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Anonymous Sat Jan 19 12:07:18 2013 No.3374021 [Reply] [Original]

Share your favorite essays.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 12:08:18 2013 No.3374023 Anything by DFW or Hunter S thompson

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 12:09:17 2013 No.3374028 IMHO, DH Lawrence is a much better essayist than he is a novelist. "Studies in Classic American Literature" and "Apocalypse" are two of my favorite.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 12:16:17 2013 No.3374044 >>3374021 Can lectures be classified as essays? If so, E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 12:28:17 2013 No.3374076 Is it OK to be a Luddite? by Thomas Ruggles Pynchon http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_luddite.html Someone's Knocking at My Door by Laszlo Krasznahorkai http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/12/someones-knocking-at-my-door/

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 14:21:19 2013 No.3374482 Yes. I'm enjoying it so far.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 14:22:19 2013 No.3374486 >>3374482 This was meant to be a reply to >>3374044

Anonymous Sat Jan 19 15:16:18 2013 No.3374756

This thread has potential.

Is short but Winter's Philosophers by Charles Simic http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/jan/04/winter-philosophers/

The chapter on Octavio Paz in Redeemers is spectacular.

This recounting about the Poincaré Theorem's solution on the jewyorker http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/28/060828fa_fact2

I have more but I'm not on my computer right now to look up my bookmarks.

Anonymous Sat Jan 19 15:58:18 2013 No.3374881

I really need to read more essays but I enjoyed the Literature of Replenishment and the Literature of Exhaustion.

http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/fms/Colleges/College%20of%20Humanities%20and%20Social%20Sciences/EMS/Readings/139.105/Additional/The%20Literature%20of%20Exhaustion%20-%20John%20Barth.pdf

http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/fms/Colleges/College%20of%20Humanities%20and%20Social%20Sciences/EMS/Readings/139.105/Additional/The%20Literature%20of%20Replenishment%20-%20John%20Barth.pdf

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 16:07:18 2013 No.3374908 http://www.newyorker.com/archive/1996/06/24/1996_06_24_080_TNY_CARDS_000376447?currentPage=all

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 16:10:18 2013 No.3374917 http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles/Wolfe-Sorry-But-Your-Soul-Just-Died.php

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 16:12:19 2013 No.3374924 http://insomnia.ac/commentary/on_the_genealogy_of_art_games/ This man clearly has a mental disorder. I can't stop laughing.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 19:51:19 2013 No.3375776 File: 1.93 MB, 480x242, 1357032892784.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] bump

>>	ƷӜ̵̨̄Ƹ̵̡ Sat Jan 19 20:12:19 2013 No.3375872 File: 22 KB, 306x475, Protable H Arendt.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3375776 Awww. Momma cat is like "No son of mine is going to be a gangster!" Slap >Share your favorite essays. Well, reading this today.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 20:26:18 2013 No.3375933 >>3374924 >huge block of tiny white on black text literally unreadable

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 20:28:18 2013 No.3375942 >>3374924 this is exceptional you can tell the effort put in here. a model essay for the insane.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 21:31:19 2013 No.3376160 Anything by Richard M. Stallman.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 22:25:18 2013 No.3376279 >>3374924 >"Listen to me carefully now, you little abortions of fagots: "art games" has never been and never will be a valid category!" My fucking sides.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 23:09:18 2013 No.3376371 >>3374924 Icycalm is truly one of the great characters of interwebs. I'm actually thinking of ordering his Nietzsche and Baudrillard books if he ever gets around to finishing them: http://culture.vg/books.html#philosophy

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 23:12:18 2013 No.3376375 >>3374924 >identifies with Pauline Kael I'm not sure whether I should be impressed or vicariously embarrassed.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 23:13:18 2013 No.3376379 >>3376375 >She was pretty smart for a woman.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 23:13:18 2013 No.3376380 >>3376371 oh, and let's not forget this insane post: http://culture.vg/forum/topic?f=16&t=3480#p17317

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 23:16:18 2013 No.3376384 >>3374924 Wow, that was a lot of words to justify the notion that fun games are better than games which are not fun. Really merits the Nietzsche citations.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 23:17:18 2013 No.3376387 >>3376380 ahahaha holy fuck

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 23:36:19 2013 No.3376431 >>3374917 this is relevant to my interests. what else ya got?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 19 23:49:18 2013 No.3376447 >>3376380 the voice of our generation

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 00:07:18 2013 No.3376483 >>3374924 What are the games he's railing against? He never gets to that point. Heavy Rain? These essays don't really bother me.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 00:09:18 2013 No.3376487 >>3376483 http://insomnia.ac/reviews/introducing_the_indie_scene/

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 00:12:18 2013 No.3376493 >>3376487 Thanks. This guy must be losing his shit over Angry Birds.

Anonymous Sun Jan 20 00:21:18 2013 No.3376507

The Decay of Lying by Oscar Wilde
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/wilde/decay.html

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace
http://people.virginia.edu/~jrw3k/mediamatters/readings/cult_crit/Wallace_A.Supposedly.Fun.Thing.I'll.Never.Do.Again.pdf

On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth by Thomas de Quincey
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10708/10708-8.txt

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 04:48:18 2013 No.3376964 bumping

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 05:22:18 2013 No.3377012 Are there any good essays that like, analyze capitalism or just contemporary society in general? One that points out the flaws with how humanity works or presents alternatives, i guess i'm asking for political essays that are good.

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 05:32:18 2013 No.3377022 >>3377012 William James might be up your alley. So might "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace

>>	Anonymous Sun Jan 20 05:53:18 2013 No.3377052 >>3376375 I don't even like Kael that much and this offends me

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