continuing from thread (image limit reached): >>9327692

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>>9331714

history/theory of science II

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>>9331734

history/theory of science III

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>>9331738

practical arts: hunting, sailing, chess

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>>9331743

practical arts: chess, go
classical psychology

>>9331714
Post your fiction already

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>>9331747

shakespeare I

Half of these books look like they've never been opened. Have you actually read ANY of them?

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>>9331753

shakespeare II/ harold bloom

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>>9331762

literary theory I

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>>9331768

literary theory II

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Hey OP, do you have this book? Would be great if you have this one:
Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity
by R. Buckminster Fuller

OP how big is your fucking house to fit all these shelves jesus christ

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>>9331772

speech writing resources

>>9331792

i do! will scan in by friday.

>>9331797

i keep all books in my basement.

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>>9331899

aesthetics and politics/ problems of contingency/ european history I

I think this guy tried to open a bookstore and failed. he bought 40k books off of craigslist and went out of business

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>>9331906

european history II

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>>9331913

architecture/ british history

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>>9331920

architecture/ the enlightenment

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>>9331924

architecture/ british history II

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>>9331928

japan/ china/ korea

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>>9331934

china/ korea/ the middle east

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>>9331939

aesthetics and politics/ architecture

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>>9331948

european history IV

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>>9331954

european history V

>>9331899
nice dildo

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>>9331959

european history VI

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>>9331968

european history VII

>>9331961

i'm an archer: it's the dildo of eternal life. you get one shot to hit it a day; if you miss, you lose a year, but if you hit it, you live forever.

no way you've read 10-15% of everything you own.

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>>9331984

european history VIII

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>>9331991

european history IX

>>9331988

ask me questions rather than just assume. but--obviously, right?

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>>9331998

european history X

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>>9332005

european history XI

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>>9332007

european history XII

>>9331714
ITT:
>how to be an irrelevant 'footnote academic'

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>>9332013

european history XIII

>>9331998
Ok, how many pages do you read per day? Books per day/week/month?

You say you keep most of these books for reference, but when it comes to look something up, how do you decide which of your many, many volumes to look through? How is it curated?

Also, how do you share and make available this knowledge bank you've collected? Is your library open to the public? How often do you scans books for anons?

>>9331899
>that pile in the background

Kek OP u madman.

>>9331714
Repostan from previous thread
>>9331750

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>>9332015
>>9330748
>>9331988
>>9331907
>>9330701
>>9330657
>>9330643
>>9330582
>>9330571
>>9330512

ima say this once, and once only, because if you read through my posts i have gone out of my way to be polite, to show you kindness, and to disclose my intentions--of which you have not responded at all.

let me make it very clear: not one of you--so full of anger and insecurity--could ever, ever compete with me on an intellectual level. while i have not read anything close to the entirety of my collection, i have read an incredible amount; i can speak intelligently across disciplines and subjects; and i have plenty of worthwhile opinions, some controversial and some sanctioned. but you don't care about this. all you do is hurl ad hominems; you ask nothing about my interests, you ask nothing that would demonstrate your knowledge or challenge mine, and you don't respond when i do try to engage in any meaningful way.

you all are truly flawed human beings. until you start acting like adults, i will ignore you, and continue offering what i have to those worth speaking to.

you embarrass yourselves with your gross stupidity and lack of basic human decency.

and i know: this post will receive nothing but the same kind of belligerence. i'm not going to be surprised--but just know that, the more you post as you have, the less anyone in this world will respect you or take you seriously.

engage me on an intellectual registrar or not at all. these principles should be obvious to you; but they are not, and reaching you seems impossible. therefore, i will give up before i succumb to the same type of anger.

>>9332082
where do you stand on the externalism internalism debate? Have you read any Wilfrid Sellars or John McDowell? Are you plans to achieve a PhD and be a professor?

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>>9332062

great question. i run a reading group with two other friends in washington, DC: my library is totally open to that group (some 30+ scholars, politicians and businessmen), as well as whatever intellectual circles i run in post-cornell (i have several friends who teach at georgetown, AU and GW). of course, my effort here is to open it up even further to the general public writ large--especially the internet.

>>9332068

i have both a special scanner and several people willing to help/scan. see my response above--my friends/colleagues will often come and either take a volume or scan it.

>>9332082
Holy... I want more

>>9332082

wtf lol

>>9332082
This is 4chan OP. If you try to engage them at any level then they will have what they want. Save your time for others.
Stuff like this paragraph
>let me make it very clear: not one of you--so full of anger and insecurity--could ever, ever compete with me on an intellectual level.
however true, makes you sound like a sperg. Don't do it :3

>>9332082
lol OP, this is the internet, are you so fucking new that you dont see trolling?

>>9332082
lemme give you a tip man
never do what you just did with this post
you fully revealed your autism by making a huge post directed at edgelords and trolls

this is how you get screencaps made of you. don't do this man.

>>9332097
Still curious about the curation side of things. How do you usually go about adding to your collection? How do you decide what to add, and how do you obtain them? How often do you downsize or cut redundant or just plain bad books?

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>>9332091

excellent question. epistemic justification is a favorite topic of mine--i've approached the problem through wittgenstein and harman primarily, and, while i don't refer to sellers or mcdowell, they are in the back of my mind--same with plantinga and warranted belief. my stance on the subject of "changing frames" might offer some insight here:
https://catilineconspiracy.com/2017/04/04/1-15-on-wittgenstein-epistemic-authority-and-frame-changes/

i gotta go to dinner, but great topic: i'll post more later, especially how i think that the internalist/externalist debate plays out today in populist politics as the fundamental cleavage between antinomeans (those who externalize truth born internally) and establishmentarians (those who internalize truth born externally). i think the first category encompasses the alt-right and alt-left; i think the latter defines things like academic communities and scientific traditions (though, of course, kuhn and collins and so on have a lot to say here).

i'll engage the analytics more when i return.

>>9332151
id definitely love to hear how you connect this to politics when you get the chance later on. I'll read this article too

yo OP can u scan atlas shrugged for me?

Nice exif data, it would be a shame if any of these publishers knew you were scanning these.

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>>9332365

sharing knowledge for free/no economic benefit in a self-titled academic/literary setting.

yeah, you're right, i'm sure they'd be furious.

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>>9332082

Can you tell me what to read to get a gf?

