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>>7793753
they're short

borges & joyce are the best

cosmicomics

>>7793594
You have a finite time on this Earth. I only intend to read the mythology and not touch the rest.

Read what you find interesting.

>>7793603
That's because you're stupid. It amazes me that people like you cannot find, at the very least, some strong entertainment value in many works of Plato.

Are there any philosophical works on consciousness after death, preferably ones that do not delve into metaphysics.
As in I can not imagine what it's like not to exist, think nothing at all and I'm interested if there any attempts to bring light onto the after"life"

>>7793525
there's Descartes' theory of Dualism, which he goes over in Meditations on First Philosophy. most of his rationalist stuff has been fairly btfo by critical philosophy but it's obviously an essential text in understanding the development of modern philosophy

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I reading Ulysses and I'm enjoying the beautiful imagery/prose and the dialog, especially all the jokes between characters.

I'm like 150 pages in and I'm not catching any references. If I stretch my imagination I can make some parallels to other stories, but I feel like someone seeing faces in fallen leaves.

Am I a super pleb? Should I just keep going even if I'm not "getting" it?

>>7793243
Wow, that's the book that redpilled me to the truth when I was 16.

Thanks for posting this on /lit/. More people need to know

I've wanted to read this for a laugh, but I'm not even kidding, I really am paranoid of buying a copy. I've no doubt buying one online would place me immediately on some kind of racist watch list.

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>>7793264
More likely, you didn't buy it because you are afraid to face the truth within it.

You subconsciously know that reading it will bring you to the the true racial understanding of history and society and impel you to political action.

So you made up this pitiful excuse so that you may continue your meaningless naïve existence undisturbed.

>>7792918
>e-readers

/lit/ doesn't have a preferred e-reader, so long as it has light.

I personally recommend the Kindle Paperwhite. I have the previous gen one and it has paid itself and more.

>>7792953
seconding the PW
still using the PW 1. shame about the buggy software though

yes

yes

>>7792821
It does make sense. It's quite simple, actually

Back to /r9k/. I think anime and 'vidya' is more your speed, la.

>>7792821
Isn't it just saying how humans need to relate things to thought (therefore put things on a human level) to understand them? Also that humans crave the absolute but it isn't always achievable.

I haven't read The Myth of Sisyphus nor am I well versed in Existentialism so correct me if Im wrong (I probably am)

Feeling guilty for what you haven't done and having an abiding sense of fear instilled for no real reason.

>smearing someone anonymously on the internet by attributing barely-intelligible quotes under their name

ishygddt

>>7792337
Hi Slavoj.

>>7792319
No, but it's a term that does not deserve a Wikipedia page of it's own

Almost the opposite, sir. In Japan, and especially in the Japanese animes, kawaii is a "magic term" that encompasses everything acceptable and desirable. It is an ideal, THE ideal, a hyperscopic examination of the contemporary Japanese's deepest and dearest values. It could be compared to the Platonic ideal of the Beautiful. If you were to ask the average Japanese person what occurred to them upon hearing the word "kanzen" (perfect), most would likely envision a smiling Reimu Hakurei or Rei Ayanami. This is true even for intellectuals.

>>7792348
>sir
Please be bait.

>>7792115
Infinite Jest

Unendlicher Spaß

the Holy Bible

>>7792112
Overpriced books. Just go to a used book shop and get the same thing for half the price. Or even better, go to a thrift shop and get it for a dollar. Even Amazon and Abe Books are cheaper than big book stores.

>>7792119
agreed anon

>>7792119
new book smell is GOAT though

It was a beatiful trip

>>7792109
stale

Short enough that you should be able to read it for yourself without needing someone to tell you about "how it is" first.

Yeah, all you need to do is replace the ribbon when it gets dry. The only problem is finding a ribbon that will fit your model, which if you have an early '40s Remington like myself isn't that easy.

>>7792101
just go and get one already, you cool dog.

>>7792101
I had one, yes they're pretty simple to refill, cheap reliable writing tools desu

pale fire

defense
invitation to a beheading
the gift
speak memory
pale fire
ada or ardor
pnin

so many things you fuck just go read

>>7792056
how nice

fuck off you disgusting gook.

>>7792007
lit predicted what? suicide? drug overdose?

or that the alt-lit movement is really a weak response to modernity?

>>7792020
There was a thread last month asking why Megan's book hadn't been published yet despite the date passing. People found that she had stopped posting on twitter, instagram etc despite pretty much spamming stuff on each them prior to falling off the map. I think someone posted a recent image she had taken on her instagram of all the meds she's taking.

i-i mean, i could take you to the library if you want...

>>7791825
The Snow Child
The Art of Fielding
Berlin - The Downfall 1945
Till My Tale is Told
The Wild Blue

>>7791825
weeaboo