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>>9762760
Why are you so interested in knights? I used to like that stuff, but as it's become more associated with the alt right i've moved away to becoming a scholar of the ottoman dynasty.

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>>9762768

>>9762725
Chomsky is a hack. Everything he utters can be easily refuted by someone who browses r/worldnews for half an hour every day. It's embarrassing. He has a conception of socialist economics that i've acquired in ninth grade and have far since surpassed. The most powerful quote regarding communistic industrial economy states: socialism is fine until you run out of other's people's money. It's one chomsky should keep to heart.

He's good as an historian of imperialism and American interventionism, though he has blind spots. The Cambodia thing was genuinely a little weird. Mostly, he's good at exposing how completely intertwined the media, the government, and big business are in America. He is a good empirical historian, and he's basically right that the American public is being mind-controlled by rich people.

He has pretty good integrity when it comes to a lot of things, like free speech. But his actual political philosophy is so weak and sophomoric as to be nonexistent (again, he's better at cataloguing historical examples of leftist collectives that he likes, than doing the actual leftist philosophy). And he's also a millionaire who stashes millions of inheritance bux in offshore, tax-dodging trust funds, for his spoiled brat children. While claiming to be an anarchist. Make of that what you will.

His linguistic work is boring and can be understood in 30 minutes. And his defeat of behaviorism just rehashed nomothetic vs. idiographic debates, a century late, for no reason.

Read him for Manufacturing Consent, and for his histories of how ugly and cynical power politics became in the 20th century, and especially after the Reagan era. Ignore retards who say he's a cultural Marxist or that he's a radical leftist. If anything, Chomsky isn't radical enough. To most radical leftists he's boring and pro-establishment as fuck. He tells people to vote for fucking Hillary Clinton. The only people who have a serious problem with Chomsky are fake-conservative neocon Reaganites and their brainwashed slaves.

>>9762802
>His linguistic work is boring and can be understood in 30 minutes. And his defeat of behaviorism just rehashed nomothetic vs. idiographic debates, a century late, for no reason

t. knows nothing about linguistics

Just because you're on 4chan doesn't mean everything you post has to be written in the style of posts from 2013 that you saw screenshotted on 9gag.

>>9762685
I've read the book and let me say i'm fucking surprised no one killed this bastard. Me, and i always place myself in the literary worlds of which i often explore, i would sneak into the judge's tent at night pull out my pistol and blow his fucking head off before he could hurt one more innocent person. It annoyed me that no one in the novel had the sense or bravery to do what seems natural to me and to any other good person.

>>9762734
bait or retarded? u decide

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THIS IS LITERALLY GOING TO HAPPEN IF YOU LET CONSERVATIVES WIN AN ONE MORE ELECTION

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>>9762674

>>9762674
>Why can't more stories show a different world that is happy?

Because then there would be no conflict.

>/pol/
>wikipedia articles
Oh hello there Mr. Pseud Ha! Ha! Ha!

>>9762680
>/pol/

/leftypol/. Apparently you can't read. What are you doing on /lit/ sweet summer child?

>>9762666
>he doesn't know the definition of "law" in science

>>9762652
It's alright.

>>9762653
Anna Karenina is the only other book that made me feel this strongly. I haven't read War and Peace yet, but that will probably be next on the list.

>>9762663
pleb.

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>>9762603
Because
Women
Have a hard time
Formulating complete
Thoughts

>>9762623
t. illterate
I bet a dumb faggot like you doesn't even read pottery

>>9762603
she wanted a specific pause length, control over the way you work is read is desirable. even if two people pause a different amount of time at each dash, they'll pause the same amount after each dash.
Read it out loud (like you should all poetry) and it'll probably sound right. What piece by her in particular are you thinking of? I'd be glad to take a look at it.

>>9762603
She's so disgusted with excess that her own language turns against itself

Psychologically she's the opposite extreme from Whitman

>>9762340
>why is a humorist funny
because jokes

>>9762340
Unrelated, but on a train from Praha to Vienna, I took acid and my blanket was possessed by the spirit of Franz Kafka. He is a damn good man.

>>9762340
He considered it funny himself.

because it's a nonsensical piece of shit, even in book form? It would be some kind of incoherent dadaist bullshit in movie form.

>>9762286
Ice-9 and freaky posturings. The people just aren't ready. And yet this literary babby food!

>>9762292
You don't understanding the book doesn't mean it doesn't make sense.

>>9762189
I had that problem. Be careful.

same.

>>9762189
No.

Because communism

People hate others smarter than them when they've been told how smart they are by their family

>>9762150
because he was right

back to /pol/

>>9762148
No. I enjoy reading and I want to talk about literature. It's very important that we discuss brown resentment and brown mediocrity in literary culture, because if we don't make an effort to eradicate it NOW then the highest form of art known to man will forever be lost to 110 IQ affirmative action pundits and their hapa-Jew masters. If you value beauty, intelligence and grace then it is your moral and intellectual duty to reject progressivism in literature

>>9762143
I agree with everything you said.

>>9762084
He should have had the moral courage to forget honor and realize that the world would benefit more if he stayed alive and kept working.

>>9762089
Cont. Unless, of course, it really was a set-up.

They were fighting over the rights to a half rotten donkey pussy to use as a fleshlight

my diary desu

my diary desu

my diary desu

No no, memoirs of Hadrian by Yourcenar

>>9762049
dippest thine feet ere thou swimest

>>9762049
See, this is how I know I'm not gay. I look at a photo of this guy and all I see is some dumb motherfucker with expensive clothes and good genes standing in an alley. He isn't even doing anything, he's literally just staring into the camera doing the pouty mouth.