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>As soon as I read the first sentence I became persuaded that he was a man of genius
what did he write?

>> No.14917536

>>14917531
test
>>200516879

>> No.14917543

>>14917531
To coom or not to coom? I must declare it is to COOOOOOOOOOOOOM IN MY UNDY WUNDIES AHHHHHHHHHHHH

>> No.14917661

>>14917531
>Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.

>She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.

>Did she have a precursor? She did, indeed she did. In point of fact, there might have been no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, a certain initial girl-child. In a princedom by the sea. Oh when? About as many years before Lolita was born as my age was that summer. You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style.

>Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this tangle of thorns.

>> No.14917733

>>14917661
Ba. Se. D

>> No.14917907

>>14917531
Niggers? I hate them!

>> No.14917920

>>14917531
I'm interested in Wittgenstein, what Work should I read first?

>> No.14918267

>>14917920
Tractatus

>> No.14918272

>>14917531
The Game

>> No.14918844 [DELETED] 

bump

>> No.14918915

>>14917531
>The Jewish nigger Lassalle who, I’m glad to say, is leaving at the end of this week, has happily lost another 5,000 talers in an ill-judged speculation. The chap would sooner throw money down the drain than lend it to a ‘friend’, even though his interest and capital were guaranteed. In this he bases himself on the view that he ought to live the life of a Jewish baron, or Jew created a baron (no doubt by the countess). Just imagine! This fellow, knowing about the American affair, etc., and hence about the state of crisis I’m in, had the insolence to ask me whether I would be willing to hand over one of my daughters to la Hatzfeldt as a ‘companion’, and whether he himself should secure Gerstenberg’s (!) patronage for me! The fellow has wasted my time and, what is more, the dolt opined that, since I was not engaged upon any ‘business’ just now, but merely upon a ‘theoretical work’, I might just as well kill time with him! In order to keep up certain dehors vis-à-vis the fellow, my wife had to put in pawn everything that wasn’t actually nailed or bolted down!

>> No.14919230

>>14917920
Don't read the tractatus as Wittgenstein later goes on to go against what he was trying to prove in it (that being, that language represents, or pictures, the world around us).

I'd recommend reading through 'Philosophical Investigations' and 'Lectures & Conversations'

>> No.14920241

>>14917531
sneed

>> No.14920264

>>14919230
Don't listen to this guy. Read Tractatus, then read Philosophical Investigations so you understand where he's coming from -- and the Tractatus has its own points worth reading not just throwing aside because muh ladder and muh picture theory.

Then, if you want more, read Ray Monk's biography on him, On Certainty, and The Blue and Brown Books.

>> No.14920266

>>14917661
Nabokov is such an awful writer. The more times I see this passage, the more contrived I realise it is, the more pretentious I realise Nabokov was.

>> No.14920315

>>14919230
>don't read Plato because Aristotle refutes him
>don't read Aristotle because the enlightenment thinkers refute him
>don't read Hume because Kant refutes him
>don't read Hegel because Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer refute him

>> No.14920325

>>14920315
Where is the problem here? Out with the old, in with the new

>> No.14920339 [DELETED] 

>>14920325
do you think painting lost all its value when the camera was invented?

>> No.14920381

>>14920325
do you think painting lost all its value when the camera was invented?

>> No.14920718
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14920718

>>14917531
Something alluding to Russel's paradox that Russel misunderstood

>> No.14920808

>>14920381
Yes

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>> No.14922005

>>14917531
even Ray Monk does not know exactly what that was, but he highly suggested that the quote would be about his view on logic as distinct from natural sciences.

writings on TLP 4.0312 and TLP 4.112 has a view that what that first sentence would be.
>My fundamental thought is that the logical constants do not represent. That the logic of the facts cannot be represented.
>Natural science describes the world, whereas philosophy's aim is the logical clarification of thoughts.

>> No.14923201 [DELETED] 

bump

>> No.14923207

>>14920266
Retard doesn’t realize the main character is supposed to be pretentious

>> No.14923591

>>14920718
fun-e pic