why are people still searching for "the meaning of life" when it got figured out thousands of years ago lol
>>9845450
capitalism stops people from being fruitful since it involves artificial scarcity
the multiplication wouldn't be a problem if not for that
>>9845459
The third world doesn't seem to have a problem multiplying despite extreme scarcity
>>9847022
it makes sense to do that when "fritfully multipying" is about the only thing you can do.
The first world creates fake bureaucratic walls that prevent people from degenerating into beasts
>bible study coming up in two days
>have to read two chapters
>too scared to speak and look like a brainlet and or a heretic in front of the english teacher who runs it and my priest
how do I stop feeling so nervous about reading my notes from the reading lit
>>9845246
Stop caring about what others think of you. Everyone is there for the exact same thing as you, so they're not going to look down on you for sharing your thoughts like a normal human.
>>9845246
its bible study, you have to be a brainlet, you'll be ok
>>9845288
Watch out, your fedora is slipping.
Fuuuuuuuuck. This was such a repetitive slog. We get it. Frankenstein feels guilty and the Swiss alps are pretty to look at. Enough!
I've since started Dracula and it's 10 times better already.
>>9845161
Simply what do you expect from a women writer? They are so bad at writing compared to the white man
>>9845165
I expect them to be able to tell singular from plural
>>9845161
If you're not a fan of repetition you're going to hate Dracula
god almighty this is shit
>>9845153
only really liberals like him, whereas real conservative men prefer dante and hitler
>>9845159
Explain. Someone on the Right Wing Death Squat recommended it to me, I haven't read it.
>>9845153
That's because you're not reading it for what it is, and instead rate it besides other books which are better. It's a nifty little book and the most succinct summary of postmodern themes I've ever come across (even if it's shallow as a result), besides maybe CoL49
Going to the library to lend a book by Vladimir Nabokov tomorrow. I have read Lolita and The Enchanter so far. What book should I read next?
>>9845151
Other Men's Daughters by Richard Stern.
Or, if you want more Nabokov, the Collected Stories.
>>9845175
I think his stories are really hit or miss. Ten of those stories in that big collection are must-reads. Others are good. A lot of them are bad.
Op, grab Pnin. Or if you want to complete the his pedo trilogy, read Laughter in the Dark. It's pretty good for a translation. After one or two more f his books, read Pale Fire. I think it helps to have a grasp of his style before read it, not that it's a difficult book.
>>9845151
Read The Real Life of Sebastian Knight. It's one of his best books (his first in English) short, and for some reason rarely mentioned here.
i dont "get" poetry
ok, i get homer and milton and dante and shakespeare
but most "poetry" seems to me like mostly gibberish with a few pretty phrases that evoke things. i guess there are themes in word choice but overall it seems like gibberish to me. song lyrics too, anywhere outside of the mainstream the lyrics seem like they just wrote whatever came to them. is that poetry? how can anyone have the same experience of a poetry, seems like pure chance. we widely accept that poetry has no fixed meaning but what part is fixed? i think i'm too autismal.
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>>9845118
are you a women?
Most poetry loses substance when translated.
For example, there's like none of the Persian poets who can be understood in any language but Persian.
Really enjoyed reading some of William Vollman's novels about "ladies of the night (Whoes for gloria, Royal family and butterfly stories).
What other decent literature is their about prostitutes?
>>9845108
Your Mom's Diary desu
>>9845108
it's against white culture, women should take care of children instead of destroying virtue through degeneracy
>>9845111
they provide a valid service and have saved many marriages and families
What are some mystery novels that follow a non-linear structure, something like pic related
>>9845097
Infinite Jest
>>9845989
this, surprisingly -- the mystery is the location of the Entertainment
>>9846003
leaves you about as perplexed as pic related too
Does reading literature make you more knowledgeable about the world?
>>9845058
Literary knowledge is knowledge about the world, so yes, obviously.
>>9845058
Yes.
Also
>supposed hypersuccesful millionaire
>wears god awful shoes
>>9845058
Holy shit the yeezys and supreme hoodie. This guy is an overgrown teenager.
What are good books to read for a new reader?
Books I've read so far:
-The Alchemist
-Catcher in the Rye
-The Stranger
>>9844937
Try more right-wing stuff, bro
>>9844937
Go back to r/books.
>>9844939
What is ring-wing?
you are the most interesting philosopher alive
thanks for all the fish
he's as smart and fascinating as he is incoherent and irrelevant
>>9844943
I honestly don't know what you meant by this.
I read Infinite Jest without caring about the endnotes
Did I do well?
Pretentious shitty book.
is this the most insecure board?
I literally just did the same thing. I normally would have read the footnotes, but it was an ebook without any hyperlinks and I was too lazy to manually jump back and forth.
I still enjoyed the novel, long and rambling and incoherent as it was. I just wish it had a more satisfying conclusion.
I want to write the most disgusting, transgressive and most fucked up novel to ever have come into existence. I want it to be so abhorrent and repulsive that even well known works of the genre, like History of the Eye and De Sade's Juliette utterly pale in comparison.
But I need your help. Tell me the most unforgivable and deplorable thing a human being can commit.
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>>9844839
Write it about that one Japanese girl who got kidnapped and tortured for a couple months. There's a website that details everything they did to her. I have a relatively high tolerance for that sort of thing but I didn't even make it through the first paragraph.
insert random quotes from /trash/
>>9844839
Just start another /lit/ google docs project and put your name on it.
Yesterday I was had a thread that was pruned and it featured the beginning of a discussion on Butlers example of criticism. I will continue in this thread *****
>>9844805
You will not post her trash. This place is for rationality and logic, not emotionally charged arguments stemming from a sense of inferiority. She is a subverter of whiteness, a subverter of hiarachy, and a subverter of traditional gender roles.
GET THIS WHORE OUT OF HERE
>>9844805
I don't know much about Butler or her ideas. I've seen her in a documentary though.
>>9844805
I wanna get gender trouble, I looked for it once but I fear I'm toooooooooo psued to dare look upon its pages.
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>He pulled himself erect
Why does he have to make even standing up sexual?