>>9332365
> exif
Wat
Except for /p/, 4chan removes those to prevent dox

>>9332082
I asked about introductory books from the last thread and you asked me to narrow it down, so Ill copy what I said

>I took a political philosophy course in undergrad where we read Hobbes and Locke. Other than that I'm completely new. as far as interests go I would like to learn more about the American political system

>>9332473
Or does they??

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>>9332082
Take care not to be an intellectual yet idiot.

Use your knowledge for practical good; real change in the world.

>>9332459
Sorry anon but no, not even he, the greater reader, can guide you through this venture.

>>9332082
i resent this foul accusation! that my staggering intellect can be summarized as gross stupidity... i will have you know my knowledge of the craft of words exceeds the very boundaries of reality.

it's clear that your childish posturing does nothing to damage your ill-warranted assumptions of superiority, but it brings shame upon me, for a towering intellectual such as myself should not be brought to tarry with such meager minds.

>>9332860

>this actually hit a nerve for you
>convince yourself that replying with a cutesy post will make the ego boo boo go away

>>9331714
Hey OP, interesting collection to say the least. Could you scan all the Richard Hofstadter books you have? Also, I didn't see The Paranoid Style in American Politics in there, do you have that one? Really interested in reading Violence and the Sacred by Girard, too. Thanks, you're doing a great service to us all

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>>9332764

what can i say? weakness still lingers in me; i rule over syracuse, but look to athens on the horizon...

>>9332877

i fucking love you--hofstadter is one of my all time favorites. his anti-intellectualism in american life is the basis of my disertation--i absolutely have the paranoid style (another incredibly influential essay on my thought), as well as his essays on goldwater and the rise of the alt-right, and will happilly scan in all.

would you like all the girard as well?

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>>9332802

Okay but is there anything I can read to make me taller?

>>9332888
you have to take five books with you to a deserted island, what do you choose?

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>>9332017

maths I

>>9332922

plato--the dialogues
aristotle--the collected works
augustine--city of god against the pagans
aquinas--summa theologiae
wittgenstein--philosophical investigations/on certainty
bonus round: the bible, king lear (shakespeare), the waves (woolf), peeling the onion (grass)


what about you?

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>>9333068

maths II

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>>9333071

maths III

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>>9333077

maths IV

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>>9333081

maths V

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>>9333082

maths VI

>>9332888
I really enjoy the "consensus historians", Hofstadter, Hartz, Boorstin, Schlesinger, it's a shame that in the past two decades or so they have been kind of pushed aside in favor of Zinn et al. There are some folks like David McCullough who carry on that tradition, though.

>as well as his essays on goldwater and the rise of the alt-right

A little confused by this, Hofstadter died over 40 years ago. I can see a remote linkage between Goldwater and Trump in that they are both populist to a certain degree, but Goldwater only in the sense that he was being compared to the likes of Nixon, Lodge and Nelson Rockefeller. Maybe you could link Goldwater to the alt-right through states' rights or his strident anti-communism, but the American public was generally anti-communist then and detente was still controversial, and states' rights remained very much a live issue at that time as the federal government tried to figure out how to dismantle segregation in the South while leaving federalism intact.

>would you like all the girard as well

Kek I would, but you're already doing a lot, I don't want to overwhelm you.

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>>9333088

maths VII

>>9333091
You are very erudite, no doubt about that. So please help me with this: what's the best book on ancient Greek history in your opinion? If the best is not your favorite, list them both please.

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>>9333091

maths VIII
biology I

>>9333089

hofstadter addresses goldwater directly as a perfect manifestation of the paranoid style; see his essays "the psuedo-conversative revolt" (1954), "pseudo-conservatism revisited" (1964/1965), and "goldwater and pseudoconservative politics"

i agree entirely, btw--i prefer the consensus historians infinitely to this zinn, julian zelizer, etc. bullshit.

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>>9333109

biology II

>>9333106

history of greece in specific, or history of greek philosophy? what's the angle you wanna cover?

>>9333113
History of Greece. Of course philosophy should be there, but I'm looking for something more general.

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>>9333113

aspects of cognition

>>9332637

honestly, if you are really just starting out, i would recommend Miller's "very short introduction to political theory" by oxford. these little texts are great intros, written by top scholars, on all major theorists.

if you want a holistic treatment from the ground up, something a little more serious and meaty, then i would suggest sheldon wolin's "politics and vision"

if you want to go to primary source materials, then--and this is a meme, no doubt--i would recommend starting with the greeks and moving up: anaxamander, anaxagoras, thales, pythagoras, heraclitus, parmenides--socrates/plato, aristotle, etc.

this is the slowest, most arduous method. but you will change as a human being and become truly wise. what can i say? "long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light"

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>>9333126

game theory/ logic

(i began my graduate education with formal modeling)

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>>9333132

linguistic theory

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>>9333137

french/latin

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>>9333141

anthologies I

>>9333145
I answered here, anon >>9333122

Don't think you saw it...

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>>9333145

anthologies II

>>9333109
Do you think it's even possible to have a "consensus history" of the past 30-40 years, which is when the consensus broke down and Zinn and his ilk started taking over, which provoked a similar right-wing reaction? It's obviously too early to do a proper history of Obama and Bush II, but I'd like to think that, given that Schlesinger wrote in the 1950s about the 1920s, 30s, and early 40s, we can reach some kind of generally acceptable understanding of the pre-9/11 Carter, Reagan, Bush I, and Clinton years. It doesn't seem like it, though.

>>9331753
>>9331762
could you dropbox the arden Shakespeare editions?
can confirm that the only ones already
online are As You Like It ,Much Ado About Nothing,Othello,The Taming of the Shrew ,The Tempest and the Sonnets.

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>>9333153

anthologies III

>>9333150

sorry, missed it.

i would highly recommend:
Fine's "the ancient greeks: a critical history"
Lendon's works on greek warfare, including "song of wrath" and "soldiers and ghosts"
Finley's "legacy of greece"--its an edited volume with a lot of great essays on various topics by top scholars
jaeger's three-volume "paideia"
vernnant's work on myth and greek society
guthrie's "history of greek philossophy"--all volumes. while he covers every aspect of greek philsophy, guthrie's treatment is utterly exhaustive, and you'll have a wonderful grasp of history by the end as well
munn's "the school of history"
cooper's "the pursuit of wisdom"--a little more laymen oriented, but a good treatment of the various "ways of life" found in ancient greece
ober's "the rise and fall of classical greece"
loraux's "the invention of athens" and "the divded city" for more theoretical treatments
burkhardt's the greeks and greek civilization
onian's "the origins of european thought"--this is a little bit more idiosyncratic, and onians is a stickler for precise historical detail, but you will learn a lot about how the greeks saw the world
mcdonald's "progress into the past"--his treatment of myceneaen civilization cannot be beat
croix's "the class struggle in the ancient greek world"
godolphin's two-volume "the greek historians"

honestly, though, i am unaware of a series that is comparable to mommsen's history of rome, for instance. if you have any suggestions, i would of course be all ears.

