/lit/ - Literature

somebody post the aristotle one pls

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>>11133638
>Aristotle in an Ayn Rand book

>>11133663

Rand idolized him, claimed he was her favorite philosopher

OP is, as usual, a faggot

>>11133667
Let me guess, she liked the bits about natural slaves and pretty much dismissed everything else.

>>11133672
Maybe I'm just a brainlet but I did not understand why K kept getting with all those women.
Also why Battle Royale?

>>11133703
Not understanding why things are happening is a key theme of almost all of Kafkas work

>>11133638
not bad

>>11134366
>Antigua
Did you know that Popper's arguments were used to silence commies in the US?

>>11133640
/thread

>>11133551
Does anyone the the "Tender is the Night" one?

Insightful:


Understanding:
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Misunderstanding:
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>>11134309 (seriously though 'What I expected' is literally completely accurate, not sure how you missed out on that)
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Stupid:
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>>11133699
t. Hasn't read Rand
She is the most orginally insightful philsopher of modernity. Nothing to sense at, don't let leftist memes poison your mind.

>>11135518
nice

>>11133640

Kek

>>11135605
nice

>>11133551
take my OC and love it! >:(

>>11135644

When you paste big pictures in, Paint expands the overall size to accommodate them. You have to shrink it back down again afterwards or you get a massive white space at the bottom and people will laugh at you.

>>11135633
FTFY

>>11133703
k was one of many accused who seemed thrust into a perilous situation where everyone was also scheming or backstabbing their way to survival

>>11135518
ouch

>>11135692

Darn.

Up until now I have managed to avoid seeing even a single word of Rupi Kaur's "poetry".

Now I've read some of it.

Damn you, anon.

>>11135758
i appreciate the concept
it's not that funny but it's apt and you put effort into making an apt thing

>>11135644
Pretty accurate

>>11135382
Do you really expect any of these 4chan template memes to be insightful?

Anyone have the notes from the underground one?

>>11135761
nice review
also it's posted in every thread like this

>>11135937
lmao

Anyone got the "A Confederacy of Dunces" one?
That was one of the best ones of this meme I've seen. Forgot to save it the go through.

>>11135953

One of the most disappointing things I've ever read.

>>11135995
>Because it's the best one that's been made yet. It works on every level, utilizing the format perfectly, while also subtly subverting it. You don't laugh, but smile inwardly.

>>11137046
>book about DA SHOAH OH WOE IS GAWDS CHOSEN PEOPLE
>expecting anything good

>>11137112
Don't get so mad you shoot up a school anon

how is mann's (((joseph and his brothers)))?
worth a try or same as
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>>11137071

This one
>>11135518
also plays with the levels.

>>11135644
Stylin'
While
A
Gamer

>>11137112
I actually find traditional Jewish culture fascinating. Too bad it's fucking dead.
I was expecting something like a Marc Chagall painting in novel form, or Sholem Aleichem if he had been influenced by Latin American magic realism.
I got an NYC MFA basedboy hating on Slavs and doing a shitty Borat impression while employing enough cheap sentimentality that would make a Lifetime Original movie seem like a Wim Wenders film in comparison.

Not that a fucking /pol/lack knows what I'm fucking talking about because their knowledge of Judaism begins and ends with Happy Merchants and Kevin MacDonald.

>>11137247
Everything I learned about Jews I learned from being around them. They think non Jews are lower than cattle. They have a disgusting perverted culture and there is nothing to be respected about it.
Anyone who would say a statement as ridiculous as "I find traditional Jewish culture fascinating" clearly hasn't met many actual Jews. You'll find out pretty quick why no one likes them.

>>11135382
Where the fuck do you get off?

>>11137172
>he fell for the worst symposium

>>11137267
Everything I learned about Jews I learned from being around them. They think non Jews are lower than cattle. They have a disgusting perverted culture and there is nothing to be respected about it.
>Anyone who would say a statement as ridiculous as "I find traditional Jewish culture fascinating" clearly hasn't met many actual Jews. You'll find out pretty quick why no one likes them.

Newsflash, so do Overseas Han Chinese, so do Tamils, so do Maronites, so do Armenians, and so on and so on.

