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We will all be forgotten and relegated to the annals of insignificance, in the end.

Every reference to DFW and his work will be hunted down and deleted by scholars in the best of all possible futures.

>>9630659
Who won't, really?

>starting a history club
>doesn't even know if the Greeks were important or not in the history of literature

>>9630660
We're all running blind in this so figured using a premade lesson plan like the Start With The Greeks thing might be a start for us.

>>9630647
Can I join your history club? :3

>over valuing consumption of media

wew

The problem is you cannot read real literature without having knowledge of philosophy.

>>9630602
The Catholic faith is my philosophy.

Why the fuck would you reach on the beach? If i'm going to sit on my ass and read a book I'll do it at home. You go to the beach to enjoy the weather and water and local atmosphere, not to read.

>>9630582
if you live at a beach you might read at a beach

Last time I went to the beach I wasn't expecting to, so I wore jeans and a T-shirt. I haven't spoken to the girl with whom I went in 3 years. It was a beautiful summer day. Why would I read on the beach?

>>9630437
Talk about how she shoves something up his asshole against his will

>>9630437

in order to get people to understand that this is an actual rape (most people laugh at the idea of women raping males) you have several options:

>male is gay
>male is straight, but has a girlfriend, girlfriend breaks up with him because female on male rape doesn't exist and she interprets it as cheating
>male is asexual
>male impregnates girl against his will
>male acquires and STD from the experience

>>9630437
i believe there is a book that tackles this theme, Disclosure by Crichton

https://youtu.be/6-XrJHCLiHE

>>9630409
Milton is better desu

>>9630409
Underrated

>>9630423
Overrated

>>9630389
Yes. Especially God's

>>9630389
Boohoo faggot

>>9630389
Yes, Journey to the end of the night by Louis Ferdinand Celine.

Who the fuck is that?

kind of looks like Tommy Lee Jones. I mean....not really....but that's the only person I can think of.

>>9630388
For god sake read his work about art. It's godlike.

>Eventually, nearly every Shongairi base on Earth is destroyed, forcing Thikair to get his remaining forces off the planet and proceeding to outright destroy Earth from orbit. However, their dreadnoughts are immediately hijacked following the evacuation and destroy the rest of the fleet. Thikair is confronted by the hijackers, the same enemy that attacked the bases: vampires.
Fuck

>>9630422
The best part is that there was literally no foreshadowing or build up to that. It just came completely out of left field with no explanation.

>>9630422

"no john you are the demons" and then john was the demons-tier

Yasss slay queen!!!

>>9630438
>OP
https://youtu.be/qiuz2L6Aqdc

reminds me of posts I made a few days back about how Alastair Reynolds is a better writer than DFW
I stand by that opinion btw

>>9630376
In terms of employment in research and academia, yes there is racism and sexism. But I don't know that it is any worse than exists in other fields and industries.

But in terms of theoretical content, there has been a distinct split between the sciences and humanities for awhile now. This probably originates with Hiroshima, but before that you also have Marx and Trade Unionism making the case that capital/technology are exploiting and abusing humans for profit.

More recently, scientists have grown dismissive of philosophy, not seeing it as a legitmate field and growing overconfidant in science's ability to explain all things. You can see this in people like Dawkins who love to take pot shots at the humanities and also in various stunts like the Sokal Affair.

>>9630376
Jealousy of us STEMbros because we're useful.

>>9630376
From a socioeconomic standpoint there is a case I'd say that industrialization has oppressed certain groups of people. I really wouldn't blame science for that though. Legitimate critiques against science would be like taking it too seriously or criticizing it for reducing the world philosophically, which I think is a problem but not one that concerns anyone's well being

>>9630299
200+ poems, but I only like 10-15
my best one's really good though I think.

about 15-20 journals full of miscellaneous crap

11 novels so far. A six part series, a three part series, and three standalones.

>The trilogy is the only one I'm pursuing in publication, the rest are kind of crap, and I know it

>>9630196
Culture of resentment rears again.

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>this kind of violent, hateful rhetoric is not welcome in our country. . .except if it's directed at a white dude and his family then it's all good

Contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare's history plays are ALWAYS shitty. Whether it's the Roman plays or the English plays, they're uniformly trash.

>>9630114
>yet this doesn't sound like any kind of socialist thinking.

I suspect you know very little about socialism outside of /pol/ memes.

american political discourse has ruined the internet

>>9630114
Fucking racist white male. His shit book should be replaced with an African author in HS curriculum.

>>9630114
He was a socialist, not a (((socialist))).

>>9630050
>not appreciating Austen's bantz

Stick to your anime and 'vidya', kiddo

>>9630065
I didn't know bantz counted as high literature, or that a post could be so useless.

>>9630145
>having 'high literature' read aloud