/lit/ - Literature

- 25
- dishwasher
- 6 Rue du Pot de Fer, Paris
- Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert

11

CEO

NYC

16
student
Fyffe, AL
Hemingway, Asimov, Kerouac, Eco, Alighieri
Whitman, Macha, Shakespeare, Villon, Armitage
Socrates, Frege, Sartre, Wittgenstein, Chomsky

>>4818642
>16
>Frege
someone call Child Services this young person is being abused

>your age
20.
>your occupation
NEET.
>your place of residence
Norway.
>your top 5:

>novelists
Dostoevsky
Vonnegut
Camus
Orwell
Jens Bjorneboe

>poets
I haven't read enough poetry to say.

>philosophers
Russell
Chomsky
Spinoza
Camus
Boethius

>age
20

>occupation
Student, though I make some money on the side by making films and writing stories.

>place of residence
Central/East PA

>writers
Narrowing this down because I don't have much time at the moment, but I'll post a top ten to compensate. In no order:

Norman MacLean
Cormac McCarthy
Stephen King
Philip Larkin
Roberto Bolano
Ron Currie Jr.
Craig Davidson
TC Boyle
Junot Diaz
Charles Bukowski

28
Information security analyst
East coast US, usually
Novelists: Phillip K Dick, Heinlein, Jonathan Lethem, Patrick Rothfuss, and I'm putting Matt Fraction on here because fuck you.
Poets: Poets are boring. They aren't a part of my life.
Philosophers: Philosophers are for the most part laughable. I'll say Sam Harris, if only for his coinage of the phrase "to hit philosophical bedrock with the shovel of a stupid question." And that's the entire Top 5.

>>4818735

You would like Spinoza.

>>4818642
>Alighieri
>novelist
wat
otherwise nice tastes but...wat

>your age
20

>your occupation
student

>your place of residence
Poland

>novelists
Bernhard
Krasznahorkai

>poets
Novalis

>philosophers
Russel
Pascal
Wittgenstein

>>4818642
>Socrates
I don´t get what people mean by calling Socrates their favourite philosopher...do you mean Plato? Or do you really mean that person who didn´t leave a singe written word?

>>4818642
If you're really 16 yo then take a screenshot of your post and look at it for four years. No hard feelings but I was the same at your age.

>your age
14. Please don't judge, I've never admitted my age here.

>your place of residence
Chicago, USA

>-novelists
Joyce
Vonnegut
Salinger
Camus
Dostoyevsky

>-poets
Bukowski
E.E. Cummings
Shelley

Being precocious is awful, especially in a Chicago public school.

>>4818642
>Alighieri
god i hate it when people put the surnames of people who are referred to by their first name

>>4818796
I think people generally mean the Socrates as described by Plato, Xenofon and other students of his. The wise man who kept asking questions that provoked thought, who wanted to discover all the subtleties of world, who had such a horrible wife, and who would keep being honourable until his death.

- 20
- Student with a part time job
- Oslo, Norway

Poets: Piet Hein, Henrik Ibsen and JH Wessel, Nordahl Grieg
Philosophers: St. Thomas Aquinas, there is no one else.

Y'all under 18's gonna get banned

>Age
May or may not be 16
>Occupation
Student
>Residence
London
>Top 5
John Milton, Ovid, Rabindranath Tagore, Hesse and Tolstoy

17
Student
Istanbul

>novelists
Nihal Atsız, Sabahattin Ali, Amin Maalouf, Oscar Wilde, Cengiz Aytmatov. -Camus, Namık Kemal and Nabokov as bonus-
>poets
Well, honestly i haven't read a lot of poetry. Though I can say Ömer Hayyam's rubais are great. I really like Namık Kemal's poetry.
Some of the poets of Nihal Atsız and Sabahattin Ali are great, but not all.
>philosophers
Farabi, Camus. Would Machiavelli count as a philosopher? If not, i can't add anyone to Camus and Farabi.

Same age as >>4818990
Student
Florida, US
John Milton, Dostoevsky, and Marx

your age:
>19
your occupation
>student
your place of residence
>poland
your top 5:
-novelists
>Calvino
>Dostoyevski
>Nabokov
>Philip K. Dick
>Chekhov
-poets
>Georg Heym
>Tadeusz Miciński
>Shelley
>Rilke
>Cummings
-philosophers
>Wittgenstein
>Spinoza
>Socrates

>tfw I'm 19 and I'm already too old for this place

>"student" as occupation

lol

>>4818591
>24
>Tutor
>Texas
>top 5 novelists
Yasunari Kawabata, Richard Brautigan, Tove Jansson, Bohumil Hrabal, Dezso Kosztolanyi
>top 5 poets
Ryokan, Piet Hein, Oliverio Girondo, Han Shan, Akiko Yosano
>top 5 philosophers
Dogen, Bachelard, Montaigne, Walter Benjamin, Ricoeur

>>4818930
Piet Hein is love.

