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well diddle me pink and call me samantha

Pale Fire, if you disagree go post on the bad place

I want to read Ada or Ardor

As long as my schlong is getting sucked it's fine by me

>irc
ayy hows it going : )

i personally find them deeply appealing. those who turn up their noses at them are bores. >:3

Solitary bump, for my own sanity,

I love you

>>7858947
Aww, thanks, which one did you enjoy?

>>7858658
Actually, there isn't much of a difference between the digital and physical versions of The Tunnel, as the former is just a photocopy of the latter.

t. Gassposter

>>7858658
IJ was pretty shit on my glo

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>>7858702
Yeah, there isn't, but I suppose it could feel strange to read a book about books not being a book really.
pic related is mfw reading first chapter of If on a winter's night a traveler on e-reader.

bump

What are the major philosophical things on causality?

Hume - An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

>>7858632
Causality is addressed by just about every philosopher ever.

It goes back to the Unmoved Mover, Inherent causes, Aim Towards the Good, etc. Aristotle

Then you've got the Medievalists trying to prove God via causal chains and necessary causes. This is Augustine, Avicenna, Anselm, Aquinas, etc.

Then you've got your standard modern guys with Descartes, Hume, Spinoza, and Leibnitz and the whole issue with determination vs free will.


THEN you've got German idealists fucking everything up with notions of causation being an a priori, human representation (Schopenhauer), or causality being denied as in the traditional sense of change over time, for time is merely a way in which humans perceive things (Kant). Then you've got Fichte, Hegel, and Neitzche saying some shit about it too.

I mean, causality is pretty broad.

>>7858108

Old Testament: Psalms
New Testament: Gospel of John

>>7858113
>john
good taste lad

The favorite of the non religious: Revelation
The favorite of the non religious intellectual: Ecclesiastes
The favorite of the religious: One of the gospels
The favorite of the religious intellectual: Job

2005

>>7857973
why

1913 because of proust, gide and others
1857 because flowers of evil and madame Bovary
1969 because tournier and Albert cohen

No, he fried his brain with too many amphetamines. Even he knew that.

>>7857536
No.
But he was probably high all along.

>>7857536
Yes. But few will notice.

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>Plato was still young when he watched mob justice kill the greatest, kindest, and wisest man Western civilisation may have ever known
>Plato sat and wrote painstaking, loving accounts of the days leading up to Socrates' death, as he talked with his friends, defended philosophy without any hope of saving himself, declined a coward's flight from his execution cell, and slowly and gracefully died from the hemlock
>tfw you realize while reading the Phaedo that Plato probably cried onto the scroll as he wrote it
>tfw you slow down your reading and think of Plato, carefully choosing every word, as he described his hero slowly nodding off to sleep forever
>tfw ut te postremo donarem munere mortis et mutam nequiquam alloquerer cinerem, quandoquidem fortuna mihi tete abstulit ipsum
>tfw atque in perpetuum frater, ave atque vale

>>7857469
>socrates
>great
>kind
>wise
>shiggy diggy

>>7857469

> tfw you finally realize that Socrates was evil and Athens was actually right to execute him

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>>7856419
Try to summon Marc Aramini

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>>7856661
>look up Marc Aramini
>"[Gene Wolfe] operates on a level of symbolic allusion"
>"concept of variance reduction techniques applied to a plot"

Please no. I don't want to forever ruin my memory of Wolfe's books with faggy post-modern deconstruction.

>>7857159
Marc passionately hates post structuralism and postmodern philosophy in general.

fiction and non-fiction are welcome

none because true nihilists don't write since it's pointless

>>7856369
this.
how to get out of this nihilist trap? i want to be a writer.

>>7855198
Plutarch parallel lives, at least Caesar and Cato

>>7855218
thanks man, this looks very relevant.

>>7855198
Titus Livius

>>7875165
Rollin' for my new pen name.

>>7875167
>not Waldo Jeffers

Rolleroo

>>7870668

Why yes, yes I can, OP. You should especially look into the works of Dostoevsky.

>>7870668
Dosto, Gass, Gaddis (only socially for gaddis).

>>7870676
This is a meme; please don't derail the thread by responding to this memeposter.

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>>7869333
>>What are you reading right now?
Just finished pic related.
>>What did this general trick you into reading?
Nothing. I do the tricking :3
>>Who do you blame?
Myself.

>>7869333
>>What are you reading right now?
City at the End of Time. I haven't read a Greg Bear title in a while.
>>What did this general trick you into reading?
Nothing. But seeing Blood music as a recommendation took me by surprise. I haven't read that book in a long while.
>>Who do you blame?
I blame the digital art cover of that edition on me picking up the book in the first place.

i want to try bakker but every time i get the same meme answers. i honestly dont believe theres anyone here who can spend 3 minutes and write a few coherent sentences...