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I unironically think Butterfly is the best poster on here. What are her favorite books so I can read them to become more like her? I know she likes Nietzsche, what else? Are you there Butterfly? Don’t be shy, list as many books as possible.

>> No.14011792

>>14011788
Blow it out your ass

>> No.14011794

>>14011792
Why?

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>>14011788

>> No.14011808

>>14011788
The only thing Butterfly reads are my girlfriend's (vaginal) lips.

>> No.14011811

>>14011806
No.

>> No.14011823

>>14011788
Butterfly is unironically one of the better posters around here. S/he actually reads and is able to reveal their opinion and defend it without having to hide their opinion behind a meme.

>> No.14011834

>>14011823
Couldn’t agree more. This thread isn’t sarcastic, I’m hoping for real answers.

>> No.14012033

Bump

>> No.14012044

>>14011788
thanks for turning off your tripcode to post, you middle-aged crossdressing wastrel. please make a habit of it in the future.

>> No.14012062

>>14012044
Leave her alone. I made it because I’m interested, I am not her.

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>>14012044
Wasn't me. Honestly.

I guess I'll come back with a list for you, OP.
(Pippi in a cannon. Get it?)

>> No.14012079

>>14012072
Thank you :)

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>>14012044

>> No.14012339

Did you forget about me, butterfly :(

>> No.14012365
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I read comic strips as a kid, but I didn't know how crap they were till '85 when Calvin and Hobbes first started coming out. I still lug around my collection of them (and have since bought a complete collection of Little Nemo. Fantastically strange)
Wind in the Willows, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, and Watership Down are highlights of my childhood

Growing up I wanted to be an astronaut and a filmmaker. I wanted to write, direct and design the whole production. I was chiefly inspired by Lucas and Henson. Though I took in a lot of junk Star Wars/Star Trek novels over the years, this picture(d) book is still one of my favorites.

Wanting to prepare for that career in filmmaking I read Joseph Campbell's Hero with a Thousand Faces. Retrospectively, I should have "started with the Greeks" at this point, but I did read The Silmarillion and Philip José Farmer's Doc Savage | His Apocalyptic Life, among others. Film projects still crowd my head, like five Jodorowsky Dune productions. Never to be made

For starting with the Greeks; Hesiod is a decent short rundown of the Greek pantheon, for more in depth you read Graves The Greek Myths (at least half of it) but the best is always Homer.

My reading life was interrupted with a lot of work. Stupid low paying work. Eventually got a room of my own and put my agnostic mind to the question. I had been reading some Dali Lama book passed to me for free, but later found a slim piece on Epicurus. I had come up with some of these ideas when I was a kid (13 or 14 maybe) I became atheist. When the crash of '08 hit, I started to read the newspaper to try and understand what any of it meant. I moved onto foreign policy magazines, and then back to books for me. I picked up a biography of Thomas Paine and knew I had to read the guys writing.

A bit bloggy. I never do this. More list next post.

>> No.14012370

>>14012365
You were alive in '85?

>> No.14012374

This man wants to bust in butterfly's pussy. I respect it. Good luck.

>> No.14012375 [DELETED] 

>>14011788
NO TE LA VAS A COGER

>> No.14012409

>>14012365
Thank you, this is all interesting to me.

>>14012374
Don’t blow up my spot.

>> No.14012427

>>14012365
Qhat about the multiple incarnations of this namefig? Ive known personally at least two, one of whom professed to borrowing the name, and I believe they are different from this current one. Who was the original?

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In one of the foreign policy magazines there was a book review for Luttwak's Grand Strategy of the Byzantine Empire, and my old interest in ancient history when after that book

I have read bits and pieces of Noam Chomsky for a few years previously, and was intrigued by his advocacy of anarchism. The last time I gave that ideology any thought I was maybe 15 and I dismissed it the way a 15 year old would as simply untenable. But it was in 2011, sane year I started coming to /lit/ that I read A Very Short Introduction to Anarchism. Its a very simple book, but I was hooked. "Progressivism" wasn't working. Obama and most of the DNC was shit.

