Just finished picrel and I have perfect comprehension, AMA.
>>25264710It is the first chapter to repeat a style, first person. The other chapters are each in a unique style with Wardine and first chapter using the same style. First person chapters all work towards the same ends, to demonstrate the same thing.
>>25264738That makes sense because I was also a little confused by the first chapter being told by hal and then the following ones about him not being written that way
>>25264602>>25264688If the very first thing you say is an obvious lie, I ain't reading a whole paragraph you wrote. And, no, I am not sorry.
>>25265215>I ain't readingWe know.
>>25265221Ironic since the original post that was unworthy of reading demonstrated that the anon who wrote it hadn't read the book.
He is right. People who posit mind independent matter are just genuinely bullshitting. Like Locke, all they can really say is "something is there, I can't quite articulate it but it's all quite glorious." Might as well posit an eternal spirit.
>>25265097>>25265102There's a quite famous philosophy article on this phenomenon and all the unsatisfying answers people have come up with to explain it, How Can We Be Moved By the Fate of Anna Karenina? (1975)
>>25265143It's because we experience and see or hear about so much tragedy and misery in the real world that have to be indifferent to it, we have to cut our hearts out to be the machines the system needs. But we are still humans and we have these emotions for a reason, and we become crazy if we never feel them, as Aristotle saw in theory of catharsis, so we turn to things outside of our real world because grief over those is safe in the system as it is much less likely to lead to political outburst or civil disobedience or organization. And as for feeling happiness about fictional characters, it is our outlet for the need for real happiness since happiness in the real world is mostly gaslighting ourselves or putting on a mask to placate the system. Genuine happiness and grief do happen in the real world but not nearly enough for our needs
>>25265097"you" are not your brain, and "you" are especially not any individual subsystem of your brain
most people don’t even realize an object is an idea
zoomie pseud levels are off the charts itt
>Ulysses? Never heard of it, chum.
>>25265123>3 part structure means copyingPeople can't be this stupid on /lit, can they?
>>25265146His other reason (if it was him) was that the prose “felt like” Ulysses’
>>25263078Did he ever answer this?
troll or no, pynchon is trash
>>25265123>>25265151He's obviously too dumb to read (let alone comprehend Ulysses) so I have no idea why he would think any of this. Oh, right he's stupid. I hope someone introduces him to literary criticism so he can start on his path towards actual comprehension. And when I say literary criticism I don't mean someone like Kenner who is far too advanced for him, he probably needs to start with sparksnotes and wiki summaries.
He won. The last 40 years of history back him.
>>25264953You’re right. That’s what I was thinking of. I guess Popper really is best know for a footnote that got distorted into a retarded version for a reddit infographic. That’s just sad. Your entire life’s work overshadowed by a distorted footnote used by redditers to justify being retarded.
>>25264958Well, he's also remembered maybe even more for falsifiability, which might not be better given its track record among "I fucking love science" types.
>>25264968The alternative is way worse with the "it came to me in a dream" types.
>>25261782I tried to read this book about the open society, and it was terrible. It falls intellectuall very short.The book about science is something that has been debunked by Thomas Kuhn, Feyerabend and later the serious historians of science.
>>25261792>I was to stupid to understand basic logic, therefor I call it 'pseudo-rigorous logical symbolism'Loughts in Gödel and Hilbert.>>25262237You have no idea what you're talking about, right?Russell was Hegelian in part of his early life, he spokes German very well and, in addition, during his times, the British idealism peaked and was influenced by Hegel.>>25263797I hate this midwite trap so much...
>>25264510She's got nothing to write about. She's a purposeless bourgeois nobody.
>>25264510This is the whole fucking problem with literary fiction, they think it adds something while its just as dumb as "genre" fiction, so they value a book on how smart they feel after reading it, so they can tell others
>>25262882Northernlion and Tectone read literature?
>>25262882>the book started with someone dying in front of a train>the book ended with someone dying in front of a trainMIND. BLOWN. He is official the GOAT.