>>4818591
>20
>student
>Oxford
>Calvino, Conrad, Huxley, Joyce, Marquez
>Milton, Walcott, Eliot, Magrelli, Armitage
>no idea lel

21
Doctoral student in history
Philadelphia
Alasdair MacIntyre; John Dewey; Wittgenstein; Richard Rorty; Heidegger; Arendt; Foucault

>20
>Factory worker
>Belgium
>Camus, Bolano, Kafka, Bulgakov, Pynchon
>Lermontov, Rimbaud, Pushkin, Pessoa, Octavio Paz
>Camus, Marx, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Wittgenstein.

>>4819110
Thank you for actually doing all of them.

>>4818591
-29
-Copywriter
-Williamsburg, Brooklyn
-Novelists: Prouts, Musil, Celine, Mishima, Gaddis.
-Benn, Trakl, Larkin, Holderlin, Stanford
-Cioran, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Heidegger, Adorno

>>4819047
I'm >>4819122
and I think we need to be friends.

24
English teacher

Brazil

Dostoevsky
Nelson Rodrigues
Felisberto Hernandéz
Borges
Céline

Fernando Pessoa
Manoel de Barros
Rilke
Baudelaire
Bukowski

Nietzsche
Cioran
Kierkegaard
Schopenhauer
Augustine of Hippo

>>4819110
Where exactly in Belgium?

Age: 22
Occupation: Student
Place of residence: Belgium, Leuven
your top 5:
-novelists
W. Faulkner, J. Fante, H. Murakami, F.S. Fitzgerald, E. Hemingway
-poets
Baudelaire, Dante, Milton, Goethe, Blake
-philosophers
Camus, Nietzsche, Popper, Hume, Ockham.

>>4819161
Genk
Made a mistake, i'm 19.

Will probably study in Leuven next year, (Law or German/French)

What are you studying?

Roach thread.

17
Student
Vancouver

>novelists
Faulkner
Pynchon
Nabokov
Kafka
Dostoevsky

>poets
Whitman
Wordsworth
Rilke
E.E Cummings
Pessoa

>philosophers

Hume, Wittgenstein, Schopenhauer, Plato, Camus

>>4818591

-22
-student in corporate law
-paris
-novelists: Faulkner, Woolf, Proust, Fitzgerald, Conrad
-poets: Keats, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Eliot, Apollinaire
-philosophers: Descartes, Kant, Kierkegaard

>>4818796
People who haven't read any Plato but read some vague out of context quote about questioning everything, and like that quote shite that doesn't actually mean anything but reaffirms empty abd undeserved notions of self worth.

22
Student
New England, USA
Novelists: Italo Calvino, Jack London, Kurt Vonnegut, J. D. Salinger, Stephen King
Poets: Walt Whitman, Gary Snyder, Milton, Billy Collins, Basho
Philosophers: Descartes, Camus, Nietzsche, Thoreau, Emerson

>>4818918
Then that would be Plato.

17
Student
Canada

>novelists
Pynchon
Faulkner
McCarthy
Roth
DeLillo

>poets
Rilke
Pessoa
Whitman
Tennyson
Shelley

>philosophers
Wittgenstein
Hume
Plato (kind of obligatory...)
Kant
Hegel

>>4819184
>>4819227
better delete those posts fast, looks like the mods are doing their jobs today

>>4819227
oops, i mean i'm 20

>>4818735
>poets are boring
>>4819189
>gary snyder

>>4819126
We definitely need to be, if you're really wanting to. Contact information?

>>4819168
I'm studying philosophy as a maior and history as a minor. It's the most interesting part of philosophy in Leuven: you get a dozen philosophical courses and you can choose between almost every other faculty, including law and languages, for additional courses. Never considered this?

>>4819189
Why are you combining transcendentialism with nihilism? These guys would scratch each other's eyes out.

>>4818635
GADDIS

>>4819265
I don't really know. Not sure if i'm gonna studdy even. I make a comfy 350 euros a week, no stress, and alot of free time.

