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oh god oh god oh god
>>8176881
Ironic that the passage you have opened obsesses about paper.
>>8176881
Suicide. Its the only way.
>Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us what we ‘must’ think, retain, expect, etc. language is neither informational nor communicational. It is not the communication of information but something quite different: the transmission of order-words, either from one statement to another or within each statement, insofar as each statement accomplishes an act and the act is accomplished in the statement.
Was he right?
>>8176860
Yes he was.
Yes, he was; no, he wasn't. You decide. Deleuze's work is a sweet box; you take what you like, just like Deleuze did with other writers.
>>8176885
I feel this way as well. Tracks on a record my dude.
What went wrong?
mid life crisis
plus masochism and a death fetish
and another Jap won the Nobel. so it would be many years before they got around to giving him one and he didn't want to wait that long
>>8176858
Nothing, everything went perfect
>>8176886
Except for the part where he couldn't gut himself properly and his friend couldn't decapitate him properly and had to get someone else to do it.
I'm sure it was a graceful experience.
>tfw you'll never be this hot
I hope not. You can practically see the sweat in his hair.
>>8176642
Kek
>>8176642
*perspires heavily*
Well /lit/, what do you think of this?
>>8176630
seems gay
would bully
>>8176630
Why the do you care what some random loser with a tumblr thinks?
>"Literature" is just some bullshit lists "adults" enjoy composing when in reality the real canon is anything you enjoy reading.
I don't agree with this. Works that are part of a canon are usually there for a reason. This person just seems like they're having a fit because they're pickier than "the average joe" about what they read, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. But suggesting that canons are just arbitrary lists is false.
What did /lit/ think?
boring and shitty. terrible ending. the shrike is a fag.
>>8176582
Well the ending continues into the next book
Canterbury Tales in space. Still quite good. And introduced me to Teilhard de Chardin, so there's that.
Can we just autoban threads that start with a picture of John Green's face?
They are, without exception, shitposts every single time
>>8176479
It's spelled autobahn.
>>8176503
Fah fah!
>>8176503
gz lit 9/11
Started reading seriously a year ago, can't seem to enjoy video games anymore. I usually play Final Fantasy games but I can't enjoy gaming when I know I could be reading and learning. Maybe I should switch over to shorter games.
Anybody else experience this?
>>8176442
Then you are not reading enough. I play video games to take a break from reading and rest my mind.
Yes, exact same thing. Don't worry too much about it. When you read more often and more demanding works you'll be glad to take a break with some videogames for a while, and that's good for you.
I read, I write. I watch dota sometimes.
Is pyrrhonism the end-game of life?
>>8176312
Actually, yes.
>>8176312
i doubt it
>there are limits to empiricism
>therefore you can't no nuffin
"philosophy"
What is the best/generally accepted version of Faustus? Should I go with Marlowe or Goethe?
>>8176220
Bump
>>8176220
Bump
Why not both?
Weren't Virgil and Ovid right that the Greeks were just a bunch of disgusting pederasts with pretty screwy ideas about how the world worked?
Socrates would literally shrug if he saw pic related.
And /lit/ will defend this!
What's not to shrug at?
>>8176192
>literally millions if not billions of pictures of girls scantily clad or nude
>society with lost morals and easy access to displaying or accessing hedonism
well m8 i think it's not the worst to shrug at what you posted.
Rubbing your spear between a boys thigh was over hyped up by scholars anyway in its occurrence.
>le hedonism is a dirty word may-may
What are you, a masochist? It's just pleasure, m8. Even Christ enjoyed turning water into wine. Did he later send those people to hell?
There is literally nothing redeemable about the Greeks. The Romans, on the other hand, at least learned how to fuck women, as Ovid showed us. Ovid and Lucretius also wrote better about materialism than any of the Greeks.
>society is a social construct
was he right?
>>8176168
Yes and no.
>>8176168
Marx's argument is that society is a product of material conditions. A huge portion of his life's work was arguing against the Idealist view that society is just an idea.
>>8176178
This.
OP kill yourself
Think of writing a novel that serves as a literary deconstruction of the 'Legend of Zelda' series; essentially I would explore the metaphysics of having three people (Link, Zelda and Gannon) continually reincarnated to undergo the same struggles. My twist is that the Link-analog would be a sociopath, the Ganon-analog would be actually quite a decent guy, and the Zelda-analog will either be a massive slut or hamstrung by a male-oriented culture (i've not decided yet). I'd hope to explore the blurring of lines between good and evil, with a dash of realpolitik.
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>>8176129
>deconstruction
Fuck off.
Why not explore how the series uniquely uses the interactivity of its medium to enable storytelling techniques that are otherwise impossible instead?
>>8176143
care to elaborate?
I'm a philosophical ignoramus, which I want to rectify. I'm reading pic related for a start. What is /lit/'s required philosophical reading?
The greeks, if you don't start with the greeks you're another undergrad armchair boi.
tractatus logico philosophicus (I never read it but it has the most badass name of any philosophy book I've ever seen).
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/edit
Redpill me about diaries, /lit/.
Is it beneficial to try to order your thoughts of the day on paper?
Ordering your mind is always beneficial.
That's like asking if doing Yoga, then some pushups and stretching in the morning for 20 minutes would be a good idea.
How wouldn't it be?
It's a question of dedication, if you can manage to cut other crap daily activities and do that instead
>>8176086
Diaries are basically quintessential if you want to write in a well-reflected way.
