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Name the absolute best book written in the past 5 to 10 years and what's so great about it.
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My diary desu
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Only history is the judge of good literature. No book is good unless it can manage to stay relevant for at least fifty years. The longer it stays relevant, the better it becomes.
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>>10025659
This.
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"Throughout the centuries man's standard of values must have become sadly confused, otherwise women would never have been called the fair sex. The mere fact that they are so much less intelligent than men is enough to contradict such a conception, for a stupid
person can never be thought of as beautiful unless judged on the purely physical
level. But it should be emphasized that the fault lies with man himself, who valued
women according to standards by which people and animals are on the same level. If
he had not done so, women would hardly fit into the group Homo sapiens."
Is this true or just rubbish ideas?
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>>10025594
But it should be emphasized that the fault lies with man himself, who valued
women according to standards by which people and animals are on the same level
What?
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>>10025599
Beauty I guess... We're in that same level with all the animals.
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>>10025609
Yea, I think I get you.
Well what else were they supposed to value them for because they sure weren't valuable for their utility. At least not as valuable for hunting.
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Was there a greater writer in Polish literature?
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i want to get into polish shit, what's his greatest hit? ill cop it
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>>10025597
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_Fire_and_Sword
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>>10025577
More like Henry Stinkiewicz
Cuz he stinks
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I see you fags quoting that Tolstoyevsky pamphlet all the time. Are you so illiterate and brainwashed by the Russian hack that you are completely unaware that he was savagely rebuttled by based Orwell?
>Forty years later Shakespeare is still there completely unaffected, and of the attempt to demolish him nothing remains except the yellowing pages of a pamphlet which hardly anyone has read, and which would be forgotten altogether if Tolstoy had not also been the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina.
http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/lear/english/e_ltf
Russian literature BTFO! Anglo literature is GOAT!
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Who you gonna trust, /lit/?
Glorious Russian Christian philanthropist?
Or Eternal Anglo socialist loser?
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>>10025496
Admit it OP, this shitpost was just a vehicle for that terrific image.
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>>10025525
>terrific
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Is Jordan Peterson one of the greatest thinkers of our time?
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What is it about?
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>>10025439
pure ideology
hegel for roasties
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>>10025436
Nah
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Can I get a basic gestalt on this book? 2017-09-15 04:02:32 Post No.10025316
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Can I get a basic gestalt on this book?
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Thinking of copping volume 1. Does it have good prose?
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>>10025316
>Does it have good prose
>prose
You're not going to make it lad.
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>>10025374
Not OP, but shut up anon.
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>>10025316
american imperialist psyops propaganda
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The Bible is interesting and all, but what was God's tax policy?
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>>10025263
Give unto Caeser what is Caeser's
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>>10025264
/thread
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>>10025263
Death
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Modern plays don't get discussed enough on /lit/. What are your favorite 20th century plays? Are there any 21st century plays that have been published for reading?
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Probably not a very unique opinion, but Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
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>>10025175
plays meant for the stage, with the sole exception of shakesmeme, are not literature.
go back to plebbit
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Drama in general doesn't get discussed enough.
I have a question, is it worth getting into Arthur Miller at 26 or is his stuff mainly highschool English tier?
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Anyone else get really psychoanalytic when they're high, and then feel like DFW must have felt before he killed himself? I'll rarely smoke because of this very reason and the anxiety will ramp and I'll try to watch an episode of The Office or Freaks and Greeks where I'll see elements of something I wouldn't've imagined before.
And then the next morning I regret it and chalk it up to nothing.
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When I'm high all I want to do is listen to black metal and play GSG's.
I don't even enjoy the GSG's that much while I'm playing them. I just have an irresistible urge to watch the map move and change.
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>>10025168
yeah, i'm feeling you, opie...
>watch The Office or Freaks and Geeks
what the fuck? this is /lit/. if you're not opening to random pages of sophocles's plays and feel like the women of trachis are talking about you, GTFO
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>>10025168
I used to overanalyze all of my relationships with other people and imagine what people say about me behind my back. I haven't had that very much in the past couple years, but I really only smoke once or twice a month now.
Also one time I accidentally ate like 3x the recommended dose of edibles and had kind of a weird breakdown where I eventually started to hear voices all saying bad things about me. I've avoided edibles entirely since then.
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How can I make money writing smut? Apparently that's a thing and I'm desperate enough to think I can do this.
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>>10025152
I spent a lot of time looking into this last year.
Basically just write prolifically and publish literally everything, gradually you will get better and eventually you will find a niche you can make a decent amount of money in.
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>>10025152
Why the fuck would I give you advice on how to increase competition in my work? Fuck off, I got where I was all on my own, I don't need fuckos like you coming in and fucking everything up.
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>>10025159
Stop crying, narcissist.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVbMbejY3-I
I made a Video Tribute to note from underground and im shilling it here.
I hope you enjoy
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Reminds me of an Adam Curtis documentary. I liked it.
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>>10025129
Thanks, Adam Curtis's style has probably unwittingly rubbed off on me!
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>>10025104
Call me a brainlet but I got the impression that the video is 2deep4u. Wasn't the underground man a parody of the 19th century intellectual? And all that talk about freewill and determinism more of pointless rambling of a pathetic neet? Too smart to drink and fuck he engaged in intellectual masturbation.
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Some good erotic literature 2017-09-15 03:07:59 Post No.10025103
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Some good erotic literature
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Any good erotic literature, /lit/?
Doesn't matter if the main character is a guy or girl as long as it involves big meaty centaur cock or vag
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Hero of a thousand faces 2017-09-15 02:55:50 Post No.10025054
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It's weird how Jordan B Memerson basically is rehashing shit that Campbell said 50 years ago. If you watch the Bill Moyers interviews it's practically the same talking points (using the same examples) as Peterson (without all the IQ jargon).
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>>10025054
I hope they don't hire Peterson to consult on another Star Wars.
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Who /hardcover/firstedition/ here?
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>>10025030
I do. Not for display reasons but for durability. I only want to buy a book once. On the downside it's a pain in the ass in using up space.
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>>10025174
Yeah I need another shelf asap
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>>10025030
>the memestructions, published by memesweememe's
>tom wolfe
>jeffrey memenides
>william t(ip the hookers) vollmann
>meme christianity, even though lewis got BTFO by GEM Anscombe
wow, such good taste, anon
Which of these is more accurate to the sort of thing Marcus Aurelius wrote about? Is there a book/writer that covers the sort of mental toughness and endurance suggested by the first one?
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Stoicism is for retarded children. Go back to plebbit