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are drugs an important part of being literary? is it worth sacrificing a portion of your intellect for some insight granting experiences?
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>>7743625
Pretty sure doing shrooms a couple of times a year apart isn't going to make you dumber.
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its probably not. I had a friend who lost -50 intellect when he did E
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>>7743639
I've heard of this, but then I also know people who did a fuckton of E and coke in college who are going to good medical and other grad schools.
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What do you guys think of this essay? Is Hillard right about genius being originality and madness being its dark counterpart?
https://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/2097/13324/Rhetoric%20of%20originality%20-%20publisher%27s%20PDF.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
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Is anyone even able to make sense of this shit? Or are you all just a bunch of dilettantes?
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Floral Shoppe is the pinnacle of music. It is a genius deconstruction of all music and a harsh commentary on the superficiality of capitalism. Anyone who disagrees is unintelligent and does not belong on /mu/.
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>>7745018
capitalism is so superficial dude. harsh criticism bra
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>entire point of your career is to reveal the limiting presuppositions of discourse and free the dregs of society from tyrannies of meaning
>conduct all your writings in obtuse jargony idiom only comprehensible by bourgeois scholar-cultists with infinite leisure to learn the proper exegesis and read them
DESERVED HIS AIDS
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>only comprehensible by bourgeois scholar-cultists
pleb detected
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>>7743575
>conduct all your writings in obtuse jargony idiom only comprehensible by bourgeois scholar-cultists with infinite leisure to learn the proper exegesis and read them
its actually pretty straight forward
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Did he regret his perversions in the end?
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Why did he call it 1984 when the Patriot Act didn't get passed before 2001?
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>>7743568
PRISM is scarier.
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>>7743568
>everything is about america
dumb americunts
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>>>/pol/
>>>/r/books
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Which one do you own? What author do you want them to pick up? It will be cool if they pick Gene Wolfe.
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I own some from Nabokov, Faulkner, Whitman, and Thoreau. The Thoreau edition is especially interesting as it contains several of the maps he made
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I've got Whitman, Carver, and Vonnegut.
It'd be nice if they got Gaddis, but I doubt his works will ever be published with different pagination.
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I own 2: Philip K. Dicks 60s novels and Wallace Stevens complete poetry and selected essays.
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>a feminist reworking of Kafka's Metamorphosis...how can you rework The Metamorphosis into any damn thing
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>>7743490
with Gene Wolfe's help, all is possible.
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>>7743491
Why are you doing this
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Why are women so fucking annoying?
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what was this dude's problem?
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It's difficult to live with large ambition but little talent.
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>>7743473
Autism
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>>7743473
He was born in Portugal.
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What will happen when the allfather dies /lit?/
What will /lit/ be like?
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>>7743464
His death will be the final nail in literature's coffin. He's like the last of a dying breed of literary academics who doesn't analyze everything through the lens of feminism or racism or some other -ism.
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>>7743464
Gene Wolfe will ascend and take his place as the world's preeminent scholar of literature and literary criticism.
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>>7743474
It decline of rationality in academics is unnerving, but to say Hardy here is the last of a dying breed is silly. Plus, just because he's in the right group doesn't mean he isn't a moron
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Is Witty's private language argument sound? What's the problem with having a language spoken by only one person?
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who cares lol :-P
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>>7743476
Welcome friend, I hope you enjoy your stay here at /lit/ and I wish you many more (You)s.
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>>7743457
I think it's pretty sound.
Language is a tool primarily to transfer information.
Since a single person would have nobody to transfer to, the language would be very restricted to the point of being completely useless.
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Is there a more masculine writer than James Ellroy? Using the word "nigger" on almost every page has gotta count for something.
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Nice squirrel gun, Pete Campbell.
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Is that him?
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Being so insecure as to posture like that is the antithesis of masculine.
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Should I also read Xenophon's writings about Socrates? How does he differs from Plato?
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>>7743409
don't bother, just read Gene Wolfe.
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>>7743424
who?
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Russian translated into English or French, what would be better/less awkward to read?
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>>7743395
Depends on the book. For Dostoevsky, the idiot is better translated to French and the devils is better in English.
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>>7743414
Ugh....so neither French nor English is closer to Russian in any way?
I thought maybe French grammar would better capture the Russian language.
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>>7743516
They're pretty opposite m8. It feels like every Tolstoy book I read someone mentions the difference between the intimacy of French and the distance of Russian.
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FUCK
I boodle over how to focus, read more, be healthier, be more effective, get more money, fuck hotter chicks, not stay depressed, be calm, cool, mindful,... and in the end I regularly have the realization that I just play into the Capitalistic scheme and to escape the class, work isn't enough, you must know people or do something radical that mostly doesn't work
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what a fantastic movie!
what a fantastic set of digits!
you can't escape what ails you through that very self-same object!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkpRqxKbgF8
I find myself agreeing 100% with 3:30 to 5:40 here, and it means the system doesn't allow my unspooking and winning out - I play into their hands
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>>7743381
zizek is a gift to us all
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who is the black metal of literature?
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Bukowski. Intelligent, nihilistic and with a wicked sense of humor.
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>>7743228
Kafka.
No actually, he's drone. Maybe Burroughs?
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>>7743266
Burroughs is No Wave.
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