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Take notes while reading or at least be thinking while reading. At the very least underline/highlight interesting stuff or things that you think might lead somewhere.

Read things as many times as possible.

>>7699496
>don't be a pleb
>don't be a pleb
>never had this problem as i'm not a pleb

>>7699647

you are what anons refer to when they talk about cancerous shitposting newfags causing the decline of this board. Being a condescending asshole who contributes nothing (likely due to incompetence or inability to do so) is the mark of a true pleb.

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>>7699496
To OP: Here are things that I think might help you:

Read a bit carefully/closely. don't skim over text. take notes or pause and think about what you've read if the material is dense.
In general, focus a bit more and read with more attention.

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>>7699480
he's great and i really like he's writing.

>>7699480
>*******

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>>7699480
he's okay. early stories are high school tier fanfic crap, others are good for pulp they are. I like his excessively florid and overwritten over-the-top descriptions, but some find them cringe

>moss and mould of abandonment
>mountainward bolts
>daemonic crescendoes of ululation
>down unlit and illimitable corridors of eldritch phantasy

That sounds fun but why not just read the Bible. It's a fascinating genre in itself

>>7699505

I know, once I did , but I was bored .
Maybe I'm stupid....

Wordpad

It really dosent matter unless you're looking for something to help with organizing notes and chapters

>>7699428
Organizing notes most likely. What's a good way to maintain a database of texts?

>>7699429
You cant go wrong with Scrivener. There are similar programs but none I can immediately recall.

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>>7699351
/thread

>>7699371
Can't end the thread with your own post.

>>7699351
Does Pessoa's poetry survive translation?

>>7699337
I don't know about refutations, but read up on Russian nihilism, it gives you a good idea of how materialism impacted political thought, if you're interested in it

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>>7699337
Borgesian immaterialism, a la Tlön, of course.

>>7699337
You and your picture are creating a false dichotomy between materialism and dualism, while it should be a dichotomy between monism and dualism. Idealism is also a monism, for example, and just like materialism it can't be refuted because it's unfalsifiable.

I personally think "dude everything is matter" and "dude everything is ideas" are rather inconsequential. The "nature of everything" isn't descriptively useful since there is nothing to contrast it with. When you say "everything is blue", "blue" loses meaning because there is no differentiating between blue and not blue any more since blue encompasses everything, for example. Language only serves a functional purpose when it discriminates.

It's hard to get off the internet once you're on it, but it's easier to resist getting on it until you got your shit done.

I generally spend my mornings doing 'useful' stuff and my afternoon doing frivolous stuff. So I get up early, shower, make breakfast, walk 10km, read some philosophy or other non-fiction, maybe meditate and do chores until lunch. After lunch I'm 'free' and just fuck around and do as I please, shitpost, maybe take a nap and such but I generally don't turn my computer on until that point.

Today I did turn it on to listen to some music while cleaning and here I am on 4chan when I should be out looking at birds and stuff, so I fucked up.

someone post the avid reader.txt pls

then stop reading.

>>7699316
yee

>>7699316
Absolutely. Very funny, but also cynical and intelligent.

>>7699316
>work worth
Damn man don't do that

>>7699281
There is no war against the sexes. There are only your own accomplishments and failures.

>>7699285
Clearly you're a failure.

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Gender is performative

>>7699271
Mainstream media :^)

>>7699271
>is pic related any good?
Yes.

NYTimes.

It's great desu.

>>7699265
Don't read that translation desu.

Fascinating for me, but I study Japanese and have interest in Old Japanese.

Book of the New Sun is THE book on that

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>>7699154
Thank you anon, here's a ukranian girl

>>7699151
the brothers karamazov

Sure. I'll do all the work and you'll put your name on it.

reddit please leave

>>7699122
Why would you want to do collaborative writing (of all things) with a rando on the internet??

Depends

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>>7699079
>falling for the reading speed meme
You may be a little stupid anyway, though, OP.

I read slowly because I'm dreamy and when I read I get all sorts of ideas for my novel. This is why I like reading so much, because you don't have to pay absolute attention, you can drift away if you want and then come back to the same thing.

>>7699076
Bump for self interest

Stop being an autistic faggot who sits in front of the computer or his smartphone all day.

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>>7699405