He looks a bit like the retarded freak I used to live next to as a kid. This takes me back to my most disturbing childhood memory.
>be 8/9 years old
>to the right of my house lives a divorced prick whose kids visit once every few months
>his FAS daughter is sort of friendly but kind of dumb
>his 10 year old son is a mentally challenged chubby midget and super violent (although he very much wanted to be my friend. I mostly acted friendly towards him and that kept him from biting me like he did with most kids on the street)
>to my left lives another divorced guy whose kids come over more often
>he has a son of about 11, a daughter of 9, and some disfigured 7 year old boy who was only physically challenged
>go over to the house on my house's left one day
>the 7 year old and FAS girl are playing in the living room
>dad is nowhere to be seen
>ask where the others are (the 11 year old was my best friend of the bunch)
>"they're upstairs"
>go upstairs
>hear crying
>enter the kids's bedroom
>the retarded freak is somehow raping the 9 year old girl with his 10 year old penis
>the 11 year old guy is sitting in a chair and is watching his sister getting raped
>the 11 year old is giving the retard directions
>walk away without them noticing me
>stop hanging out with those kids
>never mention it to anyone until this post
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This boards disturbed obsession with John Green just gets worse every day.
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Most interesting.
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Where should I start with Timothy Morton, his scholarship on Shelley or Ecology without Nature?
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Why can't this board be useful for once
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Anyone here into Francois Laruelle? He's pretty much lightyears beyond Zizek or Badiou or Sloterdjik or the /lit/ favorites, the no longer living postmodern degenerates, Deleuze and Foucault...
If you wanna know more check out wiki. He's not on SEP yet.
Here's his Dictionary of Non-Philosophy:
https://monoskop.org/images/2/2b/Laruelle_Francois_Dictionary_of_Non-Philosophy.pdf
And here's my personal favorite essay of his:
https://www.parrhesiajournal.org/parrhesia09/parrhesia09_laruelle.pdf
But really I recommend picking up Philosophies of Difference if you're interested.
Any other fans here?
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looks like bullshit to me
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>>9972787
Go to bed François
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I will look into this thanks
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What are some stories or books to help you get back on track in life and start living again rather than being stuck in a ptsd fox hole for the rest of your life....
plz help
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>>9972525
Therapy. See professionals.
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>>9972529
why should jewish pseudoscientists have a monopoly on what it means to do the right thing? why do we even pretend to read and enjoy books if we all share some secret unspoken agreement that we must never accept or act on what they try to tell us?
If we're really gonna sever ourselves from the past so brutally from the very beginning, why read at all?
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>>9972525
have you tried writing about whatever weird shit happened to you in your life anon?
writing therapy is apparently pretty legit for ptsd
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Thinking of writing a short childrens story for fun.
It would be about a ragdoll girl whos scared of other people, but wants to go looking for a friend.
Anyone got any tips
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> Anyone got any tips
Learn to spell.
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find a talented illustrator to collaborate with
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>>9972299
I guess I'm the only one who didn't care for overly illustrated books as a child? I mean the Wizard of OZ series had a few illustrations here and there but not many.
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Anyone here has a digital edition of Là-Bas, by Huysmans?
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me not
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>>9971799
https://ia800206.us.archive.org/13/items/lbashuys00huysuoft/lbashuys00huysuoft_bw.pdf
It's in French, though, so I hope that's not an issue
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Books about illusions by mirrors
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I'm looking for a book to learn more about tricks done using mirrors. Yayoi Kusama f.e. is famous for her infinity rooms (Pic related).
I want to delve into this subject matter and create my own mirror art. But I'd love a good read to help me get started. Figuring mirror illusions out isn't easy. Does anyone know of such books?
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BORGES
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>>9971566
Umh what xD?
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also interested
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Opinions on this series? Is it GRRM-tier or something more?
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Druon himself thinks it's trash. Don't read it.
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>>9970806
Way, way better than Martin. Still genre-tier, but at least well-written and fun.
