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Just stop

>>7983654
Ask an intelligent man about it.

also dat cover

>>7983641
>over-educated bored quasi-intellectual non-drinker jew cuckold public masturbator in catholic ireland who everybody pokes fun at behind his back.

6/9 of those things describe most people

>>7983641
what qualities should an every man embody then

bloom is hardly overeducated. he is more of a wonderer and a day-dreamer. he has a foggy notion of the orient that his mind wonders too, he doesn't quite understand parallax and doesn't really care to investigate it further, he makes some hazy calculations about various business enterprises, running shops, selling alcohol, keeping bees, ponders the rites of catholicism without really knowing much about them. he is very much middle brow, and very much a middle-class schemer who can't quite break into the more affluent realms of merchantdom.

stephen ambling along the shore making odd jokes mixing shakespear and german philosophy and aristotle while being a broke under-employed heap of misery is over educated

>>7983743
What do you mean by parallax?

>>7983630
A hardcover, bright colors, and pseudphilosophical smegma-scented little phrases carefully crafted in order to fit perfectly in jpegs of the sea, or stars, or flowers with said quote on them.

Also, incest sex scenes.

aesthetic

a mostly abstract and subjective characteristic that is the single important thing in all of art

how it makes you 'feel', association potential

>>7983630
The beauty of the prose on a sentence-by-sentence level. That's what separates literature from genre trash.

>>7983626
Yes

just took a fat shit, now my ass feels all stretched out and relaxed

>>7983639
Are you a girl?

>>7983516
I have never seen a proof of a Sam Harris.

>>7983516
Holy shit his eyes are not at the same height at all. I know nobody's eyes are perfectly aligned but it's usually not noticeable.

>>7983516

All of them.

>>7983487
>but the fact of the matter is, the town is ugly, claustrophobic, and i don't quite care about plague in this context.
Go read some genre schlock if you want something nice m8. Or Proust or something I guess. A big part of the plague is its dirty scurrying decrepit descriptions.

>>7983487
I enjoyed the fact that The Plague is a look into how people cope with their morality once confronted by death.

>>7983487
Later in the book the doctor and one of the other main guys (forget his name) go onto a rooftop to overlook the town and have a very nice, meaningful chat about what keeps them going. If I remember correctly it was Camus' usual 'it might be a futile losing battle, but there's importance and value in the struggle' vibes. That was my favorite part of the book.
The way they fight against death is the point of the novel, it's not about creating an atmospheric seaside town for escapism. I don't really know what you expect.

In Cold Blood

I remember researching this and the one on the left (Hackett) turned out to be the clear winner.

>>7983402
The Cooper edition. It's not even close.

>>7983437
>>7983448
Correctamundo.

It's a feeling, how does one explain an emotion?

Essentially unfocused anxiety from a willing blind leap of faith, some fedoras would deem it cognitive dissonance from an overly introspective sap like Kierkegaard but there's no pleasing neckbeards now is there

>>7983364
But why is Thomas Pynchon explaining Christian Existentialism to me?

Franny and Zooey

>>7983324
Did you mean to say Catcher in the Rye?

"In this place
There's a wounded hand
Felt a chain
Where the links met up
Round a name
In the faceless age
Cursed and pained
And your windowpane
As the lake
From one hundred friends
Wave them home
As the childhood ends
Turn it fast
As one mild day steals
Someone's soul
Into 20 years
In spirit they've vanished
And I'll show you why
They'll make you take elderly paths by this time
If we would just dump it
In the sea and fly
It's hard to just kiss our
Child games goodbye"

That's totally lamenting the loss of innocence and all that jazz.

hehehe, homo

There's a difference between the self and the actions/reactions the self creates. Maybe.

>>7983293
He's trying to avoid responsibility for publicly supporting Mao, Stalin, and Castro's Cuba.

That this white nigga cant even see straight. lmao.

It's a mother figure apologizing to a cradle, from the cradles pov

>>7983276
oh, that's stupid
thanks tho

I figured it would've been like that image of that weird ass asexual doll thing that's being restrained while milk is poured on the girl or w/e

I liked the film, but I've never read anything by or about DFW, so my judgement of his portrayal is worthless.

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>>7983247
>It cover's DFW poignantly

and that's the end of that chapter *throws end of scarf around neck*

I have no idea if anyone gets that without the summary.

>>7983218
Thought as much. Gaddis wasn't kidding when he said that he requires a lot from his readers.

What did you guys think of the characters in general? I felt like they all were a bunch of assholes that hated each other. Stanley and Wyatt not included.

>>7983133
He's crushing orchids beneath his foot during the party. He pretends to be a dog at points in the novel. He's a kiddy diddler.