People pick on George Orwell's fiction, but I know his nonfiction is great stuff.
I really enjoyed Alexander Herzen's My Life and Thoughts
I liked Hitchens for his prose, but Gore Vidal is right to have distanced himself from him.
He's also a great writer. I recommend Julian and Burr, though they're all probably real good
I like what I've read of Virginia Woolf, though she's a bit uppercrusty, she's a great read.
from a generation earlier, I love Walter Pater's writing.
Borges, Le Guin, Tove Jansson, George Saunders, Ellison's Invisible Man is marvelously episodic weirdness. Yourcenar's Hadrian is just wonderful. Stendhal.

I only know the Greek Philosophers through History of Philosophy.net, but have read Lucretius' De Rerum Natura, sampling several different translations, but I can't say with is best. I liked it. I only mention Epicurus, Stirner and Nietzsche so much around here because we discuss philosophy more than literature. And they always ask for what those philosophers address so perfectly. I had also read Wollstonecraft, and a little Hannah Arendt. I really liked Sadie Plant's Zeroes and Ones too.

>> No.14012455

>>14012446

butterfly can you outline a biographical sketch of your life? are you married or have you been? what are your hobbies? do you think you're attractive? why draws you to come back to /lit/ with us manly men?

>> No.14012459

ITT we roleplay as Butterfly

I recommend Braudel.

>> No.14012461

>>14012459
That's quite interesting, thanks for the recommendation. I recommend Braudel to you.

>> No.14012464

>>14012461
>>14012459
Idiots. Read Braudel and Max Stirner.

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>>14012427
I am. It's 99.98% of the time me. I took the name out of an old Zalgo thread and didn't even realize it looked like a butterfly till much later (font on my browser made it look more box like)
_________________

Before even finishing my further research into anarchism, I start to get interested in the economics of socialism, and I hate economics! Richard Wolff, David Harvey and Paul Cockshott made it interesting though. More so since you don't even have to read them, you can flip on a youtube of their thought just as easily.
Also more recently ECOLOGY has pushed its way into my thinking. Of course I want to read Bookchin all the more, I'm also very interested in Mollison's Permaculture, Paul Stamets' Mycelium Running, and I just DLed John Seymour's Self-Sufficiency

I have too many interests and not enough time to research

>>14012455
Never married. Don't even believe in it now.
>>14012459
Who wrote the best about the 1848 revolutions. I've only read Mike Rapport's

>> No.14012519

>>14012494
Thanks for answering my question so thoroughly. I’ll look into these works mentioned.

>> No.14012652

>>14012494
have you read any bookchin yet? if so what would you recommend?

>> No.14012670

>>14011823
She's read all of three fucking books and never argues her fucking point.

>> No.14012674

>>14012494
Is there any way to contact you outside of /lit/? I'd like you to be my mentor/friend.

>> No.14012677

>>14012494
Sometimes I wonder what happened to all the other namefags and tripfags from years ago on /lit/. At the time the board seemed shitty, but in hindsight it looks like a golden age compared with now.

>> No.14012680

>>14012677
Remember satan?

>> No.14012685

>>14012680
Nope, main ones I remember now are Deep&Edgy and Truman Capote.

>> No.14012688

>>14012685
Oh, and capsguy.

>> No.14012690

>>14012685
What about Sunhawk?

>> No.14012695

>>14012690
Shit, there's a name I haven't heard in years. To think all of them would end up being better than what we have now.

>> No.14012708

>>14012695
Yeah, we didn't know how good we had it.

>> No.14012763

>>14011788
"her"

>> No.14012776

>>14012370
Butterfly is literally 47 years old. She's old enough to be my mom and she argues with teenagers on an anime forum 16 hours a day. It's really sad.

>> No.14013502

>>14012652
I’ve made beginnings of Ecology of Freedom and The Next Revolution. I like ‘em, I just got sidetracked.

>>14012674
I’d rather not, sorry.