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>>7890775
john green
james franco

Burroughs
Ellis
Kosinski

what can I say? I'm an edgy, pervy fag.

My influences are Pynchon and DeLillo, but I aim to surpass them.

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrricky, wwwwwhat did you do this time?!? This is reaaaaaaaaaal greasy

Sexy fucking Patrick swayze julian

>>7890781
RRRRANDY

maybe the owner has a fetish of doing this.
just imagine all of the employees editing images as their boss just keeps muttering behind them "yes, yes, now crop that face and make it look mildly bad, but make it look like you guys are trying; hmm yes, yess, now insert some monks behind him"

We had this same exact thread last week...

>>7890729
You guys haven't changed your opinions drastically since then?

>>7890623

The Analects.

>>7890640
>The Analects
Do you have a preferred translation?

>>7890623
Chuang Tzu
Burton Watson translation

P&P>TWAWAR

>>7890506
You could get away with some Plato & a gloss on Kant. Though strictly speaking, a familiarity with both is required.

However, as anon suggests above, his philosophic system is largely of scholarly / historical interest at this point. You're better off just reading the later essays and aphorisms, which don't require background reading. The commonly available abridged editions will be fine.

>>7890567
Thank you, but im going to read "The World as Will and Representation" anyway. What works exactly by Plato and Kant do you recommend to get a reasonable grasp on their respective views?

>>7890491
i like it cause then when i put my bookmark in after my first sesh i feel like ive made good progress.

>>7890512
It can make you lose the plot of what the book is really about sometimes. Wandering about...

Please tell you guys don't read these unless they're by someone interesting.

>Emily Blunt cancels nude scene

Fukken dropped m8

>>7890452
She's not very attractive anyway.

>>7890452
>>7890473

But yeah the cut scene sounds way more badass.

>>7890396
Read history

Thucydides
Xenophanes
Arrian
Polybius

Thucydides into Xenophon.

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Is that pic supposed to represent schizophrenia?

>>7890411
i think it's just some divorced guy tinder messaging a girl

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tao, buddhism to an extent
stirner

but zizek is right about it, tfw

If you are truly great you will force the world to bend to your chosen philosophy until it is practical by default.

>>7890753
He's right about Buddhism or Egoism? Could you link a response of Zizek's to Egoism?

no

barely anyone here has read him

but barely anyone here reads any poetry so whatever


/lit/ doesn't have a favorite poet

Poetry is for little faggot nancy boys that cry in their pillows

>>7890295
He was a stupid traitor wannabe Italian with an ugly mustache that looked bad even for a fascist.

I like the web novel/light novel/anime ecosystem in Japan. It produces a far, far higher Sturgeon quotient but it gets a lot of people writing that otherwise wouldn't have and they get into themes that our high barrier-to-entry publishing system doesn't.

I don't actually read web serials because bad editing makes my eyes bleed, but I appreciate that it happens.

>>7892135
No they don't. At least not for the most part. 99% of web/light """""novels""""" are just generic high school waifushit or fantasy. The western equivalent of that is the kindle store and it's basically just as bad.

>>7892148
>99% of web/light """""novels""""" are just generic high school waifushit or fantasy.
That was exactly what I meant by a higher Sturgeon quotient. And there is some really generic crap that makes it big. On the other hand, you get this real examination of things that are important to the common man - things like video games and how we'd do if we were trapped inside one. Japan has a trapped-in-an-MMO genre, with the majority of works produced being really really bad wish fulfillment OPMC garbage, but with a very few that actually get to the heart of why we like MMOs so much and why we like summoned-to-another-world stories so much.

I wouldn't say the Kindle store is that similar. For a web serial to make it big it has to be really well-liked while it's being made available for free, and the Kindle store doesn't have a good system for that. It doesn't let the community bring editing suggestions while a work is in production. Wattpad is something similar, but I'll believe it when I see a Wattpad serial adapted to the screen.

>>7890270
yeah

>>7890270
nah

Nietzsche is more angry than funny.

>>7890219
inb4 Gatsby

>>7890219
name is escaping me, but the one by bret easton ellis about michael alig? or something

V.

all these geniuses are too busy memeing to use their professional knowledge to the best of its ability, the non miraculous sons of bitches

dumb frogposter

>>7890199
>having not yet published your discourse on memes

Tribune of the Plebs