>>9333181
i should say, there is also a complete arden Shakespeare out there but it lacks most of the commentary and scholarship that made the arden editions so famous .

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>>9332082
>the more you post as you have, the less anyone in this world will respect you or take you seriously.
who is connecting my irl self to my posts

anyways, post a paper you've published- i'd be happy to give it a read. too bad you won't do it lol

btw cornell isnt even top 10 in your discipline

>>9332082
>>9333207
scrolled thru the thread and found a link
sorry u have cancer bro but i still got secondhand embarrassment from your post

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>>9333203

science fiction/fantasy

>>9333165

i again agree entirely. there are some scholars who i think are beginning to do this--maybe not with bush II or obama, but with raegan and clinton--see sean wilentz, for instance.

but i do not think we will return to a consensus politics; i think the academic conditions that made that salient are no longer in existence. anyone who is in theory/history at the grad level today will tell you: the fucking main trope now is all about "disenthrallment" from various states of "beholdenment." all scholars want to do is make a name for themselves by shouting at another that they missed "this" or forgot "that." it's basically become a world of strawmanning, with the larger problems falling out of fashion as pathetically trivial debates foment and take hold.

there are some people today who i think are doing a better job than not, though. michael kazin's work on populism is excellent--but of course this doesn't count as consensus politics. but i wanna see a lot more from scholars like him.

>>9333181

absolutely! would be a pleasure. any shakespeare criticism along with it?

>>9333203
Wow, that is a glorious list. You are simply amazing, anon.

Are you actually going to scan the requests people made? Because I wouldn't like to miss that for anything in the world.

>>9333225
>science fiction/fantasy
Now we're getting somewhere

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>>9333225

lit/poetry I

>>9333207
>>9333220

i know you wont read it, but here's something to chew on:
https://catilineconspiracy.com/2017/04/04/1-18-the-politics-of-the-myth-collected-notes-on-democratic-theory/

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>>9333241

lit/poetry II

>>9333231

thanks, man--i absolutely intend to scan everything people have asked for thus far. if you have any requests, feel free to let me know.

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>>9333243

lit/poetry III

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>>9333244

lit/poetry IV

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>>9333250

lit/poetry V

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>>9333253

lit/poetry VI

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>>9333255

lit/poetry VII

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>>9333259

lit/poetry VIII

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>>9333262

lit/poetry IX

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>>9333269

lit/poetry X

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>>9333273

lit/poetry XI

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>>9333277

lit/poetry XII

>>9333243
I saw in your "ancients, pt. 1" picture that you have Fine's "Ancient Greeks", the first on your recommended list. I searched for an existing copy on LibGen and Bibliotik but there's none, so I'd enjoy immensely if you could scan that one. Thanks a lot for the offer, man.

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>>9333281

lit/poetry XIII

ima take a break for now and play some battlefield. if anyone has a ps4, feel free to add me: catiline1

will post more later tonight or tomorrow.

>>9333241
>i know you wont read it
you're right, because it's quite late and im going to bed

ill try to get to it tomorrow, but still.. if youve been at cornell 5 years shouldnt you have an academic publication to throw at me instead of some long-form journalism you did for your own blog?

>>9333269
How do you manage to read so much? I find myself constantly struggling to set aside necessary time and devote myself to it. Are you a fast reader or do you have a regiment or something else?

Also if you study/read on campus do you have a favorite or most productive spot? (I'm a Cornell Undergrad and I'm sick of the crowded libraries)

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Never in my life have I felt so jealous.

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>>9333283

for sure. i own all the volumes i listed; eventually ima scan everything i own in. i will prioritize the greeks and keep you informed. i'll scan in Fine first unless you want something else.

>>9333292
Thank you very much. I hope I live to see your whole collection digitized, that would be otherworldly.

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>>9333286

i lost two years to cancer; i'm still on medical leave on a 5-year chemo plan, but i'm a little behind in terms of publications. i work mainly on my dissertation at this point, but i have several other projects going as well.

i have three papers that have reached R&R and will probably be published in the next year or so: one at political theory, one at APSA, and one at a more random publication. i'll send you those if you'd like.

>>9333288

it's my job--i get paid to read, which makes it easy.

you're an undergrad? what year? you taken anything in government? may have taught you if so.

i'm not a fan of libe, green dragon, etc. white hall at night is great--i have an office there, as well as a kiosk in olin. stella's in collegetown used to be my hangout, but then they shut down; it was chapter house for a while, but then that fucking burned down, so, you know...

mainly when in ithaca i just read at my own place/with my gf at her place.

but i'm living back in DC now (my hometown)--i read a lot at the kogod courtyard (national potrait gallery), georgetown's campus (my sister went there/i went to georgetown prep; random note--also where gorsuch went), raku/jaleo in bethesda, and the public library in rockville (where my gf lives now)

what about you?

>>9333225
>absolutely! would be a pleasure. any shakespeare criticism along with it?

Lectures on Shakespeare (W. H. Auden)

Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare (might be a niche request since an older addition is already online but i'd love to read the volume containing the revisions made in 1925 )

im currently living in a 'politically complicated' country so shipping books here is out of the question and having to really on online additions is always just a matter of luck as to whats there and what isn’t. thanks a million for you work OP.

Is OP famous?

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>>9333322

no, absolutely not. nor does he want to be.

op vs cosma, who would win?

http://bactra.org/notebooks/

>>9333316
Im a junior in biology/entomology although I wanted to switch to English to study American lit but apparently A&S won't take me after sophomore fall. So I just take as many lit courses as I can on the side for a minor. I haven't taken any govt classes yet.

I mostly hang out in the Willard straight reading library but that can be distracting so I've been trying to spend more time reading in the basement Asian stacks at Olin.

how much time do you spend reading per day?/would you say you read quickly?

