/lit/ - Literature

>>16205804
She unironically is, especially about Bukowski

>>16205804
women don't really have the intellectual wherewithal to speak about men.

>>16205804
All of that except Goethe is correct.

>>16205812
>wherewithal
based and lexiconpilled

>>16205804
She got me with 7. I love that book.

i don't get the infinite jest one

>>16205812
>Women don’t have the wherewithal to see the intellectual under this flabby body and social isolation

>>16205827

She dated a guy in college who read the book and he was slightly pretentious.

>>16205804
>Too much Hemingway
From where is this coming from? A woman telling me how much Hemingway is too much? Now a man's not even allowed to have the major works of his favorite author anymore. I pity the fool, bro
>>16205825
What did you like most about it, anon?

>>16205827
It’s become pretty iconic as a book read by teenage and early 20’s pseuds who want to look cultivated.
Our generation’s On The Road I guess

It's to a woman's advantage for her man to be functionally illiterate.

>>16205849
How it triggers roasties

>>16205815
seriously why is Goethe included? Maybe because of Werther, but his other stuff doesn't fit

>>16205804
I don't get what's wrong with Turgenev, but who the fuck would say that? Did she just read Wikipedia and learned where nihilism 'came from'? If anything, the guy's a joke in that book.
I'd be more worried if he kept Sons and Lovers (mommy issues are definitely more relevant in a relationship rather than fedora tipping) or too many DH Lawrence books.

>Be me
>Mispronounce the name Goethe for 30 years
>No one ever corrected me

>>16205849
If you don’t have a proportionate amount of Steinbeck or Fitzgerald alongside your Hemingway the odds are that you’re just trying to look masculine.
She’s actually thought pretty deeply on this.

>>16205861
because fuck white men

>>16205861
>>16205815
Swapping Goethe with Fight Club or something would perfect the list

>>16205804
>Lolita
roastie gettin' toastie

>>16205872
>Steinbeck or Fitzgerald
Of course I do. I love these guys
>She’s actually thought pretty deeply on this
Maybe she's thought too much about it then

>>16205804
Seems fair.
1. He's either an autist or a pseud.
2. He can't handle complex prose.
3. Who is Bukowski
4. He's a libertarian, which I imagine a liberal women wouldn't like.
5. Who is Goethe
6. Universal red flag.
7. What is this book

>dog eared
it's crazy how canine body shaming is totally cool and became a slur

>>16205804
REPORT and SAGE Twitter threads

>>16205868
germanoid here, how do you pronounce it? I guess it's kinda hard if you've never heard of the german "Umlaut" Ö

>>16205894
We are discussing literature, anon.

People really can't help themselves but to judge every little thing. I can't imagine looking at somebody's book shelf and thinking anything other than being interested in discussing something we'd both read.

>>16205825
Same. Wtf is wrong with F&S? The author was even pretty liberal and was against serfs.
>>16205849
Good narrative on the growing discrepancies between generations. Hits home for me

i use a decoy shelf of ruth ozeki and gardening books that hides my multiple annotated editions of american psycho, taipei and the game

>>16205904
Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope

I have no hope for he that reads Bukowski tho

>>16205896
>how do you pronounce it?

Like a naive Frenchman would. Silent e at the end and th like thing.

>>16205804
>slips in a dig at Turgenev out of nowhere
Fuck off lady

>>16205892
I hate how I had to reply to this b8

What's wrong with Fathers & Sons? Seemed pretty harmless when I read it.

Why do women way better literary taste then men?

>>16205896
goh-the

My shelf has nothing but holy texts and occult books lol

>>16205804
Warining sign of what? What does any of these say about a person?

>>16205920
>>16205896
Wait... You boys just fucked me up. What's the correct pronunciation?

>>16205872
If you have any amount of Fitzgerald that’s a red flag that you are currently undergoing transition surgery, leave ASAP.

>>16205940
Goatse

>>16205940
Jesus Christ. Just google it, you utter moron.

I'd switch Goethe who I don't understand with something like the Kybalion
If he has the CH on the other hand, then he's gotta be pretty based

If she adds Fanged Noumena to that list it would be perfect.

>>16205804
>it was just a Twitter joke
Can you imagine submitting a math paper and someone lightly criticizes it?
>it was just a twitter joke senpai

>>16205957
Just your classic damage control.

>>16205953
You're asking some random woman on Twitter to acknowledge the particular taste of /lit/. Nobody cares about Nick Land, BAP, Kantbot, Moldbug and all that embarrassing shit, anon.

