What did he mean by this?

bamboozled again

>>9083897

That he is a pig-disgusting Humean and fails to understand the Platonic forms.

>>9084180
How ironic ;)

>>9083897
This young man seems pretty smart, I'm going to read one of his books and make a thread about it when I'm done.

>>9083897
I like to watch black men and young adults fuck my fertile wife.

>>9084450
Nice b8

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>>9084180
He's talking about Schopenhauer, you dolt.

>>9084450
Start with his easiest book, Looking for Alaska, before diving into the harder works. Too many people start with The Fault in Our Stars and completely miss the underlying Greenian symbolism.

>>9084139
r/me_irl is leaking to /lit/, amazing

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>>9083897
He means he's a filthy idealist.

>>9087018
Plotinus, actually.

>>9087179
Thanks, I'll be going to the bookstore later today and will follow your advice, I hate it when I get the symbols mixed up and have to go back to read again. It's such a waste of time.

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>>9087179
>>9087311
I'd definitely read Julius Caesar by Shakespeare before TFiOS also. Give it a good read; Green's has a masterful wit, much of it shown through his ability to satire his hero Shakespeare.

For a deeper reading, read the following and Julius Caesar:

The Hindu Book of Astrology: Or Yogic Knowledge of the Stars and Planetary Forces and How to Control Them to Our Advantage - Bhakti Seva

Third Melbourne General Catalogue of 3068 Stars for the Equinox 1890, From Observations Made at Melbourne Observatory During the Period 1884; 7 to 1894; 0 - R. L. J. Ellery

Almanac Catalogue of Zodiacal Stars: Printed for the Use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac - United States Naval Observatory

The Link Between Cancer and Environmental Contaminants and Industrial Carcinogens: Hearing Before the Human Resources and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, October 30, 1993 - U. S. Committee on Government Operations

Metaphor and Simile in the Minor Elizabethan Drama - Frederic Ives Carpenter

Metaphor and Comparison in the Epistulae Ad Lucilium of L. Annaeus Seneca: A Dissertation - Charles Sidney Smith

Sejanus His Fall - Ben Johnson

Also, watch Naked by Mike Leigh.

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>>9084139
bambwurzled ;)

>>9083897
Something willed itself into motion, from without my marriage, into my wife's vagina.

>>9087365
Good list, I would also recommend being acquainted with Greek plays (Sophocles, Aeschylus, etc.) and the Homeric epics to understand how Augustus' transformation represents the traditional Hero's Journey, and the interwoven debate between free will and determinism.

>>9087365
Is there a reason you chose to leave The Great Harmonia and Penetralia off this list? I would consider it essential background reading before tackling TFiOS...

>>9087648
>The Great Harmonia and Penetralia

If you've read Green's letter no. 7, Green advises Rosario Crocetta to read them after TFioS to prepare him for the second reading.

Sounds like an argument for compatibalism.

>>9087613
That's quite a shallow reading of his work; fine for a first read, but you should read deeper for the second.

Couldn't you see his use of Zodiac as symbolism in the first arc?

He's implying that all knowledge is discursive, and requires the empirical study of numbers of dicks in his cereal. Too few, always too few.

>>9088198
And in this instance "his cereal" is a symbolic stand in for his wife.

>>9083897
talking on a level way way above /lit/'s head, as usual

>people unironically don't read Phenomenology of the Spirit, Being and Time, Speech and Phenomena, Gravity's Rainbow, Complete Works of Shakespeare, and Finnegan's Wake before diving into TFiOS
Shaking my damn head sempai

>>9088205
This.

>>9083897
"I did cocaine tonight"

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