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>>9582918
>tell me what think
Kys

>>9582918
severian had a small peenus and all those time when he banged something he was liying

>>9582918
Read it 3 times.
What's it about? Severian slowly coming to terms with the scholastic vision of the universe and playing the role God intended him to have, as a prophet who brings punnishment and a new start.

philosopher is much harder

>>9606001

>making up shit
>hard

>>9606029
kek

>>9605131
i know he had king on his syllabus.

cant be cujo because that fucker had rescue dogs

>>9605131
OK. Historically the stuff that's sort of rung my cherries: Socrates' funeral oration, the poetry of John Donne, the poetry of Richard Crashaw, every once in a while Shakespeare, although not all that often, Keats' shorter stuff, Schopenhauer, Descartes' [David Foster Wallace's Bookbag] "Meditations on First Philosophy" and "Discourse on Method," Kant's "Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysic," although the translations are all terrible, William James' "Varieties of Religious Experience," Wittgenstein's "Tractatus," Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man," Hemingway -- particularly the ital stuff in "In Our Time," where you just go oomph!, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, A.S. Byatt, Cynthia Ozick -- the stories, especially one called "Levitations," about 25 percent of the time Pynchon. Donald Barthelme, especially a story called "The Balloon," which is the first story I ever read that made me want to be a writer, Tobias Wolff, Raymond Carver's best stuff -- the really famous stuff. Steinbeck when he's not beating his drum, 35 percent of Stephen Crane, "Moby-Dick," "The Great Gatsby."

And, my God, there's poetry. Probably Phillip Larkin more than anyone else, Louise Gl&uumlck, Auden.

What about colleagues?

There's the whole "great white male" deal. I think there are about five of us under 40 who are white and over 6 feet and wear glasses. There's Richard Powers who lives only about 45 minutes away from me and who I've met all of once. William Vollman, Jonathan Franzen, Donald Antrim, Jeffrey Eugenides, Rick Moody. The person I'm highest on right now is George Saunders, whose book "Civilwarland in Bad Decline" just came out, and is well worth a great deal of attention. A.M. Homes: her longer stuff I don't think is perfect, but every few pages there's something that just doubles you over. Kathryn Harrison, Mary Karr, who's best known for "The Liar's Club" but is also a poet and I think the best female poet under 50. A woman named Cris Mazza. Rikki Ducornet, Carole Maso. Carole Maso's "Ava" is just -- a friend of mine read it and said it gave him an erection of the heart."

>>9605133
Yeah but there's an interview where he's like "Okay, look. I like [insert all the usual suspect classics here]." I recall A Portrait of the Artist being on there. Point being: there's a non-meme version of his favs out there.

P sure it's been about a year since I've seen this copypasta. Tnks fr the mmrs senpai

>>9605129
Me too but I'm 15

>>9605129
why at my expense? unless you're taking money from the gov' you're not living on my expense

He's been a professor of German.

impressive

He bases his entire philosophical system on Hegel, who is GERMAN, what did you expect? That he read translations? Lmao.

>>9604622
go to /pol/ if you want neat infographics and short youtube videos which explains how everything works

>>9604634
go to reddit if you want to be a faggot

>>9604622
the ontological (what has to do with being) is prior to the ontic (what has to do with beings)
that's just a general theme in Heidegger

What if I shovel food into my mouth because I want to get back to reading? Riddle me this motherfucker

I have always done it, rushing through books means you are either reading trash or care more about finishing it rather than understanding it.

>>9604439
>He's just now understanding it
People attempt to read fast because they are literally plebs. They don't have a lot of time to read due to work/mindless entertainment consumption, and thus do not have the time necessary to properly enjoy what they're reading. Reading slowly really is patrician.

While I'm reading I take notice of the entire sentence and paragraph structure. I think about why the author used each punctuation mark, and why a sentence was phrased in that specific way. I'll read back over a well written passage a few times and revel in it, bathing in the sublimity. I genuinely feel rapturous when reading something exceptional. It's a very sad thought to realize that most people who read will never truly experience and enjoy what they're reading. I look at a bunch of pseud reviews after I get through with a book, and see that most people think it's boring and pointless, meanwhile I was having literary orgasms every page.

One of the things that really annoys me on this site is when people say not to subvocalize. You really miss half the reading experience if you do that. The point of subvocalizing is to gain a greater intimacy with the poetics and flow of the text. If you just glance over the words and understand their meaning, you're missing half of what you read.

>>9604204
Who are you quoting?
>>9604204
Who are you quoting?

>would never consider reading classics
>finds them "boring and old"
>seriously wants to be a fantasy writer, just spewing the same tolkien shit again and again

This is worse than OP's, and I've heard it irl from someone else

>>9604225
Let the scum be scum, I say

>>9604083
130+ tbqh.

>>9604083
>how is it possible to be like him

Have daddy be the Carnegie of Austria; study engineering; study mathematics; read a shit ton of Frege and Russell.

nevermind. he was gay.

I need help coming up with ideas for short stories and/or a novel.

>>9603974
>Where do you get your ideas from?

Let John Cleese explain this shit to you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMpdPrm6Ul4

>>9603977
from reading

Sundiata

>>9603945
They have Yakub

>>9603945
Anansi

Any good fantasy with a girl protag?

Bakker keeps telling people to buy his books, he is clearly here.

>>9603508
The 1st Mistborn Book is pretty decent.

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>>9603352
Fucking hell.

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Do dictionaries counts? This brick I have dates to 1940.

travel book from 1890s
some novel from early 1800s if not 1790s
oldest manuscript is a french vellum notary letter from 1666. perfect condition.

>>9602989
I'm rereading Malazan.

>>9602989
Because I'm reading something else.

>>9602989
If I'm not much of a genre fiction reader, is Gene Wolfe worth reading for me? I'm open to it but I'm not sure if I'd get much from it.

>>9602948
Burgers aren't posting yet.
They're sleeping or waking up.

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>>9602948
Wrong board, pal.

I've never even seen anyone talk about Peterson off of this site