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Good ones will only influence you to drink more. Shit thread m8.

>>7728179
literally infinite jest

>>7728179
Definitely not that drivel that AA puts out. I read it in a psych ward once and it made me want a drink.

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>>What you are you currently reading?
Dune and Street of Crocodiles
>>What are your favorite books with Gods who fuck shit up for mortals?
I havent read any, what would you recommend?
>>Who is your favorite God?
Pic related, I actually fucking cried at this scene
>>Do you think the Greek Mythos has been written to death? If so, what would be our next Pantheon?
I kinda want to see more Mesopotamian mythology, its really neat.

>>7727735
>>>What you are you currently reading?
Diana Wynne Jones essays. Talking about going to lectures with Tolkien and Lewis. Tolkien was inaudible and faced the chalkboard, like he wanted all his students to go away so he could finish LotR. Lewis filled lecture halls for Medieval Prolegomena. Also tons of cool stuff on why genre lines are stupid.
>>What are your favorite books with Gods who fuck shit up for mortals?
C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces. Only Greek gods I've seen in fiction that have been the slightest bit godly and not just humans with technology. Alternately Till We Have Faces, even though they are just humans with technology.
>>Who is your favorite God?
The One I worship honestly.
>>Do you think the Greek Mythos has been written to death? If so, what would be our next Pantheon?
It's been written so much because it's so deep. If Polynesians had a vast, colorful literary history we might write theirs more too. But if you insist I'd say the various archetypes of Native American gods. I don't know why but Coyote has always been my favorite trickster.

>>7727735
>What you are you currently reading?
The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi.
>What are your favorite books with Gods who fuck shit up for mortals?
Honestly can't think of too many like that I've read. I'll go with Discworld.
>Who is your favorite God?
The Great God Om.
>Do you think the Greek Mythos has been written to death? If so, what would be our next Pantheon?
Yes, let's do Hindus next.

>>7726619
truly a sign of a decadent, dying society
wonder how it'll be when the debt bubble collapses
I predict wild west anarchy, or cruel martial law

What's the scholarship? Never heard of anything that amazing at a Canadian university. OGS and SSHRC put together would still be less than that, and both are yearly applications for MA/PhD only.

nice m8, going for manuscript studies? canada's great for that too

I feel like you are lying and just bought these...

Bros K, M&M, Iliad are essentials

idk what king kull is

everything else is good besides blood meridian.

Everything is great besides Simmons, and King Kull.

>>7726190
because reddit likes him

>>7726190
Because /lit/ only read animal farm and 1984 and decided it was not that great and everyone else creams their pants over those books. Ironically, if /lit/ would only read the rest of his works they would start to like him again.

>>7726213
hahahaha are you actually gonna pretend his other stuff is better than 1984? 1984 was his peak and it was mediocre at best

>>7726128
>What would you say to your younger self if you had the chance?

Echo!

"Do it, faggot!"
- Me

How many times are you going to spam your shitty poetry reading on here, mate? It's not a great idea.

I'm actually jealous.

>tfw I live in ny but never go to nypl
>tfw had to get a Chinese copy of aniara

>>7725552
Who cares?

>>7725552

What am I supposed to be jealous of? Did you mean envious, maybe?

In either case, I'd refuse to read it in English.

DUDE BOOZE LMAO

>>7725223
Kuba Libre.

>>7725230
Hooch was already taken.

>>7723671
depends on what you are into

>>7723671
The War Nerd Podcast

"Waking Up with Sam Harris"

He is the most important philosopher of our time, as evidenced by the thread found elsewhere on lit.

I also quite enjoy Star Talk with Neil DeGrasse Tyson.

The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe is fantastic. I love them all the more since they de-platformed Richard Dawkins. It was very upsetting to me that Dawkins, author of the God Delusion, which was quite formative for me, transformed into an anti-Muslim bigot.

TRUE scientists understand that without the Islamic societies of the Middle Ages, we of Western Europe would be stuck in a Christian dark age.

This should be on /adv/

>What are the job prospects for a major in liberal arts?
There's a pretty broad field to choose from tbqh
Starbucks, McDonald's, Wendy's, Taco Bell, the list goes on
If that's not your thing then you could always work for Wallmart, Target or many other big companies.

Go for it!

Jobs are looking bad whatever the major atm.
You can get a job doing many general things with any degree but it's mostly about presentation if you go the lib route. The degree is just a technical need for many jobs. If you are autistic with a lib degree rip y will die in streets

>>7728837
Not true. I am autistic and I have a degree in humanities and I am fully-employed in a non-fast food establishment.

>>7728412

Almost. The object petitie a (the object of our desire) falls in line with the Symbolic Realm. Desire is structured by language subconsciously, driven by ideological discourse. When people interpret ideologies to be true, then they fall into the Imaginary Realm.

The object petite a is seen as the “Other.” For Lacan, however, signifying “Others” is to be lost in symbolic representations. As he says himself: “The Woman does not exist.” This is not a misogynistic statement, but rather an acknowledgment that gender identity (which differs from what sex we are born as) is completely socially constructed, making it imaginary. Hence, also explaining his statement about the male penis being the square-root of minus one. (Note: the square-root of minus one is an “imaginary” number. Get the pun?)

The Real is that which cannot be discussed. It is the silence of the stars sitting in the depths of space. As Korzybski stated: "The map is not the territory." We can label reality, but the label is not the thing in and of itself. Lacan relates this to a mathematical limit. We can approach zero, getting closer and closer to it, but never actually reaching it outright. Similarly, we can get close to the Real, but never actually attain it through symbolic language. Our language is “incomplete” (in Godel’s sense), making Truth inexpressible and outside of our ability to attain.

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I can't Lacan and haven't Schopenhauer. What exactly is his signifier? Is it the articulated or that which is potentially signified?
> Specifically the second order Real (that which is impossible to signify)
>The supposed set of all signifiers, that which is a paradox.

The Real is the set of all signifiers? Does that mean a signifier lies in the Real and is to be (or not if lvl.2) articulated?

Can you squeeze in archetypes in there?

>>7728485
>Is it the articulated or that which is potentially signified?

Sorry, meant potentially articulated*

Literally: WHO THE FUCK IS THAT?

I identify with his inability to identify.

so does he sneak off to get high because he likes being high or is it like a metaphor for his need to mask his inner turmoil and like symbolic of his coping through numbing

hmmm...

>>7726485

>conquer my social phobia

Cutting off anime might help.

>Conquer social anxiety
>Am exactly the same mute I was before except without the anxiety part

Don't fucking bother, lol.

How to Win Friends and Influence People is a good start.

Memelords may talk shit about the book but pretty much all of it is legit if you read closely, has nothing to do with being a kissup or a pretender. He straight up says people will know if you're just bullshitting to fake interest.

>>7725155
pogrom
bestprinter
etc.
Do you want some other Russian words in English language?

>>7725162
Keep going

Sinister

He's a really deep author, unafraid to explore the dark depths of the unknown, much unlike contemporary authors like Brian Sanderson or Margaret Weiss.

Where is this sea of erection? Nothing but hate for this garbage here.
Also not well loved in sjw territory. Named his cat niggerman.

He is not loved by the 'mainstream' and his terrible prose sure as hell aren't loved in academia.
I think by 'everyone' you mean 'everyone' on certain plebeian sites/boards.