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Dostoevsky

In terms of quality of production times size, Lope de Vega for both.

William Peter Blatty

What are the symbols below Harry Potter?

>>9229247
archive of our own
fanfiction dot net
wattpad

>>9229248
If you want to meme, maybe don't use shit nobody cares about.

friendly reminder that no, it's actually shit

It is the word of God.

>Put together
Nice pun.

>>9229129
they are trying to emulate americans

>>9229129
Russia has always been an at best semi civilised backwater full of idiot bydlo, but like any other country you find a few smart people here and there

Why would you say that, fampai?

That's quite a bizarre reading list

Are you interested in philosophy or literature?

>>9229123

Literature, but since I'm not classically educated, I tried getting into philosophy.

why did u expect reading some pagans in robes would help you understand 20th century economic texts? you are definitely a brainlet but probably not for the reasons u think

Poe, Lovecraft, Borges, Umberto Eco, that's all I got.

If on a Winters night a traveler (Calvino)
Borges and the eternal orangutans (Verissimo - this one is not that good)
Too loud a solitude (this one is really good)

>>9229175
First time I hear about Verissimo, sounds good.

>>9229039
nice essay you wrote there Anon

I need help with this too btw

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>>9229039
I know the feeling, ive been hunting for books on the topic but ive just come to accept i probably just have ADD or assburgers

>>/his/

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>>9228889

Oh shit, I forgot about them. They would probably way more helpful than this plebeian circlejerk, anyway.

Peter Godwin - When a crocodile eats the sun

>>9228868
4F

4-FA fo sho

Write sober you fucking junkie.

>>9228842
Brave New World

>>9228844
I've heard about this one.
How dry is it with respect to 1984?

I've also enjoyed Waiting for Godot and Slaughterhouse Five. The Great Gatsby was nice too.

If the subject never exists, then it's not going to experience the good and the not bad.

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Sweet reminder that this way of thinking measures the value of things according to pleasure and pain, which is to say according to incidental states and trivialities. A foreground way of thinking and naivety, and nobody who is conscious of both formative powers and an artist’s conscience will fail to regard it with scorn as well as pity.

In human beings, creature and creator are combined: in humans there is material, fragments, abundance, clay, dirt, nonsense, chaos; but in humans there is also creator, maker, hammer-hardness, spectator-divinity and seventh day: – do you understand this contrast? And that your pity is aimed at the “creature in humans,” at what needs to be molded, broken, forged, torn, burnt, seared and purified, – at what necessarily needs to suffer and should suffer?

It is hilarious how the natalists try to argue with the antinatalists, the latter of whom are like an enemy in the middle of war threatening to commit suicide. It's not just the antinatalists who shouldn't reproduce, then, but even many of the natalists, such as for instance all those who try to argue with the antinatalists.

The successive decline of religion, nationalism, sanctity of blood ties and institution of marriage, have created the Individual — unknown to lower cultures or earlier phases of the master race's culture — who is, like all advances, something of a double-edged sword, which many use to advance and improve their lives (or, more correctly: the future of their genes), but which others flail about and cut themselves with. So on the one hand the individual no longer feels a responsibility towards his gods, nation, tribe or family to reproduce, because these are outdated, marginalized institutions — and JUSTLY marginalized (since their era has passed precisely because the culture has advanced beyond them) — that no longer hold any authority over anyone but a minority of backwards losers, but on the other hand, the philosophy that is destined to replace them — that of the Overman and the Eternal Recurrence — has not yet had sufficient time to take hold and lend reproduction a new meaning — a stronger and more glorious meaning than it has ever had! — and as a consequence the meaning of reproduction in the general culture is currently lacking to such a degree that — for the first time in history — a growing number of degenerates are even campaigning for its destruction (anti-natalism). As a result of all this the majority of the population seems to have turned over completely to hedonism, and the last thing on their minds is to undertake the laborious task of propagating themselves — which is of course a good thing, because in this way the hedonists are removing their failed genes and gene configurations from our gene pool.

>>9228959
You serious my man? Should I respond?

I seriously hope you started with the Greeks

There was a good thread about it just a few days ago

https://warosu.org/lit/thread/9195662

>>9228800
Meme or not yes I've read a lot from the Greeks
>>9228802
Thanks I'll check that out

Also by prior knowledge I meant about him or any sort of influences/context that could help me with the book

are you talking about something you're writing? i don't think work is ever lost. even if you toss it all away and stsrt from scratch, you learned a lot from it and know better what you want and what to avoid, etc. the first drafts might be shit, but they are never lost effort.

>>9228781

Yes. I've been working on what I like to think might become a novel or novella for almost 18 months now, and I got about a hundred pages done. Now I know that quantity is not a good indicator of whether or not something is good.
Thing is, though, while I like large parts of the prose and narrative, I also lose faith in the plot.

>>9228781
>>9228803
it's been 10 years for me

>>9228754
>>the key to happiness is excellence
>>except if you're ugly and have no gf, then your life is shit
Was he wrong?

>>9228762
he wasn't. but tfnogf's can't cope with that and try to turn it into a ((look at this bullshit)) greentext

>>9228772
The point was that he contradicted himself.

Also, a philosopher should convince you that philosophy is the way to go, why else would you read him? Just look at Plato or Nietzsche.

>>9228740
I have only seen the movie adaptation of The woman in the dunes. Is the book much different?

I'd say this is his best, The Box Man second.

>>9228777
It's a very close adaptation, don't remember any big changes.

>>9228740
Face of Another is pretty based