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>>9223860
no but it seems interesting

>>9223860
I wish I had. I bought a few books, but haven'gotten around to it. What can you tell me about him?

>It's bedtime reading for borderline megalomaniacs

lol

>the individual should not surrender the fruit of his work to the people trying to mooch off of the labor of others
>lol but only, like, if you´re, like a smart entrepreneur all the gross poor people should totally work for you

was she just a communist in denial?

I like the Christopher Hitchens take on it:

>Perhaps Ayn (rhymes with "mine") Rand's appeal has something to do with the infrastructure, the climate, the educated workforce, and -- let's admit it -- the suffocatingly liberal politics of the Bay Area. It may also have to do with an ineradicable part of the human personality. "I did it all by myself" is one of the first cries of a proud and delighted child. "I'm different -- you wouldn't understand" is one of the mutterings of the subsequent brooding adolescent. "Alone I did it" and "King of the world!" are the slogans of driven men who think that they actually launched the ICBM or raised the Titanic without assistance from anyone except the rabble who did the dull and heavy lifting. (Do these examples seem sufficiently masculine? It's a fact that fewer Randians are female, just as it is a fact that la Rand herself was an unabashed seeker and admirer of the alpha-type chap.)

>>9223795
> The profoundness of some books and authors can not be questioned.
Stopped reading here. You're a fucking retard. Stop falling fiend to the illusions of significance. Any sense of profundity you experience is simply an illusion you choose to set up within your head with the objective being mental masturbation.

>>9224080
You should have really kept reading.

>>9223793
Movie was pretty hokey but I enjoyed it

>but the book is totally different!

It's a solid novel.
i'd give it 3.75/5

HE WAS A POOR BOY DINDU NUFFIN NEED MO MONEY FO DEM PROGRAMS the book

the more she drank the more she shat

You and everyone else

>>9223779
HE DIES OH NOOOOOOOOOOO NOT MUH MIDGIT MAN

OH NO

seriously, that whole "universe" is so cringy it's embarrassing

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>>9223701
Not looking it up

> Mormies

> KJV

> Quran

Might be wrong.

>>9223701
>>And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining

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>>9223720
got all 3 wrong!

It's

Quran
Mormies
Bibble

Most everyone read Dryden for a while.

Try Dryden.

>>9223646
Gavin Douglas

>translated poetry
If you're not going to study latin, then spend time carefully scanning every line to recite it out loud, why even bother.

- No.

>>9223611
/thread

So it's really that good huh? How much of it is les artistes walking around in mexico? I hate books that are about writers and that's what has put me off so far

>>9223470
Pretty much 0%. Maybe you're thinking about The Savages Detectives.

And yes, it's that good (have in mind I read it in its original language).

>>9223470
Very little, though some of my favorite parts do involve 'artists' in Paris.

God, I love this work. I always find myself thinking back to the geometry book outside...

I'm not gay.

>>9223412
>such words are too frequently strong evidence that the text is not verse at all but prose with line breaks pretending to verse.

What is this called in English? Knäckprosa in Swedish.

i wouldn't wanna be one of those pathetic faggots with a blog who shills it on a chinese cartoon website

>>9223327
The playwright Martin McDonagh.

I'd be torn between The Pillowman or The Lonesome West for my favourite of his works.

my favorite Irish writer was Patrick O'Wanker. He wrote using ink made out of his excrement and paper made of dried potato skins. He compiled a 10 part epic on the Potato famine.

Sam Coll, Abode of Fancy.

Start hanging out outside your inbred family

Move out of special needs care center.

you kill yourself because all great men are dead

the second one

>>9223263
First. I don't plan out every little thing, and things can change... but it's the best way for some genres. Obviously if you're writing a mystery for example you'd have to be retarded to just wing it.

Skeletal plan with room for improvisation and potential changes if a good idea takes me somewhere unexpected. Then i can just shift the plan around it.

Nah, even he recognizes how difficult that is. It's simply impractical in today's workforce/academic culture. But It's a good book, take it to heart. In honor of it, I'm taking the rest of the day off.

Cya boys

>>9223292
kys

>>9223249
Embrace it! Immerse yourself in the internet any chance you get.

wikipedia says yes

Électre was translated into English as Electra in 1955 by Winifred Smith,[1] and again in 1964 by Phyllis La Farge and Peter H. Judd

Giraudoux, Jean (1964), Three Plays, vol 2, Translated by Phyllis La Farge and Peter H. Judd, Hill and Wang, New York
Jump up ^ Cohen, Robert (1968), Jean Giraudoux; Three Faces of Destiny, p. 157, University of Chicago Press, Chicago

>>9223182
Think you can help me find the book online ?
I can't find a pdf =[

Didn't find anything either, sry