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they're failed people

war journalists have more balls than you can even conceive.

The only failed writers are the ones that want to write but don't.

>shitty father too
kafka did not consider his father as "shitty"

The Judgment (don't confuse with The Trial).

>>9864767
He doesn't.

Academics can only exist by manufacturing baseless narratives and then surrounding that narrative with their cocks out, masturbating on it until it crumbles like a soggy cookie.

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here's the contents of the gogol book

>>9864802
Good selection, nice find

>>9864839
Thanks. I've been meaning to get into Russian classics for a while now but never got around to it, maybe it's a sign.

Would one of these be a good place to start, or should I just get something specific from the library despite finding these?

I loan them from libgen

>>9864610
I understand this meme less and less. Do you only read like classics and /lit/ chart stuff?

>>9864513
Coriolanus.

He thinks the people are idiots and that they should stay plebs while the patricians get shit done, but that attitude leads to his downfall

The conquest of bread

Montesquieu?
I think both rulers and the people are a danger to the functioning of a nation. Europe will succumb to populism and ironically it is the elites fault.

Yes.

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How else would you read masterpieces normies would scold you for in peace?

While that guy reads some classic book and feeling all smug about with himself, the girl beside him is chatting up with Chad.

>motivated to be disciplined
Kek. Discipline is doing shit without regard for your fefes. Get some willpower, faggot.

>>9864092
How? Please help me. I want to stop being such a loser and just do the things that matter consistently.

>>9864084
I don't know. I don't fucking know. For the past 6 months I've been studying & exercising regularly without spending too much time on the web. A few weeks ago I had a complete breakdown; started smoking again, playing WoW & browsing 4chan for hours. I put so much effort in reforming my life and it all crashed in the blink of an eye, all of a sudden I started feeling awful and voila, it's all gone. And this is the 3rd or 4th time I'm going through the same experience.

Any books that can help me out lads?

Because I must.

because this amazing food critic inspires me to improve my craft

https://www.theinfatuation.com/contributor/taylor-abrams

>>9864048
>It isn't Guy Fieri

I'll take a Carl Jung with a side of Nietzsche, and a large Dostoevsky.

nihilistic neo-marxist postmodernists

WHY?! WHY MUST YOU TORMENT ME SO WITH THESE JEZEBELS? All I want to do is come here for an asexual experience that will exercise my brain but I am constantly titillated by these vixens with their prodigious hips and provocative figures. Can I never satiate this thirst, will I ever know the touch of a woman and enter between her loins? Will my seed ever drip from her moistened hole?

Life is a constant hell. No wonder I resent women too.

very little, actually.

>>9863029
50-60 philosophies thereabout

>>9863043
What would you expect

There must be.

>>9862514
there was one that acually had the entire text and would bring up an annotation on almost every word if you would hover your cursor over it. i fucking wish i could find it.

>>9862514
this is similar though...
http://m.joyceproject.com/chapters/telem.html

>>9862331
>metaethics

yawn.

>>9862331

I bought it b/c it has a cool cover and title.
But I never read any of the people he is talking about so I had no clue what was going on.

>>9862331
i've never read it but i follow @NoTrueScotist so i think i'm qualified to say it's Good

>>9862222
GR

all of them if your smart enough

>>9862222
Lost in the Funhouse by Barth is probably exactly what you want

>narcissist and borderline (in TLP sense) get into a relationship
>it's predictably dysfunctional (although there are good times), the borderline is somewhat self-aware, breaks up and seeks professional help
>it doesn't work
>both characters try other relationships with normies, which go even worse
>at the end of the book they accept that they are the only chance for each other to have any kind of semi-successful relationship and get back together

>>9861667
>the novel is written as a review of a novel written by Borges which is in the form of a review of another novel

>pseudoislamic dystopic cyberpunky pre-singularity world
>if you live your life according to the corporate sharia state's wishes, at the moment before you die your consciousness is transferred to a supercomputer and credited with forty milliseconds of computation time. during these forty milliseconds you can simulate hundreds of years worth of fantasies, effectively creating an actual heaven for yourself
>the reason having someone jacked into a supercomputer isn't a danger to the state is because from the outside frame of reference it was only forty milliseconds, nothing dangerous can be accomplished by the super consciousness in this time span before the next guy gets his turn and has his own goals that may not have anything to do with influencing the real world, he probably just wants his dick sucked by virtual broads for his forty milliseconds
>the book centers around a cult of hackers who are trying to gain enough members that they can obtain, collectively, twelve seconds worth of subsequent computation time by committing mass suicide at the exact instant, via bomb
>twelve seconds is just enough to use your supercomputer time to hack into enough things and alter world events just enough that you can depose the corporate sharia state and achieve proletariat rule

normies are too dumb

>>9861573
Imagine how many further great novels he could have written

Imagine what the end would be like if his mom hadn't written it.

You created the funniest character in literature. Rest in peace JK

>>9861673

his mum wrote the end?