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>>9452094
Loren Eisley. Begin with The Night Country.

I've been really looking for some good essay collections.
I recently read a Lester Bangs collection, and damn that was fun to read. His influence on DFW is apparent.

Tanizaki: In Praise of Shadows

Parfit is totally devoid of math and a lot of contys like him but he's still totally proved by the analytics. Start with Reasons and Persons

>>9451958
This has to be bait.

>>9451958
reddit

I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world. (Matthew 13:35)

>>9451598
Oh, I forgot to say why!

Well, as I see it it talks about wisdom as grief, not only it is a widely debated concept, but I can see that it says a lot about Salomon. He was burdened that the knowledge he acquired about people and their ways. Perhaps, in this moment he arrived to the conclussion that ignorance is indeed bliss. That you cannot educate every single human being, and trying is futile. Thus, he was overwhelmed by the feeling that Israel would never be the chosen people, that the day will come when they will fail. And maybe, he thought that it would have been better not to know this.

>>9451074
New Testament is the key to open the Old Testament. Both are multilayered.

My recommendation
>Genesis - Exodus - Enoch (be sure it is the Ethiopian) - Mark
>Wisdom - Psalms
>Exodus - Joshua - Samuel - Daniel - Luke - Acts
>Genesis - Enoch - Samuel - Daniel - Jeremiah - Isaiah - Matthew - Letters
>Genesis - Wisdom - Psalms - Jonah - Job - John - Revelation

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>>9451074
When you read the New Testament be sure to read pic related

http://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-145
http://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-152

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>>9450905

>>9450905
Isn't that the wrong way around? It could be a circle, too.

>>9450905
who is the 3rd guy and why did you intend to bait us with him OP

>>9450653
You should have paid attention in high school you dip

>>9450669
Nice meme.

Please!

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Currently reading. I love the narrative, statistics, economics, and analysis.

Any other books dealing with economics or sociopolitical issues that are as captivating? I'm an economist so I love stuff like this.

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>>9449160
I think you'd like this. thomas sowell is one of my favorites

Public parks.

>>9448994

And how do you propose you'll hide all this for... another 2 years?

>>9448994
They call them libraries.

something though provoking in one sentence.

>>9448781
What if sharks had tentacles for teeth?

Male virginity is a social construct.

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Enjoy Evan

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I'll see you in hell, Jeremy

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Maybe if you reread it you would realize how shit it is, Sean

I didn't understand it and required an Anon to explain, so as far as Slothrop's dick: as a baby he was experimented on to see if he could be conditioned to get an erection when in the presence of a specific plastic (later used in the missiles in WW2), then afterward the scientist tried to deconditioning but decreased it "beyond the zero" into the negatives, so he would get an erection BEFORE the plastic was present.
Did you get the deconditioning part? Maybe I'm retarded.

But yeah at the end it just stops talking about Slothrop.

I forget who Gottfried even is.

>>9443977
>and what was up with his dick predicting
come on there's a whole chapter about how that's not the case
(and that's besides the parts about imipolex conditioning as a baby and imipolex being in the rockets and the pavlovian beyond-the-zero ultra-paradoxical reflex)

>>9443997
not OP but he was Blicero's gimp

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>>9456379
funny pepe :) any recommendation though?

>>9456370
>>>/tg/

Shadows of the Colossus manages to attain a level of aesthetic most writers only dream of

Planescape Torment
>>9456140
Kojima is a hack.
The only /lit/ approved MGS is MGS2.

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>>9456182
>Forgetting the best Metal Gear game

It's here every day

It's being memed ferociously lately; by you, for example.

There was a good thread about it a couple days ago. It's less well known in the US but I see it quite frequently here in Europe.

The trick I've found is to read it in short blasts -- which works because the chapters are short. Probably deserves a fresh translation. I have the Knopf version and would like to see something by Everyman's fantastic Magic Mountain translation by Woods.

Romanticism.

>>9455758
Phillip Larkin

>>9455758
is autopsy the best band ever?