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>>9739819
Naked Lunch was pretty "perverse," in the sense you appear to be using it.

Hogg by Samuel R. Delany

Hogg opens with an explicit scene of incest, witnessed by the child narrator, who then becomes a willing sexual partner to both siblings and their father. The novel progresses without marked breaks between scenes; the world of Hogg unfolds relentlessly as one in which sex and abjection are inextricably tied and omnipresent. Readers find themselves, still early in the novel, suddenly privy to new horror as a big, filthy man brutally rapes a woman in an alley. The rapist notices the narrator watching and, after kicking the mutilated woman until she passes out, introduces himself to the narrator in a friendly way:
They call me Hogg ’cause a hog lives dirty. I don’t wash none. And when I get hungry, I eat my own snot […] I don’t even take my dick out my pants to piss most times, unless it’s in some cunt’s face. Or all over a cocksucker like you.
Moments into their first meeting, the narrator willfully fellates Hogg and licks dog feces off of his foot. Hogg decides the boy is worth keeping alive and around, though normally he might have killed a witness to his “business.” That business is, as it turns out, the paid enactment of “revenge” by way of abuse, rape, and sometimes murder, on behalf of men who have been “wronged” by women. The novel continues as a series of scenes of rape and torture, in which the narrator participates more and more actively as the text (and his relationship as lover/mentee to Hogg) progresses. The world of Hogg is thus as ethically repugnant as Hogg himself: its characters, their actions, and the very conditions of the novelized environment all elicit disgust.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/uses-of-displeasure-samuel-delany/

>>9739819
fanfiction

only if you are also a pseud

>>9739700
Not inherently. But it sure beats watching fucking IdolM@ster.

>>9739700
Depends on what and how you read it.

just read a fucking book

>>9739598
not sure if you want a philosophy list or greek philosophy list. this is the best I can do http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Philosophy

>>9739598

holy shit nigger

you want to 100% literature like you're playing a zelda game or something

go read plato a hundred times lol

>>9739559
All of a sudden the meme dies

Welcome to /psd/ - Pseud General.

>>9739559
t. hasn't actually read stirner

>>9739556
Cioran is an obvious mention

>>9739556
schopenhauer

one or two summers ago some anon claimed he was going to translate mainlander. guess that never came to fruition.

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>>9739589
This picture always bugs me for its lack of Robert W Chambers. Chambers directly influenced Lovecraft who became quite a fan of his work. In fact Lovecraft is the main person responsible for why Chambers' horror (but not much else) is still around today. Chambers' ideas inspired Lovecraft so much that he alludes to the Yellow Sign and Lake Hali from the King in Yellow in the Whisperer in Darkness. All of Chambers' early horror is great.

>>9739688
I read The King in Yellow. Am I correct in saying only the first story is the only one that attempts to be scary and the rest become less and less relevant to someone looking for horror?

A shared silence in mutual recognition of their fraudulence.

Schopenhauer is cranky.
Nietzsche is tsun-tsun.
You know. Just like usual.

>>9739481
Kek

>>9739440

The Divine Comedy is filled with allusions and references to shit even some of the most learned readers will miss out on. As with any other difficult work, go slow and do your research.

>>9739474
Well that makes me feel a bit better, I'll def. have to reread it a few times.

Thanks for the advice

>>9739489
Thanks for the info. anon

>>9739438
Maybe she has seen you posting her pic in "girls you want to fuck" threads on /b/. What is she, twelve?

>>9739519
wat

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"cosmic dumbass"©

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bomber jackets imported from US in 1920s were decided to be weared as uniform by kommisars

>>9739377
There was the Mitford book posted yesterday which is a good begin for English speaker/readers. Full-on /lit/ wd be St. Simon's Memoirs--

Monadology

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>>9740770
The picture is of Louis XIV. It does look like Leibniz though so I understand your confusion.

>>9739339
You're in for LARPing. There is a YT video where he literally, directly admits to LARPing, basically stating that's what his "religion" boils down to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5tL5LFfMts

As a bonus, he also betrays a basic misunderstanding of child psychology.

>>9739358
That's not what I was asking about. I was asking about the contents of the book and you are referring to a Youtube video made 6 years after that book was published. You as well could've used the arguments of "You're in for stabbing your bandmates" or "You're in for arson and black metal"

>>9739411
How does "The Author of that Book admits that he doesn't have lineal authority or historical authenticity when discussing with Scandinavian Paganism" NOT answer your question?

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>>9739221
I've read pic related a couple times, and the Fagles versions of Iliad and Odyssey. I prefer Fitzgerald.

>>9739221
It's a necessary read to bridge the gap between Homer and Dante. It's a really cool book when read in the context of Roman mythopoesis and its later vestiges in Christian lit.

It would have been the work with the greatest instance of katabasis if it hadn't been for Dante's Inferno.
I can't speak for its use of language, since I can't read Latin. Virgil does showcase a control over structure that isn't present in Homer's works. The allusions to The Iliad and Odyssey into Aeneas's journey makes Aeneas' strife timeless and certainly adds to the themes of the poem.
It's one of the greatest works of art tackling themes of posterity and legacy.
One of my favorite parts of the poem is the meeting between Aeneas and Anchises in Hades.

Stop doing this thread faggot

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The Classics are all crap.

>my favorite part of the Iliad is when the giant horse comes

>buying botnet
https://stallman.org/ebooks.pdf

Is that an imperative? Are you commanding each person on this board to get one? Retroactively? Come on, Bezos, use some subtly in your marketing.

>>9739113
>buy kindle in 2010
>never buy a book from amazon
>never enable network again
I would have expected it to have already died from the almost daily use though