I'm considiring basically everything, except courses with math.

What you are doing seems interesting. But is the degree good in the job market?
Law seems best and easiest.
Language is really my passion, but teaching seems to be the only viable good option.
No idea with philosophy/history?

It's prolly gonna be German/French in Leuven i think.

How is the school? I didn't go to all visiting days in march, lel.

21
Customer service (kill me)
Detroit metro area, Michigan.
>Novelists
Thomas Pynchon, Franz Kafka, Julio Cortazar, Cormac McCarthy, Italo Calvino
>Poets
Pablo Neruda, Sylvia Plath, Charles Baudelaire, Walt Whitman, Roberto Bolano
>Philosophers
I like Nietzsche and Camus, but I'm mostly uneducated in philosophy so I can't give a great answer. Meaning to start getting into it more though.

>>4818735

>28
>Philosophers are for the most part laughable. I'll say Sam Harris

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

27
editor
amerilard

crichton, cornwall, harris, clavell, pressfield
don't care x5
don't care x5

21, clerk - communal housing

> novelists
celine, bernhard, köhlmeier, nabokov, boyle

> poets
goethe, rimbaud, dante, bukowski, walser

> philosophers
the greeks, chomsky, schopy, witty, confucius

>your philo and poetry tastes are shit-tier
fuck you i wont do what you tell me

>>4819377
oh and i'm from vienna, austria.

>>4818591
>your age
22
>your occupation
student
>your place of residence
le city
>your top 5:
>-novelists
>-poets
>-philosophers
not going to answer these

>>4819122
How does it feel being pretentious? Do you actually understand Hegel, Trakl, Benn, and Adorno?

You probably think À la recherche du temps perdu is about memory and the madeleine moment.

>muh german expressionism

>>4819377
mfw i forgot i'm actually 22 and have been for a while

>>4819377
What does being a clerk involve?

Do you find it fulfilling?

>>4819390

>How does it feel being pretentious?

>You probably think À la recherche du temps perdu is about memory and the madeleine moment.

Read this back to yourself and think about it.

Think real hard.

>>4819279

I don't follow philosophers, I listen to them. For me it's not the ones that I find most compelling, it's the ones I find who can making an interesting or engaging argument. I like the arguments of all of them, especially Camus and Descartes. I like the style of Thoreau and Emerson as well as their argument.

In short, I appreciate a variance of opinion.

>>4819251

... Problem with Gary Snyder? Please, elaborate.

>>4819396

I know that feel... Nobody wants to be 22...

>>4819403
just admit you, you don't understand what the book is about, you pretentious faggot.

>>4819402
lol i'm a fucking grocery clerk. i work the cash register and stack shelves. it sucks.

>>4819412
actually don't mind, it just always takes me a month or two to catch up with, well, myself, i guess. or my age, rather.

>>4819417

I'm not that anon, I just found it amusing that you'd hypocritically take a nosedive into the very pitfall that you were trying to set up for someone else.

Dial down the insecurity, son. It isn't needed.

>>4819424
>insecurity
Not in the slightest.

>>4819432

Don't play denial now.

Just cope and grow past it. It's lame m8.

19
Student (filmmaking)
France
novelists: Dostoïevski, James Joyce, Céline, Hemingway, Tolstoï
Poets: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, La Fontaine, Shakespeare
Philosopher: Evola, Rousseau, Pascal, Kierkegaard, Hegel

>>4819438
Try harder m8.

>>4819410
He reads like the imagistic, semi-confessional, politically minded, lightly structured free-verse, with a dash of spirituality, that I see every few issues of Poetry, on net litmags, and hear at open mics.
His poetry's not bad, it's just oatmeal, occasionally with a few blueberries in it, a bit of sugar, whatever.

>>4819380
>oh and i'm from vienna, austria.

You are lucky: one of the most pleasant and beautiful cities in the world. Have you ever been to Beethoven’s grave to pay your respects? If I lived there whenever I felt bad and down I would go to the grave of the master, to remind myself of what humanity can achieve.

>>4819444
nice trips.
She's cute.
Who is she?

>>4819441

Heh okay it's gonna be like that.

Tell yourself whatever you need to then.

>>4819449
please, anon...

>>4819455

>How does it feel being pretentious?

>You probably think À la recherche du temps perdu is about memory and the madeleine moment.

>>4819458
what part of "try harder" do you not understand?

