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Poetry/lyric metaphors that you never understood. OP starts.
Who the joker and the thief were supposed to be?
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Dylan the joker
His manager is the thief
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I don't know
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The joker is the loser who is beaten down by life. The guy just getting by. The thief is a hustler who has enough energy to cheat other people but not enough to make it.
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Hey, /lit/. I am reading 'Blindness' by Saramago and I'd like to ask some questions. Some spoilers ahead.
I am in the middle of the book when the ruling men decided they want women, and the last thing I read was the scene between them and the women from the first room (including the doctor's wife).
Now, I enjoy Saramago's writing style. I think it give a good flow to the story. I also think he has good ideas and meaningful content to show. I'm not sure whether it is better to show why we have to be human and free (from unjust rulers and systems) by showing heroic people or showing the misery of corrupt system. I wanted to know what you think about it.
Also, the whole scene was really fucking disgusting. The two scenes I can compare it to are the beginning of Foucault's 'Discipline and Punish' and the mass execution of the rich in Hemingway's 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'. I love Hemingway and I see the merit of the scene, however shocking it is. Foucault had to make his point and I understand why he did it. But here... It makes me irrationally angry. Do you think it is necessary? It's really fucking appalling. I'm close to quitting the book.
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Has nobody read the book :/
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I've read the book, then watched the movie. For some reason that part is even more disgusting in the movie. It's weird because the other books I read by him didn't have such an 'extreme' scene.
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>>9842965
I would assume he wanted to show to what blind obedience leads. Glad that you agree. I'm just not sure whether it was necessary. Perhaps some people would be more affected in this way than showing some act of rebellion and portraying the rebels as heroes or something.
I couldn't sleep afterwards, to be honest. What are you supposed to do in this case (theirs, not mine).
>start reading Crime and Punishment
>tfw I am a broke antisocial college dropout with the same exact family situation of Raskól'nikòv
>my landlord is a old, somewhat wealthy lady who has pestered me for my rent for months now
>tfw it's getting a bit too real
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Consider yourself blessed OP. Warned by providence.
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wait til you get to the end, then hope the person writing your life story isn't a fucking hack
>le "he will just have to try to be a better person with the help of le GOD and this used up crusty whore he met along they way"
Dosto a shit
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>read Bartleby the Scrivener
>boss asks why I haven't submitted a report
>tell him I prefer not to
I'm sure this will end well.
Isn't it sad how a smart yet unremarkable guy like Peterson can come along and BTFO both the radical left and radical right? It stands to demonstrate how immature both movements are, if just a little bit of maturity can knock the wind out of both of them so easily.
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Peterson is the radical right's daddy figure, he's their god you mongoloid
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*brain swells to infinity as you ascend to centrist valhalla*
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>>9841552
You don't know a single thing about the world from your insulated bubble. If you take even a brief moment to check /pol/, you'd realize that the radical right hates him for not naming (((them))). You're stuck too far up your communist asshole to realize this, unfortunately.
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Have I been meme'd? This guy writes dogshit dialogue and is worse at dialects than HOL UP posters. Ellis is trash but at least I can see why he despised DFW now.
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>>9841515
His essays and later works are ok/good, but IJ and pre-IJ stuff is not great.
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>>9841515
We're over this libcuck now. It's all about Peterson, Land, and Hitler these days
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>>9841515
SOunds like you don't now you're in the water follow me *jumps across the reddit spacing*
welcome to the water XD
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What does /lit/ think of Kantbot and his body of work?
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>What does /lit/ think of Kantbot and his body
He's fucking fat
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A nonentity. Means absolutely nothing to me
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He will always be in my heart.
This is the greatest work of philosophy mankind has produced
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what's the gist of daoism? what are its theoretical and practical implications?
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Asian philosophy is far below its western counterpart.
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I might be biased since I'm chinese but zhuangzi is my favourite of all eastern religious texts since it just seems so mystically profound compared to the rest.
What's your favourite translation?
I've only read two editions of it but hochsmann and guorong is mine.
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>Brékkek Kékkek Kékkek Kékkek! Kóax Kóax Kóax! Ualu Ualu Ualu! Quaouauh!
What the fuck was his problem?
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hehe lord Kek is our friend of whiteness :)
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>>9841366
Fuck off twat, i'm dead serious. Why is this cunt hailed as the best writer of the 20th century?
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He looks like a retarded deer straight out of Chernobyl.
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What are some good books for that will help me understand economics and finace so I can become a wall street trader like Jordan belfort?
marxists need not reply
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is this song /lit/?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy4n88CjiBY
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Henry Hazlitt: Economics in One Lesson
Thomas Sowell: Basic Economics
David Foster Wallace: Infinite Jest
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Your goal should be to employ philosophy to destroy your country and then rule as a warlord over the wreckage.
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>Nick Land is promoting Joe Rogan videos again
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who cares
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this nick land guy seems like a reasonable feller
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It's the retard echo chamber
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Hey /lit/ I have a sort of a favor to ask you; 2017-08-02 10:50:20 Post No.9841233
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Hey /lit/ I have a sort of a favor to ask you;
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do any of you know how to or have access to some quality psychology or social studies journals? I mean real scientific ones. I'm in desperate need of materials and references and my shit Uni has nothing.
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libgen.io
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awesome, thanks dude, will check it out!
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https://www.crossref.org/
http://sci-hub.cc/
https://scholar.google.com/
https://www.plos.org/
https://doaj.org/
https://openaccessbutton.org/
where do I start?
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With Genesis 1:1 generally
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>>9841167
The first page
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>>9841167
Leviticus
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baby's first self-improvement book 2017-08-02 09:11:46 Post No.9840868
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baby's first self-improvement book
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After procrastinating for almost a year after high school, I finally decided that I need to fucking stop or I'll become someone I do not want to be. Long story short, I'm studying for an important exam and I want to read instead of playing videogames on my breaks, where should I start? I read Slaughterhouse Five and I liked it, however I'd like self-improvement books or basic philosophy for starters. I'm going to law school if that helps. Thanks anons... I really apreciate your help.
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Unironically read Infinite Jest. Also, read Crime and Punishment. I can't speak for many other books desu.
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>me me me
Maybe think about somebody else for a change
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Western Philosophy: An Anthology by John Cottingham. Basically lengthy excerpts from important works of philosophers from Plato to Heidegger, organized by topic and then by chronological order. Great selections, great flow of ideas, good essay questions at the end of each major section. I would highly recommend it.
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So, is that it for Europe?
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Eastern/Central Europe will probably be okay.
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Does this Murray man actually uses data of sorts or is it a phony analysis?
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and nothing of value was lost
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Write what's on your mind
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Dromology
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What do you call a mediocre civilization?
A so-society.
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I awoke amidst ash of a burned out fire. A solemn mist clung low to the forest floor and my eyes darted wide across a sea of trees and bushes: a howl, unnatural and cruel, pierced the silence. I have no memory of this place