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>Nothing must disturb my undiluted Englishry — God Save The King! I am naturally a Nordic — a chalk-white, bulky Teuton of the Scandinavian or North-German forests — a Viking a berserk killer — a predatory rover of Hengist and Horsa — a conqueror of Celts and mongrels and founders of Empires — a son of the thunders and the arctic winds, and brother to the frosts and the auroras — a drinker of foemen's blood from new picked skulls — a friend of the mountain buzzards and feeder of seacoast vultures — a blond beast of eternal snows and frozen oceans — a prayer to Odin and Thor and Woden and Alfadur, the raucous shouter of Niffelheim — a comrade of the wolves, and rider of nightmares — aye — I speak truly — for was I not born with yellow hair and blue eyes.
/pol/ shitposters wish they could outdo this.
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>>9899962
This emotionally stunted aspie again? Dude dug a deep hole, took a flashlight, climbed down into the hole, used the light to make spooky shadow puppets on the wall so he could feel like he had some company down there and wasn't completely alone, completely a narrow-minded tragedy about whom no one cared, and got so caught up doing fraternizing with his shallow inventions that he mistook them, his shadow puppet monsters, for real monsters, with real significance. Then he spent the rest of his life filling notebooks with stilted prose descriptions of them and their spooky powers.
Dude was a dud. He won't even outlast Steven King.
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>be a fucking nerd
>get wedgies as a daily occurrence
>"REEEEE MY ANCESTORS WERE VIKINGS REEEEEEE HOW DARE YOU BULLY MEEEEEEEEEE"
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>>9899990
Any truth to this?
Care to give me a history lesson?
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ITT: post top tier biographies and auto-biographies
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>>9899564
my dairy, desu
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>>9899569
A man's spoiled milk tells much about his spoiled life.
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Which book actually improved your life?
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>>9899442
Why doesn't that negro use a rolling tray rather then a average sized book to roll their blunt?
The bibleheh, just kidding I believe only people with mental illness salute this book
On a real note, probably The Stranger
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>>9899461
Why pay for a rolling tray when a perfectly good book is handy?
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Kazuo Ishiguro's "Remains of the Day"
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At what point in your life did you start "seriously" reading, and why? 2017-08-16 04:35:32 Post No.9899424
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At what point in your life did you start "seriously" reading, and why?
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Mid-20's, because I got bored.
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11 but I have a IQ of 166
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>Everyone says start with Greeks
>But the Greeks weren't the first civilization with a literary canon
I don't understand
Why would you not start with the canons that the Greeks themselves looked back on?
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>>9899170
Everyone knows "Start with Gilgamesh" is implied, you plebian. :>)
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Start with the dinosaurs.
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>>9899170
Because everyone here is too focused on Western lit.
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Whats your opinion of Bolaño?
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Picked up a book of his 2 years ago. Read it off and on between other stuff. I feel like if you're neither a young poet in Mexico City or at the very least fluent then a bit is lost on you
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>>9899110
One of my favorites. I know he is not technically dazzling or diversified as others, but his world is one I love to visit. It feels like magical realism with emphasis on the realism and less of the namby pamby fantastic aspects.
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>>9899110
I love him. I've read about 70% of his work and still long for more. There's a sense of melancholy and mordant humour with him that resonates with me, and I'm not even South American/Mexican
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Carl Jung reading guide? Where to begin? 2017-08-16 02:47:50 Post No.9898986
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Carl Jung reading guide? Where to begin?
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someone help
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don't bother he's garbage
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>>9898996
why
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>>9899013
all he did was babble pseudoscience and unfalsifiable nonsense. the field he worked in has long since discredited him and he is only well regarded by hipster dilettantes who don't understand him.
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Why do you still eat animals? 2017-08-16 02:43:24 Post No.9898971
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Why do you still eat animals?
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Read this book, you won't anymore.
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>>9898971
Reading that book years ago didn't change my mind at all.
As soon as I heard how much healthier it was to be vegan though I immediately became vegan. I still don't care at all about animals either.
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>>9898971
they are delicious
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>>9898971
>Why do you still eat animals?
I honestly don't know.
