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suppose one rejects both in favor of Western thought?

Buddhism is more pragmatic and transcendental

Confucianism is why the Chinese have no souls. Or it was because the Chinese have no souls, that they invented Confucianism, it goes both ways. Either way, no western man should ever have an interest in that abomination.

Taosim can be redeemable.

Who?

The most spooked character of all time is Don Quixote. Poor man literally went insane from being so spooked by "chivalry."

>>9221343
Is that Alan de Bottom before he lost his hair?

youll make it to the whale phylogeny part and the just nope out

>>9222716
Read Camille Paglia's essay on Melville beforehand, I don't think I'd have grasped Melville without it. It's in her book Sexual Personae.
Melville is far greater than Tolkien. I love Tolkien, but he is a scholar, an academic, and his work shows that. Melville is far more raw, far more natural, far more a man's destiny.

>>9222895

can it be skipped over easily

>>9222390
*may be masterful

Sailor is better tbqhwyfamily

>>9222390

Novels give you insight on people - you don't have this kind of insight in real life. You don't know the inner life of other people, in real life.
If you could, you would see what novels show you: everyone is batshit, everyone is perverted, everyone is weird.
Everyone is honey mixed with poison. Or shit.

Oh look, the daily inflammatory thread against Ayn Rand is up.

>>9222125
If you have faith in her work, you should not be worried.

nobody who has read it (or any other book) would critique it like this

this kind of comment can only be made by someone who's spent 30 seconds on wikipedia

word docs with individuals files or each chapter

>>9220355
LaTeX

wordpad.

if you need extra features then you aren't writing a novel, you're trying to invent a new emoji.

Argument from fallacy

Mods, please delete this thread

>>9219347
>>9219360

Mad?

I am God and I am very real. I can tell as I am touching myself.

>>9218913
can you prove this statement?

If God is all-powerful and immortal, can God create God 2.0, even more powerful and capable of killing God 1.0?

>>9215890
only field recordings coming from my ice maker or kids talking loudly outside.

pop music like you described is too distracting and i'd imagine a disgrace to them to be used as background music tbqh.

>>9215890
I find instrumental hip hop or jazz works best for me.
Classical music I find is too structured and harmonic so I end up getting distracted more

>>9215890
I assume you heard/read Zizek discussing Wagnar?
That was top notch stuff

>>9223565
If it's german, I read the original text. (Multi-lingual)
Otherwise, my own native tongue mostly, but it depends on the quality and even availability of the translation.

>>9223565
Depends what your native tongue is. If the original is in spanish and you speak french, i would go for the french version over the english one, since its more closely related. And if the book is in german i would go for the english version. But the funny thing about english is that it copied grammar and words from german and french, to a degree. And with that paradigm, reading english translations of those languages is quite alright.

My native tongue is slovenian, and our language is quite unique and grammatically more strenuous than german and we took a lot from them language wise. And thats probably the reason why we master languages easier than other nations

Own language, but only because we have the luxury of good translators.

depends what, novels ? poems ? theater ?
"lit" is very general , you might love novels but hate theater .

Anyways, Pushkin is a must, Chekhkov is based, then you have Turgenev , Nabokov and Gorky .

>>9223096
A Sportsmans Sketches
Dead Souls
Oblomov
A Hero of Our Time
Life and Fate
The Master and Margarita
The Foundation Pit
Chekov's short stories

>>9223096
Gogol

Yes Hegel

Why are you spreading this wicked lie? I saw him on Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and he is obviously a peaceful man giving hope to the oppressed Tibetan people. Free Tibet and Fuck Trump!

>>9222986
Trump hates China though...

It's a classic that's aged poorly. The pacing is all over the place, Van Helsing and Dracula give off campy impressions. The atmosphere is one of the few things worth reading it for and even then it comes across as thin when there isn't something directly "creepy" going on.

I laughed like a king when I read the phrasing "make toilet" used more than once.

The first 100-150 pages were amazing

Then Jonathan's girl comes in and Van Helsing and the book becomes a slog

It's a genuine treat. It's accessible enough that most people interested in reading will have read it or will intend to read it, but it's atmosphere and pacing are gorgeous. It drops you into the horror pretty early on and then gradually develops it so you understand why Dracula and his affiliates should be a cause for concern (spoiler alert: vampires and ghosts are spooky, kid).

It probably hasn't aged perfectly but it's a genuine joy and you could probably burn through it pretty quickly.

Oh, OP here. We must also discuss how many chapters be reads each day.

>>9222736

I was actually reading that when the group was discussing it and still am. I'm around the parts where he is in the mountains quite early on. No idea which translation I'm reading but I have the 1993 Wordsworth edition.

>>9222736
>Translation
Original masterrace reporting.

>>9222637

Women ruin everything or you could say how it is all a reference to the Garden of Eden with Eve listening to the snake.

>>9222637
pretty much

>>9222637
Yeah. Are you implying they shouldn't be?