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>>9714823
Yeah get a masters in certain fields with education minor. Study inbetween teaching.
Live the life I desire so I can vicariously live my dreams through you.

>>9714836
education is a shit career, maybe after 30 years you can become a dean and actually make some bank and not have to read shitty papers, but that's a long wait and even then in doubt

>>9714823
Looking into a PhD or Law School if interested.

The Judge is a symbol of the Devil.
The Boy is a symbol of God.

not a great book but your criticisms are hyperpleb tier

read suttree and put some hair on your chest

I have plenty of issues with this book but it served as an okay intro to McCarthy because I read it when I was like 16. That being said
>nothing really happens
Blatantly untrue
>we have little to no context of what occurred to cause this post-apocalyptic world
Completely irrelevant to any part of the work
Apply yourself

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>wanting to manipulate his state of consciousness by highly impractical external means
>not cutting out the middle man and cultivating well-being directly

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>spending time on anything other than working towards your own greatness
>bringing one more life into this uncaring world

>>9714450
>wanting to live in Williamsburg
>wanting to live in NYC

History as the Story of Liberty is better desu

I can only think of Tocqueville, Lamarck and Herbert Spencer
Maybe Adam's Smith other book, but I haven't read it so...

>>9714333
Nietzsche TBQH

It's made out of words.

It's about the era leading up to World War One with some light fantastical elements mixed in.

>>9714297
Just read Vineland or something instead

>>9714280
I got the same edition in my backlog. I'm curious as well.

I read the entire trilogy. this is one of my favorite books. the pace is a bit slow but the story reads like an epic space fantasy. you watch empires rise and fall and the mystery has a way of gnawing at your brain, begging to be solved. excellent read, get the rest of the series

>>9714653
Alright.
So am I good to just read this as a starting point, or is there a prequel I should read before? I'd rather just read this and start from there.

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Find me a better scuplture.

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inb4 autistic screeching of people who only know historical allegories from 19th century

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>>9714054
>inb4 autistic screeching of people who only know historical allegories from 19th century
You mean every lit/his art thread?

>>9713988
Read the bible.

>>9714001
Would you recommend a specific passage? Cain and Abel, Joseph and his Brothers?

I've read it a long time ago on Church studies but I never really felt like I was getting anything out from it, you know?

>>9713988
Meditate and learn how to discipline your mind. To someone that knows how to meditate envy is just that: envy. To someone who is competent in meditation envy will arise only if he desires so. Also practicing meditation is perfectly compatible with most religions (in all the degrees of fundamentalism) and atheism, it's a structural change rather than a change of values and beliefs. it is ultimately a refinement of the control one has over his own mind and body, rooted entirely on phisiological mechanisms, as if men were just meant to sit down and meditate every once in a while.

desu I haven't read the tunnel but ommensetter's luck is so good I'm willing to give Gass my benefit of the doubt

before diving in, i would get at least a little familiar with his influences. Gass is very very academic and those writers he adores provide a lot of insight into the kind of writing he's aiming towards.

Of those writers i can remember him shilling i especially remember Gertrude Stein (Gass is all about the 'sentence' as the building block of prose) as well as Rilke (Gass loves his 'simultaneity' that becomes so important in the modernism to follow)

>>9713735
Mind going a little more in-depth or linking a paper/essay on the topic? You piqued my interest, I know next to nothing about Gass as an author or an academic "object", what with being Yuropoor and all.

thicc Gassy braps

>>9713632
Intra-vaginal orgasm is not scientific.
The interior of the vagina has much less terminal nerves compared to the clitoris and the breasts.

It's most likely a meme made by someone with higher than average penis trying to impress women.
When in fact, human height and penis size are proxies for confidence, which is attractive for females during the courtship, since they seek security.

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None of my literary opinions are pretentious as I am not a pseud. Pretentious, judging by the -ous suffix, is the adjective form of pretension and I hold no pretensions in either it's definitions. Firstly my opinions aren't mere pretensions to fact: they are fact, and I can back up every word with an avalanche of arguments; a spontaneous oral essay that would make grad students blush. Secondly, my literary opinions are not pretensions in that they are meant to impress, though they inevitably do, they are merely the honest, crystalised thoughts of a piercing intelligence that surpasses almost all listener's comprehension. As you can see, pretentious would in no way apply to me, nor my literary opinions. Pretentious is actually just a word used by the envious to ensnare their betters; the sooner you free yourself from the word, the sooner you'll be able to truly appreciate and understand literature, like I do.

books are good

>>9713589
>How do I give myself a university level education in philosophy?
take a philosophy course.
moving on...

>>9713589
the biggest thing is just letting go dude

force anything and you'll never get that much

>>9713626
but I can't. So I will rephrase this:

Where can I find a good list of all of the material I should cover as I self-study?

>>9713489
you
are not
the guy
you're not
capable of being
the guy
i had a guy
but now i don't

you
are not
the guy.

perhaps
he is wondering
why someone
would shoot a man
before
throwing him out
of a plane

>>9713315
>[that today]

sure is a paraphrastic op

>>9713315
Darwinism is wrong. The resulting Theory of Evolution has been refined to a state of being very different to its previous inceptions, too. It has changed significantly in the past 2-3 decade alone, particularly correlating with our understanding of genetics and related mechanisms; it will continue to do so.

So yes, he'd be right. Though not because "doesn't account for all this variety of species" but because we have been studying the various mechanism involved on a molecular level, which leads to assumptions and generalisations to be dismissed on broken down into specifics - the original Darwinism was pretty vague and people had different interpretations of it because of that. It wouldn't stand up to scrutiny or be considered a "theory" in modern science. Such is the nature of the Scientific Method.

>>9696967

Previously on /lit/.

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redpill me on christian anarchism

>>9713241
Non-edgy anarchism is very compatible with Christian thought. Think of the Amish and such, they're closer to true anarchy than any other community in the world and they're also some of the purest Christians. Ivan Illych and Jacques Ellul drop some excellent Bogpills on the subject.

>>9713246
>non-edgy anarchism
is such thing posible my friend?

>>9713112

Republic is poisonous nonsense. Read the apology or the symposium instead.

Rest is good, good choice with Antigone.

>>9713112
With only four selections a lot of essential things are gonna get excluded, so I suppose this is fine. Are these supposed to be the best intro books to the Greeks, or the most essential of all the Greek works? If the former, I'd definitely put Plato's Five Dialogues there instead of Republic. If the latter, switch Antigone with Oedipus.

>>9713112
that's bretty good
add hesiod and the presocratics and aeschylus