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>time is a social construct
>happiness is a social construct
>morality is a social construct
>gender is a social construct
>reality is a social construct

enough

>>9697363
Haven't read it yet but its in the queue. Make a thread once you finish it I'm curious.

Those names sound awful echoey...

>>9697364
please?

Dude...that place is a 10 times worst waste of your already useless time than this place is.

>>9697379
nope

Just cop whatevers cheapest desu

>>9697345
Moby Dikk with 2 k's by Edmund Wells. It's more thorough than the Melville version.

i got the signet classics because it was cheapest. it doesnt really matter

Transcended the good-bad dichotomy desu

Joyce is duality bro.

>>9697339
neither. he's on the side of art.

diary

I really fucking hate Terence McKenna

Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake
Borges
Nabokov
Philip K. Dick

He has become my favorite writer. I justed started reading seriously so that may change, but, to me, he's a great -- a true successor to Whitman.

>>9697243
I REALLY like those glasses

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>>9697326
This thread is now about Henry Miller slaying qts

The Diary of Anne Frank obviously

>>9697230
no that was written by the father's sexual

[diary of] a superfluous man

>>9697215
Please leave if you believe you need to choose between Nietzsche and Plato.

>>9697218
Doesn't Nietzsche essentially force you to choose between him and Plato, because he hates Plato so much?

>>9697218
I mean, they're practical polar opposites in terms of worldview, method, and metaphilosophy, so anyone who knows anything about either likely already has their "choice".

>>9697032
Nothing wrong with P&V. Any translation is good enough.

>>9697032
Paine, but he didn't do much. 40 stories I think

glad you asked

On Love and other stories published by Oxford
Forty Stories, translation Payne
The Essential Tales of Checkhov, translation Garnett

>>9697006

I've never read him. What was so insightful about his writing? Do you have an example of an insightful statement he made? (I actually do like the quote in the picture)

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>>9697022
Go read him.

Couldn't you turn that quote inside out and say that the interpretation that prevails IS the true interpretation, and that the truth is precisely what makes it powerful?

>>9696944
So he was gay. Who cares? All sexuality is garbage. Like its really better when its being used to impose the horrors of existence on a new entity. No that just makes it seem dignified because of spurious telos.

>>9696944
What story is that from?

>>9697039
His diary desu

>>9696772
Does he pay you?

If he does, write any shit you want. If he doesn't tell him to fuck off.

What the fuck is this? This isn't literature. Get out of my board, you monkey

I took a few screenwriting classes at my hometown's community college once. I guess the format must be pretty similar, right?

Anyway, Anon, you have the right idea stealing from stories your friend has obviously not encountered. In fact, I'd make it a goal of yours to pull from the most utterly obscure science fiction and fantasy shit you can possibly find. Just to fuck with him.

>>9696768
Because DFW is a bad writer that only became famous by appealing to loner intellectual types who are interested in feeling better about themselves through such references

>>9696768
The entertainment includes Joelle naked (she's the most beautiful person in the world, remember), looking at the viewer and saying she is so, so sorry. The lens of the film is altered to approximate what the world looks like to a newborn baby. This is mixed with DFW's psychocosmology he makes that's obsessed with the Magna Mater (great mother) Jungian archetype, the mother who devours you whole (psychologically speaking), who kills you in one life and gives birth to you in the next, like Avril's black-hole personality, like the Oedipus complex/Hamlet and Gertrude, Hal having a Coatlicue complex (Coatlicue = Native American devouring mother goddess who represents the fertility of earth and also its destructiveness, portrayed as having many snakes wrapped around her, gave birth to many of the gods).

.... "I have become an infantophile"; Hal knows Latin; he memorizes which words are Latinate and which Germanic in etymology; he notes that the sign "EXIT" would read "He leaves" to a native speaker in Latin. This is all in that first chapter there, for a reason.

Infant in Latin means "mute", "unable to speak", "speechless". Hal has become, not a lover of infants, but a lover of being mute. Also a lot of the book deals, from a range of subtlety to really obvious ("getting in touch with your inner infant" at the end), with the theme of infantilization, associated also with themes in the book of catatonia, stasis, paralysis, inability to communicate, and even (yes I must get Freudian here) castration

But while the infant for much of culture is something despicable, worthless, annoying, puling, weak, DFW on the other seems to glorify it. Hal, in becoming infantile (watching Infinite Jest the movie reverted him to it?) has been redeemed. Like Mario, also something of a grotesque helpless infant. DFW associates infanthood with greater sincerity, greater love, a greater naivete, a paradoxical strength in weakness in true Christian fashion. "Verily, you must become children again to enter the kingdom of Heaven."

>>9696768
He thought it would be a good Joyce reference

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>tfw you see ttc threads, land threads, and now a girard thread
>tfw memed out from the previous thread
>tfw tfw tho

He's pretty neat all right. Underrated. If Love and War are things that humans do -
>what did napoleon mean by this?
then Girard is a guy to read and think about. How you choose to think time, death and God after Nietzsche gives you a lot of options. Phenomenology is a thing, Freudo-Marxism is a thing, schizoanalysis is a thing, things are things, and Girard is a thing also. The more you explore the cooler it all gets.

I might need to go and catch up on my Hegel for a bit, because Hegel and Girard are very similar. Eric Voegelin is a guy to check out as well for gnosticism and politics but Girard is pretty sweet.

I'll be back to shitpost more about Love and War and so on later, going to go back in the girardfag box for a while and re-meme myself.

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>>9696940
> Hegel and Girard are very similar

Really? Is it cuz they both lay down ontological frameworks for man and his condition in the world? Where do I start with Hegel?

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>>9696940
Not so similar ofc that Girard isn't going to say that the self-destructive logic of the duel is ultimately the thing in war, which is why he isn't a Hegelian. Because the moment leading up to the war is one thing, the war itself is another, the moment after the war is another and so on.

>but what about when there's three kingdoms rather than two tho
>well that is a good point inner self
>kek fuck you dude memes lmao
>you've made a fool of me again. clauswitz btfo
>really?
>nope

But what *is* the Moment anyways? An absence? A lack? A loss? WtP? All of the above?
>kys girardfag
>but if i do that you won't get to be a cyberwerewolf on the moon who devours the earth
>ok. but later kys
>the power of j-pete compels you
>reeeee or something

Three is a romance, two is a duel, and only a cynic or a naif - a one - would ever say ever say that all's fair in love and war. There's some fine crypto-shitposts.
>or are they just literal shitposts
>hmm
>i think they are
>yeah

Anyways. Capital, sex, death, love and war. The Girard Party Wagon* is into it. Back later.

*needs a better name

christian family values :^)

orgy

You should try reading it in context.