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How old are you?

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>>9333348

never even stepped foot in willard-straight, but the asian stacks are always pretty quiet. will occasionally chill at temple of zeus (i like their soup). the new part of goldwin-smith is pretty dope, too. mann is ok, but far away.

when it's nice out, i like to bike to the plantations and chill there with a book; or stewart park, which is another favorite.

do undergrads make it down to fall creek very often? i see you all around the commons, but it seems like all the more outdoors-oriented zones are primarily ithacans and graduate students...

i read probably around 5-7 hours a day. honestly, i'm independently wealthy, and with medical leave i have all the time in the world. my days consist only in self-improvement and friends. ironically, cancer has led me to an ideal public life--something approaching the aristotelian principle.

>>9333351

27. you?

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>>9333348

also, i know a lot of the english grad students/professors (i dated an MFA for a while). what courses have you taken/enjoyed?

>>9333371
New Temple of Zeus is pretty good but always packed. I'm mostly trapped on campus but I do love walking through Ithaca on nice days. We're mostly stuck studying/competing in the rat race they market as education.

That's awesome. Not the cancer, but the time and independence. I really wish i had the resolve to fix my time wasting habits.

I've taken mostly 2000 level courses like intro poetry with Pollak and right now English lit with Amanda Goldstein. Although I took Laurent Dubreuil's Poetry and Mind grad seminar and it blew me away. I've never felt so dumb and inspired at once.

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>>9333398

that's awesome--it's really amazing the difference one gets in a grad course vs. undergrad.

what are you taking now? you just finished up spring break, right?

>>9332082
The fact that you're stuck on 4chan and posting your unread library--which is spliced full of too many meme books to be anything but a meme collection, mind you--as if it were genuine intellectual achievement, says something about where you stand between the mediocrity you supposedly stand against, and true brilliance. And you don't stand very high.

Literally why even respond with such obvious butthurt against teenagers acting on impulse. That you even bothered to post something this unironically vain makes it very clear that you're socially awkward in real life, and any "friends" you have, who have a modicum of intelligence, will have recognized you for the pedestrian you are. I promise you that they laugh at you behind your back.

You said that you'll only post something like this once (and it was pathetically spergy by the way), but I seriously doubt that, trips or not. Despite what you might fancy about yourself, you're mercurial, insecure, unwarrantedly vain, and have no discernible talent. Until you post something worthwhile, it is reasonable to toss you in the bin as a pseudo-polymath a la David Foster Wallace. My point is, by all means, stop posting on /lit/. You are a pseud.

>>9334651
>My point is, by all means, stop posting on /lit/. You are a pseud.
Oh I am laffin :3

>>9333371
I used to live around fall creek when I was a grad student. Ithaca was a nice little town.

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lit/poetry XIV

>>9334651

thanks for proving me right. seriously, keep at it: absolutely love you ;-)

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lit/poetry XV

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>>9335370

lit/poetry XXX

hungry, need food. will post more in a bit.

>>9335377
how many more do you think you'll be posting?

I can't even begin to describe how jealous I am of your collection.

Hey im a lazy fuck, do you think you could upload a .zip of all the pics?

>>9335235
>own but haven't read 2k books
>boy i sure am smart guy

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How good is that bookshelf?

How much does it cost?

Where can I buy it?

Does it have a particular name?

Thanks.

>>9335235
If anything he proved you're a cunt.

>>9335533
It's the cheapest model of its kind. It's not very good, and as you can see in the first pic of the first thread, some of the shelves are sagging in their middles from the weight load.

>>9334651
>>9335520
>>9335578

I've been following both threads, and I gotta say that you guys come across as the most ignorant assholes of all time

You haven't addressed anything OP has said, and you're literally trying to make fun of his bookshelves at this point.
I think there's something really wrong with you

Keep going, OP. Want to see where the collection ends.

>>9332082
>let me make it very clear: not one of you--so full of anger and insecurity--could ever, ever compete with me on an intellectual level.

I don’t have any anger or envy or hatred towards you. I have not made a single post in your threads until now. I just want to say that I am certainly that I am a better writer than you are. Perhaps not as learned or even as intelligent as you are, but certainly a better writer.

Also, I appreciate your Shakespeare volumes:

>>9331753
>>9331762


If you allow me, I will suggest you some other tittles that are more obscure but are more worthy of your attention (assuming you know that the real deal woth Shakespeare is the poetry of his plays, not the philosophy of it and all that “invention of the human” business):

>Shakespeare’s Imagery, by Caroline Spurgeon;
>Shakespeare’s Language, by Frank Kermode;
>Shakespeare’s Metrical Art, by George T. Wright;
>The Development of Shakespeare’s imagery, by Wolfgang Clemen;
>The Poetry of Shakespeare’s Plays, by F.E. halliday;
>Shakespeare’s Uses of The Arts of Language, by Sister Mirian Joseph;
>The Language of Shakespeare’s Plays, by B. Ifor Evans
>Shakespeare, by Mark Van Doren


I would also like to make you a personal question:

>What is the profession of your parents? You seem to be a very privileged young man. I doubt that you have bought all of these books with your own money only.

Nevertheless, congratulations for your discipline and good luck.

>>9335505
i second that, can you upload a zip file with all the pictures?

>>9335679
t. OP

You didn't say anything worth remarking on, fuck off.

>>9335755
Why is it that anytime someone tries to defend someone else, all you can do is claim sandbagging? Just check the IP address or something, Christ.

You don't see how silly you come across? OP has addressed everyone who has asked him a legit question. You haven't said anything but proven your own anger and jealously.

I can't believe people like you exist. It makes me happy that you show yourself as you have. It makes it so easy to figure out who is worth listening to and not.

>>9335792
Samefagging*

>>9335792
Because you're OP.

>>9335792
it's kind of obvious you're OP because no one else on 4chan talks like you are right now besides OP's triggered rant earlier in this thread

>>9335811
Lol, ok.

You got some serious problems. If I had to guess, you don't have many friends or interact well with anyone who might have some authority over you. I wonder what your life is like, and it makes me sad. Seek help.

I seriously doubt you have read all of these or maybe you are you are hitting up 50s

>>9335857
nah fuck that hitting his 70s.

>>9335857
He never claimed he had. He's got a reference library and he's offering to scan and upload books people are interested in. Jesus, read the fucking thread already.

