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Anonymous Sat Apr 4 18:22:56 2015 No.6358208 [Reply] [Original]

>reading books about books

Tell me you don't do this

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 4 18:25:10 2015 No.6358224 File: 981 KB, 1660x2156, Books about Books.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] All the time. In fact, it's one of my favorite genres.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 4 18:30:25 2015 No.6358253 >>6358224 >Book of Prefaces Literary: Neverending foreplay, the book

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 4 18:36:31 2015 No.6358282 Secondary literature is very important, as is general meta-literature.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 4 18:37:31 2015 No.6358286 >>6358253 Foreplay is supposed to be fun...

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 4 18:38:42 2015 No.6358288 The main way to learn philosophy is reading books about books. One author can never predict all the consequences of his thought.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 4 18:42:04 2015 No.6358301 >>6358286 If you're a woman or a well resolved man.

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 4 18:42:46 2015 No.6358306 >>6358208 >LE_BORGES_LAUGH.png

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 4 18:43:22 2015 No.6358309 >reading online imageboards about books

Anonymous Sat Apr 4 22:05:29 2015 No.6358860

>>6358208
How could anyone consider themselves a scholar, or even a student, if they didn't? Do you think you just happen to have all the knowledge required to fully appreciate or interpret every written work that interests you? That someone who spends their life studying a period/genre/author has nothing useful to impart? Christ, why are you here?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 4 22:14:47 2015 No.6358888 >>6358208 Do you mean self-indulgent metafiction OP? Did you just read a few David Foster Wallace essays and get a hard-on?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 4 22:16:03 2015 No.6358892 >>6358224 When did it stop being called 'literary criticism'?

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 4 22:17:50 2015 No.6358899 >>6358892 when it's not criticizing a book i know, i know, just trust me, it's complicated shit

>>	Anonymous Sat Apr 4 22:22:12 2015 No.6358918 Don Quixote is the greatest book ever written, though.

Anonymous Sat Apr 4 22:22:30 2015 No.6358922
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Schools and universities ought to help us understand that no book that talks about a book says more than the book in question, but instead they do their level best to make us think the opposite.

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 5 01:42:20 2015 No.6359610 >>6358224 >Lectures on Literature Excellent book. Really essential. And I don't even like books

>>	Anonymous Sun Apr 5 01:51:59 2015 No.6359630 >>6358922 how else can we convince the university that what we're doing matters??

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