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Pessoa Sat Aug 17 06:59:42 2019 No.13652600 [Reply] [Original]

Are there fiction books one should read besides non-fiction? I can't help but to feel that I'm wasting time reading fiction whereas I could be reading Spinoza, Leibniz and Wittgenstein.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 17 07:00:48 2019 No.13652605 >>13652600 The Bible is a good source of fiction

>>	Pessoa Sat Aug 17 07:01:21 2019 No.13652608 >>13652605 I've read the Bible and it doesn't count as fiction on my book.

Anonymous Sat Aug 17 07:13:18 2019 No.13652656

>>13652600
I think it's very important to get in touch with the literary tradition of your own nation or people. To understand the spirit of your origins and shit...

But anon, you really shouldn't think reading fiction is a waste of time. There can be great cultural rewards in fiction.

>>	Pessoa Sat Aug 17 07:18:03 2019 No.13652670 File: 212 KB, 601x495, 1565418143435.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>13652656 What if my "people" are a bunch of subhumans and I have no cultural heritage?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 17 07:39:28 2019 No.13652746 >>13652670 then you by extension are subhuman and should just kill yourself

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 17 07:43:25 2019 No.13652761 >>13652608 Yeah, it's too boring. >>13652656 >>13652746 The struggle of being Australian. But nationalism is a spook, so read the Greeks while Nazis shove their head up their ass to sniff the farts of people far smarter than them.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 17 07:52:20 2019 No.13652780 >>13652761 oi white cunt toime to read da stories of da dream time and only DEN can you get some culchah

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 17 07:56:31 2019 No.13652788 >>13652780 I would, but there probably isn't any interesting collections or original authors. The abo stuff is rote and the white stuff is derivative and overly self-conscious, so the country is just cooked.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 17 08:00:48 2019 No.13652800 >>13652600 >The Republic >The Selfish Gene >Mein Kampfe Please kill all podcast listeners, k thanks.

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 17 08:02:58 2019 No.13652802 >>13652600 Music, poetry, art and meta-narrative are far more potent media than scientific "non-fiction" books. The notion of something interpersonally "non-fictional" is absurd in itself, Wittgenstein says fuck you

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 17 08:04:26 2019 No.13652805 >>13652600 >he thinks of Harry Potter and Narnia when he thinks of fiction what a sad existance it must be

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 17 08:08:17 2019 No.13652816 >>13652600 Fiction is alright if it addresses and builds on philosophical ideas about the nature of man and his relationship with the universe.

Anonymous Sat Aug 17 08:20:09 2019 No.13652842
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>>13652761
Australian poetry and art was once flush with young classicists now obscure and arcane to modern Australians. Raid your university library, I love this shit

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