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Anything written by Christopher Hitchens except his essays

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>>9805296
>that book you will never get the same feelings from again

You mixed up the tenses.

>>9805284
you got bigger balls than me posting that stuff here

i skimmed it. before reading, i already had some advice. dont name him john

hanging preposition, first sentence. NEXT NIGGA

voice of a generation

>>9805237
I read the first few pages and it was just as bad as I thought it'd be. Uninspired generic writing that any MFA grad could have written. I have no idea why anyone would want to read this, but I'm obviously not the target audience. I need to go purge myself with some good writing now.

ugh, literally me

>>9805224
that was that one where thomas mann wanted to fuck his own son and then wrote a book about it

>>9805224
No, the boy represented a boy.

>>9805224
Beauty of youth fleets under the inevitable corruption of the world around it.

I've seen three "Where do I start with Lovecraft?" threads over the last three days.

Is this a new kind of shitposting?

>>9805190
>Where do I start with Lovecraft?

The Greeks

>>9805197
I guess it's just a coincidence, seeing as how I haven't been here for a week. I'm being genuine here, at least.
>>9805203
Very funny again, Anon. Just like last time.

Don't worry, kid. That shall pass too.You are still young. You will soon come to realize that everything you don't understand is just pretentious drivel told by an idiot.

It's egodeath. It is gradual. Accept weaknesses and try to fix them. The way you talked about the novel in your post already shows you got more out of it than a lot of people.

It's >>9805176 again.
As >>9805188 said your post already shows you put more thought in it than most people.
If you hang out long enough with other people that share the same interests like you like here on 4chan you will sooner or later realize that and grow arrogant and complacent like us. Better leave this place while you are still pure.
I was like you but now I just spend most of my time calling other people plebs.

A season in hell

>>9805123
look at paintings instead.

>>9805128
Une saison en enfer and Les illuminations both

>>9805114
Seems interesting. Sort of like the trappist monks I sometimes just want to remove myself away to my studies.

>>9806221
a e s c h e t i c

The title of the book is in direct opposition to scripture, which states clearly that your thoughts don't determine your life.

James 4:13-15 Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain. Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that.

ching chong tapei woweo

Oh...

Pee....

Issa....

I can't translate the last word.

>>9805077
Hello there.

Because WHAT IF THE CHILD CONSENTS THO?

what if the child consents tho?

>>9805022
wage workers, at least in america, believe they can become those "wealthy property owners" with enough hard work. poor people are temporarily embarassed millionaires or however that quote goes

what the fuck is this

>>9805018
someone on twitter called it 'Bazinga shit' and I can't think of anything more fitting

>>9805090
Americans in their natural habitat

>>9805016
The Oxford annotated nrsv has great notes on the texts.
Googling your questions is also a good practice, considering the Bible is the most critically studied work on the shelf.
Also on YouTube there's a series called The Bible Project thats essentially an animated crash course for every book in the Bible; it's surprisingly good. I'd watch each video after finishing the respective book

>>9805027
>An animated crash course
>Surprisingly good
pick one

>>9805016
The Church Fathers preferably. Justin Martyr (Conversation with Trifun), Athanasius of Alexandria (Against Arians), st. Augustine (his commentaries on the Gospels for example), commentaries on the gospels of st. Thomas Aquinas, Jesus of Nazareth trilogy by Benedict XVI.

What is so bad about P&V

>>9805008
What translations do you suggest?

I started reading P&V, was frustrated with the strange sentence structures and somewhat wooden tone, then switched over to and read MacDuff.

On one hand, the latter is much easier to understand but on the other he makes the book even longer winded and I'd say removes a lot of the dry humor present in P&V and likely also Dostoyevsky's original. I think when I reread it I will pick the P&V version. I kind of understand the anti P&V circlejerk but honestly there's a lot of color there that's absent in MacDuff at the very least.

When I reread the book, I plan to read the P&V translation

>>9804987
Thats wher u live

>>9804987
book was trash desu

>>9805442
why

>>9804997
cute desu

>>9804978
Apology in Greek doesn't mean sorry, it means defend ones position.