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Leftists hate this book because it acknowledges Africa's inferiority. People on the right hate this book because it acknowledges Africa's inferiority for the wrong reasons. So please explain to me: who the fuck likes this shit book?
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>>9898866
The Hebrew Historical Revisionist Committee.
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>>9898866
Anthropologists hate this book because its methods are bogus
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>>9898888
How? Also nice fucking digits.
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What are /lit/'s thoughts on nicholas carr's the shallows?
Reading it now and wondering what others think of it
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I tried to read it but I kept getting distracted and shitposting on 4chan instead.
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lmao great banter
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I enjoyed it. It wasn't as alarmist as some others ( Lanier or Birkerts, whom I actually like).
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Stop using language.
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>>9898711
That's a shit idea OP
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>>9898711
stop living kys now
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Stop reading this post.
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Which publishing houses put out the most aesthetically pleasing books? I mean not just in terms of covers, but font, paper, etc.
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>>9898663
I really like Vintage paperbacks
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Pushkin Press
FUEL Publishing
Faber and Faber
New Directions
Farrar Strauss and Giroux
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>>9898698
post closed
just finished the communist manifesto for the first time
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>>9898620
Human nature doesn't exist.
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>>9898626
Yes it does
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>this triggers the leftypol cucks
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Any fans of Baudrillard around today?
Recent events have me returning to his essay, "The Spirit of Terrorism".
>Terrorism is immoral. The World Trade Center event, that symbolic challenge, is immoral, and it is a response to a globalization which is itself immoral. So, let us be immoral; and if we want to have some understanding of all this, let us go and take a little look beyond Good and Evil. When, for once, we have an event that defies not just morality, but any form of interpretation, let us try to approach it with an understanding of Evil.
>This is precisely where the crucial point lies — in the total misunderstanding on the part of Western philosophy, on the part of the Enlightenment, of the relation between Good and Evil. We believe naively that the progress of Good, its advance in all fields (the sciences, technology, democracy, human rights), corresponds to a defeat of Evil. No one seems to have understood that Good and Evil advance together, as part of the same movement. The triumph of the one does not eclipse the other — far from it. In metaphysical terms, Evil is regarded as an accidental mishap, but this axiom, from which all the Manichaean forms of the struggle of Good against Evil derive, is illusory. Good does not conquer Evil, nor indeed does the reverse happen: they are at once both irreducible to each other and inextricably interrelated. Ultimately, Good could thwart Evil only by ceasing to be Good since, by seizing for itself a global monopoly of power, it gives rise, by that very act, to a blowback of a proportionate violence.
I can't help but compare this kind of thinking to Landian Accelerationism. As the 'good' grows, so to does the 'evil'. Technology allows for spectacular things, maybe even immortality, but also full on global extinction. Anyone know of writers trying to fuse or contrast Baudrillard and Accelerationism?
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>>9898151
Personally, I'm against cant and re-tard political sloganeering. Get the fuck off my board [you] ignorant bitch--
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>>9898142
Glad my thread is getting such interesting commentary. bumping with some of my favorite baudrillard selections.
This text is from the Transparency of Evil, it's about the eradication of sex and race and the human becoming plastic.
I actually think this kind of nihilistic appraisal of pop culture should appeal to much of the anti-post-modernist crowd that posts on /lit/. It's kind of misogynistic and strangely demeaning of race and gender. At university, I generally had to defend his writings and act as an apologist for his homophobia and sexism. Totally bizarre that here on /lit/ he'd be considered a marxist cuck.
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>>9898481
clean your room bucko
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Learning to read in Japanese 2017-08-15 10:45:59 Post No.9898025
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Learning to read in Japanese
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How long should it take until I will be able to read a whole book in Japanese without too much looking into dictionary so that I could enjoy the process?
- From scratch, granted. And what are some of the worthwhile Japanese classic novels that you can recommend?
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several years of intense study.
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>>9898036
>several
So from 4 to 99?
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Hiragana and Katakana are probably easy, should take only a couple hours to learn.
Kanji is a tad harder, but learning 1-6 grader Kanji should take like a year maybe. Anything above shouldn't take that long either.
Grammer I have no idea, but if this is your first SOV have fun. My friend who I sorta helped with Japanese figured it out quite naturally.