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New Atheists have many Jesus'. They seem to think any Atheist professor or scholar is infallible.

No!!! Euughhuck.

Not the New Jesus.

>>7515023
is that ben stiller

I want threads about literature on /lit/ but we don't always get what we want.

Buy Drink™

rei?

I'd say but I'm with the lads. Just don't trust the penguin edition as it mistranslates and is shit. Try to find a copy of the Oxford First Philosophers or LOEB as they will give sources using proper numbering and use good translations unlike Penguin.


P.S I am slightly drunk so my post may be sloppy in quality.

>>7514930

YOU DID NOT EVEN COMPREHENDED MY QUESTIONS.

DO NOT RESPOND IF YOU CANNOT EVEN COMPREHEND WHAT YOU READ.

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>>7514852
>comfy

More like too close to home.

>>7514874
This is what I was going to say.

Benito Cereno is great too.

Entirely different, but with a similar pacing and length I'd recommend First Love by Beckett.

>Have you read it?

yes.

>What did you gain from it?

disdain for /lit/, stan, anarchists and and a greater appreciation for The German Ideology..

>What did you think the overall message was?
>thinking in middle school terms

underage. MODS

>>7514666
>implying there is anything wrong from getting a central message from a piece of work

>>7514677
MODS

good for that special time in your life when you are impressionable for all your recreational drug use, and you need the writer to be an interesting character before you are able to enjoy the text

his 9/11 piece was good

Turning in his grave for being known as LE DRUGS man

Answers

>>7514505
/lit- literature

>>7514524
To what questions exactly?

Learn meter and poetic forms/structures.

>>7514454
Any good books for that?

Nigga, do you want lyric or epic poetry? All the stuff you posted is epic, not lyric.

http://pastebin.com/cBZknniE

It's an advertisement for a trout stream selling at about six dollars and 50 cent a foot, unless you want a waterfall and then the price may be as high as $19.00 per foot. It's a beautiful stream though.

It's an amazing book is what it is. I

>>7514363
It is an excellent book that bridges the beat generation and hippies. America.

Just write it like you're writing a novel, but make it shorter.

>>7514329
good one kiddo
Writing an actual book is hard as fuck, but if you're smart and have good taste you can write a plot for a decent contemporary novel with little struggle.
Thinking of something small but effective is hard as fuck. It absolutely does not translate novel --> short story

>>7514335
>It absolutely does not translate novel --> short story

Aside from Borgesian philosophical essay-style stories, or po-mo Barthelme experiments, they pretty much are. Have you ever even read short stories before? They're just stories, like novels. You have characters, and you put them through a plot which has events. It's just that you have to be concise about the stories because they gotta be short. Learn how to convey a character's personality in simple gestures and dialogue, and learn how to make small events imply larger emotional implications and themes.

> Heidegger without Locke before him.

>>7514280
Hahahahahahahja
The person who made this is retarded

What the hell mess am I looking at right now?

Yes. It's a habit that causes unnecessary suffering to concious beings.

I think so. Doesn't mean I'm gonna stop though.

No.

Read Kant.
Then read Singer and laugh at him.

if i may speak for /lit/
it's fantastic, very clever

Your post made my eye twitch. I think that answers the question.

the plebbiest trash ever plebbed

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They're cold and there's bird shit on them.

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>reading in public, hoping some girl will confront you and fall in love with you

>tfw i will never lick her feet

>>7514108
If it's not wet it's not shit anymore, just a texture.

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hey nice

>>7514030
I assumed this was a shitpost but whoah

It's a noun. It seems like it could be a verb in this sentence but you'll find there's no other context where that works.
e.g.
>I'm going to speak
>I'm about to speak
>I am speaking
>I will speak
vs
>I'm going to bed
>I'm about to bed
>I am bedding
>I will bed