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I've read C.G: Jungs Red book with the highest interest and I'm wondering, is there other good literature about religious psychosis that you'd recommend?
My diary desu
>>7709098
Philip K Dick did one of those.
>>7709098
Wieland by Charls Brockden Brown. Influenced Shelley when she was writing Frankenstein and is, in my opinion, the beginning the U.S. canon (Brown is certainly better than Cooper, who people often believe is the beginning).
Which philosopher has the greatest understanding of reality? Motivate your answer by referring to a body of work.
It's a progress.
Define "reality" first.
>>7708170
That which exists.
Is there a more satisfying feeling in the world than cracking the spine of a new book?
Getting through a new book without cracking the spine of a new book.
>>7699938
You're a MONSTER.
>>7699938
Cracking the spine of Beuce Wayne
In France, he praised a long list of writer-cum-penseurs from Montaigne through Voltaire and on to Jean-Paul Sartre. In the United States, he lauded Whitman, Thoreau, Hemingway, and Jack London. In Germany, the more “theory”-heavy pantheon included Leibniz, Kant, Hegel, Feuerbach, Heidegger, and Marcuse alongside Schiller, Heine, and Goethe.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/essay/lessons-from-the-xi-jingping-book-club
Philosopher King?
true patrician king. mastered the art of namedropping to please the plebs.
Is there a more based world leader alive today?
>>7707028
For a patrician, he sure has shite taste.
Longtime nerdfighter here. Since it seems you guys don't know, John Green has had Infinite Jest on display in the majority of the videos he's done in front of his bookshelf. Plus, he quotes The Pale King pretty heavily in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlGAeJ6SIWQ
dfw is john green tier, tell me something i didn't know
>>7705185
So what? He's still a faggot.
btw, the video I screencapped is from January 2007, the month he started making videos, so no one claim that he jumped on a bandwagon
>>7705189
Shit, I meant to do a >inb4 for this
So can we now finally acknowledge he was a hack?
>>7700188
Bolano was right, he was a hack.
>>7700397
Not baiting, you don't even have to go outside of Colombia to find better prose.
what is lits philosophical (i.e. without muh feels) thouhgt on prejustice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnxwnBKxgNg
>Philosophical (i.e. without muh feels)
This board is intended for people who have read a book at some point in their lives.
>>7709045
Key word: Intended
>>7709049
Key word: fuck off to your containment board
I'm 18. Want to read Ulysses. I'm in AP Lit, have read books like Heart of Darkness and Wuthering Heights.
Am I ready for it, or will I not understand a thing?
Let me kiss your neck and I'll tell you.
>>7706479
>Am I ready for it
Not even close. Ask again after you've read the whole of the western canon.
I just got into reading last year and didn't have too much trouble with it. You can read it alone for the sounds of the words and it will be enjoyable
Anyone read any good Nigel Farage books recently?
I'm currently reading the Purple Revolution and it's absolutely S M A S H I N G tbqh familiars. He's fucking killing it let me tell you lads.
Discuss the works of Nigel Farage in this thread.
maisie
our nige
I hear he will make this country great again
![eye_of_god_by_tarthiev-1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/eRbxMxg.jpg "eye_of_god_by_tarthiev-1[1].jpg")
>believe in god
>suddenly have an idol
>suddenly have someone to 'serve'
>give me motivation to stop being lazy
>always have something to fall back on
Sorry if this sounds a little fedora, but how can I get myself to do this? Is there any former atheists here that have successfully changed their belief (like actually believing)? What books or lectures or whatever made you convert?
read Dostoevsky and take an art history class
>>7704982
another option is get addicted to heroin and then join NA/AA.
a third is simply pray, and try to be sincere about it. eventually poof! you have experienced God's presence. this is the best way
Good or bad tales from university english/literature/writings course?
Was pleasantly surprised today.
>lecturer asks class why they've stopped reading books before
>I didn't sympathise with the characters
>I didn't agree with what it was saying
>it was too pretentious
>all met with soft, general laughter
>lecturer sets all stations to BTFO
>takes...
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How's lit in uni? I'm applying this spring and i'm a bit worried for my lack of social skills and general anxiety.
>>7699631
Could be hard for you if you're ""quite"" socially inept. However people I've seen like that seem to get along alright, generally with other people similarly anxious.
If you're really worried go to the early university/college organised events as you'll meet people who will then be available when you're on your own.
Only had first lecture so can't give you a definitive answer, this uni is also has the best humanities program in the country so it could...
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>>7699641
Are there lots of presentations or conversing in class? I would just prefer to shut the fuck up, go to lectures and write essays and my shitty novel.
What's /lit/'s opinion on Light Novels?
Most of them are pretty bad, or just average from what I've read, they are basically the Japanese equivalent of Teen Fiction after all, but there's some like pic related that are actually pretty good.
I don't know, I only read heavy novels
>>7704765
They are Japanese ya for retarded autists, reported and saged
Anime is misogynist filth, it's time we cleansed ourselves of this problematic content
1. Post the last line of one you works.
2. Other rate it.
>I am almost sure the first bullets didn't touch me.
This confession has meant nothing.
>>7703291
9/10.
It intrigues me.
>>7703287
The bells rang quietly as the door closed behind her.
Was it rape?
Rape is a point of view.
Regardless, she was just a child, she couldn't have been aware of the harm she was causing to such a vulnerable man.
The funniest part of this book ( and it is often very funny) is that Nabby sets Humbert up to be a murderer and then has the mom get hit by a truck do she is out if the way.
>>7702399
>Humbert himself admits in the narration that he catches her crying when she thinks she's alone near the end
Yes. It was definitely rape.
>>7702402
>Rape is a point of view
>Regardless, she was just a child, she couldn't have been aware of the harm she was causing to such a vulnerable man.
Now now, friend, I'm in favor of legalizing softcore...
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Don't say vonnegut
but it's vonnegut
le so funny whimsical quirky reddit man
alternatively dfw
>>7701698
Vongut
>>7701698
It is literally Vonnegut
Enjoyable and stylistic, over praised by hipster plebs and irrationally hated by bitter tryhards
