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>>7563813
You're a fucking idiot.

Kill yourself

I was considering picking up this book, how is it?

Stephen Dedalus

>>7563815
pls stop bullying

>>7563710
Sure, I do not understand why we must rate him. He is an accomplished and good writer. I had read his works in order as intended (Ham on Rye > Post Office > Women) and they were all entertaining (barring Women which got tedious reading about how he fucks a different woman every 5 pages) but I would not consider him a literary genius-- just someone who knew how to write well and originally.

>>7563721
Women is the only only novel of his that I have not read. I ask because I was basically in love with him from 15-18, but I recently re-read post office and it didn't capture my attention like it has before. Sometimes it seems like he's being vulgar just for vulgarity's sake.

>>7563710
His poetry is wonderful, it's almost not worth discussing as you'd be just: wrong, if you have a differing opinion.

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>reads Zizek once

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>reads Hegel once

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>reads Ligotti once

A load of bull.

Explain further.

>>7563503
What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.' - The Gay Science

manhattan transfer by dos passos

only partially about lawyers

>>7563404
never read him, will try it out

To Kill A Mockingbird

main character dies halfway in

sry

>>7563375

ok thx im leaving this place

reddit is def better

cya

>>7563375
nice
>>7563411
another one bites the dust, 999,999 to go

Ursula le Guin wrote some utopian feminist scifi series about everyone being a fucking pussy or something

Hainish Cycle

Be prepared to grow tits after you read it, to which Mme. Ursula would have diddled her hyena clit furiously

>>7563069
This will be my first time fapping to a picture of a statue. Wish me luck, anons.

>>7563069
The feminists couldn't write that because their goals are contradictory and wouldn't produce a utopia.

For an actual utopia where men and women are equals, Island. If you like meme books more, then Brave New World.

Benzo + beta blocker + amphetamine

>>7563039
Idk, i like drugs more in way of disociants, or something like that, feeling good relaxed and exploring mind at night. Idea of stimulants seems annoying for me

Clockwork Orange, Stoner, Siddartha, The Fall, Flowers for Algernon

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>>7562934
L oving
E very
L augh

>>7563018
I've recently got back into reading and I've just finished Grapes. Any Authors similar to Steinbeck?

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>he think ada or the rebel are good

ada is cringecity: population tryhards

pale fire and lolita are great but that's about it for ''great" in nabby's oeuvre.

the rebel is straight up trash.

>He's only read The Inferno out of The Divine Comedy

people do this??

>>7562695
can you explain what makes them bad or cringey

> story's character development or themes

Any articles/essays/books/tips on how to develop understanding and appreciation for these things? Or is it just something you pick up the more you read?

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I'm just warming up OP

>>7562683
I haven't read the magic mountain, would you recommend it? If you haven't read Marcovaldo I would suggest giving it a read.

>>7562689

Magic Mountain is about 800 pages of pure comfy. Yes I've read Marcovaldo btw :)

>>7562588
Use paper.

>>7562588
where do you live

come round for pancakes

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>>7562609
W-what's going on?

Are you 4chan

Sobriety

Ritalin

>>7562552
If I drink a glass of wine while reading I just fall asleep. I cant imagine what weed would do.

It's your time in >>>/his/

>>7562538
Hegel writes in the Philosophy of Nature §202b that

The truly philosophical science of mathematics as theory of magnitude would be the science of measures, but this already presupposes the real particularity of things, which is only at hand in concrete nature.

Generally, Physics is a chapter of Nature (namely the second, while the first one is "Mechanics" about space, time and matter (and their unity...) which of course we would subsume with physics), and nature is the externalization of the Idea (here), and the Idea is that which is objective and true in the Notion (here) and the subjective part of the Notion is deductive logical thinking, where one would locate also the activity of mathematics.

Translated suitably, this should resonate well with common modern undertanding: fundamental modern physics is itself a mathematical theory (for amplification see the first few slides here), hence physics is in a sense that which is "objective" in mathematics, in that it is the part of mathematics that connects to, let me say, the real world.

So if we say that the concept of mathematics is magnitude, or measure, then there is an "objective" aspect of that, which is that which gives reality, that is nature, in particular physics.

In case you care, I am preparing notes with more details here, for a workshop next week.

http://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/22719/what-is-physics-as-a-hegelian-concept/22745#22745

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anyone else notice how the zeitgeist of the 2000s is becoming increasingly different from the one of today?

and many of them are smarter than you are too.

>>7562455
>implying I don't have an IQ of +165

>>7562455
They are dumb, family. Their medium is a passive experience.