend and in whose company I could express the giddy excitement of my early youth.
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>>7992023
You might want to lengthen Part 1 a little bit.
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>>7992023
holy shit lads he's actually doing it
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>>7992023
BRING ON PART II BABY, HOLY MOLY.
WHEN DOES THE MALAISE SET IN???
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Really wanting to get the Enders game novels on audio book and cannot afford to subscribe to certain sites and cannot afford to spend upwards of $25 for it, anywhere i can get them for free?
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>>7991972
they aren't worth it, senpai. just read something else
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The Library, you Millennial halfwit.
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Agreed that enders game is not worth it. Have you tried torrent sites? That's where I get mine, then I just put them on my phone and use smart audiobook player
>you spend more time planning to read than reading
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>you havent read for months
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>you have read 30 pages already today and aren't done yet
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testing 123
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If one were to bring about a radical political and social reformation in the world and form a hierarchy of civilization under the rule of true warrior aristocrats who were truly deserving of their position intellectually, ethically and through their actions, how could one prevent this form of aristocracy from losing it's vitality and being inherited by false aristocrats who would only exploit their position for materialist reasons rather than having a genuine vision for their society? How would one ensure that the aristocracy is only comprised of it's best citizens?
I have my own ideas of how to accomplish this, but I'm curious to hear others
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population control. the moment the rabble has the ability to gain control through force is the moment the immoral members of the aristocracy would start playing to them.
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free speech
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>>7991935
What methods of population control would you enact? More to the point, what do you mean by "the rabble", the complete body of the people you're ruling?
A true Aristocrat should only be in power if he has a fully realized vision for the people he levies his guidance and protection towards. Seeing the body of your people descend into rabble in the first place reflects the failing of the Aristocrat to institute form and unity in his subjects
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Do you think Ayn Rand's corpse has competently disintegrated yet?
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Why do you hate women? The moment a strong woman like Ayn is successful, you disgusting right wing nazis try to bring them down.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
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No, skeletal remains take quite a long time to fully decompose unless they're buried in acidic conditions. Placed in the proper environment, human bones can potentially last forever.
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I actually like her stories. People are so hard on Ayn Rand and I don't understand it
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hey /lit/
would anyone be interested in doing another infinite jest reading group this summer? it would be easy to follow last year's schedule, starting june 14th, or we could change the schedule as there were lots of complaints about rate of reading last year, or push the start forward or back
anyway, post here if you're interested
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I'm interested OP.
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>>7991837
would do
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>>7991837
Can we do Gravity's Rainbow instead?
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Gather 'round, children, and hear of the ultimate irl meme book, the most brazen act of self-promotion in literary history, and a genuinely mediocre novel.
It all started when an aging hippie made a fortune in the 90s internet boom and retired early. If he were anyone else, he would be on a yacht right now, enjoying the fruits of his labor. Instead, Rich Shapiro panicked, realizing he had become everything his younger hippie self hated. It was time to get his cred up, so he started writing. And writing and so on until he had birthed Wild Animus, a novel about an acid-head from the bay area who suffers from crippling delusions of being a wolf. Would a traditional publisher touch this? We may never know. It's entirely possible that Shapiro rejected The Man and decided to distribute Animus for free as an act of good will to the next generation.
In any event, the novel was distributed far and wide, by teams of paid college students and bums who left it in mailboxes, passed it out at marathons and left boxes of the novel in Ivy League dormitories.
I came across the book as a young middle-school lad in a resort/camp deep inside of Denali National Park in Alaska. Even though the prose hurt to read, I devoured the book, spurred on by my desire to read more about sex, drugs, and a lunatic trying to be a wolf. Was it left there by a guest, one of the seasonal workers at the camp, or did Shapiro personally make sure a copy made it to a location with such a connection to the book?
Has anybody else here encountered a copy of Animus? How did it come to you, and what did you think?
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Yeah around 2010ish when I was at the University of Toronto there were some other students exactly as you described handing out this book.
I think I still have it around. Pretty sure I read a few pages and thought it was shit.
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>>7991820
for a second I thought this is your story that you are shilling. is it? It's cool if you are. it's not bad, post more.
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>>7991848
Nah, Wild Animus is a novel this Shapiro guy wrote and self-published and then spent a fortune distributing in odd places for years and years.
It's just super bizarre and there are places where copies practically grow on trees. Somebody's probably put the whole thing online somewhere.