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>>9445183
I haven't read the recognitions or JR, but i'm reading the tunnel now and it's an amazing books. It's horrible. But it's also amazing.

Idk, if you're able to read books like this, you should be able to pick between them as well.

>>9445183
J R is "easier" once the trick clicks. If you've read The Recognitions it will be easy.

>>9445183
first page of The Tunnel has a fucking reference to Tampax being committed to the trash, conveniently, The Tunnel was committed to the trash soon after. J R is absolutely fantastic, and Gaddis is the genius you had always hoped for.

>>9445082
OC

"You've got substance to you, you're healthy and you're wholesome. And that is what's so wonderful about you. That no matter how frail or small you might be, that even if I were strong, I would never be able to hold all that you are in my arms."

>>9445082
"But it turns out our song was futile ,and in vain we burned night in and night out. If we have finished with that old affair, Then those nights have too gone away." -By the Long Road, Russian Folk Song

I've used this one on a few girls. I look at them a lot and they're like what are you looking at? And I say, I enjoy looking at beautiful people

>>9445063
gospel of john is the patricians choice

Can anyone tell what the deal is with the Epistles, I was under the impression that they were divinely inspired, but in second Timothy Paul asks him to grab a cloak that he left behind.

>>9445084
>I was under the impression that they were divinely inspired, but in second Timothy Paul asks him to grab a cloak that he left behind.
how is that mutually exclusive?

>What have you learnt from reading Aristotle?
Nothing, his ideas, just like all greeks, are trite and obvious in modern society. At least Plato wrote a funny Fascist State: A Practical Guide

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>>9444561
even when I try to search and paste his entire works the bot tells me its too many lines...do a search for Aristotle's works and start at the beginning and stop shitting up the board.

>>9444576
>stop shitting up the board

huh?

Sailor is his best, but I'll still say Confessions.

Trick question. If you only wanted to read one Mishima novel, the only thing you should do is kill yourself.

>>9442658
fpbp

Write

fap

Fight

She undressed.

She started to take her clothes off under the sheets. I told her to leave.

>>9439427
Right to the point. Perfect.

This, I won’t share with anyone
Not a soul, not a single living breath will hear it
Because it hurts too much to think about,
To talk about and to feel
What I felt when you had said you loved me.

It was the first time you ever said it
And I had said it many more and meant it
I told you how I never once stopped thinking of you
And how I kept a heart shaped necklace you left
In my bedroom the first night I knew you.

We lost touch, most people do.
You found a guy who liked you too
I saw you at the fairgrounds with him
It hurt like hell, but you were happy then

Months later, after calling your disconnected phone 100 times
I finally figure out a way to contact you, through a mutual friend of mine
I was like a desperado, and you were my Aztec treasure
A friendship that should have never ended, a love without measure

And talk and talk we did, all through the night
Held the phone close and filled our ears with light
Sweet nothings that could only come from two lonely souls
Longing to be together again, a fire anew in the coals

I was looking forward to the day you would come back
We talked forever about that day, and how
In the cover of sheets, we would hold each other again
Discussing at what temperature our hearts would melt together
And leave puddles and stains in the linens

And it never happened. You never came.
I was so distraught, I cursed your name
I gave up on that town, I wouldn’t dare return
Never again, not without you there. Fuck it, let it burn.

So I joined the Navy, and I set my sights high
Told you all about it even though you would sigh
You told me, the day I graduated from that place
That you had a boyfriend, and that you would stay

In Hawaii, so far away, but still I kept
The idea of being together alive
And so I sweated and toiled, spoke daily with you
Until one fateful success, my dreams came true

(1/2)

(2/2)

My worked paid off and I was the top of my class
Picked submarine duty in the off chance
That it would send me to Hawaii to be with you
And thought of all the wonderful things we would do

It was there in my dorm that I told you about
How I kept your heart necklace you had lost around
The first time I traced a heart into your back
And whispered under the sound of the ocean “I love you”

But all things don’t last, and when we finally met again
Under volcano stars and sweaty palm trees
I finally told you, face to face
What you truly meant to me

It was love, it was pure, it was honest
The way our bodies melded in the forest
of desire in that state park honeymoon
the week went past, it was over too soon

But
I was betrayed
Your heart belonged to someone,
Someone who was not me
Somewhere across the sea

Each hour was a trial of fighting back the tears
Of a love that had been nurtured over ten long years
And in the cover of darkness I sped and flew away
To a cliff to see if today was my last day

I climbed over the railing but I couldn’t take the leap
My heart was pounding, but my body was weak
And so I did the only thing that would rid me of you
I took that heart shaped necklace and threw threw threw.

Poop in butt
Live in hut
Hunt shampoo
For clean the poo

>>9438915
>Is Hegel a pseud?

Jesus Christ /lit/ this is embarrassing.

>>9438927
Not an argument.

>>9438927
You cherry picked my first sentence. Did you read the rest? And also have you read Hegel?

>>9438102
We get it, you've tried dmt.

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>>9438102
I just cleaned off this shelf the other day and put all the books lying around my room onto it. How's my taste? Can I get some recs?

>>9438126
Pretty generic but solid starter kit you have there. How's the book on Celts? I have a load but they're mostly rubbish.

>>9438102
Not very /lit/. Your ethnogenic section is a bit hippy-dippy pothead.

I'd fuck her

>>9431012
Not that into asian chicks.

That doe eyed shit bugs me.

Is Taoism a viable way of life or is it a meme?

Like a short glance away kind of break or a lunch break sort of break?

>>9450402
Probably a short lunch break sort of thing, minimum.

>>9450410
Sorry to break it to you buy you're a full on retard my friend

>>9450002

I vaguely remember reading it about 8 years ago. I don't remember it being a particularly hard read - nowhere near as hard as Ulysses, Gravitys Rainbow etc. It was really good, definitely read it

>>9450002
>translations

>>9450002
The book is very thick, but very consuming, so you just devour the text not thinking about the outside world.

>to push social justice propaganda

What you mean by this is you haven't actually read any science fiction or fantasy.
But some writers you heard about were butthurt that they're not more popular and don't win awards and are making up politically charged excuses to rationalise their poor performance, blame others, and justify setting out to high jack a popular vote award because they are petulant man babies.
You have gotten caught up in this because you are easily triggered by the buzzwords of the right and have been spurned into action without thinking or considering their illogical arguments or asking for any evidence

>>9449902
Meanwhile the World Fantasy Award drops the statuette of Lovecraft because he racis

>>9449908
Read his nigger poem

Try to identify with the main character.

>>9449814
can u give me some tips/tricks?

>>9449851
post on /r9k/