>>4819444

I'm not entirely going to disagree with you, one of the problems I've found with his work myself is it does read like that, but as a glorious example of that style. The current problem, however is now his style, as the years roll on, seems to become more diluted. I recently took a look at Danger on Peaks, and compared to what he was in Axe Handles it seems like a decline. I think, though, that he really did produce some amazing collections, like Axe Handles.

>>4819461

>must s-s-save f-face

>>4819445
>Have you ever been to Beethoven’s grave to pay your respects?
i don't pay respects to dead white men.
lol jk i've been there. a friend of mine used to live near the zentralfriedhof where his remains are buried and we used to go there and get high. never actually looked for the grave, just happened to pass by accidentally and had a sexy quiet moment with ludwig while my pals were talking about stoner stuff

>>4819465
>-Benn, Trakl, Larkin, Holderlin, Stanford
>-Cioran, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Heidegger, Adorno

-23
-post-grad student
-UK
-(including short story writers) Dostoevsky, Borges, Kafka, Nabokov, Woolf
-Homer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Whitman, Stevens
-Hume, Frege, Aristotle, David Lewis, Kripke

>>4819472

What in particular by Hume, if I may ask? I loved his Treatise on Human Nature.

>>4819297
The degree is disastrous on the job market, at first glance. After a few years you realise that a master in philosophy and/or history raises the chance to climb up in the market. Depends also of what you want to do: media, politics, writing...

You didn't miss out on the visiting days, it's more propaganda and publicity than trying to introduce you to the academic world, really.

-29
-Writer
-New Brunswick Canada/ Maine USA
-McCarthy, Hemingway, Bukowski, Melville, Marquez
-Poe, Hughes, Crane, Whitman, Carver
Kant, Neitzsche, Descarte, Aurelius

>>4819466

Lel, you are alright, Anon.

Would like to have friends like you. Too bad I live in Brazil, on the other side of the planet.

>>4819470

I told you that I'm not that anon.

Plus he's 29, so at least age-wise he's a rung above the other standard fare of teens and early 20s we have here. It's entirely plausible that he'd have a decent working knowledge of the authors if he's been reading seriously throughout his 20s.

>>4819360
You're everything I hate profoundly. I hope you die horribly, with enough time for you to realise you have no idea about the value of life, and that your mom makes you a long poem about your life at your funeral.

>>4819495
>I told you that I'm not that anon

>>4819387
what's the point of answerring

>>4819499
He doesn't feel like name-dropping like everyone else, I guess.

>>4819498

Okay, I get it. You got caught being pretentious while calling others pretentious and now you feel that you want to just turn it all into a big bait session to damage control it.

I'm out. There is always a tragic anon like you in every thread and dealing with your kind of insecurity is draining.

>>4819448
virginia woolf

or emily scott

>>4819483
The Treatise, but also his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (which is similar in many ways to Book I of the treatise, with some additions and subtractions, and of course it has lovely prose), his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, and many of his essays ("Of Suicide", e.g., is great)

>>4819501
...that's what this thread's about though...

>>4819503
>being this rustled

>>4819486
Hmm, wel ik wens het beste voor u. Voor mij zal het, zoals ik al zei, Frans/Duits worden, waarschijnlijk. Al respecteer ik geschiedenis/filosofie ook, maar taal is meer een passie. Wat filosofie/geschiedenis bij u zal zijn, zeker?

>age
20
>occupation
third year undergrad majoring in math
>place of residence
India
>top 5 novelists
meh
>top 5 poets
Neruda, Frost and Tagore
>top 5 phillys
Wittgenstien, Kierkegaard, Derrida and Camus.

100

historical researcher from the future

various hotels

italo calvino
leo tolstoy
jane austen
mstislav chen
alfred bester

john keats
sylvia plath
hrxlth!p GRARRRR
t s eliot
sappho

jean-paul sartre
the one true god
marcus aurelius
soren kierkegaard
the collected saying of 4chan.org

>>4819493
well, i'm an exception here, too, in some ways. you just gotta shop around to find your people

>>4819518
Ge moet doen wa da ge geire doet he!