>>9335248
Any particular reason for having three copies of Dubliners? Different forwards/introductions? I can't imagine it being popular enough that you'd lend out all three copies simultaneously. And, as a fan of digital archival, you must know that the complete text is available for free on Project Gutenberg.

>>9332097
>great question. i run a reading group with two other friends in washington, DC: my library is totally open to that group (some 30+ scholars, politicians and businessmen), as well as whatever intellectual circles i run in post-cornell (i have several friends who teach at georgetown, AU and GW). of course, my effort here is to open it up even further to the general public writ large--especially the internet.

I wish I was there family.

>>9335857
He admits he hasn't read even 10% of them here >>9331998

Serious question: if you're amassing these for the sake of a "reference library", why not just collect PDFs and EPUBs for free?

>>9335906
He needs something physical to impress other pseuds and the susceptible.

>>9335929
...says the person who hasn't posted a worthwhile thing and comes across as an obnoxious brat. Nobody cares about your stupid insecurities, nobody gives a shit what you have to say. Stop ruining a perfectly good thread. Fucking brain dead moron.

OP: you got anything by William Meredith?

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>>9336026
>posting worthwhile things in a shit thread

>>9336056
I really am curious, please respond: why do you act like this? What is it that you hope to accomplish?

Not playing, just super curious.

>>9336071

OP, please, stop caring about those guys. Fuck!

>>9336056
>>9336071

Your silence is heard. Keep hiding behind your screen without a single thing to actually say beyond trolling, you stupid little bitch.

>>9332082
I understand the full implications of what this means. Reading all those books taught you nothing.

Will someone please dox this hapless imbecile already?

>>9336144
This, then we can rob him and split the spoils.

>>9336143
>hiding behind a screen

>>9336144
>>9336147
ITT: good, smart people pursuing good, smart ends.

Seriously, someone needs to cull you fuckers.

>>9336147
Sounds good.

I don't want any of his books, my library is of better stock. I would, however, use maybe 3 of those shelves for my garage.

>this autistic thread is still going


>>9331899
>all those books OP just threw into a hole in the side of his room

These threads are "my Dad works at Nintendo", /lit/ version.

>>9336151
Oh, OP, you are so very good and smart!

*all women within 50 miles of OP's basement begin soaking themselves*

>>9336154
>my library is of better stock

Post pics or it didn't happen

>>9335792
go to bed william

>>9336202
For a /b/ tier memer such as yourself it might as well not have.

Did somebody ask what OP’s parent’s profession is? He is probably from a very rich family to have money to buy all those books.

what do you think is the most obscure or rare book in your collection?
inb4 stirner

>>9336230
He's from finance, that means he's been exploiting other people to get the money to spend on nothing but posturing and dilettantism; bourgeois swine spends 'his' appropriated labour value on bragging and snobbery (way too important to actually read any of those books, by the way!); and won't admit he has a hoarding fetish and definitely won't give anything to the mere mortals which take care of real libraries.

OP deserves to be shot.

>>9334651
I don't understand why you're so angry. He's offering free books.

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>>9332082
>let me make it very clear: not one of you--so full of anger and insecurity--could ever, ever compete with me on an intellectual level.

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>>9335377

lit/poetry XXXI

>>9335505
>>9335735

tell me how to zip, and sure, gladly.

>>9335704

this is a great post all around, thanks. to your point: my style has been and still is probably my greatest academic insecurity. i dunno--ive come far since undergrad, but still find it difficult at times to convey my thoughts in a more sanctioned way. working on it; for sure i imagine your style outranks mine--you seem fairly composed.

love the shakespeare recs--will look into them all. are you a shakespeare scholar?

as far as my family background: my mother is an architect and my father is an accountant. i absolutely come from a lot of privilege--certainly this is what helped launch my collection, my choice of schools, my career, everything and anything i do. what can i say? i did not choose my lot, but am deeply grateful for what it offered me; i have tried not to squander it, though i imagine plenty of people here would argue that is exactly what i've done. so be it--to each his own.

but, i must say--you strike me as one of the more erudite people on this board. id like to be your friend, if you'd have me--my name is william. what's yours?

>>9335533

so those bookshelves are super cheap--i can't even remember where i got them, maybe home depot? i keep all my books in my basement--i used to have really nice wooden shelves, but my sump-pump is faulty and, during heavy rains, my basement will flood. i gave up on trying to preserve the wood and went straight cheap plastic; you'll note that i don't keep books in the bottom shelf/lift some of my shelves for the same reason. honestly, though, they are great shelves and do exactly what i need: hold books.

>>9335890

anytime i have multiple copies of a volume, it is categorically for different classes that required different versions. the only volumes i have that are duplicated because i've written in them too much are my chaucer and my KJV bible.

>>9335895

all who pursue the arduous way are welcome in our club, friend! if you ever find yourself in DC, please do not be a stranger! our family grows each day :-)

>>9335906

i have nothing against digital libraries in principle--in fact, i think that this would make moving a whole lot easier. the problem is that i'm not physiologically well built: apart from being cancer-prone, i've had degenerative astigmatism since i was a kid. looking at screens for too long burns into my retnae; i can do it, but i get headaches. books tend to cut that--though, if there was some manner by which i could scan in all my books and get a kindle version for free, then i'd be on top of that shit like white on rice.

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yes! encore, encore!--your fans demand more! y'all familiar with the notion of "ressentiment"--partcularly nietzsche's treatment? here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ressentiment

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>>9336356

lit/poetry XXXII

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>>9336202

i appreciate it; i'm on your side, but i think y'all are feeding the wrong wolf....

let us leave behind these lesser beings entirely. to turn the conversation into substance: how would you define "the good life"?

>>9336356
>this is a great post all around, thanks. to your point: my style has been and still is probably my greatest academic insecurity. i dunno--ive come far since undergrad, but still find it difficult at times to convey my thoughts in a more sanctioned way. working on it; for sure i imagine your style outranks mine--you seem fairly composed.
>love the shakespeare recs--will look into them all. are you a shakespeare scholar?
>as far as my family background: my mother is an architect and my father is an accountant. i absolutely come from a lot of privilege--certainly this is what helped launch my collection, my choice of schools, my career, everything and anything i do. what can i say? i did not choose my lot, but am deeply grateful for what it offered me; i have tried not to squander it, though i imagine plenty of people here would argue that is exactly what i've done. so be it--to each his own.
>but, i must say--you strike me as one of the more erudite people on this board. id like to be your friend, if you'd have me--my name is william. what's yours?

