Why is this a classic? what is the point of this book? what message is it trying to deliver?
>>8005385
It's a spook book.
>>8005385
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>>8005385
It's not a classic. It's a children's book.
/lit/ long forgotten, Ling Ling trotted up the stairs, two at a time, to the second floor, where /fit/ was waiting for her with open arms. /fit/ noticed that Ling Ling’s thighs were glistening from her pussy juices, that had begun to flow down from her pleasure pit and passed by her short shorts, that were the kind of short short where her ass cheeks hung out for the world to see. Meanwhile, below, /lit/ was still planning, in his imagination, what he and Ling Ling would be doing that night. “First I will ask her out to a dinner at that new fancy restaurant I saw in the student times. Then I will ask her to go to the museum. Then afterwards we shall stop for an ice cream. Then I will make my move. I will place her hand in mine!” His penis erected itself, rebelling against his tighty wihiteys, at the thought of finally touching a smooth and slippery slit.
To be continued
>>8005254
slippery slippery slit
on my face please sit
move up and down move all around
yes moan and groan I love that sound
slippery slippery slit.
>>8005345
If you were going for a limerick, you need to delete the 4th line
>>8005254
this actually made me want to vomit.
There are two types of smart people. Those that realise the implications of relativism / Stirner / Munchhausen trilemma and admit it, and those who realise it and ignore it (those who don't realise it are dumb).
People who ignore it are usually navel gazing, house of card building, obscurantist, pretentious charlatans / academics. Most people who admit it aren't even involved in philosophy. A few people who admit it, such as myself, point out how all talk of ethics, metaphysics, etc is based on feelings and has nothing non-trivial to tell us.
Of course religionfags and philosophyfags try their hard to associate themselves with things of people who are seen as respectable or intelligent or other things. So they will lie and dissemble, all out of self interest.
I was 19 once too.
dude shut the fuck up read the collapse of the fact value dichotomy you fucking logical positivist neckbeard
>>8005218
You're a knob. Metaphysics is the admission that humans cannot directly observe every phenomena in the universe yet attempt to figure out how it works anyway using conjecture and logic. Atoms come from Epicurean metaphysics. Wittgenstein in his non-metaphysics metaphysics may have figured out the reason for language, which has stumped AI scientists as long as they've existed.
I've read too much nihilist and eastern shit. My desires and cares about the world have gone to shit. I don't even shitpost anymore, I just sit around and watch the grass grow or watch shitty netflix shows.
I don't really even care about opinions, whether it's the views of others or myself. It's really just a burden to hold opinions and invest yourself in anything. I just exist.
Reading suggestions to light that fire again? I tried some drugs, which was pretty cool, and I'm gonna go gamble this weekend. I wish I had the fire of an immigrant asian student or businessman who wants to crush the living shit out of the competition, to give you an idea of a role model. I just want something real.
>>8005145
SWTG
>>8005145
you need to be older than 18 to post on this site summerfriend
>>8005166
I'm 25
Veteran shitposter actually.
>Be republican, though not neccessarily a democrat
>Oppose monarchies, aristrocacies and other social structures that place birth over merit
>Believe that there is such a thing as inherrent and inalienable rights a just state should intervene with as little as possible
but
>Reject the Lockesian and Rousseauvian views of the natural state of man as utopic folly
>Support the Hobbesian view of the natural state as being a war of all against all, which civilization ends through enforcing order
>Logically speaking, this should make me a monarchist, or at least a "whatever works" pragmatist
It appears my beliefs don't make logical sense. Wat do?
>>8005147
sarry four de toppos
>>8005144
read de Tocqueville
>He doesn't know Latin and Greek.
How do you defend yourselves /lit/?
>>8005059
Latin is next semester because I am taking the summer off to stay balls deep in girls since I spent most of the fall and winter in the gym barely passing my classes.
And I barely have any money because I can barely fucking afford 10lbs of chicken breast, brown rice, and hot sauce to sustain my muffukkan gains bro.
But no, seriously. I'm taking Latin in the fall and looking forward to it. Not only will it help me with literature, but it will make my Medical Terminology that much easier when I know why the fucking words are the words and why those words describe what body parts.
Yes, the main goal is to prescribe myself juice, get huge, be instagram famous, get fired, have a doctor I cut 60 years off my life due to liver damage from juice, actually destroy my entire house by hand, and then shotgun brain myself live on webcam for all of 4chan to see.
>>8005094
fuck yeah
>>8005097
Love you, bro.
>be me
>want to read melville
>dont want to start with moby dick
>decide to start at the beginning of his oeuvre
>not beginning with moby dick
>beginning with typee
>totally different book
>open to the first page
>"Six months at sea! Yes, reader, as I live, six months out of sight of land; cruising after the sperm-whale beneath the scorching sun of"
>mfw
Melville spent a considerable portion of his life at sea.
