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2566202 No.2566202 [Reply] [Original]

If you're anxious for to shine in the high aesthetic line,
as a man of culture rare,
You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms,
and plant them everywhere.
You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of your
complicated state of mind,
The meaning doesn't matter if it's only idle chatter
of a transcendental kind.
And everyone will say,
As you walk your mystic way,
"If this young man expresses himself in terms too deep for me,
Why, what a very singularly deep young man
this deep young man must be!"

>> No.2566225

D

>> No.2566227

This is a good poem.

>> No.2566229
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2566229

Philosophy 101 in ten minutes by a hipster author.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CppB_0-wDsA

>> No.2566235

the meter is way off, but I'll give it a B for effort.

>> No.2566237

OP didn't write this, guys.

>> No.2566363

"Those who know they are deep strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem deep to the crowd strive for obscurity. For the crowd takes everything whose ground it cannot see to be deep: it is so timid and so reluctant to go into the water."

- Nietzsche