>yes! encore, encore!--your fans demand more! y'all familiar with the notion of "ressentiment"--partcularly nietzsche's treatment? here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ressentiment

I'm choking! you, OP, are the ultimate dilettante! Please keep posting so we can get a good printscreen collage out of this.

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>>9336367
>i appreciate it; i'm on your side, but i think y'all are feeding the wrong wolf....
>let us leave behind these lesser beings entirely. to turn the conversation into substance: how would you define "the good life"?

>>9336259
Free books he will never deliver, though.

The guy doesn't know how to zip images, for Christ's sake.

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>>9336241

the rarest book in my collection is non-academic--its an original version of the al azif necronomicon cryptograph. some 348 copies were ever printed--got number 291

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MORE!--your stupidity sustains me ;-)

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lit/poetry XXXIII

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lit/poetry XXXIV

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lit/poetry XXXV

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lit/poetry XXXVI

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lit/poetry XXXVII

>>9331714
Great thread as usual, rapture. Just wanted to say I'm looking forward to another illuminating discussion on Nietzsche and philosophy in general with you, the first one was one of the best and most productive conversations I've ever had on the internet.

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lit/poetry XXXVIII

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lit/poetry XXXIX

>>9336428

oh man--you the H user i was conversing with several weeks ago? excellent conversation; would happily restart.

what have you been reading lately?

>>9331714
what are your favourite novels, poetry op?

your name is william now?

i liked ezra better

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>>9336443

lit/poetry XL

will post more later.

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1/1

>>9333433
I'm actually on break right now; they give it to us unusually late.

I'm currently taking chemical ecology, intro orgo, English lit and Christian history. They're all good classes except that the biology dept needs a serious lesson in effective classroom administration.

I'd like to keep talking/keep in touch although I'm not sure this is the proper medium. Here's one of my junk emails if you're interested: frankber1987@gmail (if this wasn't a public forum I'd normally send you my net ID)

>>9333141
I'm interested in Fairy Tales in Latin

>>9336443
>the H user

I'm the one! I haven't been reading too much (I did purchase all of the texts you recommended me in that last thread, though) because I've been on a pretty hard binge this time, and I never read or write when using or sick---which combined equals 90% of my time awake---but I guess I've slowly been making my way through Vollman's "Europe Central," which is nothing short of a masterpiece I highly suggest you check out, and Engdahl's "The Lost Hegemon: Whom the gods would destroy." The latter is written by a brilliant and slightly kooky (the best ones are!) journalist and geopolitical analyst detailing Western (American) foreign policy goals wrt world energy sources and control, the covert and pervasive tentacles of the intelligence community (eg material and logistical support of radical groups in the Middle East to secure American interests in isolating Russia and China), IR theory in the same vein as Huntington's "Clash of Civilizations," and more, all of which heavily aligns with your interests if I remember correctly.

What about yourself?

>>9336553
>only 17

RIP anon

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>>9336451

lit/poetry XLI

>>9336535

just sent an email

>>9336540

ill scan if you want.

>>9336545

i love europe central--haven't covered engdahl's work yet but with that sorta endorsement i really have to. what is his general argument? is he for american hegemony--or critical of it?

i've been slowly--slowly--working through a lot of populist lit, but my main concentration in the last week has been eric voegelin's "new science of politics". i actually just posted a summary of the intro:
https://catilineconspiracy.com/2017/04/04/1-16-on-eric-voegelin-intro-to-the-new-science-of-politics-part-i/

voegelin's critique of positivism/value-free science is masterful. he works through comte and weber like no one's business; i think his idea of the societal cosmion and representation/political articulation is profound.

he basically argues that modern science is anything but human science--that it substitutes an artificial, abstracted vision of a value-free man for the reality of human experience. he clearly wants us to return to greek ontology and christian metaphysics--what he sees as fully cosmological worldviews that begin with revelation as the basis of scientific inquiry. his treatments of plato and aristotle have also been really interesting: he focuses on the soul/city relation, e.g. that plato saw the ideal city as composed of the three-parts of the soul, and how it is viz. the one truth (god, the ideal, eidos) that the measure of both is made. it is toward this type of cosmology that he wants us to turn again--i;m not fully convinced, but goddamn if it aint provocative.

if i don't quite make sense it's only because i'm still working through some of it myself.

as i recall correctly, you care a great deal about aristotle, no? your reading of mcintyre was fantastic.

absolutely love our conversations--thanks for dropping a line.

>>9336540

nice--is that a request for a scan?

>>9336553

i really love it. but i also really like being a type of social/intellectual nucleus: that i can invite others over and share books, alcohol, entertainment, etc--i honestly thrive on that type of camaraderie, and thoroughly enjoy offering what i have freely. sure, it has heeps of egoism behind it--but i can usually justify this to myself in terms of a consequentialist argument.

So, where's the masonry corner? It's apparent you have it, so abandon the pleasantries and flash em some actual candy.

>>9336655
show me your philosophy collection

>>9336655
I have to go to work for a couple hours so I'll respond more in-depth and check out the article later, but busting a quick reply off my phone:

Engdahl's views are isolationist and 'anti-imperialist,' in a Jeffersonian sense, but he loves a traditional view of the West (see: association with the LaRouche movement), just a more moral one predicated on soft-power and benevolent hegemony.

I've been meaning to check out Vogelin for a long-time---unsurprising if you recall my own views on traditionalism and revitalizing Christianity within Western culture---definitely gonna read that later, your summary is incredibly compelling.

And yep, Aristotle and MacIntyre have been massively influential to my overall worldview and political praxis, and based on your description of Vogelin here I feel like he might have the same effects on me.

some of these pics are a little blurry and you can't see all of the book titles.

why don't you retake all of these pictures so they're worth saving?

>>9336946
not trolling btw

>>9331762
o'shit Doren and Knight now i know u aint playing i was intending to read both after i got through the lst couple of plays

>>9331899
can i request that 2000 most challenging words my dood, my copy of samuels dictionary hasnt arrived yet thxxxx

Granted hoarding books solely for potential referencing needs is idiotic in the extreme, I must admit that the sheer amount of rectal pain it has brought about in insecure plebs ITT is fascinating. If I may ask - what exactly is your approach to purchasing new titles? Some sections seem rather odd - your Math/Physics almost entirely consists of highly redundant undergrad textbooks sprinkled with some popsci. Far too heavily detailed for a casual reader, far too basic for a scholar, the purpose of such collection eludes me completely.

