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what's scribd. bro?

there's this russian site called bookzz
it's pretty good

Can't pirate the physical book so I don't relly care.

>science fiction and fantasy general
>fantasy goes before science fiction in the imgur links

triggering my ocd desu

>>9277698
>penis escaping the bottomless vagina.jpg

>>9277803
there was certainly that subtext if you knew how to look
>Rorshach is feminine essence, a labyrinth, destructive without even being self-aware, a large hairy egg
>Theseus, get it? is male essence, a long bendy tube injecting little agents into the egg, attempting to gather its secrets
>driven wild with lust, Theseus drops a bomb and returns home

I've not read it, nor seen it discussed on /lit/. Perhaps you should read multiple translations, and tell us what the best one is?
You could be one of the contributors to the as-yet nonexistent /lit/ Indian literature chart.

>>9278840
That sounds neat. I'll keep it in mind.

There are two versions you want Valmiki or Shastri.
Valmiki is online, you can look for a print if you want. Shastri is public domain.

http://valmikiramayan.net/index.html
http://ia800500.us.archive.org/13/items/The.Ramayana.of.Valmiki.by.Hari.Prasad.Shastri/The.Ramayana.of.Valmiki.by.Hari.Prasad.Shastri.pdf

Valmiki's narration was in Sanskrit and contained the full info. But in Kaliyug not many have Sanskrit knowledge so Rishi Valmiki reincarnated as Tulsidas-Ji and wrote Ramcharitramanas in Awdhi Hindi language. All other translations are the same as Valmiki's, except it's translation and explanation is different just as there is only 1 Bhagavad Gita but different Vedic scholars interpret it differently just so that the masses may understand better. The meanings never change.

>>9277490
Its a good childrens book assuming you do not read the sequels or look into the authors personal beliefs. It makes intelligence and success of children a lauded goal, and treats children as real human beings. I loved it when I was 11. Recently I tried to reread it (at 32), it did not stand up. It is YA, but in the 80s style of giving kids more credit than maybe they deserve.

>>9277501
Yeah the sequels were a bit more pseudo philosophical.

What a terrible cover lmao

I don't like them, but am interested in evolutionary biology. If that is your thing look up Tim Low "Where song began".

To Kill a Mockingbird

Birds are based

Plenty if you allow song-writers to be called poets.

Infact too many to name in a single post for me if you allow that

good ones?

here are some i have read:

Ben Lerner
Ocean Vuong
John Ashbery
Ron Silliman

rupi kaur

It was just a linguistic turn

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>>9277405
Scientific method & science killed philosophy.

I guess it could devolve into useless metaphilosophy about philosophy but that's of little to no worth to people not invested heavily in philosophy.

>>9277405
Philosophy as a means of finding objective truth has been replaced by science.

All other aspects of philosophy are fine, it's just that no one gives a shit about them.

>>9277358
paul is dead dude

>>9277358
Wasn't there once some conspiracy that Pynchon was posting on 4chan? Anyone got pics?

>>9278720
BREAKSPEARE

Well, being a baby is kind of interesting for him

>>9277400

>He doesn't find poop and anal eroticism endlessly fascinating

Here's a hint: there is one particular thing that the greatest geniuses of different fields all share.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C78HBp-Youk

>>9277400
so, tell us about your repressed homosexual drives

>>9277149
Then get to it.

>>9277172

I can't. I am addicted to the internet, and so have no time for reading or writing. Besides, even if I do get around to writing, what I write will be bad.

>>9277185

You can write your headstone right now.

>Here lies anon, whose dreams were thwarted by internet, anime and rampant pornography abuse

Just imagine your life ten years down the line, and the only thing that has changed is the size of your gut and your hairline, you're still on 4chan, still regurgitating stale memes, justifying your internet use to yourself with reference to the one real laugh you get out of this place a week, still just existing at the exact level of complacency that keeps you incapable of change but with your soul in perpetual anguish.

>>9277072
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Father

The Aeneid

>>9277072
The Holy Bible

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>>9277313
Dump your spiciest faith memes here

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>this kills the fedoralord

Do not despair, one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume, one of the thieves was damned.

Thanks for another bad thread.

>>9277035
>Dispelling one of society's biggest and ugliest ideological flaws is bad

Okay, guy.

>>9277034
>does the only thing that matters in this shitty fucking existence is your own "happiness"
Yes. You can rationalize your misery with as many spooks as you like. Nobody gives a shit really.

>>9277019
Mindfulness in Plain

>>9277073
English

>>9277019
conspriracy against hter humen race

At Swim Two Birds
The Third Policeman

Both great funny books. I read a collection of his newspaper columns too. They were fun but not as good as the novels.

I haven't read The Dalkey Archive of The Poor Mouth, so I don't know about them.

>>9277025
Thanks! I was thinking At Swim. Put off a bit by the concept (gimmicky?), but intrigued. Glad to hear it's funny.

>>9277037
It is very meta and took me a little while to get into but there's genuinely funny stuff in there. So yes it is gimmicky but it's still fun.