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>what is different interpretations

>>9143700
Literally in the OP

>>9143694
let's assume for a second the author knew what he was doing (correctly) when he wrote the book. Why would I want to sit and read other peoples ideas about what he (the author) meant?

>>9143665
i dunno man, seems silly. i mean, as an art piece, seems like a fine thing to have, an expensive book, but don't you need climate control and stuff, basically restricting you from displaying it?

$700 is not a lot of money, anon
are you underage or is this a bait thread?

>>9143682
>$700 is not a lot of money
Kek, what are you? A sheik's son? Yeah, I mean, it's no A LOT, but having such blatant disregard for almost $700 means you are a rich entitled piece of shit, or you've literally not earned a cent in your life.

Pick which one you want to be.

What the fuck are you talking about?

Phahahahahahshaha

This could be a funny joke if you worked into a way where it made sense, anon.

>>9143521

There are two or three versions of the "key of solomon", "the lesser key of solomon", etc, which are availbe from Weiser. They all revolve around the same basic idea of summoning demons, controlling them, and then banishing them when you're done with them. One of these is actually prepared in a halfway serious scholarly fashion by an editor.

The actual stuff is very dry, though. By the simple fact that it's not "fiction" in the sense of being a prose narrative, but instead like a textbook. That's what a grimoire /is/: a technical textbook that actually purports to teach you magic of some kind: "this is magic. Here is how you do it, here is how you do NOT do it, etc."

Texts like these eventually inspired some flimf-flam man to write the NECRONOMICON, or "Simonomicon", which is commonly available in B&Ns (and which has nothing to do with Lovecraft himself, despite cribbing the name of his own fictional book). This is a cheap paperback which purports to be an old babylonian text, and the layout basically gives the novice an idea of what a grimoire is actually like, albeit as a hoax/ruse. It's actually kind of fun to read, though, as whoever actually wrote it is careful to give the text some recurring entities/characters and set up a sort of plot/cosmology of the universe. In this sense, the book is much more like a conventional prose fictional narrative, because it was spiced up as-such when written.

Of course one can still banish occult stuff under the larger rubric of "made up bullshit", but I get that you're just looking for texts that don't "work" quite the same way as conventional fiction.

>>9143569
That's basically what I'm asking for, the first part. I'm looking for more or less historical works from people who actually believe what they're writing, or it was written long enough ago that everyone believed it.

>>9143521
probably the one where it says to become immortal you sew your heart into a white goose, place it into a barrel and bury it under an ash tree. i can't fucking find it.

>>9143471
Thanks for your attention*

Just read the Prolegomena, dude; it's short. If you're scared by the language being, perhaps, at all, difficult, check out this site for a modernized, less "Kanty" translation: http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/authors/kant

Best regards, and fuck your mom,

Elephant Steve

>>9143471
Kant does not argue that space and time must be forms of sensibility in order to have experience. He just gives several arguments showing that they cannot be derived from experience and are not concepts.

>>9143410
you sound real spooked tbqh senpai. reading isnt about setting yourself up to do well in the imaginary debates you have with other people in your head

>>9143421
I never said it was. It's about acquiring more knowledge!

Become the übermensch!

>>9143429
hi cia/nsa

Because like a thick tome, it is beautiful once you understand it.

>>9143343
literature

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>>9143343
I think you just answered your own question.

>>9143307
I don't understand what you want me to do

IJ

>>9143270
The words in the book are the same, faggot.
Sign your suicide note

>>9143270
no one ever said this book was good
please fuck off

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this is a joke, right?

i can forgive the guy for being influenced by dfw

but i didnt realize he was aping all the way down to the way he signs books

A love story involving crack cocaine

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>>9143158
...

James Dickey and Ken Kesey-- when translated into Film.

Lovecraft is pretty good translated.
t.Read a few of his stories in hungarian

>>9144529
His English is fucking uniquely bizarre, so having an editor with a tiny bit of skill would probably improve him in any language.

there are various advantages to all the different translations

for fagles it's readability

for lattimore it's accuracy

for pope and fitzgerald it's prose

but don't take my word for it, see what you enjoy for yourself by comparing line by line side by side.

Fagles is fine. The only time you ever need to worry about the quality of a translation is when it's so old that it's in the public domain (any cheap paperback; wordsworth and dover thrift come to mind - which doesn't necessarily mean they're bad btw, just that you have to do some research before you buy), or when it says 'Translated by Constance Garnett'

>>9142662
>prose
But its in verse anon....
You just mean style.

Start with the Greeks.

>>9142641
I already have.

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>>9142637
what is something you're genuinely interested in? whenever you reach a point where you're content w/ what you're studying, study what interests you. You're probably young so that might take some time to figure out. For me it's reading about my ancestors and their way of life, and its very fulfilling. Good luck (OP).

Speed by William S. Burroughs Jr.

Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami might be up your alley. I didn't care too much for it but it's a pretty acclaimed work.

>>9142436
thanks , I checked some of his other work and I think I will read more from him.
>>9142446
thanks