>>9331747
What Go rank are you?

>>9336655
>>9336540
Yes, I'd be grateful if you could scan that for me.

>>9337223
It's simple, he's a pseud. Like you. He doesn't read them and only uses their existence for social capital.

Rapture isn't particularly intelligent, fucker can't even into maths at his age.

>>9337242
Based on his impulsiveness and inability to string together a coherent argument, within 3-6 kyu.

>>9337263
>another assmad pleb full of ressentiment
Do you have any self-awareness at all?

>>9337298
I do in fact, and a lot more than you.

Atari, baka.

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>>9337321
You have to go back.

This thread is just bizarre. Are there any actual humans here? I can't be the only one who thinks OP and his various detractors and supporters all type similarly, can I? Then again, I am a bit loopy, so maybe all the perceived strangeness is in my head.

Anyways, OP, if you're not a robot, stop replying to the people being mean to you and they will eventually get bored.

>>9337355
i sense it too
it's weird, definitely
but i too am a bit loopy
._.

>>9337375
Fuck, I can't tell if you're messing with me either. I'm so spooked right now.

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>>9336392
>Necronomicon

AHAHAHAHA HOLY SHIT OP

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>>9336655

lit/poetry XLII

>>9337263

MORE!!!!!!

god i love how people in holes just keep digging...

also, i love how you know absolutely nothing about Go. if you're trying to insult me, you just gave me a world-class Go rank.

25kyu is the lowest rank available in online games. would have made sense if you pushed that; according to you, i'm something of a genius

but i really gotta say: for someone who suffers already from a lotta megalomania, its you and your ilk that keep making my day. i honestly did not think even i deserved this much attention. people only post on topics that they care about; clearly i've hit a nerve.

i wonder, friend, just how deep that nerve goes? shall we explore it more? no, for to do so would be a release from that burden--and let's be honest, all you care about is perpetuating that burden for as long as possible--lest you actually have to face your insecurities and become something greater.

don't worry, i understand--we aren't all cut out to be something in this world.

for real, though, loving the attention. i get the feeling you have a crush on me--sorry, im taken ;-)

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>>9337481

lit/poetry XLIII

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>>9337495

lit/poetry XLIV

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>>9337507

lit/poetry XLV

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>>9337513

lit/poetry XLVI

>>9337263
>>9337481

we both also know that you will never answer an of my points of questions directly--mainly because you cant. i get your game; i feed the troll because i like the attention. why you keep sending me back some food is a little confusing to me, but whatever, it satisfies.

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>>9337522

lit/poetry XLVII

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>>9337530

lit/poetry XLVIII

will post more later.

>>9334651
>My point is, by all means, keep posting on /lit/. We're all pseuds.
Fixed

>>9337522
I don't respond to your so called points because you're a retard, that's all to it.

>>9337481
>i get the feeling you have a crush on me--sorry, im taken ;-)
Post feet :3

>>9337541
Are you going to try to have kids? I ask because of the Winnie the Pooh.

>science
kys

>>9337481
>also, i love how you know absolutely nothing about Go. if you're trying to insult me, you just gave me a world-class Go rank.
>25kyu is the lowest rank available in online games. would have made sense if you pushed that; according to you, i'm something of a genius

Okay, I was sure before, but now I know you're definitely a pseud. Thanks.

You're definitely a genius. Never change.

>>9337541
Do you think Baudrillard's description of third order simulacra and hyper-reality has rendered political theory obsolete?

What are your religious views?

>>9336829
look in the previous thread, its quite extensive

>>9337855
bro you got outplayed
step down

>>9337495
>>9335377
Rainer Maria Rilke (eng) –( there is a selected poems online but its not what you have. (Book of Hours especially would be lovely)

Purgatorio: A New Verse Translation – specifically the W. S Merwin translation

robert lowell – collected poems


also here are a few things I havent seen but am hoping you might have.

Octavio Paz poems (eng)

Baudelaire’s collected (eng) – you can find most of it scattered around the web but there is no one place to go.

Juana Inés de la Cruz - poems (eng)

Thanks for the hard work OP.

>>9337481
you're about to get taken by THIS DICK *engorges self on your toes and begins rapidly expanding to 500 times you're size as I unbirth into the distance nebula* you and me shall be one with the stars

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>>9337855

are you going to argue against wikipedia as well?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_ranks_and_ratings

jesus christ, man. nobody is this insecure and just fucking wrong about the world without being seriously deranged. do you have to wear water wings when you eat soup?

>>9337855
>>9337742
>>9337522

QED

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>>9337802

i cannot have children. chemotherapy sterilized me permanently.

>>9337895

absolutely not. baudrillard's idea of the simulacrum is just a minor modern trill to the overall socratic notion of the eidos: it was the greeks who first posited the "otherworldliness" of things--that this world is an illusion, that something real lies behind it. baudrillard's "lights and sounds" merely pushes this into a registrar of jargon, and cuts the notion of the reigning eidos that would make any form of transcendental "out" possible. follow baudrillard and you arrive at the type of immature nihilism nietzsche found utterly decadent (and i agree).

>>9338199

i went through a silly militant atheist phase when i was 14. at 27, and having survived cancer, im catholic--simpy because i see suffering as a way to truth

>>9338333

i got you--i have everything but the la cruz. will scan when i can.

>>9338379
>i went through a silly militant atheist phase when i was 14. at 27, and having survived cancer, im catholic--simpy because i see suffering as a way to truth

What are your thoughts on Buddhism and East Orthodox Christianity?

Which books were most important/helpful in you figuring out the god and religion question?

>>9336356
>all who pursue the arduous way are welcome in our club, friend! if you ever find yourself in DC, please do not be a stranger! our family grows each day :-)
Nah, don't think I will. I'm uneducated slav so my chances of getting in there are astronomically low.

>>9338379
where to start with eidos william?

>>9338379
I want to read through every important work in the history of every field that I think is important. These are: philosophy, math, physics, psychology, economics, and politics.

