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I didn't!

>>7406557
Gately passes out and wakes up on the shore and the tide was way out.

Not really rocket science m8

>>7406566
I bet you also think Gately has never met Hal

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>>7406546
Technically a socialist, but still.

Holy shit, that is a punchable face.

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How could there be any argument?

>>7406522
not this thread again

Iain Banks

>>7406465
tweets are pretty cool imho

>>7406465
greentext

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4chan posts

I'd look but I've already ordered loads of /lit/ and have unread stuff on my shelf.

Got Plutarch's Lives (Complete), Polybius' Histories, and Kagan's Pellopenesian War for 20 Queen moneys on black Friday tho.

>>7406283
I'll also post charts
>>7406288
Bretty gud deal.
So far I'm mostly hoping for some deals on some films I enjoy, because my parents hinted they were getting me a Blu-Ray player for Christmas. Criterion sales don't seem to be that much, and the 50th anniversary collection is tos expensive for me to justify. T_T

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>>7406312
And I forgot chart post.

>>7406154
>addiction doesn't really exist
But that's factually and scientifically wrong.

>>7406159
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/science/the-rational-choices-of-crack-addicts.html
from my experience also this is pretty much true

>>7406159
I think the point that he makes (or maybe I'm confusing my friend's arguments for his) is that you always have access to willpower, there is never anything "physically" stopping you from doing drugs. I have a feeling that his idea of the unstoppable will is connected to his belief in god, where an ultimate power of will would make sense if a soul existed.

White CIS male who doesn't have twitter. Like, eww. Seriously.

I think it's just boredom.

Bored people pick the stupidest fights/crusades about the most asinine things. When there's not much going on in your own little sphere, "minor transgressions" are big deals.

he's white
he's male
he's straight
he's not a feminist lapdog
thus he's the debbil

Martin Amis is a wanker and his books suck

>>7405944
ok then.
/thread

>>7405917
why would I read modarn books? the world is ending, u should tear at your pleasures with rough strife

>>7405913
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You are in need

>>7405919
i don't get it

>>7405924
Justification is an idea that you feel the need to fulfill for its own sake

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The fuck? I have that same pic saved with that same filename, which is a reference to EU4. Are you me?

If my novel ever gets finished, I promise to make the introduction a totally inane introduction to color theory as used in the book.

>>7407090
Don't be a dingus, I just saved this pic somewhere and it already had that name

cool if they are languages i speak

pretentious and/or passe otherwise

>>7405830
it's fine as long it's just basic stuff, don't have it be shit that someone has to reach for the dictionary for

It'd be nice if they footnoted translation on the bottom, kind of like the French in Tolstoy translations

I can give you some books that show you that that's not how the world works and that If there was a successful book for that you would know about it already. And if you read a psychology book you will realize you're the manipulated one here.

Become a better person who is comfortable with not being in control and, whamo, you're suddenly not a fucklord who thinks psychological manipulation is a thing and suddenly has the whole world in front of him to enact his will on through legitimate routes.

Go read everything that isn't what you're looking for and you'll realize the subterranean neurosis of common life already holds everybody in its grip in some way, and all you can do is try to become a better interpreter of whats IS deep down inside people by being a better person and understanding yourself. There's no mastercode to the human mind, because why would we make books about all the lovely and crazy people out there and the many multifaceted meanings of situations?

At the base level all I'm trying to get across is that if you think this is actually a thing then it will be painfully obvious to everybody that you, in some way, are disingenuous and trying to manipulate them. People are perceptive, and not the masse of sheep you probably think they are.

Treat people like humans, anon, and all of this will probably be better than ever reading some bullshit PUA oriented book on "how to manipulate friends and become a self serving black hole who actually has no friends because everybody knows what he's trying to do."

Also, I might just also be writing what I would like to write to a guy in the Philosophy Club I am president of that thinks he subtly manipulates everybody. But everybody knows he thinks that and are very uncomfortable around him because he wears baggy jeans and weird denim vests with messenger caps and says he likes his hood because it makes him look like he's from Assassain's Creed: the best game he's played.

Probably just like you.
Don't be a fucking autist OP

>>7405853
/thread

Prometheus Rising

>>7405787
I should probably clarify: I want to read more novels/books made up of several long-form pieces which, while relating to and complementing each other, can be considered individual, accomplished and (to a certain extent) self-sufficient works. I'm thinking ideally of a work made up of a group of novellas, as opposed to a novel broken into several parts or chapters, which seems more conventional.

Instead of answering your question I'll ask another. I didn't see the connection between the fragments of Moses. Care to explain?

>>7405793
The things they carried by Tim O'Brien.
Sketches of a Sportsman by Turgeniev. (This was one of Hemingway's favorite books, pretty cool stuff. The book show the life of russian peasantry in the 19th century, and it was banned in Russia because it was seen as promoting social revolution.)

I don't think there is any reason to read it in german instead of english unless german is the language you are more fluent in. Just make sure you get a decent translation.

t.have read the text in both english and german

Also, it's shit.

>>7405786
I hate this use of the word "ride" so much.

>>7405791
You probably dislike slang English too.

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IT'S FUCKING SHIT

>>7405761

stop, please, stop.

>>7405761
Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz, nice job on that planet yesterday