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>>9972351
>Still genre-tier
I swear to god I'll never understand why people look down on genre, while jerking off to novels about middle age college professors fucking their students and having a mid life crisis and shit like that
Jesus, at least the genre stuff is written to entertain, what it's supposed to do
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Anything I should know or do before I dive in? For example, when reading Gravity's Rainbow I wished I had just kept a list with some notes on all the characters.
I know very little about the actual history of M&D, is it better to read up on that a little first or just go in cold?
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Just go, it doesn't jump between characters as much
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>>10024972
ignite a giant spliff. You're in for some DUDE WEED LMAO
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Read the entire western canon up to 1997. The post-1997 canon is recommended as well.
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Is it worth reading or is it just Mein Kampf fan fiction?
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It's interesting and well-written. It was fairly well-received in the field, methodologically speaking. If it had been on a less controversial topic, it would be considered a normal scholarly work.
You could read it to see whether you agree or disagree with his conclusions and means of arriving at them. One of the reasons that it's so popular is that the thesis is fairly plausible, and even has inoffensive variants.
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>>10023921
It's quite possibly the greatest scholarly achievement of the modern day. Liberals want to ban it, but we must expose the truth to save whiteness and stop the genocide
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>tfw I fell for the nonfiction meme
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>>10023654
Bugs... easy on the Camus.
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bugs... easy on the cigarettes
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>>10023654
Bugs... easy on the Camels
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Houellebecq = altRight writer ?
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Houellebecq was actually an altRight writer.
Hear me out:
>hates boomers and hippies
>hates nonwhites and muslims
>pessimistic about the future of the West
>degenerate himself like H. Thompson, but aware that its wrong
>humoristic, edgy criticisms
>masculine in a certain way (swag, in your face rebel attitude)
>100% reactionary
is he?
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>>10023035
He's just a reactionary. Alt-right usually has some STEMfag trash in it, which Houellebecq doesn't like that much.
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No shit. He's been the unofficial poster boy for the altright the past few years. I live in a pretty fucking altright-like country and his books were stocked at newspaper stands when the migrant crisis was at its peak.
If I hear him cited by yet another eastern-European, someone will hang. Most likely me, but still.
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>>10023035
>Houellebecq was actually an altRight writer
>masculine
epic
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This is a terrible idea posting here but I need ideas, /lit/
This jumped into my head ages ago and I'm starting to obsess about writing it.
Essentially a normal-ass guy with nothing interesting about him starts hearing a small but insistent voice telling him to do things. "Turn left here." "Don't cross this street." "Wait for the next bus." "Talk to her." At first he thinks he's going nuts and ignores it, but on one occasion the voice is persistent and he misses his bus, which promptly gets into a major accident.
He finds that the more he obeys the voice, the more its guidance seems to pay off. He starts to see the voice as some kind of ethereal deity or a guardian angel, but begins to obsess over it as the voice reveals its true nature, even developing into something like love or lust.
The conflict would be his struggle trying to maintain a normal life and healthy relationships with other humans while trying to appease and worship this thing that's watching over him, which no one else can see or hear.
I didn't know where else to go for this. Any ideas, brainstorm, critique? And yeah, the voice is "male". I can't write women for shit so everything I do ends up gay. I'm not even gay myself.
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"Niebla" by Miguel de Unamuno
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So does he eventually lose all free will and thus the entity that spoke to him, has now become him?
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>>10022954
oh and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_than_Fiction_(2006_film)
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What books will make me feel like a child again, /lit/?
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Lolita
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>>10022977
Feel *like* a child, not feel a child.
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>>10022977
But that book just makes me feel like an old, sleazy, dirty, greasy adult :(
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You can only read one part:
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>1 - "On the Prejudices of Philosophers"
>2 - "The Free Spirit"
>3 - "The Religious Nature"
>4 - "Maxims and Interludes"
>5 - "Natural History of Morals"
>6 - "We Scholars"
>7 "Our Virtues"
>8 - "Peoples and Fatherlands"
>9 - "What is Noble"
Which one?
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>>10022787
Kierkegaard Fear and Trembling
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>>10022787
Maxims. You're probably a pseudo and all the little one liners would make you happy.
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>>10022792
>You're probably a pseudo and all the little one liners would make you happy.
I do enjoy them
Which sections do actual intellectuals like yourself enjoy and why?