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>that moment you realize he was right
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*blocks your path*
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I mean, having a functional government is pretty great, yeah. I don't think it needs absolute power for that though.
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>>9516472
Authority isn't the only thing he wrote about
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Who is the most dangerous character in all of known fiction?
Could a brainlet like Judge Holden or Achilles or Coriolanus hope to compete with the twisted intellect and hilarity of these three clown princes?
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>>9516406
Dangerous to what or whom?
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Adolf Hitler
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>>9516416
To society
To your person
To your mental health and morality
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Is Raskolnikov literally /ourguy/?
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>>9516381
There are a lot of different people on here. So probably no.
What do you imagine 'we' are?
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>>9516387
>What do you imagine 'we' are?
KANGZ
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>>9516381
Not by a long shot, he's studious, and he managed to get a gf
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You will never love something as much as Marguerite young loved her finished manuscript for miss macintosh my darling 30 years in the making.
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If she loves it so much why doesn't she stuff it up her cunt?
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>>9516355
woman cant write, try pyncho and moby dick
also women dont understand literature and cant create art and they certainly cant love.
ever heard of redpill??
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could've ended that sentence after the first five words
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ITT: We post a single sentence from a work in progress and rate each other.
I'll start:
That's where the grounds stood, west by southwest, and I imagined the field and the players, the crisp blues and Elysian greens on that great somber-skied day--great and terrible, a day now gone to black and white in the film fade of memory.
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>>9516293
Leaving her chocolate behind, Emily bounded after her friend. They didn’t stop running until they reached Scott’s house several blocks away.
It's a YA book I'm working on. No h8 pls.
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>>9516293
nigga think you could use different words for colors? It would help the contrast of the black and white memory with the vividness of the colors.
just my thoughts. overall 7/10 not shit
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I grabbed her shorts and ripped them off her, revealing her pink panties.
I unzipped my pants and my boner was pulsating, swinging around as i pulled down my boxers.
She gasped for my hefty cock, and by the effect of some wired primal force in her, she leapt to her knees and wrapped her lips around my dick, sucking it emphatically, looking up into my eyes with an utter submission, slightly fluttering her eyelashes.
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Why read Cicero? What are his best works / oratories?
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>>9516277
>/ oratories?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShmM3r2CMA0
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>>9516277
Cato Maior de Senectute
It took away my fear of age.
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>>9517539
this video was dumb but i feel like playing civ now
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How do you feel knowing that garbage is published everyday, everywhere, but your great idea is still in your hard drive?
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I only write for myself so it's all good
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Everyday I have to remind myself that I'm not the target audience and I'm not supposed to like it... not that that works :P
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>>9516245
Wait, wasn't the free market supposed to make things better through competition? Next you'll tell me McDonald's isn't the best possible restaurant.
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What's the evangelion of literature?
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the bible
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>>9516223
I don't know, but it's definitely falls under the YA category.
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>>9516223
Gravity's Rainbow
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A while ago I posted a chart about religious texts in English. I took the criticisms on board and made a revision, Buddhism now has the Diamond Sutra (ideally I'd add the Heart Sutra too, but there's only so much space) plus I improved the Hinduism section. Hope you guys find it useful.
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>>9515938
yoooo good shit m8
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>>9515938
I think theres an edition of the lotus sutra that includes the heart suttra as well.
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>>9515938
what about native americans/aborigines/shaman shit
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Be honest lit have you ever actually read Infinite Jest in public ?
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>>9515533
Yes, but I was self-conscious about it and made an effort to hide the cover.
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yes
>>9515547
this
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Yup. Took a while though.
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What literary merit does this article have if any ?
https://medium.com/contributoria/man-s-best-friend-and-his-testicles-1c0a1c37af07
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While reading the text I get that underlying feeling of someone that is trying to keep up with the latest trend instead of developing his own style, it didn't come off as natural. So I didn't finish reading the text since the soul purpose seemed to be to fit as many different hip philosophy terms and buzzwords as possible instead of delivering an actual message. The author needs more time to mature and stop forcing it.
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>>9515434
I fucking hate Freud's influence on culture\
If i could eliminate two people from history, it would be Freud and Marx; if only one, Freud.
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>>9515623
Not trying to be mean but I genuinely found the language to be off putting by being too consciously. Loosen up a bit.
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I got a 25$ gift card to Amazon. Where do I start with him?
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The gay science.
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>>9515410
get the Kaufmann volumes the Portable Nietzsche and the Basic Works of Nietzsche
that'll net you almost all his works for a low price
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>>9515418
*Basic Writings
What's her name, /lit/?
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Sadie Piff
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>>9515301
Rupie Kith?
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Shady Gifts, author of White Meat and an embarrassing encomium to Bandana Head Wallace
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Glass Bead Game Reading Group
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Hello /lit/! We're starting up a new reading group, this time for Herman Hesse's Glass Bead Game.
You might know Hesse from common /lit/ classics like Siddhartha or Steppenwolf; Glass Bead Game is his masterpiece. It begins with an essay about the eponymous glass bead game, then the life of a master player of the game, then some of his writings.
We begin May 26th, but you are welcome to start anytime you like and go at what pace you like. Discussion in the discord channel linked below.
https://discord.gg/Rkvmynx
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percy isn't a smart man
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Stop bullying Percy!!!
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please post here cara
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Who's the wittiest/funniest writer you've ever read?
Saki gets my pick, Reginald and Clovis are probably the smuggest characters ever:
>"One of these days," said Reginald, "I shall write a really great drama. No one will understand the drift of it, but every one will go back to their homes with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction with their lives and surroundings. Then they will put up new wall-papers and forget."
>"That woman's art-jargon tires me," said Clovis to his journalist friend. "She's so fond of talking of certain pictures as 'growing on one,' as though they were a sort of fungus."
Not to mention that his descriptions of basically everyone are totally ruthless:
>James Cushat-Prinkly was a young man who had always had a settled conviction that one of these days he would marry; up to the age of thirty-four he had done nothing to justify that conviction.
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That sounds great. I'll look more to read about it.
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Bump.
>“Every time a friend succeeds, I die a little.”
>"It is not enough to win; others must lose"
>" “The American press exists for one purpose only, and that is to convince Americans that they are living in the greatest and most envied country in the history of the world. The Press tells the American people how awful every other country is and how wonderful the United States is and how evil communism is and how happy they should be to have freedom to buy seven different sorts of detergent.”
>>9515325
He's easy to read through. Wrote almost entirely short stories, the majority of which are hardly longer than 6 pages. He's a perfect companion for the bus and subway.
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>>9515242
Saki is awesome. What an era for comic writing that 50 years before WW2 was in Britain: Saki, Waugh, Wodehouse, Jerome.