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Amerika

>>9871580
get her a nice edition of her favorite book.
hm, a really fine candle is always good.
really fucking nice paper, if she writes or likes to send cards out for holidays.
the door from nyrb.
a subscription to a literary mag.
there's lots of stuff.

Read the greeks.

>>9871466
avoid it altogether, to be honest. what is it that you don't know that you think will be answered by a philosopher?

>>9871466
Keep it real by reading right-wing authors. Start with Joseph de Maistre.

Unironically Achilles, since tons of men died because of one girl he got as a present was taken away. She probably didn't even love him and was just his sex toy and begged the gods to kill HIS OWN MEN.
Also what he did to Hector was really rude

>>9871398
sure... nothing compared to killing your own daughter, taking the other's prize and thinking that you're above everyone, right?

>>9871310
Because of the times Agamemnon was in the wrong. He took something Achilles rightfully won because they disagreed.

>>9870518
try the redpill if u want to know he done it

>>9870518
Wasn't it self-defense? My memory may be fuzzy, but I remember the Arab having a knife and issuing a threat. That's reason enough for me.

Im real sick of explaining this, but he shoots the arab because he doesn't want to return to Marie a beta little cuck. It literally says so right in the text. Women are poison to men.

>>9870064
Spectacle has always been a part of human life, but it has gone out of control with the advent of the Internet, smartphones, etc. I don't think that is up for debate.

spectacles are relationshits of people mediated by images, yes

watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irdHSmRrdh0

>>9870064

Debord is McLuhan for dumb cynics

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Did you ever regret about your physical book collection that you spent so many money on? Did you ever think something like 'i should have read only e-books from the beginning'?

>>9869695
No, not once. I've thought that about a few things, mostly pokemon and yugioh cards, but never books.

>Coldfire trilogy book 2
This ends in cat-fucking, doesn't it

cash money

>>9869625
They are? Never heard of them. Could you provide an example?

>>9869639
are you having a stroke?

You have my permission

>>9868078
I found it boring with a slow buildup, compared to Master of Go, which is a wonderful novel that compels you from the get-go.

>>9868093
I found the Master of Go rather boring compared to Snow Country. Both are great though.

>>9868077
Peace and quiet

self-tyranny

>>9868083
elaborate please

Unironically World War Z.

Lolita

History of Sexuality Volume 1 by Foucualt

>Borgokov
my god

>>9865192
Borges.

>>9865196
>Pale Ficciones
>Ada or Aleph
>The Real Life of Bioy Casares

Sounds good.

>>9859682
t.Neocon kike

I just finished uni, and I want to get into the diplomatic corps in my country. Apparently in order to get in , I will have to be tested in some of his books.

>>9859682
wtf this nigga is still alive

A thin long road which trails through the field and up to the forest. Who first stepped this into being? A deer or rabbit who’s feet clear a wisp through the ground, followed then by others following wearing it deeper. A young shepherd who catches the trail and uses it to cross from grass to grass. Thus cutting the tract through the hills without an owner, pure land.
A man come, he comes from the North sacked with tools. A broad man almost hidden in the wires of iron red hair. What is seen on his skin is a story written in scars of a coarse man.
Here where the marsh gives way to the gentle forest he hears the voice of running water where he rests his pack and looks around, all creatures silent around while he mutters to himself. “This may do” his rasping voice groans as his picks up his axe.

He begins clearing, stopping to drink from the stream, eat, and sleep. Not more not less. He rises with the sun and falls with the timber he has cleared in the evening.
The afternoon of the third day he leans against a freshly downed trunk and looks out upon his work. “This may do”. Now begins the scrapping and splitting of many rough knotted boards, and from the ground up a rough shelter is cobbled out of the land.

I wrote this like two years ago and just found it, what do ya think?

>>9849842
Posted at the end of the last thread.

lovecraft mythos short story exercise

https://pastebin.com/xA1BLn7F

I’m not sure of the exact point that people came to regard us as together. I’m not even sure when our liaisons became public knowledge, her husband was out of the picture though when he found out about our relationship, wisely cutting his losses. This did not take long, given the obvious postcoital changes in behaviour she exhibited. She became giddy and childish, clingy often. Evidently she manifested the same behaviours when freshly fucked by her husband as this was what told him that she was finding hers elsewhere, not long after the first consummation of our affair. She was a nightmare, consistently. It was not long before the great descent set out before us opened up its abyssal throat and we slid down. I picked up first from a soft and pasty young man, unexposed to the outside, I feared he’d disintegrate in the light, then his dealer, then the dealer’s dealer. I purchased bulk and sniffed and shot and kept the time at bay. People passed in and out, I know not whom. Some of them came back, the chef and his friends, they stayed a while — friends of hers.

I’d been walking recently, my boots tossed across the room, out in the dog days and the close, orange air before the clouds gathered into congregation and blew the heat out. Out under their majesty I was free for all this stolen time. I stared hard at the boot, took a line and lay back on the sofa. I was not made for this world, its intricacies would always bypass me. Its schemes and struggles moved on beyond me, and I remained, like a stone effigy weathering in a time lapse video. And like an old cur my eyes were red rimmed and glassy as I thought of all the life in the room beyond. There was life beyond and there were sounds. She was being gangfucked next door, I could hear through the wall.

You can have allot of succes in philosophy if you know what to do. Allot of comedy is based on philosophical idea's. Allot of people don't know what to think so they reach for great philosophers.
I think if you're motivated you should absolutely do it and not care about money. Cause indeed philosophy is something which can entertain you for the rest of your life. And if you don't make enough money, you can ponder that ;).

Ofcourse your family will bitch about those things, if they say such things, they probably didn't get much out of their own potential and dreams, misery loves its company.

FIGHT FOR YO RIGHT TO THINK!

>>9843770
Also just wanted to add, in the country I live, philosophers are frequently asked to come on television to engage in debates or explain certain idea's and concepts. Where there's publicity there's also money. Don't let your family demotivate you from something you love.

>YWN withdraw from society to live as a mysterious, reclusive philosopher and literary fiction author.

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Here you go

>>9814434
Throwing in some utilitarians with Hayek.

>>9814402
go back to >>>/v/eddit