>>4819540
>hrxlth!p GRARRRR

22
student
mexico
sabato, schwob, onetti, salvador elizondo, broch
gorostiza, villaurrutia, vallejo, huidobro, verlaine
blanchot, bachelard, benjamin, barthes

>age
Nineteen
>occupation
College student, studying English & Linguistics
>place of residence
School year in upstate New York, summers in SoCal
>top five novelists
Twain, Faulkner, West, Pynchon, McCarthy
>top five poets
Pound, Stevens, Frost, Cummings, Bukowski
>top five philosophers
Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein

18

Full time student

Florida, USA

>Novelists
Pynchon
Soseki
McCarthy
Hemingway
DFW

>Poets
Poe
cummings
Dickinson
Whitman
Lord Byron

>Philosophers
Nietzsche
Jesus
Buddha
Hume
Aristotle

am i pleb /lit/

>>4819842
>Cummings
>C

>board full of highschool kids and college sophomores

No wonder there's so much shit taste everywhere.

>>4819997
What do you like then?

>>4820011
Nothing you'll have heard of.

>>4820017
convenient

>>4818679
>>4818774
>>4818930
>>4818990
>>4819020
>>4819022
>>4819059
>>4819073
>>4819161
>>4819185
>>4819189
>>4819387
>>4819439
>>4819472
>>4819538
>>4819840
>>4819842
>>4819869

being a "student" is not an occupation
get a job and stop being such a parasitical drain on our economy you worthless piece of shits

>>4820017
Enlighten us!
>>4820062
Someone never had the chance to go to college I see.

>>4820062
>on our economy
go back to your shithole, burrito eating fat american shit

>>4820075
>probably a yuropoor
>gets paid by the government to study
>educated for a job that doesn't exist
>bloated government budget causes national economy to collapse
>western europe starts to look like greece

>Age
22

>Occupation
NEET

>Place of residence
New Zealand

>Novelists
Iain Banks
William Golding
Richard Adams
- Fluid
- Fluid

>Poets
Haven't read that much poetry but I like Robert Southey

>Philosophers
I have very little opinion on philosophy.

24
English teacher
New Haven, CT - beacon of hope

Novelists:
Faulkner, Kesey, Toole, Dickens, David Mitchell

Poets:
Browning, Swinburne, Chaucer, Rückert, Kay Ryan

Philosophers:
haven't read enough to know

>>4818591
20
none (student)
seattle

novelists:

tolstoy
roth
pynchon
melville
dostoevsky

poets:
milton
shakespeare
ashbery
keats
whitman

philosophers:
kant
nietzsche
plato
rorty
hume

your age
>17
your occupation
>High-School
your place of residence
>House
your top 5:
-novelists
>Jk Rowling
>Terry Pratchett
>Darren Shan
>Suzanne Collins
-poets
>Kanye West
-philosophers
>My philospohy is what doesn't kill you makes you stronger

>>4820106
you realize you'll still get banned right

>>4820097
What do you think of New Haven? I'll be moving there in a year or so. Am prepared for the worst.

>>4820115
Yeah! Can't wait

>>4820062
I don't have an obligation to 'contribute' to the economy. What are you, some kind of collectivist?

20
Army
Alaska

>Novelists
Kafka
Dickens
Dostoevsky

Ehhh... I don't read a lot of fiction.

>Poets
Eliot
Pound
Whitman
William Carlos Williams
Dickinson

>Philosophers
Marx
Plato
Gibran
Schopenhauer
I'm going to go ahead and call Erving Goffman a philosopher and you can deal with it.

- 25
- web developer
- vermont

I prefer non-fiction, not well read in literature, any suggestions?

- Cormac McCarthy
- Rudyard Kipling
- Democritus, Socrates, Epicurus, William of Ockham, Hume, etc.

>>4819492
>New Brunswick
I thought I was the only one.

>>4820120
It grows on you -- not like a tumor, but actually. Yeah, it's a Dickensian hellscape in the winter, but it's nice in the fall, spring, and summer.

You going to grad school? Wooster Square is the nicest neighborhood, for what it's worth.

>>4820173
Yes. Is it manageable to live there without a car?

>23
>student
>portugal
>Borges (not really a novelist though), Hunter S Thompson, Bolaño, Dumas, Dostoevsky
>haven't read enough of it, maybe Pessoa, Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, lel
>only ever read plato and camus

how pleb am i

>Age
22
>Occupation
Security Guard and Magazine Slinger
>Residence
North Carolina, US
>Novelists
PKD, Pynchon, Dostoyevsky, Tess Slesinger, and Melville
>Poets
Artaud, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Kenneth Patchen, and Yevtushenko
>Philosophers
Descartes, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Hobbes, Marx

22
Grocery store cashier
Victoria B.C

Novelists (so no short story writers?)
> Tolstoy
> Dostoyevsky
>Victor Hugo
> James Joyce
> Virginia Woolf

Poets
> T.S Eliot
> Emily Dickinson
> Dante Alighieri
> John Milton
> Yeats

Philosophers

I've probably read fewer than five philosophers to be honest so I don't really have any picks... Sartre, Camus, Plato, Nietzsche, Kierkagaard is it for me.

