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>>7619508
It was so bad I stopped after half a chapter. How's this book still in print? It's beyond me.

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>>7619515
It gets a bit slow round the middle of genesis but it wasn't unbearable

I read it in church

>>7619489
Just read it, man. JR is great, you should read that also.

>>7619489
You sound too dull to understand it nor fully appreciate Gaddis' most difficult work.

>>7619493
by it do you mean agape agape or the recognitions? i want to read the recognitions, i just want to have a span of like, three weeks without much to do where i can really delve into it.
>>7619494
why do you say that friend

Plato is the greato.

>>7619459
Funny I seem to recall there being other before him.
And on top of that Descartes was born some where in the last millenium.

>>7619512
>mysticism instead of rigorous method and analysis of previous thinkers

Not even once.

what's wrong with "abstract"

cognitive dissonance, but that's not freud or jung's word

metanoia in jung is a similar idea (though james uses the same term, it doesn't have the same meaning)

freud would probably call it denial and classify it by the reaction to the repression (a reaction formation in your example would mean the persons convince themselves to help the NSA collect information more easily to disprove what they acknowledge subconsciously as a threat)

>>7619369
No, it wasn't cognitive dissonance. It's not that the person holds contradictory views, but that they fail to act in accordance with their knowledge because they lack immediate evidence. This lack of evidence means that the information only exists to the individual as superficial knowledge and not a reality in a concrete sense.

Looks like young adult shit

Thinly disguised satanistic propaganda.

>>7619262
had an actual crush on lyra as a kid

was I the only one?

other than that I think Peter Hitchens hit the nail on the head

Post Office is fucking awful, Bukowksi sucks dick.

>>7619288
Excellent discussion! What didn't you like about it? I felt like it's the sort of story that's often imitated by your psuedo-beatnik creative writing majors. That said, it was definitely enjoyable at times.

>>7619231
He's my favorite author. I especially love Post Office because of the humor & its relentless dedication to detailing the hellish life of the working man. I have a lot of his poetry books too. Hell, Bukowski even inspired me to become a writer.
www.jasonkessler.net

>>7619123
I've read The Golem. It is indeed a bit spoopy/mystical.

>>7619134
thank you mr Golem

>>7619123
The Golem and numerous short stories. He's my go-to mystical-Jewish-strange-person.

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I don't think it's Great American Novel great, but it's definitely one of the better novels of the past five years. In twenty years it'll probably be considered a classic.

>>7619413
who is this gam clam?

>>7619448
No one knows

http://m.imgur.com/a/GI4KS

>what's so great about it?
Who told you it was great? It's relatively good for sci-fi, but that's a bit like being the tallest dwarf in the room. Having said that, the positive features are the setting and the ideas.

>what will he learn in his journey if he's already pretty good?
Sounds like you're reading the book as if it's a vidya game. Paul's story doesn't end by him reaching level 20 and one-shotting a sandworm (although you need to read Dune Messiah to actually see where it goes).

I enjoyed it when I was 14

>>7619076
it's vastly overrated, even if you just look at it in the context of science fiction

my reply

Emily Dickinson, please.
What are you doing in a picture? You are dead, RIP, please.

The Brain within its groove
Runs evenly and true
But let a Splinter swerve
'Twere easier for you

To put a Current back
When Floods have slit the hills
And Scooped a Turnpike for Themselves
And Trodden out the Mills

That's the only poem i've got memories, except for the punctuation and capitalisation.

You may approach an action anticipating a particular reaction, but it may not result in what you were expecting.

>>7618969
You can't choose what to want, but you may do what you want.

Seems perfectly clear to me.

>>7618980
>>7618975
Sounds like its not so clear

Totally false

>>7618797
You have to have experience with mind altering drugs to understand this

"Everything that happens to you happens because you want it to happen to you", father said as he forced his penis into my anus.

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>>7618614
(Cont'd)

“The world has more going on than this. This is a grain of sand under a boulder.”
“You’re lucky. You should feel blessed. Any of the others would be glad to be you. To be reunited with your family, your whole family.”
“How am I to feel joy in the face of such terror and pain? It’s worse to survive it, its as if I shoulder the weight of 25 million… And you speak to me of comfort in the face of such realities.”
“Your family is fine, I’m here. The kids will be there. You’re not the only one who felt the loss. The whole country has”
“The country knows nothing of struggle. It knows only excess, comfort and convenience. It thinks the millions that died a thousand miles away is a struggle for them. They know someone who knew someone. For them that’s hardship. Well things are going to get worse.”
A girl 17 years old wearing a yellow and white dress comes to the table carrying two platters. “Who had the poached eggs ?”
Harold motions to himself
“And you must have had the omelette with bacon and cheddar.”
“Thank you” says Ethan.
“Y’all have a good meal”
“Thanks” Harold mutters as she walks away.
“We’re gonna hit them back, dad.”
“I’m surprised we haven’t already. I expected it to be over within the hour when it happened. The power went out and I heard the sound and I thought it was over. If it doesn’t happen within the next week we might be okay. It might not happen.”
“They deserve what’s coming to them.”
“So do we.”
“Fine. That’s enough talking for now. Just eat your fucking eggs, dad.”
The silence continued long after the eggs were eaten.

Painful

>>7618988
I'm sorry. I hope I can get better.

You must be autistic if that's all you can say about the book.

>>7618299
You must be autistic if you complain that the obvious autism in Book of Disquiet is not the only thing that draws autists to it

Did the discovery of autism reduce many literary characters' problems into a simple neurological thing? Hamlet, Underground Man, and Holden Caufield are all figures literary critics love to analyze and explore their meaning or whatever but all of that becomes pretty pointless when you find out they all just have autism.

Cambridge Companion to Homer

Homer's Trojan Theater: Space, Vision, and Memory in the IIiad

The Wrath of Athena: Gods and Men in The Odyssey

>>7617274
Michael Wood's In Search of the Trojan War has an awesome companion book. Def not as scholarly as >>7617303 but very accessible.

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