>>8005036
I guess you could say sperm whales were histypee
>>8005036
start with Pierre or Mardi
Sen no Rikyu, a tea-master, wished to hang a flower basket on a column. he asked a carpenter to help him, directing the man to place it a little higher or lower, to the right or left, until he had found exactly the right spot. "That's the place," said Sen no Rikyu finally.
The carpenter, to test the master, marked the spot and then pretended he had forgotten. Was this the place? "Was this the place, perhaps?" the carpenter kept asking, pointing to various places on the column.
But so accurate was the tea-master's sense of proportion that it was not until the carpenter reached the identical spot again that its location was approved.
>What is your interpretation of this koan?
>What can you learn from it?
Post more wankels
A master of himself cannot be fooled by an average person wanking about, and wankers more often than not lose themselves in their wanking.
>>8004989
what if the master just saw the marking
Hey /lit/ what are some good entry level books?
>>8004978
Finnegans Wake.
>>8004978
It depends on your tastes. What would you like to read generally? Fantasy/Non-fiction/Adveture/Russian depressive psychological novels?
>>8004978
Gravity's Rainbow
Post books/authors who are similar in style to the previous poster's image.
>>8004708
>Gaspar noe enter the void
>>8004725
William Gibson
>>8004708
50 Shades of Grey
It's Freud's birthday today!
Say something nice about him /lit/!
People heavily misunderstand him and the way they write him of as a hack is wrong and more often then not based on ignorance and what they heard from other clueless people.
Here is the red pill on Freud (yes fuck that term but whatever)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zji6xMkOgo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSh37_x5RNY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16WF1jLLyik
>>8004929
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A07DV3FXyPo
In honor of Freud's theories and life I will spend tomorrow doing only useless and wrong things that only retards would appreciate as legitimate.
>thoughts on this book?
Retardation
>>8004521
why don't you read it and tell us what you think first, you lazy turd
>>8004521
It's actually quite good. If you've read enough of the basics of psych and philosophy to not get overwhelmed into thinking it's some sort of perfect system, Prometheus Rising is one of the most thought-provoking books out there.
Ok now, you may laugh at me for whatever reason, buuuuut, after playing the game "Dante's Inferno,"
I'd like to read the book the game was based off of. I heard there were different translations/books or whatever???
What's the recommended way or book to read Dante's Inferno? (Is it inferno or "the divine comedy?") All help is really appreciated. I just really want to read it.
>after playing the game "Dante's Inferno," I'd like to read the book the game was based off of
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>>8004501
You will not enjoy it.
>>8004501
Hi, italian guy here who spent a lot of his highschool time to read and understand the book "The Comedy" by Dante Alighieri, called "The Divine Comedy" after Petrarca's review.
I liked the game "Dante's inferno" too, however, it has nothing to do with the book:
- Dante was never a crusader, he was a knight in his youth that fight for his city Firenze
- Beatrice was never kidnapped by satan, she just died and went to paradise
- Beatrice was just a beautiful woman but of a too prominent family for Dante
The book calls "The Comedy" because a comedy is a poem that starts bad and end well (as opposite of tragedy that start well and has a bad ending), Dante starts at the hell and ends in heaven so... comedy.
The poem is divided in three books (Inferno-hell, Purgatorio-purgatory, Paradiso-heaven) wich are divided in 100 "chants" (33 for books and 1 for the prologue).
Every chant was in ryme, but now there's his prosaic version.
In each books Dante put the V.I.P. of his time (and some of the romanic past) and his ipotetical conversation with them.
The hell is regulated by the "divine's retaliation" so each sinners is punished in a appropriate way (such the schismatics that are divided by demons with swords)
Dante had put in hell all the people that he didn't like, even the Pope of his time (Bonifacio VIII) one of the cruelist pope of all time
In the purgatory Dante meet the souls of the ones that are trying to reedem themselves
In the heaven he meet the saints, Beatrice, and at the end god.
I don't think you will like it because he wrote the comedy to roast and exalt the people he dislike or like and much of them are italian medieval VIPs and he makes a lot of references at italian city and italian's issues (wich I assume you don't even know)
BUT if you want to read just the inferno only to see the cruel punishment and the demons inside go ahead, maybe you will like it.
>I can read 500 pages in 1 hour
Is this fuck lying? And if not, how can I become him?
Be born already gifted into circumstances where that gift is encouraged so you get even better.
I couldn't even flip 500 pages in an hour.
you don't need to become him
just be glad he's reading for US
stand on his shoulders
Does anyone else feel something akin to sea sickness while reading dense, inscrutable, and turgid prose? Hegel in particular fucks my shit up. It's worst when the diction is super repetitive.
"The battle of Spirit within one's Spirit is an immutable transaction of modal differentiation of Spirit abounding from one's Spirit in a spiritual sense, spiritually."
>that sentence
bagel man strikes again
it's probably clearer in german
wrote down 'vomiting at obscurantism' in my notebook because of this btw
>>8004167
I think he's talking about spirit.