>>4820371

James Joyce? Really? Why? This question is not meant to offend, but I am legitimately curious because I have difficulty even standing the guy.

22

Part time student

Ireland

Mikhail Bulgakov, Hermann Hesse, John Steinbeck, James Joyce, Umberto Eco

Charles Baudelaire, Patrick Kavanagh, Derek Walcott, W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney

de Montaigne, Camus, Chomsky, Schopenhauer, Baudrillard

>>4819390
Hegel Benn Adorno yes.
Trakl no I don't understand him and that's why I like him.
I think that la recherche is about how terrible desire is and how happiness is impossible.

>>4820533
>I think that la recherche is about how terrible desire is and how happiness is impossible.
you need to try saying that while eating a madeleine

>>4820062

you sir did not quite yet rustle these jimmies

29
researcher
NZ

>novelists
Umberto Eco
William Gibson
Franz Kafka
Henning Mankell
Clark Ashton Smith

>philosophers
Edmund Husserl
Saul Kripke
Bill Lawvere
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Fernando Zalamea

23

Master's student (Journalism, formerly BSC Philosophy)

United Kingdom

Novelists:
Terry Pratchett
H.P Lovecraft
Robert E Howard
J.R.R Tolkein
Ian Rankin

Poets (not well read at all):
Poe
Yeats
Byron

Philosophy:
Overall: Wittgenstein
Moral: Hume
Epistemological: Kant
Political: Marx
I suppose I'll put Frege as a notable reference.

20
Lifeguard/firefighter(intern)
Seattle

novelist:
Houellebecq
Hesse
Camus
Joyce
solzhenitsyn

Poets:
Lolwat

Philosophers:
lolwat

>>4818591

>your age
27
>your occupation
Lawyer
>your place of residence
Brazil
your top 5:
>novelists
Tolstoy; Anthony Burgess (his Nothing Like the Sun is one of my favorite books); Gabriel Garcia Márquez; Dostoyevsky;
>poets
Shakespeare (above all the poetry of the plays); Keats; Walt Whitman; Fernando Pessoa; Chaucer.
>philosophers
I am not that much into philosophy. But I liked the soft-core's, like Montaigne and Socrates (the one that Plato imagined). I was reading a bio of Kant, however, and for what I can tell now he deserves the title of greatest philosopher of all time. He cleaned much of the flowery and false rancidity and mold of the past, and made philosophy almost scientific. Plato's work, for example, are literary very fine and beautiful, but they are, however, the very thing that Wittgenstein said about them "a great waste of time and energy" - they don't present us the truth, they are not rigid and logical. Aristotle is also one of the main names, but great part of his natural sciences have been debunked. He stands on a high ground because of his efforts on logic, but I don't think that all of that was his solitary invention. Wittgenstein is also a funny man: I find his fights with other intellectuals and his despise for other professors very humorous, although I would never act like that myself.

>>4820082
you are aware that the US only still here and alive because they can just raise their already sky-high debt ceiling since if they go down, world economy goes down also they got da nookz. the european average debt is way lower than that of the US.

>>4820808
>Please USA-kun, don't stop protecting our borders!
>Lol stupid murfats, don't know about their debt and how technically their power doesn't matter >:^(

Stay jelly yuropour

>>4820817
actually no

>>4820167
Me too, I go to /int/ a lot and once in awhile you meet someone from the Maratimes but almost never NB. where abouts are you? I'm in the St. Stephen area (Charlotte County), right on the border.

>>4820082
>not getting paid to study
>caring about a career
>ever working in your life

my sides ameriplebs

>>4820486

Because I think he's a good writer? Are you actually surprised by this? Most critics rank Ulysses among the best novels of all time.

>20
>Full time student; part time teacher for the Red Cross (adult swim lessons, lifeguarding, CPR)

>Faulkner
>Pynchon
>Egan
>Burroughs
>Graham Greene or DFW

>Li-Young Lee
>cummings
>Hughes
>Browning (both of them)
>Plath or Whitman

>Russell
>Wittgenstein
>Descartes
>Mach
>Hegel

>>4820843

Forgot

>Deep South

19
Regretful engineering student
Long Island

Novelists:
>Tolstoy
>Hugo
>Murakami
>Dostoevsky
>Bukowski

Poets:
Uh

Philosophers:
>Wittgenstein
>Nietzche
>Schopenhauer
>Kierkegaard

>>4820843
>Mach
Gettin' into the B-side philosophers. I like it anon!

