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>>7891755
Withouthair then Moustache Man?
or
WillemScholem'sBoypussy then MemedbyMarcuse?

>>7891227
>The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
i'm not sure if i'm misunderstanding your post because i've been drinking wine but this work is by walter benjamin, regardless i would highly recommend it

She wants you to take on the role of a lover and a paternal figure. Expect her to eventually regress and start acting like a child in the bedroom. Worst case scenario she will want to wear diapers.

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It means that at least you have a gf

>>7891160

I should note that her father cheated on her mother and it's no secret in the family.
They're still together for the family's sake. But she ignores her father and so does he.

Let me know when it's published. Senpai.

>>7891142
well we all can see you have Joyce's ego

>>7891150
I'll be sure to come back here and let you bask in its glory once it gets published.

>>7891139
Willa Cather.

try Jezebel
they're all up in arms about Gay Talese not liking women writers

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>>7891139
Hey, OP. ;)

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Christian.. ethics?

that'd be in the fantasy section, wouldn't it?

The Abolition of Man by C. S. Lewis.

Sickness unto Death

>>7891115
Why does everyone think he is a cuck? Just because he has different opinions? The fact is the majority of people like him, so maybe you guys are all wrong.

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Look I get that this is a troll thread and you think you're really gonna rustle some jimmies or something but honestly I couldn't care less. He writes YA fiction, it's really popular. He does youtube videos with his brother, they're really popular. So what. It's like people on here actually get mad when someone does things that the general public likes. Get over yourselves and get over the urge to troll those people that can't.

>>7891188
Okay we get it you want his babies

Rings of Saturn, by W.G. Sebald. Maybe The Emigrants by the same author, which is similar in some ways.

The song also makes me think of the ending of Stoner, but it's an easy book to think of because /lit/ talks about it so much. It's a good book though.

Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" comes to mind (short, poignant), as well as Milan Kundera's "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (for an indeterminate reason). I suppose it reminds me of someone I used to know, and these were what I was reading when I knew her, but the shades of meaning and gravity hit upon on a touchstone. Read them, though.

Wait until a year from now where you say, "Holy fuck, I can't believe I was going to kill myself before I etcetera'd...before I went skinny dipping in Tennessee, made my own IPA, tried out for a game show, rode a camel drunk, skydived alone, learned to waltz with clumsy old people, photographed electric jellyfish, built a sailboat from trash, taught someone how to read, etc. etc. etc."

The red washing down the bathrub can't change the color of the sea at all.

>>7890968
To be fair, the last stanza worked pretty well, except for the "at all". Aside from that, it ain't good.

what a piece of shit poem

>>7890861
Really like it.

Is it a novel? Seems more like a poem to me, a good one at that

May be a comment on me but I don't understand what is actually going on here despite it sounding pretty.

"As it’s life force rises in great invisible waves of heat the earth cries softly as each inch freezes over. The darkness that remains behind is greater than what preceded it, mighty and loathsome, nipping at the moon's heels with a greedy mouth."

>>7890886
The heat rises from the desert ground as the night grow colder.
>>7890875
Novel

>>7890828
Are you literally retarded?
It means you can only understand the significance of events in your life after they are already over.
McLuhan makes the same point more metaphorically when he says that life is like driving a car and only being able to look in the rear-view mirror.

>>7890828
is that too close to determinism or am i just dumb?

>>7890828
It is easier to predict the cause of an event by seeing the effect of the event than vice-versa.

>>7890775
john green
james franco

Burroughs
Ellis
Kosinski

what can I say? I'm an edgy, pervy fag.

My influences are Pynchon and DeLillo, but I aim to surpass them.

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrricky, wwwwwhat did you do this time?!? This is reaaaaaaaaaal greasy

Sexy fucking Patrick swayze julian

>>7890781
RRRRANDY

maybe the owner has a fetish of doing this.
just imagine all of the employees editing images as their boss just keeps muttering behind them "yes, yes, now crop that face and make it look mildly bad, but make it look like you guys are trying; hmm yes, yess, now insert some monks behind him"

We had this same exact thread last week...

>>7890729
You guys haven't changed your opinions drastically since then?

>>7890623

The Analects.

>>7890640
>The Analects
Do you have a preferred translation?

>>7890623
Chuang Tzu
Burton Watson translation

P&P>TWAWAR

>>7890506
You could get away with some Plato & a gloss on Kant. Though strictly speaking, a familiarity with both is required.

However, as anon suggests above, his philosophic system is largely of scholarly / historical interest at this point. You're better off just reading the later essays and aphorisms, which don't require background reading. The commonly available abridged editions will be fine.

>>7890567
Thank you, but im going to read "The World as Will and Representation" anyway. What works exactly by Plato and Kant do you recommend to get a reasonable grasp on their respective views?