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Books on a shelf arranged in old fashion in order to impress people, or random book biles that accumulate like grains of sand on the beach of your intellect?
Hard mode: is it even cooler to just not have any hard copies? But then what about rare coffee table joints?
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Books on a shelf arranged by their numbers in the Dewy Decimal System is obviously the best choice.
both. books on a shelf but then you have too many books so they spill over onto various surfaces in the room
So, /lit/, where were you when it dawned upon you that the only logical conclusion to metaethics is nihilism and that nothing--N O T H I N G--apart from subatomic particles, their configurations, and their processes, exist?
No moral facts
No abstract objects
No mental events
Just
S U B A T O M I C P A R T I C L E S .If you are wholly ignorant of contemporary analytic metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of mathematics, and mainstream mathematics (BSc in maths will suffice), please refrain from posting ITT.
>>8141354
I have accepted the divine perfection of inter universal Teichmüller theory into my Hodge theater
>>8141354
It's been a while since I've seen such a Philosophy 101 freshy post.
Well done.
>babys first set theory class
love it
Do you do it? Why? Was any combo particularly good?
i like to have one long book, and a collection of short stories to dip into when i'm not in the mood for it
I read one fiction and one non-fiction at once.
>>8141283
1 fiction 1 non fiction. Or fiction and poetry
I seriously thought this book was going to be about a factory that built robotic wasps to terrorize people.
I thought it was going to be about an inclusive "white anglo-saxon protestant" community that produced people who adhered to a conformist identity like they were being mass produced in a factory.
I thought it was going to be good
>mfw the twist at the end is revealed to my 13 year old mind
Paris Review
XXL
New York Review of Books
Complex
Latham's Quarterly
Monocle
Daedalus
Vibe
Paris Review
London Review of Books
New York Review of Books
Barrelhouse
Lady Churchills Rosebud Wristlet
New Yorker
Respons
Axess
SignumI'm Swedish.
>>8141225
The New Criterion
I'm poor and could only afford one.
Post some lit that'll remind me how widespread that teenage feel of lonesomeness is and how much of a massive faggot I am for reveling in it. I'm trying to become a goddamn adult. I'm 18 and no Catcher in the Rye please.
Try Fathers and Sons as well as Torrents of Spring by Turgenev.
>>8141151
Nice to know someone else is coping with this, I am nineteen years old and hope it will be over soon
what's a good text book that would really set me up with all I need to know about philosophy? Preferably one of those ones I can get for insanely cheap, like the norton anthology of poetry. I just picked one up on ebay for like 2 bucks, the hard cover copy no less. I need something like that with philosophy, I'm really looking into stuff like camus, sartre, nietzsche, but I want to have more room to expand and explore besides just these. It would be cool if it had some greek philosophers in it so I could get into all the "necessary" prerequisites, if you...
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>>8141149
Why don't you start with the Greeks like we keep telling you OK? Read the dialogues.
>>8141149
durant's story of philosophy
you can also get sophie's world and just read the bits typed in arial if you don't like the story surrounding it.
>>8141149
anthony kenny's book provides the best overview, though it favours the analytics and obviously sometimes mirsrepresents
ASOIAF vs BOTNS
Which is better? And why is it BOTNS?
Picture related.
the fuck is BOTNS?
>>8141184
You have to be 18+ to post on 4chan. No children are allowed to use this site.
>>8141184
Book of the New Sun
It's a fantasy series that's memed here a lot and considered literary by the people who spam it.
>" wake up in the morning feeling like p Diddy "
what did she mean by that?
poetry dissection thread
>For hither not, I am the Stallion
What did he mean by this?
p diddy is a rich high status man, the thing a woman wants the most, so when describing that she feels good, it's not a too far fetched association to make, also she was probably on a bunch of drugs and so on
>>8141041
>wake
Whose wake? Finnegan''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''s...
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What are some works of literature that capture the postmodern wacky spirit of musicians like Ween, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Mr. Bungle, Devo, and the Residents?
William S. Burroughs
>>8141035
Naked Lunch is hilarious, I agree.
SO MAMA IF YOU PLEASE PASS ME THE PORK ROLL EGG AND CHEESE
So what the fuck's actually going on with the Hugo awards? I heard last year they refused to deal out any because the ballot was stuffed with joke candidates and this year the same thing is going to happen? What's going on?
>>8141003
Pure Autism. Nerd culture is the cancer that is killing the West. Nerd Culture must perish. Burn it down.
>>8141010
This. Complete and total autism.
>>8141010
Anything killing the west must be doing something right
Should i try with sailing if i am socially anxious autist? Would men there crush me under their masculinity?
>>8140907
just remember to squeeze the sperm, anon.
>>8140907
That would be a very prententious thing to do, wouldn't it?
>>8140907
Sailing is mostly done by rich people that can afford yachts nowadays. If you're rich you will fit in.
>"If he be Mr. Hyde," he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek."
What did he mean by this?
>>8140882
He just wanted something catchy that could be turned into memes by the inernet culture. Don't read too much into it.
>>8140900
The internet didn't exist back then.
>>8142383
>implying
Was he a reactionary, modernist poet or just a very depressed individual?
He was a very depressed reactionary modernist poet.
yeah why are the two mutually exclusive
I got a really socialist vibe off some of his writings.
Who are some philosophers whose ethical philosophy is chaotic, relies on intuition, and discards emphasis on hedonic calculus or reason.
>>8140762
I'll bump for ya', lad.
>>8140762
Sounds like the self aware, self punishing sort of existentialism
Try Kierkegaard
stoicism