>>16205894
this. the way to spot a normalfag is by their preoccupation with other normalfags

>>16205905
>>16205928


Fathers and sons can only be men, which means the novel is sexist.

>>16205965
Stop bursting my bubble

>>16205858
Lol
>>16205905
Sounds like a good book for me, then. Thanks for the rec :)

>>16205940
>What's the correct pronunciation?

As I discovered while listening to a Schopenhauer audiobook, it's something like 'goata' with a bit of aspiration with the t. I'm not even joking.

>>16205804
2.5/7

>>16205965
people know who Bap, Land, and Moldbug are, and none of them have anything to do with /lit/

>>16205804
>>16205939
Please, answer. I seriously have no idea why are these books so bad and what do they say about a person.

>>16205973
>men can't be women
Fuck off terf scum enbies are heckin cute

>>16205804
What did she mean with the *-enclosed sentence?
>>16205868
>Goethe
>gur-tuh
Fuck! And here was I thinking it was pronounced like 'goatee' with the 'th' sound at the end.

>>16205983
My guess would be that she thinks that they're reflective of a man's personality, which, if having read these books, would have the temperament of a chauvinist pseud.

>>16205983
Since the tweet was written by a woman who then backpedaled saying it's a joke making fun of white guys who read dead white guys I'm gonna assume it's a warning sign for the woman that the man does not share her anti-racist, anti-sexist beliefs

>>16205804
wtf is wrong with goethe?

>>16205983
Someone answered here >>16205892

>>16205926
I was being sincere :(

>>16206000
>>16206009
oh, makes sense. Thank you

>>16205804
She's fucking insane. Stop paying attention to her, you mongs.

>>16205804
Top 7 Signs in a Womans bookshelf:
There isnt any

>>16206078
/thread

>>16205804
unoriginal

>>16205868
Thats a fat ass

TFW YOU btfo roasties and whores so hard in life that in death you will always be remembered as their antichrist.

1)Infinite jest is shit
2) just whore rage
3)Bukowski is comfy
4) commie parasite just mad that there actually was such thing as a based femnoid
5)? Don’t really get this one. Maybe a reference to young werther but you have to be pretty steeped in academia to even know of it
6) I’ve seen a sea of art hoes who who get off to this book more then men
7) ditto with the Goethe comment

>>16205804
not really a joke, though, is it?

>>16205983
>>16205852
>>16205872

Also Bukowski is just classic cringe

Why Goethe, though? Is it because of The Sorrows of Young Werther, which only sadboys read? If you saw Elective Affinities on someone's bookshelf, would that be cause for alarm?

>>16206078
I mean it's a woman, what did you expect

>>16206102
What are you staring at, anon?

>>16206155
who is this

>>16206012

They fear him!

>>16205804
>too much of one of the greatest authors of the 20th century bar none
What exactly would she prefer? J.K. Rowling and [INTERCHANGABLE BLACK WOMAN #7529]?

>>16205804
1: yes, shows self-absorbed pretentious angst
2: very, very much yes, shows a man who gets his notion of masculinity from blogs and is also a pleb with high-school tier literary taste
3: yes, shows the kind of artfag who's stuck in a teenage mindset of romanticizing the most plebby abyss imaginable
4: yes, Ayn Rand is a literal retard
5: Absolutely and categorically wrong, no idea what this bitch's problem is
6: depends. If the person who has it as a favorite is a coomer, she is correct.
7: Is the milder version of 3, so mild that I would let it slide, but whatever, this bitch doesn't like Goethe, she's a retard.

>>16206195
If Hemingway is the only 20th Century master on your bookshelf you’re probably not into Literary Modern Realism, you’re probably just trying to signal masculinity

>>16206195
Ask me how I know you've read less than 10 authors of the 20th century, and that 80% or more of them can be found in the /lit/ starter chart.

>>16205804
>Goethe
1 warning sign from a woman's tweet

>>16206205
Or he just doesn't know that much about it and he has Hemingway because he's famous and accessible. Who signals masculinity with fucking books of all things anyway

>>16205804
She is right, but not about the first tweet, I have nothing to say about that.

What she is right about is the "lack of self-awareness" part.

