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Anonymous Thu Jan 9 16:46:10 2014 No.4455113 [Reply] [Original]

Which philosophers and novelists deals with doing fuck-all in a positive manner?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 16:48:10 2014 No.4455121 None, since anyone who gained notoriety as a philosopher or novelist would obviously spend their time thinking and writing and presumably reading. It's like asking for the color of an invisible object.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 16:49:09 2014 No.4455123 >>4455121 >It's like asking for the color of an invisible object. Clear

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 16:50:09 2014 No.4455124 >>4455123 >Hi, my name is Cody Lynn and my favorite color is clear.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 16:51:09 2014 No.4455127 File: 409 KB, 590x333, literary living.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4455121 Thinking, writing and reading are traditionally associated with an idle lifestyle. Do you even otium m8?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 16:51:09 2014 No.4455128 jack kerouac

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 16:51:09 2014 No.4455129 >>4455124 Is this an advert for spot cream?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 16:52:09 2014 No.4455132 >>4455128 Any specific work in mind?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 16:53:09 2014 No.4455138 File: 68 KB, 292x315, oblomov.1209631530.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>4455113 Goncharov

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 16:54:09 2014 No.4455146 >>4455138 I've read Oblomov, it was glorious. Ultimately the book seems a bit condemning though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 16:55:09 2014 No.4455152 >>4455146 >>4455138 entered this thread to post Oblomov. Best fucking book I've ever read.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 17:03:09 2014 No.4455177 >>4455152 so in the end, did you think must be german ein zwei arbeit arbeit success with high maintenance bitches or did you think, ending up on the outskirts of town drinking vodka fucking your sweet chubby plebeian wife is best?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 17:10:09 2014 No.4455197 >>4455177 both choices are equally good :D:D:D:D oblomovumustdoeetnoikannotFUGGGGXDXD

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 17:39:44 2014 No.4455292 >>4455177 >>4455177 doesn't he die quite miserably?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 17:40:44 2014 No.4455298 >>4455152 Logged in to upvote this post.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 17:41:44 2014 No.4455305 Goys, did Goncharov's other stuff of merit?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 17:48:44 2014 No.4455328 >>4455146 >condemning nope. in the introduction I read there's even a quote from the author saying he admire sthe character

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 17:51:44 2014 No.4455333 >>4455113 Zizek

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 18:27:44 2014 No.4455451 >>4455328 I guess I'm in for a reread.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 18:32:44 2014 No.4455464 >doing fuck all "The Freeloader" by Nescio. It's in a collection of short stories called Amsterdam Stories, read it asap.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 18:34:44 2014 No.4455471 >>4455464 seconding this

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 18:55:02 2014 No.4455527 The right to be lazy by Paul Lafargue

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 19:40:05 2014 No.4455616 >>4455527 http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/paul-lafargue-the-right-to-be-lazy

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 19:49:06 2014 No.4455652 >>4455121 You obviously haven't read a lot.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 20:57:08 2014 No.4455851 The Idler magazine.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 21:59:42 2014 No.4456048 >>4455851 It's a bit bourgeois

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 22:02:42 2014 No.4456059 >>4456048 know of any lumpenprole alternatives?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 23:24:48 2014 No.4456270 File: 54 KB, 470x352, zhuangzi.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Who's the laziest philosopher, /lit/?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 23:32:48 2014 No.4456287 Bertrand Russell wrote an essay called "In Praise of Idleness".

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 23:44:48 2014 No.4456325 >>4455113 Nagarjuna

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 9 23:52:48 2014 No.4456365 Albert Cossery.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 10 09:24:04 2014 No.4457232 >>4456325 How into? >>4456365 Thanks m8, looks like a cool guy.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 10 12:30:11 2014 No.4457502 Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Huysmans.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 10 16:00:47 2014 No.4458026 http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/Bob_Black__The_Abolition_of_Work.html

>>	Anonymous Fri Jan 10 19:12:16 2014 No.4458555 Essays In Idleness. Tao Te Ching. The Art of War. Taoism and Zen Buddhism are mostly about making no troubles for yourself or others by not being driven to achieve anything.