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Does anyone here really enjoy reading?

You said it, @midnight_madrigal! Then you have to scrounge around to see if the author wrote anything else you'd enjoy.

Give it a go when you have a chance. You might want to start with "The Library of Babel" or "Funes the Memorious."

I'll have to try John Scalzi! See if he lives up to the hype. (:

Thanks so much! Wish me luck with it! Do you do anything literature-related as a career, or are you still in school?
Borges rules.
Lovecraft leaves horror,
Poe humour,
Camus the absurd,
Houellebecq baseness.
Borges leaves nothing standing, which is why he's the greatest writer ever, for the written word is precisely that: NOTHING.
@MrRaRa
Sounds interesting!
I've never actually studied him formally.
What do you mean by "leaves nothing standing?"
I'm sorry to inform you that MrRaRa has been banned by a lichess faggot, because someone there actually thinks that such a crime changes or resolves even the tiniest thing. We will therefore never know why he said that about Borges.
I have two favorite books:

1) Being And Nothingness by Jean Paul Sartre

2) Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

I really love how with Heidegger you really get a notion of freedom yet still determined by your culture...etc. Then with Sartre's Being and Nothingness, which is really just the next step to Being and Time, you get radical and absolute human freedom. As a Christian Pastor, human freedom is an obsession with me. I think if Jesus Christ himself had read either of these works, it would've become part of Scripture.
Compelling indeed. It seems like u read Borges by reading Sartre. Few use that ancient technique.

However, in the gospel of Ritzel Ratzenrotzer, carbon dated at 89-112 AD, there's an intriguing passage that strongly suggests otherwise.
It describes a scene where Jesus is accused by some farizee cyborgs of acting in violation of "scripture". That's what hard disks called the contents of their databases in those days. After hearing them vomit up their SQL-query results, he says:

'Scripture shnipture'.

It's easy to see why this particular gospel landed on the cutting room floor, when the world's best-selling book was put together.

Scripture shnipture?
A book salesman's nightmare!

Predictably, the apparatski bishop bastard death fuckers ditched it like a hot potato.
It's hardly the science of rockets, as Lil'Puppet would say.
to me reading is exhausting. i dislike the huge amount of things, i have to read in order to navigate the internet (some parts of page contents, links,...) including this thread...
... makes me suffer. i prefer silence over scriptures
@SlowSlug

I salute your literary taste, or lack thereof.

Scripture sacrifices the vast wealth of direct perception for a frozen frame of a shadow of a skeleton of a fossil of a semblance of actual being. For this forrests must be cut down, millions of poisonous jobs must be maintained and talk talk talk talk about it some more by the whole planet and the blabla shows and the shiny shitmagazines. all about the money ain't a damn thing funny. I say burn them all.

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