Everyone getting legitimately upset and replying to her are low-T retards. They made the mistake of taking the content of her message seriously, but they've missed her point. The content of her message is irrelevant. The content is some opinion about books. But that's not the meaning of her message. The meaning is something like:

"This is a test designed to provoke you. As a woman, it is my duty to poke and prod you, man, for weaknesses. If you react seriously, emotionally, to what I say, you have revealed yourself weak, and so have failed the test - may the lions have you, for weak men have no place in my tribe's gene pool."

This translation can essentially be applied to anything a woman says that may irk you. Should you find yourself bothered by something a woman says, you need to STOP - step outside yourself, divorce yourself from the instinctual emotional reaction you were about to have, and divorce the CONTENT of her message from the MEANING of her message. Understand that it's just a flirtatious attempt by her to shake you, but DO NOT be shaken, DO NOT take her seriously. Return her flirtations with your own flirtations.

>>16205804
>Ayn Rand
Unironically true, Objectivism is such a shit philosophy and is the mark of a brainlet.

>>16205940
>https://translate.google.de/#view=home&op=translate&sl=de&tl=zh-CN&text=goethe

the oe in Goethe is pronounced like "ö", there's no equivalent in english, it's similar to oeu in french, like in "les oeufs"

>>16206224
People with improbable amounts of either Hemingway or Norman Mailer

every single twitter user should be shot and dumped in a mass grave

>>16206224
She said “too much”

>>16206239
But that’s all of us here. We’re all talking about the tweet and her insights (which are surprisingly insightful)

>>16206248
you can't seriously find it insightful to mock a bunch of widely known stereotypes without saying anything new and then do a white man bad follow up

>hating on Bro-kowski

Why are Women just the worst?

>>16205896
Unironically "Girth."

>>16205804
Don't really disagree with her outside of Goethe, but the twitterspeak makes me hate hr

>>16205804
What would be inverse list, female favourite books that would be red flags for a male?

>>16206256
Just knowing IJ as cringe probably makes her more insightful than most people under 30 who read under.
Hemingway has long been associated with masculinity and so too much Hemingway without any other literary modern realism to offset it says something about the image your trying to exude. I’m honestly impressed she was able to connect those dots.
Especially since it isn’t “White Man Bad” since the other very popular modern realist writers (Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, etc) who would offset it would necessarily be White Men.
If you are pissed about people making assumptions on what you read, maybe don’t parade visitors in front of your epic pile of pseud?

>>16205804
She's right on everything except Goethe.

>>16206302
shitting on 'litbros' for liking IJ and Hemingway is incredibly common, idk why you're pretending it's some novel criticism

and she literally said 'oh white men and your lack of self-awareness'

Twitter screenshot posters get the oven too.

>>16205978
It's a great book. Not as imposing as Dosto or Tolstoy but an excellent novella. You'll find striking similarities between the characters then to people now

>>16205940
Girder

>>16206301
YA dystopian fiction

The world has gotten so much worse since women were allowed to be equal. That's a fact. Everything has gone downhill since.

the classic meme 'red flag' author that women tell each other to watch out for on men's shelves is bret easton ellis; they are however in that case correct

>>16205804
Always respond to leftists with:

You are inferior.

And keep repeating it, it works, because they know its true.

>>16206306
“Hemingway”=\=“Too Much Hemingway”
One is just white male baiting cringe and the other is dabbing on tryhards.

>>16206321
Okay pussy

>>16206329
>Always respond to leftists with:
>You are inferior.
they are, but
>it works
it doesnt
>because they know its true
they dont

>>16206224
>Who signals masculinity with fucking books of all things anyway
Most of the posters on /lit/.

>>Who signals masculinity with fucking books of all things anyway
>Most of the posters on /lit/.
yeah I mean I thought that's what we were all here for. Is there some other reason you guys are posting?

>>16205804
>lit bros
I fucking HATE women

>>16205896
Goy-ta

Just threw out all my Goethe

>>16206336
SJW

>>16205804
Whenever I read stuff like this from women all I think is, "She desperately needs a good dicking"

>>16205868
tfw it anglos have to use different phonetic notation because they can't into ø/ö.

>>16206406

Corrective dickings are meted out nearly enough. There should be an elite squad on hand to quickly and decisively handle these situations.

>>16205940
there is no correct pronounciation, Goethe is a pseud and you should never utter his name, read Mickiewicz (pbuh) in original Polish instead

>>16206417
forgot image. The "oe" is pronounced like the "eu" in the French bleu. The "-the" is pronounced just like the "Te-" in television.

What's bad about "Fathers and Sons"?

