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Rollerball master race reporting in.
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only women write with mechanical pencils

dainty hands
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>>24749280
>>pilot g2 7mm
>master race.
This
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>>24749280
>>24750198
>>24750553
Gel pens are for retards.
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>>24749208
i wish i had a fountain pen that never ran out of ink.
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>>24750571
Why?

/bant/ Anonymous Tue 28 May 2019 06:13:20 No.8106590 ViewReport
>>8106588
>>8106589
Don't just repeat what other people have said like a sheeple, have some original thoughts. MikeeUSA brings a unique perspective and adds to the culture of image boards while you are nothing but disposable garbage. I support his efforts to bring sanity to an insane world by making people own up to their own shit rules. There is enough material for him to make a life's work from it. I campaigned against Net Neutrality and has success with the Trump Administration, while MikeeUSA has taken on larger issues that will require nothing less than changing the world. -t. Kurisu

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>signed up for the book club
>read the book
>took two ativans for my nerves
>showed up
>sat across the street and watched people go in
>decided to go home

Books for crippling social anxiety and loneliness?
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>>24750379
I am a musician. I had a band and played shows and released an album years ago. I've struggled to even find someone to jam with since then.
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>>24750318
You were supposed to have sons. That's the point of marriage.
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>>24750295
>Books for crippling social anxiety and loneliness?
How to Stop Being a Faggot, by Who Fucking Cares, Just Stop Being a Faggot.
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>>24750536
We had a daughter and I'm an incompetent parent. I'm planning on running away to a different city and starting over.
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>>24750567
run clubs are big now. I hear people use those to date.

Are there any literary works worth reading from this region?
I only know of Ibsen's plays and Andersen's tales.
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>>24737396
"The Tomten" really annoys me as a translation, doesn't that basically mean "The the tomte".
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>>24748470
I’ve only ever heard pretentious artsy women discuss Edith Södergran. Can’t say I’ve ever heard anyone mention Diktonius.
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Sigrid Undset is one of my favourite writers of all.
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>>24750381
why?
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>>24728493
oh shit i'll be in finland in a week
maybe i'll go find your book despite not knowing any finnish :DD

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Do you genuinely enjoy reading or are you just pretending to be well read? Be honest
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>>24747970
I can't even tell which are the books on the top row other than the alchemist, otherwise of the listed ones I've only ever read Ulysses and Odyssey, if that is what's the rightmost book on the bottom.
Of the other books, I do not pretend to have read them, in fact, I tend to exude obnoxious smug superiority if they ever get brought up in a conversation and I get the chance to express my disinterest in them.

Anyways, while I enjoy reading, I'm pretty inconsistent and bad at it, so I naturally also act as a pseud pretending to have read a lot more than I have.
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>>24747970
At first I was pretending to impress my parents/teachers then I was pretending to impress myself then I was pretending to impress a girl. Now that i actually have a mind of my own I've come to enjoy reading and stopped forcing myself to finish uninteresting books.
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>>24747970
>Do you genuinely enjoy reading
Why else would I do it. Having other interest would be more convenient so why pretend.
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>>24747970
How retarded do you have to be to pretend you've read Paulo Coelho and Margaret Atwood?
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>>24750526
woman retarded

Is political philosophy/theory dead? What’s the status of the field, and who are the most relevant authors/scholars today? Surely there’s more out there than Deneen and Fukuyama, right? Thiel seems to be ripping his toes into it again with his talks on the Antichrist and world government.
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>>24750460
I do it in my spare time and have written five works of it.

To answer your question: Ikenberry, Gray, Wendt, Mearsheimer
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>>24750489
>international relations theory
Obviously IR theory is alive and well with vigorous debate, but I meant actual political philosophy, with Strauss as an archetypal leader in the post-war generation.
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>>24750460
What contemporary issues would political philosophy even have to consider and think about? Everything is fake and gay today

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>>24750497
I'll give you ONE
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okay have 2
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Recommended reading charts. (Look here before asking for vague recs)
https://mega.nz/folder/kj5hWI6J#0cyw0-ZdvZKOJW3fPI6RfQ/folder/4rAmSZxb

>Archive:
https://warosu.org/lit/?task=search2&search_subject=sffg

>Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1029811-sffg

>Previous:
>>24729043

>Thread Question:
Do you need supplementary material to enjoy books? I'm talking art, music, etc. based on the property? Does it help you visualize what you've read better?
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>>24740187
Abercrombie- audiobook
Hyperion
Book of the new sun
For culture
Way of kings and the name in the wind
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>>24744575
You should've kept going.
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>>24745855
Many agree the series is good. The other anon got filtered. Simple as.
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>>24749424
Take your meds.
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>>24750518
Swan Song, Boy's Life and Mine are his best novels. Wolf's Hour is pretty fun too

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>dude what if star wars but political
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>>24745844
>>24745852
star wars retroactively influenced DUNE
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>literally the most retarded thread on /lit/ rn
Congratulations faggots.
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>>24750325
>literally
So it is doing slightly better than most of the catalog? This thread has some self awareness?
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>>24750325
There are 3 blood meridian threads
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>>24750554
Those are figuratively retarded.

