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>Corncob Tortillas
>>8145130
>asperger pedophilia butterfly man
>>8145042
I happen to think this may be a comfy book. Is it a comfy book?
Hawkes thread.
>>8144878
is hawkes any good? are there some similar authors that are more commonly read?
>>8144878
Are you a Hawkes scholar or what?
I'm looking for very poetic sort of avant garde, dream like literature. Preferably something that's more human feeling, not ridged. It could be stories, or personal writings, or poems. Whatever. I just want something brilliant, imaginative, written like it was written for no one but the writer his or herself.
Proust
The Other Side by Alfred Kubin
Infinite Jest
>character is described as fat
>instantly detest them
Why are you so filled with self-contempt Ignatius?
>>8144719
because my father touched me as a child
>character's physical aspect is described
>In the literary machine that Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time” constitutes, we are struck by the fact that all the parts are produced as asymmetrical sections, paths that suddenly come to an end, hermetically sealed boxes, noncommunicating vessels, watertight compartments, in which there are gaps even between things that are contiguous, gaps that are affirmations, pieces of a puzzle belonging not to any one puzzle but to many, pieces assembled by forcing them into a certain place where they may or may not belong, their unmatched edges violently...
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>>8144602
so, short stories?
>>8144602
Deleuze is pretty great, but if you aren't familiar with his work he always sounds like a rambling hobo. I suppose that stands for most philosophers though.
>>8144667
He's definitely for people already deep within it.
Do plebs go sock-show, sock-shoe or sock-sock, shoe-shoe?
Whatchu talkin bout Willis?
sock-sock shoe-shoe
>>8144555
The order of how you put your socks and shoes on. Do you put both socks on and then both shoes, or do you do one foot at a time?
What do you think of John Green's analysis of this book?.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R66eQLLOins
>>8144533
Hey I said a Spook!
Spook!
Spookity Spook!
Hey lookie here it's a,
Spook! Spook!
Spookity Spook!
>>8144557
You're spooked.
>>8144533
>Not even a minute in
>Already talking about islam
Holy fucking shit
Everything was so simple before you. Everything was bad in the right way, but you had to make it better.
You used all of your magic to make me wanna get up and do things.
And suddenly you just turn around, like a Power Ranger, while an explosion happens.
And the explosion is me. It's happening inside me.
And I can't stop wondering if there's any other timeline in which none of that happened, and I'll just wake up in a normal day, drink my milk, watch some movie and play pokemon.
But I can't even sleep. I wake up three or four times because...
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Epic. You should have fucked the rhythm of your sentence up a bit more though.
>>8144525
that movie was fucking amazing desu
#1 all time
>>8144653
>Nu-Male gets cucked by his pretend e-girlfriend
Yeah no wonder you liked it
Have any of you actually read this? and why?
I'm a few chapters in, and I expected complete bullshit math theory, but it's actually one of the better philosophy books I've read
>>8144498
>Have any of you actually read this? and why?
Yeah I've read it entirely once, then gone back and read significant portions here and there.
Why? I thought it was going to have a lot more "actual" mathematics, and I was about to go for my BS in math. Still I kept reading after I realized there wasn't a ton of math.
It gets shit on a lot but it's a very fun book. I don't think you're supposed to take it very seriously. It's a...
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>>8144498
I get through like half of it each time and then realize that its basically a watered down version of my undergrad theoretical CS class. Read QC since democritus (scott aaranson) if you want a rigorous, and arguably more fun read.
read I am a strange loop, is better if you like the philosophy parts
I'VE NEVER READ A SCI-FI NOVEL
I've read plenty of Fantasy, Horror, and other genre stuff but for whatever reason I've never gotten to Sci-Fi. Where should I start? Is pic related a good jumping in point?
Stanislav Lem, especially Solaris. That's where you should stop as well, most of the other stuff doesn't transcend the genre. Maybe the Strugatzkijs, but they are not on the level of Lem.
>>8144472
I gotcha.
Arthur c clarke can be good. Apparently the rama series is widely loved but i've never read it. Childhoods end, I have. And I agree with many people who say it's his best. The space oddysey series by him was alright but you have to be patient for it.
Dune is liked by a lot of people, I found it painful to trudge through. I hate the way he writes and I was attached to none of the characters, but the series was not without it's good ideas.
A lot of people differ on the ender...
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>>8144493
odyssey*
I knew it didn't look right.
>The light drizzle didn't hold them back from gigglingly running down to the beach hand in hand. Once they got there, they were catching their breath and slowly turned their heads towards each other, both with a big smile on their face, and just let themselves fall back, where they softly landed and made angelic figures into the wet sand by moving their arms up and down, and their legs from side to side. They laughed and laughed and it was truly an infinite jest.
Really?
really?
>>8144223
>As they plummeted back through the atmosphere Slothrop and Private saw some Banana shaped clouds. As Private wondered if he would be able to make it back to Earth in time for Breakfast, he saw a natural phenomenon that blew his find. As their V2 Apollo Rocket passed through the clouds and the symbol God had given to Moses, he realized that he had truly seen Gravity's Rainbow.
I can't believe I got memed THIS hard.
Jesus Christ sage
What are some books that could get a 15 year old into heavy literature? I want to get my 15 year old son into literature, but dont know where to start. so far all ive had him read is animal farm
pic completely unrelated
tell him that he'll turn into a frogposting 40 year old if he doesnt
>>8144212
jonathan livingston seagull, hatchet, swiss family robinson, monte cristo, vonnegut, heinlein, huxley, kipling...
>>8144212
depend on his character mate
don't pick something that he's also going to end up reading at school
when i was 15 i loved stuff like HG Wells and Jules Verne and the Sherlock Holmes stories
Any philosophy that supports the fair acquisition of wealth?
>>8144184
literally all of them, for various values of "fair"
>>8144184
well spook'd m'lad
>>8144184
Utilitarianism
If you acquire wealth by making other people happy, it's acceptable.
It's how capitalism should be done.
How do I resist the desire to write schlock?
For reference, and I struggle to name an example that won't make you erupt in argument, the Flash Gordon movie is schlock.
Maybe I would intellectualise it, but the core plot would be schlock.
The desire. How do I resist it?
The only resistance is the pistol, the sword, etc applied to self.
>>8144051
Stop watching Anime
>>8144051
Why resist it? Schlock is what the people want. Write it, market it right, and make money.
ITT Book that mono-linguical peoples will never understand
>>8144026
I'm okay with that one since I'd rather not speak babbling retard.
>>8144026
>you have to be bilingual to understand cykablyad lingo
>having to re-read the first chapter is a lack of understanding