>>16206525
father should be turned into mothers and sons should be raised to be daughters, shitheel

>>16205874
based opinion anons

>>16206525

The paternal bond threatens to displace the authority of the unbounded woman.

>>16206205
What's wrong with wanting to be more masculine? My dad told me to read Hemingway as a kid BECAUSE it had masculine messages, are men better off listening to women their whole lives?

>>16205973
The title in Russian when it was published is literally "Fathers and Children", so tf is the problem with Turgenev? Easily one of the best authors to describe and present the most sincere form of humanity and meaning.

>>16206430
That's a schwa at the end, my dude. The "e" is pronounced like the "a" in the word "about"

>>16205804
>you can't like things I don't and if you do you're problematic
>I disagree
>LOLOLOLOLOL TRIGGERED SNOWFLAKE????? XDDDDD RIGHT CAN'T MEME LOLOLLOLOLOLOLOOLL L

>>16206564
You don’t know the difference between being masculine and being a tryhard who buys beard accessories via subscription?

>>16205872
>he is appreciating a womans opinion
vag spotted

>>16205892
>2. He can't handle complex prose.
That kind of is Hemingway's approach though; it is straight to the point and serious.

>>16206016
>>16205892
>>16205983

Embarrassingly wrong, though - half the list is wrong to start with, the proposition is wrong when applied on a grand scale of the superlative, exquisite, ineffable aesthetic. Interestingly enough, the only parts that appear to be right are the asinine assertions that align the captured emotional perception of a book to the tastes of self, i.e, "lowleeta is my fave boook", obviously a stellar read but the opinion needs to be more nuanced or we can throw it out as vapidly contrarian and humorlessly ironic. Now - let's go back - DFW (Pbuh) was a warrior and a pioneer, if Women A read anything other than Marxist pamphlets and organic tofu labels she might be less critical of "fringe" prose. Ehem, now, claiming that there is such a thing as too much Hemingway is outlandishly bombastic and by the time we reach Number 2.) on her list it is overwhelmingly obvious that she hasn't the faculties to develop a coherent thought on the matter. Needless to say, the following Bukowski dig is simply unacceptable.
>from my bed
>I watch
>3 birds
>on a telephone
>wire.

>one flies
>off.
>then
>another.

>one is left,
>then
>it too
>is gone.

>my typewriter is
>tombstone
>still.

>and I am
>reduced to bird
>watching.

>just thought I'd
>let you
>know,
>fucker.
Masculine Bukowski never meant anyone any harm, he was just spitting that ill that nobodies bidness
The red flag on Ayn Rand is based. No qualms with that.
With Goethe, I'm assuming she decided that 7 looked more intimidating than 6 and added him. Not really sure how he can be polarizing in any capacity and make her shitlist.
All in all, 3 out of 10 baserinos. In the eviscerating words of Wolfgang Pauli: this /lit/ list is not right. It is not even wrong...

>>16206608
Buying beard accessories and reading hemingway isnt comparable

lolita is my favorite book desu

>>16206614
Bukowski isn’t harmful, he’s just cringe. It’s like how IJ is more of a fashion accessory for a certain type of person than a book.

>>16206624
It is when it’s all you read and you show them off on dates, kek

She's not totally correct but it's a pretty funny tweet desu

What would be the Warning Signs for a Woman's Bookshelf? I'd say
>a bunch of Jane Austen/Bronte sisters
>John Greene
>multiple copies of any Harry Potter books

what else?

>>16206642
I guess man

>>16205868
Did you not go to school?

>>16205896
Guetta, like david guetta, but with an "e" instead of "a".

>>16206109
>Maybe a reference to young werther but you have to be pretty steeped in academia to even know of it
speak for yourself, mutt

>>16205982
>Abysmal amount of citations and awful h-index
>Abysmal amount of ratings on goodreads and amazon
Sure, anon, they absolutely aren't just niche /lit/ memes!

>>16205804
Posting twitter screencaps should be punishable by death

>>16205804
What's the problem with Hemingway, Bukowski, Goethe or Nabokov? Are they not worth having on your shelf or reading?

>>16206765
Holy shit, have you read any responses in this thread at all?

>>16205908
Unfathomably based

>>16206747
They have absolutely nothing to do with /lit/, this board was late by years in discussing any of them

>>16206643
Eat, Pray, Love
Heavily annotated copy of White Fragility

>>16205936
>>16206283
>>16206357
>>16206681
These are all different, I'm just gonna keep mispronouncing it and declare anyone who says anything different a faggot.

