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I mean as a single sentence of a minor assignment it works I guess

>>7816129
Totally beside opie's reason for posting, but pic related reminded me of how I once publically pronounced mediocre as mediy-o-core. God was I villified.

Pretty good

He is pretty rigid in his politics contrary to opinion

Though you have to understand he is a post-deleuze-guattari marxist

>>7814969
Why the fuck today everyone on /lit/ decided to post D&G? I mean /lit/ has always been fond of them and they're alright but specifically today /lit/ is hard on them.

i feel like he would disagree with any interpretation i had of him and his ideas

Great prose.
Surreal atmosphere and a fascinating world.
It's written as a captivating puzzle.
It is full of symbolism and tells a meta narrative through it.
It's using postmodern techniques to tell a traditional story with a traditional message.
It is a religious novel with a very deep spirituality.

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what is its appeal?

>>7814655
>Great prose.
no it isn't
> Surreal atmosphere and a fascinating world.
yes
> It's written as a captivating puzzle.
okay
> It is full of symbolism and tells a meta narrative through it.
how is that supposed to be appealing in and of itself?
> It's using postmodern techniques to tell a traditional story with a traditional message.
how is that supposed to be appealing in and of itself?
> It is a religious novel with a very deep spirituality.
how is that supposed to be appealing?

Dhammapada and the Pali Canon. The Analects can also be quite insightful at times.

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dao de ching, etc.

>Eastern philosophy

You gotta be a little more specific than that m8.

Start with the trial

>>7814578
Start with the Apology, and then read whatever. There is a "dramatic order" that can be inferred (take the dialogues at the end of Socrates' life: Theaetetus, Euthyphro, Cratylus, Sophist, Statesman, Apology, Crito, Phaedo all *happen* in that order), but the order has nothing to do with an order for reading, but rather points to certain relations between groups of works.

Don't worry about order. Plato isn't grasped upon any initial reading, but upon subsequent re-readings and study.

Deleuze's legacy is ever-evolving, never complete. The language is supposed to be difficult, with infinite interpretations as an advantage and inaccessibility as a disadvantage for those who lack the endurance. He expanded the term of the BwO on multiple occasions, there were autodidact Anit-Oedipus reading groups in Germany, reading and re-reading and analysing the work for about 5 years

They are creating language that gets at something normal language does not. You do see the same thing in science, you only get the dumbed down YouTube clip in plain English.

>>7814485
Yeah, these subjects stopped saying substantial things a while who. Also nice baiting with math and physics, consider this your (You).

Please be bait. This isn't a bad book by any stretch of the imagination.

>>7815922

Wuts it about?

>>7816017
some people go a lighthouse

yes, exactly. You got it Op, do what you think is best instead

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"To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day."

>>7814326
Keep posting on 4chan and wealth and power will come to you

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Come on. I'm sure this board has some read a fair few really bad books. Who hasn't?

A Confederacy of Dunces

>>7815654
Quality opinions there bud.

what area

>>7815665

Los Angeles

>>7815619
Damn, I thought that was NY and was seriously considering catching a train into the city to fuck around.

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Mao

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Tao

Did Sigmund have an active sex life or was it all penis envy?

>What is your favorite Tolstoy novel
None.
>and why?
Because I haven't read em yet.

I have only read The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Confessions and some of his other religious writings. I plan to read his major novels but from what I understand everything I have read from him is from a diffrent part of his life.

>lel lolstoj

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.... helped me thru some dark times : )

KJV

>>7815425
You'll never die
Singularity is near

But there is nothing enduring in the world, and therefore even joy in the second minute is already not as acute as in the first; in the third minute it becomes still weaker and finally merges unnoticeably with the usual condition of the soul, as a circle on the water, caused by the fall of a pebble, finally merges with the smooth surface

"Tears do not burn except in solitude." — E M Cioran

"...and that boredom is a direct proof that existence is in itself valueless, for boredom is nothing other than the sensation of the emptiness of existence. " - A. Schopenhauer

literotica.com

Pastebin link on /lit/.
Please share, I love this shit.

>>7814186
http://pastebin.com/zCrJshF5
One person is one more than zero.

Maybe there is a broken sentence or two, I am a lazy faggot.