>>4820808
It's a lot more complicated than that. But, if uou really want to parse it down , you can consider our debt a "pay to play" fee. China may inject capital into the U.S. and the fed might enect interedt on every dollar but we can't be called to task on it becase our debtors owe us more than we can ever owe them. Basically if you want free access to tge largest, ricgest, and most comprhensive free market ever, you have to incur a fee that we call debt but really doesn't exist as such. Nukes have nothing to do with it by the way. Nukes don't factor into economic principle. They don't keep China from calling in our debt, the loss of their largest buyer does. If nukes mattered Italy, who has control of several U.S. nukes wouldn't be one of the P.I.I.G.S. and France would be the biggest kid on the EU block instead of Germany.

>Age
21
>Occupation
Student/Burger flipper
>Place
SF Bay Area
>Novels
Instead of top 5 novelists I'll list my top 5 novels because I don't read novels very often (in no order)
The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano
The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
Ulysses by James Joyce
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

>Poets
Olena Kalytiak Davis
Ashbery
Robert Hass
Kay Ryan
Keats

>Philosophers
Adorno
Merleau-Ponty
Kant
Dewey
Epicurus/Lucretius

>>4820862
nukes was a metaphor for military

the "pay to play" idea only works as long as the economy in the US is stable, which it is less and less.

>>4820832
Cool, I'm not too far away. I'm in Saint John. You've been there I imagine.

>your age
16 is a possible age

>your occupation
Slaughterhouse worker/student

>your place of residence
Houston

>novelists
Dostoevsky
Bernhard
Chekhov
Calvino
Krasznahorkai

>poets
Heym
Baudelaire
Miciński
Whitman
villaurrutia


>philosophers
Frege
Kierkegaard
Schopenhauer
nietzsche
Camus

>>4820867
I go all the time. I used to go to Fredericton if I wanted something in the city, but as I get older I'm starting to appreciate St. John more. It has its own unique character; Market Square street art, shit like that. I actually wrote some promo pieces for the museum there too.

>>4820304
Sorry; was out getting mugged for a few hours.

If at Yale, yes. Very easy.
If elsewhere, don't know.

What are you going to study?

>>4818591
>your age
27
>your occupation
MA student
>your place of residence
Berlin
>your top 5:
>-novelists
Flann O'Brien
George Orwell
Flaubert
Samuel Beckett
Camus
>-poets
W.B. Yeats
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Philip Larkin
Ezra Pound
Seamus Heaney
>-philosophers
(I'm going to include cultural and political theorists).
Jean Baudrillard
Guy Debord
Walter Benjamin
Herbert Marcuse
Marx

>>4820867
With the new highway I make to to St. John in just under an hour except in bad weather or in Spring when I slow way down cause of moose.

>>4820901
Cool, yeah I'll be at Yale. Philosophy. You at Yale?

>>4820919
graduated, but still involved. teach English now at a prep school in town. email?

-18
-work in a cafe/bar
-currently Paris, but from Sydney

-novelists:
Honoré de Balzac
James Joyce
Albert Camus
Franz Kafka
Louis-Ferdinand Céline

-poets:
William Blake
Arthur Rimbaud
Charles Baudelaire
Samuel Coleridge
John Wilmot

-i dont read much philosophy:
Friedrich Nietzsche
Arthur Schopenhauer

>>4820899
I spend most of the year away at school and I get somewhat disconnected with what is going on back home. That is something I've been planning on doing, getting more involved in what's going on in SJ. It makes me feel a bit ashamed to not know where I live very well. I like Fredericton a lot, although it is lacking a bit of the charm of SJ that you mentioned. I find it has a better artistic community, however.

>>4820950
I was I Paris last summer, it's my second favorite city ever. I would love to be able to work there as an expat.

>>4820981
whats your favourite

>>4820062

How does taking jobs from people who truly need them to live while I'm currently concerned most about my classes help the economy? While at the same time, the high rate of interest I'm being charged for student loans, and all the money I'm dumping into the education system.... which... makes me a drain... umm... hmmm....

I'm sorry. I'm lost, apparently. What am I doing wrong?

