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oh shit

>1750, 1755 ...
was it autism

>>9789535
is this a roleplay?
if it is, i'd like her to play with my roll, know what i'm sayin' here?

Are you completely new to the greeks?
You've read homer and plato right?

Hackett Thales to Aristotle

>>9789489
only homer

I can accept the necessity of acceptance, but can acceptance accept the necessity of non-acceptance?

Tell me now. I am my own man, I desire what I desire, I envision the world I wish to partake of, and you,
oh eternal principles, how shall you judge me? By what standard? Through what esoteric doctrine shall the
things I say now be undermined? Wherein is the beauty of the absence of firey will? Only the cold chasms of
Brahman can know the tranquility of the world as seen from the highest tower. We are not there, and nor did
we nor god feel it right and proper to now be there. We are where we are for reasons unknown to us and known
to the god we scorn, and rightfully scorn, and god himself accepts our condemnation with shy malaise.

Take the reigns of your inner world, scorn what you find deplorable, and praise what you find righteous and
beautiful. This is the proper way to be alive. Don't fall into the metaphysical traps of the cunning orator.
Of the deceitful philosopher who got lost in the labyrinth, seeking the golden fleece with his ironic turns of phrase.

Doesn't the term Utopia literally mean "unreachable place"? As in a concept of something impossible to achieve?

Though I find it interesting how the original Thomas More's Utopia is basically what we would now consider to be a Soviet/North Korean slave state, and this was considered to be idyllic compared to the state of the world in the 1500s.

>>9789512
Like I said, forget the baggage. I just mean the world you see in your dreams as the ideal place to live. Heaven, so to speak. But an earthly heaven.

fat chicks love that "well behaved women rarely make history" thing for some reason

Yet another quality submission from /pol/

>>9789435
>prescribe to the programming of what good behavior is
>prescribe to the programming of a revolt against those standards
>simply become the antithesis of your those you who considered your enemies
>still unintentionally adhering to the original programming through polar means

what a bunch of half-wits

>>9789400
Hells Angels by Hunter S. Thompson.

Illuminatus!

>>9789404
oh ya i heard that has more gags and japes than a pynchon novel!

>>9789346
I don't know what this book is but I need it. 1950s sword-and-sandal smut is my jam.

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>>9789352
It's about *the* wandering jew. And how he lives throughout history. Quite excellent.

>>9789346
Well the Juden are sand-niggers.

depends if it's singular or not i think

You definitely drop the S.

It's most fashionable to drop the extra 's' now but used to be different.

>>9789190
t. failed all of his science classes in high school

>>9789190
math isn't that bad you just have to study my little brainlet :-)

Guess I can't disagree.

But doesn't that just mean it's practical?

What are your top 5 favourite books out of the ones you read?

>>9789163
Basically you were a pleb, you still are a pleb, and you don't know how or why you should go about becoming something more than a pleb.

>>9789177

When Marnie Was There
Ronia: The Robber's Daughter
Behind the Attic Wall
The Secret Language
Island of the Blue Dolphins

>>9789191
If being "not a pleb" means reading books about boring ass middle aged men instead of cute little lolis, I will gladly retain my pleb status.

make it so you have to post the copypasta as well

>>9789162
ok

>>9789151
you have to post the copypasta as well or the diligent mods will be alerted and no doubt ban you

>>9789164
You first

>>9789149
Damn. That is the best write-up I've ever read I think. Bleeding accurate, critical, and above all honest.

>>9789149
That was pretty damn stupid.

>When critics laud him for being biblical, they are hearing sounds that are more often than not merely antiquarian, a kind of vatic histrionic groping, in which the prose plumes itself up and flourishes an ostentatiously obsolete lexicon. Blood Fustian, this style might be called

I love it how he just makes a baseless assumption that he knows the minds of other critics.

>If I don't like it, other critics like it for the reasons I don't
>I am the supreme contrarian

>>9789362
I don't think he's necessarily dispraising him there.

may i compare thee

>>9789121
sonnet 18

>>9789121
Probably a tie between your Frost and Poe selections, yeah, with Poe given the lead because it's hard to say how many simply know the words "the road not taken" as an idiom unto itself, just like how "Better to have loved..." ("In Memoriam A.H.H.") is more well-known than "The Raven," but how many actually know they're quoting from a Tennyson poem?

All of this is hypothetical of course.

find pdfs?

>>9789114
Not sure if just paranoid or have legitimate worries.

Pretty sure party van is watching this post

Story Of Civilization by Will Durant read by Alexander Adams, it's an old books on tape version from like the 90s, the newer Audible versions are ok, but they have a different reader for each volume so it doesn't have the epic feel, that is possibly the comfiest audiobook of all time, the whole torrent is like 8 gigs and it can be found on any patrician tracker

My job has me driving for like 60% of the time. I know only plebs listen to novels, thus what are acceptable audiobooks for patricians? I will continue reading during lunch, non-working time.

The other thread on singers writing books reminded me of Nick Caves Bunny Monroe. He read it himself and provided some music and soundfx for the audiobook and his deadpan tone and dark prose made it funny AF.

Also, Michael Gira's Somniloquist or whatever it was called.

t. don't usually listen to audiobooks but these cracked me up.

literally anything, romance is shit and should be kept out of literature.

>>9789010
I mean Romantic Movement as in the Romantics

>>9788984
I wouldn't necessarily say so,
music: Well you have Haydn and Mozart (and early Beethoven)in the classical period, which is nice, but can get a bit boring in the long run, also Mozart brought the style to perfection so there had to happen something new and thanks to late Beethoven we got romantic period with; Brahms, Mahler, Liszt, Chopin, Wagner, Strauß, Schumann etc.
so all in all romantic > classic
lit: here I can only speak about my own country (germany), but I think classical period is superior (Goethe, Schiller etc.) than romantic, but again I like me some Heine and Eichendorf and it made people like ETA Hoffman possible
in England you have poets like Shelley, Keats and Byron, which is also nice,
all in all I think romanticism was a necessary transition period
art: classiscism > romanticism by far