Books that will help me remove my dumb and blind ass from the plebeian matrix.
>>9457164
>>9457164
Sounds like you already are the pill
>>9457164
What exactly was Hesse trying to do here?
>>9457139
WW1 is unhealthy for German boys. Even the bright quasi spiritual ones.
Also he invented milfs with this book.
Bildungsroman to guide youth.
The mark of Cain is one of the things that I really like about this book, it reminds me of Baudelaire's poem Abel and Cain.
If you like it then you should read Steppenwolf.
>>9457139
slightly unrelated but i just finished siddhartha & narcissus and goldmund. is there a logical order in which to read hesse?
/lit/, how do I get into norse mythology?
>>9457093
Start by going to your local fedora-and-cape store.
t. Danish faggot
>>9457100
Thanks, anon.
>>9457093
the Prose Edda.
Write something profound.
>>9457077
ass shits
Nietzsche was a crypto-christian who was misinterpreted to a ridiculous extent and I have proof.
to be, or not to be. That is a question.
its lit senpai
>>9456963
Do you ever make threads about literature or authors you actually enjoy instead of this perpetual resentment?
Did Lemony Snicket write the original CRASH reddit post?
why is myth and ritual so important for humans? what is behind religious desires?
>>9456956
Death
>>9456978
***Fear of--
>>9456956
without them we would have to confront the terrifying fact that we don't understand the world and cannot change it, and so will never be satisfied.
How do you understand or reciprocate the love for a God that will throw you into hell? How do you show appreciation for a life that can terminate in ETERNAL hellfire? How is it you wouldn't rather merely not exist than potentially go to hell? How would you bring yourself to procreate knowing your children could rebel and suffer that same fate? That would demonstrate an absence of faith and a mistrust in God but I cannot help it. I've chosen celibacy because I can't understand from whence comes gratitude in all this mess.
I tried even beginning to understand this and its intractable. I mean Jesus even commands me to love myself. Well if acting as a self is what makes me so contemptible in the sight of the Lord then why would I love myself? I can't even understand this love through self-denial. How would this love be compatible with a love for God? I mean it even seems like selfhood is the mechanism of the fall (Adam and Eve realizing they were naked). I've asked too many questions and I feel like I'll never be able to go back to childlike innocence.
So I'm stuck in this situation where I've acknowledge scripture as truth but I cannot bring myself to have the totality of faith. I'm not a lukewarm Christian, I'm a COLD one.
>inb4 atheist and gnostic BS
>>9456916
>How do you understand or reciprocate the love for a God that will throw you into hell?
Because it's just xD
>>9456916
Have you seen hell? It's what we build around us.
>>9456932
wow really makes u think long n hard
Post comfy books. I read this a few years ago, and it was suprisingly good.
>>9456883
I'll give you one thing, the Pacific Northwest does make for a comfy as hell setting. Nothing else about it like that tho.
>>9456892
Its a good love story, and her angst is relatable!
>>9456896
Fuck off.
When you think about it, he was a proto-SJW
When you think about it, he was a proto-commie
>>9456861
Nonsense, he knew traps were gay even if he didn't come right out and say it
>>9456861
reminder to sage and report these retarded /pol/-tier threads
Do you give the authors funny voices when you read philosophy? Or do you always give them deep, serious manly voices?
I picture the guy who does all the movie trailer voices
imagine reading marx with the voice of the narrator of powerpuff girls
I give them my own voice, but in a more manly and stoic tone.
I need books with incestuous theme.
Ada or Ardor
>>9456843
Genesis
One Hundred Years of Solitude.
How do I write good copypastas?
Ive realised that the main reason I come to /lit/ is im astounded by how good the copypastas are, often I find myself reading a post here and not knowing if its pasta or not, I guess the line is blurred because any pasta worthy post automatically becomes one.
I want to be able to write out those long, incredibly preposterous posts and come back after a few days and see it posted again by someone else and to chuckle knowingly at it.
i know that feel, bro
My ass was itching, but I just washed it and it stopped.
Use that, if you want.
>>9456835
Well, it needs to be absurd, believable, passionate and serious. Keep at it.
How does /lit/ feel about this man
>>9456831
Is being a terribly shit but incredibly rich author, still desperately trying to cling on to relevancy by talking like a teenager online while battling severe alcoholism brought on by knowing deep down your entire lifes "work", (if you can call that shit work) is one hundred percent absolute garbage drivel... perhaps the most pathetic thing someone can do ever? I think it might be.
Why do *people* Do These Things *Wipes Arse with book* Why?(masturbates to the thought of him laying on her death bed and realising everything he ever wrote was worthless shit) *laughs*
Jesus, what a fucking cunt.
>>9456831
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>>9456831
One of the greatest writers ever. Although, I feel like you wrote way too much. His books range from being amazing to "It's okay.". You see the same themes playout in his books after time.
"It" holds a special place in my heart though.
How the fuck am I supposed to read the entire canon of western philosophy within my lifetime?
>>9456800
Don't.
>>9456800
Protip: completion is not the goal of reading literature. Understanding and assimilation of what you've read is.
you're not.
I wanna get into sociology. Where should I start?
>>9456640
college
>>9456653
Already am on, shamefully.
u dont