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Leatherbound or turtlback

>>9672212

Paperback. More accessible.

Do you feel it? It feels like justice. Simply knowing that I've dragged you all down with me. How nice it must be to be down here in the dirt, yes?

The nice crisp feel of a rung of pages against the spine of a paperback volume.

Ebook

let's do middle 3, just for a goddamn change

>>9672229
kek

>>9672202
Tao Te Ching
I Ching
Dr. No

>>9672162
White Nights

Love stories are just going to make you feel more bitter and envious.

>>9672162
Tristan and Iseult

desu

Most american novels from the 20s onwards

>>9672123
Das Kapital

i feel pitty for all
you women who
got raped
,
but because I was raped too otherwise
I wouldn't give a fuck if you
were raped
Rape is the only
bad thing that can happen in
this
world
there aren't less bad or
more bad.
thus men should be happy
because they can't
be raped although they have the
loophole
poophole

The tiger
He destroyed his cage
Yes
YES
The tiger is out

This is probably the only poem I know by heart lol

>>9672251

unironically good.

>>9672075
I think it's just Stephen being an asshole as usual and deliberately telling a shaggy dog story. The same way as that stupid riddle he asks the classroom earlier about the fox, which clearly no one could answer with the information given and which barely makes sense.

>They bundled their books away, pencils clacking, pages rustling. Crowding together they strapped and buckled their satchels, all gabbling gaily:
—A riddle, sir? Ask me, sir.
—O, ask me, sir.
—A hard one, sir.
—This is the riddle, Stephen said:
>The cock crew,
>The sky was blue:
>The bells in heaven
>Were striking eleven.
>‘Tis time for this poor soul
>To go to heaven.
>What is that?
—What, sir?
—Again, sir. We didn’t hear.
>Their eyes grew bigger as the lines were repeated. After a silence Cochrane said:
—What is it, sir? We give it up.
>Stephen, his throat itching, answered:
—The fox burying his grandmother under a hollybush.
>He stood up and gave a shout of nervous laughter to which their cries echoed dismay.

Also the allusion to Moses's sight of the Promised Land (which he could not actually attain) probably has some important meaning, since Bloom is supposed to be Moses, and in this very chapter there's a melodramatic speech read comparing the dispossessed Irish ruled cruelly by the British to the Jews escaping Egypt. Ireland is the Promised Land and Bloom is Moses overseeing it on Mount Pisgah, just like the ladies overlook Dublin from the top of Nelson's Pillar. The fact that Bloom/Moses can see the Promised Land but not possess it is probably a cruel/lewd Joycean joke about how Bloom is being cuckolded by Blazes Boylan and serves as a cuckold figure, just like Moses is almost cuckolded by seeing but not being able to cross over into the Promised Land, although told his descendants will possess it, and, finally, perhaps a meta-joke about how we, as readers, get to watch the parable itself from a privileged viewpoint but not understand (cross over) into it, or have a satisfying ending of actually "inhabiting" it.

dunno, very dull book most of the time

i know that its referenced again in the shakespeare episode so that may be a clue but aside from that i have no idea

>>9672155
>after all that analysis
>"very dull book"

Appears to be no race conscious people on /lit/.

C'est le grand prix - Benoit Balls
>>9672168
If only.

>>9672013
The question you just asked is one of philosophy. Nice job with that paradox, cuck.

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>>9672013
welcome to the water

bizarro wittgenstein says, let the fish out of the coke bottle

so that the fish...dies

bizarro wittgenstein was a weird guy like that

good, read the Fitzgerald translation instead

b-ok.org

or you could go to the library like a normal person.

>>9667955
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>>9671781
I reckon it's a form of grief and holding on to the idea that there is life after death, so basically
>feels

worshiping the descendants would be weird af and besides those little fucks are spoiled enough as it is

>>9671781
Remembering a man was considered a way of him being immortal. The rise of Christianity mostly eliminated this concept from the western mind, so it's understandable why it's so absurd to think of. Although, I suppose with the rise of Jungian psychology, memory may very well be a means of achieving immortality.

this one's okay, hopefully /lit/ will recommend other ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0MUurcsVLs

>>9671773
>video
>>>/v/
>>>/tv/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNz43C5MskM&t=

If you have to ask on 4chan: No.

No it's pretty boring.
If anyone disagrees, I'd love for you to tell me what you got out of it. Of course no one will answer because everyone else here is a fucking moron.

You can could get something out of it if you wanted, but it would be 90% you. If you want to learn about life and spirituality, then think and write about it. Smoke weed for inspo.

>>9671729
It's a good introduction into the occult and hermeticism, but it doesn't explain in depth enough to be super good. You're better off reading the Kybalion as a beginners text, and then hitch hiking on Theosophy or an Eastern Religion until you can walk on your own two feet.

Many files in my folder
Choose the smug green frog
Graciously receive four (You)s

Wind whispering
In the bushes of sakura
OP is a faggot

>>9671787
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>>9671670
Sorry I don't read that much haha

>>9671670

Because the Nobel prize is a sham insofar as it relates to things which are not hard sciences.

I once read The Dwarf by Lagerkvist while in high school. SUCKED. BORING. HATED IT. Another literature laureate: Bob Dylan.

Peace laureates include Henry Kissinger, Arafat, Israeli prime ministers, and Obama for no other reason than that Europe wanted to celebrate that Bush was gone and oh maybe you Americans aren't completely stupid after all (this was before Obama had actually done anything while in office).

Even if we take literary laureates' work on their own merits, a central condition of a laureates' work is that it should be humane, humanist, uplifting. In other words, it is obliged to be dishonest.

The Nobel Prize is a sham.

>>9671670
but i have

It's about nazis with cannibal fetishes

Pretty bad, desu. If you're over 18, trying reading something other than YA.

>>9671682
lol it's not meant to be taken seriously