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>>9656113
Fathers and Sons by Turgenev

>>9656113
You're right: It's hard to find much (culturally) that doesn't present it as a kind of self-interested posturing. Perhaps it's just hard to explain something that [...]

>>9655995
Why are you entitled to an explanation? How about you make an educated guess or two as to why that's the standard advice and we'll go from there

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Their a very interesting culture and are the foundation of of western culture, so help you understand a lot of other works that come later.

Pare it down to either Edith Hamilton, to get a nice preview or just skip to Homer's two (start with Fagles)

The philosophy majors will get you into all them, but Epicurus is the most sensible.

>>9656027
>The philosophy majors will get you into all them, but Epicurus is the most sensible
How did I make it so long without filtering your shit posts

>>9655994
Jung's imagination. They don't.

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>>9656004
and yet most of cinema follows archetypal patterns. how do you explain this?

>>9656023
It's great for characters but not real people

>>9655864
Pasternak, Gorky, bulgakov, Solzhenitsyn, Babel, akhmatova, Grossman, platonov, olesha, ilf & petrov, bitov

Nabokov

>>9655746

It's fine, but it's not a cure for autism. It's more about how to act charismatic and persuasive in a business environment.

>>9655763
What's the cure for autism?

>>9655824
Unironically death

>>9655718

Does the MoMA still have the Picabia collection up?

What you are describing is post-modern art. My secret to its enjoyment is trying to appreciate just seeing some crazy stuff. Where else are you going to see a jacuzzi filled with mud?

>>9655718
it's great to walk through for a laugh.
there was a great thread on this, it was regarding the fashion industry as a whole, and some of the ridiculousness that came out of it.
i was a staunch believer that art has been torn down by post-modernism, but i was somewhat convinced by the passion behind certain aspects of the opposing argument. the idea wasn't to astound with aesthetics, the pursuit of beauty, but rather as set pieces for a story to be told or perspective. in a way, modern art has changed that garbage painted black into an interpretation, a story starter, a literal coffee table book. it's no longer pursuing truth or beauty. those things have become overwhelmingly dull in a world where abstracts have been deconstructed into meaninglessness. instead, we want provocation, perspective, a thread of conversation or complex ideas.

i don't necessarily agree with the direction that leads, it feels to me personally as cheapening art, but i had to change my opinions on art to understand it better. i look at art as a communication, instead of mimicry. all art would be mere mimicry if it weren't for this transformation. all art is merely a shadow of god's ideal. that may be something of a ridiculous proposition, but it helps me to accept a more reasonable pursuit for art. the attempt to communicate is something so powerful that it could never have a limit to its manipulation of the world around us. naturally that even applies to garbage on the floor that's been pissed on by a bum and sprinkled with lotus petals. if you look at it as communication it makes sense. the other way it helps is to ensure you know that they have nothing to communicate but bullshit. empty minds will still lack the ability to confer a message through shitty art. it's a question of equity i guess, is one man's art equal to another? is the deconstruction of painting or sculpting an attempt to even the playing field? if so, why is it that something inert as a trash bag when held by a man with a message, and placed in such and such a way, can transcend the trash bag of another man? because art is itself cannot be deconstructed into meaninglessness, and value can be found in it despite attempts otherwise to cheapen and destroy.

>>9655739
Mud wrestling at my step-dad's house

#people who I wish were still around today

As a lawfag who has been struggling to continue writing after my youth, this fucking hurts. A lot.

>>9655651
That is some nice moral posturing from a misanthropic manlet who sold out his soul for the Soviet Union.

varies between 20-40 pages per hour
but i do really long sessions (3 hours)

>>9655533
100Mph

C

>>9655509
Apples and oranges

>>9655509
>better

Better how? For what purpose? This question is essentially meaningless.

>>9655509
Are non-books better than books? You decide.

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>>9655453
>HillMissile
>She fucking won
Are you talking about Hillary?

None of the above won, she came in second. But this isn't a democracy.

>>9655453
Reading this might make you more of a Trump supporter or less of a Trump supporter, but it would never make you a Clinton supporter because she is part of the narrative-creating digital establishment.

>>9655478
Clinton is the real president. Yall are living in an alternate timeline.

Just proves homo is the patrician way of life.

>>9655185
where did you get that out of? you just find a dumb woman, can't be too hard can it?

>>9655202
Why would I want the greatest idiocy united with the greatest depravity? A woman is abominable so steer clear my friend.

Where's the part where he BTFO queers?

>>9655173
just ask yourself, what would Coil have read?

protip: the answer's obscure and degenerate lit

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>>9655182
Honestly I enjoyed the Ape of Naples but Coil is just a massive faggot. Untrue though, now that's a fucking album.

Posting to acknowledge your good taste fellow patrician.

make sure you accurately depict his accent in dialog. Like

"Hey mufucker! I'm'bout shove these damn ol' fangs right up you's ballsack, suck the shit-eatin' life right out your shit! I ain't playin' round here asswipe!"

Looks a the mockumentaries of Finding Bigfoot, have the vampires contempt if they should feed on these humans since they come across like crazy persons.

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>>9655555
Okay I was poo-posting from phone, let me clarify my get, on my laptop:

>Bigfoot hunters come by, do the crazy calls, smack trees with wood, whistles the whole thingamaging.
>Vampires contemplate if they should feed on them because they've seen some crazy humans and had slightly bad/weir experiences with them
examples: Very drunk moonshiner -> hangover
Meth-junkie -> vampire infighting
Heroine addicts ect.
Paranoid pothead who stuffed a pound of weed up his arse to because he thought they were police
>>The vampires feast usually on the whole human, including flesh eating, anus eating ect.
>Though they are not as 'smart' as high IQ humans they can read (old as fuck, lots of time ect.)
>Oldest one warns them just when they are about to strike with a encyclopedia storie/article about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuru_(disease) or more accurately https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creutzfeldt%E2%80%93Jakob_disease or just Rabies.

They conclude that these humans are most certainly outcast by society because they ate other humans and went mad.
>Hunt them down and set them on fire, to preserve their livestock and they don't want to get they blood on them

>>9655148

a book

>>9655148
Memeses

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>>9655148
looks like something called "Mimesis" by Erich Auerbach

>>9655128

According to Hegel, the only thing you need to read the Phenomenology is desire to think clearly. It's designed as a didactic text, to take the reader through the history of the self-consciousness of consciousness to the present moment of Hegel's attainment of the System, or Absolute Knowledge.

That said I like Findlay's commentary, Hegel: A Re-Examination for a read-along

Start with his lectures.

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>>9655128
>mfw Trump is literally the incarnation of the World Spirit
What do?