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>still hasn't learned Old English to read Beowulf
>still hasn't learned Old Norse to read the Eddas
>still hasn't learned Farsi to read Rubaiyat
>still hasn't learned Sumerian and Akkadian to read Gilgamesh
pleb

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>>9078209
>reads a transcript of slam poetry

>He read Homer rather than build a time machine and listen to Homer

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>>9078165
So you saying you want a quick rundown?

>>9078170
More or less

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>tfw you will never be a cozy russian anarchist who drinks and smokes all day in some St. Petersburg slum
>tfw you will never dream about attempt to carry out bombings for the fuck of it
>tfw you will never cry yourself to sleep after a night of binge drinking because the nihilism you subscribe to is slowly ripping you apart
>tfw you will never open the Gospel of John on a whim and finally see the truth

Feels bad man, wish I was born in Imperial Russia.

>>9078141
no?

Confucianism is great, taoism is decent(read Tao Te Ching then the wikipedia page to get the different types of taoism).
4 Great Classics are breddy gud. They're no Hamlet or Divine Comedy, but they're like a Macbeth, an Orlando Furioso or a Decameron. You'll find Dream of the Red Chamber under the name Tale of the Stone every now and then.
Idk poetry.

>>9078141
yooooo
i know this chick
trang phan is her name
im tripping out

>>9078089
My ex gf read Leonor & Park. Because of it she started to read comicbooks. I loved her. I want her back :(

Idk because ive skipped most if my classes and masturbated alone in my room depressed and trying to numb it out by becoming a marijuana addict.

>>9078175
Same here. Eh.

>>9077981

Looks like a Chuck Tingle cover

>>9077981
Is that MC Ride?

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I have an older edition and it's more than ok. I don't get why they started doing those shit covers.

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>shed a fraction of your immense pseudom

unlikely

>>9078355
Kind of what the mongs on here are known

>>9078361
pardon?

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never heard it and don't know if it makes sense since english isn't my first language but i like it. it sounds cute

Striped or stripped? Neither is a recognised phrase but maybe it could work in context.

>>9077721
no that isn't really a common english phrase.

>>9077646
how about meeting him in person or joining your local club or w/e

>>9077646
>philosophy
Reddit is that way champ

are you that autist who sent out over a thousand mails to prominent professors?

>>9077282
i want to die everyday so no

>>9077282
I won't be satisfied until I have a stable job I enjoy, but since I have everything else I need, I'd say I'm content, at least, despite being depressed and a borderline alcoholic.

I feel like an utter loser, but in general terms, I have everything I need, with enough for little luxuries. I have no debts. I'm never down to my last dollar. I have a good relationship with all my immediate family and I have a couple good friends that I enjoy spending time with. My physical health is fair. So. That's good, right?

I'm just looking forward to my next pain pill

paint huffing meesa thinks

>>9077064
Nobody knows.

His problem was the role of art in post-Enlightenment societies and he solved it by successfully uniting formalist, surrealist, and expressionist approaches while fulfilling the role of Baudelaire's modern artist by creating art sensitive to his specific socio-historical context.

>>9076900
I've already read the Bible.

Hopefully the one guy who identifies with Tibetan Buddhism comes in here and just dumps everything. I wish I had saved that thread.

>>9076913
I screencapped some stuff on my other computer. Will post later.

>>9076768
it disregards all others that exist and allow you to even perceive a self in the first place

actual babby philosophy

It denies the reality of what you are, a man born to men in a world of men.

One would need to be entitled, ignorant to his surroundings, blind to his emotions and a pussy.

>>9076768
a true solipsist would never bother asking this question, my property.

>>9076673
>he didn't start with the Greeks

>plagiarising Homer for 2300 years
Poetry is a meme.

>>9076673
Read some Whitman. Leaves of grass is very timely read. Fuck 1984, people need to read whitman.

>>9076557
>too personal
if you poem makes you nervous then something good might be in it

I bounce them off the five 16 year olds chained up in my basement.

Well, I'm aiming to be the Emily Dickinson of our time. So I guess I'm saving these bad boys till I die.

On a more serious note, though, I just don't feel the need to share most of my poetry with other people. They're personal for a reason.

He was shit. The Joss Whedon of his day.

>>9076500
Shakespeare is so complex that it's perilous to try to imitate him. Most writers only learn from the art of Shakespeare's writing and not the surface features.

Jonson was actually more influential in the day, but he now rightfully holds a place as a footnote to English literature at best. Same with Spenser and Dryden. Shakespeare has lasted because his works are simply timeless.

>>9076536
Shakespeare is unironically the most overrated artist ever, and I don't say that lightly.