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>>9203922
Beckett dated Joyce's schizo daughter and his refusal to marry her likely contributed to her breakdown

All of them.

>>9203932
She wouldn't have been so fucked in the head to begin with if she didn't have Jimbo for a father

>>9203899
honestly it's a lot better to just do something you really enjoy with people you really enjoy being around then it is to be super good at what you do tea bee ache

>>9203928
How do I do that?

I'm prone to terrible bouts of this every few months, it's agonizing and the people around me don't understand it. When it happens I devote my energy to multiple projects to exhaust myself so I don't get sucked away by those thoughts. Being busy and looking at finished work seems to be the best way to move past it.

Honestly though, when it's really bad I succumb to retail therapy and splurge on cute things I'm too depressed to wear.

>>9203928
Surrounding yourself with positive activities and people is also another good strategy, especially if you enjoy socializing.

It's shite

>>9203867
It's ok. Might get you to check someone out. It is primarily just a way to make money though. Let's get real.

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>>9203867
>What's their real intent?
Isn't "philosophical honey" a clue for you?
They're in for the money.
Also Alain De button is clearly a philosophical zombie.

If they replace him with Stephen fry I will literally stab my neighbors cat.

>>9203848
You idiot

He needs to push those nerds along, it's the only way

>>9203874
Yeah. But he won't last forever.
You can tell that he's just going through the motions. He's not into it anymore.
Compare IOT episodes from 2007 to now.......

This is tough, although Evola was more realistic so I would go with him.

who???

Without question, it was Evola.

>>9203733
His dialogue is so realistic!!!!!
He is incredible

I'd definetly let him pop my ass

>>9203733
That's why English is such a shitty language
>muh briefness

over-elaboration and unnecessarily fanciful language is legitimately my pet peave.
that shit can't compensate for a lack of substance, if anything it just highlights the author's superficiality.

there is a time and place for muh big words though, don't me wrong.

self-evident

>axiom
>obvious
wot

>>9203658
a tautology? a truism?
also >>9203676

Do these people really not see the problem with doing shit like this?

>>9203594
It was done as a social commentary, not a store policy

>>9203609
same question

You're the definition of a pretentious.

>>9203601

why? It's like fucking the girl of your dreams. Of course you're still gonna like fucking other girls, but you're always going to compare them to The One, because she's simply better at everything than the others.

Are the Andrew Hurley translations worth reading?

>>9203581
Farts aren't scatplay you degenerate

My recent time on /trash/ has convinced me that, rather than a straight scat fetish, Joyce seems to have had a messing fetish. That is, he wasn't so into the poop itself, but rather he was into the act of pooping. That's why he wants Nora to shit her panties in that one letter. The act of shitting itself is what arouses him.

>>9203584
>>9203593
what about the fictional shit stains he wants to lick out of her "drawers"?

by cover aesthetics.

books with shitty covers get pushed to the ends.

>>9203578
By type

Literature, genre fiction, science and history, biographies and economics

>>9203578
By height

If height is the same width decides

>>9203447

Some of my choices (OP here)

Dulce et Decorum

Wilfred Owen

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime.—
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.


Sonnet 33

William Shakespeare

Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
With ugly rack on his celestial face,
And from the forlorn world his visage hide,
Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:
Even so my sun one early morn did shine
With all-triumphant splendor on my brow;
But, out, alack! he was but one hour mine,
The region cloud hath mask’d him from me now.
Yet him for this my love no whit disdaineth;
Suns of the world may stain when heaven’s sun staineth.

Macbeth’s Speech

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

>>9203455

Some of my choices (OP here)

Many red devils ran from my heart
And out upon the page.
They were so tiny
The pen could mash them.
And many struggled in the ink.
It was strange
To write in this red muck
Of things from my heart.

In the Desert

In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, “Is it good, friend?”
“It is bitter—bitter,” he answered;

“But I like it
“Because it is bitter,
“And because it is my heart.”

Stephen Crane

The world of dew
Is the world of dew
And yet, and yet…

Kobayashi Issa

The Tyger

William Blake

Tyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies.
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand, dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain,
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp,
Dare its deadly terrors clasp!

When the stars threw down their spears
And water'd heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?

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You would help them more by helping them seize the means of production.

Print some copies of the communist manifesto, not some shitty bourgeois poems.

>>9203394
don't be a nihilist for dummies

He's a prince and little.
What is not to get?

it's a stupid book packed full of meaningless babbling that was worded to make it sound meaningfull to children

What did the librarian say when you brought all of those to the counter?

>>9203362
I'd say Beyond good and evil, or maybe The Metamorphosis while picking a few pages by Nietzsche here and there.

>>9203362
how well-read are you op

idk if starting out on nietzsche is really the way to go unless if you're familiar with the philosophy leading up to it hence all the annoying redpill dudebros who eat up nietzsche

*mcelroy adds 5 cents to anons account*

>>9203316
What did he meme by this?

What?
You're too much of a pussy to read Lookout Cartridge? His non-meme masterpiece?