Lol bitch made a thread about >genre fiction and got banned fuck him
What is the best books or genre to read while drinking?
>>25264586works of rabelais
>>25264586Books you’ve already read, or very simple non-fiction popsci/his books.
>>25264586Manga
>>25264588I second this and like Frame's translation best. Rabelais's dedication is to drinkers.
>>25264586Third for Rabelais and also, the Sirens chapter in Ulysses.
This lil Chilean chudjak is extremely readable. Finished 2666 and reading Nazi Literature in the Americas now
>>25263734So at 55 you'll think Bolaño is trash?
Thought OP pic was Harry Potter and was ignoring the thread.2666 was ok, really did not care for how it was structured and have been on the fence about reading more ever since but I bumped SD up my list a couple weeks ago for whatever reason, probably will read it next week.
>>25262884You live in Bolañoworld, faggot
>>25264746We live in a Bolañociety
>>25262884He is very easy to read. I've read some parts of Nazi Literature in the Americas, and for now its been very fun. I also read 'Ultimos atardeceres en la tierra' but that one hit me way too hard. I unironically went through a funhouse mirror version of the story's plot.
Just finished War of the Worlds.H. G. Wells is not subtle at all, he tells British people what martians are to us we are to the people we colonize, so did it actually have an effect in its time? Did it bring introspection among the British public on the morality of their empire?
>>25263584Salisbury
>>25263647Lmao
>>25262825The British working class public of that time had the highest standard of living of any proletariat in the world.
>>25262759WEE WOO WEE WOO WEE WOO
>>25262824The biggest and wealthiest empire in history was subjected to bullying kek. By one of its own colonies that told it to fuck off
what are some books you would say are "page turners"?
>>25263133>>25264243pseud
Anything by Houellebecq
>>25262514>you asked
>>25265010>review
>>25262514for me it's a short chapter, ~10 pages. tartar steppe was a page turner.
>Quit my job to read Proust in. French full time>Still on the first pageThat was 6 months ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgNPCKuX9ds
Longtemps je me couchais de bonne heure.
>>25264393Long time jimmy couches da boner?
now that's what i call regaining lost time!
Hello /lit/, do you think this is a good book for when and where America went wrong? Do you have any other recommendations if not this one?
>>25263116>when and wherepart 1
>>25263116>when and wherepart 2
>>25263116>when and whererising tide of poo
>>25263116>when and wherepart 4
>>25263116>when and whereincomingthese images are largeclik file name opens new tab clik plus signinternet search for titles to get pdfs
At what point do you stop reading a book?I'm currently reading pic rel. I'm about 50 pages in and I'm thinking about calling it. The prose is fine, but the characters are meh, the setting is meh, I'm not really connecting or feeling anything as I read it. Frankly, it's pretty boring. I almost always finish books, but maybe not this time. What's your system? At what point do you call it?
>>25264730Usually I'm stubborn enough to finish a book, even if I'm not enjoying it. But I make a specal exception for Dostoevsky. Christ, he is painful to read. I've only ever finished one of his books, and regretted even that.
>>25264788translated by a monolingual mick who just referenced every single translation available and made his best guess
>>25264902>best guessthanks for figuring out what translation is I suppose
>>25264730>What's your system?read a review & look at front/back coversthat is enough for now
>>25264730I'm weird because I can just read whatever, I'll pick garbage out of the little free book libraries and just read it even if it sucks. I also listen to music or watch movies I don't like lol. Tbh this is how I expand my tastes though, happened several times where something I thought I'd hate ended up surprising me. The only book I gave up on in recent memory was Rachel Cusk's Outline after about 100 pages. I'd say 100 pages is fair game, 50 pages isn't really enough for anything to happen for a lot of books
Imagine still being stuck in the creator/created duality in 2026. Christianity is a midwit cope for people who need a cosmic daddy figure to tell them they're good boys, it's logically bankrupt the moment you hit the problem of the first cause. Buddhism actually maps the mechanics of the subject/object split instead of just layering more ego on top of a "soul" that doesn't exist. Dependent co-origination makes the entire concept of a divine lawgiver look like a bedtime story for children. You're literally arguing for a ghost in the machine while śūnyatā is staring you in the face. It's exhausting having to point out that your objective morality is just a projection of the very skandhas you're too afraid to deconstruct. Anyway, the Heart Sutra basically rendered the entire Western tradition obsolete two thousand years ago and most of you are still worried about whether a cracker turns into meat during a ritual.