>>16206419
>I'm putting together a team

>>16206828
>They have absolutely nothing to do with /lit/
Yes, they do, retard, there's no other place on earth where they are so popular proportional to the size of the community.
You are probably idiotic enough to believe a forum exclusively dedicated to Homer wouldn't have anything to do with him either. After all, they would be thousands of years late in discussing him!

>>16206989
They are popular on twitter, and they originated in a community of blogs. you are under the mistaken impression that /lit/ matters at all, and that this board is somehow dedicated to these guys who it has only in the past 2 years started talking about, long after the NRx peak, and mostly in the form of shitposts.

>>16207005
Just because a bunch of other diasporas exist, doesn't change the fact that they are complete unknows in the broader world. Also:
>implying there's any qualitative difference between /lit/ and twitter

>>16207020
Nick Land is known though, he was famous enough for Ray Brassier to go out of his way to publish a book of his essays. Moldbug was namedropped by Steven Bannon while he was in the whitehouse, and Peter Thiel.

nobody knows or cares about /lit/

>>16205804
I'm looking for genuine advice.
How to prevent myself from getting outraged seeing tweets like this?
I don't want to, but the feeling is involuntary.

is hugh jess really her name?

>>16206634
Same thing. Benign isn't supplemental to growth. Meh - feel free to continue judging those who wear IJ like the dunce cap it is.

Why Goethe?

>>16207075
Jess.

The fact that this got so many angry replies proves her point.

It's like she thinks that because you own a book, that means you agree with everything in it and you model your behavior off of it. What a fucking retard.

>>16205804
>Infinite Jest
Zadie Smith is a DFW fan. Jess McHugh is racist and misogynist.
>too much Hemingway
The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms are satires of masculinity.
>Any amount of Bukowski
lol
>AYN. RAND.
based
>Goethe
wtf what did Goethe do
>Lolita is my favorite book
pedos BTFO
>Fathers and Sons is my favorite book
I don't even know what that is

>>16207105
You could as easily say that all the people replying to the replies proves their point, it's a dumb metric

Top 7 Warning Signs in a God's Bookshelf:
1. Martin Heidegger
2. Julius Evola
3. Oswald Spengler
4. Nietzsche (Elisabeth)
5. Adolf Hitler
6. Gary Larson
7. William Luther Pierce

>>16206205
Why are retards like you insistent on this? People who are obsessed with masculinity don’t read.

>>16207168
Probably because people keep misquoting the tweet and saying she thinks Hemingway is cringe. Really it’s just too much Hemingway looks like you’re trying to make a statement.
If it triggers you to have people judging your taste you don’t have to show them your bookshelf lol

>>16207206
based simp

Faust was kino

>>16205804
>owning a book means you approve of its contents, messaging, or the author's behavior

false premise, women (female) are garbage

>>16206430
>tuhlevision

>>16205804
She’s right for all except Infinite Jest

>>16207165
>6. Gary Larson
The guy who made Far Side?

>>16206643
A lot of pop psychology and self help books
Anything by Ta-nehsi Coatse
Romance novels/smut are the only books with cracked bindings

>>16207125
>The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms are satires of masculinity
t. took one class on Hemmingway led by some barren 50 year old catlady. Or didn't take any classes at all about anything.

>>16205896
'gye-te', as any good Russian would.

having fun raising your cats, ho

>>16207247
this

>>16207247
counterpoint: stack threads

>>16205804
Everything is correct, but I wish should had left Lolita out of this.

Alright, good work anons. Twitter poster is faggot, OP is a faggot, repliers to the malformed list are faggots, commenters of the replies to the twitter post posted by OP are all faggots, and, last but not least - of course - I am a faggot.
Sage

>>16205861
>>16205815
yeah i assume she has only read werther and thinks the rest of his work is along the same lines

>>16206302
>repeating something you heard somewhere else a million times
>insightful

The popular opinion used to be that IJ was perfect. Now the popular opinion is that it’s overrated. 95% of the criticism you hear is bandwagon talk, same as the people who bought it, didn’t read/understand it, but hailed it as a masterpiece.

>>16207491
>malformed list
It’s been consistently proven all over the board that she’s right about everything but Goethe

>>16207326
the very same

Tribalism on the rise again i see.

