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What are Nietzsche's books about and with what book to start?
They're all the desperate attempts of a virgin edgelord to shock his contemporaries.
>>8010180
maybe to a resentful pseud.
>>8010173
>What are Nietzsche's books
The books he wrote.
>and with what book to start?
First, you need to be familiar with ancient philosophy, read enlightenment philosophers thoroughly (Kant in particular) and Schopenhauer.
The Birth of Tragedy is a good book to start, but I'd skip to Antichrist or Beyond Good and Evil.
' Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressinggown, ungirdled, was sustained gently behind him on the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:
—Introibo ad altare Dei.'
What did he mean by this?
>>8010167
It might just be because I grew up around Irish people who talked all types of retarded but I can read Ulysses just fine.
He didn't mean anything. Literature is a scam on the middle class.
>>8010167
Most likely Joyce was drunk or high on metamphetamines while writing it. Luckily he started making a bit more sence in his more entry level diddly called Finnegans Wake.
Gotta come up with a poem for my mom for mothers day.
I got nothing
Freud got it right,
Oh your buttocks, oh so tight
Because it is mother's day,
I will prove you dear Momma,
That your son is naught gay.
Mothers day is in march
>>8010151
Kek
Which Hemingway best conveys the failure of masculinity?
idk, maybe the one where the guy literally has no dick
Hemmingway*
Ernest Hemingway
I am going to coach you on how to write a short story by writing one in real time.
Step 1. The pitch.
Come up with a few ideas, and then decide to go with one. For example
1. A cat finds out he likes dogs
2. A witch must save Christmas
3. A man must drink 9 sodas
Step 2. Pick the pitch, and come out with a rough outline.
Now this will be the best part for most of you. You guys never finish shit. You start a million projects, and when the initial excitement wears off, you start getting lazy towards the end, and just start something else. As Gay Man says, you need to write, and you need to finish things.
This rough outline will help you the most with that. I know you heard Stevey KINGS just writes as he goes and would never preplot something out, but you should if you have problems finishing things.
It doesn't have to be super detailed. Pick a cool first sentence, describe the crux of the story, and have a vision for the final scene, all while trying to have some allegory behind the tale.
I'll go with the soda pitch.
1st sentence= "The modern human body can hold approximately 6 1/2 sodas at any given time, and I'm staring at 7 empty Dr Pepper bottles, and two full ones, while trying not to vomit."
The crux of the story is a man must drink 9 sodas or terrorists will kill his roach. The themes deal with how dangerous consumption is, and why we can sometimes do self destructive things for love.
The ending scene will involve the death of the character while watching his pet roach live.
>opening paragraph reminisces on something his/her father did/said
>>8009997
>B-but people trust fatherly advice.
Patriarchial scum, gtfo out of my mainstream page-turners.
Doesn't The Great Gatsby do this?
>opening paragraph reminisces on something her/his mother did/said
Dr Manhattan vs Tom Bombadil
Who would honestly win? They're the 2 most powerful characters in the history of storytelling.
I dunno, but I know who the looser is.
>omnipotent nature spirit vs some capeshit reddit man
gee i wonder
Who the fuck is tom bombadil. Wh the fuck is Doctor ManHattan.
Get this hsit out of here.
Why is bookdepository so fucking expensive?
You can get the same book from amazon for $10.
>>8009792
Great question.
>>8009792
Some things just are.
People on /lit/ like to pretend there's some problem with amazon.
Favorite books by Russian authors?
>inb4 obvious list
There's a paragraph in particular, right before Pechorin's duel, that still haunts me and which I think sums up the Romantic-Byronic spirit of poets like Lermontov himself or Pushkin.
I read it in a Spanish translation, but he paragraph in English it this:
And, maybe, I will die tomorrow! . . . And not one being on this earth will have ever understood me totally. Some thought of me as worse, some as better, than I actually am . . . Some will say “he was a good fellow,” others will say I was a swine. Both one and the other would be wrong.
Given this, does it seem worth the effort to live? And yet, you live, out of curiosity, always wanting something new . . . Amusing and vexing!
And in Russian, in case anyone actually knows how to read it (I don't):
И, мoжeт быть, я зaвтpa yмpy!.. и нe ocтaнeтcя нa зeмлe ни oднoгo cyщecтвa, кoтopoe бы пoнялo мeня coвepшeннo. Oдни пoчитaют мeня хyжe, дpyгиe лyчшe, чeм я в caмoм дeлe... Oдни cкaжyт: oн был дoбpый мaлый, дpyгиe — мepзaвeц. И тo и дpyгoe бyдeт лoжнo. Пocлe этoгo cтoит ли тpyдa жить? a вce живeшь — из любoпытcтвa: oжидaeшь чeгo-тo нoвoгo... Cмeшнo и дocaднo!
read the sticky
Why do so many revolutionary leftists treat Das Kapital as infallible gospel? Is it because Marxism a civil religion? That is, a doctrine that resembles true religion, but without a proper personal God - it seems like Das Kapital functions as a Bible, a Qu'ran, for the Marxists, and that the possibility of Marx being wrong about certain aspects of economics seems unacceptable, even when it is reiterated that Marx undoubtedly also had good ideas.
why do marxists take historical materialism as a religion? why do marxists think that it's "scientific"? why do marxists always whine about revisionism/no true marxist when discussing the failures of communist regimes? why do marxists try to downplay mass atrocities committed?
nice bait
Because tankies are retarded. They can't accept that the leftist experiments of the 20th century were deeply flawed (not complete failures mind), because they aren't prepared to do the difficult work required to move socialist thought forward.
>tfw too smart
How do i deal with these unenlightened fucks? I can't stand normal people they always drag me down.
>>8009740
well why don't you roll around on the ground and cry or stamp your feet or something you special snowflake
>>8009740
Just stop socializing except for with people legitimately as or more intelligent than you.
>>8009754
I wish i could man. I'm searching for like minded people but they haven't showed up thus far in my experience and i don't really understand why.
At what point does the narrative of Infinite Jest actually pick up?
I'm on like page 100 and it still seems to just be introductions to characters.
It's not that kind of book, brother.
Don't be looking for cohesive narratives in meme books.
You're actually reading it? Lmao. Thought I'd seen everything.
Candide read more like a children's book.
It was so shallow and fast.
But man,it was fun to read it.
"fun" is a children's way of describing books so it seems your level.
>>8009624
It kept me entertained and I generally felt happiness while reading it.
I know "fun" became a meaningless expression.
Do I need to know the events of its current time for me to understand and enjoy this book?
En este hilo, cada anónimo escribe en su propio lenguage y todos intentamos entendernos.
¿ En qué escritores se puede seguir la estela de Borges?
>>8009540
El Caca :3
I just ordered this. I want to read magical realism.
>>8010468
That's not magical realism it's a language textbook
any thoughts on this book? is it worth reading?
Not really, unless you want to understand Adolf Hitler the person better.
The actual content of the book is not that interesting or enlightened, and Hitler is an awful writer who could have benefited from an editor.
Read The Art of the Deal too, you fascist dick.
>>8009481
back to tumblr with you, faggot
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