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>>7929275
Reddit/10

Shame on you..

Reconsider the value of the thing you call life, you poor, pathetic excuse for an entity.

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do you know my poetry?

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Art.

hack

>>7942047
He's entertaining but I disagree with almost everything he says

The kids today love far right thinkers.

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>hear Cioran is supposed to be this deep figure of infinite pathos
>read his stuff and about him
>just endless livejournal whining
>constantly taking cringy pictures of himself looking sad

>>7941762
Apparently he enjoyed life. He was just really pessimistic. He's like those nihilists who go full "YOLO" instead of whining.

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>>7941762
Not sure, but he's writing certainly puts him as the most cynical. But beyond that, and more essentially, his ideas have no holes, he follows them to their Natural conclusions. His insights are actually uplifting.

Though, given his propensity for purple prose, coupled with his educated thoughts, indicates a lot to the contrary. Delightful, witty, self-indulgent, and above all marvelously superfluous. God bless his soul.

>>7937357
What are the most highbrow books of Scifi/fantasy?

>>7937364
Eye of Argon

>>7937364
I suppose Anathem qualifies in terms of the relatively recent.

this desu

al you gotta read descartes, stirner, and emerson

basically walk into the woods and you'll see it all there is to life. anything else is just an abstract way of trying to explain nature.

>>7943979
>basically walk into the woods and you'll see it all there is to life. anything else is just an abstract way of trying to explain nature.
much truth

you can literally look at any organism and 'get it'

Why are you telling me this?

the holy bible

>>7941883
Job

>>7941883
brothers k

>Kafka
>German

Next up you'll be saying Neitzsche was German.

Historically, Germany is right there with Greece. Then a gulf.

>>7941110
but he wrote in german sooooo...

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There is.

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There is.

>>7940409
>>7940414
Nice to see their is good Philosophers

I got broads in Atlanta

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Thirty feet he dragged him, endless effort in an endless ocean. Thirty feet he swam for dear life trying to save a friend, trying to save a life he had yet to realize was long gone.

He has taken my voice for misusing His name, now my life will be wasted on listening to others talk about nothing.

I like anything Oxford or Cambridge presses because they're prestigious. Escpecially weird texts, like on magic or Satanism, western esotercism. The weird combined with scholarly is my favorite.

Loeb, Norton (Critical Edition), Vintage, NYRB, Hackett, Oxford, Cambridge, SUNY Press, Clarendon

>>7939123
everymans, dalkey, nyrb, modern i guess. I really like penguin but i wouldnt call them 'patrician'

griffiths' JUST series is 10/10 the whole way thru
though I never cared for the BUTT books

>>7938636
I bought all the Paul Jennings books from Aldi the other day. Great nostalgia.

I'm reading A Million Windows by Gerald Murnane at the moment. So far it's a pretty classic mind-bending, plotless, prosed up, Murnane book, a little more intense than others of his that I've read though. I couldn't get through Tamerisk Row but that was a few years ago. I think this is doing my head in a little more.

I really enjoyed Inland and The Plains, and A Lifetime Among Clouds is pretty funny in a weird way.

Have you guys read any Murnane?

Book: Ulysses or maybe Agape Agapē

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>>7937312
What a depressing life

>>7936582
He needs up to date translations.

Also its kind of hard to latch onto someone whos philosophy only applies to you if you are slavic.

every time I see this picture I can't get over that sweatshirt

>>7936591
Only a fraction of his work has been translated, probably a limitation of his english publishing house Arktos, they're too small. But at least he posts online continually in english now

He call's de Benoist and his New Right school as Fourth Political Thinkers of the west. There is nothing limiting in his work, he doesn't distinuish between slav and non-slav, it's the Transatlantic West versus Contenential East he has problems with. His heiddegerian metaphysics can be applied anywhere

>>7936531
mostly practiced by autists who think they can muh will themselves to normalcy

Coward man's Cynicism
Dull man's Epicureanism

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>>7936556
>>7936547

what the fuck man. I'm going through stoic texts here trying to adopt them to literally will myself into normalcy. To be less bitter, cynical and pathetic and adopt a stoic approach to life.

what problems do you have with it?