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Who is your favorite Pynchon character?
The Paranoids
The one with the funny name.
Pig Semen Bodine
have you read any good books about relationships?
>that hint of arch cleavage
FFFFFFUCK
Between men and women?
And good in the sense that they have explanatory power? Because The Shining is also a book about a relationship.
>>8155335
Not my diary desu
Books you like specifically for the narration style
>pick up book
>not sure if I should suffer through the introduction or not
>>8155227
I prefer reading it after reading the book. It often poses interesting views, but they tend to give away half the plot as well. And you can only really appreciate the views after having read the book yourself first.
>>8155262
>Detective stories with spoiler heavy introductions
>>8155227
>pick up book
>the author of the introduction is monstrously biased and completely misunderstands the author/book whose introduction they're writing
This happened to me with every single Nietzsche/Schopenhauer book.
>MS: You have always been an advocate of the primacy of the aesthetic: “To read in the service of any ideology is not, in my judgment, to read at all,” you have argued. Is it still possible in our post modern age to prioritize the aesthetic values of a work over the considerations of race, class and gender?
>HB: In my view, all these ideologies have destroyed literary study in the graduate schools and in the academies. Whether you call it feminism, which is not really feminism, has nothing to do with equal rights for women, or whether you call it transgenderism, or ethnicity, or Marxism, or any of these French manifestations, be it deconstruction or one mode of differential linguistics or another, or whether you call it — what I think is mislabeled — the new historicism, because it’s neither new nor historicism, but simply a dilution of Foucault, a man whom I knew and liked personally, but whose influence I think has been pernicious, just as Derida’s, with whom I also shared a friendship until eventually we broke with each other. All these “isms” are preposterous of course; they have nothing to do with the study of literature or with its originality. As I’ve said before, the esthetic is an individual and not a social concern.
Does this mean that the reader should not subject the work to anything but his own taste?
My problem with Bloom is that, as far as I can tell, he is solely focused on a work's aesthetics. It's a bit like Oscar Wilde, I guess; he seems to believe that only a work's pure artistic value gives it merit. This gives him pretty good taste, but I wonder if this means he doesn't value literature for its moral and philosophical dimensions.
>>8155105
>My problem with /lit/ is that, as far as I can tell, you shitters are solely focused on a work's aesthetics
A revelation
>>8155086
>meminism
>one's personal aesthetic taste
YES WHAT A FUCKINGnot falseDILEMMAat all
Holy... holy shit guys. This book fucked my shit up. Anyone else heard of it? More like this?
>>8154811
>Anyone else heard of it?
its on the meme chart ffs
>>8154811
SHUT THE FUCK UP, OP! SHUT! UP!
>tfw you can't talk about a genuinely good book anymore because of meme threads like this
Timshel!
So it goes.
listen to the song timshel by I can make a mess like nobody's business and let me know what you think
>>8154664
Just finished reading this. I really liked it.
Thoughts, /lit/?
Everyone is immortal, it's mortality that is an illusion of consciousness.
>>8154406
That's retarded because Archimedes won't be remembered if language dies. His ideas will have to be rediscovered and the new person will get the credit.
Or does he mean that Aeschylus will be forgotten when the Ancient Greek languages die? Because that's equally retarded.
>>8154406
Mathematical ideas do die tho. Remember when Pythagoreans had a hard on for all numbers being rational? More recently remember the whole Monster Moon Shine thing?
Do you know some good book similart to the Deus Ex series?
>>8154206
Neuromancer maybe?
>>8154206
Th Night's Dawn Trilogy has some interesting themes about human emancipation and our relationship with technology.
Did she do it tho? Did she cheat?
>>8154139
I think you may have missed the point anon.
>>8154139
No. It wouldn't have been so tragic otherwise.
Is being on the internet all day denying the will?
>>8153207
It's an addiction. I wonder if it effects the brain the way alcoholism does
>>8153207
fuck the will, burn it
>>8153211
It does. Internet addiction affects the brain the same way that alcohol does; behavioral and chemical addictions work in the same way.
Who's /lit/'s favorite psychologist?
I've read freud's interpretation of dreams, everything by carl jung except for the red book, most of carl rogers, a lot of aldous huxley, more than I wish i'd read of ken wilber, and albert ellis is on the way in the mail but i'm running low on options and i'm trying to avoid aimless pontification, undefined and interchangeable terminology, and vague generalities that apply loosely to anything but directly to nothing. I realize those things are everywhere in the social sciences but I'd just like to keep it to a minimum. Any new names would be appreciated. Thanks.
>>8153182
Op here. I guess I should clarify that i'm mostly interested in counseling, therapy, educational, and maybe forensic psych.
>>8153182
Freud.
>>8153187
gee thanks
Is anyone else seeing this huge Scientism strain running throughout public discourse? Maybe I'm spending too much time on Reddit, where everyone is either an SJW or suffering from Scientism. And it's not just STEM autists, it's even normies. It seems there's a fucking "Expert" for everything.
Economists, psychologists, historians, journalists, political "scientists", policy "experts"... fucking hell, and I used to laugh at Africans because of witch doctors!
>>8153091
nerd
>>8153091
>Scientism
thread ignored
>>8153097
It's a legitimate term of critique IMO.
At what point did she cross the line from "untalented, but honest and earnest writer" to "complete fucking hack"?
>>8153070
publication of the philosophers stone
When she started retroactively changing parts in her books to fit the times.
the moment I registered for my high school's young republican club.
If I told you I read Tolstoy's entire bibliography how would you react?
I would talk to you only after you've read the entire Dostoevksy.
if you read the english translations? with utter disgust.
Several cases come to mind.
1. I already know you, or know of you:
1.1. I already know that you've read Tolstoy's entire bibliography:
1.1.1. You do not know that I already know: I would or would not inform you of it, depending on the situation.
1.1.2. You know, but have memory problems that I know about: I would or would not remind you of the fact that I already knew this, depending on the situation.
1.1.3. You know, and have no memory problems that I know about: I would ask you why you are bringing up this fact now.
1.2. I do not know that you've read Tolstoy's entire biography:
1.2.1. I know that you can read Russian: I would await your further pronouncements on the subject of Tolstoy.
1.2.2. I do not know whether you can read Russian: I would ask for a confirmation that you can read Russian.
1.2.2.1. Your confirm that you can read Russian: see 1.2.1.
1.2.2.2. You inform me that you cannot read Russian: laugh, spittle, bend, knee-taps.
1.2.2.3. Neither confirmation nor denial comes: as good as a no, see 1.2.2.2.
2. I do not already know you, nor know of you:
2.1. We were engaged in a conversation to which your statement of having read Tolstoy's entire bibliography is relevant: see 1.2.
2.2. We were not engaged in such a conversation:
2.2.1. We were engaged in a different conversation, to which your statement of having read Tolstoy's entire bibliography is not obviously relevant: I would ask you why you are bringing up this fact now.
2.2.2. We were not engaged in any conversation: I would either nod, shrug, or ask what you are hoping to achieve by approaching random strangers with this fact, depending on the situation.
Note: the outcomes to which I have provided alternatives depending on the situation may take into account any such factors as your outwards appearance, poise, behaviour, clothing, sex - apparent or implied, apparent age, smell, voice, medical state, country of origin, etc., in no particular order.
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