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What's your issue, exactly?

>>9399876
Why is Gunther king? He's less competent than either Siegfried or Hagen. Good men die because Hagen doesn't have any business being in charge.

>>9399922
What mechanism do you think was in place in those days for the change of leadership? With that knowledge, do you better understand why Gunther was king?

In simpler terms, how do you propose Gunther is replaced as king? What would this take?

One a day from any volume. If it's Borges, reread it, because it's even better the second time. The most important thing is to read a short story in one sitting.

This is alongside any novel.

>>9399726
That seems like a good way of doing it. Thanks anon. Sometimes I read a few of Maupassant's shorter stories alongside each other but I found I enjoyed them much more if I took them in solitarily each day

>>9399707
that guys hairline is impeccable

I agree with >>9399726

Fante is an ok writer but who the fuck wants to read "selected letters" of his, he's not Vladimir Lenin or something

Carson McCullers. Compiled short stories are the best because even if you don't like one usually there is at least one you like. Also McCullers is great.

>>9399678
Me since I already read all his novels and I'm interested in his life.

Raul Hilberg is still universeally acknowledged as the standard, magisterial history of the Nazi holocaust. It's a groundbreaking, painstaking, and unsurpassable piece of scholarship.

After you read Hilberg, read Norman Finkelstein's book, The Holocaust Industry, which Hilberg vigorously praised. It's about the appropriation of the Nazi holocaust for profit and the manipulation of public opinion. Finkelstein and Hilberg were close friends.

>>9399658
your unparalleled wisdom and infallible logic has made a believer out of me. hallelujah.

>>9399694
i'm just saying jews have "critical studied" everything to death except ONE thing hmmm

stop posting

oh god you just triggered flashbacks to my undegrad majoring in history, not that i read any of those specifically for a class and chomsky and chalmers are pretty dank, but just big piles of unread "investigative journalism" about recent "atrocities" puts me right back in senior seminar *involuntary shudder*

>>9399586
Thucydides, good

>Chomsky. LOL.

the rest I either haven't heard of or is trash.

Read the bible.

>>9399242
Jude the Obscure

The Comforters was written coming down from dexedrine psychosis.

Graham Greene wrote mostly on red pills.

>>9399142
Sure, tell us about it.

meh

it's a fun read but it's all pretty surface level. what is left to discuss?

I was gonna meet Paul Auster at a reading but I found out the day before I had a midterm at the same time so unfortunately I've never met him.

>>9399103
No because there is no solution to mankind, just its existence

It would evolve into a massive homoerotic orgy t b h

>>9399103
No because there would always be that one faggot who will insist he is more meta than others and that they're just deluded in his meta framework.

>story has a villain

the good/bad dichotomy does not belong in literature. go back to your comics and cartoons board, brainlet

>>9399131
>contrasting characters don't belong in REAL literature!
>classic epics? What are those?
Not everything in the world is a paper on theoretical physics, pal. And if you're gonna call me a "brainlet," then at least properly capitalize and punctuate your sentences.

>>9399321
>he believes the ability to use punctuation makes him smart

>>9399097
>Greek flag
The Ancient Greeks were the Hellenics, and they all left. Modern Greeks are the cowardly, mud-brained trash without the wherewithal to leave their goats or make anything of themselves.

>>9399097
The "Greek Miracle" narrative is a false one.

>>9399120
>>>/int/
>>>/pol/

>>9399044
>when does he get good?
last chapter

Reading is not for you.

>>9399044
>when does he get good?
When he asks you to call him Ishmael

Because he was intelligent.

It represented the most convincing argument against his life-affirming philosophy, so he confronted it directly. He wanted to try his ideas by fire, and so he pitted them against the most admirable opponents he could find. The same applies to Schopenhauer and, by extension, the Buddhists.

did nietzche only wrote about being cool dude or was one also? did he practice what he preach?

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>>9399227
Very nice screen saver anon.

Justine by De Sade

Have you read Hume, Locke and Berkeley?

>>9398940
>Hume
Yup

>Locke
Yup

>Berkeley
No

>>9398941
That's probably fine. Assuming you've covered everyone really major through Hegel, you could pick up a Frege reader

The Bible
The Summa
Augustine

>>9399412
He said a good person, not a delusional bigot.

>>9399418
Looks like you've got your own ideas already.

If you don't give any indication of your bent, don't act surprised when the recommendations aren't to your liking.