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So is Dostoevsky's Underground Man essentially just a /r9k/ robot?
Pic related, an average /r9k/ robot.
>>8246364
...yeah basically
>>8246364
Has the egg finally cracked?
>>8246397
A chick has hatched.
Which one should I read first
Cuckleberry Finn
>>8246208
Isn't it already past your bedtime?
>>8246213
Little bit
what's the most avant garde literature that isn't pretentious self-indulgent wanky shite? pic related
Wayside school
mon mem(e)oir tbqh
What do I need to know going into this book to get anything out of it? Someone suggested re-watching Hamlet which seems like a good idea but what else?
>>8246072
half the book is annotations, if it was the first book you've ever read you wouldn't miss anything.
>>8246072
society of the spectacle
simulation and simulacra
>>8246072
it's based on 'the royal tenenbaums' movie - maybe you should watch that first
What is the best edition of Ulysses out there now?
I was thinking about getting either this one:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/0679722769/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Or this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Ulysses-Oxford-Worlds-Classics-James/dp/0199535671
>>8245523
Pretty sure the words in 'em are the same.
>>8245523
I am currently reading the 1922 text. It's my first time reading Ulysses though so I have nothing to compare it to. I've enjoyed it so far though, if that helps a little bit. There are plenty of footnotes.
>>8245523
Gabler or bust.
Is there any author or philosopher/thinker who has written with the idea or notion of willfully and deliberately rejecting the human condition due to its repulsiveness.
Here I shall define what I mean by "the human condition" and "repulsiveness":
By the human condition I primarily (but not exclusively) mean the lack of any meaning or purpose and yet being stuck in a perpetual state of activity and will driven partly be inescapable primitive wants and needs and partly by whatever narrow worldview we adopt over our lives. How disgusting and utterly...
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This is Absurdism.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Absurdism
>>8245005
Nowhere in absurdism does it talk about one's repulsion to the human condition and the rejection of it through suicide.
Camus attempts to argue against suicide but fails spectacularly. He poses the correct question : "does absurdism dictate suicide?" but never really commits to giving an answer to it because he believes that life can be made worth living and he believes in other spooks like freedom and passion. A more realistic/pragmatic person would not see "freedom" but would see...
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The ugliness of slavery to the human form/condition becomes apparent only to those who are self aware and only those who aren't distracted with any happiness can see things for what they really are. See things in their natural state.
Consider a man without much. He begins to need and want food, water, companionship, love, affection, tools, knowledge, entertainment, sleep. All he does is want and need. He becomes aware of these needs and becomes aware of his state and the things he is willing to do to obtain or satisfy these needs. He will realize that he is nothing...
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What was /lit/ like during high school? Were you the patrician valedictorian, or maybe a degenerate dropout? Did you have an interest in literature, or did that only come later in life?
I was an edgy neckbeard who went out of his way to criticize the Bush administration in social studies class whenever possible. I had long, greasy hair, wore punk/metal band t-shirts every day, and am pretty sure many of my classmates suspected me of being a potential school shooter. In terms of literature I read lots of Lovecraft and other classic horror, beat poetry, and comic books....
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I was the friendless loser girl, "good girl"/teacher's pet stereotype who spent all time in the library during lunch rather than in the cafeteria, hoping a qt boy would approach me because of my patrician taste in literature (which never happened, of course). I just wanted to find my Sartre and be someone's Castor.
I was the quiet loser that a bunch of people thought was mysterious or deep since I was also relatively attractive.
>>8244409
>that a bunch of people thought was mysterious or deep
So I found out there's a writing club at my college. Here's a vid they shot promoting the club:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAJaQt1Ol_0
They are having a meeting tomorrow, should I go /lit/?
>>8244243
No, stay at home and write.
>>8244252
but, other people, who write and stuff...
>>8244243
>that nigger who barely caught the book
also yeah OP you should totes go if you wanna hear memewords like "flow" and "mantra" and have people read off some ebin instagram quotes about life
What did you study in university and where did you end up?
I have a biochem degree. Finished 2 years ago. Can't say I ever had a passionate interest in it, or much interest at all. I just thought it could be financially beneficial. Right now I do data entry, like most failed STEMfags, but at an accounting firm. Lately I've been interested in linguistics, and literature -- So I'm very interested to see what people in those fields do for work.
Did a Bsc in Physiotherapy
I am now a physiotherapist
>>8243941
Got my BA in Linguistics. Got TESL/TOEFL certified. I teach in Japan now.
If you want money, then study Computational Linguistics
>>8243941
Philosophy and English.
I'm a teacher at an upper secondary school.
>Decent pay
>Few hours in the classroom
>Students responsible for their own learning
>Long as shit holidays
>Job security
What the fuck am I supposed to think /lit/? I just recently started to step up my reading game to stuff like slaughterhouse five, but the whole meme scene eludes me. Is infinite jest a legitimately good novel? I have no idea what I'm doing and need a guiding hand.
Dear god please help
>>8243416
You're supposed to think for yourself. But I will make a suggestion, and that is to disregard Infinite Jest on the basis that there are many more worthy books than that piece of overlong doggerel. The veneration of it is a practical joke.
>>8243424
God can't help you now.
i always peek at the last page when i start a book
i don't read
what's a book
>>8243284
I always tell myself that it's just to check and see how many pages are in the book, but I almost always read the last sentence "on accident."
I'd ask /g/ for this, but i dont think they know or care. I'm writing a cyberpunk novel(cliche i know) but i need information about the history of computing from 1950-1980. There is a lot of gems here especially pertaining to the aesthetics of machines, and the ideas many futurists had at the time. What i need are resources, so come here to ask /lit/, this seems like an obscure thing one of might follow.
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Dammit I fucked up ignore those posts. Here's the source: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
>>8242923
>>8242928
I read this ages ago. FORTRAN is fun to program in, but i will always stick with C++. On topic, maybe some old magazines from the 1950 on the topic i am asking about?
Write a poem about this woman's ass.
More inspiration. 1/3
That ass too big
Don't like at all
Call me Irish but
I like 'em small
>>8240368
2/3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLKcOl-OKyc
The copypasta from the incident with that American girl will appear in the first five posts.
i am monitoring this thread
>>8240461
What philosopher was the most wrong, about the most things, in the most importantly wrong, bad, incorrect ways?
The picture is not meant as a positive assertion, but simply as a cheeky personal bias to get ideas flowing - I just enjoyed listening to Ella Fitzgerald scatting for several minutes.
Observably factual incorrectness of ideas - Copernicus and Galileo BTFO of geocentrism, for example.
Deficient morality - Sade is an obvious example.
The Greeks - Sophists? They were BTFO?
Nihilists - the whole project seems both in accord with a proper...
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>le science
>facts
lol
>deficient morality
lol projecting your morality
All of them?
