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12138197 No.12138197 [Reply] [Original]

Reminder that if a book, especially a non-fiction book, has ever produced an emotional response from you then you lack the cool-headed objective detachment necessary to make any claims over the quality of a work of literature.

>> No.12138250

>>12138197
Prove it

>> No.12138258
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>>12138197

>> No.12138259
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>>12138197
>this faggot is reading 19th century literature dispassionately

go play sudoku senpai

>> No.12138261

>>12138250
Emotions are gay. Gays are, spiritually, women. Women are incapable of objectivity.

>> No.12138265

>>12138259
You don't have a bigger version of that?

>> No.12138267

>>12138261
>emotions are gay
Ahem
Prove it

>> No.12138275

>>12138267
I can't because it is subjective, which makes it gay, which proves my point.

>> No.12138279

>>12138261
Emotions can be pleasurable.
Pleasure (which is an emotion) seeking in some form or another is what has driven us to build society and all works of art; it's what has caused us to evolve and will continue to do so

>> No.12139112

>>12138275
>Implying objectivity can ever be reached by a subject

You will never attain it, OP.

>> No.12139144

>>12138261
t. a subject

>> No.12139149

>>12139112
Fuck off kantian paypig

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>> No.12139491

>>12138197
That would mean you disagree with a lot of great writers