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Hey /lit/, I want to have my mind blown. I'd prefer philosophy but fiction is fine. Just something that will blow my hair back.

>> No.2237016

Read the story that starts on this page:
http://books.google.com/books?id=kju5vAdFkJUC&pg=PT142&dq=%22the+cares+of+a+family+man%22&am
p;hl=en&ei=lkffTqGvKMPMtgfirsWODA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved
=0CDkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22the%20cares%20of%20a%20family%20man%22&f=false
What the fuck is it about?

>> No.2237018

tlon, uqbar, orbis tertius

>> No.2237019
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2237019

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien

>> No.2237020
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2237020

The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch broke my brain for a while.

>> No.2237038

>>2237018
That's a pretty fucking badass story, even though it's wrong

>> No.2237041
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read this shit mutherfucker

(just the first and second; the third is a communist trash)

>> No.2237043

>>2237018
i love Borges, he is my favorite author, but... no

>> No.2237044

>>2237038
What do you mean? careful with my Borges.

>> No.2237058

>>2237020
I thought I was tripping my self when I read that book,seriously fucked with my head

>> No.2237062

Naked Lunch.

>> No.2237079

his nose would not grow. the statement is true. sometime in the future, his nose will grow. nothing about his statement indicates that his nose will grow as a result of the statement. Leo is a pleb in this comic.

>> No.2237085

Capitalism and schizophrenia is good, but a damn difficult read.

I've been told 'being and time' is good but I refuse to read it.

i hear Nietzsche wrote some interesting philosophy as well.

Not quite sure what you're into OP, really need more detail to recommend you a good book.

If you're hard up for something to read, try the religious texts of all major world religions.

>> No.2237100

>>2237085
>I've been told 'being and time' is good but I refuse to read it.
>i hear Nietzsche wrote some interesting philosophy as well.

It's criminal to be so opinionated and yet so ignorant at the same time.

>> No.2237121

>>2237100

I've read Nietzsche. The way I downplayed him, that was a joke.

Ever notice how philosophies can generally be summarized very very succinctly, while philosophers take books upon books to express what they mean?

That would be the main reason I don't read much philosophy aside from summaries. They get aroused by their own intellect and babble on and on for irrelevant page after irrelevant page.

>> No.2237124

>>2237079
But that would mean predestined fate.

>> No.2237129

OP here, capitalism and schizophrenia looks promising. thanks /lit/

>> No.2237141

>>2237121
>They get aroused by their own intellect and babble on and on for irrelevant page after irrelevant page.

Sound like anyone we kniw, /lit/?

>> No.2237157

>>2237124
well duh

>> No.2237565

>>2237121
First off, indeed, Nietzsche would be my recommendation as well. Really puts things into perspective, much like (Plato's) Socrate's dialoques.

And somehow i found most of the commentaries in the philosophy i read unbelieveably more insightfull than the text it self. Like, nearly 300 pages of zarathustra, and then this Danish bloke explains it all in 11 pages, baffling my mind. Made me read it again.