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>>7845923
The entire western canon. Then you'll be halfway there.

ulysses cannot be read. only re-read.

>>7845924
But that's a meme

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>>7845886
>what some undergraduate twat reads into the text

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>>7845886

>what the reader thinks

>>7845886
>Plato's Republic was really a quirky action-adventure romance about a quirky princess with newly-discovered magical powers who must save the kingdom and at the same time navigate an awkward love triangle with her in the middle.

OP; - Is...a; a fag?!

Kangaroo notebook?
Idunno.

Haley Carnasus, Parsimons ate, and spit seeds out like God spit men out of Eden, and stepped upon the seeds that they might split, and never sprout, and nothing be of them ever but as salted earth and dessert upon mars beneath sun within world beneath creation of god of things unknown to man who was by god made who by man is worshiped beneath sun.

I ran out of things to say before I was born, it's all worthless words hurled like fistfuls of sand at granite mountains.

I am told there are molecules in brain that there is hope and goodness and (I am told by me) I have seen it. It has seen me, it is not for a meaning but for a brief fulfillment of purpose, it is garbage to simply point out and speak about what is being spoken about.

I hate writing, I hate wanting to be someone who I am not yet, I hate wanting to be admired and loved and suspecting I am not.

I hate journalistic self-appraisal and appeals to "can't we all just get along we're all alike I am like you." This is a swelling void that is a sucking vacuum that can eat everything.

I would rather speak of forests, but I do not know the names of trees, nor can I tell elm from oak, nor have I heart to stomach swallow.

There is foam upon ocean, exhausted analogy. Humans lack the ontological constitution of numbers, product of primes, perfect, I wish my intestines were made of porcelain and amber. My moods are made of terra cotta and I sift swallowing cockstruck sand, say random things to razzle and dazzle you.

You and me, me and you, we are, we are not, we are, we are not, there is nothing to say, language is pointless, but it is not.

Haley Carnasus is a lovely girl and a stupid pun. Footnotes belong in essays, biographies are essays, being candid is forced and fake. fuck man, fuck, do you like this? do you hate it? You must hate it. You can't say you like it or hate it now. You are not a critic, you are a stupid human with pointless words too. Your prose is garbage like mine.

>homo
nice try

>>7845272
Shut up you cunt and help me understand this

State of Exception
Political Theology
etc.

Inherent Jest or Infinite Vice, not sure

>>7844750

Definitely Infinite Vice, dude. Definitely. That's good shit right there. I'd read that. Mos def fo sho.

What about mine? I'm between Gravity's Meridian or Blood Rainbow. Not sure.

>>7844849
Blood Rainbow is metal af

I'm calling mine Notes From Ulysses

It's awful tbqh

absolute madman

go to bed Tao Lin

>>7844460
The title represents my life.

>>7844466
How do you eat?

>>7844475
you dont eat when you take meth all day
this is a thread about meth, right?

Read Freud As Philosopher. Might help to read Lacan too.

>>7847186
Yes he is the father of psychoanalysis. But he isn't a philosopher because 1. His theories were gathered from case studies and is centered around the analytic situation. 2. He's more concerned with answers rather than questions.

Only if you read objective psych to go with your subjective psych.

>>7846722
No, because Gass, Barth, and McElroy are still (barely) alive.

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>>7846722

> America's greatest living writer
> Not Pinecone

Plebs.

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>>7846732
Whatever you want to say about No Country for Old Men and The Road, they are far above this swill.

B-but anon, he was just doing it for a fun paycheck!Sure. Sure he was.

Get something by Mika Waltari

>>7846684
I, Claudius
also that one that was really popular a few years ago about building a cathedral

War and peace

I read it many many years ago. It's a decent book if you're not treating it as a guide. It's basically from what I remember a bunch of stories and experiences.

>>7844829
This, it's entertaining. It's also dated as fuck, the kind of thing that worked then don't work nowadays.

>>7844762
It's an interesting read, and it reads like a good magazine article. I would recommend reading it for the lessons that Strauss learns along the way.

Strauss concludes that if he's confident and has something going on in his life, then everything plays out well. He also realizes that hedonistic pursuits should not be one's focus.

Its a fun read overall. Has shitty advice for picking up girls at the bar, but has good life lessons.

I'm of no help to you, OP. I'm a Medievalist, I think the last 600 years of Western thought have been an awful mistake.

>>7841472
No shit. I'm a Antiquist, I think the last 1500 years of Western though have been an awful mistake.

western thought is a mistake

Yes

What is not commonly known, and that any serious reader will experience and have to overcome, is over reading produces a kind of a dependence on books to simply think. This is more dangerous than it sounds.

Yes, there are a lot of situations where it can be extremely dangerous. For example, do not read a book while sitting on train tracks.

>>7838847
The latter. It is the individual that determines how the knowledge and thought of another is integrated, for better or for worse. A certain level of maturity is needed for absorbing certain material in a balanced manner.

>>>/co/

None

>>7847253

fuck outta here

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the original edgelord

Maos little red book

The Way of Men by Jack Donovan