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hi
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http://nsfwcorp.co/oflln3
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Just ordered the Power Broker by Robert Caro, Imperium, Stasiland and Milestones by Qutb
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tardy on these heaters
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power broker owns
#3764
penitent
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top shelf -> nietzsche, existentialism, aesthetics, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, etc
2nd -> pre-20th c. fiction, contemporary fiction, poetry, plays, pre-19th c. philosophy
3rd -> marxism, politics, economics, history, sciences
4th -> early 20th c. fiction
5th -> reference, humour, pornography
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HenryKrinkle posted:

http://nsfwcorp.co/oflln3


that's me

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jools posted:

babyfinland posted:

Impper posted:

beckett said he wrote the trilogy when he thought about how he could not measure up to joyce and decide instead to embrace stupidity and impotence

uh not really. he said he would write a negative (in the sense of absence) work rather than a positive one since he felt joyce had basically written the ultimate positive thing

let me just take this one for you impper, ill do my best impression

Lol no Gay



misspelled gaey

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if beckett is what's turning both impper and DK into worthless nihilistic liberal hedonists then i'm going to have to buy a copy of the trilogy - to kindle my fire place and warm my feet as i warm my soul through passages of sun and steel
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penitent
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im not a nihilist, once you truly perceive the void that constitutes the heart of the Subject you realise that voids are totally gay and Communism Owns And Should Be Built
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bottom shelf: computer and bike repair reference
middle shelf: history
top shelf: theory

1st pile on floor (next to bed): philosophy
2nd pile (unread, by door): manga
3rd pile: (near trash can) manga
4th: manga
5th: mange
6th: mang
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#3772
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i started going the other way and giving books that ive read away as soon as i finish them, bare bookshelves line my room as proof of my refutation of proof

except the one shelf that has my programming manuals and teach yourself japanese textbook because its important to have valuable skills in this economy
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babyfinland posted:

Impper posted:

beckett said he wrote the trilogy when he thought about how he could not measure up to joyce and decide instead to embrace stupidity and impotence

uh not really. he said he would write a negative (in the sense of absence) work rather than a positive one since he felt joyce had basically written the ultimate positive thing

this is wrong & Gaey

The difference is that Joyce was a superb manipulator of material - perhaps the greatest. … the kind of work I do is one in which I’m not master of my material. The more Joyce know the more he could. He’s tending towards omniscience and omnipotence as an artist. I’m working with impotence, ignorance. I don’t think ignorance has been exploited in the past. There seems to be a kind of aesthetic axiom that expression is achievement - must be an achievement. My little exploration is that whole zone of being which has always been set aside by artists as something unusable - as something by definition incompatible with art.’

technically you are right, but i am righter, and more importantly you are a gaey wienery douchebag aheah

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lmao its cool how you say hes wrong and then you post something that says hes completely right.
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actually he did a wiener correction when what i said was completely right
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i dont think hes saying that, i think hes saying he cant measure up to joyce in joyce's own terms, so he creates his own terms, and is master of those
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he is not talking about creating his own terms but exploiting unexploited terms. my problem wasnt with what baby finland said in his correction but the fact that he was correcting essentially a direct quote and saying "um, not really." and he is not mastering those terms
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i'm quoting beckett directly, john

you misinterpret his "ignorance" as "stupidity" when he is talking about lack and absence (of knowledge), not misanthropy or whatever
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yoU are a peacE of shiT weeinr
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sometimes i wish i had studied english then i read a bunch of posts like the above and feel like i dodged a bullet
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babyfinland posted:

i'm quoting beckett directly, john

you misinterpret his "ignorance" as "stupidity" when he is talking about lack and absence (of knowledge), not misanthropy or whatever

where are you getting misanthropy?

Beckett had felt that he would remain forever in the shadow of Joyce, certain to never best him at his own game. His revelation prompted him to change direction and to acknowledge both his own stupidity and his interest in ignorance and impotence:

i did not misinterpret any thing

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lmao thats literally what i said
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tardy on these heaters
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you are quoting wikipedia and excising the actual beckett quote
#3784
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*zips up flame suit, grimaces as he prepares for teh onslaught*
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the quote is straight from his biography
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tardy on these heaters
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yeah i really like beckett, he really speaks to me as a neurotic manchild
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What is tHE rHizzonE reading?
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tardy on these heaters
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Impper posted:

the quote is straight from his biography



you said beckett embraced stupidity and impotence because he couldnt measure up to joyce. thats pretty much wrong. if thats not what you meant then fine, but dont act like im way off base for reading your post that way.

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deadken posted:

im not a nihilist, once you truly perceive the void that constitutes the heart of the Subject you realise that voids are totally gay and Communism Owns And Should Be Built



this is my facebook cover page lol

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beckett and joyce are really nothing alike
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that being said ive only read the english books not the french ones
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i mean neither of them are martin amis or anything but they're both p good i guess
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martin amis moved to brooklyn a couple months ago i wonder if he orders from the same papa johns as me
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Ironicwarcriminal posted:

Milestones by Qutb



everyones getting this, when ive read my copy i might write a comparative thing between the ideologies of qutb and leo strauss

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babyfinland posted:

Impper posted:

the quote is straight from his biography

you said beckett embraced stupidity and impotence because he couldnt measure up to joyce. thats pretty much wrong. if thats not what you meant then fine, but dont act like im way off base for reading your post that way.

yeah ur right, i apologize

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#3797
Mike Nelson here.
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tpaine posted:

you people are so fucking retarded about beckett it hurts. jesus christ.

yesterday i was walking and i thought "that's why they call it NON STICK" and then i laughed

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