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RWBY is good you plebian. Stop falling for memes.

If you took the exposition out of this show, it would be two seasons long.

>>9875347
Really? How so?

once again robot categorical theory displays itself as being an insufficient paradigm for serious enquiry.

What books are they buying?
>Obviously people don't buy books just to show off or to say they read them
Yes they do.
If you're posting on /lit/ chances are you do the same.

I've got two theories:

>most men who read are shut-ins and order books
or
>the education system pushes more women than men into literature

just guesses though.

creamy fingering

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have you tried
Handsome Sentient Food Pounds My Butt And Turns Me Gay: Eight Tales Of Hot Food by best-selling tinglerotica Chuck Tingle

there was that Connecticut pigfucker in king arthur's court or whatever

going backwards in time makes no sense, only going forward makes sense since we're all going forward in time anyways just some people can go faster than others

>>9875064
yeah but wouldn't it be useful to take some aspect of cyclical history to make call backs or call forwards?
>>9875056
was it good

i'd like to see her body of work if you know what i mean

Faulkner

>>9874998
>Whom is
Leave. Now.

jean derida's gonna beat the shitta outta you kid, stick to diary of a wimpy kid

Have you started with the Greeks

haven't read much derrida but I do know that he's less existential crisis than people make out. delueze & guattari are very fun and life affirming though. don't buy into the popular image of French theory, it's not as bleak as people make out.

>>9874710
Looks interesting, what is this about?

I mean if you want to be a cheap pleab dicksucker all your life, sure.

>>9874710
Go for it, anon.

>>9874707
Vageyena.

>>9874707
There are no deities, per se.
We just call some of them "gods". Since they are races, technically more than have been named.

Lovecraft's world is, in essence, materialistic.

As for the real question:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu_Mythos_deities
http://lovecraft.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Cthulhu_Mythos_deities

>what sets the elder gods with the outer gods and the other ones.
The distinction isn't really clear. And it changes often.
As a rule of thumb:
The Great Old Ones (Big C and the gang) are alien races, who are on earth. (With many minor "gods").
The Outer Gods can be divided between the Elder Gods and the Other Gods and are more "cosmic scale".
The Other Gods are mindless and, like, super dangerous, so never leave that flat-earth-dreamscape, boy.

>>9874707
The distinction is merely ontological and a question of location, with there being no meaningful relation to human consciousness/activity,
making the question a pointless one.

my diary desu

>>9874526
Yes. W-wait I wanna change my answer!

my diary desu

skitzophrenia is no joke anon.

>go on Amazon
>look for a copy of Lolita
>find it
>nervously one-click purchase it
>swear the screen went black for half a second
>fast forward two months
>receive invitation to an Amazon board members birthday party
>decide to check it out
>have a fantastic time

>>9874511
>>"Okay, that will be $26.99"
I hope you tipped.

You're welcome

>>9874481
>>9874481
last 10% makes up for it in my opinion, that's when I felt that I "got" it

i can't even comprehend how shitty it must be to be you. i'm not very smart, a pleb, maybe even a pseud, but the trial is one of the surest and highest pleasures i know. one of the canonical works i don't need to crane my neck or squint to see why or how it's loved. it's just a pure and direct masterpiece.

do you at least like pet sounds?

i can't take a man with the last name "kenny" seriously

>>9874474
Oh my god you BTFO'd Kenny, you bastard!

>>9874469
Study and read more. In fact, study and read until your last breath. Fuck Caesar and fuck this earth, live towards eternity.

>>9874194
I'm so fucking annoyed at myself for blanking on this I feel like I'm about to shit myself in anger

1103b?

Similarly we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. 1. [5] This truth is attested by the experience of states: lawgivers make the citizens good by training them in habits of right action—this is the aim of all legislation, and if it fails to do this it is a failure; this is what distinguishes a good form of constitution from a bad one. 1. [6] Again, the actions from or through which any virtue is produced are the same as those through which it also is destroyed—just as is the case with skill in the arts, for both the good harpers and the bad ones are produced by harping, and similarly with builders and all the other craftsmen: as you will become a good builder from building well, so you will become a bad one from building badly. 1. [7] Were this not so, there would be no need for teachers of the arts, but everybody would be born a good or bad craftsman as the case might be. The same then is true of the virtues. It is by taking part in transactions with our fellow-men that some of us become just and others unjust; by acting in dangerous situations and forming a habit of fear or of confidence we become courageous or cowardly. And the same holds good of our dispositions with regard to the appetites, and anger; some men become temperate and gentle, others profligate and irascible, by actually comporting themselves in one way or the other in relation to those passions. In a word, our moral dispositions are formed as a result of the corresponding activities. 1. [8] Hence it is incumbent on us to control the character of our activities, since on the quality of these depends the quality of our dispositions. It is therefore not of small moment whether we are trained from childhood in one set of habits or another; on the contrary it is of very great, or rather of supreme, importance.2.

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>>9874319
No because that's him talking about the possibility of human beings to change their character, but not yet expounding on the proper way to do so.

I know that this part of the Wikipedia article on Aristotelian Ethics is talking explicitly about the point I'm trying to remember so I'm definitely not making it up.

>>9874032
R u fuqqin srs m8? Has the redpill made yoo into a mongoloid or is this some classic LARPing?

you should log off and take up gardening or something

Consider the following: I you had a wife, you wouldn't be posting on 4chan.

>>9873998
uuuh... all my english books

>>9874086
This. 90 percent of my books are in english, some in my native language german (if the author is german as well), few ins spanish, polish and french.

Which will be the case in most people which post here but aren't native anglospherians.

>>9874101
i do exactly the same, just buy spanish book if they are written in spanish.
sometimes i feel guilty about, but then i remember the dubious translation and that they charge an arm and an eye for them.