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>100 days left in the year
you're finishing one more doorstopper before 2025 right? you reached all your reading goals, right?
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>>24749467
East of Eden is only 7000 words longer than Dracula. Did you get the retard big text edition?
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>>24749467
I have a nice little slender East of Eden
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>>24749630
The text must be microscopic
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>>24749472
At the most generous east of Eden is 59800 words more
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>>24748226
how come whenever i see a picture of Infinite Jest, it has a million sticky note things in it? ive never read it before

the chad medieval scholastic
>studies for Truth and God
>semen retention
>reads Latin and Greek
>trivium and quadrivium all day every day
>uses straightedge and compass
>listens to nothing but classical music

the virgin public school defender
>studies for grades and diplomas
>"masturbation is healthy"
>atheist
>"what's a syllogism?"
>"trust the science"
>"English is all you need"

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>>24749718
>listens to nothing but classical music
Classical music was long after the medieval era. He should be listening to Gregorian Chants or some shit.
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>>24749718
>>24749783
based
>>24749748
>>24749778
cringe
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>>24749718
You have to be 18 to use this website.
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Bump

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Is Nietzsche's critique of Kant here correct? (or valid I guess too).I no longer really trust Nietzsche at face value anymore.
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>>24750153
>>24750114
>you feel
retard, kys. its like you dont understand language or basic concepts. maybe thats why Nietzsche's love of untruth is so appealing to retards like you. This is a speculation, with relevant basis unlike your psychologizing
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>>24747825
In this day and age where you can download all of Nietzsche's books as PDFs in 20 minutes and search them for every instance of the word "Kant" there's really no excuse for making such idiotic posts like this one.
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>>24750473
lol. notice nietzsche followers never provide basis for anything, just call you some self aggrandizing name like nietzsche does other philosophers, dont even do the bare minimum of offering an olive branch of referencing something that could easily be cross referenced with a google search, vs downloading and scouring for somebody else's burden of proof
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>>24750162
>its like you dont understand language or basic concepts
From the start I told you you're illiterate and every post just demonstrates that.
Worse still you don't even try to understand anything, you spend all your efforts on sperging out incoherently.
>you feel
In this context this is a reference to whatever subjective "faculty" in you makes you value logic. If you try to formally state what that is you'll end up appealing to the power that valuing logic gives you, like the predictive power of formal models.
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>>24750491
I have already read his books which is why I know a 30 minute talk on his views regarding Kant is modest. Searching "thing-in-itself" and "subject" will also bring you in proximity with those views.

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Are we more prudish in some ways now? When I read old books, people including men say stuff like "he is as serenely beautiful as Endymion" or "she has such pretty feet" but nowadays you'd seem weird if you did so, even in a piece of fiction - at the very least you wouldn't be able to say them innocently and without irony
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>>24750186
spending one's teenage years stuck inside jacked in to the internet does that i think
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>>24749091
I never read a book by a sex haver and don't intend on doing so
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>>24750224
Women only become ugly and bitter as they age.
All men desire youth and beauty. Anything else is cope.
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>>24750186
Zoomers seek ever more degenerate fap material while living in fear and horror of actual, physical sex.
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>>24749126
>probably it began as a welcome reaction against the ridiculous, insincere hyper-expressiveness of the preceding centuries
I don't see it this way at all
I view the modern culture as one that specifically circumscribes and punishes sincerity
this has come about because people have been increasingly raised/conditioned (and infantilized) to find depth/complexity/sincerity disturbing and indigestible, and by this very incapacity have been made the prison guards of expression
I consider the increase in discomfiture among young people regarding sexual display/content in films to be a related phenomenon

Remember, no matter how niche or unpopular your intellectual interest is, there will always be some Hollywood faggot to turn it into a garbage franchise.
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1. PTA is great
2. I don't give a fuck if other people also like or dislike what I do or don't like
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>>24750499
Enjoy your Pynchon cinematic universe
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>>24750436
I don't think your statement is factual, isn't Pynchon pretty popular?
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>>24750502
N-no! It can't be... rrraaAAAGHH!
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>>24750507
Never heard his name mentioned outside of /lit/ and PTA

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>two books of knights kicking ass
>fighting dragons
>hauing dvals
>foiling sourcerers
>defeating allegorical beasts
fvcking cool
>booke 3
>lady knight showes vp
>immediately beats the hero of book two in a iovst with her enchaunted spear
>rescves hero of book one from some jobbers
fvcking dropped, what is this woke shit?
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>>24748672
What's the best edition of the Faerie Queene to pick up?
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>>24748672
>hauing dvals
Bumping for this alone.
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>>24748672
It gets worse, the lady knight's love interest gets force femmed by another man while she watches and laughs.


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