>>16207125
>wtf what did Goethe do
He was a pussy snatcher

>>16205868
>Gooey-the

>>16205804
I guess she recently broke up with her boyfriend then

>>16207508
Absolutely based, my man. But why did you include him next to meme authors?

>>16205896
'Gert-er'

>>16205804
What is wrong with fathers and sons?

>>16207579
You should catch up on his more recent work

>>16207623
I just checked and it looks like he posted some new Far Side stuff after many years. I can't find any place where I can check it out, though.

>>16205804
>I have a copy of Infinite Jest that I made halfway through before stopping at a sentence that goes like ''If and so but and so.'' I looked it up an apparently this is a sentence made of 6 conjunctions, meaning there is (6-1)! = 5! = 120 possible logical ways of interpreting / parsing this sentence. When I read that sentence, I put the book down, called the friend who told me to read it a faggot, and I now plan on burning it on a barbecue, because life is too short for 120 possible interpretations of a sentence.
>I read a lot of Hemingway as part of English courses in college, I've saved none of the books, but yes I've basically read everything he ever wrote, and a posthumous semi-autobiography from his notes in Paris.
>I grew out of Bukowski the second I stopped being a teenager. The artsy teenage girls around me didn't. I prefer British romanticist and German existentialist poetry, because I am an adult.
>I've never read Ayn Rand, my libertarian phase was thankfully devoid of her egomaniacal propaganda - can't say the same for the people who eventually became progressives to cover for their love of Rand.
5. Want to read Goethe.
6. Never read Lolita, don't want to, pedophiles should be shot
7. I don't know what that book is, and I don't care to look it up. I have a strict reading list based on the western canon, and some personal recommendations.

So..... 0/7, nice try McHugh. Who even still listens to women's opinions anymore?

>>16207660
On his website. He's really fucking lazy so there are only two comics after 11 months.

>>16207668
Jeez I totally fucked up the formatting of this post

>>16207671
>only two comics after 11 months
Judging by the date of the posts it looks like he made this on the 11th of this month.

>>16207336
someone pay attention to my post

>>16207504
Wrong. Wrote up a proof already that had her list at fifty-fifty. No better than a dart toss in Alexandria. The criterion to make it on the list is "warning signs" mind you - and if Goethe is out of place... waayeeefff, it discredits the entire fucking list. Thus, with a FINER tooth comb, we go back through and disprove a number of other ones and relegate them to a "Stretch". Arriving at, eventually (for you) fifty-fifty and nothing more than arbitrary babblings masquerading as a thought-provoking series.
sage.

>>16207668
>>16207676
>strictly read the canon
>won't read Lolita
>trying to imply someone else is embarrassing

>>16207065
someone pay attention to my post

>>16207668
>6. Never read Lolita, don't want to, pedophiles should be shot
You're embarrassing, really
I also think pedos should be shot btw

>>16207711
I'm literally learning Latin and Ancient Greek, and I don't wanna read any shit from the modern era until I'm done with the classics, and the pre-world wars British.

I do not care what Lolita has to say. For the same reason I don't care what David Foster Wallace has to say.

The only people from the modern era that I like are Franzen, Delillo, McCarthy, Pynchon, and Salman Rushdie, strangely enough.

I'm not arab, but I somehow ended up with a ton of Rushdie and modern postcolonial Arab writing.

Derek Walcott gives me similarly comfy vibes. I'm gonna nab me a copy of Omeros.

>>16207747
And before anyone mentions it, yes I know Derek Walcott was accused of rape multiple times. Yes, yes, it annoys me cause it ruins the vibe. But the dude is black - what more can you expect from him? His people rape the same way Japanese people have cultural OCD, or as naturally as a deer knows to lick a salty rock.

If you're truly dedicated you'll just ditch bookshelves and get an ebook that can contain any quantity of books

>>16207783
Get a load of this stupid fucking nigger.

>>16205804
why goethe though? what did he do?

>>16207799
Exist and be white, and male, and influential.

>>16207785
go on and fill your house with all the books you're gonna read then, I'm assuming there's enough space in your home to have nearly every fiction and non-fiction book from the greeks down to the 19th century.

>>16207810
The important ones require a physical copy for the mood. The others, I'm fine with stealing online or loaning from the McGill library.

>>16205896
göte

>>16207827
if you're honestly into literature you'll realize that classics, especially from ancient greece and rome are tightly related to each other and the important/not important dichotomy is nonexistent. You're gonna have to keep nearly every historical and mythological account to get the full picture.

