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This is not a discussion. The 'question' you've posed is absolutely meaningless, so try again but with a real proposition next time. Sage.

>>9694928
He disciplined himself to a whole, he created himself.
He aspired to totality. He strove against separation of reason, sensibility, emotional, will.

>>9695395
Fuck off, faggot

>>9694880
Something that doesn't exaggerate the everyday life but takes me through interesting characters interacting in ways which reflect the the world around them in interpretive ways. Just started Vineland and it's super comfy. Siddhartha was super comfy also.

Most people here though will probably tell you it's the prose which makes the book comfy for them. I see Mishima and Woolf getting a lot of props for this. Hell I even see Melville get props for this in Moby Dick even though it's an anything but a 'comfy' book so to say.

>>9694945

A mix of those, in my opinion. That is, a comfy book has a comfy prose and a comfy narrative.

One of the comfiest books I've read is, undoubtedly, Russel's "A History of Western Philosophy".

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>>9694951
Goodreads only gives it 4/5, so I'm gonna have to pass

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>>9694848
>catch up with him
>i'm ahead of him

>>9694858
i'm at chapter 92
i was already reading it when it started

>catch up with him
>read it years ago

>>9694823
Because I like the torture.

Don't you ever post this stupid question again
Please don't stop this is all I have

I'm at work and if someone comes in it'll be obvious that I'm not working, with a book in my hands.

(But pshh, I'm just subconsciously thinking about while dumbly browing /lit/.)

because reading is for retards who want to throw away their happiness

>>9694440

the global elites secretly follow the occult and astrology for a reason. they love that the lower classes deride it as foolish now. if the plebs all started to become interested in real deal astrology and solar cycles they'd be in major panic mode.

>>9694447
do you actually believe that? I hear stuff similar to that a lot but I have trouble deciphering whether it's a meme or not

>>9694447
This. Only the right balance of kabbalah, crystal magic, chakrah focus and fighting againat reptilian satanic jewish alien illuminati paedophile leftists can bring about the age of peace for white humanity (sorry for the pleonasm).

>>9694240
I know that feel, friend.

>>9694240
>skip the 50 page intro
that was your second mistake

your first mistake was starting with the greeks

It's called metaphysics for a reason

heh

Isn't it good?

>>9693965
i'll tell you what did you think if you tell me what did i mean by this

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>>9693898

Yeah, I never just like... really NOTICED all this stuff going on around us, y'know? It took a genius like Dave to point it out.

And it's really true, too. A fish wouldn't know what water was.

Is this movie out yet?

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>>9693898
Sam Hyde and DFW are linked in a deep cosmic, spiritual level. You just know one man wouldn't exist without the other. You can just tell they are dialectical poles of this intangible cosmic phenomenon that embodies the inherent duality in man and the inherent duality of America.

He goes.

>>9693640
Know what I mean? Know what I mean? Know what I mean? Say no more!

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>>9693640

So....

IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES

>>9693551
Paying for a paper degree in dick sucking will only enlighten you to the truth of the almighty hedge fund.

A community college will give you access to the sister university's library. You'll save a few 100k and get a basic degree, if thst actually matters to you.

If you're looking for 'agony' as inspiration, the debauchery of campus is a fucking real place to start.

>inb4 bitter
Yes.

>>9693551
All is vanity

>>9693559

>truth is vanity

Wew you are so le deep mannnn.

>>9693306
You start with the Greeks

>inb4 no
You won't understand Lacan without Aristotle.

>>9693324
It occurred to me that this has ben asked before. But I couldn't really find what I want.
Also, I'm currently reading Poetics.

>>9693331
Start with Parminedes and Heraclitus

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>>9693208

Probably /co/. I guess they only know about genre fiction garbage.
At least that's better than boards where no one reads (like /moo/)

>>9693214
Nobody reads on this board either, though.

>>9694356
kill yourself

>>9694435
rude

>>9693040
lol dicks

Mmmm I too like to be completely lost at every reference to works, concepts and philosophers that a book references.

>poststructural pragmatism

WEW

>>9692822
Can a true American stan for Canadian Kermit while eschewing pragmatism? More a question for the nationalist-oriented /lit/izens.

>>9692696
Stoner

There's another title by Krzhizhanovsky called Autobiography of a Corpse which is really good. Like if Borges was Russian.

The only other one I've read is Malaparte's The Skin, neither here or there on that one.

>>9692696

The Anatomy of Melancholy is their most based offering.

Black Wings Has My Angel is a decent noir novel with an uncommonly nihilistic ending even for that genre.

Can't think of any JYRB editions I own off the top of my head since all my books are in storage.