I started this task three 1/2 years ago. I'm just into the 1800s and looking at my itinerary for the next 200 years of literature makes me anxious. I'm considering dropping math and physics but they are too important to justify it. If I put behind 20 years of history each year, that will still leave me in my late 30s by the time I catch up to modernity. I skipped the scholastics and made a jump from Roman thought to Descartes (besides some political works and major figures, for example I read some of Aquinas and Augustine) which I think greatly pushed this project forward. Are there other such jumps that you think I could make, or, any advice for speeding this process up? I have been reading for about 5 hours a day this past year and can continue that productivity but it's not enough. I'm afraid that by the time I am done my youthful creative energy will be gone and I won't have the capacity to make anything of my effort.

>>9331714
If you make a pastebin with the list of books in your library, then I will prepare a complete torrent with metadata and share it here, potentially as an alternative to the recently popular "All-encompassing Library" magnet link circulating around.

>>9338824
>recently popular "All-encompassing Library" magnet link circulating around.
what link are you referring to

>>9338849

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:488eb9134190440bbf1e77929754321c85a24c72&dn=The+All-Embracing+Library&tr=udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80&tr=udp://open.demonii.com:1337

What's the oldest book in your collection?

Can someone archive this thread and the others?

>>9339369
Threads are archived automatically. Besides if you are scared of losing this just press CTRL+S

>>9338308
>>9338362

3-6 kyu is mediocre, retard. Read about it.

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>>9337541

lit/poetry XLIX

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>>9339531

lit/poetry L

>>9338413

this is an important question. my introduction to eastern religion came mainly through schopenhauer--i began to study buddhism/toaism and some of the more esoteric aspects of eastern religions more seriously in the last couple of years. i have a lot to say here--i will post more in a bit. what is your opinion/religious worldview?

>>9338664

either way, your presence is welcome, and you will find a new type of intellectual home in DC if you should ever choose

>>9338678

heraclitus is one of the first to posit the otherworldiness of things; the socratic project--particular phaedrus and timaeus, as well as some aspects of republic--is really the place to begin.
arthur lovejoy has a truly masterful volume on the topic: i cannot tell you how highly i would recommend "the great chain of being"

>>9338724

i commend this project--but i would have never skipped over the romans or scholastics--reading ALL of augustine and aquinas, let alone calvin and luther and various other early christian mystics, i think is imperative.
why focus on original works of science, out of curiosity? i could maybe buy that with the greeks, who laced their math with philosophy, but a lot of the science of the 16th/17th/18th centuries has naturally evolved--Kuhn's work, as well as Collins (sociology of philosophies), are great overviews of the history of science. see also the images i posted in that vein--will happily scan in anything that will save you time.

could you post a more thorough list of what you have covered/intend to cover? i can give more insight upon review.

>>9338824

i've been working on it. simply copying down the data from each book into a word format is a lengthy pain in the ass, though; it'll take me a while.

>>9339482

dude...just stop. it's sad at this point, and i'm beginning to pity you. please, pause a moment, step back from your life and reasses.

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>>9339563

lit/poetry LI

>>9339569
Your lit/poetry section isn't in any order, is it?

>>9339563
I hope I remember your invitation if I ever get a chance to move in USA, though I don't see any realistic way.

I do read a lot. Currently reading through Arendt's books. Not really my type of writer, and I think she glosses over major distractions and contradictions in her own text, especially when she talks about power (of the state/public) vs. power (of the individual/private)

>>9337481
you know 3 - 6 kyu is basically a "slightly decent amateur" level, right? like, nowhere close to world class, right?

>>9339563
just ordered a copy. thanks for the rec.

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>>9339569

lit/poetry LII

>>9339573

nah. keep meaning to, but you know...

>>9339585

which book by arendt? on violence?

>>9339592

you're so sad and i deeply pity you :(

>>9339599

for sure

>>9338877

oldest actual physical copy--or oldest in terms of the information it covers?

>>9339682
thanks op - what's your favourite novel btw?

>>9339682
Origins of Totalitarianism, The Human Condition, On Revolution are what I've read so far.

>>9339592
I think he's has a long festering mental disorder. It's quite fascinating to witness a retard prance about with the delusions that he's an intellectual.

William/Ezra/Whatever name you'll pick next/Retard neet pseud, you made a pitiable mistake about kyu rankings. Just admit it.

>>9339682
>oldest actual physical copy--or oldest in terms of the information it covers?
oldest actual physical copy

>>9339759
Hahahaha this guy is still going on about Go? What a fucking cuck. Go back to /pol and leave the people who want to read alone. I'd be honestly surprised if you've read a single worthwhile book in your life.

>>9339759
>person offers to scan any book from his large collection
>calls him a mentally challenged retard pseud neet pretending to be intellectual
How did you end up being this pathetically insecure in life?

>>9340202
>>9340236
t. OP samefagging

Wow, people are actually defending a tripfag.

How even lower /lit/ has come.

>>9340202
>>9340236
go to bed ezralliam.

>>9340321
>people defending a tripfag
>not just OP samefagging

>>9332890
sadly there is no literature that makes you not a manlet

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>>9340300
>>9340327
>unable to believe not everyone is bitter retard self-actuating through irrational hate
Hopeless.

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>>9339682

lit/poetry LIII

>>9339734

fantastic. i'm actually writing a chapter on arendt for my dissertation--particularly how her ideas of judgment play out against 50s/60s american politics, and further how her idea of "the lie" interacts with vietnam.

did you like the human condition? what do you make of her notion of "action"?

i'd really love to hear more about what you think of her thought--it seems to me that you aren't the biggest fan? but you've also read a great deal, so i can't imagine that you've written her off entirely...

>>9339759
>>9340321
>>9340327

i really don't know what else to say at this point. it is so painfully obvious that your jealously over my material prosperity has led to just a flagrant gnashing; you have made no attempt to address any intellectual or academic point--which many other posters have. it is clear that you have nothing and are nothing in this world. read eric hoffer's "the true believer"--i think you will find a lot of what you are in that book.

truly my heartfelt sympathy extends to you. may you find peace from the abject worthlessness that is your life.

>>9340321
>>9340327
This. The samefagging is pretty obvious to people experienced with these sort of tripfags. I can't really explain how it's obvious in words however.

>>9340384
i have a 7 figure checking account balance and a 9 figure trust fund, + other illiquid assets

trust me your material prosperity is definitely NOT what i give a shit about

>>9340371
I can edit on paint too

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>>9340384

lit/poetry LIV