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who is your: favorite philosopher? favorite poet? favorite novelist?
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who is your:
favorite philosopher?
favorite poet?
favorite novelist?
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john green
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jack red
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>Philosopher
Aristotle
>Poet
Pound
>Novelist
Gass
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>>7735815
Ayn Rand
Fernando Pessoa
Ayn Rand
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Elliot Rodger
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Right now:

>favorite philosopher?
Spinoza
>favorite poet?
Wordsworth
>favorite novelist?
Tolstoy
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>>7735815
Augustine
Southwell
Camus
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>>7735815
Epictetus
Baudelaire
Kazantzakis
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Hegel
Mira Gonzalez
Proust
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Either Hume or Sartre
Poe
Camus
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Nietzsche
Rilke
No idea
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>>7735816
>>7735824
joe blue
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>>7735884
kill yourself
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>>7735843
>favorite philosopher
>Spinoza

Surely you can't be serious?
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>>7735884
Find the intruder.
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>>7735815
>favorite philosopher?
Socrates
>favorite poet?
King David
>favorite novelist?
Fyodor
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Nietzsche
Yeats
DHL
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Plato

Ezra Pound

William H. Gass
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>>7735815
Schopenhauer
Pablo Neruda
Marcel Proust
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>>7735815
Soren Kierkegaard
William Carlos Williams
William Faulkner
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>>7735929
Why could I not be serious?

I generally agree with his pantheism and determinism.
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>>7735980

he's come to be associated with the "i fucking love science crowd" and the person who responded to you probably isn't familiar with him beyond that
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>>7735815
Aristotle
Homer
Kharms
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>>7735968
u wanna fite, mate?
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>>7735980
>>7735929
>>7735843
>>7735990
What are some of his more exciting ideas?
I've only read the introduction of his Political Theology and it is perhaps an eye-opener to people who grew up in a society where clergymen are now looked down upon too much.
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>>7735825
There's Gassposter
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>Philosopher
Corian
>Poet
Keats
>Novelist
Dostoevsky
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>>7735825
Question for you, while I think of it. How is Being Blue by Gass? I saw it at the bookstore about a week ago, was thinking about checking it out.
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>>7735968
Hey Snag wots in the bibl'? wot are the books ov the bible? Name 'em, don't bullshit ME.
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Philosopher: Kant (but I tend to agree more with Nietzsche)
Poet: Chaucer
Novelist: Dostoevsky
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philosopher: Plekhanov
poet: Mandelstam
novelist: Yerofeyev
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Philosopher
>probably Nietzsche just because of his presentation and writing in addition to his ideas. Jacques Maritain is up there too tho

Poet
>Yeats

Novelist
>Joyce 1st place followed by Gaddis
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>>7736022
You caught me.
>>7736031
Unfortunately, I haven't gotten to it yet, but, from what I've heard, it is a very interesting read (if you're interested in learning about all the connotations and perceptions of a color, that is).
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>>7736031

It's fantastic. Gass is the greatest living writer.
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plato confirmed for best philosopher

all others are noobs
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Kierkegaard

Eliot, Dante, Shelley, Auden, Leonard
Cohen.

Dostoevsky.
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>Philosopher
Jean Jacques Rousseau
>Poet
Adam Mickiewicz
>Novelist
Herman Melville
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Aristotle

Elliot

Rand
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>>7735815
>Philosopher
Nietzsche
>Poet
Keats
>Novelist
Bolano
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Plato or Deleuze

Catullus or Sappho

Can't decide
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>>7736032

Teach? It cannot be done.
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>>7736022
there's gassposter-poster
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shit taste all around
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>>7735815

>philosopher
Augustine
>poet
Dr. Seuss
>novelist
Marcel Proust
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>>7736286
deep, dude

deep
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Kierkegaard
Wallace Stevens
Pynchon
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>>7736087

