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Who is the greatest thinker of the 21th century?
me
>>8265109
Nobody because we all stupid as fuck compared to our ancestors.
>>8265109
tao lin
Anyone read any Twain aside from Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer? Ive heard someone compare him to Gogol and I'm intrigued. Can anyone recommend a good starting point?
I suggest you start with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court
Prince and the Pauper is a timeless classic cant skip that one
His short stories are good too, read whichever theyre all decent to good
Just read Huck Finn. It's his only good one.
>>8266267
Tom Sawyer is literally better
You don't need to read the Greeks to understand Nietzsche or Stirner, which are the only philosophers you need.
“I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous — a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite.”
>>8264975
>he didn't even understand who the guy with the lamp was
kek
>>8264979
Implying I need to read Plato to know the Cave allegory
This is some fancy shit. Some of the best writers in the English language were using them. Anybody here writing that magnum opus with one, /lit/?
ballpoints desu
>>8264940
They're an excellent distraction to avoid actual writing.
let's do this /lit/
>>8264900
Can any book match its coziness?
>>8264906
Nineteen Eighty-Four isn't cozy you mong.
So, /lit/ how many pages do you read while taking a shit?
Do you have a book or two at reach when hitting the crapper?
I'm another man, made of real flesh and blood, typing this to you right now. I'm just as real as you. We could just as easily be sitting in the same room together. I'm a real person, not an abstract, anonymous post. Now imagine shit coming out of my ass.
>>8264888
Just Pensees It puts me at peace.
>>8264888
>>8264899
And I'd say never more than a page.
Are we still doing Infinite Summer?
>>8264843
Christ Almighty I hope not.
i am
>>8265000
Nice trips. How far have you gotten?
Hello /lit/
Let's play a game. Bookmarks. We decide, either based on the book, or the author of the book, what the most appropriate item would be to use as a bookmark, or an ironic item to use as a bookmark. You get the idea.
tldr: funny/appropriate bookmarks
50 shades of grey
tissues
Twilight
Oryx & Crake
a hospital wristband
What are some good books that bring me back to reality?
I have become so lost in postmodern absurdism and memes that my perspective on reality is total chaos and everything feels like a pointless purgatorial dream that ends when we die. I keep on having weird dreams and I am always tired and wanting to go back to sleep and dream again. The universe is too deep and cold.
Since you're in the abyss, why not The Kybalion?
>>8264816
Why is hermeticism etc the go to for occult stuff? Could just as well point him toward some chaos magick, it'd nicely tie in with what's going on with him at the moment
>>8264816
I have already started reading P. D. Ouspensky and George Gurdjieff. Esotericism > Occultism
>>8264795
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
>>8264848
>>8264866
What?
Man i have no fucking idea how to feel about this guy. I've read some Rothbard so I've seen some serious shit but idk where to place this guy, is he the absolute craziest Libertarian or is he the most sane Libertarian?
He's the last step before you're ready to digest Moldbug.
>>8264684
lol pretty much this.
His Democracy: The God That Failed is how you separate the principled libertarians from the posers.
If he sounds crazy, it's because society is.
Tangent: he called Keynes a faggot.
If you want to dip your toes, here's Hoppe writing how the theses of Marxism about class are basically correct, but then he gives it a Mises-Rothbard analysis.
https://mises.org/library/marxist-and-austrian-class-analysis-1
>>8264674
>a homosexual degenerate comes into my office and tries to justify his right to express his sexual identity without fear on the basis of his individual liberties
>gently remind him that non-kin based lifestyles are fundamentally incompatible with a private property based libertarian society and such individuals must either be forcibly removed from such a society or become property within it
>turn him into my means of production
boooooooo I am the ghost of David foster wallaces past from the future
Did you forget how to punctuate?
>>8264619
I'm just pretending booooooo
good thread anon
>yfw the K in his name stands for Killer
>yfw you realise Kafka was hinting that Josef was actually guilty all along and that he's an unreliable narrator
>yfw you realise he killed Fraulein Burstner and he saw her before he died as a sign of his guilt
>yfw you realise the obsession with women and sex throughout the book were signs of his psychosis and his supposed success with them was a delusion
>>8264597
>Josef was actually guilty all along and that he's an unreliable narrator
yyaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwn
>>8264597
>tfw you realize the k stood for kafka and he was killed for being a dirty jew
>>8264597
its translated from german you dolt, the word for "killer" doesn't start with k in german
If David Foster Wallace couldn't not kill himself, what chance do any of us have?
>>8264564
Most people are not as introspective, nor as demanding of themselves, as Wallace was
True. brb killing self
Came here to say he was an annoying little swot who thought too hard about things, now I feel shame reading the first comment.
Why are non-literary people happier than literary people?
Why does there seem to be an inverse relationship between how happy you are and how many books you read?
what exactly are you basing these assumptions on?
>>8264558
27 years (thought I guess you might aruge only 9 or 10 of those years were of concious effort) of attempting to associate myself with literary people and dissociate myself from non-literary people.
In that time, I've noticed the inverse relationship.
Reading promotes social isolation which leads to depression.
