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When I was younger my Dad had this nightstand next to his bed and in it were tons of books with the covers torn off. It turns out he used to work at a bookstore and rather than trash the old books like he was supposed to he just took them home. He was the reason I got into reading in the first place. I know this doesn't really have any relevance in your bait thread, but it's a nice memory that reading it made me think of and I wanted to share it.

>>9769174
That's a really cool story Anon. Sometimes I feel like there should be general discussion threads. But shitposting let's people casually talk enough.

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>>9769174
>people throwing away books
If there's a hell, it's just me, strapped to a chair and watching satan dumping books into a furnace.

>>9769073
I wouldn't mind if this sort of person still existed

>>9769073
>t. buttblasted anti-elitist pleb

>>9769073
Based

>>9769041
Robbe-Grillet if you're into French New Wave. If you're not, then you're a pleb.

>>9769041
Are you looking for inspiration for film topics or books about filmmaking and / or the film industry? If you truly just mean 'great literature' then I recommend The Brothers Karamazov, Dead Souls, and Lolita.

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>>9769069
I should have paraphrased my OP better. Im looking analyses and essays of films. I´ve read some entry-tier stuff Bazin etc but would be interested for something more.

Thanks for recs.

syphilis is probably eating your brain away now.

>>9768948
You will reconnect when she leaves you.

>>9768952
I did give her head a bunch of times but I very much doubt I have syphilis.

Whiny, meandering, trails off on tangents and never gets back around to the point. Several obvious plagiarisms from Marx's dispatches. Overall I rate it 7.3/10 because it made Vienna sound like a nice place to live in that period.

>>9768942
Did nothing wrong

>>9768949
This.

I'm only about four chapters in and christ is this guy a scatterbrain.

not particularly

>>9768916
>muh moving pictures

pleb

>>9768916
>He doesn't understand Tarkovsky
Yikes

If you haven't done anything of note, it does not matter, and in fact it could be argued that social skills are of more value to humanity and maybe even you

[/spoiler]Testing

Testing

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Yes. Yes I am. I was given a gift but it turned into a curse. Life is a pain when you have such an extraordinary developed mind. Why is that so you might ask? Well I am unable to connect to those less blessed with intelligence. To me they are zombies; they lack awareness and aren't capable of high reason and rationality. They chase after hedonistic pursuits, indulge in all kinds of degenerate acts and so on. While moi is studying the great classics, the arts and the sciences, they are posting selfies and consuming, always consuming. They are materialistic pigs. But yet that is unfair because pigs are intelligent while these creatures are not. I weep at times because the interaction with these worthless peasants has created a darkness and bitterness in me. In fact, I became lazy and nihilistic at some point, and my grades went down.

I could have been unfair to the world, but what you see is that the world is unfair to someone with limitless potential but decides to treat them with little respect. The horror.

see you tomorrow

>>9768854
Wait.

You can't leave without this (you).

DevilishGrin.jpg

Why, when you all are my 24-7 entertainment? Never gets old.

I actually mostly read /r9k/ and /pol/ comments
A LOT
Imagine how many redpilled books it would make

I have O- blood and I've only donated once because I'm too afraid some retard nurse is going to literally give me AIDS

>>9768853
I don't remember

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>>9768826

Just scan the whole thing please

this pic was the only screenshot I can find online. The cringely anime dialogue and the over prettified characters (That's not a very plump Buck Mulligan) make this seem hilarious.

>>9768833
I'm working on a few chapters now, and i'll post them later. Some parts are definitely funny. And some parts are emotionally touching. They did a great job with Dedalus.

>>9768833
>doesnt show buck mulligan's cock as clearly implied in the original
i mean they could have at least put a pixelation down there if they were worried about censors

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>receipt
>not pronounced (reh-ceept)
For what purpose?

>>9768800
>ptolemy
>not pronounced ptolem

greek words, how do they work

>knife
>no pronounced kuh-nife

Slowly accepting that there is no answer to my problems, not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing.

>>9768621
Individual consciousness and group consciousness.
Chaos theory and fish schooling, or bird flocks.
Epistem, zietgiest, civilization/culture, gene communication.
Patter recognition, architecture, consciousness does not exist outside of group consciousness.
Democracy, political animals, legitimacy.
Gods, technology, a history of objectivity, Jungian archtypes.
Ghosts, deamons, shamanism, gods, and the calling forth of the individual.
One does not equal one, a deamon’s law of gravity, chaotic substructures
Architecture, insanity, the mental health of a mackerel, learned judgment
What is a group, can the individual ask this question, political animals and their environment
Legitimacy, communication, violence, music/mathematics
Animal tools, alien technology, subversion and breakdown of ego, power
Epistem, art, conscious, gods
Group consciousness, cohesion, self-reference, legitimacy

if I am a boy and I have a purse how can I reach so deep into my pockets..

>posts something random
>what did he mean by this?
>discuss
>/lit/

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>>9768566
2/5

>Even compressed, folded, and enveloped, elements are powers that enlarge and distend the world. It hardly suffices to speak of a succession of limits or of frames, for every frame marks a direction of space that coexists with the others, and each form is linked to unlimited space in all directions at once. It is a broad and floating world, at least on its base, a scene or an immense plateau. But this continuity of the arts, this collective unity in extension, goes out and beyond, toward an entirely different unity that is comprehensive and spiritual, punctual, is indeed conceptual: the world as a pyramid or a cone, that joins its broad material base, lost in vapors, to an apex, a luminous origin or a point of view.

>Leibniz's world is one that encounters no difficulty in reconciling full continuity in extension with the most comprehensive and tighlly knit individuality. Bernini's Saint Theresa does not find her spiritual unity in the satyr's little arrow, that merely spreads fire, but in the upper origin of the golden rays above.

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>>9768574
3/5

>The resolution of dissonance is tantamount to displacing pain, to searching for the major accord with which it is consonant. Just as the martyr knows how to do it at the highest point and, in that way, not suppress pain itself, but suppress resonance or resentment, by avoiding passivity, by pursuing the effort to suppress causes, even if the martyr's force of opposition is not attained. All of Leibniz's theory of evil is a method to prepare for and to resolve dissonances in a "universal harmony.” A counterexample would be furnished by the damned. whose souls produce a dissonance on a unique note, a breath of vengeance or resentment, a hate of God that goes to infinity; but it is still a form of music, a chord - though diabolical- since the damned draw pleasure from their very pain. and especially make possible the infinite progression of perfect accords in the other souls.

>Such is the first aspect of harmony, which Leibniz calls spontaneity. The monad produces accords that are made and are undone, and yet that have neither beginning nor end, that are transformed each into the other or into themselves, and that tend toward a resolution or a modulation. For Leibniz even the diabolical accord can be transformed. It is because the monad is expression; it expresses the world from its own point of view (and musicians such as Rameau forever underscore the expressive character of the chord). Point of view signifies the selection that each monad exerts on the whole world that it is including, so as to extract accords from one part of the line of infinite inflection that makes up the world.

>Thus the monad draws its accords from its own depths.

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>>9768564
Shit wrong picture

>>9768564
>>9768567
Take your heathen hide back to mu you fool

You kill a thread when you make a new one

Bumping for OP.

Does anyone like the UK cover for Buzzati? I really can't stomach the cyan wash all over the cover, the effect is too morose and YA for me.

>>9769086
I got the British version because it was cheaper than the Verba Mundi. It doesn't look meaningfully worse imo, and I'm someone who's usually willing to pay a slight premium for a prettier cover.

>>9769685
Actually I changed my mind; the Verba Mundi cover seems better in retrospect, having finished the book. Alas.