Tbh this
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>>7735815
>Jiddu Krishnamurti
>Frederick Neitzsche
>Classical? Hegel
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Hegel
Gabriela Mistral
Dostoevsky
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>>7735815
>Plato
>Bukowski
>Phillip K. Dick
Shout out to John Cheever
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>>7736357
In that order?
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Charles Sanders Piece
William Blake
William Faulkner
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Platon
T. S. Eliot
Hermann Hesse
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William James
Clive James
Henry James
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>>7736797
william james is a fucking joke compared to pierce you lil kid
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Nietzsche
Baudelaire
Dostoyevsky

Ugh, this response is so edgy, but these are my honest answers
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>>7736806
Now I have two reasons to think you're stupid.
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>>7736807
All those probably end up being in the top 5 in each category. There's nothing edgy about you, you're not special.
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>>7736834
cool
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Philosopher: Wittgenstein
Poet: Stevens
Novelist: Woolf
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>>7735815
Hume
Milton
Hemingway
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>Albert Camus
>Ady Endre
>Fyodr Dostoyevsky

>>7735940
I recommend you God Knows by Heller because of your favourite poet.
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>philosopher
DFW
>poet
Joyce
>novelist
Pinecone

what now?
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>>7736928

You must embrace the memetic nature of your existence. You are the zeitgeist. Live now, and live fast, but know that you will vanish in a dreadful manor.
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>>7735815
Augustine
Housman
Waugh
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>>7736923

That looks interesting; thanks.
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Stirner
Severino Di Giovanni
Emile Zola
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>>7736031
it's his only good book
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Aristoteles
Vinicius de Moraes
Tolstoy
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>>7737250
I disagree. Why do you feel that way?
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>>7737254
because the tunnel is steaming pile of shit

academics can't write actual masterpieces
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>>7737290
Care to substantiate those claims?
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>>7737249
>Zola

I read the Belly of Paris last year, I generally enjoyed that. I also have Nana and Germinal. Which one shall I read next? Or do you suggest maybe another book to read next by Zola?
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>>7735815
favorite philosopher?
>I find Camus very comforting
favorite poet?
>Don't really have any. Maybe someone could recommend me one based on my other answers
favorite novelist?
>Dostojevskij
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Diogenes
Leino
Dostojevski
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Kongzi, the Stoics
Don't read any poetry.
Mishima / Nabokov
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>Schopenhauer
>Homer
>Dostoevsky
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Peter Singer
Wyclef Jean
Brad Thor
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Merleau-Ponty
Heaney
Tolstoy
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>>7736910
Good answer
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>>7735815
Nietzsche
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>>7737302
care to explain why the tunnel is worth anything at all?

just a long difficult book about why life sucks

cool
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Kierkegaard
Eliot
Melville
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>favorite philosopher?
JVD
>favorite poet?
JVD
>favorite novelist?
JVD
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>>7737636
It's a beautifully written analysis of history, art, war, philosophy, and language; and it provides an opportunity to poke around in the kind of mind that made the holocaust possible. If you didn't understand it, that's fine, but making baseless claims about it isn't.
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>>7737383
Anything of the Natualism style, (Tolstoy/JackLondon/Stephen Crane) have you read the Fortune of the Rougons yet?
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>>7735815
>Philosopher
Plato
>Poet
Thomas Hardy, I know very little poetry
>Novelist
James Joyce
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>>7735980
>pantheism
>"Guise, tables are modes of Deus sive Natura's mental substance"
fuck off with your thinking God-tables
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>>7735815
>>7735829
Marx
Blok
Wells
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Stirner
Not Sure
De Sade
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Me
Me
Me
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>>7735815

>Philosopher
Marx
>Poet
Mario Benedetti
>Novelist
James Joyce
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>>7739578
Pretty spooky
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>>7737667
>favorite /lit/izen
JVD
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>favorite philosopher?
Thomas Hobbes
>favorite poet?
Nicanor Parra
>favorite novelist?
Tie between James Joyce and Gabriel Garcia Marquez

BONUS ROUND

>favourite short-story writer?
Jorge Luis Borges
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>>7739716
>Benedetti
SANTIAGO
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I
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