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le nope

I grew up playing videogames, so I was actually really surprised when this whole story is told in journal entries and audio-logs, which is the lazy videogame story telling method.

So? Why don't you read it and find out?

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>>7516049
nm you have to pay for it apparently and that's bullshit

Somewhat related:

Is Infinite Jest easy compared to Ulysses or Gravity's Rainbow?

>>7516007
yes
very much

>>7516007
Yeah, IJ was a breeze compared to either of those. The first 200 pages or so might take you a little longer, but it's a pretty fun, fast-paced read overall.

>>7515987
Your passion about reading sheet music is highly contagious. It makes me a bit jelous for not being able to see it the way you do

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This is a PoMo board, motherfucker!

The bass reminds me, not of a heart, but of something else throbbing, behind me

>>7515971
For Kierkegaard, Plato and Ockham will be helpful.

Read Plato. Almost all of him, in fact. Read him, then Aristotle's Metaphysics, then Anselms Proslogion plus the sections in Aquinas' Summa Theologica on time, nature, and mans essence in general.

Then read Descartes Meditiations, Leibniz's Monadology, Hume's Treatise (just the first book will do), Kant's CPR, and then Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.

Then, while you read Kierkegaard, be sure to always read the Uplifting Discourse meant to be paired with with whatever work you're reading.

He intended these discourses to be part of an ongoing dialectic between him and his pseudonymous personae. Speaking of dialectic, if you read NOTHING else of the above, read Plato.

Kierkegaard - Muh Faith helps with my confidence problems.
Sartre - Existence precedes Essence, that is, we can alter ourselves to great extents.
Camus - Artists are allowed to engage the despair and even encourage it if done positively, for the pursuit of audience pussy.
Nietzsche - Sure embrace the fact of nihilism, but don't be a slave to it, the glory of being a great man is all there is, promote every man becoming great and you are alright by me.

They reference nothing other than the decline of christian morality. You really want to understand existentialism just become homeless and become hated by everyone.

>>7515950
He means people who think in a very deliberate, careful, or extensive manner.

e.g., Socrates or Plato could be considered "deep thinkers" due to the extensive critical thought and analysis of their own ideas and sounding them out through extended dialog.

>"Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood."
Not sure, but if I had to guess I'd say it has to do with the conclusions of that sort of thought aren't always palatable to others.

The second one seems pretty obvious on its own. I'm not sure how it ties together with the first one though, sorry. Maybe someone else will.

All his quotes "go with" other quotes of his. That way you have to read him more.

Your first goes with "That which is explained ceases to concern us" which is really a condensing of what Schope says in more words somewhere.

The second one goes with his stuff about women, "Women are not deep, they are not even shallow." He is just referring to the psychological depth of knowledge/anguish/self-awareness and nuance of behaviour/will more prevalent in men and great men. He also goes on to say that he himself doesn't really wish to be understood presumably because of the quote I wrote above, i.e. he wants to be read.

an idea should be easy to absorb but difficult to assimilate. so if the writer cant come up with something original, he will choose obfuscation.

>>7515919
Another bump

>>7515919
Where's Pushkin? He influenced all of those writers.

Russian literature as well as Russia itself are truly disgusting!

>>7515762
My diary desu

Good question

Or really anything with a female villain protagonist.

Ok.

There you go.

Am I authentic yet?

it's another Mira thread
in 20-15

eating pizza in bed
wishing
I
was
dead

should i shave my legs today or wear long socks?
i want somebody to hate fuck me and call me
their
little
taco slut

>>7515659
is tao becoming too good to remain a meme or something?

happiness is for normies

>>7515603
Only modes of thinking that can give you real happiness are strict practice of a real religion, esoteric practice of a real religion, and pure egoism. Christianity is a bastardized, diluted religion so Kierkegaard never had a chance.

>>7515625
>Christianity is a bastardized, diluted religion

Aloha snackbar, my Muslim friend.

Sure, dude. Whaddyou got so far?

>>7515660
A three sentence manifesto about the futility of reality television.

>>7515665
And you want to construct a universe around that?

>>7515409
would be less convoluted to just say 'you make me happy'

ok

>>7515409
when you see it...

yuh-huh-i do

do you like othello

>not even the best Murakami

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Start with the Greeks

>>7514997
I already have.

I did
thebean plays
apology
illiad

it this dumb?

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>>7514889
>When I arrived at the house, he didn't even say hello to me.
that'll be 5 btc thank you in advance

No, it should be "What I arrived at the house he didn't even say hello to me." Since house is an object, you use "what" instead of when. If you had used a time like this, "When I arrived at 10:30," then it would be appropriate, but with your sentence you must use "what."

>>7514915
I know I shouldn't take the bait, but....

His sentence is fine. 'When' is an adverb adjunted to the clause 'I arrived at the house'. It's NOT modifying 'house'.