Lets see one of your bookshelves

[Scapegrace]

Are you really read Heidegger??

4srsly

I want to know, because Heidegger is difficult to read even when you are sober and BG seems like he seldom is. Bwhaha

[Creepy-bg]

4srsly

I want to know, because Heidegger is difficult to read even when you are sober and BG seems like he seldom is. Bwhaha

okay. i never read it. i admit it... i never even opened it or knew that it was a difficult book.

as you can see, my books are left-overs from tweenish boy fantasy series (the sort where the orphan finds out that he's the wizard king and must grow into power over the course of 10 novels), sci-fi and cyberpunk, and textbooks, manuals, and sciency stuff. Generally the state of the book reflects how many rereads it's gone through, with some to the point of near tatters.

[Nowisthetime]

okay. i never read it. i admit it... i never even opened it or knew that it was a difficult book.

It's difficult as hell. I once attended a philosophy course in Heideggers Being and Time. It was interesting, because it is supposed to be "fundamental phenomenology", but really complex. It's fun to read out loud some paragraphs from the book though, because it can be totally incomprehensible. I have noticed that ILEs tend to like Being and Time, though. Maybe they even understand something.

[Scapegrace]

I like Being in Time. I think I even understand a bit of it too. I haven't attempted to read it since I was 15 or 16 though. I think I should revisit it. I will either do better or worse. hah.

Sometimes I think I've become dumber.

[Korpsy Knievel]

[Ozz]

keep your books, people. they'll be worth something someday. Like old records... artifacts of a simpler day.

I am doing most of my reading on those ereader now. Not having to buy bookshelves for books makes my life more simple.

[Azure Flame]

@Scapegrace... you forgot the binders full of deviant art nudes... haha

Here's one third of my bookshelf. I can't find the other 2 thirds.

[Scapegrace]

Please! I don't *print* those.

[Beautiful sky]

What?

Te=organization of space You need it worse than I do

[anndelise]

All of my books are in boxes now, according to general topic. I've been decluttering and massively reducing how many books I own. For example, just this weekend I got rid of 4 filing size boxes of books...taken to the library just in case I wanted to access them at another time. This was only one trip out of many taken the past few months. Probably 90% of the books gotten rid of were nonfiction. The only fiction I buy is part of some series' that I like, but I have given away about 4-5 series' though.

[Scapegrace]

That's a riot. Why do you say this?

[Gilly]

I like Being in Time. I think I even understand a bit of it too. I haven't attempted to read it since I was 15 or 16 though. I think I should revisit it. I will either do better or worse. hah.

Sometimes I think I've become dumber.

I feel this...it takes more effort for me to read things like James Joyce than it used to, all the goddamn double entendres, crazy references, etc...but if you handled Wittgenstein I don't see why Heidegger should be hard for you. Yes its very different but at the same time, I dunno, I had a harder time with piecing together Tractatus than I did Being and Time. Heidegger was always very intuitive to me, I felt like I knew what he meant before he even said it, like he was just transcripting my silent thoughts on my own perceptions. A bit like reading Herman Hesse but not quite so personal.

[Scapegrace]

Wittgenstein is a better writer so I find him considerably less difficult. Plus I'm of Philosophical Investigations persuasion.

Have you ever read Finnegans Wake?

[mu4]

It's difficult as hell. I once attended a philosophy course in Heideggers Being and Time. It was interesting, because it is supposed to be "fundamental phenomenology", but really complex. It's fun to read out loud some paragraphs from the book though, because it can be totally incomprehensible. I have noticed that ILEs tend to like Being and Time, though. Maybe they even understand something.

I own Being and Time, I have read it somewhat and I don't understand it at all. Maybe one day.

Wittgenstein is far easier in Philosophical Investigations IMO.

Haha, this is a interesting conversation because it brought up something I was able to find concerning Daniel Dennett's view on Wittgenstein.

http://www.stoa.org.uk/topics/wittge...ttgenstein.pdf

Alpha NT's on Alpha NT's

[Gilly]

Have you ever read Finnegans Wake?

No, but I remember you talking about it and wanting to read it. The gist I got was it's Joyce's Red Book, in a way.

[Scapegrace]

The internet will doom us all. But the existence of Wikipedia seems like a reasonable trade-off.

Just realised my lovingly annotated Ulysses is not on the shelf, which is sad since I've had it since I was 14 Hopefully my sister borrowed it. I spent hours annotating the shit out of it too... maybe I should've invested in an annotated version.

Holy Bloomsday, batman.

[Korpsy Knievel]

something something squarepusher arglebargle

HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE PENITURE OF J POLLOCK, OCTO???

[Scapegrace]

T.S. sew deeeeep.

[Scapegrace]

Mainstream and derivative, I prefer the brilliance of a little-known tumblr which can only be found if you have impeccable taste, those of you who are intelligent and culturally elite will have it as your homepage already, the rest of you are sheeple

http://cuteoverload.com/ ?

[Gilly]

T.S. sew deeeeep.

TS Eliot was a hypocrite and an ass.

[Scapegrace]

You forgot Anti-Semite.

[Gilly]

lol srsly?