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Do you have any recommended books that are anti-materialist / anti-scientific rationalist WITHOUT the simply being a big sales pitch for the use of psychedelic substances?
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The Dhammapada
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>>7977055
The Reign of Quantity and the Sign of the TImes
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Do you have any recommended books that are anti-materialist / anti-scientific rationalist WITHOUT being literal trash
We all know that Ulysses has been very influential.
But what novels influenced Ulysses? Did it have any precursors?
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>>7977045
the odyssey
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infinite jest
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>>7977045
>But what novels influenced Ulysses?
If you're strictly interested in the *novelists* that influenced Joyce, then they include the following:
DeFoe
Stendhal
Flaubert
Tolstoy
Jacobsen
D'Annunzio
Source: http://www.saylor.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/James-Joyce-Literary-Tastes.pdf
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I thought this guy was a meme but his philosophy is superb.
Stirner, if I understand correctly, takes Hegel's critique of science and applies it specifically to the concept of "human nature." He concludes that all "exogenous fixed points" by which we justify moral law are either not exogenous or they are not fixed. Stirner calls these "fixed ideas" and "spooks" throughout the book. He was basically the first to isolate and extract a critique of ideology out of Hegel's massive system.
Have I grokked meme man yet?
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>>7977042
bump
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Stirner transcended meme. He was the only man in history capable of being both meme and master simultaneously. A memester, if you will.
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>>7977174
thanks for joining in my latest thread :3
it's just us two in here
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"The apparition receded, (...)"; what did he mean by that?
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His hair was a hallucination the whole time.
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What is up with Hemingway's prose in For Whom The Bell Tolls?
Like, what's up with all the archaisms? It's a pain to read through, it sounds so broken and fragmented.first hemingway work too
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>>7976885
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg_Theory
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>>7976885
It's because he's trying to capture the language of the speakers. Protip: they aren't speaking English
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What the fuck did I just read?
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Welcome to PoMo. If you don't find lolsorandumb humour funny then you're shit out of luck.
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bullshit
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An elaborate comment on contemporary society.
What's /lit/'s opinion on film novelizations?
I'm reading pic related and enjoying it so far.
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What's even the fucking point?
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>be a child
>the first spiderman movie of the tobymaguirespidermantriology comes out
>get the novel version from barnes n noble
>read it
>didn't realize it was just a novelization of the movie
>see the movie
>it was way better than the book
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>>7976855
I havent seen this book since I was 10 and bought it at a yard sale. I read it till it fell apart. The sequels lead into the darkhorse comic series
That said, movie novelizations are below Forgotten Realms fantasy and momcore for /lit/ rep
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hey /lit, I hope you can help me
Im searching for books that contain storys about dominant (or older) men that are seducing women. Best case szenario is with sexual content but its not so important
For example, when I played the last of us, I wished nothing more than the two getting it on. This is such a perfect scenario: the young girl that has no choice but to stay with him to survive.
I just finished starwars darth bane and it was much like this, darth bane as the seducing villain and his younger dependent female student. But of course there was never something really sexual.
I also loved the silence of the lamp, again the villain hannibal trying to seduce clarice the innocent.
I just love this kind of relationship! I will take anything I get !
Thank youuu
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>>7976838
Is this a covert Nabokov thread?
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>>7976888
no pls god no I just bought this book and it was a huge mistake
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pleb
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Using music, pictures or videos, how would you imagine what anxiety feels like?
I'm writing an English paper for my online class and I want to give the reader a disturbing visual of what anxiety feels like.
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>a disturbing visual
ISHYGDDT holy shit are you in middle school? There are a ton of superior things that you could fill your word count with. I bet your teacher told you to write in second person too.
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This isn't being included for the word count. I'm gonna submit the essay separately, and include the visuals in a separate folder. Our textbooks even says we can do that. The books says
>"If you are submitting the assignment electronically (which i am) consider added music or videos that can be associated with the event"
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Are there any books that talk about the capacity of 'abstraction'? I'm not quite sure what I'm even looking for, abstraction seems to be the single most critical ability that separates us from the animal kingdom. I guess I'm looking for some kind of metaphysical(?) system that explains abstraction, so I can ponder on it. I just know abstraction is a crucial human ability, but I want some deeper understanding of it as an action and its consequence on us as beings, or people in a civilization.
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You're also free to write down your own pertinent thoughts you may have on the subject.
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Hey, /lit/. I recently read Roadside Picnic by the Strugatsky Brothers, and i really enjoyed it. What did you think of the book? I'm not very good at starting discussion, but i'd like to talk with someone about it.
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it's great
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>HAPPINESS FOR
EVERYBODY, FREE, AND NO ONE WILL GO AWAY UNSATISFIED!
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>>7976771
It's disgusting that people put scenes from the film adaptation on the book
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Hey /lit/, can anyone point me some to quality sites that have free ebook downloads?
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>>7976744
have u tried this niche site called goggle I think
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>>7976751
never stopped hating people like you
gen.lib.rus.ec
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Can you recommend some good nature based fiction books? Like a fictitious walden
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Thomas Hardy includes a lot of nature and its effcts in his novels. It's not man vs wild, but if you're only searching for vivid descriptions of nature, and of people in nature, then he is worth checking out.
Start with Under the Greenwood Tree.
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LotR ;^)
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Ed Abbey has some good books, only read his non-fiction though.
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Sell me on literacy like I'm a five year old
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>>7976667
consider reddit or suicide
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>>7976667
Read your book or I wont let you go out and play.
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>>7976667
>People who read become better people. As you get older you can tell who doesnt read, and you dont want to be like them
Literally what I tell my 5 year old daughter
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Ever feel like you spend so much time reading older books and classics that you're missing out or alienating yourself from current times?
/lit/ is great for finding books to read, but I want to read something released in 2015 or 2016 next. What has been good?
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honestly I'm not telling you your gay and I'm not telling you to fuck off to reddit but the books page on reddit would be your best place to look for that shit.
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>>7976648
If I liked Reddit I wouldn't be posting here, would I?
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>>7976643
>you're missing out or alienating yourself from current times?
I do feel this sometimes. But when I read a new book it turns out to be overpraised shit, so I need to read a classic to recuperate.