WTF was Gunther's problem?
>Siegfried, help me beat Brunhild in the feats of strength! I'll let you marry my sister Kriemhild.
>Siegfried, help me rape Brunhild on my wedding night.
I don't know why Hagen even feels the need to protect Gunther's honor by killing Siegfried. It must suck being vassal to such a worthless cuck.
What's your issue, exactly?
>>9399876
Why is Gunther king? He's less competent than either Siegfried or Hagen. Good men die because Hagen doesn't have any business being in charge.
>>9399922
What mechanism do you think was in place in those days for the change of leadership? With that knowledge, do you better understand why Gunther was king?
In simpler terms, how do you propose Gunther is replaced as king? What would this take?
How do you read short story collections /lit/? How many stories do you think proper to read in one day? Do you read a collection of short stories and poems alongside a larger non-fiction read? etc.
I have >OCD and often feel worried about hampering my reading experience or retention by reading the "wrong" way
One a day from any volume. If it's Borges, reread it, because it's even better the second time. The most important thing is to read a short story in one sitting.
This is alongside any novel.
>>9399726
That seems like a good way of doing it. Thanks anon. Sometimes I read a few of Maupassant's shorter stories alongside each other but I found I enjoyed them much more if I took them in solitarily each day
I got these books in the mail during the past days, please rate and share your most recent purchases.
Also, which would you read first?
Fante is an ok writer but who the fuck wants to read "selected letters" of his, he's not Vladimir Lenin or something
Carson McCullers. Compiled short stories are the best because even if you don't like one usually there is at least one you like. Also McCullers is great.
>>9399678
Me since I already read all his novels and I'm interested in his life.
No "red-pill" bullshit please, though.
Raul Hilberg is still universeally acknowledged as the standard, magisterial history of the Nazi holocaust. It's a groundbreaking, painstaking, and unsurpassable piece of scholarship.
After you read Hilberg, read Norman Finkelstein's book, The Holocaust Industry, which Hilberg vigorously praised. It's about the appropriation of the Nazi holocaust for profit and the manipulation of public opinion. Finkelstein and Hilberg were close friends.
>>9399658
your unparalleled wisdom and infallible logic has made a believer out of me. hallelujah.
>>9399694
i'm just saying jews have "critical studied" everything to death except ONE thing hmmm
sup /lit/, what do you think of my nonfiction collection? Could you recommend any other similar works?
stop posting
oh god you just triggered flashbacks to my undegrad majoring in history, not that i read any of those specifically for a class and chomsky and chalmers are pretty dank, but just big piles of unread "investigative journalism" about recent "atrocities" puts me right back in senior seminar *involuntary shudder*
>>9399586
Thucydides, good
>Chomsky. LOL.
the rest I either haven't heard of or is trash.
Read the bible.
Red-pilled books?
Discuss.
>>9399242
Jude the Obscure
The Comforters was written coming down from dexedrine psychosis.
Graham Greene wrote mostly on red pills.
I just finished this book. Anyone wanna talk about it? Can't find any discussions elsewhere.
>>9399142
Sure, tell us about it.
meh
it's a fun read but it's all pretty surface level. what is left to discuss?
I was gonna meet Paul Auster at a reading but I found out the day before I had a midterm at the same time so unfortunately I've never met him.
If all the great philsophers of all time sat together at a round-table and discussed philosophy ad infinitum, would they solve the problems of humanity?
>>9399103
No because there is no solution to mankind, just its existence
It would evolve into a massive homoerotic orgy t b h
>>9399103
No because there would always be that one faggot who will insist he is more meta than others and that they're just deluded in his meta framework.
What's scarier? A villain who is evil because of their mental disorders, or a villain who is pretty much totally sane and is evil for reasons unknown (alternatively their reason could be something like "wanting to leave a legacy, be it positive or negative," or even shits-and-giggles)?
>story has a villain
the good/bad dichotomy does not belong in literature. go back to your comics and cartoons board, brainlet
>>9399131
>contrasting characters don't belong in REAL literature!
>classic epics? What are those?
Not everything in the world is a paper on theoretical physics, pal. And if you're gonna call me a "brainlet," then at least properly capitalize and punctuate your sentences.
>>9399321
>he believes the ability to use punctuation makes him smart
How come the Ancient Greeks were so brilliant while the rest of the other ancient civilizations were so stupid? I mean it's like suddenly they invented everything that would be used forever by mankind
>>9399097
>Greek flag
The Ancient Greeks were the Hellenics, and they all left. Modern Greeks are the cowardly, mud-brained trash without the wherewithal to leave their goats or make anything of themselves.
>>9399097
The "Greek Miracle" narrative is a false one.
I'm 50 pages in; when does he get good? He's boring and writes long winded passages like a cavern and its arteries.
>>9399044
>when does he get good?
last chapter
Reading is not for you.
>>9399044
>when does he get good?
When he asks you to call him Ishmael
Why did Nietzsche dislike stoicism?
Because he was intelligent.
It represented the most convincing argument against his life-affirming philosophy, so he confronted it directly. He wanted to try his ideas by fire, and so he pitted them against the most admirable opponents he could find. The same applies to Schopenhauer and, by extension, the Buddhists.
did nietzche only wrote about being cool dude or was one also? did he practice what he preach?
Would someone be able to recommend me good novels with significant amounts of scat in them besides the 120 days of sodom or gravity's rainbow?
>>9398959
>>9399227
Very nice screen saver anon.
Justine by De Sade
Let's say I've done the whole Plato to Nietzsche thing.
Where the hell do I start with analytic and contemporary Anglo philosophy?
Are there any books explaining their methods and assumptions?
Have you read Hume, Locke and Berkeley?
>>9398940
>Hume
Yup
>Locke
Yup
>Berkeley
No
>>9398941
That's probably fine. Assuming you've covered everyone really major through Hegel, you could pick up a Frege reader
I want to be a good person but I haven't made up my mind up as to what that entails exactly.
What do you recommend I read to make up my mind on this?
The Bible
The Summa
Augustine
>>9399412
He said a good person, not a delusional bigot.
>>9399418
Looks like you've got your own ideas already.
If you don't give any indication of your bent, don't act surprised when the recommendations aren't to your liking.