I like Manny, but definitely none of this happened. Do you think he's okay?
He's talking about Pan by Knut Hamsun
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wait fuck he wrote the review in Hamsun's style I'm an idiot
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>>9054693
Who the fuck is Manny?
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>>9054704
>plebs don't know about Manny
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>litizen getting questioned by a stemfag
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw54-yDc6Jg
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>>9054681
The typical feeble litizen would have broken out in an uncontrollable fit of shivering and expletives long before.
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>>9054681
>needlessly applying lit to such a great scene
You pig fuck. Pretty accurate to be honest We need more PTA Pynchon tho
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>>9054763
was the IV movie good? I haven't watched it yet but I assume it is
>he doesnt read nietzche
>he doesnt know the objective truths of the universe
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>>9054614
>he doesnt know the objective truths of the universe
The objective truth that we should exterminate Jews?
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>>9054634
>being anti-Semitic on 4chan
mom and dad would be so furious if they saw your posts here lol
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>>9054634
FPBP
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Hello /lit/, can a hero of a story have incredibly evil traits that would make the villain seem like the true hero? Are protagonists always the "good guys" sort of speak?
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See: anti-hero
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>>9054610
But is it really an anti-hero if the protagonist is a villain in all of his traits?
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>Are protagonists always the "good guys" sort of speak?
No, protagonist is just a synonym for main character and there are no restrictions when it comes to character traits with neither protagonists nor antagonists.
For example Raskolnikov commited a double homicide with one of the victims being characterized as a good/innocent person and he is the protagonist. Marmeladow, the detective that's after him wants bring him to justice is the antagonist. It's like your typical murder mystery, only that the point of view is reversed, which makes the protagonist the villain.
If the hero has not a single redeeming quality about him and is a villain trait-wise then you can't call him a hero, but that doesn't stop him from being the protagonist.
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Is there any other novel, or graphic novel, or movie, that tells a great chronicle about a criminal family with the same epic tones, at the same time glamourous and dark, as The Godfather?
For example, Goodfellas is not the same, since it is more vulgar, more real-life-portrail of the Italian mob: it dosent look like a refined and solemn view of crime (same thing with The Sopranos).
I am thinking in a work of art about the Mafia (or other criminal family saga like the Yakuza, or Russian Mob, etc.) that has a kind of Shakespearean solemnity. It also needs to be about a family, a great family, not about single individuals working for a syndicate, for example.
Please help me with this if you can. If you know something like that, whatever the source (even anime, or Bollywood, or Korean cinema, or obscure novels, or comics), please let me know - I will be eternally grateful.
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>>9054483
>he said graphic novel
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>>9054483
Sopranos?
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>>9054483
bump
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Is he the greatest author/philosopher of our time?
I can't name a single thing he was wrong about.
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KHMER ROUGE
H O
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>>9054476
We're redpilled here, sweetheart. Stop posting brainwashed leftist cucks and start posting fascists and white nationalists
>reminder to praise Lord Kek
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>>9054476
horrible bait
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>So I found that life is just a game
>But you know there’s never been a winner
>Try your hardest, you’ll still be a loser
>The world will still be turning when you’re gone
Any literature for this feel?
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Read about Alexander the great, he was a winner.
>tutored by Aristotle
>king at 20
>undefeated in battle
>created one of the largest empires in the ancient world
>died in his prime, not having to see his achievements fade and his empire dissolve
>His soldiers were given the right to file past as he silently waved to them before his death. Not only was he a great king, but was loved by his soldiers.
>Even his sweat and breath smelled sweet.
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>>9054653
Im not fucking alexander the great
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>>9054821
Quit complaining and do something about it.
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Something the cook can't kick over.
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>>9054468
Define "is"
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>thought I had seen through all the bullshit
>realise there was still more bullshit to see through and the people who let me see through the initial bullshit were also selling bullshit and my field of view is limited as well
Jesus christ, its spooks upon spooks upon spooks ad a-long-fucking-chain-um.
A philosophies take up an infinitely small space within in an infinitely large space and the ones that are used as social signalling mechanisms or advertising are screaming at me every day, while being aided by the pseudo intellectual hangers on, including most of /lit/.
I think I could have become smarter by falling in to a coma for the past two years rather than read stuff and hope that I could find non-BS wisdom or fucking anything.
>inb4 go read some 10,000 page book by some dead person filled with trivialities and logical fallacies
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babi first roly poly
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>>9054393
>Yo guys, I just read So-crates Parable of greek cave systems.
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Nice blog post, faggot.
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Will he ever finish his next book?
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hes at the part where they eat beans and look over the horizon and see some people on horses and decide to ride on so they dont catch them and then they just continue riding and then eat some more beans and then they dont see them again so they continue riding while eating leftover beans
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>>9054324
I know you're jesting with me, anon, but you don't realise how desperate I am for more of his bean eating and riding on.
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>>9054316
Just read his other books. I doubt you've read them all.
What is the difference between category of being and class of being?
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isn't classes a category of being itself?
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>>9054252
I don't know
>>Let us call any such less comprehensive classes the ‘categories of being’ or the ‘ontological categories’. (The former term, if not the latter, presupposes a particular position on one question about the nature of being: that everything is, that the universal class is the class of beings, the class of things that are.
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Nobody?
>Make list of books I have read
>Have read 60 classics
>Realize I have never read a 21st century book
Has anything good come out in the last 17 years?
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2666
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The 21st century is the century of Spanish language literature, my friend:
>2666
>On the Edge
>Bartleby & Co.
>Providence
>The Feast of the Goat
>Crematorium
>The Day of Watusi
Are writers in other languages even trying?
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Newfag, and I fear that when I read, I can't properly concentrate. Stuff like Nabokov, Joyce, Proust is way above my level right now, and I'm just sticking plain stuff right now.
Will the ability to comprehend the flowery prose come in time? Also, how do you truly understand a book? How to read?
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>>9054200
stupidity is a gift anon
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>>9054200
>How to properly read
How to read properly.
There, you learned something already.
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>>9054200
>Will the ability to comprehend the flowery prose come in time?
It will if you're not an idiot
>Also, how do you truly understand a book?
You read it and interpret the themes and what's being conveyed
> How to read?
One word at a time
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Post your favorite book and anons rate it.
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i like it
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>>9054193
This book really fucking starts to drag after a while.
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Why is this such a shit 'starter kit'?
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Lolita, Siddhartha and Dorian Grey are masterpieces though
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>>9054169
half of it is literally books you'll read if you've ever attended high school in the past decade, and they're basically all classics but following this list is a great way to make yourself hate reading
you dont need 1984 fahrenheit and brave new world on the same list, just pick one and you'll get the point
also just watch the clockwork orange/fear and loathing/cucko's nest movies, waste of time to read the books
and kurt vonnegut is pretty meme
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>>9054179
Also, there is no contemporary literature, which is much more beginner-friendly than the old classics.