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>read chapter called "Alyosha" in the brothers Karamazov
>starts with fedoras and christfags fretting over whether what a holy man's dead body having a smell means
>rakitin randomly invites Alyosha to grushenka's house
>rakitin is a beta orbiter for grushenka, a mistress and attention whore
>grushenka sits on Alyosha's lap and presumably Alyosha is a naive and innocent Chad
>they talk for a bit and grushenka goes from flirty to hysterically attention whorish
Damn... How profound! Psychological and philisopical insights everywhere!
I'm half convinced that the awkward formality of Russian translated faithfully to English adds a lot of pretension. A lot of what Dostoevsky writes is unbelievably petty. You may think that he is "Incredibly Deep Literature" but he did not take the royal road in to that territory.
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>wealth Russian narcissist spends unlimited free time writing lengthy "look at me" novels intended to earn money for gambling and social status to "fuck" PTAP
You got played. Don't read books by rich people.
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>>9363202
not enjoying that chapter and its absurdity in todays world. pleb please also Grushenka is not a whore if that is the impression you got you are wrong
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>he's so desperate he resorts to blatantly bumping his shitty underage bait
Consider suicide, my mang.
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/fit/ <3 /lit/
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We qt girl now
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ok?
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Who the fuck is the girl in the last half? Where did she come from? Why does she occupy half the strip?
What a lazy disgrace. Did NOT save.
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>"Have you ever done this before?" he whispered.
>"Never," answered Hatsue. "You're my only."
>The head of his penis found the place it wanted. For a moment he waited there, poised, and kissed her—he took her lower lip between his lips and gently held it there. Then with his hands he pulled her to him and at the same time entered her so that she felt his scrotum slap against her skin. Her entire body felt the rightness of it, her entire body was seized to it. Hatsue arched her shoulder blades—her breasts pressed themselves against his chest—and a slow shudder ran through her.
>"It's right," she remembered whispering. "It feels so right, Kabuo."
>"Tadaima aware ga wakatta," he had answered. "I understand just now the deepest beauty."
ITT bad sex
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>>9363168
fucking hot
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>>9363168
>stock "depth" polysemy
Boooooooring
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>>9363168
>Then with his hands he pulled her to him and at the same time entered her so that she felt his scrotum slap against her skin.
What the fuck?
Did he just torpedo straight into her? That sounds incredibly uncomfortable.
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Why haven't YOU read the Bible yet, anon?
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i will one day
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>>9363103
Stop procrastinating, faggot.
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>>9363100
Genesis always makes me snoozy and never get past it. Anyone else have this problem?
Women can't wr-
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-ite
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>>9363081
-n't
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-estle
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>dad's book has a higher goodreads score than mine
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>He doesnt choose random titles with 0 downloads from Project Gutenberg that have literally never been read by anyone
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>>9363049
is that what the Bogs did to become so enlightened?
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>>9363049
QUICK
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Hey friendoes, where should l start wirh Kafka?
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>>9362704
With his first book like you would any writer
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>>9362704
at plato - euthyphro
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Metamorphosis - Trial - Castle
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Has anyone on /lit/ read Jean Paul? Which of his works would you recommend?
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>>9362426
>Has anyone on /lit/ read
Doubtful.
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I sometimes wish /lit/ wasn't too plebtastic to read more of pic related but then I remember what /lit/ is actually like and him being underread makes me glad after all.
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>>9362437
>Glassy-eyed automatons. I'm the only one who actually READS!
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Novels that deal with the problems of secularisation and liberalism? Nature abhors a vacuum and all that
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Is this the book where he imagines Muslims taking over France in about a day?
And his girlfriend licks his anus?
Tedious book, really childish as well.
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>>9362404
I understand that would be the impression, but its more than that.
Houellebecq comes across largely as an atheist who is ambivalent about Islam. On the one hand, he dislikes its lack of liberty; on the another he welcomes it as a necessary filler for a vacuousity of secular life.
Yes, there's arse-licking. But there's also wandering around dilapidated Christian monuments, pining for something lost.
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>>9362393
as far as contemporaries go, knausgaard is actually a really excellent writer on this topic. also if you like philosophy/theory then you have to read weber/benjamin/adorno. and for older stuff there are many many french dudes including baudelaire, rousseau, balzac etc. (and of course houellebecq's beloved huysmans)
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>Speaking of Spinoza he [Nietzsche] says: "How much of personal timidity and vulnerability does this masquerade of a sickly recluse betray!" Exactly the same may be said of him, with the less reluctance since he has not hesitated to say it of Spinoza. It is obvious that in his day-dreams he is a warrior, not a professor; all the men he admires were military. His opinion of women, like every man's, is an objectification of his own emotion towards them, which is obviously one of fear. "[Thou goest to woman?] Forget not thy whip"—but nine women out of ten would get the whip away from him, and he knew it, so he kept away from women, and soothed his wounded vanity with unkind remarks.
>It does not occur to Nietzsche as possible that a man should genuinely feel universal love, obviously because he himself feels almost universal hatred and fear, which he would fain disguise as lordly indifference. His "noble" man—who is himself in day-dreams—is a being wholly devoid of sympathy, ruthless, cunning, cruel, concerned only with his own power. King Lear, on the verge of madness, says: "I will do such things—What they are yet I know not—but they shall be The terror of the earth." This is Nietzsche's philosophy in a nutshell.
Why did people continue to take him so seriously after Russell BTFO him so hard?
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Because Russell is only taken seriously by babbies who are in their first foray into philosophy.
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>>9362377
Russell is the perfect example of why Anglo-Saxons should be kept as far away as possible from philosophy.
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What are some books on the topic of suicide and resignation, or written by authors that were suicidal at the time?
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P.S.: The only know that I know that mainly deals with these themes for certain is Steppenwolf
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“I dreamed vaguely of killing myself to wipe out at least one of these superfluous lives. But even my death would have been In the way. In the way, my corpse, my blood on these stones, between these plants, at the back of this smiling garden. And the decomposed flesh would have been In the way in the earth which would receive my bones, at last, cleaned, stripped, peeled, proper and clean as teeth, it would have been In the way: I was In the way for eternity.”
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edouard leve - suicide
most of kleist
most of cioran
beckett's trilogy (pretty much)
minima moralia (pretty much)
and goethe - sorrows of young werther and durkheim - suicide if you're some kind of nerd
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Any good arguments against the use of the oxford comma? I don't really care all that much, but I want to trigger the hipsters.
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>>9362211
Unrelated but wow Brooke Shields I'm in love
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>>9362225
>Unrelated but wow Brooke Shields I'm in love
Thanks, friendo. She's my perfect 10/10, but only in Endless Love.
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>>9362230
True but she's also beautiful in pretty baby
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What books should I read? Are these worth reading or should I start with something else?
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>>9362099
There is a meme you should start with greeks. I think the most important question is what do you want to achive?
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>reading
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>>9362099
What do you want to read? What have you already read? What do you see as worth your time?
do you write notes in your books?
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To regret it not long after the fact.
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>>9362018
I write my notes in notebooks. There is no need to molest books.
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>>9362040
the patrician's answer
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I've literally found the new Catcher and The Rye.
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>>9361985
What is it I wanna read it
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9362011
It's a local author, he gave the book to me. Just thought I'd share the absurdity. I don't want him getting harassed or something. Haha
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>>9362070
Scan the pages and compile a pdf but block out his name or something
If it's as good as catcher we'd like to read it