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I want to get into Schopenhauer and have recently read his essay about women.
However for his longer works I am told I should read Kant?
Do I have to? Can someone please just inform about what Kant's general message was?
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>>7479064
Kant's message is that not only is it OK to be autistic but that your neurodiversity makes you better.
>>7479064
I would say that the first book of the world as will and presentation will make far less sense, and perhaps even seem incomplete, without having read kant's first critique. certainly you can't read the appendix to it without reading kant, at all. And given that the whole work is rigorously interconnected, those gaps will permeate through the rest of it.
You can read Schop without Kant but I think ultimately your experience will be a less fulfilling one if you do. Kan'ts other two critiques aren't...
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>>7479068
Ok cool I can read Schopenhauer now
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Deciding what to write about is objetively the hardest part of writing.
Prove me wrong.
only if you don't know who you are
uhm no
writing well is the hardest part of writing
>>7478721
This
Stop being such a rigid autist
I went to the library last night and did a reading. My piece wasn't very long and I spent the last half hour reading my book's 1-star reviews on Amazon.
I need a break.
I want to turn The Legacy of Totalitarianism in a Tundra into a screenplay. Are you guys interested?
>>7478630
Get with the times, gramps. Hypersphere's the shit.
>>7478630
Give amazon link for your book.
>>7478651
It's shit.
http://www.amazon.com/Crappy-Shorts-Make-Crap-Your-ebook/dp/B00GXY5NCM
How do I make sincere art? Everything I do is self aware and ironic
build up the courage to be honest
>>7478243
>How do I make sincere artdont
jfc do you have no beliefs about anything?
anyone have the quote by dfw about how women are guilty of murder and spend their whole lives making up for it?
>women are guilty of murder and spend their whole lives making up for it
- David Foster Walrus
>>7477908
That's the one, Thanks!
>I wish I was king of the world and could frame all the women on the earth for murder. Then I'd make them spend their whole lives making up for it by kissing me on my mouth.
-Dave "1/4 pounder supreme meme" Walls
itt we absolutely devastate materialism
>Atoms can't be conscious
>The brain is made of atoms
>Therefore the brain cannot be conscious
QED faggots
>atoms are tiny
>objects are made of atoms
>therefore all objects are tiny
atomic theory BTFO
>>7477602
>objects are made of atoms
who claimed this?
>>7477602
If you tell a physicist that something is small or large, they'll answer "compared to what?" Atoms are minuscule compared to the awesomeness of our God, so I'd say atomic theory has at least one gaping hole in it.
Stoner did nothing wrong
Edith did nothing wrong
Grace did nothing wrong
Ms. Driscoll did nothing wrong
Lomax did nothing wrong
Charles Walker did nothing wrong
Chris Walker is a complete fucking cunt. I hate that crippled nigger.
They all did something wrong except Edith and Grace
>it's possible to do things """wrong"""
Holy spookz
Do you identify with him?
>>7476960
No, I don't rape my sister, phoebe.
>>7476960I used toand I still do to an extent, cause think about it, some of his anger is pretty universal and rational, I think that one writer, whoever it was, explained it really well
I used to. What >>7476965 said is true too.
Holden is a whiny bitch, but goddamn if he doesn't have at least some valid points.
its boring desu
pynchon on ambien
Some people are just born plebeian.
It's better than Gravity's Rainbow
Comfy/10 masterpiece
>>7476674
It's for grown-ups who aren't obsessed with drugs. My grandmother's halfway through Mason & Dixon and is already asking what of Pynchon she should read next.
books that don't have stories in them are stupid and should be hitler burned. poltiics is for gays too.
>>7476508
anime should be burned
>>7476509
BURN YOU
>>7476519
Wrong answer
>tfw have to finish every book I start, no matter what
anyone else know this feel?
>>7475750
I always follow Nabokov's suggestions so I never read bad books.
>>7475809
>I always follow Nabokov's suggestions so I never read bad books.
>I tell myself I don't read shit book. But then again, I am a pedophile and don't know good from bad to begin with.
>>7475809
Why bother thinking for yourself when other people can decide for you?
Will art ever transcend the current post-postmodern/internet-meme era? Or is it doomed to decline to its absolute termination?
>>7461214
post-modernism is like capitalism or the han chinese, it integrates any opposition it comes across.
uhh art is still being created for arts sake, its just not commercialized mainstream shit.
were not post anything, just stuck in dystopian but comfortable consumerlandia
>>7461221
post modernism *is* capitalism
For those who've read "A la Recherché..." in French:
For how long were you learning French before you could read it, and is it written in an experimental or oblique way?
>>7478230
>how long
a long ass time.
>experimental
yes, but not in a way that makes it harder to read, imo. it still can be challenging though
Hey, actual French so I couldn't tell you how long I had to learn french sorry.
However, about the "experimental" aspects of A la recherche du temps perdu, it is what we call in lit studies a Méta Roman, which is a novel that gives the reader matter to think about the very process of writing.
It's accessible though and easily understandable, it just covers a wide range of philosophical and other wide and open-ended interrogations about life and what creation is all about.
Hope it helped, needless to say that I encourage you to read this...
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>>7478242
Would you say that Proust is one of those authors who loses more than most other French writers in translation?
why live if you are going to die anyway and nothing really matters?
>>7477148
Why die if you're going to live anyway and nothing really matters?
Why not?
the moral law obliges you to preserve your own life
>it was made after the 1970s
>>7477131
Just like you
has a colourful cover
>>7477131
>it was written before 1945
