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Wie wundervoll
I want to fuck her as she becomes a woman
>>8087688
I want to put my dick into that secret place no one dares to go.
>>8087698
in the notches of her spine
Sup, /lit/
Hit me with your irrefutably fantastic philosophical book recommendations that I can pick up this summer.
Seth Benardete - Herodotean Inquiries
>>8087581
how far into the canon are you?
>>8088247
I just got to Stirner
i fucking hate books
its 2016 why cant we move onto superior mediums like video games?
>>8087570
>>8087570
I fell for b8
why does this shitty thread get replies and mine never do
fuck this board
What is the best edition to begin reading Milton's Paradise Lost? What are its merits?
What's a book you would recommend to someone who's gone through almost all of the /lit/ starter kit and enjoyed none of it?
>>8087551
Given that, this should do.
>>8087527
I'm borrowing the one edited by Alastair Fowler
I became an avid reader like three months ago and I can't stop. I stopped watching tv and I don't spend much time on 4chan anymore.
Here's how I did it.
-Remember the average person reads like zero books a year. If you read 5 pages a day, you are 5 pages above the average person
-Don't force yourself to read. Commit to read 5 pages a day. I swear after three days you'll feel like reading more and after a month or so you should be reading 50-100 pages a day for pleasure
-Read various books at the same time. When I grab a difficult...
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That's solid advice, thanks anon
>>8087488
Nice dubs! And thanks for the great advice.
If you fucks like this book so much, why do you all so accurately embody the attention-seeking, identity-relishing art "appreciators," seeking not the recogition of being "freed into reality that we never see" but the public image associated with it; attempting not to "convince yourself of your existence" through art, but through the superficial reality and external judgment associated with art? Gaddis is rolling in his grave, my lads.
boi ur excited.
Because the only solutions the book offers aresuicideandliving it through. If you see any actual remedy to the situation I'd like to hear it. On a certain level the book should be read as an inoculation against all the masturbation and elitism, but short of finding a monastery what can be done?
On the other hand most people on this board haven't read this book. Gaddis-posting happened gradually over the last two years. I doubt that Gaddists are the same people that do all the rest of this board's posturing bullshit, because the irony can't...
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>>8087493
Pretty much this. Even if someone got into it for posturing reasons, they wouldn't have to read more than a fifth of it to see it parodying them. It keeps going in and out of print because it's plebproof.
Where do I go next with Pynchon?
This seemed to be universally recommend as the starting point, so what should I follow it up with?
>>8087402
Appreciate it, thank you
i just started with GR since i couldn't find CL49 or V in the library.
>Spanish and Italian tier
Perfectly phonetic. God-tier languages (literally). Genders done right, plurals done right, conjugations done right, word order done right, alphabet done right.
>French tier
DERPDERPLOLOL WE "ROMAN" LANGUAGE TOO DISREGARD A THIRD GERMANIC VOCABULARY. VOWELS EVERYWHERE MORE THAN NECESSARY SHIT. UN COUP DE, UN COUP DE, UN COUP DE. LETS PRONOUNCE "e" IN 4 DIFFERENT WAYS LOLOL NEVER PRONOUNCE LAST LETTERS DERP DERP REDDIT SHIT
>English...
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Do Norwegian / Scandinavian now.
>>8087155
By that reasoning you have to put portuguese with spanish and italian.
>>8087155
>thinking Spanish is a God-tier language for anything
>pinches gueritos realmente creen esto
Are you even trying anon? I'm a native Spanish speaker and it is a pain in the ass to read anything in Spanish that is of artistic merit.
I consider myself an Intelligent person, but I do not understand the purpose of "The Sound and the Fury".
It is beautifully written, my favorite parts being Benjy's and Quentin's.
However, I got absolutely no message from this book.
I understnad Faulkner loves and respects Southern Culture.
Was this simply just an exercise in appreciating Southern Culture?
>>8087015
>I consider myself an Intelligent person
Intelligent isn't a proper noun, it's an adjective
also did you really have to include that? You already know people will hate you for that, and if you don't then you clearly aren't very Intelligent.
>>8087021
I'm using it as a describing word you fucking dimwit.
It would be the same as; "I consider myself to be a strong person"
I never said I was MORE intelligent than anyone else, so why does it matter? My point was; this book baffles me.
>>8087030
you don't capitalize adjectives, buddy.
There's no need to get upset just because you don't know basic high school grammar.
And if you didn't think you were more intelligent than everyone else you wouldn't have pointed it out, as you did.
this is seriously one of the most tedious fucking books I have ever read in my whole life. reading this book is like doing a homework assignment. I get that it's supposed to be a critique of aristocracy, but oscar wilde really like to fling up dense ass sentences, and his characters speak in so many aphorisms, sometimes I just come to an absolute tug of war with my willpower to read through it, and my desire to finish the book. I'm dead serious, it's just so fucking tedious, who the hell reads this shit? I'm 56 pages into the book and it's 160 pages,...
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>>8086992
I read it in like four days and thoroughly enjoyed it. If you aren't feeling it just drop it it's that easy. You don't have to like every style
Welcome to 19th century literature OP. Don't forget to read the 9001 other """masterpieces" from that era.
>>8086992
>I get that it's supposed to be a critique of aristocracy
lamao
Hey, /lit/. Casual reader here.
Just finished reading pic related. Do you guys have any suggestions for similar works?
Both sequels. My Ishmael and The Story of B.
Just stay skeptical as you read. A lot of Ishmael's arguments are deeply rooted in Malthusian theories about overpopulation, which have been largely disproven.
>>8088194
>Malthus
>largely disproven
Certainly we have delayed the onset of a Malthusian catastrophe through the adoption of increasingly energy-intensive agricultural methods (Fritz-Haber process, etc). It remains to be seen whether we can continue to delay it indefinitely, especially in the face of climate destabilization.
>>8086947
Finish the Ishmael trilogy: The Story of B and My Ishmael. You can read them in either order.
You may also like Barbara Kingsolver. In particular:
>The Poisonwood Bible
>Prodigal Summer
>Flight Behavior
"For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with,...
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>Not fucking Alcibiades
The only reason you know this is because Plato wrote down.
>>8086896
Fuck off Derrida.
>been masturbating to transformation fantasies/pornography since I was 8 years old
>find the understanding of life as becoming rather than being inherently more sensible
Have my sexual inclinations shaped my philosophical ones, or is there some common neurological root?
>>8086738
You're probably just autistic
>>8086751
No, I was tested for that and was declared neurotypical back in 1990. Otherwise I would consider this hypothesis probable.
>>8086738
its possible
>get to page 60
>this happens
Now men, I have rubbed up against a few men in mytime, but women? Oh well, I may as well confess it now, yes, I once rubbed up against one. I don’t mean my mother, I did more than rub up against her.And if you don’t mind we’ll leave my mother out of all this. But another who might have been my mother, and even I think my grandmother, if chance hadnot willed otherwise. Listen to him now talking about chance. It was she made me acquainted with love. She went by the peaceful...
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>OLD PEOPLE SEX EYE BLEACH NUH
Oh get off it
>>8086578
I was laughing when I read it. I don't actually think I got meme'd and I'm enjoying this book quite a bit tbqhwy.
It just seems like Beckett's laughing from his grave for getting the Nobel Prize and comparisons to Proust for something so outrageously scatalogical.
>>8086752
How could he not be scatological, he learned from the best.
Words that let you know whoever's saying them hasn't read a book since high school. I'll start:
Orwellian
[any adjective]
"irregardless"
"deep-fried"
"words that let you know whoever's saying them"
"hasn't read a book since high school"
"I"
>>8086541
>speaks verbally
