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for $1 dollar it probably wouldnt be too costly to try it for yourself nigger

They're fine. Usually it's just a frontend for better world books or some other big book charity. I order those all the time, and in the case they don't arrive (once every 20 books?) they'll send you another one within minutes of contacting.

>>9446909

Bruh it's like $5 with shipping, just try it. I've gotten a few. Make sure the listed quality isn't like, old library copy or something. If it's above fair it's fine.

Can I ask how old you are? I just can imagine how this happens. What led you to want to read a book set during WWII if you had no prior interest in that war? Especially a book as challenging to the common reader? Was that war not an important topic during your education or did you really just have no interest in the conflict before hand? Also where are you from? I'm not trying to be insulting or anything, I read that book when I was 14 and by then I had also read many anthologies and histories of the war from many perspectives as well as unthinkable hours of documentaries of all various quality and authenticity so while the prose was a little bit too erudite for a 14 year old there was absolutely nothing historically unfamiliar to me. I guess growing up having two grandfathers in the conflict, one in Europe and one in the Pacific, it seemed like an event that had monumental historical importance to the history of the world. Almost an unavoidable concentration of historical forces and lasting impact. Even a 10 year old can see this. Did you just not like history in general?

>>9446944
No fourteen year old knows about the information I'm referring to unless they have interests in 20th century art, nazi art, the hitler family tree, etc... Of course I knew about the basics of WW2. I'm talking about the intricate details of the book that only a partially serious study of WW2 can bring.

>>9446902
It helps if you remember Soviet-era nuclear paranoia too.

I love GR, but future generations just won't get it. It's doomed to fade into obscurity.

>>9446896
this is a stupid thread but i hate how much society forces you to actively participate in it, like... quit foisting all of these burdens onto me.

>>9446896
>using language

lmao

>>9446931
Society forces little on you, that you cannot function at the basic threshold of human life is your failure, not society's

Aeiou

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ALLES ERDREICH IST OESTERREICH UNTERTAN

John Madden

I'm on page 30 and so far it's very gay

That cover looks terrible

>>9446856


Dropped the book about 100 pages in. Everything this guy had to say was already said by others and without some pseud artist fluff.
There is a reason why this was his only book.

Star with the Algerians

what a existential post

*leaps*

>>9446751
Official intelligence documents of the past

What up playas! Today we're going to get stanky with I have No Ass And MUst Shitte By Theodore Rosevelt!

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>>9446751

>>9446731
Confidence is a false sense of understanding who you perceive others to perceive who you are. It's literally playing pretend until its a habit and not pretend anymore.

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>>9446731
>tfw confidence turns in hubris and then nihilism

>>9446739
so at what point does it develope into "not pretend anymore"? and why do some people have no problem with it and others struggle so much?

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>>9446710
The definition of unspooked.

>>9446724
>muh god
>unspooked
hmm makes you think

Is that Francis Bacon, and are you assimilating his idea of "idols" as "spooks?"

Pretty smart desu.

>>9446565
It's using the Arthurian legend of the Fisher King as a metaphor for the devastation caused by WW1

Start with the Greeks.

I haven’t read “The Waste Land” for a year, and I never did bother to check all the footnotes. But I will hazard these statements—Eliot contains the same ecstatic vision which runs from Münzer to Yeats. However, he retains a grounding in the social reality/order of his time.

Facing what he perceives as a choice between ecstatic chaos and lifeless mechanistic order, he accedes to maintaining a separation of asexual purity and brutal sexual reality. And he wears a stoical face before this. Read his essay on Tradition and the Individual Talent, as well as Four Quartets, when he’s less concerned with depicting moribund Europe, to catch a sense of what I speak.

Remember how I said there’s a certain kind of conservatism which I respect more than bourgeois liberalism—Eliot is of this type. Of course, the dichotomy he maintains is reactionary, but it’s due to a deep fatalism, not ignorance. (Counter him with Yeats or Pound, who, arising from the same milieu, opted to support Hitler and Mussolini.)

And this fatalism is born out of the relation between fertility and death, which I touched on in my last letter—life feeds on itself. A fatalism I share with the western tradition at times. You seem surprised at Eliot’s irreconcilable ambivalence; don’t you share this ambivalence yourself, Anon?

Just read the Wikipedia article.

>>9446549
>Freud
Bullshit.

>>9446564
this

eichmann in jerusalem
the human condition

i took a class with between past and future on the reading list. "Arendt describes the perplexing crises modern society faces as a result of the loss of meaning of the traditional key words of politics: justice, reason, responsibility, virtue, and glory. Through a series of eight exercises, she shows how we can redistill the vital essence of these concepts and use them to regain a frame of reference for the future."

i dropped the class right before this segment so that I didn't have to read it

>>9446759
Ah, well, at least you're bumping the thread

Outside BNW and 1984, their works don't have much in common. Orwell was more of an essayist and Huxley was more of a philosopher/literateur.

>>9446451
We're living an Orwellian nightmare, was Orwell a psychic?

>>9446624
We are definitely living in a Huxley nightmare. Info overload. Reality tv and Fast food serving as distraction. The obsession with pleasure is ruining us.

>>9446444
Hamlet

>>9446444
Dumbledore. nice get

>>9446444
With triples like that, patrick bateman for sure.

>>9446379
That's how it SHOULD be, anonymous.

Use these opportunities to raise your power level.

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>>9446379
>realize Professor is on an infinitely higher Power Level than me
>realize that I can reach that power level, and even overcome it

Now you must train.