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>> No.733957 [View]

The failures of the psychotheraputic institution

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Pic related.

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>>730260

Just replace The Trial with a book of Kafka's short stories.

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>>729886

P.S. Feynman's biography is one of my favorites

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Who wants to play chess with me?

>> No.729906 [View]

http://www.youtube.com/user/Madysaveskittens#p/f/53/p3fsSL4Bw9w

"The things I detest... background music, portable music, concise dictionaries, journalistic cliches.... and humility."

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>>728290

Nine out of ten people who feel this way about that play have never deeply loved anything.

>> No.728298 [View]

Ere I would say, I would drown myself for the love of a guinea-hen, I would change my humanity with a baboon.

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>> No.728269 [View]

Pevear and Volokhonsky. Period.

>> No.728264 [View]

It's one of the first investigations into the existential crisis. The trials of the 20th century man, dealing with his own inanity in the face of a much greater inanity.

>> No.728261 [DELETED]  [View]

It's one of the first investigations into the existential crisis. The trials of the 20th century man, dealing with his own inanity in the face of a much greater inanity.

It's greatness lies in it's unbelievability being so deeply close to us that it can't escape us. Sometimes we all feel like a giant cockroach, just flailing on its back.

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>>716781

who the fuck calls themselves "Chuck" anyway?

>> No.711087 [View]

therefore went my

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Your jackassery does not mean you love the bard more then anyone else.

Shakespeare was great because he was everything but pretentious, he wrote for average people, and that was what made him great.

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Sup dude.

Yeah, letting your audience know the main characters are going to die doesn't work out at all, man. It's a terrible idea.

You'll never be successful is you right a story like that.

Ever.

>> No.536577 [View]

no.

>> No.530775 [View]

lrn 2 Iambic Pentameter.

>> No.516839 [View]

>>516769
>>Obvioustrollisobvious.jpg

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>>516807
such a naturalist.

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Metra: the way to really fly.

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>>reading
>>leisure

>> No.513597 [View]

Hapir-Whorf is crazy. It's true to a point - it shapes the way we view the world. but it doesn't take into account the capacity for humans to use language to develop new ideas.

>> No.512671 [View]

>>512532
>>512532
>>512532

Truth
The only reason anyone lauds them is because they were "original" American stylists in a period of artlessness

same goes for Hawthorne, Poe, Twain, and Bukowski.

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