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>>9864700
kurt vonnegut "breakfast of champions".

>>9864700
Jack Vance's Lyonesse trilogy.

Oblomov
Sickness unto Death

I'm working towards the same goal right now, and I was told to read Plato's "Timaeus," "Parmenides," and then Aristotle's "Metaphysics."

I would also like to know what else I should add to this list.

Deirdre Carabine's Unknown God is a great place to start. PDF online somewhere.

>>9864494
Is there any merit in getting into neo-platonism if you can't into theism/deism, apart from aesthetic appreciation?
It keeps popping up to me as related to holism/monism, which I'm into. But everytime I look at it, it seems like the same old theological taxonomy, just with prettier prose.

>>9861823
>palmer eldritch
>eldritch palm
>stigmata
I bet he stayed up all night coming up with that name

>>9861850
he was schizophrenic be nice

>>9861850
by science-fiction standards it isn't bad

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Robert

By the time you've finished it, you'll have feels you never asked for.

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christopher

a fun metaphysical adventure about death, the afterlife and existence awaits you

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Connor

>>9858335
Villenalle

>>9858335
Prose

>>9858847
at a party, and you're just about to get caught talking shit behind someone's back

Still debating if I want to start my own business. I have been given the advice that I need to go out into the world more (and get a job), but I don't want to. I want to do my own thing.

>>9856960
>making someone else money

Don't fall for this meme, friend.

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the invisible woman did nothing wrong

I am J.K. Rowling

>What are your estimations of the pitfalls and downside of the business?

For publishing? Well, 80% of the publishing industry is staffed by women since most men burn out and quit.

If women don't like your shit, you aren't getting published. That's really all there is to it.

>>9845784
This may be true...I notice that adult fiction now pretty much imitates YA fiction in the militant choice of female characters

>>9826095
>Did Martin achieve his objective when writing A song of Ice and Fire?

we can talk about that once it's finished.

>>9826095
Yes. He wrote a realistic fantasy novel that would soon blow Tolkien books out of the water

>>9826183
Nice delusions.

/lit/ is not your diary desu

>>9872839
this

>>9872839
You must be a Philosophy newfag, go read kierkegaard or nietzsche's writings.. majority of it is self-deconstructive and explores a reader-discriminative style. If you can't contribute to the most common style of open forum writing, then please go and partake in your evening leisure hobby of cuckolding.

>>9872597
Haven't seen it. Didnt even know this existed. Thank you for this, im going to watch it. Any other kneecha/philosophy based movies you know of?

>>9872641
no man, just this i know of with a premise so solid.
stuff like Matrix can probably be interpreted in some philosophy, tho.

but The Turin Horse is from Bela Tarr, who is just one of the best patrician directors ever (if you like this watch Werckmeister Harmonies and the 7-hours-long Satantango)

>>9872597
I interpreted the Father and Daughter as a take on the last men, or ourselves, living in a time where nihilism is rife but we accept it as the way of the world occupying ourselves with petty and meaningless routines. The farm is barren and the house is falling a part but they keep working and doing their chores and the only pleasures they gain are sleeping and eating their potatoes. I found the potato eating scenes representative of this, it is a good indication of the differences in character between the Father and Daughter. The father always goes in quickly and fights off the pain from the steamy potato where as the daughter stares at it and waits before eating. In the final scene after they have run out of lamps they eat their potatoes once again in Silence and the father goes onto doing his same routine of eating again chasing the what pleasure he can despite the futility of the situation where as the daughter does not eat and the father recognises this and finally understands. Nietzsche believed Eve to be the first scientist, the one who first sought to know and take from the tree and give it Adam so that they may know. This scene is similar to that except that now the truth Eve brings is the truth of the futility of mans situation and they both cease striving for life as the the last light fades and the howl of the wind is all that is left.

>>9872372
>dude leftists are like pathological, don't even listen to them
>also they suck because they always play the identity card, and they are not willing to listen to other people's opinions!

Classic Jordan "The scam is on" Peterson

He's teaching idiots a lot of helpful stuff. Get off your high horse

>Whenever people write something everything they write is literally the exact meaning of what it says XD XD!
>Le curtains were fucking blue.
>Le subconscious mind doesn't exist and it plays no role in what the author writes.
>Nothing about the author, the characters, psychological states, subconscious can be discerned from the text and even minor sentences.

How to stop a brainlet: the post.

Its nice, but it wont get better if you worry about talent.

Refine your art, grow for my entertainment pls.

>>9872021
True i don't write for anybody but myself but I'm too in my head, not sure if I should share

No but it's better than Rupi Kaur so you could probably get published

>>9871894
Thats why we need to learn that people arent the heros we usualy think they are.
They have their flaws, the same way we have ours. Is our common mistake to look up to people religiously.

The greats are all greatly exaggerated.

>>9871934
>>9871952
Except for that one guy...

same

>need to turn the page 47 times every time
>forget count halfway through and have to start again

>re-read paragraphs for no reason
>constantly re-adjusting my reading lamp

>>9871783
I didn't use the internet for a month and I could read novels so much easier

Can you elaborate OP?

You mean because he negatively defined it? E.g. the soul is immortal because we were nothing and now we're something so it must balance out back into something (or something like that), etc.?

>>9871565
Are you talking about the dialogue Phaedo?