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>>9611104
>mainly about homosexuality
DROPPED

>>9611107
But Plato says there's nothing wrong with some homsex as long as the bottom is learning something from the top.

>>9611115

>>9611099
i feel bad for anyone who bought a copy of these books.

An even more embarrassing le board culture meme than those Spongebob vaporwave albums on /mu/

metamodern masterpieces

>>9611019
Nice rare Pepe.

>>9611019
Drawing has the same issue. Painting not so much, you can't redo it. Learn to live with imperfection.

I generally write down a structure to follow, then I fill it and stray from the path until I start making mistakes again. Stop right there, but keep it around, go back to the drawing board and repeat.

continue writing anyway, you can always go back and delete/change things after you've written a larger amount (this is the editing process, after all). Your first draft isn't supposed to be perfect or even good, but it's a lot easier to edit something terrible into something good than it is to pull something good out of thin air

>>9610853
Whoops I'm an idiot, meant to write
>when I understand an allusion

It really lives up to the hype. The first read through is pretty wild. It is said that Joyce can't be read, only re-read. Some people re-read the book once a year, and of course your understanding deepens with each pass.

no I don't really like reading

If it matters, I'm reading "The Corrected Text" published by Vintage International.

Have you read any faulkner before? TSATF is one of his more difficult novels, especially the first two chapters. But if you don't understand it, the best thing to do is just kinda let it wash over you and appreciate the language. The last two chapters are more straightforward, and you'll start to notice things from benjy's section coming back and starting to make sense in a way. Quentin's chapter isn't very narrative at all - it's more focused on his memories and thoughts which provide insight into his worldview, particularly his relationship with his father and Caddy. But don't worry about understanding everything, all the obfuscation is kind of the point of the novel/ modernism in general. Just try And focus on caddy and jason sr - they're both really imortant characters who are only really portrayed indirectly. If you read it again later it becomes way more clear what actually happens - there's a ton of parts that only make sense with later context

>>9610784
Thanks for the suggestions. I figured I might have to read it a few times to fully understand it.

Haven't read Faulkner before. Are there any others you recommend I read, as a better starting point, after I finish this one?

>>9610686
Voltaire called Shakespeare "that drunken fool."

>>9610692
damn how's he ever gonna recover from that one

>>9610737
Being dead helps. Bukowski was a huge dick head. Read some of his reviews or critiques

The Name of the Wind? It's a piece of shit book, but it matches what you're looking for.

>>9610684

What you're talking about is the flow state, and being able to drop into it is the result of years of dedicated practice and study, not some magical sequence of words that unlocks an ability.
Over time, as you discipline yourself to do a certain thing, you become able to do it for longer and longer willfully. It's no different than running. Once you get to a certain level though the need to be willful drops away.

It's when you're sufficiently into a subject that you can run entirely on intuition and the problems you have to solve are so complicated that they require an intelligence that has reached that level of dexterity and familiarity with the subject.

>>9610684
the french guy (but not the aids faggot) who wrote about the sisyphus dude
it's also a great fitness manual

>>9610597

Plato of all eras and times, ancient, medieval, modern, and every foreseeable and unforseeable future alike.

>>9610662
Plato because? And what about the Romans?

>>9610597
socratic philosophy marked the breakdown of the bicameral mind. it's notable only because the end of a golden age is only most visible at its dusk. homer catalogued it better anyway.

die

Embrace falsificationism, propensity probability, and the unfalsifiability of naturalism.

>>9610591
give him some shekels

Weird seeing this on /lit/. I have a signed copy - it's a cool futurist piece. If you can't afford it, just get it on aaaaarg

>>9610507
Nice. I just want to be convinced that it's not a book I'll drop half way (or sooner). I really enjoyed Bratton's lectures on youtube.

Sell me some hype on it.

> Let me propose that Philip K. Dick's novel A Scanner Darkly should be part of the standard high school literature curriculum, if only because the existential psychology of the User will prove to be based on first-person access to third-person experiences of first-person experiences.

What did he mean by this?

>>9610466

you don't need to destroy it. You just need to acknowledge that complete adequation is transformation into the object of the knowledge - to the point that there is no distinction between subject and object.

May I suggest you take the Plotinus pill?

>>9610466
nice thumbnail lol faggot

>>9610474
Meh. I'll give it a try, thanks anon.

>>9610419
I would stop reading it since his case studies are a lot more interesting. Check out The Rat Man

>>9610419
Some parts are boring, but as a whole, I found it very fascinating. Psychoanalytic theory is quite influential, so I would read it anyway.

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Guys, I just had a train dream last night. Is it the end for me, or am I the one seeking my end?

You mean the ones who live in the U.S or any amerindian culture?

Fools Crow was good, OP.

Also I saved the pic. Thanks OP.

What a pointless looking old fuck

>>9610151
A giant among men, rather.

>>9610151

Yeah, well at least I won't be using fucking retarded macbook equipment and wearing a scarf inside while the fan is on full power either LOL

>look mom i posted it again

>>9610142
I'll stay on this board if I want and you are no one to tell me otherwise

>speak a single language
I read Spanish perfectly well but I don't even attempt to speak it, what would be the point?
>you believe the author is dead
This firmly negates your point about
>you have a solid grounding in philosophy
>reading for two hours
Why?