Mercantile minorities tend to be that way. Say if you were an inbred Javanese peasant or Fijian coconut farmer instead of an unread Amerimutt/chav/vatnik/ned/insert white underclass of choice, you'd be bitching about the devious and dirty Chinese or Indians trying to rule the world instead.

Keep on LARPing your white people universalism. The fact remains that the narcissism of small differences means that the Ulsterman and Irishman will always hate each other more than they hate the eternal Jew, to use an Anglosphere example.

I don't even think I understood the thing...

Garbage book. Can someone recommend me an actually good horror novel?

>>11133699
t. gets all his opinions from social media, rather than actually investigating for himself.

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>>11137384
your life desu

>>11135382
Butthurt libertarian detected.

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>>11133699
>picture has the aristotle quote as "whoomp, there is is!"
>is bitching that the image conflates them
Buddy, chill the fuck out.

>>11137321

Ulster is Irish, Imperial scum

>>11137026
heh

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>>11133551
does anyone in this thread have the pic with dfw and the pocket pussy. I can't find it and I doubt I will have luck on /r/

>>11137430
what? i dont remember anything about tigers. am i being stupid?

>>11133699
>Guessing instead of reading the actual thing.
Man you really are a lazy retard

>>11133551
Actually my favorite book by Twain

>>11138175
jej

>>11135743
Virgil was chad to virgin durante

>>11138289
>Actually my favorite book by Twain
Same. Its really excellent, if a bit of a downer.
Also, accurate.

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>>11138136
lol obvious samefag

>>11135619
Accurate, needs a black man fucking a white bitch added to the last panel

>>11137570
>it is*
Thank me later

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>>11133699
>>>/r/books

>>11138340
I kek'd

>>11137895

my sides

does anyone have the remains of the day one? I just read it and can't remember it, and i'd like to have a giggle.

>>11137384
I don't get it.

>>11135382
>Insightful:
>/
Quality report here.

>>11135518
every time

>>11135382
>Misunderstanding:
>(seriously though 'What I expected' is literally completely accurate, not sure how you missed out on that)
>>11135368
Dune is pretty accurate though. Everyone would expect some wasteland story (that is), but there's more soap opera anyone could think.

>>11137021
lel

>>11138891
Solid.

>>11134372
Not him, but can you tell me more?

>>11139427
why does this guy like osho

Been waiting for a thread like this since I started reading it.
Seriously he used the word "presently" every second page

>>11139430
In the first chapter of 'Neither Sun Nor Death' Hans-Jurgen Heinrichs asks Sloterdijk to compare Lacan and Rajneesh. Some excerpts:

"It is a regrettable fact that vast majority of German intellectuals, especially philosophy professors, are absolutely uninterested in extra-European cultures; they react with rage and arrogance when they are reminded of the existence of as complex a universe of Indian thought and meditation; a universe which in many respects attained similar levels of old Europe, and perhaps was superior to it from some points of view; and that we really ought to come to grips with it if we are to take our profession seriously. These people think that their own attempts to overcome western metaphysics automatically gives them carte blanche to ignore the great systems of other cultures. By no means will they hear of the fact that there are specifically Indian paths within modernity, and even a typically Indian romantic irony, an Indian surrealism, an Indian ecumenism, an Indian deconstructionism."

"... we know how things work: if you cite Lacan, you glean intellectual prestige, but if you cite Rajneesh you disqualify yourself... I am convinced that they are both closely linked, as the work they undertook was analogous, only Rajneesh went much further than his European colleague."

"Despite his originality and radical non-conformism, Rajneesh-Osho stands in a meta-physical tradition of ego critique that has existed in the East for hundreds of years... The whole of Indian culture is steeped in non-ego theory, which in a certain sense, was only waiting for a genius to come and rearrange it. As a result, the theme, as it is called over here, of the subversion of the subject, is one on which Europeans must first do some catching up."

>>11138340
lmfao

Insightful:
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Understanding:
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Semi-understanding:
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Misunderstanding:
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Irredeemably illiterate:
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>>11139665
kys

>>11139665
based

>>11139665
Onions

>>11138368
Did you enjoy the series?
Have finished Proven Guilty and am up to White Night now..

>>11135518
Sad.

>>11139665
fucking die

>>11139665
faggot

>>11137552
what??

>>11135382
There's always an autist like this.

