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I tried making a thread about this the other day, but it was ignored. Let's try this again.
I'm not enjoying Gravity's Rainbow. Nor am I understanding any significance.
I loved part one, Beyond the Zero. The prose was great, several passages were meaningful to me, and I got a sense of the spirit of war and paranoia. Mexico and Jessica were my favorite characters.
But I'm in part three right now, and I'm not giving one fuck about this book anymore. Tell me reading the rest is worth it, please.
Sounds like you shouldn't be here, GR is like entry level lit
You are not supposed to enjoy all the books you read
>BUT BUT MUH MEMES !
Please leave
Saw your post but I haven't read GR yet. I'd say just finish it. I don't usually stop reading a book even if I don't like it. It's an OCD thing for me.
Is it worth it?
It looks like a bunch of Ad Hominems strung together into political science book form.
Are there any more scientific political science books?
>>8120916
Nothing Platonic is worth it.
Diogenes or bust
By Karl Pop Lock 'n Dropper
>>8120916
>tfw Popper's antichrist tract gets BTFO by Papa Dugin
http://arctogaia.com/public/eng-teor.htm
Will this water damage get better or can I fix this?
amazon cunts sending me wet books i swear to god i'll kill them
>>8120846
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200572800
you can return them. i returned one the other day. don't even have to pay for shipping if you do a dropoff
>>8120846
turn on your clothes dryer. let it heat up. turn it off. throw book in. let it dry in heat. I've done this.
do you guys organize your bookshelves by color?
what the fuck
organize by authors last name you clown
>>8120596
I did it once, when I only had about 60 or so books.
Would be painful to do with 1,000+
I organize them by size because autism.
I’ve been feeling sort of disturbed lately over the thought of how people use retribution and violence to comfort themselves. This disturbance came to me when I started thinking about whether or not it’s okay to hurt rapists after they’ve raped someone. I feel like if I were to just say, yeah go ahead and smash their balls with a sledge hammer, then that may satisfy some basic need for moral answers in the universe. The problem is, the existential and higher rationality side of me says that violence doesn’t really achieve anything.
So, it’s left me in an existential dilemma that I’ve been inside of for a while now. It’s the problem that there is no ultimate good or bad in this world. Even rapists, they’re only bad because we place that jurisdiction on them. We’ve come to a societal consensus that rape is a bad thing, for the betterment of our human kind. One of the reasons society has religion is because people feel - as I am feeling right now - uncomfortable with existential dilemmas. It makes us feel uncomfortable to feel like we don’t have answers in the world.
It feels like a valley has opened up inside my head and all logic seems to fall into it, like a black hole, the weight collapsing in on itself from the complexity of the problem. I realize with despair, there’s nothing that makes good people good and bad people bad, and the very idea of justice is something that perplexes me. This disturbs me to the core of my being, the existential dilemmas that we can face. There’s no ultimate feel good endorphin release with intellectualizing the universe. The only thing that can superseded our emotions is our intelligence, but even intelligence isn’t enough.
I don't believe I have the education needed to speak with authority on the matter but I believe you'd find something in René Girard's work. Memetic violence/scapegoating - s'wat he deals with. I've been meaning to get more into his ideas but I don't have the time anymore.
>>8120797
I'll look into this
Schopenhauer deals with this by saying that once a person has committed a harmful crime, the job of the state is to use him as a means to dissuade other would-be criminals from breaking the law via punishment, as well as to restore public order.
Do you own one /lit/ ? Do you want one ?
Is it worth it ? Typewriter thread
>>8120430
Yes I have 2, one being more modern and electric. They aren't worth it.
I used to have one as a kid. They're inferior to computers in every way except the cool sounds they make when you type.
It will probably end up sitting around if you buy one but it is pretty cool to ink stamp. Can be "problematic" to keep maintained as well
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Is this the most literary facial hair yet discovered?
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not even close
desu
My grammar is awful. How do I improve it?
first step: stop posting lewd women on /lit/
>>8120158
Read more write more.
>>8120158
Who cares. Most grammatical rules are arbitrary unless you're in academia.
Dude, what do you mean you're reading? It's Friday fuckin' night. Didn't you graduate like 2 years ago anyway?
>>8120143
Let's go hunt for some fuckin pussy dude cmon dude let's do this stop bein a bitch you can read anytime literally anytime we are only gonna be boys for like another 3-5 years tops let's get some brews put your book away it's probably pleb I know you I know its pleb you'll probably not even read it and just post on that creepy site. YES YOU're COMING? LETS GO
i don't like going out, people will judge me.
I'm such a craft ale addict. I'm like a zombie on the weekend without it! I try not to drink not than 3 local craft brews day, but let's be honest, including my daily post-prandial Fernet-Branca I have with dinner, that's literally impossible.
Is there a torrent of this anywhere? I really want to read it.
http://libgen.io/ads.php?md5=ECA54D210A554FBD4074E9B68129EB1F
>>8119805
Thanks, anon. Now, if only I was not so retarded so I could figure out how to open a file with a filetype "File".
Not a torrent but
http://bookzz.org/book/2477192/2abac6
Looks like there's some other stuff included, too.
Can one still be a polymath in modern days like they used to be 500-600+ years ago? Can one have top tier knowledge and be respected on a topic without directly studying it in a university?
>>8119774
>Can one have top tier knowledge and be respected on a topic without directly studying it in a university?
If you have courage of the heart, and ability to tell your peers no, and an internet connection, yes.
No, academia killed polymaths.
>>8119774
For the second question, certainly. Autodidacts are everywhere, especially when there's so much information online nowadays that you can give yourself a graduate degree in anything for free.
For the first, it depends on what you mean by polymath. Making novel contributions to disparate fields is something that's very unlikely in 2016; academia is simply too deep anymore.
But if you just want to have a solid base of knowledge, say at the rough level of an undergrad degree, in multiple subjects,...
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Do you owned any autographed books?
>>8119754
yes
No but I own one of DFW's dogs
>>8119754
Why is that autographed by Arnold?
recognize the summer
let's not be plebs and read gay, pointless infinite jest. let's read something with some literary merit.
starting Monday June 13 /lit will be reading the recognitions! we will be reading 100 pages a week and having daily/weekly discussions.
don't be a pseud and fall for the infinite jest. try reading a book that actually relates to us. like the recognitions.
recognize.
>>8119670
Seasonally, The Recognitions is more of a winter book T B H. Though I'm reading it now myself (at page 630 now) and do agree that it's infinitely better than Dave's jest.
>>8120062
so many niggas getting meme'd. they don't even know the organizer never read the book. he's just trolling them lel
lmao where the fuck do you expect people ti even find this old man shit? their grandpa's dusty ass attic? get real man
>“It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the power to do its killing.”
Is this actually a metaphor?
nah
that's not what a metaphor is
a foolish young character telling another character something doesn't have to be correct
okay so, I have another thread up right now, but I just wanna be sure. I wanna get the most fucked up, extreme books you know. I mean like grotesque, mind lacerating violence and horrible taboo unspeakable sex acts, and whatever else completely rots away your sense of security and consciousness. I just want an atomic bomb of filthy disturbing fucking, well written mind fucking shit. I'm the guy with the other thread with hogg, the painted bird, the marble swarm, cows, crash.
Like, these are the best books for that right?
The Room
Babyfucker and 120 days of Sodom I guess.
