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>>7743219
I don't like most poetry after Eliot.
Of course there is some decent stuff but it's few and far between.

Poetry died after the Surrealists and Futurists dismantled it. Nothing after 1930 is worthwhile.

Considering Wallace Stevens was publishing up until 1950, I'm going to disagree with the posts above.

>>7743215
JUST FOLLOW YOUR HEART!

Fuck you, bro.

You love your motherland for the same reason you love your kin and your community. We don't give a rat's ass about our kin or community these days, so of course caring about one's motherland is going to be more peculiar. And even bigger issue is that rampant globalism destroys cultural distinction, whereas in the past cultural distinction between communities was significant (there were tons variation in regional dialect and accent), and distinction between peoples was enormous in a way we can't really comprehend today, going to another country was almost like going to another planet. So you loved your country because it was instinctual and made sense, not because it was some artificial value. Your country was synonymous with all your values and everything you loved. If you spent years living among Bedouins today, you'd probably get extremely homesick and miss your own people, that might give you an idea.

>>7743133
was tolstoy really a mason?

>>7743790
When Orthodox Christians call someone a "Mason", it doesn't have to be literal. It's like if say Hitler was Satanic.

said the impotent, ressentiment-filled man on an anonymous Cambodian pickle-curing consortium

>>7743111
Yeah, well you're here too you shriveled up cunt, at least I came up with this original thread, which suggests I have more virility than you, who can only bitch at others, likely brought about by your seething resentment that you don't have a penis.

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>>7743100
>To everyone who posted on this thread (including me)

ill bang your cock heh

heh heh

heh

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My comfiest.

"before"
>in b4 it's a time proposition only

>>7743000

It might work, but it can get mixed up if you don't structure it well enough in the sentence.

>>7743000

Doesn't work for what I have in mind.

>"Adjacent units must evacuate immediately. "

>"[Word Im looking for] units must evacuate immediately."

I need something I can use like that

>>7742984
Pirate both.

I have no problems with them but they are HS tier and can be read quickly. My copy of Catch-22 has sat on a shelf unread for more than 10 years. Ive been only buying relatively rare NYRB books that I cant find anywhere.

>>7742996
A physical copy of Stoner then? I like the cover n' shit.

>>7742984
Catch-22 for an enjoyable and often funny read

Stoner for a soul rending shard of the literary divine (I'm biased though, imo it's the perfect novel)

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I'm reading it too. Great book so far. Really touching.

>>7742934

No dude that's way off. Someone clearly exploited the security weaknesses of that Windows XP and/or that Java install and hacked some seriously misleading info into there.

>>7742934
It is. When it comes to influence, no one has escaped Kant in the last two centuries. Connections and names are lacking, but what the image shows is accurate.

>>7742966
underrated post

I never understood leather fetishism and it only seems to attract ugly old white guys.

>>7742885

I dunno it seems weird how it's that big of a thing

being turned on by a type of fabric doesn't really seem like a normal human fetish. but then i guess guys like things like thighhighs and underwear so

>>7742831
people like you turn this board to shit

>>7742830
wot

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>>7742865
Heh. I guess this post might have been a bit too highbrow for 4chan.

>>7742830
>>7742876
>fantasm
>phantasm
>highbrow
Nope son. You're not put in thrall by biological necessities, that concept is a spook. Eating and Sleeping are spooks that you use to accomplish the will of the creative nothing to stay alive. The creative nothing could easily desire to not live and then use the spooks of food and sleep, or the lack thereof to accomplish its interest to die.

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>>7742810
Avoid secondary literature. Start with the Tractatus, then read the Brown and Blue Books, then read Philosophical Investigations.

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>>7742810

>>7743478
Why do you people jerk it over the Tractatus so much when Wittgenstein himself largely discredit the work later on in his life?

Read it again, dumbass. It's not that fucking hard. Now, it's easy to not AGREE with him, but it isn't hard to understand him.

He analyzes what we really mean by "good will."
He talks about what really goes into determining an action.
He points out (and this may be a step you're not willing to grant him, but the reasoning is transparent) that we can't strictly call a good will good if it's at all determined by any Empirical content.
He ends up concluding that the only law a truly good will would follow is the "pure form of a law" itself-- no empirical content.

Go reread it and fill in the gaps.

>>7742763
Which part? We learned that stuff in school. I'm sure only superficially but it wasn't that hard to get.

He was spooked into it.