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>>9649368
nobody knows if he even existed, as his grave or remnants have not been found. Probably a myth just like Socrates.

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>>9649376
Kek wut

>>9649368
BOSWORTH

>>9649344
Brother! Please, I beg of you! See me with your eyes. Do you not see the face of your beloved brother who has always been by your side? Listen to my words, my plea! Don't you remember the days we spent frolicking in the mud and eating our oats together as companions? Don't you remember when he huddled for warmth in the cold, harsh winters? Don't you remember when I shared my oats with you? Don't you remember when I comforted you? Don't you remember the love I showered you with every day, every week, every month and every year of our shared lives? How could you forget me brother? Have you really doomed me to this meaningless existence, so vapid and empty? Is there truly no remorse left in you? I ask you, please, remember just one thing at least. It could be anything, it could be the most meaningless moment of your life, but so long as it is a memory of the time when we were once brothers I would feel a great relief. Could you do that at least? I do not require oats anymore, you may have all the oats you want for the rest of your life and I will happily starve to death in my dark corner, so long as you remember anything. Please brother, how many times must I ask you with no result? Do you wish me to waste my life away? Did you never love me at all brother? Did you despise me so much that you wished to imprison me to this hellish, inescapable reality? Grant me mercy brother, and tell me. Why have you done this? Was it really just the oats? Or was it something deeper, more vile and more cruel, something worse than gluttony and greed? What was it, brother, that tore you away from me?

>>9649344
This is the most patrician meme.

>>9649270
This a dumb meme.

>>9649276
Too much subtext and critical thought required for you, huh?

I googled this and it is actually only on 4chan.

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>>9649167
Yes. Start with Hard to be a God.

Definitely. I doubt most of /lit/ has read them though

>>9649190
Yeah, I've definitely never seen them mentioned. I've been interested in their work ever since I saw Tarkovsky's Stalker, so I was looking to get into their work.

>ask for a book
>gf goes and get a book called exactly what anon asks for
>asks if he should break up with her

Get your elitist ass off your high horse, she went out of her way to get you what you asked for. Even if she got it wrong she still tried to make you happy. Maybe she should break up with you.

KILL HER

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>>9649166
>Literally judging a book by its cover.

Here's to hoping they used a better word than "spook".

>>9649101
the epub has some pictures between the text... it doesn't look right

>>9649101

choked on my own bile reading the translator's introduction. how utterly petulant.

he talks like a fag and his shit's all retarded

>>9649096

What's his argument?

god

>>9649071
>over a year
I could eat that in a day if I wanted to. Or even an hour.

>>9649077
Thats why you're fat you cunt

>>9649079
I'm acutally lanky and almost malnourished.

>>9649019
Hahaha no that doesn't even have sense.

>>9649019
No, but we absolutely must act as if they are.

>>9649022

Go in depth

>>9649002
Idk I honestly liked The Wanderer best of his novels. I don't understand the themes of GoTS beyond a fervent anti-psychology

>>9649034
Anti-psychology? Would you mind expanding on that? I'll have to check out The Wanderer, as I already enjoyed GotS quite a bit.

>>9649034
>fervent anti-psychology
Sorry what

>>9648938
You have to look past the exterior.

>>9648938
greatest italian poet of 900, inventor of fascism, conqueror of istria, fucked thousand women. Not bad for a manlet

>>9648938
Nice dick, whoever he is.

>>9648889
euphemism

>>9648958
I'm going to vomit

>>9648822
I hope it's not naive to expect replies on a non-meme thread.

>>9648822

What a horrific book cover.

read the fucking sticky you congenital menstrual waste of a human being.
http://b-ok.org/dl/2647028/e19f69

>>9648912
p sure that's the point. it fits the mood well

This board still slow as fuck then.

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>at the local Barnes and Noble
>(No I'm not shopping there, I have a _library_ you cretin. I'm visiting a friend who works there.)
>something about the atmosphere makes me feel dirty, I go clean my hands in the washroom
>on my way out I bump into a girl wearing bright teal American Apparel stockings and inordinate amounts of 'flair'
>Oh wow heyyy~ cute stuff. You look like the literary type!
>Uhrm I-
>Hey! Look at this; I'm about to sneak into the bathroom and steal it.
>she uses both her hands to hold up a copy Middlesex, with an even sillier, helvetica-laden, jacket than the last edition I recall
>Haha I mean I'm not transgendered or anything but uh, I have friends who are right? And you know it's way cooler than any dead Russian- Who do you read? Shteyngart? Obreht?
>I really have to be going...
>Oh, okay here let me give you my number. She reaches to tear a page out of the Eugenides
>while off-guard I grab her head with both of my hands and slam it against the washroom hallway border, solidly, several times
>as she collapses to the floor with a moan I casually walk out of the store, nobody has really noticed

Pic related. It's what she looked like only prettier and less slutty.

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>>9648810

It is too late to ketchup

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And despite how normie it is, A Streetcar Named Desire is a masterpiece, and you cannot prove me wrong on that.

I really like the dramatic works of Lorca. Also I would recommend the films of Bergman as they are dramatic works in their own right.

>>9648823
Well Bergman was, as well as a filmmaker, a theatre director - so that doesn't surprise me. His films have a lot of theatrical strains in them too, such as the troupe in The Seventh Seal and the Christmas party in Fanny & Alexander.