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>>9500661
yes, obviously.

>>9501040
How?

>>9501230
I fuck your mom

I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY I HAVE TO SUFFER ALL THESE WORTHLESS FUCKING THREADS

WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME? WHY WOULD I HAVE TO READ A THREAD LIKE THIS? WHAT THE FUCK DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS

>>9500452
fuck off /pol/

>>9500460
You're here.

>>9500422

Le Morte d'Arthur
Idylls of the King
The Once and Future King

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If you want to get to the real roots of the stories:

The History of the Kings of Britain (first text to mention Arthur, King Lear is there as well)

Chretian De Troyes Arthurian Romances

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>>9500422
Monty Python and The Holy Grail
Camelot 3000
Excalibur
King Arthur and The Knights of Justice

>>9500316

I read The Book of the New Sun and it was pretty legit. I'm going to read Urth soon to piece everything together, I've heard mixed things about Long and Short.

How's the wizard knight? Finished book of the new sun and absolutely loved it, but some of his other writing I'm not much into, like Soldiers of the mist

>>9500351
Soldier is a pretty easy straight forward read I found
Helps if you've read Herodotus
Wizard Knight was good, about on the same level

>>9500104
Though everyone will think you mean "dolling" which is acting like a lil bitch's toy

>>9500104
Gronklet.

Combination of gronk and Brainlet.

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Same. Google said that painting the footing on a wall was called "cutting"
FALSE.

That is a terrible cover. Why.

>>9500095
might as well have a smoking blunt on the cover

>>9500095
What makes it terrible?

>>9499997
Didn't read the whole thing, thought it was ok.

>>9499997
I loved what I read but around chapter V, or whenever he begins discussing the record players, the mathematics started getting too heady for me. I want to try again in a while but I feel like I need a bit of a guide to help me understand, even though the book seems to have been written with the layman in mind. What are your thoughts OP? Any bits of info or insight you can channel towards me to help me out?

>>9499997
OP here. Honestly, the book really put a ton of my scientific studies into a global perspective especially when making the analogy between Godel's Incompleteness Theorem (basically an infinite series can contain a series of itself) and Escher's works, and Bach's musical offering. Much of our very existence lives in recursive processes and relies on an almost infinite closed loop system. It's difficult to explain it as well as the Hofstadter, but it makes sense when you start analyzing the very thoughts we have on a daily basis. Most of our thoughts seem linear. But once we realize our thoughts are internally linear, rather than straight-line linear, we can begin to understand how complex AI could be developed, which is fascinating beyond our imagination. These topics make me believe we actually live in an infinitely expanding universe within a finite frame. Almost like a torus folding in on itself.
P.S. I've only read into Chapter V.

>>9500046
I'd suggest learning basic mathematical symbols related to vector calculus and go from there. Most of the symbol you can rationalize without knowing any calculus, although, a basic pre-cal understanding would be helpful.

>>9499990
>tfw no demian bf to kiss you

>>9500021
Childhood is romanticizing about Demian.

Adulthood is realizing that he resides within all of us.

Anyone read Narcissus and Goldmund? About 40 pages in right now and it seems pretty good.

>>9499881
I would recommend against the miniseries, it is pathetic. It reduces the interesting themes and heartbreak (re the aliens) to a footnote in an insipid sci fi romp, the thrust of which is mainly "oh no not the aliens!".

Maybe read "the stars my destination" by Alfred bester. Kind of a spiritual partner in my mind. Not that similar thematically really, but you'll probably really like it.

>>9499881
I found it depressing too. I also haven't watched the mini-series.

>>9499904
>>9499906
It's strange. I found 2001 rousing and hopeful with only a hint of that existential sadness. It's easy to feel for Bowman, but the rest of the human race is still going to have a long journey before they can follow after him.
Everything in Childhood's End just happened way too fast, and I have serious doubts about the "wonderful fulfillment" that humanity is shepherding toward without their knowledge or consent.

>>9499795
De Sade. Or Sam Delany's "Hogg".

wait a fucking minute, is that game of thrones fag actually a really light skinned black guy? look at him! he's fucking black!

>>9499824
De Sade's stuff was more comedic in how over the top some of the violence is.

when i was a college kid i totally would have been into that but now i'll only check it out if an audiobook version comes across one of my torrent trackers, looks p aiight tho. as far as recs go, it's an oldy but somewhat classic: To The Finland Station, can't remember who wrote it and i don't feel like getting up to look at my shelf, oh it was Wilson

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Cry_of_Freedom_(book)

The Glory And The Dream is sick, super rad shit

>>9499297
The Idiot is an 2017 novel by Turkish American writer Elif Batuman. It is a bildungsroman, and concerns a college freshman, Selin, attending Harvard University.


Thanks Wikipedia!

>>9499301
God that sounds awful

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>>9499297
Just another piece of hot garbage written by a woman that publishers dump obscene amounts of marketing money and effort into because they know 20-something women will buy anything with a neat cover by a female (preferably foreign-sounding-named) author with a fancy MFA. See: A Little Life, Milk and Honey, The Girls, The Nest, Marlena, Sweetbitter, Homegoing, The Vegetarian, etc.

Hey did you know your mom got paid by the government to service black dicks?

>>9499228
Yeah, that's how you were born

>hey did you know that Shakespeare was a plebeian entertainer, that means that Avengers movies are just as good as Shakespeare

The Bible

>>9499118
The instructions by Adam levin

>>9499118
Les gommes (the erasers)

how do i not suck at this game

>>9498421
>Implying there is any lit that could reach the artistry of a good game

red masque of death