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Who has read this?
I just started and I am terrified..
of myself.
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>>9802322
Why so?
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>>9802342
Wish I could pin exactly why without people reducing it to some rubbish. Part of being a human is being weak, and it's taken me awhile to realize that. The way Comte puts things is so beautiful yet terrifying.
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>>9802322
I've never yet read de Lautreamont, but this is reminding me of how great Baudelaire is.
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Can anyone recommend some good books that address the futility of life from a more hopeful perspective? Something that affirms why we're here? I suppose that's the aim of most good literature, but I'd like to read something that explores consciousness more; maybe like the everlasting nature of the mind versus death, if that makes sense.
After laboring through The Death of Virgil a few months ago, I have not been able to turn away from the question of what happens to us after we die. How does man come to grips with surrender as he makes that brave journey into the unknown?
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Just like my life, this thread is slowly fading into obscurity.
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>>9802255
On the Shortness of Life- Seneca.
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>>9802444
Kek
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>boring, unimaginative account of a plague remarkable only by it's plainness,punctuated by underdeveloped character interactions
>this is supposedly his single greatest novel
into the literary trash bin he goes
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His best is undeniably The Fall
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Can you recommend me some books similar to Demian? It really spoke to me.
>tfw no Demian-like best friend to help guide you in times of trouble>yfw realizing that Demian is actually within us all
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how do you pronounce the title?
does it sound different in english than in german?
What's your opinion on Barth?
Just read Funhouse and fell in love with his style. Hope he doesn't turn out to be a meme.
Any recommendations about which book I should read after Funhouse?
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>>9802183
what do you mean by meme?
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>>9802183
dfw's pic related
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>>9802183
>>9802183
Barth is v good, but is definitely full meme.
Read the rest of his stuff in publication order up through letters (or at least read everything published BEFORE Letters, before reading Letters).
If you can make it past all the fucking boats, he's pretty good.
Barthelme, sadly, is the superior writer.
Anyone read this work of modern literature?
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yes, and i really like it. i am a sexually confused teenager
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"Kinch, y'ever knock a nasty squishy shit from your buttocks and wonda how it came to be? What the ever livin fuck did I have for breakfast yesterday? Perhaps a bit of grilled bone, some spotted dick in the pub? Deus miserere in ano est. God don't listen Kinch, do he! He put a goddamned squelchy poop in your colon, and to top it off, make it juicy. We certainly are the damned of the earth, what think ya Stephen?"
What the FUCK was his PROBLEM!
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>>9802062
he liked farts
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>>9802062
>tfw suspect an association between genius and depravity
>but don't want to research it because you like feeling like a genius
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>>9802156
There's certainly a fair amount of anecdotal evidence for it, based on how many notable geniuses were perverts and deviants. I doubt there's ever been a proper study conducted, though.
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>To let someone into your heart, first let yourself in
what did he mean by this?
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>>9802049
>Eastern shit
Don't worry about it, anon. Start with the Greeks.
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What do you think of that book?
pic unrelated
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The defining novel of the 20th century.
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I've read it like 3 or 4 times at this point. I like it :)
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>>9802048
It's like a hunter s thompson book, but actually good
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anyone here studied intermidate french 1. What does it cover?
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What does /lit/ think of Carl Schmitt? I find it refreshing to read 20th century political theory that doesn't assume axiomatic theories of justice or even a rigorous moral code, outside basic distinctions of the extremes. Should politics best be understood as a pragmatic means to avoid conflict, rather than a cooperative mechanism to assure desired ends?
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>>9801927
There's already a thread about him, check the catalog.
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"Christ, I am such a potato-eating queer. Don't you know that, Kinch? I'm a faggot who eats starch and drinks starch, the ichor of earth, have ye. And for that reas'n nobody can respect us anymore. We reek of tubers to the world. The british have perogative to stamp us out; the continent to turn a blind eye. Aye kinch, we jus' a bunch of potater niggers, aint we? Unlucky lot of the earth. Pass tha pota, nigger."
What the FUCK was his PROBLEM!
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>What the FUCK was his PROBLEM!
Autism
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I've just finished pic related, what Hemmingway should I read next (this is the only one I've read)
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Essential Hemingway:
The Sun Also Rises
A Farewell To Arms
The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway
(If you really need to pick and choose, read all the Nick Adams stories, A Clean Well-Lighted Place, On the Quai at Smyrna and Snows of Mount Kilimanjaro)
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man & The Sea
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Stop reading Hemingway. Life's too short to read pleb lit.
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>>9801600
read FWtBT next
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How does this make you feel?
made me lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwnz4QqrOPY
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lit fiction involving Dreams, Lucid dreaming?
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My dream journal desu
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>>9801285
just fucking google it
http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/19403.Best_books_about_Lucid_Dreaming