>>16206400
Epic, go back to reddít

>>16207668
>>16207747
you’re a walking meme

>>16205868
I have always pronounced it "Gö-te" without any hesitation, and I can't bother or care to see if it's correct or not. Don't care, and I sounds good to my ears so it must be right

t. Swede

>i-is that... ohmygod.. i-is it really... is that FAUST ON YOUR SHELF??? OH MY GOD I'M GOING INSANE AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>16206226
Insightful and underrated.
Curious about this though: >Return her flirtations with your own flirtations.
So basically you're saying to poke her back?

>>16207708
I guess he's archiving the older posts to sell in a book. Mystery solved. Poor bastard lost so much money by swearing off the internet for 20 years. I do like how he calls one section "the daily dose"

>>16205804
she started correct then ran out of steam
1. cringe
2. boring
3. for teenagers
4. complete dogshit
5. this one makes no sense
6. no one says this
7. this one makes no sense

The fuck's wrong with Faust? Replace Goethe with Evola and you're gold.

>>16205892
>5. Who is Goethe

>>16205986
>gur-tuh
Still mispronouncing it buddy

>>16207668
>meaning there is (6-1)! = 5! = 120 possible logical ways of interpreting / parsing this sentence.
Why did you subtract by one?

>>16207165
>4. Nietzsche (Elisabeth)
lmao

>>16208217
Because conjunctions are words that need to be used with other words (nouns verbs etc..) to parse a sentence. A sentence with six conjunctions won't have six divisions, but five.

The key with that factorialization is that you don't know where the possible 1-5 conjunctions are meant to be placed.

Thus 6 conjunctions = parsing 5 times = 5 factorial possible interpretations = 120 (although definitely less than 120 as a lot of those possible interpretations are nonsense).

The sentence literally means nothing, it's just meant to be a nerd flex from Wallace.

And honestly, after all the footnotes, and the fucking tedium, this sentenced just pissed me off so much that I put the book away, and plan on destroying it.

>>16207747
Bruh ejus qui operatur opus pertinet ad modern vita, solum contemplari formas.

>>16208339
Modern life is shit, I'm happy just closing my door and contemplating ''the forms'' or ''the good'' or ''logos''.

>>16208321
Or, at least let me specify: a sentence that is NOTHING but six conjunctions, will have at most five divisions because at least one of the words at a time has to function as a normal word.

In a normal sentence, written by a non faggot, six conjunctions would mean six divisions, and thus six factorial intepretations.

>>16208217
I can't tell you how much thinking about this made me hate life.

>>16208321
For me it seems that you are mixing up counting algorithms and use here a part of the stars and bars interpretation with the wrong formula. However, what needs to be considered is the overcounting because of and and so which both appear twice in the sentence

>>16207668
Pretty sure Turgenev is included in the western cannon.obv Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky are the big 2 that everyone knows but Turgenev is in the same class as Pushkin, Chekhov, etc

>>16208390
Whatever the mistake I'm making with the exact number, my point still stands that it's too many possible interpretations.

It's the writer's equivalent of Bulverism, and mocking the reader.

I dunno man, there's only blu ray porn and the bible on my shelf

>>16205832
correct

>>16208415
Nevermind. I just wanted to figure out if you're a math nigger

>>16208507
I am in a physics degree... so kinda. I come to places like this to chill.

>>16205804
She's not entirely wrong, but women only educate themselves because of their vanity. It's amazing she even knows seven authors, truly a specimen worth offing in the event that she breeds more.

>>16208590
Unironically, even for a meme like this, women are not worth this much thought. No one cares what they think or do. They're just a retarded pampered neo-imperial luxury class.

>>16205872
lol no she didn't

>>16208590
Can you ask why men are?

>>16208631
Men are too busy making the world go round to entertain such a gay question.

>>16206226
Good point anon, women should never be taken seriously

>>16208590
>since conformity is subconsciously perceived as an indicator of intelligence
What?

>>16208833
It's saying that women pursue academia because fitting into an "intellectual" group makes them feel intelligent, even though it just means they're agreeable.

>>16205804
#6 and #7 contradict each other, sweetheart. Leave the thinking to the grown-ups, alright?

>>16205804
>Goethe
Looks like someone got filtered.

>>16207710
Haha it must have done something right if you’re seething this hard.

>>16205804
6/7

fuck yourself reddit twitterniggers.

it took me over a year to read Infinite Jest, but it was worth.