>>11142566
Am I the only one who thinks that the world depicted in that book is a genuine utopia? The protagonist literally gets sent to a nice private island to spend the rest of his life with cool literary subversives at the end. And all the sex you could want!

>>11135518
made me sad :(

>>11137321
>Newsflash, so do Overseas Han Chinese, so do Tamils, so do Maronites, so do Armenians, and so on and so on.

It's not like I can't hate those too.

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>>11143252
Dunbar was my favorite

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>>11143185
Only a shut in virgin would think BNW is a utopia because you get to do drugs all the time and have tons of sex. People do that in real life anon and most people I know in that lifestyle are burnt out and hollow emotionally. Life needs meaning via struggle.

>>11143185
kys

>>11144165
define meaning

>>11144166
not that anon, but meaning is the reason that you don't do drugs and engage in casual sex.

>>11144166
Meaning is the justification you create to persevere through struggle in order to achieve a goal. It doesn't matter what you're doing, if you're just doing the same thing over and over the stagnation will rot you out from the inside.

>>11144177
>meaning is what you create
prett shit definition desu, if you aren't connected to principles of a higher order any "meaning" you create is hollow individualistic vanity

>>11136928

Ive never seen this one but i love that book so i want to. Someone has to have it

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>>11135550
yeah, this is shit show in bookform

>>11138340
classic

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>>11137360
Both are fucking accurate

>>11144166
Meaning is the part of your life that you dedicate to helping others for your own sense of altruism

>>11138368
Where's the fedora? On the white knight side rather than the edgy atheist side?

>>11137172
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Q2z0wm8Jo

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>>11136928
I'll third this. Ordered the Confederacy of Dunces cookbook as a Mother's Day gift and it was very well received.

>>11143399
he's cool, but the guy with the economy that made no sense was pretty funny

>>11143137
/thread

Absolutely abhorrent that there's no mention of the Gallic Wars

>>11144166
pusy and strugle

>>11142206
Mad

>>11139665
please use a trip so I can filter you

It’s really amazing Wolfe managed to write such a chadcharacter without it devolving into mary sueish drivel like Name of the Wind.

>>11135552
benjamin doesnt mention jews that much in that book

ok am going on holiday for a few weeks and aint taking multiple books in my case.
i figured i'd get kindle or some shit.
but first, how 2 get e books?

>>11148522
Libgen (dot) io
Project Gutenberg

whats the best cheap ereader?

>>11148610
Original Kindle or the Kindle Paperwhite. The original doesn't have a lit screen and has lower resolution but is only 60$. Paperwhite is almost double the resolution and has a front light (different than a back light, it doesn't shine light into your eyes) but is 100$. I'm sure you could find a shitty tablet for cheaper but best bang for you buck are the Kindles.

>>11148646
can i download ebooks like a savage and will they be compatible? or does it have some kinda amazon encrypted security bullshit on it

>>11147847
Seriously the amount of gay shit is insane, everyone is either gay, done something gay, or knows someone gay

>>11148653
There is DRM but i've never had problems with it.There are programs that can easily get rid of it and you also can just not connect to the internet.

>>11148671
what is turning pages like on the paperwhite?
also what's the size like?
I checked out the dimensios and screen size and made a template to try and visualise.
thing looks god damn tiny.
Is it awkward to read from or is the transition seamless?

>>11148738
i wish it just had page turn buttons, the touch input lag when turning pages looks like it would piss me off

>>11148738
https://youtu.be/3PyNMIauHbQ

>>11143137
Lmao

>>11133551
I'm still not sure what the fuck I read

>>11148879
revised

>>11148942
further revised

>>11148971
even further revised

what was I supposed to get from this book. I don't even know.

Milk and Honey

>>11149012
revised

>>11135937
You are retardedly on point about this book. Can you do one for On the Road or Almost Transparent Blue? If you've read them.

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>>11148991
beautiful

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>>11149072
the expected is more accurate baka

>>11149132
Only if you're incapable of appreciating its bleak but brilliant sense of humour. I bet you don't think its about a bike faggot

>>11149124
I am also confused

>>11149105
thanks, I guess

>>11149159
>claims to appreciate Flann's humour
>doesnt include the scene where the guy starts finding the bike sexually attractive

>>11146976
Found it.

