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Serious Question: If all the authors of the Western canon were dropped into a battle royale to fight to the death who would win?
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>>9416117
quality post
might have well as made a hunger games thread
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>>9416117
Like on merit of their writing, or who would successfully kill the others?
Ovid, then Mini-shima
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If by west you mean intercontinental west then Emily Dickinson by a landslide. Everyone would curl up in fetal position, each contemplating existence and the futile endevours of life.
Can't ask /pol/ about this because they're too rightwing and most of them born in the 2000s
And can't ask /his/ about this because its probably too recent for them
So hopefully /lit/ can help me:
What are some books about the Contras and the USA aiding them and the aid the USA provided to the Central American dictators in the 1980s and the allegations of drug smuggling?
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It's based off of a book, but the documentary "Harvest of Empire" is a pretty good work to examine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q896fYeNow
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Dark Alliance by Webb is the most famous one I think
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>>9416129
>most famous
>Written years after Parry, Cockburn, McCoy, and others
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Is Ivan Karamazov the most compelling literary character ever written? I find myself re-reading every appearance he makes
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Maybe for shit tier milennials like you. It's obvious Dostoyevsky was not on Ivan's side. Alyosha and Dmitri were the heroes. Ivan had a horrible end because he did not believe in God.
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>>9417996
I know the OP is bait but
>equates "compelling" with "vindicated by the author"
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>>9416049
I like both Alyosha and Mitya more, but Ivan's parts make for some of the most dense reading in TBK and he's still a sympathetic character. His broodiness and the clash of different perspectives going on in his mind make him an interesting persona, although I don't think I would like him as much if he wasn't a part of the incredibly refined web that Dostoyevsky spins in The Brothers Karamazov.
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>that soul crushing feel when you run out of Russian books to read
I tried to move on to English literature. Read some Dickens, but it just isn't as good.
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>>9416013
>read Dickens
there's your problem. pick something better
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>>9416015
But he's the most revered.
Who should I try then?
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>I swear to you gentlemen, to be overly conscious is a sickness.
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Ok, so reading Aquinas and can anyone define what 'material spatially extended substances' means? thx
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>>9415902
someone can pick me up if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that just means things that physically exist? what's the context?
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People who bring their pets to this state should be shot.
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>>9415902
physical things
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How can I stop myself from falling for the Nihilism meme?
We're all going to die. Everything I do feels so pointless, I no longer get satisfaction from accomplishing things
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ye
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>>9415880
>We're all going to die. Everything I do feels so pointless...
Wow how original. Become a christian and/or a nazi.
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Have you tried gainful employment sir?
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Looking for specific type of book
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Is their any red-pill books that follow a man as he engages in epic struggle against (((them)))? Preferable during modern day or near modern day and takes elements from all well-known conspiracy theories. It would be neat to see someones vision about how one would tackle the international elite.
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Pardon my bad grammar
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prague_Cemetery
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>red-pill books
I think I've outgrown this fucking place
I feel like half of the people posting here are 15
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So he spends the entire book summarizing various pessimistic philosophers, mainly "The Last Messiah" by Peter Zapffe. Why not just read the Last messiah?
He doesn't present any arguments why life is terrible, he just goes on (quoting The Last Messiah) as if it were obvious.
The book wasn't bad, but all these threads I see where people say this book ruined their life, asking for happy books which will remedy their ruined pscyhe, made me expect something more. But I realize now those people are just pathetic, and this book justified their worthless existence. Virgins in their basements pretending that they are virgins by choice, for some 'higher cause', as if they were helping humanity by not procreating instead of just being pathetic.
Anyways, thoughts on this book? Anyone else underwhelmed?
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>>9415799
He made it clear that it is just a collection of negativity basically though and that trying to convince normies of what is ultimately an opinion is futile.
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>>9415799
did you shop a pepe silhouette into this is or that the real cover
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>>9415821
not sure what you're even talking about, but no i'm not a degenerate frog posting faggot
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What is some good literature in which social mobility is a theme?
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Or poetry too, of course. That'd be interesting!
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>>9415699
Fitzgerald, not just Gatsby, is pretty good for this.
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>>9415714
Oh yeah, why did I not think of this? It's a great example! What is the morale in that regard, would you say?
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> Be me
>Have to do a report on Hindu literature
>Have no idea about this topic
>Not having a good bibliography
>Ask for help
>Nobody come
HELP
Everything you know about Indian literature
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>Indian literature was at it's height during the mughal empire in 1700 AD then Great Britain came and forced it's domination over India, they chopped down the trees to boost the economy so the shitskins had nothing to wipe their anuses with, so in desperation they ripped pages out of books thousands of years old, and now we know very little of indian literature and what we do know is from second hand accounts.
There, I've written half your introduction for you.
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>>9415690
Hindu Lit?
If mythology will work, you can try and find a free online text for the Bhagavad-Gita, its fairly short and an important work, but its strictly mythic.
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>>9415690
Rupi Kaur is a good place to start
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Why haven't you read this yet?
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>>9415670
Because I'm not a primitive Semitic goat herder...?
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>>9415680
primitive Semitic goat herders couldn't read bud
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>>9415670
>"What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?"
Is this the power of cuckness?
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Hey fuckers!
You should all read Mikhail Bakhtin, Ernst Robert Curtius, and Erich Auerbach. they're all great and will improve your understanding of literature and how to talk about it.
OK later you fucking dumb ass fuckers LATER
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>i just took my first critical theory class
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>>9415669
>Ernst Robert Curtius
looks like a made up name
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pancakes? That sounds delicious
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What are books where the nice girl wins for once?
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What is this "nice girl"?
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The "nice girl" in that comic is actually a trap.
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>>9415646
would have been better as an infinite regress of "nice" individuals comforting the heartbroken only for the latter to continue chasing their previous object of affection
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So is infinite jest worth reading either unironically or to understand the meme? I know nothing about it, the meme, or the author.
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>ironically
>meme
get out
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It's worth reading the first 100 pages so you can understand how bad it is.
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>>9415568
It's hilarious but a shit ton of work.
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Thoughts on Naguib Mahfouz works?
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>>9415459
He's a fella
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>>9415459
bumpo
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>>9415459
Midaq Alley was pretty tight