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You're gonna need a dueling scar, a horse, and a whooooooole lot of coke.

Let's ride.

>>7690868
Let is fuel you to identify and obtain your objectives.

you're not fucking fly paper

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life is a text nigga

have some more and then we'll go let some wasted broads tear us to pieces

>>7690891
There is no better feeling than being on the verge of drunkenness. Everything just fits together beautifully.
But I need a read that fits this feeling. Any recs?

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

just make it impossible but include a couple things that can be deciphered to make it seem possible

I'd like to know this as well. This seems really interesting

>>7690380
ppl with mommy issues

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>>7690380
>archetype
>demographic

>>7690380
I really don't think that it depends of these factors. You could think one would have best transference with people from his/her own social group, but that's a lot more complicated than that

>>7690364

"Drinking the Kool-aid" is originally a reference to the Jonestown massacre which took place in Guyana about 35 years ago. A group of religious separatists/cultists all drank from a tank of Kool-aid that had been laced with poison, at the behest of the leadership. So the literal and original context is suicide, or being led to suicide.

However, in American usage, "drinking the kool-aid" has also come to mean signing on with what the user wishes to describe as a crazy or unattractive idea: the wrong political party, the wrong cause, etc. We could easily describe pink-haired SJWs has having "drunk the kool-aid" of leftism, as one example. To drink the kool-aid signals both /true belief/ on the drinker's part, but is also to be duped into doing something that will ultimately destroy the person, the state, whatever's important in the discussion. It is this notion of "true believers" which is closest to your rabbit hole thing (if going down the rabbit hole means learning the truth).

However, the rabbit hole thing was also used famously by Morpheus in the original Matrix movie, and so Carroll's phrase also has contemporary associations with "Taking The Red Pill".

Or better yet, let's repair to the original text, which is Alice (Adventures) in Wonderland: the rabbit hole is also a source of multiplying confusion, of going away from the surface world into something strange, a Wonderland. A bit later, Alice (apparently, I have not read the book) says "Curiouser and Curiouser!"

Alice is easy to conflate with Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, as both are girls who find themselves in strange new worlds. Furthermore, during the above matrix scene, a character indicates that "Kansas is goin' bye-bye." Therefore, if one is tumbling into a very confusing situatoin, "I don't think we're in Kansas anymore."

Just OTTOMH, I would also suggest watching Spirited Away, Labyrinth or reading the Narnia books for other examples of girls and young women (and young men) who are fantastically thrust into strange new circumstances.

>>7690364

Or if one finds oneself in a sticky situation, in American business contexts (I've been in board rooms where older men used the phrase frequently) being "in the tall weeds" indicates that you are in a tricky, tedious problem or set of problems, which have to be managed. Or you have to parse through lots of data which is not amenable to a simple discussion, which business-people hate. To be In The Tall Weeds, like the Rabbit Hole, is rooted in nature, but indicates a general confusion, which is the real commonality this time.

i read all of them. its pretty slow, so if youre like me and just wanna know what happens, just scan through boring shit and actually read the good parts.

Who the fuck here would recommend that lad? Stay out of the slum.

i did enjoy the story though

>>7689886
Man is not a machine because machines act on rationality, whereas human beings sometimes act irrationally in order to exercise their ability as free agents to simply do what they are not told to do.

>read Notes From Underground

>>7689886
yes, it is an irrational machine

>>7689892
We might function irrationally but that doesn't mean that our essential processes aren't machine like.

For instance, I can program an irrational robot, but his internal decision making is strictly rational.

.pmuB

It's more absurdist, but I might as well post it. It's a short story about a man that wakes up with a mysterious plastic knob on his head. One of anonymous' best works if you can stand Gregory Berrycone.

The truth is there aren't any. They don't hit the spot because are too weird and difficult to read

dont have such a fat head

>>7689687
>be /fit/
>pushing yourself towards building mass
>try to read in bed
>lack of mobility in chest and shoulders makes for extreme discomfort while reading

I've been reading in my bath and 19th century study chair before bed desu

Rearrange pillows for support. I need at least two, leaning up against the wall.

that cover looks like cancer

>>7689658
Nice for younger teens, I guess. Few nice twists, fast-paced, believable characters.

Horrible, cliché stuff. I could not finish the series.

All of them, but only if it's racist against whites.

>>7689360

>>7689360

This.

op, how high are you right now?

>>7689298

Not high, just sleepy as fuck. Woke up a few minutes ago. I am drinking strong coffee right now.

>>7689269

This is right, actually

Well first of all , we shoul talk about the form.

Use proper Paper, a ink pen (black ink of course) , leave a margin of about 2 cm on each side (left and right) while writing. try to "block" it.

Here is how I write: Bic pen on notebook paper. Preferably crumpled a bit so it looks authentic.

Yo,

AS I PUT MY PEN TO PAPER...

Then just whatever you want, who gives a shit? It's a letter, not a state of the union address. Finish it off by putting it in the envelope, melting some red crayon wax on it, and then sealing it like that. Don't forget to fuck your mailman.

I wrote letters to my friend when they were doing their military service.

My problem is my penmanship is atrocious but I don't ever write except notes to myself so I never cared to correct it.

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>that cover

>>7689017
I've just finished interpretations - no.
As a logical system Aristotle intends the Organon to be complete and self subsistent. He doesn't mention the soul after the part you're referencing.

>>7689017
What translation are you reading, senpaitachilad

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>>7688499
Hola

>>7688928
lol yeah ok

you already made this thread. why don't you just talk about proust instead of pointless shitflinging.