>>11144177
>if you're just doing the same thing over and over the stagnation will rot you out from the inside.


ehh Im gona need citation on this. Most Western philosophy and religion is content with stagnation. Also "justification" the way you are using it is not the same thing as "meaning" the way nihilists are thinking about it.

Also drugs and bitches are fine and BNW is a utopia for the intellectual and truth seeker. If you didnt get that, then you don't deserve to chime in on what "meaning" is.

mfw
>Y'all just some Peterson fans.

>>11149184
will there ever be a Catch-22/Catcher in the Rye hybrid? would read

>>11147864
The most disgusting thing about this is the fact that usually a hodge- podge collage of shit in the third panel misses the point of the joke, but here it's completely apt.

>>11149184
tell me about freddy got fingered

>>11149179
>he hasn't seen the ass pounder 4000 in the "what I got" section
come on dude get your head in the game

>>11149214
It's the second worst thing from 2001

>>11149214

Maker of that meme here. Freddy Got Fingered is about a weird NEET who lives with his parents, aspiring to be a cartoon animator. The central conflict is basically between him and his father, who wants him to get a job. It has that title because of this scene where he accuses his father, falsely, of molesting his fully grown brother. Culminates:

https://youtu.be/UuDjN6KsLdo

And the Democract Manifest man is this guy:

https://youtu.be/PeihcfYft9w

Who is being arrested for serial dine-and-dashing.

I honestly don't think anyone could more succinctly encapsulate Confederacy than that meme. Not to fellate myself, but I'm proud of that one.

>>11149214
This will tell you everything you need to know
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEn3wcpNsg8

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>>11149214

Another Confederacy like scene.

https://youtu.be/vSAWRdvVCgc

>>11149271
Freddy Got Fingered is a bit more edgy and anti-comedy, and Confederacy is a bit more of a social satire, but yeah, pretty much the truth.

>>11149214
easily one of the finest films of the 21st century

>>11133699
I believe Ayn Rand was very against the idea of any natural slaves, her agreement was more to do with his conception of like, objective reality and stuff, first. And then a basic overview of his moral system

>>11148010
Take a look at Rothfuss' about section on his website. You could tell he was such an uber autist in high school. His try hard 'chad' self projection is a beta orbiter even in his fantasies kek

>>11142566
Good goy.

>>11133663
you realize objectivism is just updated aristotelianism

>>11147715
This is very true the while time I was like why the fuck is she talking about someone as unimportant as milo

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>>11148654
That just makes it better ^_^

>>11149187
the "stagnation" he's talking about is complacency without contentment. The stagnation that Western philosophy affirms is more aligned with static contentment, but static contentment is an unrealizable dream in a dynamic reality

>>11134366
>mfw Someone saved my OC
>Mfw no face

Autism:
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>>11139665
please shoot yourself in the dick and deepthroat a blender, you need to fucking die ASAP.

>>11137021
hahaha

>>11149352

Imagine Freddy Got Fingered with the Democracy Manifest Dine-and-Dasher as the main character.

>>11139665
Did you put all the ones you didn't understand/read in "Semi-understanding"?

>>11139136
That book was garbage. There hasn't been a decent Black Library release in ages.

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>>11145465
Spot the retards.

>>11148605
but he does charge at windmills.

>>11145465
cool inbetweeners reference but if u think Mersault didn't like arabs you have grossly failed at reading da bookie

>>11151442

This is a very sad post.

did anyone actually read either or?

>>11137267
I have the opposite experience, my mother's midwife was Jewish and we (goys) had Passover dinner with them this year. Almost like your experience isn't universal, cunt.

>>11137360
FTFY

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>>11143195
gay and true

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>>11153546
Point is that's the only thing you see about Quixote in pop culture so that's all that I expected, it's also only a short scene that happens very early on.

>>11148654
i mean if Jude ended up fucking chicks after being gay raped his whole childhood i woulda called BS.
however I think yanagihara whole story is a bit far-fetched and voyeuristic, the excessive amount of gay shit adding to that. As well as the fact that everyone in the book somehow becomes rich and famous by coincidence.
Overall I really liked it. The emotional nuances are heart breaking at time and I thought it was worth being a 700 page story.

>>11142572
lost

>>11133669
Thanks anon

>>11137360
ftfy

>>11133621
here