>>25263087I cannot agree more. There are gnostic churches, but you cannot really say beforhand is they are left hand path or right hand path. Some left hand path gnostic churches LARP as right hand path.
>>25261328U.G. Krishnamurti > Buddhism > Everything else
>>25263281I didn't know christianity was comfortable with infinite regression and the view that your god is as much of a deluded moron as you.
>>25263268You should know, its ALL jeet stuff. Even the east asian side.All of the biggest, most critical Mahayana philosophers are Indian and all the Mahayana Buddhist traditions practiced in East Asia trace their lineages back to India. The founder of Zen (Chan) was Indian. The first Pure Land sutras were undoubtedly written in India and taught to a wide audience there before making their way to China. Madhyamaka and Yogacara thought both originate in India (the two major underpinning philosophies that make Mahayana work without it devolving into crypto Hinduism instantly).You can't really strip out the Jeet-ness of Buddhism by practicing Japanese or Chinese traditions, since its still utterly reliant on doctrine developed in India, specifically North India / modern day Nepal.
>>25261328>poopjeetshttp://www.google.com/search?q=toilet+witches+indiahttp://www.google.com/search?q=codex+pajeethttp://www.amazon.in/s?k=cow+dung+cakeshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2Pi4-zWJTg
>even if Magic were to be ranked as practical Metaphysic, according to Bacon's classification, it is certain that no other theoretical Metaphysic would stand in the right relation to it but mine, by which the world is resolved into Will and Representation.
>>25264452>a substance, which is only a non-independent predicate What was Hegel smoking? This is the opposite of a substance, cf. Kant:>Substance, that is, something that can exist as subject, but never as mere predicate
>>25264499>Vril is derived from VirileI mean, not really. you just made that up.
>>25264509weed. really really good weed. sativa.
>>25264509Of all the changes from first to second edition of the cpr, as an Aristotelian, this one stings the most. In 2e substance is just matter, in 1e it was closer to traditional substance. Then again tbf 2e is more consistent with his other views. Hegel’s understanding of substance was more nuanced and, I hate to admit this, nearer the mark than Kant’s, only because Hegel read the Greeks. Also with Hegel there’s the substance of the Logic and the substance of not-purely-Logical situations (this goes for everything in the Logic).
>>25264558>In 2e substance is just matter, in 1e it was closer to traditional substance.What's the difference?
We used to be hyped about BAP, Mishima and Junger, the promise of being warriors for a new Nietzschean caste that Curtis Yarvin said would be like the elves of LOTR. We read Nick Land and drew power from Evola. We were all, above all, based and redpilled.Now it seems as if those days are gone and the board culture is dying
>>25264024hahahaha I didn't realize I was talking to a Christian
>>25264179we are anonymous (He must increase, i must decrease)we are as the sands of the sea (God can of these stones raise up children to abraham)we forgive (seven times seventy times)we forget (cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.)expect us (Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God. 5And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon)
>>25258499You still have time to follow the Sunnah of the most Nietzschean man to live and worship Allah(SWT)>>25259906>Fuentes only had a few thousand viewers per streamNick is the most popular political figure for young men( the most important demographic) in the world, he is on Piers Morgan and his instagram videos get tens of millions of views, this is the hysterics of an aging jew. May Allah(SWT) guide nick to the Truth.
>>25263711I'm getting so sick of Jew obsessives. They're fucking annoyingThe point is Moldbug showed you can trace all these bad ideas back before Jews were on the scene. They came from corrupted Christianity
>>25264831or, as cordreanu put it, a country gets the jews it deserves, jews are malaria mosquitoes that live in the swamp of your sins
