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Is Nietzsche actually the worst philosopher? He's an epiphenomenalist spastic who couldn't make a single clear argument. He jumps to ridiculous conclusions, such as his stance that there is no "self", that there's a cosmic "world will", etc. without providing any substantial reason to believe anything that he says. He's all about making statements, most of them contrary to common sense or any serious philosophy, and never makes an argument. He fails to keep the reader's attention and serves only as an example of a bad philosopher. Is anyone actually worse than him?

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So are metamodernism, post-postmodernism et al basically just "movements" founded by people desperate to be considered important but without any creativity, hence their extreme sense of self-importance despite relying on trite and anachronistic ideas and lacking anything interesting to say?

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>Thinking about some matter
>Getting to the point
>shitthisiscoolmane.gif
>realizing pic related bastard has already written about it

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This year I read 3 Palahniuk books out of curiosity, cos theyr small
What r your opinions about his books?
They where fight club, invisible monsters n rant

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What does /lit/ think of these two?

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Can we get a "Lovecraftian" thread going?

The H.P. Lovecraft Archive:
http://www.hplovecraft.com/
Biography:
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft
Bibliography:
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft_bibliography
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Howard_Phillips_Lovecraft
Documentary:
https://youtu.be/17tj18qpJf0
Public Domain Audiobooks:
http://librivox.org/author/424

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''In 500 years, they’re going to talk about rap the same way they talk about Shakespeare.''

Well, are they right /lit/?

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ITT: Secondary characters that should have been written more about.

>Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky from Demons by Dosto

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Hey, what do you guys think of this basic idea I have for a novel?

> 18 year old guy molests his younger half sister
> gets kicked out after she tells CYFD and couch surfs for a while
> tries to hold an apartment while working at Wal-Mart for a while (his mom helps him a bit)
> starts to date date girl with BPD
> loses his apartment and moves in with his friend's family
> his mom ends up letting him and BPD girl live there illegally
> dude encourages BPD girl to go off her meds so she can do acid and other drugs with him
> has fight with BPD girl one night which results in them quitting their jobs
> girl becomes a prostitute to support them
> guy continues to molest his sister while BPD girl is out doing sessions
> they do a lot of heroin together throughout all this
> they get their own apartment after his mom gets everyone kicked out because she won't pay all the rent
> both of them get really strung out on heroin and a little meth
> BPD girl has nervous breakdown and has to stop prostituting because she gets busted
> they temporarily move in with his grandparents until they get fed up with the couple's erratic behavior
> BPD girl ends up in hospital and her family takes her back
> dude becomes homeless and turns to intravenous drugs instead of smoking them
> dude sleeps with random girls he meets at punk shows
> dude catches AIDS

then the rest of the story is him dying of AIDS as he reflects on his life and continues to lose his already feeble mind

(I might cut out the Wal-Mart part of the plot and just skip to him being homeless...idk yet.)

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Halp /lit/.

>I studied last year, bachelor of arts, fuck that shit. Waste of money. I learn more reading alone.

>This year spent time overseas and working etc, hoping to go back to uni next year for something more employable.

>Can't think of anything to study. It all sucks. Considered secondary arts teaching, but have to move ages away to expensive place.

>Hoping to just move to a nearby city which is affordable, but what can I do in my spare time to pursue something akin to a career.

>Want that /lit/ lifestyle though. I want to be able to read a lot still, and write in my spare time. I want to be a writer. Yeah, probably wont happen but whatever.

>Thinking of learning to code or do a teaching english as first language degree online to teach overseas.

>I need halp, please. Give me options cuz i've fucking fucked right now and I have no idea what to do.

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Can slam poetry be considered a legitimate style of poetry?

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/lit/ what Shakespeare plays are the best? After the semester ends I have a month off, so I'd like to do something productive other than shitpost all day.
I read Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar in high school

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ITT we attempt to kill postmodern irony

post one sincere statement and one ironic statement and other anons will decipher which is which

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What is some essential Cringe Literature?

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What is Adventure Time of literature?