>>4820841

I'm just trying to piece together the appeal, really. I have no real problem with him. It's equal to my opinion about cauliflower; not bad, per se, just not for me and I don't get why people like it.

So, to be more to the point, what aspects of his style are you a fan of?

>>4821324
Don't boil the cauliflower, it taste likes socks. mix pressed garlic and white wine in a bowl, soak the cauliflower for an hour in the fridge, then roast in the oven until crispy. You'll change your mind.

>>4821332

I've tried it a ton of ways, it's just not my jam. It's literally one of the two foods I don't like. I have eaten every weird food on the planet I could get my hands on, but that's the line apparently.

>>4821105
Kiev

>Twenty Three
>Full metal technichian
>New Jersey, USA
Julio Cortázar
László Krasznahorkai
Yukio Mishima
Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Bernhard
>implying
>implying

>>4821359
I'm the same with sprouts.

>>4821993
mfw I'm only a 5/7 metal technician.

>>4820134
I'm dealing with it son.

>>4820647
>Husserl
HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
>In combination with Kripke
HAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHA

>>4821993

>László Krasznahorkai
>Thomas Bernhard

how can you have such good taste in prose but have such an absolute lack of taste when it comes to poetry and philosophy?

i don't get some of you bros srsly...

- I maybe 17
- Student
- North of Melbourne
- Writers:
Dostoevsky
Kafka
Marx
Orwell
Tolstoy

>>4822264
Not the anon you're laughing at, but I don't see what's crazy about that. Carnap and Frege (among others) took Husserl seriously, I don't see why we shouldn't.

26
Life failure
Sydney
Nabokov, Melville, Dostoyevsky, Kawabata, Flaubert
Pushkin, Auden, Rumi, Milton, Plath
Kierkegaard, Schopenhauer, Augustine, Descartes, Aquinas

18
student
melbourne
-novelists
>Tolstoy
>Joyce
>Calvino
>Austen
>Camus

Poets
>Plath
>Whitman
>Gilmore
>Wordsworth
>Dante

Philosophers
>Wittgenstein
>Schopenhauer
>Nietzsche
>Plato
>Hobbes

your age 24
your occupation med student
your place of residence paris
your top 5:
-novelists : Jim Harrisson, Fante, Imre Kerstez, Tolstoï, Camus
-poets : Mallarmé, can't bother with others...
-philosophers Spinoza, Hegel, Sartre, Foucaut, Derrida

How the fuck do you all read so much at young age and how the fuck do you remember all the names of authors etc.?

>>4822443
>-poets : Mallarmé, can't bother with others...
Strange. Not even Baudelaire ? Even Mallarmé would have found that excessive.

>>4822453
Not a question of taste, i just cringe reading poetry. I feel the beauty of it but it's just words, come on... i'm always uneasy reading poetry, dunno why. Most of the time i'm just totally oblivious of the sense of it all and it angers me. A good analogy would be like listening to minimal techno, you can feel the beat but the meaning is so obscure it becomes frustrating. I feel crazy (not understanding words) when i read poetry, it angers me.

23
teacher
Brazil

-Pinecone, Camus, Gogol, PKD, Celine
-William Blake, Augusto dos Anjos, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Percy Shelley, Yeats
(I'm going to put some political authors here because that's mostly what I read)
-Debord, Baudrillard, Benjamin, Le Spooksman, Kropotkin

>>4819150
Are you from Rio Grande do Sul?

>>4822465
I can understand that, but why Mallarmé ? He's rather obscure. Although I get that Mallarmé is one poet you can read without understanding what he is about exactly.

Really slowing down when you read, and picking up more clear poetry (Racine or Corneille if you read French) will perhaps help you.

>>4822540
Oh I'm a great fan of both Racine and Corneille but it's theater to me. Yes french reader.

Maybe Mallarmé discarded french poetry for me...
La poésie que j'ai pu lire en dehors de lui me donne l'impression d'être pointilleuse, le moins de mots pour le plus d'émotions. Et ça me rend un peu aigri, j'aime bien me laisser porter plutôt que de m'emmerder à m'arreter pour piger un sens pas si obscur que ça et toujours une éternelle variante de crise existentielle adolescente. Pour moi les poètes sont des gens qui s'ennuient profondément, un peu trop même.

>>4822494
No, Brasília.

>>4822264
>being this insecure

Don't wear yourself out kiddo. You have school tomorrow.

>>4820105

You go to UW?